Climate funding: Why PSUs are stepping in where VCs fear to tread

Shipyards, gas utilities, global asset managers are reshaping India’s climate-tech funding. While venture capital steers clear, these legacy institutions and overseas investors are backing long-gestation technologies—from marine coatings to EV infrastructure to carbon removal—with patient capital.

Startup Funding

Indian startups raised over $314 million from Jan 12 to Jan 17, 2026; Amagi Media Labs tops the list

Between January 12 and January 17, 2026, as many as 18 Indian startups from diverse sectors raised over $314 million in funding from investors. These sectors include Mobility, Footwear, Aerospace, Deeptech, Edtech, Wellness, Healthcare, Spacetech, Gaming, Automation, eMaaS, and Adtech. Last week, Indian startups raised over $170 million, with Integrated grain commerce platform Arya.ag alone raising $80.85 million. High-value deals A diverse range of sectors attracted investments during the week, with the Media sector leading the pack. Leading this sector was Amagi Media Labs , which raised $88.74 million from anchor investors. Wellness startup Pee Safe raised $32 million. The list was followed by Out-of-hospital healthcare chain Sukino, Higher-education embedded training and employability platform Emversity, and Investment platform Wint Wealth, which collectively raised $28 million. Sukino raised $31 million, Emversity raised $30 million, and Wint Wealth raised $28 million. Emerging...

Industry Trends

Leaders must stop being the heart and become the nervous system

Spotify largely avoids leadership approval for routine product features. Squads, small teams owning specific user experiences, make those calls based on user data, technical constraints, and strategic direction. Leadership ensures squads understand company strategy, removes obstacles, and coordinates dependencies. The result is speed. Spotify ships faster than competitors with centralised approval models, not because their [...] The post Leaders must stop being the heart and become the nervous system appeared first on HR Katha .

Musk Seeks Up to $134 Billion Damages From OpenAI, Microsoft

Elon Musk wants OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft to pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that the generative AI company defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with the software giant.

Unacademy Hits Reset, Again

Just over nine months ago, in April 2025, Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal proclaimed that nearly 70% of the company’s offline…