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Recognising this potential, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, through its Centre of Excellence for Road Safety (CoERS) , has launched the AI Road Safety Hackathon 2026. The initiative, announced at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, invites students, engineers, and technology enthusiasts from across the country to build AI-powered solutions addressing India’s most pressing road safety challenges .

In the early hours of April 7, 2026, a team from the Noida Cyber Crime Police Station, acting on technical surveillance and local intelligence inputs, raided a high-rise apartment in Sector 76, Noida . The operation was swift and precise. Inside, they found four young men—ages 24 to 27—sitting in front of laptops, headsets on, speaking in fluent American accents to targets thousands of miles away.

The company has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based Greenoaks Capital, with participation from existing investors RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures . The round, which closed in early April 2026, comes on the heels of a $9.6 million seed round raised in 2025, bringing the startup’s total funding to approximately $31.6 million .

Bengaluru-based digital lending platform KreditBee has officially entered the unicorn club, raising $280 million in a Series E funding round that values the company at $1.5 billion . The round, which closed on April 7, 2026, marks the first unicorn creation of FY27 in India’s fintech sector and makes KreditBee the third unicorn of 2026, following AI cloud startup Neysa and fintech firm Juspay .

The funding round is structured as a mix of $220 million in primary capital (to be infused into the firm) and $60 million in secondary capital, allowing early investors including Alpine Capital, Mirae Asset Naver Asia Growth Fund, and some employees to partially exit .

While the figure represented a decline from the previous week’s $331 million haul—driven by professional services automation platform Rocketlane’s $60 million round—the steady deal activity demonstrated that investor commitment to India’s innovation economy remains strong even as global geopolitical tensions (including the West Asia conflict) introduced volatility into financial markets .

The week’s funding was characterized by sectoral diversity, a healthy mix of early-stage and growth-stage deals, and notable IPO filings from Garuda Aerospace, Zetwerk, and Rediff via the confidential route .

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Over the coming weeks and months, StartupPoint.in will publish 100+ specialized articles — each dedicated to the individual startups that participated in the Manipal Jaipur mega event. Every article will be linked below as it goes live.

the Indian startup ecosystem demonstrated remarkable resilience. Despite heightened geopolitical tensions in West Asia and volatility in global public markets, startups across the country raised over $132 million in a single week .

While this figure represented a moderation from the blockbuster $343 million raised in the previous week (March 23–27), the steady capital inflow signals that investor confidence in India’s innovation economy remains strong . The week was characterized by a healthy mix of early-stage and growth-stage deals across fintech, enterprise tech, climate tech, and D2C consumer brands.

The project, first announced in October 2025 through a memorandum of understanding between Google and the Andhra Pradesh government, will be executed by Raiden Infotech India Private Limited, Google’s subsidiary, in partnership with AdaniConneX and Airtel . The groundbreaking will be attended by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, underscoring the strategic importance of the initiative .