AI infrastructure to automate commodity hedging. $10 trillions of comodity derivatives are traded every year, and are hedged using manual workflows (excel, email). The company automates the complete hedging process and compliance. Focused on the US market. $350K pre-seed cheque from All In Capital's “Golden Ticket” program to relocate to the US. Founded in Jan 2025, Singapore based, now relocating to SF. Founders: CEO Siddharth (BITS Pilani '22) was an analyst at Nomura (three years); CTO Yash (IIT Bombay '25) had internships at Barclays, Floworks (AI sales assistant), Sqwish.

Specialty coffee roaster and machine manufacturer selling easy-brew premium Arabica coffee (in capsules, beans, drip coffee bags, cups and cold brew bottles). It controls sourcing, roasting and packaging in-house. It is present D2C, in retail chains (Nature's Basket, Le Marche), and through B2B partnerships. It manufactures machines for use in F&B and in offices, with clients including Grant Thornton, Gartner, SBI, DS Group. ₹5CR seed rund led by IPV. Founded in Apr 2018, Delhi based. Founders: Kanika (SRCC '07; LSE '08) was Director - Foundational Research and Consumer Insights at The Centre for Science & Behaviour Change, and is ex-Dalberg and Cambridge Economic Policy Associates; Paritosh (SRCC '07; Tuck MBA '13) was VP, Strategy & Business Head, Online at Lenskart and is ex-LEK and Unilever (brand head for BrookeBond).

Fragrance brand for younger consumers. It has launched with four fragrances - The Boyfriend Shirt, The Chosen One, Still Here, and The Athlete In You. ₹6.3CR pre-seed round led by OTP Ventures. Angels in the round: Rohit Kapoor (Swiggy), Amit Damani (StayVista). Founded in July 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Bharat (Hindu College '16; IIM Kozhikode '19) was Chief of Staff at HealthPlix (EMR); co-founder Prateek (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology '14; IIM Kozhikode '19) led revenue growth and retention at Licious and headed international business growth for MPL.

Industrial AI startup focused on machine-health and energy efficiency, using IoT and predictive analytics. Its flagship product, Intellivible, uses AI and sensors to detect machine faults and helps prevent downtime. It serves 50+ enterprises including Jindal, JSW, Adani, Ultratech, Dalmia and L&T. ₹17CR seed round led by Pentathlon. Founded in Feb 2018, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sri (Government College of Technology, Coimbatore; Western Michigan Univ. '93) is a software engineer who was India Country Development Manager at the Associated Press (13 years); CTO Aswin (Anna Univ. '15) was Principal R&D Engineer at Fourth Frontier (smart health monitor).

Soon to launch men’s personal care brand with multi-functional products across skin, hair and body care. ₹8CR seed round. Founded in April 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Kanika (SRCC '02; Mudra Institute of Communications '05) was Country Head at Taboola and Twitter; COO Atul (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Univ. '03; NIFT '06) held roles heading sports and fashion at Namshi.com (part of Noon) and led omnichannel, as well as eCommerce for Splash (fashion retail), at Landmark Group. He was also head of eCommerce at Benetton. Both founders are ex-Reebok.

Brain health app, which provides neuroscience-backed cognitive assessments and brain-health programs to help individuals maintain and enhance their cognitive abilities. Offered directly to consumers and through partnerships (Metropolis Healthcare, for example). User and revenue scale undisclosed. $1M seed round from Draper Associates, SAGE Venture Funds, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), IFCI Ventures, SIDBI. SAGE Venture Funds and venture investments by MoSJE are managed by IFCI. It also raised $1M from IIM-A and Capital A in April 2025, and $500K from Capital A in Feb 2024. Founded in Aug 2022, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Issac (Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum '03; SPJIMR '06) was Business Head for the Direct to Consumer business for India and APAC at Discovery, and Marketing Head at Puma; co-founder Rahul (NIT Rourkela '06; SPJIMR '11) co-founded YAYSHOP (conversational commerce SaaS) which was acquired by Infra.Market, and was product head at FlyRemit (B2B remittances).

Phygital primary-care platform which combines clinics, larger health centres, telehealth, diagnostics and analytics. These together offer affordable healthcare to underserved communities, with 25 units across 6 states reaching over 200K patients. It plans to scale to 1M+ low income workers and their families. $1M seed round led by Philips Foundation. Founded in Jan 2021, Gurgaon and Ranchi based. Founders: CEO Anupam (National Defence Academy '04; Xavier Institute of Social Service '10) is ex-ADB (~five years; vocational training projects); Clinton Health Access Initiative (a year) and E&Y (~four years, government advisory); COO Pooja (Ranchi Univ. '08; Xavier '10) was the Founder of Medyss Consulting and CEO for Skills at Spiktel Technologies (telecom infra); CTO Gaurav (IIT Kharagpur '07) was founder of Senpiper Technologies (ten years, low code platform).

Residential rental discovery and management platform for homes in gated society that offers verified listings and reduced security deposits depending on your credit score. Operating in Bangalore, it offers home owners a gauranteed rent, while managing tenant relationships and maintenance. It launched in Whitefield six months ago and has 170 homes. ₹5CR from angels including Kunal Shah (CRED), Albinder Dhindsa (Blinkit), Pankaj Chaddah (Zomato), Mohit Gupta (Coyu, ex-Zomato), Akriti Chopra (Zomato), Gunjan Patidar (Zomato), Nitin Gupta. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Sahil (SRCC '09) was at Stanza Living (~seven years, SVP Revenue and Growth) and Zomato (~five years, VP International Operations); Ashutosh (SRCC '12; ISB '20) was at CRED (~five years, Revenue Lead - Rewards); Zomato (~seven years, AVP - Global Growth).

Corporate gifting platform for enterprises, with over 800 clients including Amazon, LinkedIn, Wipro, Coursera and PhonePe. Businesses can design branded merchandise, manage inventory, automate gifting workflows and ship worldwide. The company operates warehouses in Delhi and Bangalore, and is setting up printing in-house. It integrates into HMRS tools to track birthdays and anniversaries. ₹5.4CR follow-on/bridge round. Angels include the founders of OnGrid, HROne. The company raised a ₹7CR seed round in Dec 2022 from Info Edge, Anicut's angel fund and Huddle Ventures. Founded in Mar 2021, Gurgaon based. Founders: Sameer (IMT Ghaziabad '12) was India Lead for Supply Growth at Uber (three years) and is ex-Airtel; Sneh (Amity Engineering '08) was a business analyst at Cognizant for seven years, before spending three years at Uber on product ops.

Last covered by us in Week 18, 2025. High-resolution thermal imaging through a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Applications across agriculture, environmental conservation, urban planning and defence. "Beyond economics, thermal EO can help cut 2 Gigaton of GHG emissions annually and drive nature-positive action". In agriculture, for example, thermal imaging optimizes irrigation practices and prevents crop failure. The company has developed its first thermal payload, TAPAS-1, and is prepping for satellite integration. It has also started pilots to monitor heat and air pollution in Ahmedabad and Tumkur (KN). Its pipeline has $42M in LOIs. $2.2M seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures along with existing investors Merak, Java, IIMA-CIIE. The company raised a $3.3M pre-seed round in April 2025 led by Merak, along with Huddle (as well as GVFL, Java, IIMA, PointOne). Shravan (CEPT Univ '11; IIM Calcutta '15) and Urmil (Sahajanand College '96) are from Amnex Infotechnologies, heading business development for satellite solutions. Ranendu was a scientist at ISRO for 26 years.