Zepto is in advanced stages of talks to raise $100 million in new investment, its third in the last six months, as the leading Indian quick commerce startup looks to rope in more domestic investors, sources familiar with the talks told TechCrunch.

The Mumbai-headquartered startup, which delivers grocery items and office stationery to customers’ doorsteps in 10 minutes in multiple Indian cities, is raising the new investment from Indian family offices and high net worth individuals.

Motilal Oswal, the asset management giant that earlier invested $40 million in Zepto, is running the mandate for the new funding deliberation, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. The financial services firm has already received commitments for more than half of the allocation, according to another source familiar with the situation.

The new investment values Zepto at a $5 billion post-money valuation, the same value at which it recently closed a $340 million financing round in August. Zepto has raised more than $1 billion in the last six months and all of it remains in its bank.

Zepto is planning to go public next year and the new fundraise is aimed at expanding the base of domestic investors on its cap table. Zepto counts Avra, Lightspeed, Nexus, StepStone Group, YC Continuity, Glade Brook and Contrary among its backers.

Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Quick commerce startups are on track to do a sale of more than $6 billion this year, according to TechCrunch’s analysis.

In response to the fast rise of quick commerce, which is increasingly shaping the consumer behavior in India, many e-commerce incumbents — including Flipkart, Myntra and Nykaa have been forced to scramble ways to lower the time they take to deliver items to their customers.

Shares of Dmart, which runs one of the largest brick-and-mortar retail chains in India, fell this week after the firm confirmed that it was losing some business to quick commerce startups.

“We believe Quick Commerce players are expanding cities, categories, SKUs, AOVs and discounts, and creating parallel commerce for convenience-seeking customers,” analysts at Morgan Stanley wrote in a note this week.

Zepto – which competes with Zomato-owned BlinkIt, Prosus-backed Swiggy’s Instamart, and Tata’s BigBasket – has grown its annualized net runrate considerably in recent months, according to sources and an internal document reviewed by TechCrunch.

Zepto co-founder and chief executive Aadit Palicha told a group of investors in August that the startup projects to grow at 150% in the next 12 months, TechCrunch earlier reported.

DJI tells The Verge that it currently cannot freely import all of its drones into the United States — and that its latest consumer drone, the Air 3S, won’t currently be sold at retail as a result.

That’s not because the United States has suddenly banned DJI drones — rather, DJI believes the import restrictions are “part of a broader initiative by the Department of Homeland Security to scrutinize the origins of products, particularly in the case of Chinese-made drones,” according to DJI.

DJI recently sent a letter to distributors with one possible reason why DHS is stopping some of its drones: the company says US Customs and Border Protection is citing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) as justification for blocking the imports. In the letter, which has been floating around drone sites and Reddit for several days, DJI claims it doesn’t use any forced labor to manufacture drones.

Reuters reported on the letter earlier today; DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong confirmed the letter’s legitimacy to The Verge as well.

In a just-published official blog post, DJI is calling this all a “misunderstanding,” and writes that it’s currently sending documentation to US Customs to prove that it doesn’t manufacture anything in the Xinjiang region of China where Uyghurs have been forcibly detained, that it complies with US law and international standards, and that US retailers have audited its supply chain. DJI claims it manufacturers all its products in Shenzhen or Malaysia.

US Customs and Border Protection didn’t reply to a request for comment.

While the US House of Representatives did pass a bill that would effectively ban DJI drones from being imported into the US, that ban would also need to pass the Senate. Last we checked, the Senate had removed the DJI ban from its version of the must-pass 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (though it did get reintroduced as an amendment and could potentially still make it into the final bill).

DJI says the “customs-related issue” has “primarily impacted” the company’s enterprise and agricultural drones, but has also now “limited us from offering the Air 3S to US customers beyond DJI.com.”

“We are actively working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to resolve this issue and remain hopeful for a swift resolution,” writes DJI.

The US government has cracked down on DJI drones before, but not in a way that would keep stores from buying them, consumers from purchasing them, or individual pilots from flying them in the United States. Primarily, the US Department of Commerce’s “entity list” keeps US companies from exporting their technology to the Chinese company, and the US has sometimes restricted certain government entities from purchasing new DJI drones.

Even if DJI imports do get banned by Congress, the proposed law suggests existing owners could still use their drones — but the FCC could no longer authorize DJI gadgets with radios for use in the United States, which would effectively block all imports.

A whopping 69% of organizations have reported paying ransoms this year, according to research by Cohesity, with 46% handing over a quarter of a million dollars or more to cybercriminals. It is hardly the picture of resiliency that is often painted by industry. Clearly, there is a disconnect between cyber resiliency policy and operational capability that urgently needs addressing. 

With the advent of Ransomware-as-a-Service platforms and the current global geopolitical situation, organizations face a huge existential threat through destructive cyber attacks that could put them out of business. This gap between confidence and capability needs to be addressed, but in order to do so, those organizations need to recognize there is a problem in the first place.

Up to now, airfare search results on Google Flights have prioritized a combination of price and convenience over cost alone. This means you might be missing the cheapest options and spending more than you need to.

Via an update to its online tool rolling out gradually over the next couple of weeks, Google is finally making it easier to surface the best-priced airfares for your journey, though you may be sacrificing a bit of convenience if you opt for one of them.

“For example, there could be a third-party booking site offering a lower price than the airline itself,” Google explained in a blog post announcing the update. “Or you might be able to save by flying back to a different airport that’s in the same city you departed from — like flying out of New York’s LaGuardia and returning to JFK.”

The update puts a new “Cheapest” tab on Google Flights’ search page, while the most convenient options (according to Google Flights, at least) will appear beside it under the “Best” tab.

For sure, you might find some of the options under the “Cheapest” tab showing longer layovers, self-transfers, or a requirement to purchase different legs of the trip through multiple airlines or booking sites. But as Google points out in its post, “For those times when cost matters more than convenience, the new tab gives you an easy way to see the lowest prices available,” leaving you to decide which option works best for you.

Google has been gradually improving its Flights tool since launching it in 2011. In a more recent update, the tech giant added a feature that suggests the best time to book a cheap flight. Google Flights also offers price tracking, which, once set up, automatically alerts you if a fare for your route sees a notable fall.

Amazon is sunsetting the Kindle Oasis. This decision means there will be no models of the ereader remaining with physical buttons for turning pages. “Once current inventory of Kindle Oasis sells out online and in stores, we will not restock the device,” Amazon rep Devon Corvasce told . “Today, all of our devices are touch-forward which is what our customers are comfortable with.”

The Oasis model in 2016. Its lightweight, asymmetrical design for one-handed use was a standout, but the high price tag may have kept most people from really considering the product. If you are not most comfortable with a touch interface for your reading, there are still options for flipping pages via buttons on the market. The Kobo Libra Color is .

Even with the Oasis becoming nothing but a mirage, the Kindle family isn’t getting any smaller. Amazon announced several upgrades to the device line this week, including its first ever color ereader in the . We also got hands-on time with the latest and the has also received a refresh.