SEBI-registered investment advisory and wealth management platform that helps working professionals and their families build structured, goal-based financial plans, covering mutual funds, PMS, equity, fixed income, insurance, tax, estate planning, and budgeting. Its proprietary FinnFit framework starts with a financial fitness assessment and builds a customised roadmap tailored to each user’s life goals. Its client base includes 3,500 families across India. $2M Pre-Series A round from a group of angel investors including Dr. Ramakant Deshpande. Founded in 2007, Mumbai-based. Founders: Nehal (N.L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research ’02; University of Mumbai ’00) was VP at India Infoline (IIFL) for two years, and prior to that spent over three years as Sales Manager at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. Naveen (NL Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research ’02) was a Business Analyst at Herald Logic for a year, prior to which he was a Project Manager at Base Information Management Pvt Ltd for two years.

QSR brand built targeting Gen Z and health-conscious urban consumers. Sci-fi-inspired spaces serve fresh cold-pressed juices, functional wellness beverages, and food items like its signature Starship burgers. The company claims to be on track for $10M in revenue in FY27, and plans to expand to 100 stores in FY28. ₹27CR/$2.5M Pre-Series A from existing investors Prakash Sikaria (Super.Money), Ravi Iyer (Flipkart) and Arpan Sheth (Navex, former Senior Partner at Bain). The company raised its $1.2M seed round from these investors in April 2025. Founded in May 2024, Bengaluru-based. Vikram (Delhi Univ. '17, MICA ’20) worked at popcorn brand 4700BC as the Head of Business Strategy and Growth in the CEO’s Office (two years), prior to which he was Assistant Marketing Manager at Zee Entertainment for a year. no information available on co-founder Abhishek Kumar.

AI-led wellness and lifestyle app built for India’s Tier II and III cities, offering personalised wellness journeys, expert-curated courses (covering weight loss, gut health, skin, hair, sleep, and joint pain) with vernacular daily guidance in Hindi and English. Users subscribe to monthly plans, and can take AI-led courses at an additional fee (e.g. marathon training, fixing your sleep routine, full body transformations). In its first year the company has crossed 1.5M installs and 100K paying users, with 73% of its paying base from cities like Meerut, Varanasi, Indore, and Jalandhar. The company has longer term ambitions in diagnostics, health commerce, and other personalized care services. $7M Series A round led by Lightspeed, with participation existing investors Kae Capital (seed) and All In Capital (pre-seed). Founded in 2025, Bengaluru-based. Founders: Manavdeep (IIM Lucknow '21; Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology ’17) previously worked at Pocket FM as an Associate Director and then Director of Growth & Marketing India for a year, prior to which he was at Meesho as category manager across Men’s Fashion, Home, and New Categories. Gurjot (IIM Lucknow ’21; Dr. SSB University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University ’19) worked at Pocket FM in content strategy and India growth roles for approximately a year, prior to which she was also at a category manager at Meesho. She is ex-Mastercard.

Network of fully-serviced private vacation homes and estates, managing a curated portfolio of villas, heritage homes, and holiday properties across 80+ leisure destinations. The company offers homeowners a complete hospitality management platform that handles reservations, staffing, guest experiences, and property monetisation across channels including Airbnb, OTAs, and travel agents. Direct B2C bookings now contribute nearly 70% of overall revenue. $3.5M un-named growth round led by Infinity Ventures, with participation from family offices. The round included a partial secondary sale by existing investor Sixth Sense Ventures. Founded in 2015, Mumbai-based. Tejas (ICAI, CA ’01) previously spent nearly 8 years at ICICI Bank across roles in the Special Assets Management Group and Corporate Banking, followed by a stint as Vice President, Large Corporates at HSBC, before co-founding SaffronStays. Deven (University of Mumbai ’98; RA Podar, ’96) previously spent over 16 years at EY as Practice Leader and Partner for Information Security in India.

Operates an integrated network of clinics and salons, including hair, skin, spa treatments (i.e. salon services), and clinical procedures like laser hair reduction, dermal fillers, and CoolSculpting (a non-surgical fat-freezing treatment) across 10 cities. The company currently operates 67 outlets (33 clinics and 34 salons). The company's last recoreded revenue was ₹135CR in FY25, up from ₹98CR in FY24. FY26 revenues are not yet announced. ₹120CR (~$12.7M) Series A led by Singularity AMC, the company’s first major funding round in nearly nine years. The company last raised ₹18CR in 2017. Founded in 1997, Bengaluru-based. Founder Manjul Gupta trained at Shahnaz Husain’s beauty academy before starting Bodycraft from her home in Bengaluru in the late 1990s, opening her first commercial salon in Frazer Town, Bangalore in 1999. Medical Director Dr. Mikki Singh heads the company’s clinical aesthetics business.

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).

India's leading B2B provider of GPS-enabled smart lock solutions for logistics and supply chain companies, offering a product range that includes 4G GPS truck locks, smart reusable bolt seals, and electronic shutter locks, all managed via a centralised mobile app with real-time tamper alerts, geo-fencing and complete audit trails to secure cargo movement across the supply chain. Over the past year the company scaled its active deployments from 2,500 to 10,000 trucks, across clients including Amazon, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zepto, Blue Dart, and Syngenta. $2M Pre-Series A2 round led by Unicorn India Ventures, Callapina Capital and AWE Funds. Founded in 2012, Kochi-based. The company name is SectorQube Technolabs. Founders: CEO Nibu Alias (IIM Kozhikode, MBA ’17; Toc-H Institute of Science and Technology ’11), COO Ani Abraham Joy (Cochin University of Science and Technology '11) and CTO Sabarish P. (also Cochin University of Science and Technology '11) founded the company out of college in 2011.

Recycling company working across e-waste, batteries, glass, and other end-of-life material streams, with a focus on recovering critical, precious, and high-value materials such as indium, tin, and rare earth elements from discarded products. They have two recycling facilities and have channelised over 1,50,000 metric tonnes of waste. They work with over 50 corporations including Apple, Dell Technologies, Cisco, and Canon on recycled-content and sustainability goals. Karo Sambhav operated for 9 years without any external venture capital before this round. $6M Pr-e-Series A led by Rainmatter. Founded in 2017, Gurugram-based. Founders: Pranshu (KIT's College of Engineering Kolhapur, BE Environmental Engineering '00) was at Nokia for nearly 10 years and the Director of Digital Learning Strategy at Microsoft for two 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.

Mental health platform offering therapy, counselling, and wellness solutions for individuals and enterprises, operating an omnichannel model that combines digital access with 20+ physical centres across Bengaluru, Delhi, Noida, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Lucknow. Has delivered over 35,000 therapy sessions across 40+ cities, serving 200+ clients. In July 2025, acquired US-based mental wellbeing startup Being Cares Inc to strengthen its AI-driven child behavioural development ecosystem. ₹2.77CR bridge round from existing investor Rainmatter, and India Foundation Fund. The company last raised a $2.5M Pre-Series A led by RPSG Ventures in Sep 2024. Founded in 2021, Gurugram-based. Founders: CEO Dr. Krishna (IIT Delhi, BTech Chemical Engineering '03, MTech Process Engineering '03; University of California Riverside, PhD '07; IIMA '12) was a Regional General Manager at Uber for nearly four years and President & Head of Marketplaces at Droom for a year before co-founding Lissun. Tarun (Himachal Pradesh University '04; ISB '10) was VP of the Leisure Business at OYO for three years and Head Driver Operations at Uber for three years.