AI-driven wealth management platform, with an intelligence layer that analyses portfolios and acts as a financial planner and wealth advisor. $1.3M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Amit Gupta, Amit Agarwal, Mohit Aron. Founded in Nov 2024, Bangalore based. Founders Apurv and Ankur are both IIT Kanpur '00. Apurv was CTO at Cohesity (nine years) and was at Google for eight years; Ankur was at Google for 17 years, most recently as Director of Engineering and Bangalore Site Lead for Ads.

Lending infrastucture SaaS platform to power origination, underwriting, analytics and collections for NBFCs and FinTech lenders, reducing opex by 30% and processing times by 50%. The company operates a fully automated Loan Origination System, works with 20. lenders and processes more than 30K loans per month. It has processed loans of over ₹100CR, currently at ₹200CR annualised. ₹4CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2022, Gurgaon and Calcutta based. Founders: Raman (Panjab University GGDSD College '01; MDI Gurgaon '15) is from corporate banking roles at Deutsche Bank, Tata Capital and HDFC, before heading the commercial credit bureau in India for CRIF (credit bureau); Sudipta (The University of Burdwan '04; IBS Hyderabad '06) is from Tata Adminstrative Services, with six years at Tata Capital (Deputy VP of Corporate Finance) and close to eight years at Tata Steel (Head of Retail Business).

Crisis response management platform which operates an AI-driven security platform to protect infrastructure and high value assets, and empower defence forces and law and order organizations. Its flagship product is PULSE, predictive unified law-enforcement system, which offers a command and control system for security and policing operations. It has completed user trials for the three armed forces. Seed round of an undisclosed round led by ThinKuvate. Founded in Sept 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Chandan (National Defence Academy, Pune '09) was a Squadron Leader for the Indian Air Force for 12 years; CTO Rana (West Bengal University of Technology '11) was at Sabre Corporeation as Principal Product Manager and at Amadeus as Senior Business Analyst (for six years each); CIO Bhavya (Visvesvaraya Technological University) was a staff engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Real estate investing platform that enables cross-border investing in premium US real estate. It provides access to curated, income generating real estate investments through multiple ownership structures, for investors based out of India, the Middle East and Singapore. The platform takes away regulatory complexity and the fragmented documentation process, and operates in alignment with India's FEMA and LRS guidelines. $1.3M seed round. Founded in Aug 2022, Austin, Texas and Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Kabir (Umass Amherst '04) and Co-Founder Ayush (Northeastern '24) founded Raveum while in college.

Manufacturer of EVs for last mile logistics. These are scooter sized, fully covered vehicles, which can operate in harsh weather conditions and carry twice the number of orders as a scooter. Pilot deployments begin this year. $2M seed round. Angels in the round: founders and execs from Delhivery, OfBusiness, Pixxel, Boom Supersonic. Founded in Oct 2024, Delhi based. Founders Akshat and Himanshu (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology '23) founded Flynovate, drones for inspecting solar panels, together while in college.

Agentic platform that automates large parts of the embedded software lifecycle, from hardware-optimized code generation to AI deployment. The company targets clients in IOT, robotics, surveillance, industrial automation and autonomous systems. It is at the pilot stage with Indians OEMS across these domains, as well as a semiconductor company in the US. $3M (~₹27CR) seed round. Other investors in the round: Antler. Founded in Dec 2024, Bangalore/SF based. Founders Pratik and Yashwant are both NIT Kurukshetra '14. Pratik (also MDI Gurgaon) started out as a software engineer at Netlink Softwares and TEKsystems before close to five years at PhonePe (most recently as Category Lead for Devices); Yashwant (also NIT Tiruchirappalli) was Founder & CEO of Intelligent Edge Systems (a year) and was Senior System Design Engineer at Xilinx (part of AMD).

AI-powered marketing automation platform with an MVP that launched in Q4 2025. The platform covers six areas of marketing executuon, including outbound campaigns, AI voice calling, paid media optimization and RevOps. $1M pre-seed round. Based in Hyderabad and Raleigh, North Carolina. Founder & CEO Pallav (Penn State; WSU Carson College of Business) held brand management roles in the US at P&G, Kraft Foods and Pepsico before joining ESPN as Head of Brand Strategy. He was then CMO at Merrell (part of Wolverine Worldwide, a listed footwear manufacturer).

Biomanufacturing company that converts industrial carbon emissions into premium biochemicals which can be used for food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, cosmetic, agricultural and advanced material industries. The company has developed a carbon biorefinery platform built on proprietary photobioreactor cultivation systems, with a PoC thermal plant set up last year which demonstrated continous carbon capture. Over the next 12-24 months, it will launch its first one-ton-per-day commercial plant and launch multiple pilots. ₹12CR (~$1.4M) seed round. Founded In Nov 2024, Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) based. Founders: Shreyansh (BITS Pilani; Cornell) was a Senior Manager in Takeda's internal manufacturing network, and was an Associate Manager at Bristol Myers Squibb; Umang (IcfaiTech) was an engineer at Cisco (14 years) including roles as Engineering Product Manager and Technical Lead; their father Sanjay is the founder of Sanjay Machineries and STC Hzb, businesses in Hazaribagh.

Launchpad for startups which operates in-person labs which serve as a launchpad for technical and creative founders. In India, it runs a 50-day founder lab in Bangalore, with 15 founders per cohort. Founders get access to co-living faciltities. It also runs labs in Tokyo, Paris and Cluj-Napoca (in Romania), with plans for SF, and hardware-focused labs in Japan and France. $2.5M angel round. Other investors in the round: Eros International. Founded in Oct 2023, Bengaluru/SF based. Founders: Founder Kei is a high-schooler studying in Institut Le Rosey, a Swiss boarding school; Co-Founder & COO Suhas was the co-founder of Mocha (email client) and is GP at EVM Capital (micro-grants for founders); Co-Founder and Head of Content & Media Hardeep (Western University '22) managed ops and events at The Residency (incubator/residency program).

Underwriting and asset management platform for commercial EVs - three and four wheelers, buses and trucks. The platform provides financing, insurance, and assured buybacks. It will also provide savings products and to-up loans to support driver-owners and small fleet operators. The company is an offshoot of Exponent Energy, the vehicle fast charging platform that develops battery packs, charging stations and connectors. $2M pre-seed round. Founded in Sep 2025, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Sandeep has held a range of roles at Ola, as Head of Strategy & Corp Dev At Ola Electric, VP of Strategic Alliances at Ola, and as CEO and CFO of Ola Fleet. He was also CEO of Envfin, the financing arm of Greaves Electric Mobility.