India startup funding and leadership digest · 24 October 2026

18 stories from Indian startup and business press on 24 October 2026: 4 on funding, 11 on deals, 3 on leadership. Every line links to the publisher that reported it.

Funding

• Tanmay Bhat backs Chapter Home: Ex-PharmEasy executives raise ₹63 crore for home and kitchen brands — Mint · Companies
• Y Combinator-Backed Firstwork Nets $15 Mn To Expand Footprint Across US And Europe — Inc42
• Zetwerk Makes Its Market Debut; Can Scale Alone Widen Its Thin Margins? — Inc42
• Welspun Corp bags ₹5,500-crore US pipeline order, global order book hits record $5.25 billion — BusinessLine · Companies

Deals and IPOs

• Jio Platforms IPO Booked 6.76X On Day 3 So Far, QIB Portion Subscribed 14.18X — Inc42
• IPO Listing Today: Tonbo Imaging Shares List At 66% Premium; Sahajanand Medical, Zetwerk Make Positive Debuts On BSE, NSE — NDTV Profit
• Zetwerk Makes NSE Debut At 5.5% Premium After ₹5,012 Cr IPO — Inc42
• Tonbo Imaging Makes Strong Market Debut, Lists At 66% Premium To IPO Price — Inc42
• Jio Platforms IPO Day 3 Live Updates: Issue subscribed 5.38 times on day 2 — BusinessLine · Companies
• IPO-Bound Garuda Aerospace’s FY26 Profit Jumps 41% To ₹25.9 Cr — Inc42
• Jio IPO Subscription Hits 12.45x As QIBs Lead With 37.22x Demand — NDTV Profit
• Jio Platforms IPO Day 3: Check Subscription Size, GMP, Lot Size, Price Band — NDTV Profit
• The CFO Code: Perfios’ Prashant Mahagaonkar On Balancing Founder Ambition With Financial Discipline — Inc42
• OpenAI cuts valuation target by $150 bn to $1.25 tn | Why it has scaled back its funding ambitions ahead of IPO — Mint · Companies
• Coforge Q2 net profit jumps 56.5% to Rs 588 crore on Encora deal — Economic Times · Startups

People moves

• Swiggy’s Q2 Report Card, eMudhra To Exit Certificate Biz & More — Inc42
• Stock Market Today: Sensex Gains Over 400 Points, Nifty 50 Opens Above 22,700; TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech Lead — NDTV Profit
• Bajaj General Insurance appoints former Manappuram head Deepak Reddy as CEO-designate — Mint · Companies

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