Chip design company that aims to integrate Gen AI into its design and development workflows. The company believes its AI copilot can cut design cycles from weeks to days, as well as reduce manual iteration in analog integrated circuit design workflows. $4.15M seed round. Founder: Gireesh (CEO), ex-Texas Instruments, founded Steradian Semiconductors (imaging radars); Ashish (CBO) and Rakesh (CPO), also ex-Texas Instruments, were both founding directors at Steradian; the fourth founder, Krishna Sankar (CTO) spent 9 years at LifeSignals Group (patient monitoring devices). He is not linked here. Founded in Mar 2025.

Protein shakes, bars and chips, sold D2C and across marketplaces. Currently at ₹50L (~$60K) monthly revenue. Cricketers Shane Watson and Axar Patel are brand ambassadors. ₹5.5CR (~$650K) seed round. Angels in the round: Raghav Singhal (Swasthum Wellness); Santosh Govindaraju; Abhishek Chopra and Aabhas Khanna (HSBC), cricketers Shane Watson and Axar Patel. Founder Aditya was an analyst at AXA XL for two years. Founded in Sep 2021. Comps: Nuvie (Pedalstart), Phab (OTP, Capri Global), The Whole Truth (Sauce, Z47, Sofina), The Yoga Bar (Fireside, acquired by ITC).

All in one business intelligence AI to optimise operations across industries. For e.g. it provides real time insights into store operations and staff effectiveness, optimizes marketing spends across acquisition channels and forecasts inventory requirements for retailers. $1.4M pre-seed round from undisclosed angel investors. Founders: Amit started IdeateLabs (creative agency) in 1997; Vrutika, ex-GroupM, joined him in 2008. UAE and India based, founded in 2018.

Chain of IVF clinics which has started with a flagship location in Bandra, Mumbai. Services include IVF, egg and embryo freezing, fertility assessments and pre-conception consultations. It claims to be the first IVF chain with an integrated app, allowing patients to track treatment, access reports and stay informed. $4M seed round. Angels in the round: Ameera Shah (Metropolis Healthcare), Vijay Taparia (B2V Ventures). Founder Neha (Narsee Monjee) ran Fitternity.com for a decade (marketplace for 12K gyms and fitness centres - funded by Sixth Sense and Exfinity). Founded in 2024. Comps: Arva Health (All In, iSeed, Bharat Founders Fund).

Compliance automation for financial institutions in the UK and Europe. AI agents continuously read regulations, flag gaps and keep businesses audit-ready at all times, unlike the traditional, point in time manually updated checklists and spreadsheets currently used by financial services clients. Clients include Monzo, Juni and Novobanco. $4.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: No Label Ventures, Start Ventures, angels - Alan Morgan (Adfisco), Richard Davies (Allica Bank), Mark Ransford, Rohit Mathur (Gresham House). Founders: Ritesh (Said Business School) was Co-Founder & COO of ClearGlass (fintech) in the UK; Shashank founded Thirdwatch (fraud prevention, acquired by Razorpay) and was a Director of Product Management at PhonePe. Founded in Aug 2024.

Automobile spare parts marketplace for distributors and workshops, along with a SaaS tool for both parties to manage their orders and accounts. Offers access to over eight million parts across 25 leading car brands. ₹4.55CR (~$530K) seed round. Founders: Shaleen (CEO) was the CEO of India Automotives (Maruti Suzuki parts distributor) for close to a decade; Sahil (CTO) is a software engineer (MS, Adobe, Amazon); Varun (COO) was a Partner at KFL Marketing (commercial vehicle spare parts). Founded in 2019.

SpaceTech company that is developing a reusable semi-cryogenic launch vehicle (for launching small satellites), as well as researching missile-grade guidance systems. It aims at a first working, reusable prototype in the next two to three years. ₹6.84CR (~$800K) seed round. Founder Suyash started Astrophel in Feb 2021 while at the Pune Institute of Computer Technology. Comps: Skyroot Aerospace (Temasek, GIC), Agnikul Cosmos (Mayfield, pi, Speciale, Celesta, Artha), Abyom SpaceTech and Defence (also developing reusable rockets, seed funded by SCOPE).

Business intelligence AI that pulls in all data sources to build dashboards with automated chart generation and analysis. For use across enterprises - by marketing, sales and finance teams. $80K pre-seed round, including $30K raised earlier in the year. Founders: the CEO Unni (IIT Delhi) is from Whatfix and ran Foradian Technologies (EdTech ERP) for a decade; CTO Nekender joined straight out of college (Poornima University). Founded In Jun 2024.

Jewellery brand sold online, in stores (DLF Mall of India, Noida; DLF Promenade, Delhi) and via stockists including Ogaan. Four new stores opening in Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Price points are largely sub ₹10K. $1M second round, following on a $250K seed round by She Capital in Jan 2023. Founded by Nikita Gupta (Pearl Academy) in 2018.

AI agents for workflows across the lifesciences industry, starting with medical writing. As explained by Forbes, "the highly-regulated process of creating literature for regulators, healthcare professionals, patients and other key stakeholders is hugely costly for life sciences business" and also adds significant time to bring new treatments to market. "LogicFlo's approach has therefore been to develop a set of AI agents that can interact with life science companies existing technologies - systems such as Veeva and IQVIA - in order to automate the creation of the content they need. Every piece of literature produced can then be checked by a human being, but staff no longer need to spend countless hours developing the documents from scratch in the first place." $2.7M seed round. Founders: Udith (IIT Madras, HBS) is ex-BCG, Abbott and Dynamo AI; Arun (IIT Madras, Purdue) is a data scientist from AB InBev, Solinftec and Intuitive. Founded in May 2024.