JetSynthesys took majority of Fanory and hired ex-Twitter India head
The digital entertainment company bought majority control of creator-monetization platform Fanory and made cofounder Manish Maheshwari its President.
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500 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTHD rents idle surgery rooms in Southeast Asia at 15–20% below market
Bangkok's HD applied the sharing economy to healthcare: matching surgeons' private practices, patients, and vacant operating rooms left by lost medical tourism.
Lire le casDemoverse raised $600K so communities co-design products before they're made
The Bengaluru startup lets brands float concepts that communities co-create with AI design tools — pricing demand before inventory is committed.
Lire le casClensta cofounder quits as cash crunch pushes the beauty startup toward a sale
Salaries halted in August 2024; by October, cofounder Ashish Mishra stepped down as Clensta explored an acquisition — the retail-first bet had stalled.
Lire le casApptentive sold to KKR-backed Alchemer as customer-feedback software consolidated
Seattle's Apptentive, the in-app feedback startup behind surveys for Alaska Airlines and CNN, joined survey platform Alchemer; terms undisclosed.
Lire le casAgari's founder quietly retook the CEO job from his handpicked successor
Three years after stepping aside, Agari founder Patrick Peterson reclaimed the CEO seat in February 2019 as the email-security startup's CEO and CTO exited.
Lire le casRocketlane bet India SaaS could own customer onboarding, raised $18M in 2022
A founder who sold his last startup to Freshworks launched Rocketlane into B2B customer onboarding and led its G2 category within six months of launch.
Lire le casPerplexity's Computer agent runs on 19 AI models — its multi-model bet, at $200/mo
Perplexity Computer executes workflows with subagents across 19 models on the $200/month Max tier — the bet that models specialise rather than commoditise.
Lire le casLML, the geared-scooter legend, relaunches as an EV brand with the LML Star
Bought with his own money in 2021, the dead LML brand returns electric: the Vespa-derived Star, set for an October 2024 launch against Ola and Bajaj.
Lire le casPiracy-era LimeWire buys AI image startup BlueWillow to power its creator pivot
LimeWire, reborn from file-sharing infamy as a creator studio, bought the Discord AI image community BlueWillow — 2.5 million members, 500 million-plus images.
Lire le casRisk of Rain studio Hopoo sunsets itself as its founders join Valve
After selling Risk of Rain 2's rights to Gearbox, the Seattle studio's founders and much of its team went full-time to Valve, shelving project 'Snail'.
Lire le casFulcrum raises $25M led by CRV to replace insurance BPO with AI agents
Founded by Arjun Mangla and Sambhav Anand, Fulcrum embeds AI agents in brokerage workflows, cutting policy and proposal cycles from weeks to same-day.
Lire le casPalo Alto's billionaire cofounder returns with Cylake, on-prem hardware security
Nir Zuk, who built Palo Alto Networks on cloud security, is back with $45M from Greylock to sell AI hardware security to customers that can't use the cloud.
Lire le casClassplus's $600M SaaS bet now earns most of its revenue from acquired Testbook
The Tiger Global-backed teacher-SaaS startup bought a controlling stake in test-prep app Testbook for ₹67.8 Cr; Testbook now out-earns the core business.
Lire le casMeta's Oculus Studios bought Iron Man VR maker Camouflaj to deepen its VR bench
Meta quietly acquired three VR studios — Camouflaj, Twisted Pixel, Armature — as Oculus Studios doubled down on exclusive content for Quest headsets.
Lire le casAWS bets AI agents replace SaaS, launching Connect Decisions and Talent
After WorkMail, Chime and WorkDocs died, AWS sells AI-native business apps built from its own operations — replacement, not augmentation.
Lire le casAcceler8 raises a16z Speedrun-led seed to make workforce calls real-time
A Grab early product lead and a former global CPO built Acceler8: agentic AI that turns work signals into live promotion and succession intel.
Lire le casHarbor Health acquired dementia care startup Rippl after $55M and four years
Rippl — founded by an ex-Aegis Living president with ARCH Venture Partners — joins Harbor Health's insurance-aligned chronic care platform.
Lire le casNeoCarbon raised €1.25M to turn industrial cooling towers into carbon capture
Berlin's NeoCarbon retrofits direct air capture kits into working cooling towers, claiming up to 10x cost cuts by reusing existing airflow and infrastructure.
Lire le casMeesho paid ₹202 crore for Kirana Club to take its marketplace into B2B retail
Meesho's first acquisition since going public buys an asset-light kirana marketplace valued at ~14x its ₹15.3 crore revenue, opening a B2B front against Udaan.
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