Paytm’s Board Shoots Down Proposal To Issue Bonus Shares

Business • Team Inc42

"Paytm's board has rejected a proposal to issue bonus shares, deciding instead to prioritize compounding growth and profitability to enhance long-term shareholder value. This decision follows the announcement of the company's Q1 FY27 financial results, which showed a significant 78.8% year-on-year increase in consolidated net profit to ₹220 crore and a 27.6% rise in operating revenue, reaching ₹2,448 crore for the quarter.".

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Business • Anjali Jain

AI-native traveltech startup 30 Sundays has raised ₹61 crore ($6.7 million) in a Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The Gurugram-based company will use the funds to enhance its AI capabilities, expand its engineering team, and enter new international markets including Georgia and the Philippines. The platform offers AI-driven, end-to-end holiday planning for outbound Indian travelers, currently achieving a ₹200 crore annualized gross booking value.

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Business • Palak Sharma

Vartis Platforms, the parent company of LenDenClub, reported a 183% increase in FY26 profit to ₹96.2 crore, with operating revenue rising 43% to ₹338 crore. This marks the startup's second straight profitable year following an RBI crackdown on P2P lending. Processing nearly ₹5,000 crore in transactions, the company now plans to enter merchant lending and targets total revenue of approximately ₹550 crore for FY27.

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Business • Meha Agarwal

Indian D2C brands are shifting their marketing strategies away from a heavy reliance on Meta and Google due to rising acquisition costs and the rise of AI-driven product discovery. Companies are now prioritizing organic content, customer retention, and omnichannel execution to ensure sustainable growth. Consequently, brands are replacing traditional ROAS metrics with profitability-focused measures like marketing efficiency ratio and contribution margins to better track real business health.

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Startups • Your story

"Paytm reported a 79% increase in net profit to Rs 220 crore and a 28% revenue rise to Rs 2,448 crore for Q1 FY27. Growth was driven by merchant payments, AI-led operational efficiencies, and financial services distribution. Despite these strong financial results and gains in market share, the company's stock price fell 2.14% on the National Stock Exchange, reflecting a negative market reaction to the quarterly performance.".

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Business • Palak Sharma

"Electric two-wheeler manufacturer Ather Energy has raised approximately ₹1,300 crore through a qualified institutional placement. The company allotted 1.08 crore equity shares at an issue price of ₹1,202 per share, which was 2.8% above the floor price. Major investors include the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and several mutual funds, such as HDFC, Axis, and Tata, with each receiving over 5% of the total issue size.".

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Business • Team Inc42

Paytm reported a strong Q1 FY27 with profits rising 79% to ₹220 crore and revenue hitting ₹2,448 crore, driven by AI and payment growth. Meanwhile, NVIDIA is offering credit support to AI.

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British startup CuspAI secured $450 million to discover new materials, while OpenAI appointed Uday Ruddarraju as CTO of Compute to expand infrastructure. In politics, Andy Burnham became Britain's Prime Minister, and Japanese Mayor Shoko Kawata made history by taking maternity leave. Additionally, Bengaluru-based Metastable Materials is refining industrial metals from battery waste, and the Indian rupee declined amid rising oil prices and Middle East tensions.

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Business • Lokesh Choudhary

Bengaluru-based Transition VC has launched its second fund with a target corpus of ₹1,500 crore to support engineering-led startups. The firm plans to invest $2 million to $5 million in over 20 companies focusing on energy transition, advanced manufacturing, and industrial deeptech over the next four years. Deployments will begin in Q3 FY27, targeting startups with proven technical feasibility and early commercial traction to drive India's energy transition.

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Startups • Your story

"Gurugram-based travel platform 30 Sundays has raised Rs 61 crore in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Info Edge and Eximius Ventures participating. The AI-native startup will use the capital to enhance its technology, expand its team, and enter new markets like Georgia and the Philippines. Currently boasting a Rs 200 crore GBV run rate, the company aims to simplify outbound leisure travel.".

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Startups • Kirsten Korosec

A federal judge has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a class action copyright lawsuit. The payout provides $3,000 per work for approximately 500,000 copyrighted books. While the court ruled that AI training constitutes fair use, it found Anthropic’s use of pirated sources illegal. This landmark settlement does not set a binding precedent for other ongoing AI copyright disputes involving companies like Google and OpenAI.

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Startups • Marina Temkin

Colossal Biosciences, a de-extinction startup aiming to resurrect species like the woolly mammoth, is seeking new funding at a valuation between $20 billion and $30 billion. The company has begun generating revenue through government conservation contracts and several spin-off ventures in AI and biology. Additionally, Colossal is developing artificial womb technology and plans to eventually monetize biodiversity credits by reintroducing extinct animals to their native habitats.

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Startups • Julie Bort

Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) after only three months. CAISI, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, develops AI technical standards and assesses cybersecurity risks. Fall's departure follows a period of leadership instability and coincides with broader debates over AI safety programs, industry-led regulation, and the competitive threat posed by Chinese open-weight AI models.

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Startups • Lucas Ropek

Alphabet is developing a new server chip, "Frozen v2," to enhance the efficiency of its Gemini AI models. Expected by 2028, the chip could be six to ten times more efficient than current hardware. This move follows a broader industry trend of reducing dependence on Nvidia. The news has boosted investor confidence and Google's stock price ahead of its earnings report, amid massive planned AI infrastructure expenditures.

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Startups • Russell Brandom

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), which enables AI models to access external data, is receiving a significant update to improve scalability. By shifting from stateful to stateless session ID management, the protocol will better support large-scale deployments across multiple servers and load balancers. This technical change aims to reduce maintenance costs and encourage companies to implement first-party integrations, addressing a key infrastructure bottleneck in agentic AI development.

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Startups • Sarah Perez

X has launched a completely rebuilt Android app, developed from the ground up over nearly a year to improve performance, reliability, and user experience. Built using a modern Kotlin and Jetpack Compose stack, the update aims to fix previous stability issues and accelerate the rollout of new features. While some refinements for older devices and Spaces support are pending, the app is now available via the Google Play Store.

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Startups • Tim Fernholz

The release of China's Kimi K3 open-weight model has sparked a debate over AI regulation in the US. While some American frontier labs push for bans citing security and safety risks, critics argue that open models accelerate innovation and lower costs. Experts suggest that restricting these models protects corporate profits rather than national security, proposing chip export controls as a more effective strategy to maintain US leadership.

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Startups • Marina Temkin

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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Startups • Aisha Malik

"A U.S. District Judge has issued a 14-day pause on Paramount Skydance’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery following a lawsuit from 12 state attorneys general. Led by California, the coalition argues the merger would stifle competition in theatrical film distribution and basic cable licensing, harming audiences and theaters. The delay threatens Paramount's strategy to compete with Netflix by consolidating major studios and streaming platforms.".

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