Mobility platform focused on offering transportation for students, along with real-time tracking and safety management. Has a network of 3000 vehicles in Hyderabad, with 340K trips so far. Has partnerships with 15 educational institutions to manage transit logistics. Plans to expand to other major cities. ₹1.5CR pre-seed co-led by Sandeep Varaganti (JioMart CEO) and Ashok Agrawal (Axis Bank SVP), along with other angels. Founded in Feb 2024, Hyderabad based. Founders: CEO Vijay (GITAM Deemed Univ. '16) started out at Amazon and High Radius in BD roles before switching to consulting roles; co-founder Alfred (Loyola) was at Amazon for nine years (product roles).

Startup focused on the circular economy, offering AI-enabled glass recycling and traceability. Pre-revenue, the company will offer the full suite (collection, sorting, processing, logistics, reporting). ₹1.7CR pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: SustainTN, ITEL Foundation. Founded in Sep 2023, Chennai based. Founders: CEO Iwan (Loyola '16) is a PM from Doodeblue Innovations and Concentrix; COO Karthik (NMIMS CDOE MBA '21) is from Wipro (learning and development specialist); CCO Mohammad (Karnataka State Law Univ.) is from Wester Infra and ANS LIght Zone (a decade across these companies). No background information on the fourth founder Varun Pandithurai.

Consumer AI startup building AI companion Mello, for audiences in India's Tier II, III and IV cities to explore alternate lives, careers and their aspirations with local cultural settings which reflect linguistic and social nuances of their region. $2.5M seed round which closed around Sep 2025, now officially announced. Other investors in the round: DeVC. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders Akshay and Ajit are both BITS Pilani. Akshay was an engineer at CRED (four years); Ajit worked on product at BuyStars, Leap and Flipkart (six years across these orgs).

Chip-design automation startup using AI reasoning to understand circuit structure and cut custom-chip timelines. Custom built chips can deliver 100x performance improvements vs. general purpose hardware. $1.7M (~₹15.4CR) pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland. Founded in October 2025, London based. Founders: CEO Bragadeesh (IIT Madras '19) worked at Fractile (which is also working to chips and software to make LLMs inference faster), as well as CoMind and Imagination Technologies in London; co-founder Lannan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute '21; ETH Zurich '24) built TimeMatcher (WeChat mini program for group scheduling).

Medical equipment maker using an asset-light model with MSME manufacturing partners, to supply affordable, globally compliant medical devices and consumables. Targetting mid-tier hospitals in India with 50-200 beds. The ultimate goal is to build a large horizontal OEM platform that can serve multiple categories in domestic and global markets. $4M seed led by 3one4 Capital, along with Incubate Fund Asia and Stride Ventures. Founder in Jun 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Anshul was at Zetwerk for six years, heading the General Fabrication Unit as well as across sales roles; Nishant (Manav Rachna '12; IBS Hyderabad '14) was also at Zetwerk, for close to five years as VP and Business Head of the Railways and Metros unit, prior to which he was at BlackBuck for five years.

Data infrastructure startup providing a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data (i.e. live data like chats, game state syncing, AI agent messaging), specifically designed to power collaborative, agent-based, multiplayer applications. $3.85M seed led by Accel, along with with Uncorrelated Ventures. Part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in Jun 2023, SF based. The three founders are ex-Etsy. CEO Shikhar (Symby 'LLB '06; Constructor University '09) is from Etsy (Senior Staff Software Engineer), Facebook, Confluent and Bloomberg; CTO Stephen (Univ. of Chicago '13; NYU '18) was at Etsy for six years (Staff Machine Learning Engineer); co-founder Dwarak (SASTRA '15; Univ. of Ottawa '20) was there for 3.5 years (Senior Applied Scientist

Personal finance platform focused on young Indian users, with an AI assistant called Jo. The startup uses India's account aggregator framework to provide users with a consolidated view of their savings, spending, investments and liabilities, along with data backed financial guidance. Launched recently with 5K+ users and ~₹25CR of connected savings. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Jaipur based. Founders, CEO Prithviraj (O.P. Jindal Global University, King's College London) and CMO Pankaj (Stoa '22) built news outlet The Indian Wire together and are the hosts of the 'Backstage with Millionaires' podcast.

Agentic AI marketing startup helping SMBs get discovered via AI-led search workflows, capturing customers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. As chatbots chip away from search traffic, businesses need help in surfacing. Gushwork uses AI agents to 1) automatically generate and update search-optimized content from both AI chatbots and traditional search engines, 2) build 10-20 backlinks per customer through 200-300 partner websites, 3) track inbound leads. The company has 300 paying customers, with subscriptions from $800 a month (i.e. $9-10K ACVs), with annualised revenue at $1.5M, and $3.0-3.5M annualised targetted in the next three months. 20% of Gushwork's customers get their site traffic from chat-led search. $9M seed at $33M post-money, led by SIG and Lightspeed, along with B Capital, Beenext, Seaborne Capital, Sparrow Capital, 2.2 Capital. Lightspeed led the $2.1M pre-seed at $7.5M post-money, in July 2023. Founded in Jun 2023, Delaware HQ, Bangalore based. Founders: Nayrhit (IIT Kharagpur '16; Chicago Booth MBA '23) was Product Lead at Prodigal and an Associate at Chiratae; Adithya (also IIT Kharagpur) was a Product Manager at Prodigal.

Robotics startup building a snake-like flexible robotic arm for inspection and maintenance. This is for hazardous environments where human entry can be dangerous, in shipbuilding, nuclear, oil and gas, and aviation. $2.1M pre-seed round led by pi Ventures, with Inuka Capital, Boundless Ventures, Boost VC, Turbostart, gradCapital. Founded in Jan 2024, Bengaluru based. Founders: CEO Vishrant; CTO Ayush and co-founder Prateesh started soon after IIT Kanpur '23.

AI-native GTM execution platform automating workflows for revenue teams, with a system of work and a system of insights. This is a single platform for GTM teams, unifying lead identification to deal close to account expansion, using contextual AI. $3M seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore and SF based. Founders: CEO Arun (Bangalore Univ.; NUS MBA) was at Dell for 18 years, with leadership roles at Dell Global Displays, followed by Sprinklr; CTO Ramakrishna (Manipal Academy '03) was at Sprinklr for 10 years (SVP Engineering).