Intelligent commerce platform that provides AI powered conversational infrastructure for businesses to convert customer interactions into automated, measurable business operations. This works across industries - healthcare (e.g. patient bookings, rescheduling and reminders), retail (e.g. browsing catalogs and delivery confirmations), automotive, logistics and education. Building for India and Africa. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Feb 2026, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Hanumant (B.Tech '92 and MBA '97 from IIT Kharagpur) spent 13 years at Idea Cellular, was VP of Sales at Airtel Zambia, and then founded Mamastops (cashless fuel purchases) in Zambia (~three years). CPO Ritu Raj (Annamalai University '14; ML at Royal Holloway, University of London '18) was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Urban Vyapari and senior PM at Bots 'N Brains. VP of Engineering Yogesh (Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University) '26) has been a part time software dev at Zambia based Mount Meru Group while completing his undergrad.

AI-native shopping assistant for consumers to discover products, compare prices, and make purchase decisions across eCommerce platforms. Integrates with Amazon, Flipkart, and more than 5,000 brand websites. It has crossed 500K app installs, with 50,000 DAU and the facilitation of over ₹15CR in monthly transactions. Plans to serve global markets. ₹4.7CR round. Founded in Jul 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Hiren (Univ. of Mumbai '20) worked on enterprise growth at Plum (insurance), and spent three years as co-founder across ventures Leapflo (marketplace to connect verified manufacturers with D2C brands) and Tiepograph (marketplace for freelancers); CTO Ravi (Punjab Technical Univ. '19) was Co-Founder & CTO at Leapflo and was more recently an engineer at Fynd.

AI-native incident management software that investigates production issues. Enterprises can investigate and manage production incidents across cloud-native and microservices-based systems, with integration into over 30 enterprise tools. Customers in India include Fynd, Lokal, and TradeIndia. ₹7.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, SF based. Founders: Gaurav (dual degree from IIT Bombay '12) was CTO at Doubtnut (five years) and was Co-Founder & CTO at Aasaanjobs; Akshat (IIT Gandhinagar '19) was Search Infrastructure Lead and a backend dev at Doubtnut (five years).

AI-powered B2B tender marketplace, which helps businesses manage the entire procurement lifecycle digitally from floating tenders and onboarding verified vendors to receiving sealed competitive bids, executing digital contracts, and releasing escrow-backed payments. Businesses today continue to rely on phone calls, WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and personal vendor networks to source products and services. The platform has onboarded over 50 businesses and 200 verified suppliers so far, driving 10-15% in savings and up to 3x faster procurement cycles. ₹1.3CR pre-seed round. Founded in Apr 2026, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Rankit (D.B.S. College '22; Symbiosis '25) worked on Strategic Alliance & Partnerships at AyushPay (for over a year) and on BD at MediCtrl (also a little over a year); COO Sanyam (Narsee Monjee '23; Symbiosis '25) also worked at MediCtrl along with family business Arihant Offset; Anshul is a board member at BharatTender, founded ClaimTherapist (to ease the mediclaim process) in 2019, and was a Senior Director at Delhivery (2013-19).

Optical ground-station and laser communication infrastructure for satellite links, for 100x faster transfer between satellites and earth than radio frequency (RF). RF ground station operators charge $3-17 per GB, QOSMIC will be priced at $1 per GB. Moreover, RF requires spectrum licenses, whereas optical operates in an unregulated spectrum. $3.3M seed round, which was first announced in March 2026 albeit without the amount. The company is part of the Atoms X LeapTech cohort, with matching investments from Accel and Prosus. Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Shreyaans (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign '23) started out as a researcher at IISc shortly before founding QOSMIC; CTO Rohit (Cochin University of Science and Technology '09; IISc PhD '23) completed his PhD in High Dimensional Quantum Information Technology (HD-QIT) and his postdoc before joining QOSMIC; Professor Aloke Kumar (IIT Kanpur '05; Purdue PhD '10) teaches at IISc.

Continuous integration platform for engineering teams in the AI software development era. Unlike traditional CI, the platform integrates seamlessly with GitHub through a simple one-line configuration change, allowing engineering teams to continue using familiar workflows while improving performance. The platform is designed to make GitHub Actions up to 10 times faster. It also makes diagnosing failed builds faster: teams receive AI-generated summaries that clearly explain the root cause of failures in plain language. T ₹4.0CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Ujjwal (IIT Roorkee '23) was at Deutsche Bank for two years; CTO Nitin (IIT Roorkee '23) was CTO at ezAIx Inc. (AI-led route cause analysis) for two years.

Enterprise AI services company that helps large enterprises adopt AI to produce real results. This means building, changing, and running the software that runs the business at a fraction of the preceding cost and time. Working with customers across industries, including Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Fresenius. "Today, very few enterprises can use AI to significant advantage; most are not, and indeed they take on cost and risk without the benefit." $32M seed round led by Mayfield, with a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures. Founded in Jun 2026, based in Menlo Park. Founder & CEO Vishal Sikka (Stanford '96) was CEO at Infosys (2014-17) after 12 years at SAP (Executive Board Member, CTO). You can read the launch announcement here - https://hangten.ai/press

PropTech startup for landowners to protect their ownership, using a suite of AI tools. The platform evaluates your land's safety and value with an AI-powered LandScore (checking documentation, disputes, plot history), secures it (fixing missing documents, clearing legal issues), and provides a verified buyer network to maximise its selling potential. As the founder stated, land is 66% of all civil court cases in India. The company started out of Odisha, the founder's home state, and is now looking at Karnataka. ₹8.0CR seed round led by Rainmatter. Others in the round: Sujeet Kumar (Udaan), Ashish Gupta (Helion), K2 Capital, Kunal Shah (CRED), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn). Incubated at IIT Bhubaneswar Research Park. Founded in Jan 2025. Founder & CEO Amarendra Sahu (NIT Karnataka '04; IIM Bangalore '11) was the Co-Founder & CEO of shared accommodation platform Nestaway from 2015-2023. The company raised $110M and was acquired by Aurum PropTech.

Montessori-inspired toys for early learning for kids in the age of 0–3. The company is at annualised revenues of ₹3.5CR, with over 200 SKUs across developmental categories. Plans to launch 100 new SKUs with this raise. Its products are distributed through its website, Amazon, Flipkart, and Blinkit. ₹6.0CR seed round. Founded in Mar 2024, Gurgaon based. Founders: Ayush (IIT Delhi '13; IIMA - Università Bocconi dual degree '17) is ex-BCG (four years); WhiteHat Jr. (Director, a year) and most recently Byju's (AVP, two years). Abhishek (IIT Delhi '13) is ex-Shadowfax (three years); SuperDaily (one year); Government e Marketplace (GeM) (two years) and was most recently Head - Strategy and Planning for Supply Chain at CityMall (two years).

DeepTech enablement network which connects DeepTech startups with investors, companies, universities and government bodies. It has enabled over ₹400CR in funding for startups and operates its SanchiAPP platform, which helps accelerators, incubators and governments track startup applications, manage their programs, as well as their reporting. It additionally operates a DeepTech hub in Noida. The SanchiConnect ecosystem now has 5,000 members including 800 VC funds, family offices, syndicates and companies. Bridge round of an undisclosed amount led by Auxano, along with Seafund and 8X Ventures. Other investors in the round: Arctic Invent and Shashikant Chaudhary (ex GlobalLogic). The round prior to this was a ₹5.6CR seed round, in Oct 2024. Founded in Apr 2022, Noida based. Founders: CEO Sunil (Bachelor of Dental Surgeries from GDC Kolkota '10; Symbiosis '15) founded Identify Oral Care (2013-16) before joining NASSCOM (2016-2022) to lead startup ecosystem initiatives. CTO Baltej (Punjab Technical University '10) was CEO and CTO of dev firm Sparkidea Interactive Softwares (2013-24).