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With the deal announcement pending, Apax has beaten firms like Carlyle, Kedaara, Permira, ChrysCap, Multiples, and Verlinvest for the deal, according to a report by the Economic Times, citing people aware of the matter.

Here, we take a look at the highest funds raised by firms for strategic investments in the Indian region.

As venture capital turned selective in 2025, only a handful of D2C brands with clear category leadership and repeat consumption managed to raise large institutional rounds. These eight names stood out in a cautious funding year

The fresh capital will also be deployed to accelerate retail expansion and strengthen design possibilities.

Yet the broader slowdown has not affected every sub-segment equally. Dairy-tech, for example, has held investor interest due to its scale and everyday consumption patterns.

After an "enthusiastic" post-pandemic capital cycle, venture investors and founders alike have recalibrated expectations, shifting focus from rapid scale to resilient business models.

GST collections have remained robust, and the decline in the October Consumer Price Index is supposed to provide the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with a bit of wiggle room for potential rate cuts - a move that could accelerate capex spending and consumption-led growth.

Speaking to Entrepreneur India, the company heads discussed the investment approach as it looks ahead to 2026.

NeoSapien said that it plans to direct the fresh capital towards accelerating product development, enhancing visibility in the market, and strengthening the team across functions.

The funding will support the company's expansion of enterprise and Global Capability Center focused workspaces across the city.

This new consumer fund brings Fireside's total assets under management to INR 5,300 crore, with plans to back early and growth-stage brands

The discussions also noted that the GDP is growing at 6.5 per cent, but the healthcare sector is growing twice that pace at 13 per cent, aided by higher disposable incomes, increased health awareness, demographic shifts, and chronic disease prevalence.

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The fresh funding will be used to develop new tools, scale server infrastructure and hire more talent.

The round was led by InCred.

According to Redrob, the funding will go towards furthering its technology by improving its ML structure for a targeted 50 times cost cut, making language models for India based on all 22 languages recognized by the constitution, and providing a complete AI suite for learning, career growth, and productivity at the workplace.

CtrlB said that the funding will help accelerate engineering, R&D, and patent filings for its core indexing and compression technology while pursuing enterprise certifications, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

The funding for Ravity is the third one under the Maruti Suzuki Innovation Fund, with prior investments of INR 2 crore each into Amlgo Labs Private Limited in March 2024 and Sociograph Solutions Private Limited in June 2022.

The company has said the funding will be used towards product development and to double down on industry-wide adoption of its flagship Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment.

HyperVault will be funded through a combination of equity from TCS and TPG, as well as debt. With both parties combined, the total commitment will be up to INR 18,000 crore over the next few years.

The company has said that the new financing will enable it to double down on innovation and accelerate market expansion, sports and research partnerships, and development of new features and software revenue streams.