A new AI-led email client. Provides a contextually intelligent and prompt free email experience. The goal is to improve productivity, with superior thread organization, better attachment handling, semantic search and group summarization features. Currently available for Gmail and Google Workspace users in a desktop-only beta. 30-day free trial, then priced at ₹125 a month for two email accounts, and ₹49 a month for each additional account. $200K pre-seed round. Founded in Sep 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Neeraj (BITS Pilani '14, ISB '19) was the head of product design at Insider, and went on to JP Morgan investment banking and BCG after his MBA. Comps: this takes on Superhuman, Spark, Fyxer. Sign up for a free trial here - https://faraday.email

Voice AI startup. Provides evaluation, observability and a self-learning layer for voice agents used by enterprises. The platform helps enterprises move from voice AI pilots to production faster by improving voice AI reliability and reducing failure rates. Will focus on US clients in sectors that face a high risk from errors/mistakes: healthcare, finance, insurance. Current clients unknown. $1.2M pre-seed round by Kalaari's CXXO Initiative for women founders. Angels in the round: Rikant Pitti (EaseMyTrip), Arjun Pillai (Docket AI), Sharath Narayanan (Sanas AI), Harish Manian (BMH Group), Nivin Pauly (an actor). Founded in Feb 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Nikkitha was the co-founder of Shoppre (shop anywhere online in India and ship abroad) for close to nine years; CTO Neethu (BITS Pilani '10; IIT Madras PhD in voice AI '17) is an AI scientists from ZS and Uniphore, was briefly co-founder at Mila AI (Gen AI e-commerce) and was part of Antler India's fourth cohort.

Chain of surgical cancer hospitals in Western India (Maharashtra, Gujarat). Focused on affordability, the company is pioneering organ-specific surgical teams to manage complex cases, with 5 centres and 20 surgeons who have performed 20K procedures so far. $2.8M seed round funded by Everhope Oncology, which is a platform incubated and seed funded with $10M by Narayana Health, W Health Ventures and 2070 Health. Founded in Dec 2019, Mumbai based. Founder Dr. Sanket Mehta has been a senior oncologist at Saifee Hospital for 14 years.

Exclusively announced here: AI co-pilot for risk and compliance teams in financial institutions, using Graph AI and Agentic AI for fraud detection, better underwriting and automated due diligence. Launched with payments, wealth management and market listing platforms in India, POCs in the UAE. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Angels in the round: Sidd Gandhi (Venture Builders Collective). Grant from WTFund earlier this year. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sunit (IIT Kanpur '21) spent three years at Marcus by Goldman Sachs (its consumer banking brand), building ML capabilities for fraud detection for Apple Card; COO Somesh was at KPMG as Assistant Manager (in the financial crimes practice) and at the NSE as Deputy Manager.

Korean quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain, which appears to have four outlets (soon, five) in Bangalore. K-everything is a theme across India - beauty/music/dramas/food. ₹4CR seed round. Founder Hasan (Ramaiah '16; UBC Sauder '18) worked in Canada in accounts/BD roles (in a recycling company for food processors, for example) before returning to India to start Koriken in May 2022

Skincare brand. 30 products across acne care, sunscreen, cleansers and serums. It has 2.5M customers till date (up from 1M since Sep 2024) and is CM3 profitable - no data on current revenue. $1.8M (₹15CR) bridge round, it last raised ₹12CR from Atomic in Sep 2024. Founded In July 2020, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Robin spent three years as BD Manager at Yumchek (HORECA cashback platform); COO Prakher was at Schindler (sales) and PropTiger (marketing).

Orthopedic recovery and rehabilitation products, i.e. wrist braces, ankle walkers and lumbar support belts. Sold online and via orthopedic specialists at hospital chains. Used for post surgical care, pain management and long term mobility support. No information on current sales. $1.2M (₹10CR) seed round. Other investors in the round: SIDBI and angels including Ashish Gupta, Saket Narang (Steinberg India), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures). Founded in Sep 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: Saumaric (IIT Kharagpur '16, HBS '23) is from Bain/LEK/EY Parthenon; Ankit (also IIT Kharagpur '16) was at Dezerv for two years, with earlier stints at Brookfield/Steinberg (a hedge fund), JP Morgan.

P2P cross-border payments platform powered by regulated stablecoins. Offers better rates than mid-market exchange rates, with near instant settlement in key corridors (starting with US-India). ₹9.5CR pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan, Raghav Chandra (Urban Company); Pradeep Parameswaran (Uber); Kunal Shah (CRED), Rishabh Goel (Credgenics). Founded in Jan 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: Aditya (IIT Bombay '08, INSEAD '13) was at Urban Company for five years prior to this (including as Country Head for the US), at Uber and at EY Parthenon; Himanshu (IIMA '13) was SVP at TravelPlus, Co-Founder at CurioED (science learning programs) and VP at Urban Company; Nikhil (IIM Lucknow '13) was at Urban Company for seven years prior to this (VP of Business Development) and at HCL.

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).