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Fintech infrastructure startup Saris has raised $28.8 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate deployment of its agentic AI workflow platform designed for banks and credit unions. The round was led by 8VC, with participation from Audacious Ventures, Homebrew, Btech

Jaipur-based D2C food brand Anveshan has raised ₹150 crore in a Series B funding round led by Wipro Consumer Care Ventures, marking one of the largest recent funding rounds in India’s premium clean-label food segment. The round also saw participation from existing investors

Bengaluru-based electric two-wheeler startup Simple Energy has secured ₹250 crore in a Series B funding round through a mix of equity and debt as it ramps up production capacity, expands its retail footprint, and prepares for a public listing in FY28. The funding round was led

AI infrastructure startup XCENA has raised $135 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate deployment of its memory-centric computing solutions designed for next-generation AI workloads. The round was co-led by Atinum Investment and IMM Investment, with participation from major strategic and financial investors across Asia. With this latest raise, XCENA’s total funding now stands at $185 million, reaching a valuation of $570 million. XCENA is tackling one of AI’s biggest infrastructure bottlenecks - memory limitations. Its MX1 computational memory platform integrates processing directly with memory architecture to improve efficiency, reduce latency, and support increasingly data-intensive AI inference workloads. The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand globally, scale customer deployments, and further advance its computational memory innovations for hyperscalers, telecom operators, and enterprise AI ecosystems. As AI models become larger and more memory-intensive, startups like XCENA are emerging as critical enablers of the next era of AI infrastructure and data center architecture.

Paris-based enterprise AI startup Dust has secured $40 million in Series B funding to accelerate development of its “multiplayer AI” platform designed to enable humans and AI agents to collaborate across enterprise workflows. The round was co-led by Abstract and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Snowflake Ventures and Datadog Ventures. Founded by Gabriel Hubert and Stanislas Polu, Dust is building an enterprise AI operating system where teams and AI agents share the same workspace, organizational context, tools, and workflows in real time. The company says its platform is already used by more than 3,000 organizations globally, with over 300,000 AI agents deployed across customer environments. Unlike traditional “single-player AI” systems focused on individual chat assistants, Dust is positioning itself as infrastructure for coordinated human-agent collaboration across entire organizations. The platform integrates with enterprise systems including Slack, HubSpot, Notion, Snowflake, Gmail, and Google Drive to enable agents and employees to operate from shared live context. Dust says its AI architecture focuses heavily on enterprise governance, observability, and secure orchestration. The company provides granular permissions, audit trails, analytics, and enterprise-grade compliance features including SOC 2 Type II certification and GDPR compliance with EU and US data residency support. According to CEO Gabriel Hubert, the future of enterprise AI will depend less on standalone chatbots and more on systems where AI agents and humans coordinate work together in parallel across organizations. Dust refers to this operational model as “multiplayer AI,” where workflows continuously evolve through shared memory, self-improving agents, and collaborative operational infrastructure. The fresh capital will support expansion of Dust’s enterprise AI infrastructure, self-improving agent systems, orchestration tooling, and large-scale deployment capabilities as companies increasingly move toward agentic AI operations and AI-native enterprise workflows.

Indian edtech and higher education platform Leverage Edu has secured fresh Series D funding as the company accelerates preparations for a future public listing and expands its international student mobility ecosystem. The round saw participation from existing investors including ETS Strategic Capital, Blume Ventures, Tomorrow Capital, Kaizenvest, and several global institutional backers supporting the company’s cross-border education infrastructure ambitions. Founded by Akshay Chaturvedi, Leverage Edu operates a full-stack international higher education platform helping students access university admissions, financial services, visas, test preparation, accommodation, and career support across global education destinations including the US, UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia. The company has increasingly positioned itself as an “international student operating system,” combining AI-powered counseling, application automation, financial products, and university partnerships to streamline the overseas education journey for Indian students. Leverage Edu says it has already supported millions of students across multiple global markets through its platform and advisory ecosystem. According to reports, the fresh capital will support international expansion, AI infrastructure development, student financing products, strategic acquisitions, and operational scaling ahead of its anticipated IPO roadmap. The company has also expanded aggressively into language learning, test prep, employability services, and embedded fintech solutions linked to global education mobility. Leverage Edu joins a growing category of Indian startups building globally integrated education and workforce mobility platforms as international student demand continues rising despite tightening immigration and visa regulations worldwide. Investors are increasingly betting on AI-enabled student infrastructure, global skilling, and education-fintech convergence.