AI driven student platform helping college students transition from campus to careers. The company connects students, especially from Tier II and III cities, with recruiters for internships and entry-level roles, while also offering upskilling programs, mentorship and interview prep tools. It has enabled over 30K placements, internships and gigs, partners with 1,500 colleges and has a user base of 6.5M. $850K Pre-Series A. Angels in the round: Vipul Prakash (wowJobs); Sandeep Johri (Checkmarx). Founded in May 2022, Pune based. Founders: CEO Saurabh (College of Engineering Pune '19) co-founded EventBeep Entertainment (events ticketing and precursor to Beep) while in college; COO Rakhi (MKSSS Cummins '19) also co-founded EventBeep; CTO Yogesh (Jaipur Enginering College - JECRC) founded Kartlify (online store builder) and Tej.Life (ERP), and was technical lead at ThoughtSpot.

FinTech company focused on the healthcare space, with a platform which enables upfront claims disbursals from within 10 minutes, helping hospitals and clinics overcome revenue realization delays while improving the patient experience. Documentation and claims processing (via a SaaS offering), along with collections, and financing (through its NBFC) are provided from a single platform. It manages 10K discharges per month. It plans to expand across India, as well as the US and Middle East. $8M Series A round. Other investors in the round: Sadev Ventures. Founded in Nov 2021, Gurgaon based. Founders: Sidak (Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College '13) is from Avail Finance (neobank), FarmGuide (agritech) and Clix Capital; Vikrant (DCE '08; Northeastern Univ. MBA '10) is also from Clix Capital, prior to which he was at Philips for five years.

AI-led restaurant management platform built for F&B operators, such as Biergarten, Toit and Effingut Breweries. It brings billing, inventory, procurement, sales forecasting and CRM onto a single dashboard, helping restaurants, breweries and bars run tighter operations. By automating stock tracking and demand planning, the platform aims to reduce leakage, improve margins and give operators real-time visibility into their business. $500K Pre-Series A round from Tejas Paresh Lodaya. Founded in Oct 2017, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Shivaprakash (Bangalore Univ. '00) founded Aptigenz Solutions (dev firm) in 2011.

Phygital marketplace that simplifies apparel sourcing for retailers, especially across Tier II and III cities. The platform connects retailers to manufacturers through a blend of physical experience centres and a digital supply chain layer. ₹150CR (~$17M) Series A funding led by Cactus Partners, along with new backer Zephyr Peacock and existing investors Jungle Ventures, Accion Venture Lab and NBD Ventures also doubling down. Founded in Aug 2020, Noida based. Founders: CEO Abhishek (Thapar Institute '10; IIM Lucknow '14) and CFO/CSO Shubham (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology '10; IIM Lucknow '14) founded Flavicon Eco Boards (eco friendly particle boards, as the name suggests) in 2015.

Platform focused on modernising India’s cooperative banks and credit societies by turning them into fully digital, neobank-like institutions. It offers a white-label mobile banking app and core infrastructure that lets these banks roll out UPI, bill payments, investments, lending, and insurance under their own brand. Undisclosed Series A raise led by Samved VC and Silicon Road Ventures, with participation from existing investors Pentathlon Ventures, 100Unicorns, and Venture Catalysts. Founders: CEO Amit was previously the co-founder and CEO of Airpay Payment Services; co-founder Vishal was previously the CBO of Nando's India.

Back-office AI platform built for restaurant and retail brands. It works like an always-on digital teammate, automating messy operational and finance workflows tied to food delivery and in-store operations. The company works with restaurant brands such as Lazy Dog and Starbird. The US delivery market has $140B in annual revenues. $14M Series A led by Nyca Partners. with participation from Gokul Rajaram, Base10, Afore Capital, Converge, Alumni Ventures, Data Tech Fund, John Pepper, 9Yards Capital and Operators Studio. Founded in Jun 2022, SF/BLR based. Founders: Anand (BITS Pilani '12) is an engineer from Uber, Ather, Flipkart; Sundar (IIT Madras '17) is also from Uber and more recently ShareChat; Vinod (BITS Pilani '13) was at Google for seven years, most recently as Senior Manager for Webspam).

Unified finance and banking platform for mid-size businesses ($10-40M revenue scale). The platform takes care of 1) Billing - ensuring bills are pulled in from various sources (email, slack) and billing errors + tax compliance are automatically addressed, 2) Accounting - with AI replacing the need for large in-house teams and 3) Banking - payments automation. $3.4M Pre-Series A round co-led by Blume Ventures and Piper Serica. The round also includes existing investors Antler, Neon Fund, IIMA Ventures who were in the $2.8M seed round led by Blume in Feb 2025; as well as new investors Ikemori Ventures, Raise Financial Services, QED Innovation Labs. Founded in Oct 2023, Bangalore based. Founders Arpita and Mohit (both ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management) worked together on games and gamification at Flipkart. Mohit was a Director of Product; Arpita was Head of New Initiatives; as well as of Games and Gamification.

Conversational AI startup helping businesses automate voice calls at scale. The platform lets companies deploy multilingual AI voice agents that handle inbound and outbound calls across use cases like collections, customer support, logistics coordination, healthcare appointments, HR screening, and more. It powers more than 1.5M customer conversations a month, 77% of which are fully automated. 20 enterprise customers across India, the US, Saudi Arabia, including CRED, PharmEasy, Shiprocket, Flipkart, Shell. $5.5M in a Series A round led by Arkam Ventures, along with Groww Founder Fund, Kunal Shah, White Venture Capital and existing investor Capital2B who led the $1M seed in May 2025. Founded in Oct 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: Siddharth (BITS Pilani '19) was previously a PM at Groww and Flipkart; Utkarsh (VIT '19) previously worked in data science at Blinkit and Atlan; Kali (IIT Hyderaad) is also ex-Flipkart. Siddharth and Kali built FlyWheel together (slack superbot for community management).

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.

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.