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Natasha Malpani, former partner at Kae Capital, has launched Boundless Ventures, a ₹200 crore early-stage fund focused on AI-native startups from India. The fund will invest at pre-seed and seed stages, targeting consumer AI applications, infrastructure, agent tooling, healthcare, logistics, and Make-in-India AI hardware. Backed by Malpani’s personal network, Boundless has already made six investments, including Superhealth, Armatrix, PierSight, Knot, and two stealth AI ventures. Apart from capital, the fund will support founders with storytelling, market access, and network building. “Founders who combine technical depth with cultural fluency will set the terms of the next wave. Boundless exists to back them before the world catches on,” said Malpani. #seedStage #funding #opportunity #FundAlert #startupUpdates #startupro

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Jai Kisan, a Mumbai-based fintech startup focused on rural India, has reportedly raised Rs 26.5 crore in an extended Series B funding round backed by existing investors Unitary Fund, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, and Blume Ventures. Founded in 2017 by Arjun Ahluwalia and Adriel Maniego, Jai Kisan operates at the intersection of financial services and rural commerce, offering digital credit and financing options to individuals and small businesses in India’s underserved agricultural and rural sectors. Read the full story here:👇 https://lnkd.in/dK3qTfXy #fintech #ruralindia #funding #investors #investment #business #mumbai #startup #indianstartupnews

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#Update BorderPlus, a cross-border workforce mobility platform, secured INR 60 crore (USD 7 million) in its first institutional funding round led by Owl Ventures, with participation from prominent entrepreneurs like Binny Bansal, Mithun Sacheti, Ritesh Agarwal, Aakash Chaudhary, and Apoorva Patni. Founded by upGrad co-founder Mayank Kumar and ex-OYO leader Ayush Mathur, BorderPlus aims to revolutionize international career opportunities for skilled Indian workers, initially focusing on healthcare professionals and nurses. The platform provides comprehensive services, including training, language learning, visa processing, job placements, cultural integration, and financial support. Owl Ventures Managing Director Amit Patel highlighted BorderPlus's innovative approach to addressing global workforce needs. BorderPlus has begun training its first nurse batch for placements, initially targeting Germany and later expanding to other sectors like hospitality, retail, teaching, construction, and trucking. The platform offers a reimbursable INR 2 lakh program fee. The co-founders emphasized their commitment to unlocking cross-border employment, stating the funds will enhance platform capabilities and partnerships. Read the story: https://ow.ly/t3P350UWChy #BorderPlus #WorkforceDevelopment #CrossBorderMobility #HealthcareJobs #InternationalCareers #StartupFunding #JobOpportunities #SkillDevelopment #NurseTraining #OwlVentures

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Probus Smart Things Pvt. Ltd., a deep-tech startup, has successfully raised $5 million in its Series A1 funding round, led by Unicorn India Ventures. Credence Family Office played a significant role in securing funding from family offices and investors. This significant investment marks a pivotal moment for Probus, enabling it to enhance its innovative solutions and expand its market presence. The funding will be instrumental in ramping up its current communications tech stack into multiple smart grid and renewable applications along with the development of existing expertise into AI integration with its patented communications and networking stacks. We have believed in the founders vision since 2020 which reflects their ten fold growth since the last funding round. Read on to know more - The Economic Times Telecom - https://lnkd.in/e_r8FR4i VCCircle - https://lnkd.in/eVSPGjwZ Entrepreneur India - https://lnkd.in/esM9mhcj YourStory Media - https://lnkd.in/eJU3CQQz Indian Startup News - https://lnkd.in/df-sYisT Entrackr - https://lnkd.in/gQHQC5Wv Anil Joshi | Bhaskar Majumdar | Sunny Kumar Jadoon | Ahmad Raza | Anand Singh | Rahul Mishra | Ankit Vaish #BackedByUnicorn #Probus #DeepTech #Startup #Funding #Innovation #UIV #AI #IndianStartupEcosystem

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Founded in 2025, Pranachain is an Indian and Canada-based, decentralized, next-gen blockchain platform enabling secure, transparent, and consent-driven exchange of health data. Hailing from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, Abhishek Chakrala has quite an extensive career trajectory. He worked as a scientist at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation). Later, he moved to Canada to pursue his master’s degree. Over time, Abhishek became a consultant and advisor to more than twenty startups across the United States, Canada, and Malaysia, helping them scale through strategic technology adoption and innovation. But the idea for PranaChain was planted way back in 2021. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Abhishek was visiting his hometown in India. That's when, one after the other, numerous gaps in the healthcare industry became clear to him: When people are travelling, carrying their physical health records with them is mostly the last thing on their mind. But when they fall ill and visit a doctor in a new city or country, previous healthcare records become a crucial thing. In countries like the USA and Canada, laboratories send a patient's blood reports to their doctor. Not to the patient. Abhishek Chakrala had an idea to build an end-to-end next-gen blockchain platform enabling secure, transparent, and consent-driven exchange of health data across all stakeholders like patients, hospitals, labs, pharma research, and insurance agents and companies. It was in 2023 that Abhishek Chakrala bootstrapped the startup with approximately Rs 22 lakh and began the development phase by bringing together a small team of developers across India. Simply put, PranaChain has been designed as a decentralized, complete medical ERP based on Web3. It is a next-gen blockchain-powered healthcare platform that unifies patients, doctors, hospitals, labs, pharma, and insurers through 100% secure, consent-based data sharing. The outcome? Patients get full control over their health journey while care, research, and insurance processes are streamlined. “A lot of people struggle to make payments to a doctor while they are on a trip. They either don't have the local currency or have the option to use their credit cards which charge a substantial foreign currency exchange fee. That's why we've built our very own crypto currency, the PranaToken,” Abhishek Chakrala tells Startup Pedia in an exclusive interview. Currently in its beta phase, the PranaChain platform aims to serve everyone in the healthcare ecosystem with safety and decentralized security. "We've made something like Thyrocare but not just for lab reports," he adds. While trials in numerous Indian clinics have already been confirmed, Abhishek Chakrala has also partnered with a startup incubator in Canada and a semi-government-backed accelerator in Dubai. Website - https://lnkd.in/gNP7Jj2n Read More: http://bit.ly/4o9dcBq #startup #startupfounder #startuppedia #healthstartup #canada #india #data

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FINTECH SCOOP: GyanDhan Raises ₹51 Cr to Expand Education Financing 🔎 Delhi-based ed-fintech platform GyanDhan has secured ₹51 crore (~$6 million) in a funding round led by Classplus and Pravega Ventures. 🔎 Founded in 2016 by Ankit Mehra and Jainesh Sinha, GyanDhan offers a digital-first platform that facilitates education loans for students pursuing higher education abroad. 🔎 The fresh capital will be utilized to enhance GyanDhan's technology infrastructure, expand its team, and scale its operations to serve a broader customer base. Aman Jain Follow the India FinTech Forum for news, events, and job updates. #fintech #educationfinance #startupfunding

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