Press Release - Max Estates takes over Delhi One project in Noida, under the aegis of IBC, adding sales potential of INR 2,000 Crore and Annuity Rental of INR 120 Crore

Noida, April 24, 2025: Max Estates Limited (Max Estates), a leading real estate developer in the NCR, had received the final approval from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) and now with the successful closure, Max Estates has taken over the Delhi One Project. This marks a significant turnaround for the long-stalled site, bringing relief to homebuyers and unlocking fresh momentum for NCR’s most strategically located integrated campus.

The development of the Delhi One project will consolidate Max Estates’ position as a leading premium real estate developer in Noida and NCR. Max Estates will bring its experience and expertise in premium commercial real estate and high end residential real estate to create a state-of-the-art integrated development that will seamlessly host ultra-luxury residences, premium office spaces, curated high street retail and exclusive club facilities. 

Situated at the edge of South Delhi and directly connected via the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Flyway, the development is just steps from key metro stations, benefitting from unparalleled connectivity across Delhi NCR. The project spans approximately 2.5 mn sq. ft. of development part of around 10-acre land parcel constituting ~34,696 sq. mt. of area.

Sharing his vision about the development, Sahil Vachani, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Max Estates, said, “We are delighted to announce that Max Estates has taken over Delhi One. We believe that we will provide a world class real estate experience to the residents and office goers of the NCR. We look forward to bringing to life our first integrated campus, weaving Max Estates’ philosophy of LiveWell, WorkWell, PlayWell, and EatWell into a holistic downtown experience.”

In line with Max Estates’ core vision of bringing real wellbeing to real estate, the project is being developed with a strong emphasis on wellbeing. The development will integrate green building practices, energy-efficient systems, and biophilic design to foster a harmonious relationship between residents, professionals, and their surroundings. Art and nature are seamlessly woven into the spatial experience, creating a community that is both inspiring and mindful. The serviced residential offerings would be designed to maximize space, natural light, and comfort while preserving residents’ ability to customise the space to suit their unique needs and preferences. On the commercial front, the office spaces would provide flexible layouts equipped with state-of-the-art technology and collaborative zones, catering to both emerging businesses and established enterprises. 

 

Quote on Behalf of Mr. Makarand Kulkarni, CEO – Revalyu India, on FSSAI’s Approval of Recycled Plastic in Food Packaging

The FSSAI’s approval of recycled PET (rPET) for food-grade packaging is a landmark step that reflects growing regulatory confidence in advanced recycling technologies. It opens the door for the food and beverage industry to adopt safer, circular packaging practices aligned with global ESG standards. This progressive move not only reduces dependency on virgin plastics but also strengthens India’s commitment to a circular economy. By enabling scalable innovation, reducing environmental impact, and promoting responsible material recovery, this regulation is a win for both sustainability and industry transformation. At revalyu, we see this as a pivotal moment to lead with high-performance, sustainable solutions that help build a greener, more resource-efficient future.

To secure agentic AI, Operant AI Launches AI Gatekeeper™ for Real-Time Runtime Security of Indian Businesses

 

Operant AI Launches AI Gatekeeper™ to secure Agentic AI and boost Runtime Protection for Indian Businesses

• According to Deloitte’s State of GenAI report, over 80% of Indian organizations are exploring autonomous agents
• Indian businesses’ significant reliance on third-party vendors for AI deployment further complicates data governance and security. 
• AI Gatekeeper™ directly solves for these complicated issues by blocking rogue AI agents, LLM poisoning, and data leakage wherever AI apps are deployed, securing live AI applications end-to-end beyond Kubernetes and the Edge

Bengaluru - April 17, 2025 - Silicon Valley headquartered Operant AI, has launched AI Gatekeeper™, a real-time security application for live AI applications, agents and Agentic AI workflows—across Kubernetes, private, hybrid, and edge environments.

As organizations rapidly adopt autonomous AI agents and complex multi-agent workflows, especially in high-growth markets like India, security challenges have escalated. According to Deloitte’s State of GenAI report, over 80% of Indian organizations are exploring autonomous agents, with 50% focused on multi-agent setups that require minimal human oversight.

AI Gatekeeper™ goes beyond Operant’s existing 3D Defense capabilities, offering industry-first protections against rogue agents—such as trust scoring, agentic access controls, and threat blocking for Model Context Protocols (MCPs) and Non-Human Identities (NHIs).

Dependence on third-party vendors increases risks

Operant’s recent engagements with Indian enterprises and cybersecurity leaders highlight a strong interest in deploying AI agents but also significant reliance on third-party vendors for AI deployment, complicating data governance and security. Key concerns include data leakage, model poisoning, and rogue agent behavior. AI Gatekeeper directly addresses these issues, empowering enterprises to secure their agentic AI deployments at runtime across all platforms.

“The AI that we are now securing is a completely new beast compared to even two years ago,” said Vrajesh Bhavsar, Operant AI’s CEO and co-founder. He added that today RAG applications to AI Agents to AI Inference systems operate at a completely new scale, because of which AI can’t be secured in isolation. AI Gatekeeper can bring Operant’s unique defensive capabilities to everywhere customers are deploying AI, alongside critical new capabilities for protecting sensitive data and the rest of the application environment from the new attack surface that is being fueled by rapid Agentic AI adoption.”

Gatekeeper creates space for faster AI innovation

 

“We are seeing three trends happening right now: First, incredibly fast deployment of AI models and AI Agents for novel use cases; second, adoption of new platforms beyond the traditional cloud providers; and lastly, the requirements and responsibilities for security, infrastructure, data infosec and AI converging,” said Raj Yavatkar, CTO of Juniper Networks. Operant has built a solution that helps teams protect their most business-critical transformations, while AI Gatekeeper makes it possible for AI-native teams to innovate securely at a completely new pace 

AI Applications and agents are not only being built on cloud hyperscalers like Amazon EKS, Fargate, Bedrock, and similar services from Azure and Google Cloud, they are now expanding onto non-traditional platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and Salesforce. The AI ecosystem – and the threats that come with it – are shifting closer to where the data that fuels AI actually lives. 

As a result, security and threat exposure are expanding while enterprises continue to add Agentic AI workflows that need to be controlled and secured by default to prevent new catastrophic failure modes. The adoption of new frameworks like MCP exposes enterprises to additional risks of breaches, like the tool poisoning vulnerability just reported last week, that require a fundamentally different security approach from traditional methods.

“Securing AI Agents is a critical priority for AI-native companies because you can’t hand off that level of autonomy at scale to these systems without appropriate controls in place,” said Martin Choluj, CISO of Clickhouse.

Operant’s AI Gatekeeper launch comes on the heels of Operant being named as a representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM), and mentioned in Gartner’s recent research note, “How to Secure Custom-Built AI Agents.”

Operant’s new AI Gatekeeper™ capabilities include:

• Runtime Defense for AI across Public, Private, and Hybrid Clouds
• Moving beyond Kubernetes, 
• Operant’s 3D Runtime Protection is now available across public, private and hybrid cloud platforms
• Live comprehensive catalogs of all AI workloads, AI agents, tools, models, and all AI platforms that automatically update with the use of AI in an organization (includes providers such as OpenAI, Deepseek, Cohere, Anthropic, Hugging Face and more)
• Additional support for large data platforms, LLM and AI Agent platforms
• Defense analytics on all deployed AI defenses, providing unprecedented transparency into the threats that are being blocked at runtime 
• Cross-Platform Threat Modeling
• Cohesive AI Security Graphs mapping and flagging highest risk data flows between AI workloads, Agents, and AI APIs across all platforms on which they operate
• Out of the box mappings to OWASP Top 10 threat vectors for AI/LLMs and AI Agents, including sensitive data leakage, API key and secrets leakage, prompt injection, and data poisoning risks – with deep insights into actual threats and the workloads/APIs that are affected
• Advanced Threat Detection for AI Agents
• Supply chain risks for AI agents, with mapping of trust scores and boundaries
• Unauthenticated and unauthorized AI agent detection and defense with blocking capabilities
• Least privilege runtime execution and least permissioned trust boundaries for AI agents
• Protection for MCP and AI NHIs
• Beyond AI API security, AI Gatekeeper also includes supports for Model Context Protocol
• Detection and defense for both runtime and API access layers of agent tools built with MCP
• Expanded coverage for identity and access controls with support for AI NHIs 




Operant’s AI Gatekeeper™ is now available for all qualified customers. For more information, contact hello@operant.ai or please visit: [BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT LINK]




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About Operant AI

Operant AI, the world’s only Runtime AI Application Defense Platform, actively protects every layer of live cloud and AI applications from infra to APIs. Unlike most cybersecurity tooling that is limited to single-layer visibility and lacks the ability to actually block attacks, Operant’s 3D Runtime Defense Platform discovers, detects, and defends >80% of the OWASP Top 10 most critical attacks across APIs, Cloud and LLMs. Within minutes of Operant’s single-step deployment, security and AI engineering teams gain a completely new level of active protection for their AI and Cloud applications, workloads, models, APIs, and Agents, bringing frictionless real-time security to dev, sec, and ops so that companies can deploy products and AI faster without security holding them back. 




Operant AI is a Series A company funded by Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm Felicis and Washington DC venture capital firm SineWave. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded by Vrajesh Bhavsar, Dr. Priyanka Tembey, and Ashley Roof, industry experts from Apple, VMWare and Google (respectively). Operant AI was recently named as a representative vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM). 

Press Release | NBC Raises $ 2.3 Million in Pre-Series A; Eyes 150+ NBC Stores by FY26

Nothing Before Coffee Raises $ 2.3 Million in Pre-Series A to Accelerate

Expansion in Tier-II India; Eyes 150+ NBC Stores by FY26

Jaipur: India’s dynamic and fast-growing QSR coffee chain, Nothing Before Coffee (NBC), has raised $ 2.3

million in a Pre-Series A funding round, led by Prath Ventures. The round also saw participation from SYL

Investments. This marks a major milestone in NBC’s journey as it continues to redefine India’s café culture by

focusing on Tier-II and Tier-III cities—a segment largely untapped by premium coffee players. Additionally,

NBC is pleased to report its “Best-ever Fiscal year 2025.” Fueled by new store launches, innovative offerings,

and growing brand loyalty. The brand’s seasonal offerings and unique brews have been particularly well-

received, contributing to this growth.

Founded in 2017 in Jaipur by Ankesh Jain, Anand Jain, Akshay Kedia, and Shubham Bhandari, Nothing Before

Coffee has rapidly evolved from a small, cozy café into a national brand with a footprint of 85+ outlets across

India. At the heart of NBC’s success is its mission to serve high-quality, affordable coffee in vibrant spaces that

resonate with India’s youth.

While most players are concentrating on Tier-I cities and premium offerings, NBC is disrupting the market with

accessible pricing, India-centric coffee innovations like the ‘Shrappe’ (a desi twist on a frappe), and

aspirational café spaces that serve as community hubs for young consumers.

This funding milestone is a strong validation of our vision and operating model. At Nothing Before Coffee, we've built a

brand that combines affordability, quality, and deep cultural resonance—especially in India’s Tier-II and Tier-III markets.

With strong unit economics and consistent consumer love, we are now well-positioned to scale rapidly. The capital will

help us deepen our presence, invest in technology and talent, and unlock the next phase of growth as we work towards

becoming India’s most loved and accessible coffee chain, said — Ankesh Jain, Co-founder, Nothing Before Coffee

In a market traditionally dominated by premium global chains and metro-centric models, NBC is carving out

its niche with a “youth-first” approach, offering high-quality, affordability, cultural relevance, and beverages

served in aesthetically designed, vibrant spaces. These outlets are designed to serve as social hubs for India’s

growing aspirational class.

Commenting on the fund raise, Piyush Goenka, founder of Prath Ventures said “As a fund, we’ve long believed

in the growing demand for coffee and vibrant café experiences across India — not just in metros, but well

beyond Tier-1 cities. In all our research, NBC consistently stood out for the vibrance in their cafés, the

affordability of their pricing, and the quality of their offerings. What truly sealed the deal was the passion and

drive of the founding team, which made this a compelling and exciting opportunity for us, as we love to

partner with enthusiastic like-minded founders.”

Use of Funds and Strategic Roadmap

The freshly infused capital will be utilized to:

• Aiming to establish 150+ NBC stores across India by FY2026, with a strong focus on expanding into

emerging Tier-II and Tier-III markets.

• Strengthen the brand’s digital platforms to drive enhanced customer experience and loyalty.

• Invest in supply chain optimization and talent acquisition to support scale and consistency across

locations.

• Experiment with new store formats, including compact kiosks and premium high-street cafes in

smaller cities.

Confidential - Not for Public Consumption or DistributionThe Indian café market is ripe for innovation, and emerging brands like NBC are leading the way. As bankers, our role is

to back such disruptors with the capital they need to scale. NBC has built strong brand recognition in a short time, and

we wish them success in becoming India’s most loved coffee café brand – Said Shikha Toshniwal - Co-Founder and

Investment Banking Head, Pareto Capital.

NBC’s ambitious roadmap aims to solidify its position as India’s most beloved homegrown café brand,

particularly in markets often overlooked by established chains. The QSR chain is on a fast-paced growth

trajectory, aiming to establish 150+ NBC stores across India by FY2026, further strengthening its presence in

metropolitan hubs and expanding deeper into Tier-I and Tier-II markets. These new openings will mark an

important milestone for the brand, demonstrating its continuous efforts to cater to the growing demand for

premium coffee experiences. The new outlets are designed to offer a welcoming and exceptional coffee

experience, building on the brand's commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

About Nothing Before Coffee: NBC was founded in 2017 with the goal to share the enticing aroma of freshly

brewed coffee with everyone. There's always been a missing piece in the puzzle of our coffee experience, and

NBC have often pondered over what it could be until the team of experts finally found the answer by brewing

their own perfect cup. NBC believe that coffee is not just a beverage, but a way of life. The brand has made a

mission to source the best essence of coffee beans and brew them using the latest and most innovative

techniques to ensure that every cup of coffee served under NBC is of the highest quality. As a QSR model, NBC

is specialized in serving varieties of beverages with exceptional quality.

Website- https://www.nothingbeforecoffeeindia.com

Instagram- @nothingbeforecoffeeindia