AI platform for customer support teams to manage customer interactions; driving activation, retention, expansion opportunities and complete lifecycle personalization by ingesting signals from multiple enterprise systems. The product is yet to publicly launch beyond initial pilots with Coinbase, Adobe and Amazon. Legacy (i.e. SaaS!) account management systems constitute a $14-16B market in the US. Less than 5% of current customer interactions get reviewed, whereas Redapto will audit 100% of them. $500K round, part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in July 2025, SF based. Founders: CEO Anirudh is BITS Pilani '24 and spent a year as an engineer at Coinbase (working remotely); CTO Cheril is Pune Institute of Computer Technology '24 and UC San Diego '25.

Coaching company which partners with schools and local sports bodies to run and enhance their sports facilities, as well as the programs in these facilities. Anyone can book a slot at these venues using the TIDA app. It has organised more than 100 tournaments and helped develop players who represent their states as well as country. It operates in Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand, across 150 coaching academies. ₹3CR seed round. Founded in March 2023. Founders: Adit (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology) was the founder of OakTree International (a school in Chandigarh); Priyansh (also from Thapar Institute) was an operations manager at DotPe; no information available on third co-founder Sumeet; the fourth co-founder Sanchit (not linked here) was MD at Krissha Textiles (trading company).

Apparel brand for all day clothing - think polos, shorts and jackets from ₹2-10K. This is longer duration wear, distinct from fast fashion and trend-led brands. India's functional clothing market is c. $9B a year, growing 5% annually. Design direction advised by Josh Hiney who led product innovation at Under Amour and Lululemon. Brand identity by Afternoon, a creative/branding agency. ₹6.8CR ($750K) first round. Other investors in the round: DeVC and angels including Shantanu Deshpande (Bombay Shaving Co.), Revant Bhate (Mosaic Wellness), Ashish Goel (OctoLife), Sangeet Agarwal and Navin Parwal (Mokobara), Nikhil Bhandarkar (Panthera Peak), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures). Founded in May 2025. Founder & CEO Rushabh founded The Stiff Collar, a shirts brand (2010-2012); following which he was Chief Merchandising Officer at Urban Ladder; had a brief stint as Director for Private Labels at Flipkart (in furniture and home); and then moved to Melbourne to join BROSA (a leading online furniture retailer in Australia) as Chief Commercial Officer for close to five years. He moved back to India in early 2025.

A new hospital operator which plans to open 100 hospitals with 5000 beds by 2030. It has opened its first facility in Koramangala, Bangalore - the first of 10 hospitals planned in the city. Offers outpatient and inpatient services across specialities. It has a VIP pass for families of up to four for unlimited doctor consultations and tests. It operates without taking commissions from its doctors. Funding round of an undisclosed round, likely its second seed round (or a Pre-Series A) following an initial seed round in May 2025 led by Sparrow Capital. Founded in July 2024. Founder & CEO Varun was CRO at Apollo Hospitals, prior to which he was CMO at Ola Electric, Group - Digital at Ola and VP Marketing & Head of Monetisation at Practo.

Full stack fintech SaaS platform that helps financial institutions distribute priority sector and impact-linked loans. It offers the infrastructure for field operations, loan origination and credit decision making. Lenders using the platform have reduced turnaround time by 50-75% and increased their sanction loans ratio to 85-90%. The company has worked with 75 lenders to support disbursements of ~₹1,000CR in the last 18 months. ₹17.5CR ($2.1M) seed round. Other investors in the round: Gemba Capital. Existing investors include All In Capital. Founded in Oct 2022. Founders: Prashant (Madras Univ., LSE) was COO at HipBar (alcohol delivery app acquired by CRED) and worked on partnerships at Capital Float; Aman was a Director at Grant Thornton, SVP at Capital Float and more recently Partner at Accela Fiduciary (debt financing for priority sectors); Harshit was Head of Engineering at HipBar and architected the investment platform at Smallcase.

Cybersecurity startup providing Gen-AI native security. Its products include AgentIQ, which provides security where AI has a touchpoint with any kind of enterprise data; and DiscoverR, which continuously tests AI systems for vulnerabilities. The goal is to make sure enterprises can adopt AI while ensuring data confidentiality during model training and day to day usage. $2.5M pre-seed round. Founded in May 2024. Founders: CEO Pankaj was India Country Head at KATIM (secure comms for governments) and was Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Mobiliya (a dev firm acquired by QuEST Global); co-founder Aditya's PhD thesis at University College Dublin ("Adversarial AI models for Cyber Security") was the genesis of Mirror Security. Prior to Mirror, Aditya was the co-founder of Maxime Tools (legal Gen AI).

As the name suggest, ironing and dry cleaning services with on demand home pickup, returned within 24 hours, starting in Bangalore. Traction: in a year the company is at ₹3CR annualised revenue and has served 7K customers. ₹1.5CR ($180K) pre-seed round. Founded in Oct 2024. Founders: Rohit (VIT, Mica) led the trade marketing function in Kerala and Karnataka for Unilever; Ankit (IIT Delhi) was at Shadowfax for close to a decade (Chief of Staff, Director for Strategic Planning and other roles).

AI led digital food labelling SaaS for the world. The goal is to transform food labels required by regulators from a manual to automated process - it streamlines label generation and artwork validation, and most importantly ensures compliance with regulation. This reduces the time taken to ensure compliance from hours to under 30 minutes. $500K seed round from undisclosed investors. Founded in June 2018. Founders: Partho was the head of marketing for Mahindra's tractor and agri business for 15 years, followed by the same role for 7 years at International Tractors (Sonalika/Solis brands); Rashida was a nutritionist in the same business unit at Mahindra, developing a new product range for their healthy food cafe brand, Saboro.

Insurance-tech platform that connects businesses and insurance providers, in order for businesses to secure surety bonds backed by insurers as an alternative to traditional bank guarantees. 75 surety bonds have been issued through the platform so far. ₹23.5CR seed round. Other investors in the round: Supermorpheous. Founded in Aug 2024. Founders: Aditya (CEO) was a co-founder at NH1Design (brand consultancy) for 12 years, Rajeev (COO) was Co-Founder & COO at Numberz (receivables platform backed by Peak XV (Sequoia at that time) and acquired by Chargebee), Mukund (CRO) was an SVP at Aon and VP at Tata AIG.

Chain of ayurvedic clinics starting out with its first clinic in HSR, Bangalore. The goal is to provide structured, doctor-led ayurvedic care to urban consumers. $800K seed round. Founded in Mar 2024. Founders: Puroo (IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad), was at Flipkart Ventures before which he was an investment banking analyst at JP Morgan; Rahul (also IIT Kharagpur) was with Deutche Bank in London for 8 years, most recently as Vice President. He left DB at the end of 2024 to join Puroo as a co-founder. Comps: Kerala Ayurveda.