Oddtables, a startup that sets up group dinners for strangers, now runs tables in 16 Indian cities and Singapore. Founder Vaibhav Jain was inspired by a lack of real-life connection he felt while scrolling online.
Members pay a monthly fee to join up to four dinners, with seating set by questionnaire and a new restaurant each time. About 3,000 people use the platform, 65% of them men.
Women-only tables were added after women asked for them, as many lose friends when they move cities after marriage. The team was surprised that many diners are aged 40 to 55.
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.
