Indian Startup Investments Surge 82% to $1.87 Billion

Indian startup investment rose nearly 82% in September to $1.87 billion, even as deal volume stayed almost unchanged; Simple Energy raised the month’s largest round, and AI startup Brahma AI became a unicorn after a $150 million financing. The month’s wider private-markets news included new managers joining Malaysia’s Emerging Managers’ Programme and Temasek-owned Seviora’s plan to consolidate three investment firms under one operating model. Separately, reviews of recent books and exhibitions praised the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock for emphasizing the artists’ work and individual creative strengths, while other essays considered the changing meaning of “curation” and a new biography of Irish writer John McGahern.