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Thatch, Thatch startup, healthcare startup, healthtech startup, healthcare startup funding, startup funding, Thatch funding, Thatch $108 million funding, Thatch valuation, startup valuation, Thatch unicorn, healthcare unicorn, health benefits startup, ICHRA, Chris Ellis, Adam Stevenson, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Index Ventures

Thatch Hits $1 Billion Valuation After $108 Million Funding Round as Healthcare Costs Rise

Health benefits platform Thatch has raised $108 million from its existing investors, pushing its valuation to $1 billion as employers look for new ways to…

Epil Bodra

September 15
Sugar Cosmetics, A91 Partners, Sugar Cosmetics funding, Sugar Cosmetics valuation, D2C beauty, beauty startups, startup funding, Series CCPS, Vineeta Singh, Kaushik Mukherjee, L Catterton, secondary exits, startup valuation, Indian startups, cosmetics industry

Sugar Cosmetics Raises Rs 144.5 Cr as Valuation Drops to Rs 755 Cr

Khushi Bhatia

3 min
Retro, Retro funding, Retro Series A, Nathan Sharp, Ryan Olson, private photo app, photo sharing app, social media startup, startup funding, Series A funding, PitchBook, Instagram, private social network, tech startups, startup valuation

Former Instagram Engineers’ Retro Raises Over $21 Million in Series A, Valuation Tops $100 Million

Epil Bodra

4 min
Scimplify, Hitachi Ventures, Series C funding, startup funding, specialty chemicals startup, 3one4 Capital, Accel India, Omnivore Capital, Bertelsmann Nederland, Indian startups, startup valuation, chemical industry

Scimplify to raise Rs 181 crore in Hitachi Ventures-led Series C, valuation set to jump 114%

Khushi Bhatia

3 min
Pranjali Awasthi, Delv.AI, AI startup, young entrepreneur, Indian founder, teenage CEO, artificial intelligence, startup funding, Georgia Tech, Salshy, GPT-3, research automation, women in tech, startup valuation, technology news

Pranjali Awasthi’s ₹100 Crore AI Journey: How a Teenage Coder Built Delv.AI

Epil Bodra

4 min
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Ola Valuation Falls To $70 Million After Vanguard Markdown Ahead Of IPO

Om Singh

4 min
Rivesa AI, Raj Jobalia, Hirdesh Mehta, Indian startups, AI startups India, business automation, visual AI, enterprise automation, workflow automation, SaaS startups, artificial intelligence, startup valuation

Rivesa AI touches $1.2 million valuation, builds visual AI engine to automate business workflows

Epil Bodra

3 min
Kalshi, funding news, fintech, prediction markets, startup valuation, CFTC regulated exchange, investment round, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Paradigm, US startups, finance technology, event-based trading, billion dollar funding, tech industry updates, regulated markets, financial innovation, startup growth

Kalshi Raises $1 Billion as Regulated Prediction Markets Take Center Stage

Om Singh

4 min
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Lenskart’s 8x Leap: Vipul Mehta Questions Startup Valuation Ahead of IPO

Vasundhra Tewari

3 min
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How One Line in a Term Sheet Almost Cost a Founder Half His Company

Epil Bodra

3 min
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Startup Valuation: It’s Not Just About the Numbers

Epil Bodra

3 min

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SAMMMM, Samara Roy, teenage founder, beauty startup, Indian beauty brands, self-care startup, Gen Z beauty, Gen Alpha, Fireside Ventures, Sauce VC, Nykaa, Amazon, startup funding

From Teenage Struggles to 1 Lakh Units: How 16-Year-Old Samara Roy Built SAMMMM

Manavi Gupta

4 min
FigFinder AI, Ankita Sharma, travel tech startup, AI travel planning, personalized travel platform, travel planning startup, FigFinder Pro, travel SaaS, travel agencies, DMCs, tour operators, AI in travel, travel technology, startup profile, London startups, Sydney startups

Ankita Sharma Is Building FigFinder AI to Make Travel Planning Less Fragmented

Epil Bodra

8 min
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Pure Lithium: Startup Bets on Graphite-Free Lithium Metal Batteries

Khushi Bhatia

6 min
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From Teenage Struggles to 1 Lakh Units: How 16-Year-Old Samara Roy Built SAMMMM

Manavi Gupta

4 min
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Why Is Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley Being Trolled? Privacy, Surveillance and Security Concerns Explained

Epil Bodra

7 min
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Brand Content Strategy: Why Most Brand Content Fails Without a Point of View?

Khushboo Mulani

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