INDIA IPO
18 June, 2026
Recent IPO Updates
- The Indian IPO market is growing healthy with strong fundraising, but broader retail and institutional participation is essential for sustained growth as the primary market matures beyond reliance on listing-day gains.
- Reliance Jio and NSE are expected to file for blockbuster IPOs soon, potentially reviving India’s sluggish primary market and driving record fundraising activity.
- Leapfrog Engineering Services Ltd. is going to launch its ₹88.51 Cr IPO, on the BSE SME platform from June 17 to 19, 2026, mainly aiming to set up Assembling Unit and to maintain its day-to-day operations.
- Clay Craft Ltd. is going to launch its ₹110.11 Cr IPO, entirely a fresh issue of shares, supposed to be listed on the NSE SME platform open for subscription from June 17 to 19, 2026, with a lot size of 600 shares.
P.E. & Funding Updates
- Coram AI, an AI-native physical security startup co-founded by IIT Delhi alumnus Ashesh Jain, raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, taking total funding to $66 million for AI product development and India expansion.
- Former Paisabazaar CEO Naveen Kukreja is seeking $9 million for his stealth-mode wealthtech startup targeting retail investors, building an AI-powered investment advisory platform that creates investment scores and offers personalized distribution.
- Biodimension has raised ₹8 Cr in a funding round led by IAN Angel Fund to accelerate the commercialization of its biofabricated 3D human tissue models, replacing traditional animal testing.
- Satsure has successfully secured an $2.6 Mn grant from a prominent global development institution to actively build and scale its advanced climate-focused geospatial AI solutions.
- KKR has launched a massive $10 bn AI infrastructure company in collaboration with Nvidia and Vistral to rapidly scale next-generation computing data centers.
- Dartle has raised $100K in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures to aggressively scale its B2B sports-tech SaaS platform.
- Exponent Energy has bagged ₹200 Cr in a fresh funding round to rapidly expand its fast electric vehicle charging network and battery tech infrastructure across the country.
Business & Economic Updates
- PM Modi urged states to attract investment from countries with India's FTAs, improve ease of doing business, and skill youth, as FDI fell below $100 billion in FY26 despite 38 completed FTAs and political stability restoring global confidence.
- Anthropic pledged $200 million to create an Economic Futures Research Fund studying AI's job displacement impact, while CEO Dario Amodei proposed government economic support including universal basic income for those financially affected by AI-driven job losses.
- Global stock markets rallied and oil prices fell to two-month lows as investors gained optimism that a US-Iran Middle East peace deal could materialize, potentially ending the war and normalizing oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
- US real estate tech firm Opendoor shut down its India operations and laid off all 250 employees in Chennai and Bengaluru, replacing large manual offshore teams with smaller AI-native teams in the US to work closer with American customers.
- Aditya Birla Group will infuse ₹4,730 crore into debt-ridden Vodafone Idea via convertible warrants, reaffirming its commitment to the telco's revival, network expansion, and 5G rollout amid fierce competition from Jio and Airtel.
- The National Company Law Tribunal admitted State Bank of India's ₹1,200 crore insolvency plea against Anil Ambani as personal guarantor for Reliance Communications loans, paving the way for personal insolvency resolution under IBC.
- The Bureau of Indian Standards released IS 20201:2026 for community seed banks, creating guidelines for collecting, storing, and exchanging indigenous seed varieties to preserve climate-resilient crops against climate change risks.
- NPPA raised ceiling prices of essential cancer drugs carboplatin and cisplatin by 50%, plus anti-tetanus immunoglobulin, using special powers to prevent shortages caused by soaring platinum raw material costs.
- Indian government bonds ended higher on Thursday as falling oil prices eased US-Iran war concerns and inflation fears, while RBI's measures to attract foreign investors and stabilize the rupee strengthened sentiment ahead of Friday's bond auction.
- Indian companies raised $3.76 billion via external commercial borrowings in April 2026, up from $2.91 billion a year earlier, with major borrowers including Reliance Industries, Air India, ReNew, Indian Oil, and Serentica Renewables for manufacturing, refinancing, and working capital.
- Following RBI measures to attract foreign funds and ease liquidity, Indian companies accelerated overseas debt fundraising, benefiting from lower borrowing costs and improved market conditions.
- Despite growth in all major direct and indirect taxes, India’s overall gross tax collections declined 2% in April due to reduced GST compensation cess receipts.
- Bank credit growth climbed to a two-year high of 17.65% year-on-year, significantly outpacing deposit growth and reflecting strong lending demand across sectors.
- Semiconductor companies under the India Semiconductor Mission are expected to invest ₹31,299 crore by FY27, accelerating domestic chip manufacturing through government-backed fabrication and assembly projects.
- EY Global Delivery Services launched India’s first AI Experience Centre in Bengaluru, helping enterprises adopt AI through immersive demonstrations, innovation, and practical business transformation.
- India granted retrospective customs duty relief on nuclear power equipment imported between April 2019-January 2026, exempting importers from duty demands to regularize past shipments and provide certainty for nuclear power project developers.
- Four demerged units of Anil Agarwal's Vedanta - Aluminium Metal, Power, Oil & Gas, and Iron & Steel will list on Monday, giving shareholders one share each for every Vedanta Ltd share held in India's largest corporate restructuring.
- TCS launched a global strategic partnership with Anthropic as a Global Premier Partner to scale enterprise AI adoption, giving 50,000 employees access to Claude models and creating a dedicated unit for joint industry solutions in finance, healthcare, telecom, and aviation.
- The government exempted petrol blended with over 20% ethanol from excise duty, extending the waiver to E22, E25, E27, and E30 blends (22–30% ethanol), supporting domestic ethanol production and reducing crude oil import dependence, though rollout awaits testing.
- The World Bank raised India's FY27 GDP growth forecast to 6.6% from 6.5%, citing reduced US tariffs, strong domestic demand, and resilient exports, though growth moderates from FY26's 7.6% amid Middle East conflict-driven energy price risks.
- Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh targets doubling India's textile market to ₹33 lakh crore by FY31 from ₹16 lakh crore, creating nearly 2 crore new jobs and raising handloom weavers' income to ₹5 lakh, while pushing exports from $37 billion to $100 billion.
- Drug regulators across India launched an inspection drive to verify Good Manufacturing Practice compliance at all pharma manufacturing units, including MSMEs whose grace period lapsed in January.
- Bain's analysis shows e-commerce accounts for just 11% of top 30 product categories, not eating retail as brick-and-mortar still controls 94-97% of sales, while omnichannel retailers integrating digital and physical channels gain significant advantages over single-channel competitors.
- Japanese investors are redirecting from China to India as a key alternative, with $9 billion invested last year in finance, infrastructure, and startups, driven by US-China tensions and India's domestic demand and policy stability.
- India must stay attractive for innovation-led investment by maintaining policy stability, regulatory predictability, and infrastructure development to sustain its rank as 38th in Global Innovation Index and compete with advanced economies for global capital.
- Air India and Tata Sons disbursed nearly ₹300 crore to AI171 crash victims' families ahead of the June 12 anniversary, with 96% of deceased families receiving ₹25 lakh interim compensation and 91% getting ₹1 crore ex-gratia from Tata's AI171 Memorial Trust.
- Kenya awarded China Communications Construction Co. a $2.9 billion contract to upgrade Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, 50% higher than Adani Group's cancelled $2 billion deal.
- Visa integrated its payment network with ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to shop autonomously and complete purchases for users at any Visa-accepting merchant, using tokenized credentials and authentication to secure AI-driven transactions.
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India has placed fresh limitations and accountability measures on the powers held by lenders, aiming to streamline resolutions and prevent arbitrary decisions.
- Indian Banks are urgently seeking crucial operational clarity from the RBI regarding foreign deposit leverage norms to better manage their liquidity and cross-border currency exposure.
- Indian States saw their combined fiscal deficit expand to 3.6% during FY26, according to a CareEdge report highlighting heightened revenue expenditures and capital pressures across regional administrations.
- India has registered a 4-year high in official government procurement of wheat, significantly reinforcing public grain stocks and strengthening national food security buffers.
- LG is aggressively leaning on the Indian market to secure a leading position in the global AI-powered smart home race, scaling up regional investments and localized technology rollouts.
- SEBI has proposed implementing a unified single price reference mechanism for stocks that are simultaneously listed on multiple exchanges to enhance trading transparency and reduce arbitrage.
- India holds a remarkably strong hand in ongoing international trade negotiations due to its massive, fast-growing domestic consumer market, according to Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.
- India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to visit Switzerland next week to push forward the pending free trade agreement pact with the EFTA.
- Marriott International has seen India emerge as one of its most vital global markets, with local hospitality business revenues officially crossing the $1.3 billion mark.
- SEBI is facing rising calls to completely step out and save the primary market by drastically altering flawed, loophole-ridden IPO rules to effectively stem heavily inflated company valuations.
Geopolitical Updates
- President Trump said he will hit Iran hard again tonight but also declared the peace deal is in its "final throes" and could be announced within the next two to three days after months of negotiations.
- Another merchant vessel with Indian sailors was attacked in the Red Sea, prompting India to raise maritime security concerns at the G7 and upcoming PM-Trump meeting.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guard declared the Strait of Hormuz completely closed to all vessels until further notice after US strikes, warning that any ship attempting to pass will be targeted as it handles 20% of global oil exports.
- In a new crude world order disrupted by the US-Iran war, the United States has become the world's largest oil exporter, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia for the third consecutive month.
- India and France are set to deepen strategic ties as upcoming Modi-Macron bilateral talks place joint defense production and advanced tech transfers at the center of their diplomatic agenda.
- India has successfully dispatched its very first gold jewelry consignment to Oman under the newly active Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), unlocking seamless duty-free trade channels.
- India and Nepal have officially launched a unified digital payment corridor connecting UPI and NPI, paving the way for seamless cross-border retail financial transactions.
- India and Finland’s foreign ministers, Jaishankar and his counterpart, held high-level diplomatic talks centered around bilateral collaboration in artificial intelligence, 6G telecom networks, and global semiconductor supply chains.
- India and Israel are highly likely to formally resume their long-pending bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) discussions immediately after concluding political transitions in July.
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