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.

FinTech platform which provides UPI-based credit cards and helps customers build their credit profiles. Credit cards (issued in partnership with SBM Bank and DCB Bank) are backed by fixed deposits, targeting users without formal credit history. The company has 100K active cardholders and plans to get to five million cards in the next three years. $10.5M Series A led by Cornerstone Ventures, with participation from Shepherd's Hill Private Equity, ESV-Arthya AIF, Roots Ventures.The round also included venture debt from Innoven Capital and Alteria Capital. The company closed ₹30CR this March led by Cornerstone Ventures, with participation from Ashra Private Equity Fund - it’s unclear whether that was an earlier round or part of this round. Founded in Aug 2020, Mumbai based. CEO Aditya (Sri Venketeshwara College, Delhi Univ. '99; MDI Gurgaon '01), Co-Founder Sandeep (VJTI '96; Narsee Monjee '99) and CBO Anand (K.J. Somaiya Management Institute '99) built Transerv from 2011-2020, a payment solutions provider which offered a social wallet called Udio. The company was acquired by Indiabulls Consumer Finance in two tranches between 2019-2020. The team is all ex-HSBC. The fourth co-founder, Manish (IIT Kanpur '93; IIM Calcutta '95) joined more recently in 2025. He was a Partner at PwC.

eCommerce marketplace focused on proteins and supplements, with 10,000 products across 450 brands. It combines content, discovery, and assisted shopping to help consumers make informed health choices. The product line includes supplements, health foods and beverages, fitness gear, weight management items and sexual health items. The company will build a dark store network for faster deliveries, with this round. HyugaLife’s parent company Pratech Brands, also owns Inaari, a natural healthcare brand supporting hormonal balance. $10.6M Series A. The company raised $6.3M at seed from Peak XV, Spring Marketing Capital in 2024. Founded in 2021, Mumbai based. Founders: Sachin (Univerity of Mumbai '04, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth '06, University of Michigan '12) was at Nykaa for five years, where he was CFO and ran Nykaa Superstore, their B2B platform; CBO Anvi (Institute of Chemical Technology '12, Cambridge Judge Business School '17) was at Unilever (a year in business development) and Amazon (two years as a category manager) and was an Executive Director at family owned Prasol Chemicals; Neehar (Institute of Chemical Technology '12, Said Business School '17) was at Amazon for four years as a product manager.

Fabless semiconductor company developing REDEFINE, a runtime reconfigurable core processor designed for use cases in data centres, AI infrastructure and high-performance computing. Its many-core architecture allows hardware to reconfigure itself in real time, which means a single chip can handle multiple applications without needing separate hardware. Commercial launch in 2027. ₹42CR (~$4.4M) raised from Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Colossa Ventures and Navam Capital as part of a Series A round which closes at ₹80CR. The company had closed ₹38.4CR (~$4.3M) earlier, in Oct 2025 from IAN Alpha Fund, Speciale Invest, IvyCap Ventures, Golden Sparrow Ventures, IIMA Ventures, DeVC. Bangalore based, founded in Jun 2006 by Ranjani Narayan and S.K. Nandy, with Deepak Shapeti joining as CEO in 2021. Founders: CEO Deepak (BMS College of Engineering '03; Stanford '06) was Co-Founder & COO of Scool (mentorship platform), was Head of Strategy at TutorMate, and Director of Rupak Enterprises (API manufacturer) for a decade; CTO Ranjani (IISc PhD '89) was a technical lead at HP for a decade; S.K. Nandy has been a Professor at IISc since 1982.