AI video platform that lets businesses generate hyper-personalised, studio-quality videos and avatars at scale, turning a single 5-minute recording into thousands of contextual videos in over 175 languages, with no additional shoots required. Used by over a hundred enterprises across banking, FMCG, retail, healthcare, and hospitality, including Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Zomato, Cipla, and BharatPe. Use cases: digital marketing, language localisation, engaging suppliers and partners, and employee learning and development. Rvenue grew 131% year-on-year to ₹17.1CR in FY25. $10M Series A led by Baring Private Equity Partners India and Z3Partners, with participation from existing investors IAN Alpha Fund and 3Lines Venture Capital. Founded in 2020, Gurugram-based. Founders: CEO Nimish (IIT Kharagpur, BTech '15) was a PE associate at Warburg Pincus for three years and a Strategy Consultant at EY-Parthenon for two. Devender (IIT Kharagpur, BTech) was previously the co-founder of HomeVisitors and TFIDF Labs, before which he was an engineer at Tower Research Capital.

B2B credit-tech startup building an AI-led underwriting and intelligence layer for secured lending products such as home loans, LAP (loan against property) and MSME credit. It digitises and standardises property diligence for lenders - helping banks and NBFCs speed up loan origination, ensure compliance, and monitor portfolios more efficiently. The company raised a ₹6CR Pre-Series A in Nov 2025, led by GrowthCap Ventures. That round is now ₹10.5CR in total, with the additional ₹5.5CR from Equentis. Founded in Jan 2022, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Nagachethan was previously the head of housing business operations at Navi and product head at Vistaar; CTO Byom was previously a Senior NLP Engineer at ConcertAI and comes from DataWeave.

AI-native intelligence platform that helps large organisations convert fragmented, siloed data into clean, AI-ready intelligence through a unified Data Hub, combining data integration, governance, analytics, AutoML, conversational AI, and GenAI tools in a single no-code platform. Generated ₹4.76CR in revenue in FY25 with a 142% CAGR. $1.5M Pre-Series A round led by Triton Investment Advisors (Triton Fund II). Founded in 2023, Gurugram-based. Founders: CEO Gaurav Shinh (University of Toronto- Rotman School of Management '09, Punjab Technical University '98) brings 27+ years of expperience in data and analytics, including a decade as founder of Daaslabs.ai and prior stints at Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, and HCL Technologies. COO Rohit Kumar (VIT '06, IIM Lucknow '15) was previously the director of operational risk reporting at Barclays, before which he was a global head at Syngenta.

Fabless semiconductor startup designing AI-native System-on-Chip (AISoC) products for edge computing and Physical AI applications. The company is developing purpose-built chips for consumer electronics, EVs, industrial automation, and data centres that deliver low-latency, high-efficiency AI processing directly on devices, reducing reliance on cloud. They co-designed the Indus 1011 chip with boAt, to be integrated into 25% of boAt's devices by 2026, assembled by Tata Electronics. $13M Series A led by Ideaspring Capital, with participation from Singularity AMC, Avatar Growth Capital, and existing investor Persistent Systems. Founded in August 2023, Bangalore-based. Founders: CEO Ramamurthy (IIT Kharagpur; MS Computer Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology) was VP and Managing Director at Intel Capital for over a decade. COO Ganesh (BMS College of Engineering '87, MS EE, University of Idaho '92) previously held senior roles at SanDisk, Motorola/Freescale, and AMD.

Developer of service and delivery robots for hospitality, retail, QSR and healthcare. For example, its robots can undertake room service delivery, drive interactive promotions in-store, automate food delivery within a restaurant, and move medical supplies and meals within hospitals. Its robots are available via a subscription model (₹25,000-₹80,000 a month) to over 20 clients including Hilton and Reliance Smart. Building for the India market as well as the US/UK/MENA. ₹36CR (~$3.8M) Pre-Series A led by Alkemi. Founded in Oct 2022, Noida based. Founder & CEO Sanjeev spent seven years as Senior General Manager in Design & Technology at Nissan based in Japan, prior to which he was CTO at Diageo India (~five years) and RUMA Technology Head at Reckitt (nine years). His most recent stint was as Head of Strategy at digital transformation firm DigiTaiken.

Full-stack AI compute platform for enterprise and data center workloads. The company is developing what it calls its Omni Processing Unit (OPU) for the semiconductor industry, aimed at supporting AI inference, training, and reinforcement learning. The OPU integrates CPU, GPU, memory, and connectivity into a single architecture. In Nov 2025, it announced $100M in pre-orders for the OPU. $5M Series A led by Pavestone. $17.9M seed round in Feb 2025. Founded in Oct 2023, California based. Founders: CEO Shalesh (Wichita State University, Case Western Reserve University) was the Founder, CEO & CTO of Tanzanite Silicon Solutions (specialized chips that let servers share memory across machines), which was acquired by Marvell Technology. He was Senior Director of the Extreme Compute Processors & Accelerators Group at Intel, and Director, Hardware (ASIC) Engineering at Cisco for 15 years; CDO Supriya (Wichita State University '93; USC '95) was Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Tanzanite, and was Senior Director of Engineering at Intel (25 years); COO Guntrum was COO at Tanzanite and is also ex-Intel and Cisco (Principal Engineer, 12 years).

Fabless semiconductor startup building secure, high-performance System on Chips (SoCs) focused AI Vision applications, that enable machines to process and interpret visual data instantly. These are critical for applications such as smart surveillance, autonomous systems and industrial automation, where decisions need to be made on the local device, not the cloud. This comes at a time when the majority of India’s surveillance and CCTV infrastructure relies on imported, predominantly Chinese SoCs. $6M Pre-Series led by IAN Alpha Fund, along with existing investors Vertex Ventures, IvyCap Ventures. Vertex led the $3M seed round in Aug 2024. Founded in 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sunil (IIT Madras '92, IIM Bangalore '95) was Director- APAC at Broadcom, led new platforms and solutions at Intel India, and co-founded Zenoti (SaaS for spas); Co-Founder & Head of System Engineering Renuka (RV College of Engineering '92) is also ex-Broadcom (Associate Technical Director) and was a design engineer at Beceem Communications and Cypress Semiconductor; Co-Founder & Head of Technical Engineering Dinesh (BIET '94, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka '97) was Director of Engineering at Intel Corporation for seven years and is also ex-Cypress Semiconductor.

Fabless semiconductor company developing REDEFINE, a runtime reconfigurable core processor designed for use cases in data centres, AI infrastructure and high-performance computing. Its many-core architecture allows hardware to reconfigure itself in real time, which means a single chip can handle multiple applications without needing separate hardware. Commercial launch in 2027. ₹42CR (~$4.4M) raised from Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Colossa Ventures and Navam Capital as part of a Series A round which closes at ₹80CR. The company had closed ₹38.4CR (~$4.3M) earlier, in Oct 2025 from IAN Alpha Fund, Speciale Invest, IvyCap Ventures, Golden Sparrow Ventures, IIMA Ventures, DeVC. Bangalore based, founded in Jun 2006 by Ranjani Narayan and S.K. Nandy, with Deepak Shapeti joining as CEO in 2021. Founders: CEO Deepak (BMS College of Engineering '03; Stanford '06) was Co-Founder & COO of Scool (mentorship platform), was Head of Strategy at TutorMate, and Director of Rupak Enterprises (API manufacturer) for a decade; CTO Ranjani (IISc PhD '89) was a technical lead at HP for a decade; S.K. Nandy has been a Professor at IISc since 1982.

Surveillance-technology company building AI-powered systems for defence and commercial use. The company develops imaging platforms that provide real-time, actionable insights across land, air, and aerospace applications. Its technology is deployed with the Indian Army and Indian Navy, and across Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), India Optel Limited, and L&T Defence. ₹35CR round led by Exfinity Ventures with existing investors Blume, Mela Ventures, Venture Catalysts Group Angel Fund. Founded in 2017, Bangalore based. Founders: Sandeep (Gujarat University '01, IIM Calcutta '04) has been the chairman of Optimized Solutions (automated test equipment, monitoring and automation) for 21 years; Dharin (IISc) was a principal engineer at MediaTek for two years, before which he was co-founder of Immensa Semiconductors for two years. He was with Texas Instruments for over a decade. Purvi (KS School of Business Management '02) was Chief Strategy Officer at Paperchase (accountancy firm for the hospitality industry) and has been a non-executive director at Optimized Solutions since 2009.

Agentic-AI led platform that helps users check, build, and improve their credit score. By integrating with major bureaus and payment systems, it provides actionable insights, credit-building tools, and bill payment features to drive better credit behavior. Current scale undisclosed. At the time of the last round in Sep 2025, the company had 2M users and had processed ₹100CR in credit repayments. Founded in Jan 2024, Bengaluru based. ₹130CR (~$14M) round led by Accel. Investors that led the $8M seed round in Sep 2025, Lightspeed and Z47, along with angels including Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa (Meesho) participated. Founder & CEO Utkrishta (IIT Kharagpur) was previously Chief Experience Officer at Meesho for five years, before which he was in the founding team of Hopscotch.