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Ambani’s Jio set to open India’s biggest IPO from Oct 21, valued at nearly $108Bn

Jio Platforms opens bidding October 21 for India's biggest-ever IPO, valuing the company around the $107-$108Bn mark, putting it just behind Airtel's $128Bn market-cap.

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SURABHI SUNDARAM — 2 MIN READ
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Reliance AGM’26: Jio Platforms files DRHP with SEBI for IPO, plans issue of up to 270Mn shares

India’s telecom giant, Jio Platforms, has officially started the process of going public after filing draft IPO papers with SEBI. Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani made the announcement…

ASHUTOSH SINGH — 3 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms, retail business drive 11.7% annual rise in Reliance Q3’25 profit

Reliance, the Mukesh Ambani owned India’s most valued public company, has reported its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year 2025. The company announced an…

SOUMYADEEP SARKAR — 2 MIN READ
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Reliance Jio to launch its own Satellite broadband network to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink, Airtel-owned OneWeb

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio has been making big ticket entries into future-looking tech for some time now. Be it its 5G-ready, Facebook+Google-backed telecom network or its entry into…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms leads Series A funding of AR gaming startup Krikey

Jio Platforms, the company which raised money like there was no tomorrow earlier this year, has decided to start spending some of its new found wealth, and has…

UPNEET SINGH — 1 MIN READ
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Reliance’s Retail arm may take the Jio route for raising capital

Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani looks to add more power to his portfolio as Reliance Industries Ltd. has reportedly offered all the 13 financial and strategic investors of…

SHASHANK RAJ — 2 MIN READ
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Reliance Jio sees massive jump in profits, ARPU amid an overall blockbuster earnings result for Reliance

Reliance Industries managed to beat analysts’ predictions, and went on to secure a gigantic ₹13,233 crores in profit in its first quarter of 2020, despite the pandemic. Experts…

UPNEET SINGH — 1 MIN READ
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Jio makes unprecedented digital education push with Jio Glass, Embibe and JioMeet

Reliance’s AGM meeting turned into a sci fi bonanza as soon as Mukesh Ambani stepped off the podium, which was followed by a series of announcements that can…

UPNEET SINGH — 2 MIN READ
GADGETRY

Jio announces a new mixed reality headset named ‘Jio Glass’ at AGM

Jio made a series of announcements at today’s AGM meeting that showcased why the company was raising all this capital, none of which were more ‘bizzare’ than the…

UPNEET SINGH — 2 MIN READ
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Google in ‘advanced talks’ to invest $4 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms: Report

Jio Platforms, the blue eyed boy in global fundraising space amid COVID-19 pandemic, is rapidly expanding an already strengthened reach across the Indian digital market. But the kind…

UPNEET SINGH — 2 MIN READ
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BUSINESS

After Intel, Reliance Jio Platforms gets nearly $100 million from chip giant Qualcomm

There is more tech firepower coming onboard Reliance Jio Platforms’ captable. Days after Intel’s $253 million investment into Reliance-owned telecom to digital giant, its Qualcomm that is announcing…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms gets $253M from Intel Capital

Just when we thought there is a pause in Reliance Jio Platforms’ breakneck fundraising spree, the company is back in the news. Reliance-owned Jio Platforms has announced an…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms launches Zoom-like ‘JioMeet’ video conferencing platform

Reliance backed Jio Platforms has decided to take the Zoom route and has officialy launched its own completely free video conferencing platform- JioMeet. Jio has been testing this…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms gets $1.5Bn from Saudi sovereign fund PIF

Reliance-owned Jio Platforms has been raising money left and right from the past few months, stocking up for its transition into a full fledged technology company. And even…

UPNEET SINGH — 2 MIN READ
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Facebook’s $5.7Bn Jio Platforms deal under scrutiny from Indian antitrust watchdog

Facebook’s deal with Jio for a 10% stake in the largest telecom operator in India has caught the eye of the Competition Commission of India (via Bloomberg). The…

UPNEET SINGH — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms gets another $250Mn from L Catterton, world’s largest consumer-focused PE firm

From announcing deals in days, Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms has brought it down to hours. Literally just hours after announcing a fundraise from TPG, Jio Platforms has now…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 1 MIN READ
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TPG invests nearly $600Mn in Jio Platforms, total fund raise nears $13.5Bn

Continuing with its record fund raising spree, Jio Platforms has now announced a nearly $600Mn fund raise from global venture capital firm TPG. In return, TPG gets 0.93%…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms gets nearly $750Mn from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

In what would mark the 8th mega investment round for Reliance-owned Jio Platforms in the past seven weeks, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is investing $751.5Mn in the Mukesh…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms gets additional $600 million from Silver Lake

Reliance-backed Jio Platforms, the $65Bn valued telecom-to-digital behemoth owned by Mukesh Ambani, is closing the day off with yet another investment announcement. After having announced a $1.2Bn investment…

UPNEET SINGH — 3 MIN READ
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Jio Platforms lands another $1.2Bn from Abu Dhabi sovereign fund ‘Mubadala’

We can’t help but repeat this line every time a Jio Platforms fundraise news comes to us, “The Jio fundraising juggernaut continues to roll”. And that juggernaut has…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 1 MIN READ
INTERNET

Reliance JioMart ecommerce platform goes live across India

Reliance-backed JioMart, the platform that has helped Reliance Jio get in some $9B worth of cash from global investors — including Facebook — is now live. The platform,…

STAFF@THE TECH PORTAL — 2 MIN READ

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