Hybrid satellite and groung-based systems for quantum-secure communications. The company is helping businesses prepare for the rise of quantum computing, which is expected to eventually compromise conventional encryption systems. This is done by Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a technology which securely generates and distributes encryption keys for applications including data centres, enterprise networks and space infrastructure. Its proprietery photonics integrated circuit (PIC) chips has been tested at IIT Madras. An in-orbit demo mission is planned for 2027. Seed round of an undiclosed amount. Other investors in the round: Peaceful Progress; Awais Ahmed (Pixxel). Founded in Jan 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Richa (IIT Bombay '08; UCLA Anderson '19) was the Chief Information Officer of Pixxel, where she built out the satellite data platform and designed the market adoption strategy for hyperspectral satellites. She led Research and Innovation at Cropin, and was a DRDO scientist for a decade. COO Vinay (St. Stephen's 01; ISB '11) led strategic partnerships at DocOn Technologies (healthcare), and is held BD roles at DaVita and AstraZeneca.

Home services startup operating in Gurgaon, with trained professionals for the installation, maintenance and repair of ACs and home appliances. Plans to expand into mobile and laptop repair, home maintenance, and electronics buyback and recommerce. $440K angel round. Founded in Mar 2026, based in Gurgaon. The founders have built this kind of business before. CEO Saurabh (Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore '07; ESCP '10) was a Reliance Retail, heading Reliance ResQ (device repairs and maintenance) and Swapeasy (ReCommerce) and at Flipkart, as Director of Recommerce & Liquidation. COO Aksh (Panjab Univ. '09) was COO of Cashify for a decade.

Indigenous drone avionics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sub-components provider. Develops autopilots, motor controllers, GNSS modules, telemetry systems, communication infrastructure, and payload integration systems for drone OEMs. ₹6.5CR seed round. Founded in Jul 2022, Delhi based. Founders: Amit (Nagpur Univ. '03) set up electronics manufacturer TabXo Labs in 2019, prior to which he was Deputy Manager at InfoCepts (business consulting) for almost a decade;Shantanu (Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur '19) was the CTO at TabXo.

Electric 3W autos with a solar roof, designed for cargo runs, food service or street retail. This takes away fleet-downtimes, as is the vehicle charges itself. It can carry payloads of 750kg, has a 180km range and is priced at ₹4.5 lakhs. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Sep 2024, Pune based. Currently in the prototyping stage, with production expected to commence this month of June 2026. Founder & CEO Sanskar (MIT World Peace Univ., Pune '24) founded Excellens Motors while in college, to make production ready prototypes for companies, across commercial vehicles.

Courier aggregator platform helping businesses manage shipping across multiple delivery partners and sales channels. The platform has over 2,100 brands and covers 29,000, with deliveries starting at ₹24. AI-driven systems help brands identify delivery risks early, minimise failed shipments, and enhance customer communication. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Feb 2025, Delhi based. Founder & CEO Bashu (J.S University '27) has brief stints in customer service as well as operations at logistics firms Shiprocket, Shipmozo and Zippyy.ai.

Egocentric data collection to train robots. Collects real-world first-person video and sensor data, to be used towards building dexterous and perceptive robots. Works with home services, hotel and restaurant businesses in India. Workers wear special caps, capturing everday tasks, with over a 1,000 headsets deployed. Robotics labs and frontier AI companies face a critical botteneck, of high-quality, real-world traning data showing humans everyday work. $8.2M seed round from. Part of the YC W26 cohort. Founded in Jan 2026, SF based. The founders were students prior to this. CEO Raj, CTO Samay, and Rushil are from UC Berkeley; Shloke is from Stanford. Raj and Shloke are cousins.

Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).

AI-native wealth management platform for institutional and retail clients, starting with a quant hedge fund. Plans to provide portfolio services, advisory solutions, alternative investment products. Operates as part of the FPL Group of Companies. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Aug 2024, Chennai and New York based. Founder & CEO Sai (College of Engineering, Guidy; USC Marshall '18) has been with the FPL Group (auto retail, manufacturing, financial services) who started out as an IB analyst at Merill Lynch.

AI-native intelligence OS to help enterprises transform fragmented information into actional strategic intelligence. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, from a Middle-East based family office. Founded in Jan 2025, based in Kolkota. Founders: CEO Rana (Univ. of Calcutta '97) was CEO - Retail and Franchise at QSR chain YummyJar Foods; COO Manas (Shiva Institute of Management Studies '02) was Senior Manager - HR for two large hospitals under Narayana Health (for over a decade) and was also with Tata Projects in HR.

Curated experiences marketplace with verified listings for adventure sports (river rafting, bungee jumping), cultural tourism and spiritual travel. It has also developed OkGhumo, ERP and CRM software for activity and experience operators to manage their bookings, operations and finances. Since launching in Dec 2025, the company has faciliated ₹4CR in transactions across 22,000 customers. Three vendors that have been onboarded on to OkGhumo collectively see ₹40CR in annual revenues, indicating the substantial size of individual operators. The company will soon launch a consumer app. ₹1.07CR angel round that closed in December, including Arvind Choudhary (Navrang Energy Geoservices), Aenik Shah (Wizzy.ai), Kartik Khatri (Drifbolt), Yash Mehta (Joyspoon). Founded in Dec 2025. The team is currently based in Rishikesh, where they onboarding local operators on the platform. Founders: Shubham (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, All India Rank 36) was a management consultant at Accenture for a year; Nitant (also ICAI) was at PwC for five years (most recently as an Associate on the M&A team); Divyam (LJ Univ. '25) was a dev at Prepseed (AI-led IT dev shop).