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Funding is the process of providing resources to finance a firm, organisation or individual in need or for a project. In a normal course, funding takes place in terms of money transactions, either for short-term or long-term purposes. There are various sources of funding including credit, venture capital, donations, grants, savings, subsidies, and taxes. Terms like soft funding or crowdfunding are described as funding like donations, subsidies, and grants which have no direct requirement for return of investment. While those facilitate the exchange of equity ownership in a company for capital investment via an online funding portal are called equity crowdfunding. In economic terms, funds are given to firms, entrepreneurs or individuals by lenders as capital or loans. This can be done against an interest or equity. Funding can be used for research, launch a business or expand the business. Among the various methods of funding include government grants, crowdfunding, raise from interest or self-organised funding allocation. However, to get funded, firms, entrepreneurs or individuals have to show collateral. This also includes their previous work experience in the respective fields. On the other hand, depending on the requirement and scope of growth of business, an entrepreneur or firm gets funded by the lender. More
Juspay stated that the funding round is a mix of primary and secondary transactions. The primary capital will be used to fund the startup's expansion across international markets.
“India, both in terms of performance and growth, has been actually one of our stronger performing markets…it continues to be one of our top three conviction markets going forward,” Kapoor told Moneycontrol
The travel gear startup will use the fresh capital to aggressively expand its offline retail footprint, sharpen pricing to enter new geographies beyond top urban markets, and build a nationwide omni-channel platform, founder and CEO Abhinav Pathak told Moneycontrol.
Since its first commercial deployment in May 2025, Bolna has scaled from handling about 1,500 calls a day to over 200,000 daily calls, marking a growth of more than 13,000 percent.
The startup plans to launch call-deflection agents, an AI-native CRM with a memory layer and an app store for community-built workflows
Emergent will use the funds to launch new products, strengthen offerings to smartphone users, kickoff enterprise relationships (B2B sales), hire more employees and set up an office in Europe, Mukund Jha, co-founder and CEO, told Moneycontrol.
Wonder Home Finance achieved a 70% CAGR over the past five years, with assets under management exceeding Rs 3,000 crore
A decade after the government launched the Startup India programme, the ecosystem has come moved through a full funding cycle, from steady early growth to a peak in 2021 and a more selective investment phase since
Founder and CEO Vivek Sinha told Moneycontrol the funds will be used to expand Emversity’s university-embedded skilling model from 40 campuses to over 200, enter engineering, procurement and construction and manufacturing, and strengthen employer-linked workforce pipelines.
Liquidnitro Games plans to use the capital to accelerate investment in its AI-enabled game production and live services platform, scale up partnerships through co-investments and drive global market expansion
Sources told Moneycontrol that Munjal and Roman Saini were in talks to raise about $17 million for the new venture from Peak XV Partners and Blume Ventures, and a dozen marquee founders.
Aivar delivers projects through an end-to-end AI studio model covering strategy consulting, custom AI solution development, and managed AI operations.
The funding round was led by existing backers Lachy Groom and Alpha Wave, with participation from Sharrp Ventures, taking the Bengaluru‑based startup’s total funding to about $70 million
Many of the technologies now attracting investor attention are the result of years of interdisciplinary work across engineering, materials, electronics, computing, and applied sciences, IIT-Madras director V Kamakoti says
The funding comes as the healthtech startup reports operating break-even at its first hospital within six months of launch and a sharp improvement in clinical outcomes under its managed-care model.
Knight FinTech positions itself as a backend infrastructure player, largely invisible to end users, that enables banks, NBFCs and platforms to originate, disburse and manage credit at scale.
While the commitments for a $55-60 million fundraise are already in, talks are still ongoing and Pixxel might end up upsizing the round to around $80-100 million, sources told Moneycontrol
Venture capital investors, founders and policymakers found themselves asking harder questions around revenue visibility, patient capital and global relevance, as deep tech moved from promise to proof.
The company looks to scale manufacturing and deepen its presence in large defence programmes.
As many as 15 startup IPOs hit the markets this year, raising Rs 40,000 crore, over 35 percent more than in 2024, as stronger earnings, clearer profitability paths and deeper investor appetite drove demand
The fundraise comes amid rising investor activity in the baby care segment, with specialised brands and vertical quick-commerce models gaining traction.
The fund aims to back startups poised to become unicorns across areas such as AI, fintech, digital content, and logistics.
As many as five investors are engaging with Jar for the new round.
The fund will continue to back seed and Series A startups and about 80-85 percent of the corpus will be reserved for such early bets
A potential $25 million round, from Epiq Capital, Glade Brook Capital, General Catalyst and Bain Capital, comes as 10–15 minute home-services startups race to scale amid intensifying competition and rising investor interest
