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Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

Bengaluru-based Stable Money, whose app lets users invest in fixed deposits and corporate bonds, raised $25M at a $175M valuation, taking total funding to $65M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.…

Stable Money secures $25 million in fresh equity from Peak XV Partners and others
The startup plans to grow its overall business five times by the end of this year, enter new cities through physical expansion and new product areas around real estate investments. Cofounder Saurabh Jain said his company has helped book around Rs 5,000 crore in fixed deposits and distributed around Rs 1,600 crore in corporate bonds.

Bengaluru-based AI startup Sarvam AI announces two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are tailored to Indian languages and cultures (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/upstart-sarva…

Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a "grid-to-GPU" power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/as-a

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck | TechCrunch
C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/bengaluru-f…

Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M: its third round in 18 months | TechCrunch
Swish has more than doubled its valuation in a year as its full-stack, hyperlocal model positions ultra-fast food delivery as a high-frequency habit.

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/kreditbee-enters-unicorn-club-with-280-mn-ser…

KreditBee enters unicorn club with $280 Mn Series E round
The round was led by Motilal Oswal Alternates, Hornbill Capital, and MUFG-backed Dragon Funds. WhiteOak Capital, A.P. Moller Holding, Premji Invest, and Advent International also participated.

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (The Economic Times)
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Juspay closes $50 million funding from WestBridge Capital; valuation hits $1.2 billion
Founded in 2012, Bengaluru-based Juspay powers payment systems for major global brands such as Amazon, Flipkart, Google, IndiGo, and Swiggy. The company said in a statement that it now processes over 300 million transactions daily, with annualised total payment volume exceeding $1 trillion.

Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet…

Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20