From snippets of CashKaro and EarnKaro founder Swati Bhargava’s talk at SheSparks 2026 to quick food delivery startups’ $38 million Series B fund raise, YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors.
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Building a Rs 600 Cr business while battling a health crisis
At SheSparks 2026, YourStory’s flagship event for women, Swati Bhargava, Co-founder of CashKaro and EarnKaro, reflected on the lessons and blessings that have shaped her entrepreneurial journey.
Looking beyond boardroom battles, Bhargava underscored that entrepreneurship is a marathon—one that demands deep resilience.
That resilience was tested in 2022, when a sudden health crisis cautilized her kidney function to drop to just 3–4%, even as she was in the middle of raising Rs 130 crore. Balancing hospital visits during the day with investor calls in the evening, she went on to successfully close the round—before finally checking in for a transplant.
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Funding news
Quick food delivery startup Swish raises $38M in Series B funding
Quick food delivery startup Swish has raised $38 million in a Series B funding round led by Hara Global and Bain Capital Ventures. Existing investor Accel also participated in the round, along with debt financing from Alteria Capital and Stride Ventures.
The latest infusion marks Swish’s third fundraise in just 18 months. The company declared it will utilize the capital to expand into new cities, strengthen its kitchen and supply chain infrastructure, and hire across key functions.
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OZi raises $6.2M, sees to deepen NCR presence
Quick commerce startup OZi has raised $6.2 million in a Series A funding round led by RTP Global. Existing investors, including Blume Ventures, Huddle Ventures, and Zeropearl VC, also participated, along with a group of angel investors featuring retail veteran Kishore Biyani and founders from several Indian startups.
The round comes less than six months after OZi raised $3.3 million in seed funding, highlighting strong investor appetite for startups carving out focutilized niches within India’s crowded quick commerce market.
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Pediatric wellness startup RN Kids raises Rs 7.1 Cr in pre-seed round
Rushabh Nandu and Dr Nihar Parekh
Pediatric wellness startup RN Kids, focutilized on clean-label, clinically backed formulations for everyday health necessarys in children, has raised Rs 7.1 crore ($760,000) in a pre-seed funding round, with participation from Ashish Kacholia and Lashit Sanghvi, alongside angel investors including Mohit Sadaani (The Moms Co.), Hitesh Dhingra (The Man Company), Ajay Mehra, and Samir Palod (AUM Fund Advisors), as well as select family offices.
The startup was founded in September 2025 by Rushabh Nandu and paediatrician Dr Nihar Parekh. RN Kids plans to launch six signature products on Amazon, Flipkart, and its D2C website by the conclude of July, followed by quick commerce and offline retail.
Kidbea raises Rs 30 Cr to scale retail footprint
Bamboo-led kidswear and childcare brand, Kidbea, has raised Rs 30 crore in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Enrission India Capital, with participation from Inflection Point Ventures, LetsVenture, FE Securities, and existing investors, including Venture Catalysts and Lead Angels, along with Nitish Mittersain and Dr Ritesh Malik.
The round also saw participation from marquee investors such as Ghazal Alagh, Roman Saini, Sumit Jalan, Ajay Aggarwal (Founder, Action Tesa Family Office), Bahram N. Vakil (Co-founder, AZB & Partners), Vinod Rustagi (CEO, Karimjee Family Office), Amit Rathi, Sanjit Advani (Director of Dubai’s leading Textile company), among others.
With the fresh capital infusion, Kidbea plans to scale its retail footprint by launching over 100 exclusive brand outlets and expanding into more than 200 multi-brand stores across India over the next 12–24 months.
Raanro raises Rs 4.12 crore to build AI-powered interior design workflow platform
Raanro Interior Technology Designs Pvt. Ltd., the parent company behind the children’s interiors brand Magical Nest, has raised Rs 4.12 crore in a pre-seed funding round at a pre-money valuation of Rs 60 crore.
The round saw participation from Stargazer Fund, along with prominent angel investors including Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED), Ankit Nagori (Founder, EatFit), Gaurav Singh Kushwaha (Founder, BlueStone), Prashant Tandon and Gaurav Agarwal (Founders, Tata 1MG), and Anshuman Singh (Think41), who led the round.
The company will utilize the fresh capital to rapid-track the development of its AI-powered platform to simplify the conclude-to-conclude workflow of interior design businesses—from lead generation and customer discovery to design, pricing, project execution, and final delivery. Magical Nest will serve as the first category through which the company plans to scale this model.
Other news
PeakAmp partners with Chargeup
Battery circularity and lifecycle management company, PeakAmp, has announced a strategic partnership with Chargeup, India’s leading FiNeTech platform for last-mile drivers.
PeakAmp will serve as a technical partner, supporting the procurement, testing, grading, repurposing, and recycling of battery packs generated by Chargeup’s battery financing operations. The partnership aims to bring greater structure and efficiency to the management of batteries across their entire lifecycle.
Operant AI launches AI Infrastructure Ecosystem Partnership Program
San Francisco-based Operant AI has launched the AI Infrastructure Ecosystem Partnership Program to embed real-time AI defence directly into the inference infrastructure powering the world’s most demanding enterprise AI workloads.
Infrastructure providers joining the GPU Ecosystem Program can offer customers not just raw compute power, but verifiably secure inference environments where models and agents can run safely in production. As enterprises increasingly scrutinise the security posture of their AI infrastructure, the ability to demonstrate robust, real-time protection at the inference layer is becoming essential to winning deals and retaining customers, declared a press release.
Its GPU-accelerated AI Gatekeeper and MCP Gateway, combined with the GPU Ecosystem Program, will deliver the speed and protection that India’s production AI systems demand, it added.
TrucksUp Signs MoU with NHAI
AI-enabled logistics aggregator platform TrucksUp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), through the Indian Highways Management Company Limited (IHMCL), to improve the safety, efficiency and overall utilizer experience of commercial vehicle drivers, truck fleet operators and groups across all National Highways in India.
This collaboration brings toreceiveher multiple commercial vehicle aggregation platforms to implement interoperable, technology-driven solutions that enhance travel ease on national highways and foster participatory governance within the transportation ecosystem.
As part of this partnership, TrucksUp will integrate the “Rajmargyatra App” onto its platform to deliver drivers with real-time safety alerts and action-oriented travel updates on accident-prone areas, diversions, construction zones, adverse weather, and other road risks.
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