Taking women founders global; Function-first innerwear for women

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Microsoft is reportedly weighing legal action against partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50-billion deal that may breach its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker, said a report. 

The dispute stems from a set of agreements signed last month between Amazon and OpenAI, including one that names Amazon Web Services as the exclusive third-party cloud provider for Frontier, OpenAI’s enterprise platform for building and running AI agents.

Elsewhere in AI, French startup Mistral AI has launched Forge, a system aimed at helping businesses move beyond generic models by building AI tools grounded in their own private data, from internal engineering standards to compliance policies and complex codebases. 

Meanwhile, OpenAI has released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, broadening its smaller-model lineup with faster, more cost-efficient systems designed for complex tasks. 

OpenAI says GPT-5.4 mini is more than twice as fast as the previous GPT-5 mini and approaches the performance of the full GPT-5.4 in areas like coding and interpreting digital interfaces.

In today’s newsletter, we will talk about 

• Taking women founders global
• Function-first innerwear for women

Here’s your trivia for today: What term describes a group of networked computers that hackers use to steal information?

Women Entrepreneurs

Taking women founders global

SonderConnect is taking its support for women entrepreneurs global with Indo-French Ignite x 2026, a new exchange programme that will take 10 Indian women founders to France for the VivaTech conference, mentorship, and business meetings, while also bringing French women founders to India later this year.

Global access: 

• The programme is designed to help women founders expand internationally by giving them access to mentors, clients, and market-entry support in France.
• It focuses on women-led startups in AI/GenAI, SaaS, and sustainability, especially ventures that are already revenue-generating and ready to explore cross-border growth.
• SonderConnect is building a wider global network for women founders, with France as the first step, and plans to expand to markets such as the UK and the Far East.

In-Focus

Function-first innerwear for women

Krvvy is a D2C women’s innerwear brand that designs and sells functional innerwear focused on comfort, fit, and performance. It offers products such as shapewear, bras, underwear, and accessories, with products designed for Indian body types and climate conditions. 

Key takeaways:

• Krvvy is positioning women’s innerwear as a performance-led category, not just a basic necessity, with a focus on comfort, fit, and functionality for Indian consumers.
• The startup has identified a pricing and product gap in India’s women’s innerwear market, especially in the Rs 1,000–2,000 segment, and in shapewear, which already contributes about 50% of its revenue.
• Krvvy has seen rapid early traction, claiming 40x growth in its first year, rising repeat purchases, marketplace and quick-commerce expansion, and fresh pre-seed funding to deepen categories and scale distribution.

Health

CureBay buys Saveo’s arm

Healthcare platform CureBay has acquired the pharmacy distribution business of Saveo Healthtech in a move aimed at tightening medicine supply chains across semi-urban and under-served regions.

The deal brings into CureBay a network that serves more than 10,000 retail pharmacies across southern India, along with distribution hubs in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, procurement systems, and a technology-enabled ordering platform.

Funding alert

Startup: Blacksoil Capital

Amount: Rs 200 Cr

Round: Undisclosed

Startup: Burger Singh

Amount: Rs 82 Cr

Round: Series B

Startup: Optimo Capital

Amount: Rs 100 Cr

Round: Undisclosed

News & updates

• Airfares: Global ​airlines have sounded the alarm over soaring jet fuel prices triggered by the US-Israeli war against Iran, warning of hundreds of ‌ millions of extra costs, higher fares, and cuts to some routes.
• NASA: NASA is all set to host its first spacewalk of 2026, marking the first time in months that astronauts will be stepping out of the International Space Station.
• Nvidia: A new feature from chip-maker Nvidia that promises cinematic-quality graphics using AI has prompted a backlash online, despite the company claiming it would “reinvent” what is possible in video games.

What term describes a group of networked computers that hackers use to steal information??

Answer: Botnet

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