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8 Jul 2026 · via Forbes India

GDP at 7.6 Percent, Inflation at 2.1, and 200 Billion UPI Transactions: the Macro Tailwind Is Real

The RBI's annual report reads like a commerce operator's wishlist: fast growth, cool inflation, and a payments rail that just crossed two hundred billion transactions in a year.

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8 Jul 2026 · via StartupTalky

Unilever Ventures Leads a 48 Crore Round in Supply6, and the Cap Table Tells the Story

Nutrition brand Supply6 has raised 48 crore rupees led by Unilever Ventures, with actor-entrepreneur Kriti Sanon participating. The brand sells across D2C, Amazon and Blinkit.

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8 Jul 2026 · via StartupTalky

A Shark Tank Deodorant Brand Just Sold a Majority Stake for Around 100 Crore. Eighteen Months In

Ananta Capital has acquired a majority stake in Phitku, a Mumbai D2C personal care brand founded in early 2025. The deal values the company at roughly 200 crore rupees.

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8 Jul 2026 · via CNBC

Amazon Commits Another 13 Billion Dollars to India, and the Target Is Infrastructure

Amazon is putting an additional 13 billion dollars into AI and cloud infrastructure in India, taking its committed total to 48 billion dollars by 2030. Infrastructure bets of this size precede platform shifts.

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8 Jul 2026 · via CNBC

Blinkit Is Profitable at the Operating Level. That Changes How Brands Should Read the Category

One quick-commerce platform has now shown two consecutive quarters of operating profitability. The subsidy era is ending, and the economics brands enjoy today will not survive it.

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8 Jul 2026 · via Zee Business

The Dark Store Scoreboard: Blinkit Past 2,200, and Everyone Else Is Building

Quick commerce in India is now a network game, and the network sizes are public. Blinkit leads with more than 2,200 dark stores. The rest of the field is closer than it looks.

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8 Jul 2026 · via CNBC

Amazon and Flipkart Go All In on Ten-Minute Delivery, and the Ground War Begins

The two largest names in Indian e-commerce have stopped treating quick commerce as an experiment. Amazon wants the largest delivery-in-minutes network in the country. Flipkart is racing to double its dark stores.

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