Daily Indian Funding Roundup & Key News - 17 September 2026: DheyaTech Raises ₹43 Crore, NSE Raises ₹6,746 Crore From Anchor Investors, and More

Here's your daily dose of Indian startup funding roundup and key business news for 17 September 2026. DheyaTech raises INR 43 crore, NSE raises INR 6,746 crore from anchor investors, and Practo announces a leadership reshuffle. Five funding rounds closed on 17 September 2026, spanning deep tech gas turbines, industrial workforce, laundry and home cleaning, metal procurement, and wealth-tech. Avaana Capital, Info Edge, GVFL Prarambh Fund and Exar North Group were among the day's lead investors. The headline raise is DheyaTech's INR 43 crore pre-Series A round to scale its gas turbine engine business. Away from funding, NSE raised INR 6,746 crore from anchor investors ahead of its IPO opening today, Practo announced a leadership reshuffle with Jagnoor Singh replacing cofounder Shashank ND as CEO, and PB Fintech moved to acquire the remaining stake in MyLoanCare. DheyaTech raised INR 43 crore in a pre-Series A roundled by Avaana Capital, with participation from Unimech Aerospace and Manufacturing. The fresh capital will scale production, set up an integrated testing facility for its gas turbine engines, and work with domestic and global customers to accelerate deployment timelines. Founded in 2018 by Gurushankara K C, Abhinav Alva and Chetan Kumar, Bengaluru-based DheyaTech develops micro gas turbine engines and energy systems for aerospace and power generation, with an engine portfolio spanning 20 kgf to 400 kgf of thrust. The company's gas turbines are entering commercial deployment, with flight trials planned for Q4 2026, and it has already received confirmed orders from Indian and global OEMs. Enlight Metals raised $1.5 million from US-based investment firm Exar North Group at a valuation of $10 million. The proceeds will develop its Agentic AI-enabled procurement platform, strengthen technology infrastructure, and expand operations across the metal procurement ecosystem. New Delhi-based Enlight Metals combines steel sourcing and distribution with technology, and claims its AI-led platform has cut end-to-end transaction processing time by 75% and reduced supplier matching time from 5-7 hours to under three minutes. The company operates facilities in Pune, Mumbai and Raipur, plans to expand to Ahmedabad and Indore, and is targeting around INR 1,200 crore in revenue next financial year. Factrika raised INR 8.9 crore in a seed round led by Info Edge. The proceeds will strengthen its team, enhance its technology, and expand into more industrial clusters across India. Founded in 2024 by Kshitij Puri and Gaurav Asthana, Delhi-based Factrika is an on-demand industrial workforce platform that connects manufacturers with skilled and verified factory workers, claiming to deploy workers within two hours with a show-up rate above 90%. The startup has more than 10,000 registered workers across over 20 skill categories, with clients including Lenskart, Asahi India Glass and Jubilant Foods. Ecosys raised INR 5 crore in a pre-Series A round led by GVFL Prarambh

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