Here's your daily funding and key business news roundup for June 15, 2026: Monday's deals spanned gourmet retail, immuno-oncology, AR/VR, and voice AI, with Foodstories raising Rs 50 crore led by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath and biotech startup Zumutor Biologics closing a $7.3 million pre-Series B for its cancer therapy programme. On the business front, payments unicorn Razorpay confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI, targeting a $600 million IPO, while Amazon rolled out an AI-powered Seller Assistant built on Claude and Amazon Nova to its 1.7 million Indian sellers ahead of Prime Day. Gourmet retail startup Foodstories has raised Rs 50 crore in a round led by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, with participation from existing investor Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office. Co-founded in 2021 by Avni and Ashni Biyani, daughters of Future Group founder Kishore Biyani, Foodstories operates experiential stores and a digital delivery network across Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, offering organic produce, global ingredients, and in-store wellness cafés. The company recently entered Mumbai with a flagship Bandra outlet and plans another store in Lokhandwala. Funds will expand its digital business, delivery network, and retail footprint. Bengaluru-headquartered biotech startup Zumutor Biologics has raised $7.3 million in a pre-Series B round from existing investors Accel and Bharat Innovation Fund, with new participation from Premji Invest, Ashish Kacholia, and Raj Dandu Family Office. Founded by Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues, Zumutor develops immuno-oncology therapies, with its lead candidate ZM008, a first-in-class NK cell checkpoint therapy, currently in US FDA Phase 1 trials. The fresh capital will fund completion of the Phase 1 trial, Phase 1B expansion cohorts, and global Phase 2 studies including in India. Bengaluru-based industrial AI platform AutoVRse has raised $2.4 million in a round co-led by Singularity AMC's Large Value Fund III and Early Opportunities Fund, along with existing investor Lumikai. Founded in 2016 by Ashwin Jaishanker and Adarsh Muthappa, AutoVRse provides AI-powered training and field guidance through VR modules and smart glasses, serving over 500,000 users across 50+ enterprise clients including Amazon, Shell, ADNOC, and NTPC. The company has crossed $8 million in ARR within 12 months of its global rollout, with revenue growing 250% year-on-year. Funds will accelerate product development and North America expansion. AI startupMaya Research has raised $1.9 million in a seed roundled by South Park Commons. Founded in 2025 by BS Dheemanth Reddy and Bharath Kumar Kakumani, the company builds conversational voice AI models for non-English-first users across India, Southeast Asia, and MENA. Its open-source voice model, Maya 1, has crossed 440,000 downloads on Hugging Face and ranks 6th among open-weight models globally on Speech Arena, on par with OpenAI's GPT-Realtime. The company's app has logged over 3 million downloads.
