Meta's Muse Agent for SMEs Adds Shopify, QuickBooks, Canva and Stripe Integrations
Posted on 29th Sep 2026 12:11:12 in Business, Digital Marketing
Meta has expanded its Muse AI agent for small businesses with integrations for Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe, Canva and other tools — free for most uses, with subscriptions for heavier workloads.
Balwaan Krishi Bags 100 Crore Series B to Expand Farm Equipment Manufacturing
Posted on 28th Sep 2026 12:11:57 in Business, Digital Marketing
Jaipur-based Balwaan Krishi has raised Rs 100 crore in a Series B round led by First Bridge India Growth Fund Private Equity to expand domestic manufacturing of affordable farm machinery used by over four lakh small and marginal farmers.
IIT Madras Unicorn Frontier Fund Hits 450 Crore First Close
Posted on 27th Sep 2026 12:11:49 in Business, Digital Marketing
A Rs 450 crore first close for the IITM Unicorn Frontier Fund I, with nearly Rs 55 crore already deployed across four deep-tech startups in space, quantum, batteries and carbon capture.
Pine Labs Taps Google Cloud to Bring Agentic Commerce to Indian Merchants
Posted on 26th Sep 2026 06:14:55 in Business, Digital Marketing
Pine Labs and Google Cloud are building Gemini-powered agentic commerce tools for Indian merchants, including an AI ads agent for small businesses. Here is what the AI shopping shift means for small sellers.
Bengaluru VC Creaegis Leads $77 Million Round in AI Employee Startup Ema
Posted on 25th Sep 2026 06:12:28 in Business, Digital Marketing
Bengaluru's Creaegis has led a $77 million Series B in Ema, the AI employee startup whose agents already run HR, IT and finance work for Wipro, Google and Microsoft. Here is what the round, the 50-fold revenue growth and the Wipro deployment numbers say about AI agents moving from pilots into production - and what Indian businesses should take from it.
