D2C home and lifestyle label focusing on cotton-rich bedding, baby essentials and home decor accessories for urban millennials. Positioning: premium yet affordable design, frequent product drops and rapid delivery via quick-commerce channels. With this latest round, Haus & Kinder will expand its category range and deepen its omnichannel presence. $3.3M Series A round. Angels in the round: Yogesh Kabra (XYXX), Sangeet Agrawal and Navin Parwal (Mokobara). Founders: Saket was at ITC for 9 years, including as a brand manager at Wills Lifestyle, as well as Head-Fashion at IMG-Reliance; Kanupriya was a merchandiser at Trent and Wills Lifestyle.

Delhi-based dessert-café chain built around an entirely egg-free menu, focused on fresh-baked cookies, seasonal dessert drops and experiential community formats. Aims to serve as a “third space” for Gen Z and millennials. The brand will now expand beyond its three outlets and strengthen its delivery and central-kitchen operations. $1M Pre-Series A round led by 12 Flags (the former Reckitt Benckiser CEO's fund), with the participation of existing investor Wolfpack Labs (in a seed round covered by us in July). Founder and CEO Vidur previously worked at OYO as an area business head, and at Vodafone and Idea.

Medical devices startup that designs and manufactures surgical navigation systems, i.e. devices that use images from CT or MRI scans to project how instruments shoule be placed. The company's devices are used for complex cranial, spine and ENT procedures, with the aim of making advanced image-guided surgery accessible to hospitals of all sizes. Its main product, easyNav, integrates with existing operating room infrastructure and has been used in over 20K surgeries. $5M Pre-Series A round. Other investors in the round: India EXIM Bank, KITVEN. Founded in Jan 2015, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Arpit Paliwal previously served in multiple roles at Stryker Corporation, one of the world's largest medical devices companies (revenue: $22B) - as a business manager, product manager and tech lead in India; no background information available on COO Shweta Paliwal.

Full-stack, AI-driven supply-chain startup that helps D2C and enterprise brands manage inventory and logistics for both within India and abroad, with a unified platform. The company currently operates seven fulfilment centres covering over 29K pincodes, handles more than 300K B2C shipments, 700K marketplace orders and 5K quick commerce replenishments every month. $2.6M Pre-Series A round. Founded in June 2019. Founder and CEO Anshul was the Co-Founder of Woofbnb for six years - pet services at home; Co-Founder Prodipto Roy was a Founding Partner at Crimson Consulting (a Microsoft Dynamics Partner) and CEO of Delta Galil Textiles India (a global apparels manufacturer). He comes from KSA-Technopak.

Childrens wellness brand rooted in Ayurveda. Develops OTC formulations for kids across immunity, cold and cough, memory and holistic wellness. It leverages natural, GMP/ISO-certified manufacturing and D2C plus marketplace distribution to sell chemical-free, child-safe Ayurvedic products. ₹20CR Pre-Series A round led by RPSG with participation from Sauce. Founded in Mar 2020, Ahmedabad based. CEO Riddhi Sharma was the founder of WebPixel Technologies (dev firm); Co-founder Ripul was previously founder and CTO at WebPixel Technologies.

Design-led home décor and lifestyle brand creating art-inspired furnishings and accessories. Using its in-house analytics and trend-platform “Art Lab”, the company draws on data-driven insights to develop and launch collections, while building D2C reach online and offline. ₹10CR Pre-Series A. Founders Aditya and Aanchal started Artment straight out of college, in 2016.

SaaS platform building customer-support with voice-first, emotionally-aware agents. The company’s platform is designed for online ordering/e-commerce companies (used by Doordash) and regulated industries like finance, telecommunications and healthcare and enables large companies to deploy AI agents that reason in real time, recall context, and reduce reliance on traditional call-centres, while handling complex policy logic at scale. $61M Series A round. Founded in Jul 2023, SF based. Founders started straight out of IIT Kharagpur: CEO Varun declined a Stanford PhD and a quant trading job to build this, while CTO Esha turned down a systems-engineering offer at a high-frequency-trading firm.

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. Clients include Walmart, Dabur, Godrej, Marico. $4M Series A. Founders: CEO Venktesh Kumar had previously worked as Head of Supply Chain at ITC; Sabyasachi Bhattacharjee had earlier been a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance Pvt Ltd; Shanmukha Boora had formerly co-founded Afferent Technologies and worked as a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Nitin Mamodia had prior experience at Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

Value focused FMCG brand that aims to convert popular local beverages and snacks into hygienic, affordable packaged offerings for India’s mass-market consumers. ₹212CR revenue in FY25, from ₹4CR in FY19. Targetting ₹800CR in the next three years. $3M Series A round. Founded in 2018 in Coimbatore, started out as Tanvi Snacks and Beverages in 2016. CEO Prabhu was earlier a retail-consulting professional in the US before returning to join his family’s foundry business in India. Brindha Vijayakumar started out as an actuary. Comps: Paper Boat, Rasna, Dabur, PepsiCo and Coca Cola.

Beauty appliances brand with salon-grade hair, skin and grooming appliances into Indian homes. Its product range spans advanced LED-therapy devices, automatic multi-styler and dual-sided ceramic-edge trimmers, engineered specifically for Indian hair, skin and climate conditions. $2M Pre-Series A round. Founded in Sep 2021. CEO Tanisha was Assistant Procurement Manager at Beardo and a Director at Bare Body Essentials, a homegrown beauty brand that retails on marketplaces.