Preventify, founded by Nirmal NR, raised ₹2 crore in a pre-seed round led by PedalStart to scale preventive and chronic care delivery in Kerala. The startup, operating 3 clinics, plans a 10-clinic cluster in 12-18 months, investing in medical teams, diagnostics, pharmacy, and technology to expand affordable, protocol-driven healthcare access across tier-2 and tier-3 cities nationwide.

Delhi’s hotel market is seeing an unusual, summit-led surge in demand, with luxury room tariffs spiking sharply ahead of the upcoming AI Impact Summit, an event expected to draw global tech heavyweights including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. At the top of the market, rates at some properties have “crossed ₹30 lakh a night” during the summit window, according to the report.

Indian startup Sarvam AI, founded in 2023, has emerged as a major player following the release of its OCR model Sarvam Vision and text-to-speech model Bulbul V3. Recently, Co-Founder Pratyush Kumar claimed Sarvam Vision surpassed other tech giants like Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude and ChatGPT on word accuracy on 22 Indian languages. Meanwhile, Bulbul V3 offers over 30 voices.

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Fractal Analytics IPO has opened for subscription on 9 February with a price band of ₹857-₹900 per share. The ₹2,833.9 crore issue includes a fresh issue and an offer for sale. The AI firm is backed by major anchor investors and is scheduled to list on BSE and NSE on 16 February.

Nearly 1,000 Google employees wrote an open letter to the company's leadership, asking them to stop working with US immigration enforcement agencies ICE and CBP. They said they're "horrified" seeing Google's products being used by the agencies. They demanded that Google acknowledge "danger and violence" that workers face and host a Q&A session on Google's contracts with the agencies.

Wall Street tycoon Jeffrey Leeds, who accused his 26 years younger wife Elizabeth of having a "torrid" affair with businessman Alberto Tawil, claimed she spent marital funds on her lover's business ventures and personal luxuries. Leeds claimed Elizabeth invested over $275,000 (₹2.5 crore) in one of Tawil's Mozambique businesses. She also used Leeds' money to buy "erotic gifts" for Tawil.

Professional trader Saketh R said his wife's grandfather, Vaidyanathan Iyer, was 'mis-sold' a life insurance by Canara HSBC Life Insurance after its branch manager misused his trust. The policy is due to mature after 99 years, in 2124, with ₹2-lakh annual premium, of which Iyer had already paid ₹4 lakh. Saketh said it was done "only to meet sales targets".