Battery recycling startup with a full stack solution for end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. The platform provides collection as well as segregation for repurposing and high-purity material recovery. The process they follow recovers 99% of metals - lithium, nickel and copper. The company has currently completed pilot projects with its partners, no clients are mentioned. ₹12CR seed round. Founders: Vijay was with HCL, Animall (strategy and ops) and very briefly at Batx (GM for supply chain); Aditya (BITS Pilani '22) was at Pepper Content for almost five years, most recently as Senior Program Manager for North America. Founded in Apr 2024.

Clean label food brand producing homemade chemical-free pickles and condiments. The company works with 2,000 rural women entrepreneurs. Part of Shark Tank Season 3, the company is at ₹18CR annualized revenue with 30,000 monthly orders. It claims to be the number one pickle brand on Amazon with 4 products featuring in Amazon's top 10 bestsellers. ₹7CR seed round. Other investors in the round: IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, angel investors from IIM Calcutta and Symbiosis. Founders: Manjari (IIM Calcutta '16) was with Infosys and Wipro, and at Kearney after her MBA; Anukrit (IIM Calcutta '17) was with Maruti Suzuki and was Head of Projects for India at TotalEnergies; Asmita (Simby '10) was with IBM for close to 15 years. Founded in Nov 2020.

Cultivated meat brand, replicating the taste and texture of conventional meat with 400 consumer trials so far. Cultivated meat is integrated with food-safe ingredients to improve affordability and scalability vs. a pure cell grown process. The plan is to distribute directly to consumers as well as manufacturers, retailers and restaurants. Future avenues include cultivated seafood and petfood. ₹2CR pre-seed round. Founders: Kamalnayan (Institute of Chemical Technology, '23) worked briefly at Abryl Laboratories (manufacturer of liquid vials) and has been President of nonprofit The Mumbai Smart Protein Project. Founded in Jul 2023. Comps are global: GOOD Meat, Upside Foods.

BioTech startup developing non-microplastic sustainable biopolymers, as an alternative to specialty polymers and ingredients. Agricultural waste is converted into biopolymers for use across home care, beauty, nutraceutical and pharma products. This round is towards setting up pilot production facilities and establishing a GTM. ₹18CR (~$2M) seed round. Founders: Shruti (Fergusson College '15) was a research associate in molecular biology for 5 years at NTU Singapore; Pranav (Fergusson College '17) has been researching biopolymers at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL) in Pune since 2018. Founded in Feb 2024.

AI driven stock discovery and analysis platform - not a trading platform but a tool to help analyze stock fundamentals, technical indicators and sector trends. Operates on a freemium model, no numbers around usage or revenue scale. ₹2.4CR pre-seed round from undisclosed investors. Founders: Girish, the CEO, was most recently President & CTO of YES Bank Securities; Soundar was with TCS for 12 years and Siemens for 11 years prior to founding financial advisor 4S Planners. Founded in Nov 2023.

Toxin-free, ceramic coated cookware brand - cookware sets, frying pans, tawas. Designed in partnership with celebrity chef and investor in the brand, Saransh Goila. Like Cumin Co., this is a premium brand with a set of 3 priced between ₹8.5-12K. Products are "designed in California", manufactured in Italy. Aiming at ₹30CR annualized revenue in 12 months. $3.2M seed round. Founders: Siddharth (RV College '12) was the founder of Upbeatz (marketplace for global brands) and of Palette Brands (house of brands which included cookware); Himanshi (Delhi Univ. '08) was Head of Digital Marketing at Reebok and Director of Brand Marketing at Cleartrip, before co-founding Palette Brands. Ember appears to be founded in Sep 2022 as part of Palette Brands and launched under its own name in 2024. Comps: Cumin Co. (Fireside, Huddle - funded two weeks ago), along with premium incumbents (Meyer, Stahl, Tefal).

"India's first prebiotic soda brand", i.e. sodas with zero added sugar, low calories and gut-health benefits. In two flavours - grape and mango chilli. No information on sales. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Other investors in the round: Subba Rao Telidevara, Bijoy Daga (Turiya Advisory Services), Robert Pancras. Founded by brothers Aditya and Yash. Aditya worked as a user experience designer at Samsung Electronics and at Frog (part of Capgemini). Founded in May 2024. Comps: Atmosphere Kombucha, Raw Pressery, Beyond Water.

B2B procurement platform for packaging materials, warehouse assets, capex and turnkey projects. Serves clients across e-commerce, quick commerce, hospitality and fresh produce - including Blinkit, Flipkart, Meesho, First Cry, Mensa Brands. Packaging materials are manufactured inhouse. ₹4CR seed round. Founders: Sagar (IIM Lucknow '23) was with EATCLUB, Lal10 (apparel manufacturer) and Swiggy; Rishabh was with Bira91 and Kenstar. Founded in Dec 2023.

Unified platform for access monitoring and AI observability. AI systems are now accessing sensitive enterprise data in ways legacy database monitoring tools can't see or control - the platform gives this visibility, tying each query and data flow to a real identity. The company has a few dozen clients across FinTech, banking and SaaS, including Razorpay, PayTM, Slice and Meesho. Now focused on US enterprise expansion. $2.2M seed round. Angels: former Meta executives (Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan), Postman founders (Ankit Sobti, Abhinav Asthana). Founders: Apurv (Univ. of Illinois '18) was Data Science Lead for business messaging at Meta; Krishna (IIT Kharagpur '17) was with Meta (product security) and Jupiter (Head of Security and Compliance); Akash (IIT-K '17) was Director of Engineering at Sprinklr. Founded in Mar 2023. Offices in Sunnywale and Bengaluru.

Sexual health platform for men, through weekly consultations with experts, medication and chat support. The company will now establish co-branded clinics and introduce products under its RxMen label. It also advises men on other issues - hormonal balance, skin concerns, stress and sleep disorders. Annualised revenue at $800K with 6,000 consultations per month, aiming at $1.7M by FY26 end. ₹5CR seed round. Other investors in the round include Ankit Goel, along with a grant from Prosus Group. Founder Shailja is a software engineer who founded Koala Kabs, a ride hailing app with women-only drivers. Founded in Dec 2022.