Building India's first dedicated PC and console game publishing house, to publish world-class indie and AA games for global audiences. Three upcoming releases announced for this year. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Deepak (co-founder) built Street Lamp Games (hyper casual games) for eight years; while Mantena (co-founder) most recently spent 5 years at PTW (ptw.com), as VP of Products. Other investors in this round: Sridhar Muppidi (YesGnome), Tanay Tayal (Ex-Moonfrog), the founders of Playsimple, Vatsal Chintalpati (ExMachina Investment Partners), Rick Herman (Ex-Sony)

Home decor products capturing "the essence of Indian traditions while making it relevant for modern homes". $1M seed round (mix of primary+secondaries). Co-Founder Neha was a Buyer at Trent and Shoppers Stop.

Spacetech startup which has built India’s first drone-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. $1.5M seed round. Tapan, the Chairman, is the former Director of the Space Applications Center (SAC) at ISRO; Soumya, CEO, worked at Hike, Creo, Intel; and co-built Summachar, an edtech startup with Urmi, the CTO.

Crypto forensics startup, with compliance and investigation solutions across B2C, B2B and the government market. Currently building AML and counter-terrorism financing compliance tools for financial institutions, as well as a risk analysis app for individual users. India focused for now. ₹4CR seed round.

Logistics provider across last-mile delivery, bulk transportation and warehousing, using an electric vehicle fleet. Present in the Chandigarh tri-city area and NCR. $500K pre-seed round. The CEO's and COO's backgrounds aren't available. Chandra, the CTO, spent 17 years at QA Source.

Plant based nutrition brand - multivitamins and protein supplements. Products are designed around end-use: for PCOS, menoapause, sleep and stress, and so on. 1L customers to date, 70%+ from D2C site, currently at ₹15CR annualised revenue. ₹5CR seed round. Sudha, IIT-K + ISB, had stints at ITC, Uber, UrbanTouch; Veda comes from IIT-K, Deutsche, Meesho.

Mobile gaming studio for hyper and hybrid casual games. Developing mobile games in the “relax and unwind” category for audiences in the US/Europe. $1.2M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Visceral Capital, Signal Ventures, Surojit Roy (Firescore) and other angels. The founder, Karan, was earlier co-founder of Firescore Interactive, acquired by CrazyLabs, a Top 3 mobile games publisher globally. Core members of the team also come from Firescore.

Cross-border payments platform currently focused on student remittances and now entering new segments - SME trade remittances and co-branded forex cards. $2M seed round. The CEO Dewang was CEO of NTT Data Payment Services India; Geeta, CBO, was Head of Strategic Alliances at the same company; Ujwal, CTO, is from Infosys, Citi and a couple of startups.

Full-stack customer engagement platform using Gen AI. The vision is to empower e-commerce businesses with its Agent as a Service model, leveraging AI agents to deliver personalised engagement, thereby reducing CaC and enhancing repeat purchases and LTV. $200K pre-seed round.

Solutions for the food industry focused on "mobile smart factories". Its core product, Mfreezer, flash freezes produce at origin, ensuring food quality and simplifying supply chains. Ullas, the founder, had brief stints in the UK at Fiat Chrysler, Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren; before running UE Tech Ltd (business description N/A) in the UK for nine years. $260K pre-seed round.