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).

Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Pushkar and CTO Shilpa are both from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai '07, with PhDs from the University of Maryland ('12 and '13 respectively), and were part of the Antler India Residency (AIR6) which began this Feb 2025. Pushkar was a scientist at Pfizer, Aurobindo Pharma, Biocon; Shilpa was at Yokogawa Insilico Biotechnology for five years - a company which develops Digital Twins of bioprocesses for the biopharmaceutical industry.

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.

Aerospace company developing unmanned HALE (high altitude, long endurance) aircraft that deliver real-time geospatial intelligence, replacing expensive satellites or existing aerial defense systems. Its aircraft will fly at 45,000 feet for up to 24 hours with 250kg of payloads (imaging equipment). Imagery can be delivered at $100 per hour for 500 square km in coverage, compared to $500-$10,000 in cost per hour charged by satellite providers. Its current aircraft fly at above 10,000 feet. $2.6M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Balaji Srinivasan, Srinivas Narayan, angels from Bounce Infinity, Boom Supersonic, Ather. Founded in Jan 2024. Founder Shreepoorna graduated from IIT Madras that year. During college he founded Flex Finance, a DeFi neobank.