IIT Kanpur-incubated agritech startup ScaNxt has added Zerodha's Rainmatter, SIDBI and Exim Bank as investors. The amount was not disclosed.
Its Bhu-Parikshak product runs chemical-free soil tests using near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning, while its AgroLens platform handles real-time pest detection and crop advice. The company has reached close to 90,000 farmers and works with over 200 B2B clients across 21-plus states.
Exim Bank noted the backing could help ScaNxt pursue export opportunities as it expands overseas.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
