Operates bubble tea brand Bobaka. The company operates 14 compact-format outlets across food courts and high streets, with a range of fruit-based iced teas, milk teas, matcha drinks, and boba shakes. The company plans to open 30 stores this financial year, followed by 50 each in the subsequent two years, targeting ₹100CR annualised revenue by that time. Most stores are currently in Mumbai. ₹6CR Pre-Series A round by undisclosed investors. Founded in Mar 2023, Mumbai-based. Founders: CEO Rupali founded packaged tea brand TCW (Tea Culture of the World) Tea in 2010; Co-Founder Sannjeev (The Wharton School '12, Cornell '17) was CEO of Being Human Clothing, with senior BD roles at Raymond and at the Landmark Group. He was Vice-President for Apparel Operations & Business Development at Jubilant Retail for ~seven years.

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.

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.

Men’s and kids focused ethnic wear brand reimagining traditional occasion fashion with contemporary, gen-z focused designs at accessible price points. The company started out on marketplaces and is now going omni-channel. FY25 revenue was ₹42CR, which appears to have crossed ₹100CR. ₹35.9CR Series A led by Fireside Ventures. The company raised a ₹13CR Pre-Series A in 2025 led by Sagar Daryani (Wow! Momo), other angels and IPV. Founded in Sep 2017, Kolkata based. Founders: Yash (University of Calcutta '11, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India '13) was an associate at financial advisor Resurgent India and completed his CA Articleship at Sanjeev Navin & Associates; Yashwi (Sivnath Shastri College '09, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India '11) led e-commerce at textile manufacturer Kariwala Industries, before which she was a senior associate at N. Goel & Associates.

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).

Brand offering reusable and disposable period panties designed for comfort, protection, and everyday ease, along with broader menstrual wellness products. Revenue scale undisclosed, 500K customers till date. ₹20CR Series A led by Atomic Capital. Founded in Jan 2022, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Kiriti (Annamalai University '12) is ex-Amazon (associate account manager) and Flex (supply chain at this appliance manufacturer). CMO Sourav (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology '12, NIT Silchar '15) was a senior engineer at John Deere for five years; Satyajit (Gauhati University '04) was with Capgemini for seven years.

Dermatologist led skincare brand developing products for melanin-rich Indian skin, addressing concerns like pigmentation, barrier damage, and long-term skin aging. With insights from 150,000 derma-consultations including from the founder's own cosmetic dermatology practice, the model combines a B2B partner network of 2,000 derma-clinics with its D2C site, which allows patients to begin treatment through clinical guidance and continue maintenance independently. The company will now look abroad, to specific formulations for LatAm and East Asia. $5M Series A led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from L’Oréal’s venture fund BOLD, Alkemi Growth Capital, angel investors including Avnish Anand (CaratLane), and several leading dermatologists. Founded in Jan 2020, Chennai based. Founder: Dr. Renita Rajan (Government Kilpauk Medical College '03, Christian Medical College '07) has been a Medical Director at derma-clinic RENDER Skin and Hair for 15 years.

Sports-tech platform enabling on-ground live production and streaming of local sports events. It provides tools for tournament organisers and clubs to capture, broadcast, and analyze matches, while giving emerging athletes greater visibility, and drawing in funding to local sports associations. It has streamed over 500,000 matches across 30 countries and reaches an audience of over 100 million viewers globally. A cloud production suite offers live sports production from mobile cameras, professional cameras and smart automated cameras. Its cloud studio offers multiple camera angle streaming, detailed scoring for over thirty sports, custom scoring graphics, automated highlights, live commentary, and integrated advertising options. The company also has an OTT platform streaming these matches. This round will help it scale from 100K to 500K matches annually. ₹32.7CR round led by IAN Alpha Fund, with participation from Anicut Capital, Lets Venture, Capital-A, Succeed Innovation. Founded in 2019, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Sidhhant (University of Mumbai '12) was at Pirhoalpha Research (air quality and other indoor monitors) for eight years; COO Yash (Savitribai Phule Pune University '17) was previously in Accenture for a year, before which he was a junior project manager at Pirhoalpha Research for less than a year; CMO Shubhangi (University of Mumbai '16) was the founder of EthKnits, a crochet clothing and accesories brand, for a decade.

Fashion brand focused on traditional Indian crafts, starting with Lucknow’s chikankari embroidery. It works directly with 10,000 artisans across artisan clusters to offer authentic, handcrafted apparel while ensuring fair practices. The company is at ₹50CR in annualised revenue, sees 900K monthly website sessions and has had 200K customers to date across 20 countries, including the US, Australia, and the UK. Its product range includes kurtas, kurta sets, sarees, kaftans, tops, shirts and bottom wear. ₹25CR Series A led by Cap Alpha Ventures. The company raised a ₹4CR seed round in January 2025 from Tudip Ventures, Alluvium Capital. Founded in 2020, Delhi-based. Founders: Aakriti (King's College London '18, Imperial Business School '19) founded the company during COVID, with her mother Poonam.

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.