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Venture capital funding into Indian startups crossed the $1-billion mark on a weekly basis for the first time since 2023 and this was primarily due to $900 million fund raise of CRED.

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Friday, June 26, 2026.

Memory companies have been allocating an increasing share of their production to AI data centres, leaving the consumer electronics segment with constrained availability and rising costs.

After his cricketing career, Arjun Shetty channelled his passion for sport into fitness and founded Ace with Arjun, an online fitness training platform focused on overseas clients. This year, he opened Hybrid Headquarters, a premium fitness studio in Thane.

Amazon has announced an additional investment of $13 billion in India from 2026 to 2030. Meanwhile, Anandana - The Coca-Cola Foundation, in partnership with Healing Himalayas Foundation and government agencies, has established a waste recovery facility in Kedarnath.

Ten X You was founded to serve everyday athletes, not professionals. The Bengaluru startup is building shoes around Indian foot shapes and taking aim at a growing sportswear market.

From repair bills and medical expenses to third-party liabilities, a single accident can derail your finances. Here's how the right insurance cover can help absorb the shock. A smooth drive can turn into a stressful situation in seconds. One unexpected turn, a sudden brake, or another drivers mi

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Thursday, June 25, 2026.

This announcement was made following a meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday.

From Aadhaar-based eSign to video verification, digital onboarding has transformed how Indians start their investing journey, eliminating paperwork, branch visits, and long waiting periods. For a long time, opening a demat account felt more like administrative work than the start of an investing

At DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, AWS Praful Bagai used cricket to explain why developers must move beyond prompts and start orchestrating intelligent systems.

Backed by AWS, Hack2Skill, and YourStory, the AI for Bharat Hackathon saw nearly 96,000 registrations and more than 1,400 working prototypes as developers built AI solutions for healthcare, agriculture, retail, education, and public access.

Airbound will work with stakeholders across healthcare, logistics and e-commerce to develop an integrated aerial delivery network, while the Andhra Pradesh Drone Corporation will support ecosystem development and regulatory coordination.

Rishi Chadha, Utkarsh Goyal, and Saikat Das are building YRAL, a short-form AI video platform where every influencer is an AI agent, and any user can create and monetize one under 2 minutes

Doing a VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) twice a year just doesn't cut it anymore. A compliance audit only tells you if you were secure last Tuesday. The attackers are running their own unofficial penetration tests on us every single hour.

The next phase of India's electric mobility journey will be defined less by vehicle launches and more by ownership confidence. From charging convenience and battery health to aftersales support and resale value, a robust ecosystem is essential to turning first-time EV buyers into lifelong adopters.

Amazon plans to scale its micro fulfilment centres and urban fulfilment centres to house an expanded selection of daily essentials.

Bengaluru-based startup Nekko began as an AI services company but is increasingly betting on proprietary products, including computer vision systems and agentic AI solutions.

Enterprises are facing the challenge of rising costs from LLM usage and there is easy fix to this problem.

Amazon will scale up its micro fulfillment and urban fulfilment centres as it looks up the ante in quick commerce business

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Wednesday, June 24, 2026.

While Indias AI infrastructure and computing capabilities get billions of dollars in investment, the harder task is preparing professionals for an economy where AI changes how value is created.

STRAPLINE: At a JLL roundtable, CFOs and finance leaders traded boardroom war stories on AI, Gen Z hiring, and the hard lessons that come with building, scaling, and sometimes shutting down a business. Gayatri Guha Every founder's pitch deck tells a story of growth. What it rarely shows is the

Real estate and mortgage platform Square Yards has raised Rs 900 crore ($95 million approx.) in a mix of debt and equity transactions.

Square Yards will use this funding round to expand its business and upgrade its technology infrastructure.

Mitigata was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in Bengaluru Mitigata will primarily use this funding round for hiring of talent across domains and also for international expansion Mitigata, the Bengaluru headquartered cybersecurity startup has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Can NRIs hold joint NRO accounts with residents - and what they need to know A resident family member can help manage finances in India, but joint NRO accounts come with clearly defined rights, responsibilities, and restrictions. Most NRIs/OCIs have bank accounts in India. These bank accounts are