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    altM raises $10.3 million in a Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Mela Ventures, with Omnivore, Theia Ventures, Aureolis Ventures, Spectrum Impact and strategic angel investors participating. Venomics AI raises $2.7 million in a pre-seed round co-led by Speciale Invest and South Park Commons, with Operators Studio participating. EloElo Group raises $80 million in a Series C round led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, with MIT Investment Co. and existing investors participating. Peppermint Robotics raises ₹100 crore (approximately $10.5 million) in a Pre-Series B round led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, with Asiana Fund participating. Traversal raises $120 million in a Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint and Khosla Ventures, with Sequoia Capital, Battery Ventures and Amex Ventures participating. GIVA raises over $100 million in a round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management. The Croffle Guys raises ₹14 crore in a round led by V3 Ventures, with N.A.N Partners participating. Solgram raises over $1 million in a pre-seed round led by DSG Consumer Partners and Saama Capital, with Kapil Chopra participating. Sachin Tendulkar makes a strategic investment in Metasports Interactive, the company behind Hitwicket. The amount was not disclosed. Hyeglo Beauty raises ₹7 crore in a round led by Sauce, with Giga Capital, Consumer Collective, Reckitt's Arjun Purkayastha and The Patient Capital participating. altM raises $10.3 million in a Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Mela Ventures, with Omnivore, Theia Ventures, Aureolis Ventures, Spectrum Impact and strategic angel investors participating. Venomics AI raises $2.7 million in a pre-seed round co-led by Speciale Invest and South Park Commons, with Operators Studio participating. EloElo Group raises $80 million in a Series C round led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, with MIT Investment Co. and existing investors participating. Peppermint Robotics raises ₹100 crore (approximately $10.5 million) in a Pre-Series B round led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, with Asiana Fund participating. Traversal raises $120 million in a Series B round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint and Khosla Ventures, with Sequoia Capital, Battery Ventures and Amex Ventures participating. GIVA raises over $100 million in a round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management. The Croffle Guys raises ₹14 crore in a round led by V3 Ventures, with N.A.N Partners participating. Solgram raises over $1 million in a pre-seed round led by DSG Consumer Partners and Saama Capital, with Kapil Chopra participating. Sachin Tendulkar makes a strategic investment in Metasports Interactive, the company behind Hitwicket. The amount was not disclosed. Hyeglo Beauty raises ₹7 crore in a round led by Sauce, with Giga Capital, Consumer Collective, Reckitt's Arjun Purkayastha and The Patient Capital participating.
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    Nikesh AroraNikesh Arora@nikesharora
    6 Nov 2026, 12:10 AM IST

    What people don’t know is that – frontier LLMs are not “defending customers”, they are exposing vulnerabilities – defense means – no false positives, comprehensive coverage, and a cost efficient solution. Any defense involves, sensors, inline inspection and enforcment, this can only come with a collaborative approach.

    It’s time for frontier LLMs to take a responsible approach to Cyber. I have been watching them consistently tout their abilities on finding vulnerabilities and daisy chaining them to be able to attack enterprises. I have also recently learnt about their efforts to create synthetic data to enhance their capabilities. I am all for it. But don’t use this as a tactic to require each enterprise to scan for vulnerabilities again.

    The narrative needs to change – we already know that we are in a cycle where all enterprises need to remediate their vulnerabilities. It is important to understand:

    1. Vulnerability discovery is existential, because bad actors will – patching it is even more so. Expending efforts at more vulnerability discovery needs to be balanced with a solve.
    2. LLMs are capable of recommending patches, but before a patch is developed, and deployed, it needs to be tested in its environment to ensure continued functioning of the application, and even now the solve has high false positives. No enterprise can do it all at speed.
    3. Despite their enhanced capability, there is still significant difference in what vulnerabiities are found across all their Frontier LLM’s, so customers will need to test across a multi-model harness. One LLM isn’t the solution.
    4. Most organizations do not have capacity to patch at the speed needed, especially the smaller ones.
    5. We don’t talk about operational technology enough, most critical infrastructure relies on OT and we need a solve for them in addition to Open Source.

    The most obvious solution is virtual patching. This is a time tested technology that is currently available with cyber vendors for endpoints, WAF, cloud, network use cases. It also is not comprehensive enough currently, we need to scale this fast. We need a vulnerability clearing house and fast signature development for all these vulnerabilites to respond at speed across our industry.

    NavalNaval@naval
    6 Nov 2026, 4:35 AM IST

    Actual progress comes from hard-to-build technology.

    Which comes from competitive, creative, free-market capitalism.

    Which comes from one small, precarious area and then diffuses to the rest of the world.

    Snuff that out, and it’s global stagnation for an extremely long time.

    Prasanna KPrasanna K@prasanna_says
    5 Nov 2026, 7:40 AM IST

    99.9% of founders never had a shot at venture capital..

    Now 99% of software founders won’t have a shot at venture capital..

    A better path is to build a valuable business – deliver value to customers, get cashflow, grow…

    This is THE WAY!

    Don’t chase the venture mirage forever!

    Sam AltmanSam Altman@sama
    4 Nov 2026, 7:10 AM IST

    People should always be in control of the future.

    OpenAI is against the notion that it would be acceptable for people to be relegated to a role of doing things that “AI systems think makes sense to reward in humans”.

    People should not cede control of the future to superintelligence, and that requirement should ultimately constrain AI progress.

    Anish AgarwalAnish Agarwal@_anish_agarwal
    3 Nov 2026, 10:30 PM IST

    We just raised $120M, with a $1B valuation, to build software that keeps itself running.

    AI is writing more code than ever. It’s also making production less reliable: more code, shipped faster, understood by few.

    @traversal_ai understands how production systems fit together, finds the root cause of incidents, and helps prevent the next one.

    Engineers at Nubank, Harvey, PepsiCo, DigitalOcean, and a growing list of Fortune 100 companies use Traversal every day.

    Here’s production without the drama 👇

    DSTIndiaDSTIndia@IndiaDST
    3 Nov 2026, 10:22 PM IST

    A recent invited editorial co-authored by Dr. Pratishtha Pandey (Head) and Dr. A. Shivaprasad (Scientist) of the R&D Infrastructure Division at @IndiaDST highlights the strategic importance of strengthening India’s Earth Science research infrastructure to address emerging climate challenges.

    It brings attention to the contribution of the @IndiaDST -FIST Programme in strengthening institutional research capabilities and emphasises the need for advanced scientific facilities, interdisciplinary collaboration and sustained investments in research.

    The editorial published in Journal of the Geological Society of India, also outlines a forward-looking vision for leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Earth System modelling, long-term observational networks and geospatial technologies towards building a climate-resilient India.

    📖 Read the invited editorial:
    https://doi.org/10.17491/jgsi.2026.174655
    @DrJitendraSingh @waghmare16 @Pratishtha_DST @ShivaprasadIND @DBTIndia @CSIR_IND @moesgoi

    Peak XV PartnersPeak XV Partners@peakxvpartners
    3 Nov 2026, 1:00 PM IST

    Where is the next wave of investment opportunity emerging, and what will define the most promising technology businesses of the future?

    Our Managing Director GV Ravishankar (@gvravishankar) joined a panel at the Dubai Fintech Summit to discuss where private capital is flowing, the opportunities emerging across global markets, and how Peak XV is thinking about the next generation of technology companies.

    A few key takeaways from the discussion 👇

    ▪️ Deep tech is opening up new opportunities. From semiconductors and space technology to advanced manufacturing, we’re seeing more founders across India and Asia building globally competitive technologies for international markets.

    ▪️ The economics of AI will continue to change. As models become more powerful and affordable, significant opportunities will emerge for companies leveraging AI to deliver meaningful customer value without heavy infrastructure investments.

    ▪️ AI is shifting where the bottlenecks lie. As coding agents accelerate software creation, demand is growing for tools that help developers review, test and deploy code. Identifying and investing ahead of these new bottlenecks is an important part of AI investment strategy.

    Thank you to the Dubai Fintech Summit for bringing together a great discussion on the future of private capital and technology investing!

    STPISTPI@stpiindia
    3 Nov 2026, 9:30 AM IST

    Calling all students, graduates and aspiring technology professionals!

    Build your technical capabilities in the rapidly evolving fields of IoT and Embedded Systems with STPI’s 3-Month Certified IoT & Embedded Systems Professional Programme. Develop practical knowledge of electronics, embedded programming and connected technologies through hands-on learning, hardware platforms and capstone projects.

    KEY LEARNING AREAS:

    🔸 Understand Core Electronics, from Analog Circuits to Digital Logic Design
    🔸 Develop programming skills in C and C++
    🔸 Explore Data Structures and Problem Solving
    🔸 Gain practical knowledge of Embedded C and ARM Cortex-M Architecture
    🔸 Learn Embedded Firmware and Driver Development
    🔸 Explore Real-Time Operating Systems (FreeRTOS)
    🔸 And much more to enhance your technical capabilities and industry readiness!

    Prepare for emerging opportunities in Embedded Systems and IoT engineering.

    📍 Location: Bengaluru
    ⏳ Application Deadline: 24 November 2026

    🔗 To know more and apply, visit:
    https://skillup.stpi.in/public/course_detail?id=6
    #STPISKILLUP #STPIIndia #IoT #EmbeddedSystems #CoreElectronics #CProgramming #EmbeddedFirmware #ARM #ESP32 #FreeRTOS #CloudIoT #SkillDevelopment #Upskilling #FutureOfTechnology
    @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw @JitinPrasada @SecretaryMEITY @arvindtw @_DigitalIndia @startupindia @NeGD_GoI @stpinext @MSDESkillIndia @CranesVarsity

    AnthropicAnthropic@AnthropicAI
    3 Nov 2026, 1:21 AM IST

    Applications are now open for the Anthropic Residency, a paid, fixed-term research program for academics, technical founders, and staff-level engineers who want to make AI safe and beneficial for everyone. No ML background is required.

    Apply by November 22: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/anthropic-residency/

    Coefficient GivingCoefficient Giving@coeff_giving
    2 Nov 2026, 8:05 PM IST

    We’re launching a $30 million funding call for work that increases the health impact of existing or late-stage vaccines, with a focus on benefits for people in low- and middle-income countries. 🧵

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