Influencer marketing platform for creators to serve brands in India and globally. Its app helps streamline discovery, management and measurement of creator partnerships. Its clients include Uniqlo, Hugo Boss, Lakme, L’Oreal, Reliance Trends and Michael Kors. Seed round of an undisclosed amount at a $5.9M post-money valuation. Founded in Aug 2019, Mumbai based. Founder Tarun is from KC College '17.

Telugu-language audio entertainment app for podcasts, serialised audio stories and music, focused particularly on the US. Built upon the realization that Telugu creators and listeners were spread across multiple platforms without a centralized destination for Telugu storytelling. Raising $150K pre-seed round of which $53K has been committed from undisclosed investors. Founded in Oct 2024, Atlanta based. Founder & CEO Srihith (Georgia Institute of Technology '25) worked as a project manager and software dev at iVue, an Atlanta based drone and world-mapping startup, for two years prior to university.

Building “Zara for the Virtual World”, i.e. trend-led digital fashion for platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The startup sold over 2.5 million virtual fashion units on the Roblox marketplace, generating ~$300K in GMV at a 92% gross margin, while bootstrapped. The startup’s dress-up game, GlamGirls, launched in beta on Roblox in late 2025 and has attracted over 100K paying users, with a 75% female user base and 50% of users aged over 18. While Global brands such as Walmart have partnered with the company to bring real-world products into the digital world, the company also offers a phygital D2C line that turns virtual bestsellers into real-world products. At the core of Meta Fashion’s platform is a proprietary AI-native “fast fashion” engine for digital assets, which analyzes live marketplace trends and demand signals to determine asset creation, and drive higher conversion across virtual marketplaces. UGC platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite are emerging as key ecosystems for entertainment and IP creation, particularly for a Gen Z and Gen Alpha digitally-native demographic. Roblox has grown to 150 million DAU and $6.8B in annual bookings in 2025. The platform paid out over $1.5B to creators in 2025 (up 70% YoY). As Roblox's user base ages up (with 65% of age-verified users now 13+, and 27% aged 18+) and as new monetization surfaces open up, UGC platforms are increasingly becoming home to venture-scale IP businesses. $400K pre-seed round led by Lumikai, with the participation of Big Bets, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Akshat Rathee (Nodwin), Pratham Mittal (Masters’ Union). Founded in Aug 2022, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Arjun (Masters' Union) is a 19 year old Roblox native who started Meta Fashion while in high school; Sanjay (Delhi University; NIFT) founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Paytm.

Creating a "Disney from the East". Building a production studio to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales to a worldwide audience. "Mythik plans to modernise ancient narratives using immersive technology", for e.g. Ram v. Ravan and Buddha's First Sermon. Now has a 200 member team. $5M additional round following on a $15M seed round raised in May 2025. The company's valuation crosses $50M with this round which includes investors Harsh Jain (Dream11), Rajat Gupta (McKinsey’s former Global MD), Bharti Mittal Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, Ishan Sinha (Point72). The prior $15M round was from Sakal Media Group, BITKRAFT, VC Grid, along with the founder himself, Visceral Capital, Shah Rukh Khan’s family office, the Patni family office and angels. Founded in Jul 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Jason Kothari (Wharton undergrad) was the CEO of Housing.com after Rahul Yadav, CEO of Freecharge, and CSO at Snapdeal. Prior to all of this he was CEO and then Vice Chairman of Valiant Entertainment (which has rights to the third most popular universe of superhero characters after Marvel & DC Entertainment).

Headphones that know how you feel and change it, in other words these are closed-loop neuromodulation headphones for mental wellness. The device combines neurostimulation, biometric tracking and adaptive AI to measure your stress, and creates personalized neuroadaptive experiences (music) aimed at stress reduction, focus enhancement, sleep support and overall mental wellness. Priced at $499 in introductory pricing for the first 200 units which ship July 2026. A hundred users have helped the company refine the product, which has secured approval from India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). $3.5M (₹31.5CR) seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Gurgaon and NY based. Founders: CEO Ria (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology '15; NTU + Technical University of Munich Master's in IC Design ‘17) was the Co-Founder & CEO of Neuphony (smartwatch for brain training) for six years; and was Development Engineer for Physical Design at Infineon Technologies (semiconductors) for five years; CTO Bhavya (Jaypee '15; Universität Passau Master's in Mobile and Embedded Systems drop-out) was Co-Founder & CTO at Neuphony and was an R&D Engineer at Logic-Fruit Technologies (design firm for embedded computing solutions).

Quantitative trading infrastructure for retail and institutional investors to execute quant investment strategies across equities, ETFs and mutual funds. Offers Kalpi.ai for retail investors and KalpiQuant.com for institutions (AIFs, RIAs, brokers, family offices). Retail users can create stock baskets, analyze portfolios and invest directly through broker integrations. Institutions can build, backtest, automate and execute quant strategies. Institutional grade infrastructure that typically costs hedge funds ₹1-2CR a year can be accessed through the platform. ₹3.75CR seed round. Founded in Feb 2025, Hyderabad based. Founder & CEO Ashwar (BITS Pilani '19) was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for close to five years at Zeotap (enterprise customer data).

Gen Z-focused stock-trading platform. The platform uses AI for stock discovery and simplifies trading onto a single screen. Account opening is at no cost, along with zero account maintenance charges for the first year. Equity brokerage is at 0.25% or ₹20 per trade, whichever is lower, whereas F&O is at a maximum of ₹20 per order. "We refuse to accept a future where investing is confusing, overwhelming, and brain draining". $3.7M seed round. Angels in the round: Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Roman Saini, Tanmay Bhatt, Varun Mayya, Gaurav Kapoor. The company last raised a $1M seed round from MGA Ventures, GSF and others in Aug 2025. Founded in May 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Vedant (Christ Univ. drop-out); CCO Aryan (Jai Hind College '24); Chief Growth Officer Siddharth (Narsee Monjee) started out during university.

Freeze-dried fruit snacks (mango, strawberry, banana, pineapple and mixed fruit) with no added sugar, preservatives or additives. Freeze-drying process helps retain up to 97% of nutritional value while enhancing portability and shelf life. Seed round of an undisclosed amount from angels including Atul Rajani and Deeksha Rajani (Be.), Sifat Khurana (Innovist), Dhruv Bhasin (Arata), Gaurav Khatri (Noise), Saurav Adlakha (DailyObjects). Founded by five Tetr College students led by CEO Matias Tejerina.

AI-native esports platform helping gamers build communities, compete and monetize gameplay. Gamers can play tournaments, win convertible rewards, stream with ease and create short highlight reels. The platform also offers a social network for gamers along with expert courses on becoming an esports professional. 25K organic users on the platform. $100K pre-seed round from Ujjwal Jain (Share.Market by PhonePe). Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Roushan (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra) was a senior product designer at PhonePe for ~three years; CTO Abhijeet (JSS Academy Of Technical Education Karnataka '23) was an SDE at Calibr (Gen AI based learning management system); co-founder Sweta (Magadh Univ. '19) was a senior UX designer at Builder.ai (~a year) and at dev firm Metafic (also a year).

QR tags to recover lost valuables. The startup addresses the problem of lost valuables through smart QR products that allow finders to instantly connect with owners without exposing personal phone numbers. Works globally, for use cases including luggage, keys, wallets, passports, electronics and pet tags. The QR code is placed on products appropriate for the use case, for e.g. the pet tag is shaped to allow for an airtag cavity as well as the QR codes. In other words, this is a "digital identity layer" for physical belongings. $260K pre-seed round from a Dubai based VC firm. Founded in Nov 2025, Bangalore and Dubai based. Founder & CEO Jesintha (Christ Univ.) was the CEO for Cloud Services at G7 CR Technologies India (an IT consulting and cloud services business) for a decade.