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The company has secured an EPC contract worth Rs 897.47 crore from NTPC Renewable Energy Limited

Peak XV unveils 14 start-ups in 10th Cohort of Surge, its seed-stage platform for founders

The Surge platform has become a key launchpad for start-ups, which offers mentorship, resources and capital to help early-stage companies scale up. The latest cohort is expected to benefit from the platform's expertise as they navigate their growth journey in competitive markets around the globe.

OrbitShift raises $7 million in seed funding led by Peak XV’s Surge and Stellaris Venture Partners

OrbitShift plans to utilize the funding to expand its customer base and continue building newer AI based products for the sales ecosystem.

LIVE: Sugar prices down 5% this week | Are we staring at a sugar deficit? | Commodities Corner

Sugar prices may have seen a 10% uptick in 2024 till date however, the last week has seen a 5% slump in sugar prices. What's causing this pain. While India is the 2nd largest producer of Sugar and is likely to drive growth, it is not included in the global market. Manisha Gupta discusses the prospects of sugar prices going ahead with Rahil Shaikh MD, MEIR Commodities on Commodities Corner

752 new Covid cases, 4 deaths reported in 24 hours

India recorded a single-day increase of 752 coronavirus infections, the highest since May 21, 2023. The active cases have risen to 3,420, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Saturday.

AI, Deep tech startups dominate Peak XV's ninth cohort of Surge

The venture capital firm received 4.800 applications, the highest-ever under Surge. A majority, or 10 of 13, of the startups from the current cohort are focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and Deeptech,

Covid surge: India Inc gears up with vaccination mandates, booster doses, emergency response teams

According to experts, companies do not appear to be making any changes to their work arrangements currently but many said they are open to reconsidering remote work if the situation worsens.

Coronavirus BF.7 Variant in India News Highlights: Mock drills held across 20,000 hospitals to check Covid preparedness

Coronavirus News Highlights: The Centre had asked states and Union territories to conduct mock drills as part of precautionary measures following an increase in Covid cases in China and other countries. According to officials, 20,021 facilities, including 15,424 government ones conducted the exercise across 37 states and UTs on December 28.

Sequoia-backed revenue-based financing platform Klub marks final close of its Rs 200 cr maiden fund

Klub will be investing capital in the range of Rs 5 lakhs to Rs 30 crore in businesses for a tenure of 1-24 months, the company said.

Sequoia's Surge announces seventh cohort of 15 startups raising $41 million

Surge startups have collectively raised over $1.7 billion in follow-on funding, with over 60 percent of companies from the first five cohorts raising their series A and beyond

Sequoia India’s Surge, InfoEdge Ventures invest $5 million in AI platform Attentive

The fund will be used to build the platform and add more modules to automate the remaining landscaping workflows, Attentive Inc has said.

Odisha reports 334 new COVID-19 cases

The positivity rate jumped to 2.91 per cent from 1.92 as the cases were detected out of 11,451 samples

Sequoia extends Surge’s seed funding range to as much as $3 million

Sequoia Capital India’s move of extending its seed funding ceiling suggests a rising appetite for early-stage startups in India. It also comes at a time when many global VC firms, including Sequoia, have raised their largest-ever funds for Indian startups and with funding at later stages slowing down more than in early stages, competition among VCs will be fierce at early-stage rounds, given that they have a lot of dry powder.

7 Indian startups among 15 picked by Sequoia Capital for Surge 3

Surge 3 takes Sequoia Capital's startup portfolio to above 50.

JPMorgan profit rises 24 % as U.S. election stimulates trading

REUTERS - JPMorgan Chase & Co, the No. 1 U.S. bank by assets, reported a 23.8 percent rise in quarterly profit on Friday, helped by a surge in investor activity related to the U.S. presidential election.

Euro zone starts year in happy mood, Germany outlook bright

Economic sentiment in the euro zone surged to a post-crisis record in December and German industrial orders pointed to a busy final quarter for factories in Europe's powerhouse with the government expecting the upswing to carry into 2017.

Here is Manisha Gupta's round-up on commodities market

Watch Manisha Gupta of CNBC-TV18 updating us on all the action from commodities and currency space. She also updates us on the surge in sugar prices.

SURGE, world's most influential technology conferences

In this special edition, CNBC-TV18‘s Young Turks has partnered with SURGE for its inaugural conference in India. Over five years, Paddy Cosgrave has grown Web Summit into one of the world‘s most influential technology conferences. Held on February 23 and February 24, Bangalore played host to Web Summit‘s first India startup conference.

Nikkei jumps over 2% on upbeat global data, weaker yen

The Nikkei rose 2.2 percent to 13,660.55, after shedding 0.4 percent in the previous session. For the week, the benchmark gained 0.1 percent

Indirect tax kitty grows 4.7% in Apr-Jun

Indirect tax- excise, customs and service tax- collection in the first quarter stood at about Rs 1.11 lakh crore, as against Rs 1.05 lakh crore in the corresponding period a year ago, Indian finance ministry official said.

TCS surges after April-June earnings beat estimates

TCS said consolidated net profit for the quarter ended June 30 rose to 38.31 billion Indian rupees from 32.8 billion rupees a year earlier.

Govt to track use of unaccounted funds for gold imports

The government has taken a lot of steps to curb the surge in gold imports. The latest, reports CNBC-TV18, is a plan to crackdown on the use of unaccounted money for importing gold.

To revive Infosys, Murthy must revamp sales, culture

Some industry experts say Infosys's inflexibility on prices and margins and a tradition of rotating leadership roles amongst its founders have made it less nimble than rivals like Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and HCL Technologies Ltd.

Indian pet lovers spark new fads as ownership surges

As incomes surge in economically booming India, pet lovers are driving the growth of a whole range of new trends, from organic pet toys to crystal healing and even nail painting for cats.

US hiring surges in Dec, buoys economic outlook

The number of US private-sector jobs surged in December at a rate three times stronger than forecast, a hiring report showed, the most bullish signal in months that a recovery in the world's biggest economy is shifting up a gear.