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Peak XV Partners is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 9 of the 16 tracked stories. The 175-day window averages about 0.6 stories each week. The busiest single day carried 4. Coverage clusters in funding, which accounts for 8 of those 16, with the remainder spread across 8 other categories.
16 verified stories tracked
Last mentioned: Aug 18, 2026
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Coverage balance Positive coverage leads. Positive coverage exceeds negative coverage by 81 percentage points.
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Peak XV Partners is the most frequent co-covered peer, appearing in 9 of the 16 tracked stories. The 175-day window averages about 0.6 stories each week. The busiest single day carried 4. Coverage clusters in funding, which accounts for 8 of those 16, with the remainder spread across 8 other categories. The tracked stories average 3.4 original sources each. We currently track 16 Cross-Sector stories that mention Khosla Ventures, published between February 25, 2026 and August 18, 2026. 0% of these stories carry negative sentiment.
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Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Khosla Ventures. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Jury convenes in Bengaluru
Jury led by Rishad Premji selects winners through a secret ballot.
Best on Campus and Comeback Kid nominees revealed
The Economic Times reveals the shortlists for Best on Campus and Comeback Kid categories.
Bootstrap Champ and Top Innovator nominees revealed
ET Startup Awards announces shortlists for two other categories ahead of the main event.
Skapion announces $36M Seed round
Israeli defense startup Skapion reveals a $36 million seed round co-led by UP.Partners and Khosla Ventures to develop its Native Counter Swarm system.
Series B first close: $234 million raised
Sarvam becomes a unicorn at $1.5 billion valuation, with HCLTech leading with $150 million for 10.46% stake.
Emergent founded
Mukund Jha founds Emergent in Bengaluru and San Francisco as an AI app-building platform.
Sarvam AI founded
Co-founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar establish Sarvam to build full-stack sovereign AI for India.
Scapia founded
Anil Goteti founds Scapia in Bengaluru as a travel fintech platform built around a co-branded credit card.
ET Startup Awards launched
The Economic Times Startup Awards are introduced, becoming a prestigious honor for Indian entrepreneurs.
SolarSquare founded
Shreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain, and Nikhil Nahar found SolarSquare in Mumbai as a residential rooftop solar company.
For startup founders and VCs, the ET Startup Awards 2026 Comeback Kid shortlist highlights resilient founders—SolarSquare, Shadowfax, Scapia, Emergent, Pratilipi—backed by marquee investors and recognized by a jury led by Rishad Premji.
For clean energy professionals, SolarSquare's nomination as Comeback Kid reflects scaling of residential rooftop solar with financing, subsidies, and performance guarantees across 20 Indian cities.
For supply chain and logistics leaders, Shadowfax's Comeback Kid nomination at ET Startup Awards 2026 highlights resilient third-party logistics models serving e-commerce marketplaces and D2C brands with express parcel, reverse logistics, and hyperlocal delivery.
Source: Our Reporters (in) · Ettech Last Updated (in)
Skapion's $36 million seed round aims to produce the first counter-swarm system for modern militaries facing low-cost UAV attacks. As drone warfare reshapes battlefields from Ukraine to Lebanon, the Israeli startup's mobile system promises to restore defensive parity at scale.
Skapion's AI-driven counter-swarm system aims to detect and neutralize mass drone attacks autonomously. The $36M seed round underscores the critical role of artificial intelligence in modern defense, enabling split-second decisions in communication-denied environments.
Source: jpost.com
With a $27M seed round co-led by Khosla Ventures, Accel, and other top VCs, Pramaana Labs is carving out a new category—AI formal verification—that addresses the trust crisis in enterprise AI by mathematically proving every answer.
Pramaana Labs' $27M seed round fuels a formal verification AI that converts regulations into machine-checkable proofs, promising zero confident errors for tax, clinical, and compliance domains—a potential paradigm shift for legal tech.
Pramaana Labs raised $27M to scale an AI that uses formal verification and proof engines—not probabilistic language models—to deliver answers with mathematical certainty, targeting domains where errors are unacceptable.
Sarvam AI's unicorn milestone comes with staggering traction: 45 million policyholders served and 17 million farmers engaged via multilingual voice agents. The $234 million Series B will fuel expansion across banking, insurance, and defense sectors. This funding highlights the rise of a new generation of Indian AI startups.
Sarvam's enterprise-grade AI platform processes over 10 million API calls daily, scaling its sovereign AI stack for Indian languages. The $234 million raise will enhance its inference infrastructure and front-end applications, positioning it as a formidable SaaS platform for government and large enterprises.
Sarvam AI's $234 million Series B and $1.5 billion valuation mark a major bet on India's sovereign AI infrastructure. HCLTech's $150 million investment for a 10.46% stake signals deep corporate confidence. The deal underscores the rapid maturation of India's AI investment landscape.
The funding will advance Sarvam's research on next-gen AI models up to 105 billion parameters, targeting agentic AI, coding, and cybersecurity. Its end-to-end stack includes open-source models tailored for Indian languages, aiming for affordable, sovereign intelligence at India's scale.
Source: Jagmeet Singh (us) · Bs Reporter (in)
For AI practitioners, Sarvam’s funding means acceleration of open-source, India-trained models with a focus on agentic AI, coding, and cybersecurity. The HCLTech partnership provides real-world deployment channels.
Sarvam’s latest round not only catapults it to unicorn status but also highlights a strategic shift in Indian venture: corporate investment by an IT services major alongside top-tier VCs. This raises the bar for deep-tech funding in the region.
Source: TechCrunch · businesstoday.in
AI accounting startup Basis has secured $100 million in Series B funding, propelling it to unicorn status with a $1.15 billion valuation. Led by Accel and supported by GV and former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, the company aims to solve the industry's chronic labor shortage through autonomous agentic AI systems.
AI accounting startup Basis has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Accel, valuing the company at $1.15 billion. The startup deploys autonomous 'agentic AI' to handle complex financial workflows, aiming to solve a critical talent shortage in the professional services sector.
