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MakeMyTrip profit falls 65% as finance costs triple
Revenue grew and profit did not. A rupee that fell more than 10 percent and interest on convertible notes did most of the damage.
4 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrAther jumps 18% to a record after Q1 revenue rises 89%
The scooter maker turned EBITDA positive for the first time and the market re-rated it in a day. Three brokerages now sit between Rs 1,450 and Rs 1,714.
4 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrSuperleap raises Rs 36 crore from Peak XV’s Surge
Three former Unacademy operators are building an AI CRM for revenue teams, and have signed Razorpay and MediBuddy while still under two years old.
4 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrStable Money opens Series C at a 264 million dollar value
The fixed income platform has raised again within six months, at a valuation 56 percent higher, entirely from investors already on the cap table.
4 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrKaapi Machines raises Rs 50 crore from Sedna HoReCa
The company sells the machines behind India's cafe boom, and the money is going into manufacturing, warehousing and service rather than storefronts.
4 Aug 2026 · via Inc42GetVantage raises Rs 63 crore for revenue-based financing
The platform lends against sales rather than collateral, and is now building rails so marketplaces can embed the same financing for their own merchants.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrYuvraj Singh joins Deepak Sahni’s new venture UN:BLOC
The Healthians founder is building again, and the cricketer who backed him the first time has come in as an investor and founding team member.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrVirat and Vikas Kohli take 28% in fitness chain Vault
The premium franchise gym chain has brought in the Kohli brothers as strategic investors for a combined 28 percent, with 50 clubs targeted by year end.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrTruth and Hair raises Rs 5.4 crore seed led by IPV
The Gurugram hair styling brand closed a seed round with Inflection Point Ventures leading, following an on air offer from Mamaearth's cofounder.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrUPI hits record 23.66 billion transactions in July
Volumes are up 22 percent on last year and value crossed Rs 29.88 lakh crore, with a daily run rate of 763 million transactions.
3 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Swiggy falls 5% as brokerages split on quick commerce
Three houses published targets ranging from Rs 230 to Rs 435 on the same set of numbers. The spread tells you how unresolved the quick commerce question is.
3 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Instamart turns a corner but the Blinkit gap is still wide
Contribution breakeven came at the cost of growth, and management has signalled that segment profitability is still two quarters away.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrSnabbit crosses 115,000 daily jobs, cuts burn per job
The home services company says burn per job fell by more than Rs 100 in a quarter to below Rs 250, while daily volume moved past a competitor's headline number.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrUrban Company jumps 13% on Morgan Stanley upgrade
The broker moved straight from Underweight to Overweight and raised its target by nearly 30 percent, days after the company posted a wider quarterly loss.
3 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Indian startups raised 142 million dollars last week, AI took 65%
Eleven deals across the week, down a third on the week before, and two thirds of the money went to three AI companies. Consumer took what was left.
3 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Groww founders launch Rs 500 crore Stargazer fund
The four cofounders are backing consumer internet and deeptech from their own capital, with no outside limited partners and cheques up to 10 million dollars.
3 Aug 2026 · via Inc42LEAP India files RHP for Rs 2,480 crore IPO
The supply chain enablement company has set a price band and a bidding window, seeking a valuation of about 735 million dollars at the top of the range.
3 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrZepto pauses IPO, confirms pre-IPO private placement
The quick commerce company says it will list inside the window SEBI has approved, but is raising privately first and pointing at a balance sheet that does not need the market.
2 Aug 2026 · via OrganiserD2C brands took 28% of India’s retail leasing in H1 2026
CBRE puts organised retail leasing at 3.9 million sq ft in the first half, up 20%. Digital-first brands took more than a quarter of it.
2 Aug 2026 · via Storyboard18Amazon Now, built in India, is live in nine countries
Amazon's 30-minute service started in Bengaluru last year. It is now in over 250 cities across nine markets, with gross sales up 80% in a quarter.
2 Aug 2026 · via Storyboard18Flipkart ties a Netflix mobile plan to four Plus orders
From 1 August, four qualifying orders a month earn a Flipkart Plus member 30 days of Netflix Mobile. It is a frequency play, not a discount.
2 Aug 2026 · via Fibre2FashionGSTN puts e-way bill Ship-to GSTIN change on hold
The mandatory Ship-to GSTIN field was due to go live on 1 August. GSTN parked it days before, with no new date attached.
2 Aug 2026 · via Investing.comGo Fashion shuts 66 stores in Q1, bets on bigger formats
Go Fashion closed four stores for every one it opened last quarter. Same store sales turned positive for the first time in several quarters.
2 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Shadowfax lifts FY27 revenue guidance to 38-40% after Q1
Shadowfax raised full year guidance a quarter into FY27. The reason sits in heavy shipments and the quick commerce dark stores it now runs itself.
2 Aug 2026 · via Inc42Instamart hits contribution breakeven, sheds 4 mn users
Instamart reached contribution breakeven by removing customers, not by adding them. That choice reshapes how brands should read its order growth.
2 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrSwiggy Q1 FY27: loss narrows 34% to Rs 791 Cr, revenue up 37%
Swiggy's June quarter shows a company growing fast and losing less. The growth is not coming from where most brands assume.
2 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrIndian startup funding falls 67 percent to $662 million in July
July funding came in at $662 million across 85 deals, down sharply from June. AI took nearly a third of it, which changes the maths for consumer founders.
2 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrAtomberg turns public company ahead of Rs 2,000 crore IPO
The Temasek-backed smart appliances brand converted to a public limited company and named three independent directors. Bankers are appointed and the target is about Rs 2,000 crore.
2 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrSid’s Farm raises Rs 81 crore pre-Series B led by Omnivore
The Hyderabad subscription dairy brand pulled in over Rs 81 crore, with listed player Dodla Dairy joining the cap table. Strategic money in D2C dairy is the signal here.
2 Aug 2026 · via EntrackrApna Mart raises Rs 120 crore Series C at Rs 1,470 crore value
Accel and Fundamentum co-led a Rs 120 crore round in the franchise-led grocery platform, roughly doubling its valuation. The bet is small-town shelves, not metro dark stores.
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