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Jan 21

Performance analysis for football clubs and youth academies. Uses AI/ML upon video feeds to track every event on the field. This automates the traditionally time-consuming manual data collection process, providing valuable insights into player and team performance. Works with elite clubs from around the world - AFC Ajax from the Eredivisie (league in the Netherlands) and Rayo Vallecano from La Liga (Spain). $1.5 million in a Pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter, along with SucSEED Innovation Fund and Misfits Capital. $500K seed round in Feb 2025. Bengaluru based, NIT Durgapur grads. CEO Sayak was previously a business analyst at Energy Plus; CTO Jeet was an engineer at WorkIndia and CashRich.

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January 21, 2026
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Wk 4 (19-25 Jan)
Jan 13

AI-first operating system for cancer care that helps oncology centres move faster by automating heavy administrative work. Its platform uses AI agents to handle tasks like insurance checks, prior authorisations, and documentation, i.e. areas that often delay treatment. By reducing manual effort, the company enables providers to focus more on patients and ensure quicker treatment. "At one partner site, approximately 80% of administrative staff time has been freed up, denials have been reduced by up to 40%, and first-pass approval rates have reached 97.8%." $11.1M Series A co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures, with the participation of Oncology Ventures, Z21 Ventures, John Simon (Ventureforgood) and Binny Bansal (Flipkart). $3.5M seed round led by Binny Bansal in April 2025. Founded in June 2024, Palo Alto/Bangalore based. Founders Kshitij and Kumar (and Rishabh, who appears to have stepped back between the seed round and this round) were at IIT Kanpur together and co-founded urbanhealth.ai - a self care AI coach funded by 3one4 and Venture Highway.

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January 13, 2026
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Wk 3 (12-18 Jan)

Game development and live services company that works closely with global publishers to produce/co-produce, scale, and operate games over the long term. The company specialises in running live services using data, AI, and continuous content updates to drive player engagement and manage in-game economies. Revenue scale/clients undisclosed. $19.1M series A round led by Northpoint Capital (former Nexus partner Sameer Brij Verma's fund), with participation from seed round investor Nexus. Founded in Dec 2023, Hyderabad based. Founders: CEO Sandeep (Visvesvaraya Technological University '04) was previously studio director at Electronic Arts (12 years). CPO Arun (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University '06) was a producer at EA (17 years); COO Suresh worked as a senior development director at EA (14 years).

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January 13, 2026
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Wk 3 (12-18 Jan)
Jan 15

AI infrastructure and analytics company focused on making enterprise AI systems reliable, governable and production-ready. The company started with analytics for conversational AI, allowing teams to understand how users interact with AI products and improve performance. It is now expanding into AI reliability and governance, offering tools that monitor AI agents in real time and act as guardrails in production. Alongside its platform, Coxwave also works with enterprises to help them deploy AI across core business operations. $5M pre-series A funding led by L&S Venture Capital, with participation from existing investor KB Investment and new investors Hyundai Venture Investment, Hyundai Motor Company's ZERO1NE Ventures, and KDB Capital. Founder Gijung previously worked at Enterprix. Co-founder Joowon was previously a senior manager at Qraft Technologies.

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January 15, 2026
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Wk 3 (12-18 Jan)

AI agents that enable predictive, diagnostic and prescriptive intelligence across large industrial assets. Its solutions are for oil & gas, manufacturing and utilities, using AI to predict equipment failures, diagnose issues and recommend corrective actions before breakdowns occur. By converting large volumes of operational data into clear, actionable insights, operators improve uptime, reduce downtime and optimise plant performance. $6.7M in a funding round (a Series A?). Founded in Jan 2024, Valley based. Founders: CEO Prashant (Stanford Master's in Electrical Engineering) was a GM at GoDaddy; he started out as CTO of Andale Inc. (multi channel e-commerce platform); Co-Founder Sukrit ((IIT Kanpur '08) was at E&Y for six years, as well as Oyo, Snapdeal and Deutsche Bank. He also seems to continue being Founder & CEO of InteligenAI, an AI dev firm.

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January 8, 2026
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Wk 2 (5-11 Jan)
Jan 5

Payments infrastructure startup building an API-led platform for banks, payment aggregators and fintechs to run their digital payments stack more efficiently. Its system brings together core payment functions, from authentication and routing to settlement, reconciliation, chargebacks and fraud checks across cards and UPI. $1M round ahead of a planned Series A, with continued backing from CDM Capital and Credit Saison, along with new investor GrowthCap Ventures. Founded in Apr 2019, Chennai based. Founder and CEO Mohanraj worked at Payment Solutions at MRL Posnet and Hitachi Payment Services.

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January 5, 2026
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Wk 2 (5-11 Jan)

Logistics SaaS platform utilising deep-tech to reinvent supply-chain operations for sectors such as FMCG, manufacturing and e-commerce. The company offers an AI-powered Warehouse Management System (WMS) and a Transportation Management System (TMS) designed for high-volume, regulated enterprise logistics environments, which enables enterprises to replace manual routing with real-time, autonomous decision-making. FY25 numbers not out, FY24 revenue was ₹25.7CR. Clients include Walmart, Dabur, Godrej, Marico. $4M Series A led by Enrission India Capital in November 2025, joined by White Whale Venture Fund this month. Founded around 2017/2018, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Venktesh previously worked as Head of Supply Chain at ITC; Sabyasachi had earlier been a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Shanmukha had formerly co-founded Afferent Technologies and worked as a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Nitin is from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

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January 7, 2026
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Wk 2 (5-11 Jan)

AI-first MarTech (marketing-tech) platform built for D2C and eCommerce brands to turn traffic into revenue. It helps brands identify previously anonymous website visitors, personalise on-site journeys and improve conversions through products around identity resolution, intent-based advertising beyond cookies, and cart-recovery workflows. $5M Series A funding round led by Cornerstone Ventures, along with India Accelerator/Finvolve, Equentis Wealth Advisory Services, Grand Anicut Angel Fund, Razorpay Ventures, Rukum Sitara Fund, Ankurit Capital. Founded in Aug 2023, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Umair was previously the founder at Wigzo Technologies (marketing cloud for eCommerce); CTO Shamail was Director of Engineering at Cyware (SecOps); CBO Pratik was CBO at Wigzo by Shiprocket.

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January 8, 2026
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Wk 2 (5-11 Jan)

Builds AI-led technology infrastructure for banks, NBFCs and fintechs to run and scale their digital lending and treasury operations. Positioning itself as an ecosystem enabler, the company connects lenders, borrowers and partners through an unified platform that supports loan origination and management - automating underwriting, UPI-based credit and real-time analytics. A co-lending stack enables banks and large NBFCs to partner with other institutions for origination and distribution of loans. The company manages over $5B in assets and has faciliated over $7B in disbursements. It supports over 150 partnerships across 85 lenders. $23.6M Series A round led by Accel; along with IIFL and Rocket Capital; and existing investors Prime Venture Partners, 3One4, Commerce VC and Trifecta. Founded in Jun 2019, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Kushal (IIT Roorkee dual degree '09) was previously Founder & CEO of QuantMagnum Technologies (full stack platform for algorithmic trading), and before that, was a quant for a hedge fund in Austria; CBO Parthesh (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology '09) was a key account manager at Bloomberg and a business technology analyst at Deloitte.

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January 2, 2026
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Wk 53 (29 Dec - 4 Jan)
Dec 16

Climate-tech startup with an intelligience platform for environmental monitoring and compliance. The company offers hardware and software solutions that track air quality, emissions and other environmental parameters in real time, helping companies and government bodies meet regulatory requirements and make data-backed sustainability decisions. Over the last year, Aurassure has launched a subsidiary in Brazil and and begun pilot projects in Bangladesh, in addition to its India business. Enterprise customers across construction, insurance, healthcare, industrial operations and infrastructure. ₹25CR Pre-Series A. Founded in May 2022, Bhubaneswar based. Founders: CEO Akanksha (NIT Rourkela '16; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MBA '24) was previously the Co-Founder and COO of Pheonix Robotics (IOT for city planning, pollution and environmental management); CTO Vamsi (also NIT Rourkela '16; Caltech '24) was Head of Engineering at DATOMS (hardware and firmware for IOT).

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December 16, 2025
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Wk 51 (15-21 Dec)

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