Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
Market intelligence platform which uses AI agents and workflows to turn unstructured market and consumer data into ready-to-use insights that strategy and business teams can use to make decisions. For example, AI agents track competitor pricing across thousands of SKUs in e-commerce and quick commerce, and map expansion opportunities and footfall patterns across offline retail locations. Clients include Nestle, Apollo Pharmacies, Plaza. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in May 2024, Gurgaon based. Founders: Kritish (DTU '19; IIMA '24) was a software engineer at Citi; Saurabh (IIT Roorkee '19; IIMA '24) an AVP at HSBC.
New zero-sugar beverage brands, starting with carbonated and non-carbonated lemon and mango flavoured drinks. Drinks are sweetened with stevia and monk fruit extract.Priced at ₹30 for a 160ml pack. ₹1CR pre-seed round from angels including Shobhit Gupta (One8 Commune Restaurants), Varun Sachdeva (BoAT), Eiti Singhal (Eiti Ventures). Founder in Jan 2025, Gurgaon based. Founder Priyank led product marketing at Samsung and was a marketing and brand lead at Motorola Mobility.
Cloud PC platform for enterprises to stream applications and desktops on any device using a web browser. This is a cloud-native alternative to traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), i.e. without requiring on-device installation. Clients include Tally, Porter, Alliance Broadband, Primebook. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Mar 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: Ram (Vignan's Institute of Information Technology) is a software engineer from AJIO, Technicolor, Thermo Fisher and Accenture; Lakshman (IIT Kharagpur '13) was Co-Founder & CTO of Chutney (YC W20) and is software engineer from GiveIndia, Planetworx and Turannt.
AI sales-execution platform that automates CRM updates, meeting workflows, coaching and knowledge capture. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Apr 2024, Austin based. Founder & CEO Ganesh (IIT Bombay '21; Binghamton University '05; San José State University '11) was Founder & CEO of San Jose based AI talent analytics platform Dotin from 2016-2024.
Preventive healthcare startup focused on wellness and longevity. The company provides personalised health services through in-house clinics, combining molecular diagnostics, high-resolution imaging and non-invasive testing. The first clinic opened in Bengaluru in Mar 2025, with a second one opening in Feb this year. It caters to two types of customers : those improving their overall health and performance; and those managing chronic or complex problems. "We’re at a rare moment in time - where advances in molecular science, AI, and diagnostic precision now make it possible to understand the body like never before and take highly customised, timely actions to maximise your healthspan". $2.7M follow-on round (seed extension or Pre-A) led by NKSquared. $3.5M seed round led by Accel's Prashanth Prakash in June 2025, along with Claypond Capital and NKSquared. NKSquared had also invested $1.4M in the company in the prior year, in 2024. Founded in May 2024. Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Rishi was the CEO of United Breweries for 3 years, was a VP at Avery Dennison (manufacturer of adhesive labels and other branding solutions for apparel retailers) for 9 years and was with Unilever for over 13 years. CTO Shiva has been the Chairman of Connect Ventures for 20 years, which "operates as a collaborative network of companies dedicated to advancing Health, Performance and Sustainability Initiatives".
Indigenous LEO (low earth orbit) based NAV-COM constellation of satellites to power precision navigation and secure communication. In other words, it is developing an indigenous PNT (Positoning, Navigation and Timing) system, which is what GPS does. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Nov 2025, Hyderabad based. Founders: CEO Raghav (Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology '14; Masters' Union '23) was at ISRO for 12 years followed by close to three years at Deloitte as a Space Tech Consultant; CTO Akhileshwar (IIT Madras '12) was at ISRO for 13 years all the way from college to co-founding Sanyark.
AI-led unified intelligence platform for the renewable energy industry, to replace work traditionally done by energy consultants/advisory firms. It helps commercial/industrial enterprises, independent power producers and energy advisors to plan, procure and manage renewable energy assets. It does so by bringing together techno-economic modelling, regulatory data and real-time simulations to improve forecasts before capital is committed to projects. Its simulations have helped with bidding for over 200MW of solar and wind projects. $1M pre-seed round. Founded in Oct 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: Rajat (IIT Madras '19) is from Log9Materials (founders office) and CleanMax; Mehul (also IIT-M '19) was Co-Founder & CTO of EdTech company Novatr (earlier known as Oneistox; YC S21) prior to which he was at CureFit.
Blockchain based labelling system that helps create immutable digital records for branded products across the supply chain. This ensures brand authenticity and protects against counterfeits. Early days, with $10K of revenue and 4 POCs till date. Falls into supply chain/logistics SaaS. ₹1.23CR pre-seed round. Founded in May 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: Sumit (NIT Tiruchirappalli; IIMA '19) was at US PE Shop Global Growth Holdings; Duke (Uttarakhand Technical Univ. '13) is also from Global Growth Holdings; Rackspace Technology; Talentedge and Aon.
AI-powered procurement platform which helps electronics manufacturers reduce procurements cost by 5-10% (against current Bill of Materials), source more intelligently and liquidate excess inventory. It offers three integrated verticals in this regard: 1Data (cost reduction + intelligence layer); 1Source (sourcing platform); 1xcess (marketplace for liquidation). ₹32.5CR seed round. Other investors in the round: FJ Labs (from the US). Founded around Apr 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Nitin (IIT Delhi '08) was Co-Founder & CBO of OfBusiness (10 years) and Co-Founder of its lending arm Oxyzo; Visham (MDI '02) was the Founder of IHO (Indian Health Organisation) acquired by Aetna Inc. in the US, and the Founder of Goals101, a big data platform acquired by M2P; Pradeep (BITS Pilani) was CPTO at TBO.com and RapidShyp, and CTO of Religare Broking.
Semiconductor startup working on a high performance GPU alongside full-stack software (compilers, libraries, system software, AI frameworks) for data centre workloads. $8M seed round. Founded in Dec 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Dheemanth (NIT Karnataka '98; Purdue '00) was at HP and Intel for 22 years; Chief Architect Ashok (UCLA '05) was at Intel for 18 years; Chief Technologist Sri (IIT Madras '96; Clemson '98) was at Intel for 26 years; Chief Performance Architect Rajesh (IISc) was at AMD and Intel for 19 years. Vinod Dham, "Father of the Pentium Chip", is a founding advisor.