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AI-native marketing platform that brings together strategy, creative, decisioning, and data agents to help marketing teams move from manual campaign execution to fully autonomous, AI-driven marketing. A unified system understands user context, generates campaigns, and continuously learns from results. The platform currently processes over 600 marketing decisions per month for clients including Coursera, ClickUp, Figma, Pinterest, and Etsy, with the platform helping to drive over $100M in customer revenue in the last year. $17M Series A led by Base10, with participation from YC and Peak XV Partners. Founded in 2024, San Francisco-based. Founders: Neha (NUS and UC Irvine undergrad; UC Berkeley, Masters in Machine Learning & AI) was an engineer at Goldman Sachs, spent four years at Twitter in growth and product roles, and was briefly the Head of Product, Growth & Retention at Pinterest (eight months) before co-founding JustAI. She co-founded InstaDev (formerly CityStructure), a deal origination platform for private real estate lenders. Jeff (Stanford University, BS Computer Science & Philosophy ’18) was a machine learning engineer at Mercari (18 months) and Twitter (three years).
Bringing AI to tender management. Bid management platform that helps infrastructure, construction, and energy enterprises find, analyse, and bid on tenders with greater speed and confidence. Its AI evaluates tender documents, identifies commercial and compliance risks, improves bid qualification, and accelerates Go/No-Go decisions, reducing what is typically a manual, document-heavy process. Has analysed over 1 million tenders as part of its training dataset, and is used by the top 30% of India's largest infrastructure companies. $3.1M pre-Series A led by Chiratae Ventures, with participation from Titan Capital Winners Fund. Titan led the ₹5.1CR seed round in May 2025. Founded in 2024, Bengaluru-based. Founders: Sayan (IIEST Shibpur '19; XLRI Jamshedpur MBA '21) was Brand Manager at ITC Limited for a year and co-founded UltraPawz (Fitbit for pets) for a year. Isha (NSIT '18; XLRI Jamshedpur, MBA '22) was a Product Manager at Microsoft for a year and co-founded Ultrapawz. Tanmay (IIT Delhi '24) was CTO at Blozum (conversion optimization for WhatsApp) for a year.
AI-powered business operating system that helps companies automate critical workflows across operations, sales, workforce management, and inventory, bringing together task tracking, sales tracking, attendance, and reporting into a single platform. Its AI assistant, Tavi, predicts upcoming tasks, verifies completed work against requirements, scores sales opportunities, and recommends next steps to speed up execution. Serves over 1,800 businesses across 25 countries. ₹6CR Pre-Series A led by a UAE-based family office (advised by Bestvantage Investments), with participation from Pontaq, Shubhan Ventures, Candle Advisors. Founded in 2021, Bengaluru-based. Founders: Neha (NIFT Delhi, FDIT Fashion and Information Technology '03) was the owner of IT services firm Script Technology for over 15 years, along with husband Rishab (Iowa State University '05; University of Massachusetts Amherst, MBA '10).
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.
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.
Logistics SaaS platform that helps enterprises plan, execute, and optimize supply chain operations. Its AI-driven tools, PlanWyse, ExecuteWyse, GeoWyse and PackWyse, enable route planning, real-time tracking, and loading optimization. This helps mid to large scale enterprises reduce logistics costs by up to 20 percent, with outcomes typically seen within 90 days. $5.5M Series A which includes an earlier announced $3M cheque from IAN Alpha Fund with participation from 1Crowd, and a $2.5M extension now led by Dallas Venture Capital. Founded in 2016, Bengaluru based. Founders: CEO Kishan (University of Mysore '96) was previously the head of the Enterprise Architecture Group at Happiest Minds for four years and was in tech roles with MindTree for 12 years; CTO Amit (Karnatak University '00) was with MindTree for over a decade; COO Ranganath (Bangalore University '99, IIM Bangalore '16) was previously at Publicis Sapient for three years and managed projects end to end at MindTree for over 13 years.
Legal-tech startup which started out with a focus on the mobility sector and is expanding into finance, real estate, healthcare. It has two offerings - LOTS247, which is a roadside legal assistance platform with a network of lawyers available on call or at the accident site 24/7; and ChallanPay, a unified platform to find, resolve, and track traffic challans across all states/enforcement authorities. . $2.5M Pre-Series A co-led by Rainmatter and Turbostart, along with participation from its existing investor Finvolve. In December 2025 the company raised a ₹8.5CR round, raised on Zee TV's entrepreneurship show Ideabaaz from Pawan Jaggi (Peakzi), Sandeep Sharda (Miracle Systems), Priyanka Salot (The Sleep Company), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures). Founded in May 2018, Gurgaon based. Founder & CEO Himanshu (Punjab Engineering College '99; IIM Calcutta '15) is a software engineer by background who was at LexisNexis India (the global content and tech provider focused on legal research) for 10 years, most recently as Associate Director of Online Solutions.
AI-native cybersecurity company building platforms for real-time threat detection and response. Its products use continuous learning to identify anomalies, prevent breaches, and secure digital identities and data. It serves clients across BFSI, fintech, and enterprise, including Canara Bank, Karnataka Bank, DCB Bank, CSB, NCRTC and BVH. ₹16CR Pre-Series A led by Unicorn India Ventures. Other investors in the round: SB Investment (UAE), Prakash Govindan (Gradiant), Himanshu Singhal (inMorphis). Founded in 2021, based in Hyderabad. Founders: CEO JP Mishra (IIM Calcutta '13, IIT Mandi '26) was previously the founder and CEO of DA Algorithms LLP for four years, before which he was a senior manager of data science at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions.
AI-powered hiring platform that uses autonomous agents to streamline recruitment workflows. Its agents handle tasks like background verification and candidate sourcing, enabling faster, more accurate, and scalable hiring. By combining multiple AI agents, the platform connects data, decisions, and workflows to simplify talent acquisition. The company’s flagship agent, Trace, is now used by nearly 300 enterprise customers across India and Europe for automated background verification. $8 million Series A funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, with IIFL co-investing as a strategic partner. Founded in May 2020, based in Delhi. Founders: Jaibir (Pepperdine University '20) was previously a partner in the Nihal Singh Family Office (his family's) for six years. Armaan (UCLA '20) joined almost straight out of college, during which time he was an intern at SoftBank Investment Advisors and the WEF.
AI-powered growth platform that helps brands scale revenue by identifying gaps, optimizing performance, and automating key functions across digital commerce. Acting as a data-driven growth agent, it analyzes patterns, surfaces opportunities, and enables teams to make faster, more effective decisions. $15M Series A ed by Susquehanna (SIG), along with existing investors InfoEdge Ventures and Kae Capital. Founded in 2024, Gurugram based. Founders: CEO Manas (IIM Bangalore '07, IIT Delhi '05) was in the core leadership team at Blinkit for 6 years, before which he was a Director in Standard Chartered Bank for a year; CBO Srikumar (IIT Bombay '07) was the head of category at Blinkit for six years, before which he was a senior manager in the supply chain department at Snapdeal; CTO Nitish (IIIT Allahabad '12) was previously the director of technology at Blinkit for five years, before which he was in PayU Payments for three years.