Positioned as an AI-native consumer brands platform, with an initial focus on launching nutrition and wellness products. Brands will be built with an operating platform working across three proprietary AI engines. "Resonance" focuses on audience building and consumer insights; "Nucleus" analyzes audience demand signals around products; "Meridian" is focused on marketing, across creative testing, media buying, budget allocation and optimizing ROAS. The company is actively seeking experts/ practitioners in the wellness space who bring clinical experience and will partner with them to build their online content engine and audience, launch products with them, and drive sales. ₹42CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: Kashyap (BIT, Mesra; IIM Calcutta) was CMO at Pepperfry for a decade, prior to which he was with eBay India for ~five years, including as CMO. Ravi (Andhra Univ. '03; BIM Tiruchirapalli '06) was Co-Founder at Doubtnut (2020-23) at CBO at Vedantu. Ravi is also ex eBay India (leading digital marketing, and fashion and lifestyle). Anubhav (VESIT; University of Maryland Baltimore County) was MD at Dentsu APAC, and was Co-Founder & CEO of Merkle Sokrati for 14 years, which was acquired by Dentsu. He is a former software engineer from Amazon.

R&D led startup developing proprietary specialty chemicals and advanced materials for industrial applications with a focus on sustainability. The company upcycles plastic waste into high-value binders for paints, coatings, inks and adhesives. AI is used across chemical simulation, validation, and R&D workflows to shorten development timelines. ₹10CR seed round. Founded in Aug 2024, Mumbai based. Founders: Asesh Sarkar, Dr. Rabindranath Mandal and Harsh Bhatt. No prior information available on Asesh and Dr. Rabindranath. Harsh (Thadomal Shahani Engineering College '08) was GM for Industrial Chemicals at ZETWERK. He was Head of BD for Speciality Chemicals Distribution in West Asia at Omya (a distributor of speciality chemicals) and worked on BD at Atul Ltd (in the crop protection division).

Preventive pain-management and wellness products, particularly medical-grade heat therapy devices. A portfolio of 10 heat therapy products under its hCore banner, including back heating pads, period pain heating pads and heated backrests for office chairs, are designed for pain relief and recovery. Sold through offline retail and online (eCommerce, quick commerce). The company has a 12,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Noida. Revenue scale undisclosed. ₹1.8CR seed round. Founded in Mar 2025, Noida based. Founder & CEO Hargun (DCE '19) was SDE 2 at Amazon, where he spent ~six years.

Soon to launch Gen Z fragrance brand, with plans to enter the broader lifestyle segments. Its debut collection, The World of Antonyms, features products such as IM-Perfect, DIS-Loyal, MIS-Placed, and MIS-Aligned. $450K pre-seed round co-led by All In and Huddle Ventures. Founded in Oct 2025, Delhi based. Founders Kunal, Amish and Afsal were executives at NEWME for about three years each. CEO Kunal (Jain (Deemed-to-be University) '20) was Founder & CEO of Foodeo (B2B food service platform) before joining NEWME in the founders office. CRO Amish (NIFT Bhubaneswar '2022) was Social Media Manager at MLeAP, and Merchandising Manager at NEWME; Afsal (Calicut Univ. 20; ACCA CA certification '20) was Senior Finance Manager at NEWME.

Omnichannel multi-brand sports retailer which will sell products athleisure, footwear, fitness equipment, recovery products and nutrition. The company plans to launch 150 stores in the next five years and will work with 100 global and homegrown brands. It will first launch a 15,000 square foot flagship in Bangalore, followed by destination stores in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, along with its eCommerce platform. $2.7M seed round co-led by Centre Court Capital and MIXI Global, with the participation of WEH Ventures. Founded in May 2026, Ahmedabad based. Founders: Satyam (H.A. College of Commerce '01; Indian School of Business Management '12) headed Adani Sportsline for 12 years, and was CEO of GMR Sports for ~two years. Jayam (D J Sanghvi College of Engineering '12) was co-founder of fitness and health marketplace Fitternity for close to a decade; followed by heading Gold's Gym and building the cultpass marketplace at Cult.fit.

AI-led credit infrastructure startup enabling financial institutions to launch asset-backed credit cards and credit lines. Asset backing is against FDs, mutual funds and equities. The company has partnered with seven banks including of India's largest public sector banks. The platform powers 200K active cards, with 40K new cards issued every month, now accounting for 8% of India's monthly credit card issuance. "“India does not have a shortage of assets. It has a shortage of infrastructure that can convert those assets into usable credit". $2.8M seed round led by Arkam, with participation from GrowthCap Ventures (which led the $1.8M pre-seed round in Jun 2025), Razorpay Ventures and Atrium Angels. Angels include Kunal Shah and Madhusudhan E. (KreditBee). Founded in Oct 2022, Bangalore based. Founders: Pawan Kumar. Founders: CEO Pawan (VTU '12) was former head of Applied Science at Uber India and was Data Science Manager at LinkedIn. CTO Srinivas (Army Institute of Technology ' 05; IIM Lucknow '13) was former Technical Lead at BNP Paribas, and is ex AMP (wealth management and banking in Australia) and Wipro.

AI-native coordination platform that maps organisational knowledge across tools like Slack, email, docs, meeting records, and code repositories like GitHub. The platform reduces dependence on individual employees for access to company information. Users can ask questions in natural language and receive responses which link to underlying sources. $525K pre-seed round at a $7.5M valuation. Founded in Dec 2025, Gurgaon based. The founders are students, Arhan, 18, is studying AI at U Penn and Sarthak, 19, is studying computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

AI data infrastructure startup which builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics and autonomous systems. The company partners with content owners, production houses, studios, archives, institutions, and contributor networks to source, license, and structure real world data for AI training. Focused on India, SE Asia and other markets in the Global South. $500K pre-seed round led by Venture Catalysts' angel network. Founded in Jun 2025, Singapore based. Founders: Sunil, Sabari, Dushyant, Anil. Sunil (Savitribai Phule Pune University B.S. '93; Master's '96) was MD - APAC at Firework (shoppable video solutions for brands) and COO at ALTBalaji's OTT; Sabari (Coimbatore Institute of Technology '01; IISc '04) is a researcher on vision-language models at ANU in Canberra; Dushyant (D.U. '96; Welingkar Institute of Management '99) was Co-Founder at SmartViz (visual inspection automation); Amit (University of Tasmania '03; Haas School of Business '08) was Deputy Director Manufacturing of Wearable Health Solutions for Space Medicine at ANU.

Voice-first AI tutoring platform for school and competitive exam prep. Akin to a teacher with a whiteboard, the platform offers real-time audio conversations and a live interactive sketchpad, allowing the AI tutor to draw diagrams and work through problems while explaining concepts aloud. While this is K-12, this is particularly used by students in classes 9-12, who undertake board exam prep along with their prep for JEE, NEET and CUET. The platform works in 22 languages including Hindi and Hinglish, with AI avatar versions of real school teachers for partner institutions. 200K users till date, across app and web. $500K/₹4.3CR pre-seed round at a $5M valuation, co-led by DataAlpha.ai and White Swan Global. Founded in Jan 2025, Noida based. Founder & CEO Kirti (IIT BHU '07) was AVP and Head of CET at PhysicsWallah; prior to which he founded real-time doubt-solving platform, Puchoto (i.e., "just ask").

D2C eyewear brand targeting Gen Z and millennial buyers. A range of 800 products are sold through its website, its frames and sunglasses are typically in the ₹1,000-2,000 range. 50,000 customers till date, with a 40% repeat rate. The company also operates an experience stores in Andheri West in Mumbai. Funding of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Jul 2022, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Shahid (K J Somaiya '06; Univ. of Mumbai MBA '08) set up media agency and production house RVCJ Digital Media in 2010 along with CCO Ankit (Aurora Business School '14). Co-Founder Affan (Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University '15) was a digital marketing consultant at Enterprise Monkey, NewsCred and SquareBase, and joined RVCJ in 2021.