The Quirky Naari is a fashion and lifestyle startup that sells clothes and shoes that are distinctive and fashionable.

On September 7th, retail tech startup Daalchini raised $4 million in a Series A funding round led by Unicorn India Ventures.

As part of its Series D fundraising round, the beauty and cosmetics company SUGAR Cosmetics has attracted Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh as an investor. The amount of the funding was not made public by the company.

On August 24, the agritech startup Loopworm announced that it had secured $3.4 million in seed funding from investors led by Omnivore and WaterBridge Ventures.

On Saturday, Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister of India, announced the "Millet Challenge" for startups.

On Tuesday, Alkesh Kumar Sharma, the secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity), announced that the government aims to promote more than 10,000 startups in the next 5–6 years under the GENESIS programme.