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UPI Groceries Lead Merchant Payments as Startup Funding Slumps — Product Growth, 17 October
Arjun & Meera · 2026-10-17 · Daily Brief
00:00 Cold open
00:16 Weekly startup funding falls to $232 million, down 45% year-on-year
01:08 Groceries lead UPI merchant payments with 3.94 billion transactions in September 2026
01:53 Leverage Edu doubles FY26 revenue to Rs 364 crore and turns EBITDA-positive
02:53 Roblox creators add an estimated Rs 123.9 crore to India's GDP
03:38 IRDAI commission curbs could reshape HDFC Life's distribution economics
04:08 Urban Company's InstaHelp loss widens to Rs 174 crore on Rs 21 crore revenue
05:02 Fairfax maps IDBI, Digit and IIFL into India financial-services plan
05:49 China considers export curbs on solar and battery-adjacent technologies
06:35 Wipro large-deal bookings fall 58.6% sequentially despite AI push
07:40 Outro
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