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An estimated 73% of privately held U.S. companies are expected to change hands within the next decade, according to succession-planning researchers, which is exactly why reputation alone isn’t enough when choosing an M&A advisor.

Gurugram-based managed workspace provider Incuspaze has raised ₹150 crore in a funding round led by Bharat Value Fund, with participation from other financial institutions, as the company scales toward a planned public listing in FY29. The round comes as India’s flexible office market has crossed 100 million square feet nationally, with enterprises and global capability centres increasingly opting for scalable, ready-to-use offices over conventional long-term leases.

Gurugram-based cleantech startup BatX Energies has raised ₹105 crore in a Series A round led by IvyCap Ventures, with participation from existing investors Zephyr Peacock, Mankind Pharma Family Office, Excel Industries Family Office, and JITO. The round arrives as India’s electric vehicle ecosystem pushes battery recycling and second-life materials recovery further up the priority list, with policymakers and manufacturers alike looking to reduce dependence on imported lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

Lab-grown diamond jewellery brand Limelight Diamonds has raised ₹275 crore in a strategic funding round led by its core promoters, the Bhathwari Group, with participation from key strategic partners in the jewellery industry as well as several of Limelight’s own franchise partners.

In 2022, Kevin McKenzie left Canada. Not because things weren’t working — but because, by his own reckoning, they were working a little too well for the government and not quite well enough for him. A Finance graduate from the University of Ottawa who had built a career across wealth management and the Canada Revenue Agency, Kevin understood taxation better than most. And what he understood, clearly, was that nearly half of what he earned was leaving his hands before he could do anything with it.

Yash Raj Films has made a strategic investment in Rusk Media, the Mumbai-headquartered digital entertainment company behind the Alright! TV platform, the studio announced on 29 June 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the partnership, YRF will steer the creative direction of original animation and vertical micro-drama intellectual property, while Rusk Media handles production and distribution through Alright! TV and global digital channels.

On June 12, at 5:21 PM Eastern Time, Anthropic received a directive it did not expect. The US Department of Commerce ordered the company to immediately suspend access to its two newest and most capable AI models — Fable 5 and Mythos 5 — for every foreign national on earth, including Anthropic’s own non-American employees. The company had no practical choice. It killed the models for everyone. Fable 5 had been live for exactly three days.

Studying abroad comes with financial pressures that extend well beyond tuition. U.S. colleges hosted 1.2 million international students in 2024–25, an all-time high according to the Institute of International Education — and that is just one country. UNESCO puts the global figure at 6.9 million internationally mobile students, a number that has tripled since 2000.

Opendoor Technologies shut down its entire India operations on June 11, letting go of nearly 250 employees it had hired less than two years ago to manage backend workflows — and CEO Kaz Nejatian made no attempt to obscure the reasoning behind it. In a note he posted publicly on X, Nejatian said the company had spent months moving select roles back to the United States and that the India exit was the final step in that transition.

A strong security strategy should make life easier for both MSPs and their clients, not create more confusion. Yet many managed service providers find themselves working across multiple platforms, dashboards, alerts, and reporting systems just to maintain basic visibility across client environments. While every tool may have been added for a good reason, too many disconnected solutions can quickly lead to inefficiency.