June 2026 - Page 3 of 7

22 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
StartUps

91Trucks Cuts 70% of Staff and Shuts Stores as Offline Model Collapses

91Trucks Layoffs 2026: Commercial Vehicle Startup Cuts 70% Workforce and Shuts Stores Amid Growth Slowdown Three months after acquiring two platforms to accelerate growth, 91Trucks is retreating fast. The...

22 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business

NestAway’s Amarendra Sahu Returns with The Land Bankers, Backed by Rainmatter and Kunal Shah

The Land Bankers Raises Rs 8 Crore Seed: NestAway Co-Founder Amarendra Sahu Backed by Rainmatter and Kunal Shah He built a rental platform. It ended in a legal battle...

19 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business, StartUps

HealthQuad Closes ₹550 Crore for Fund III to Back India’s Next Healthcare Innovators

HealthQuad Fund III First Close Rs 550 Crore: Quadria-Backed VC Targets India’s $600 Billion Healthcare Market India’s healthcare system needs 500 billion dollars of new investment just to close...

19 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Technology

Phygital Studio Wants to Make Every Brand Space a Sales Machine

Phygital Studio Bengaluru: How Pratik Nagotra’s Beto Platform Is Rebuilding How Brands Sell Physical Spaces Walk into a showroom and feel nothing. That is the problem Pratik Nagotra has...

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Innovation, Science

She Went to Thar to Shoot a Documentary. She Never Left.

Bahula Naturals Aakriti Srivastava: How a Woman Entrepreneur Is Transforming Desert Livelihoods in Rajasthan A journalism graduate from Delhi arrived in a desert village near the India-Pakistan border in...

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business, StartUps

Rusk Media Raises ₹103 Crore to Take India’s Gen-Z Content Global

Rusk Media Raises Rs 103 Crore Series B Led by IvyCap Ventures to Expand Gen-Z Content Play Globally Nearly one billion monthly views, 50 plus seasons, a startup reality...

18 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business

Vetic Raises $40M to Build India’s First Human-Grade Pet Healthcare Network

Vetic Raises $40 Million Led by Bessemer Venture Partners to Scale India Pet Healthcare Network Nationwide India now has more pet parents than ever, but almost no trustworthy system...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Enterprise Tech

How Equip Is Using AI to Change the Way Companies Hire: One Bengaluru Startup’s Bet That Accountability Beats Automation

Equip is a Bengaluru-based AI-native hiring platform founded in 2020 by Jayanth Neelakanta, a PhD in theoretical physics from Syracuse University. The platform is trusted by over 700 hiring teams...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
StartUps

Influish Raises Pre-Seed at ₹25 Crore Valuation: India’s Creator Economy Finally Gets Its Unified Home

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that full-time content creators in India know intimately. It is not the tiredness that comes from making videos or writing posts, that...

17 June 2026
Rishith Bharadwaj
Business, Technology

Karnataka HC Calls Gameskraft Founders’ Arrest Illegal. A Major Setback for the ED and a Turning Point for Online Gaming Law in India

The Karnataka High Court on June 16 declared the arrests of Gameskraft founders Deepak Singh, Vikas Taneja and Prithviraj Singh by the ED as illegal. Justice M. Nagaprasanna ordered their...