Full-stack NRI investment platform - "All things Money Crafted for Global Indians". Clients can easily open NRE/NRO accounts, process UPI payments and invest across asset classes in India, while being abroad. "In the USA alone, NRIs have over $300 billion in low-yield savings overseas because investing in India has been too complex". $1M pre-seed round. Angels in this round: Ravi Shankar (Active AI); Kishore Natarajan and Kedar Kulkarni (Hyperverge)

Orchestration platform bringing together GenAI components to build scalable enterprise applications. Also provides range of Gen AI agents for industry specific use cases, for example: Pic Agent for visual search and automated meta-tagging in fashion: Docu Agent simplifies document-based productivity in healthcare and finance. $500K seed (angel?) round.

Caregiving services provider - nannies and eldercare. Has onboarded 10,000 caregivers, at ₹22 lakhs monthly revenue. Aiming at ₹15CR annual revenue in FY26. ₹2CR pre-seed round.

Importer and distributor of alcoholic beverages - whiskies and wine - sold under their own brand. Distribution network across seven states. Seed round, amount undisclosed.

Cross border payments for Indian SMEs. Avoids the multi-bank hopping of an international transaction that happens in the SWIFT system, which leads to multiple fees, by enabling direct transactions between Infinity's partner banks in India and abroad. This can reduce fees by 70%. Also enables SMEs to earn interest on idle cash through investment in government securities. Bengaluru based, the founders are siblings. $1.9M pre-seed round. Differentiation is well explained in the YourStory article linked below. It's a real shame this startup wasn't funded by India-based VCs.

Pediatric care platform - instant pediatrician support with a dedicated team of doctors for each parenting stage. 100 doctors onboard with pediatrician support at ₹1,000-2,000 a month and programs like sleep training at ₹2,500-5,000 a month. $700K seed round. Other investors in this round: Amplify, Abhishek Sharma (Fashinza), Ankit Gupta (Bicycle Health), Akshay Saxena (Avanti), Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl (Eternal Capital).

Enabling gamers to shop inside their favourite mobile games while playing. This unlocks a new monetization model for game developers and enhances player engagement. Seamlessly integrates rewards from 150+ D2C brands. $500K seed round.

Provider of IoT devices and AI-based predictive maintenance. Predict and prevents equipment failures, saving manufacturers up to $6K per machine annually. Clients across industries: Adani, Abbott Healthcare, BPCL. ₹5.6CR seed round. Part of the YourNest-SanchiConnect Velocity Program 2024.

Secured lending platform with a Loan Against Mutual Funds (LAMF) product, in collaboration with Bajaj and NBFCs. ₹6.75 crore pre-seed round. growX ventures (not linked below) also participated in the round.

AI-driven search for the workplace, that brings together a user's files, notes and information across apps while ensuring data privacy/security. The goal is to become an alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive - cloud storage with easily collatable information. Pre-seed, amount undisclosed.