Electric 3W autos with a solar roof, designed for cargo runs, food service or street retail. This takes away fleet-downtimes, as is the vehicle charges itself. It can carry payloads of 750kg, has a 180km range and is priced at ₹4.5 lakhs. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Sep 2024, Pune based. Currently in the prototyping stage, with production expected to commence this month of June 2026. Founder & CEO Sanskar (MIT World Peace Univ., Pune '24) founded Excellens Motors while in college, to make production ready prototypes for companies, across commercial vehicles.

Courier aggregator platform helping businesses manage shipping across multiple delivery partners and sales channels. The platform has over 2,100 brands and covers 29,000, with deliveries starting at ₹24. AI-driven systems help brands identify delivery risks early, minimise failed shipments, and enhance customer communication. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Feb 2025, Delhi based. Founder & CEO Bashu (J.S University '27) has brief stints in customer service as well as operations at logistics firms Shiprocket, Shipmozo and Zippyy.ai.

Egocentric data collection to train robots. Collects real-world first-person video and sensor data, to be used towards building dexterous and perceptive robots. Works with home services, hotel and restaurant businesses in India. Workers wear special caps, capturing everday tasks, with over a 1,000 headsets deployed. Robotics labs and frontier AI companies face a critical botteneck, of high-quality, real-world traning data showing humans everyday work. $8.2M seed round from. Part of the YC W26 cohort. Founded in Jan 2026, SF based. The founders were students prior to this. CEO Raj, CTO Samay, and Rushil are from UC Berkeley; Shloke is from Stanford. Raj and Shloke are cousins.

Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).

AI-native wealth management platform for institutional and retail clients, starting with a quant hedge fund. Plans to provide portfolio services, advisory solutions, alternative investment products. Operates as part of the FPL Group of Companies. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Aug 2024, Chennai and New York based. Founder & CEO Sai (College of Engineering, Guidy; USC Marshall '18) has been with the FPL Group (auto retail, manufacturing, financial services) who started out as an IB analyst at Merill Lynch.

AI-native intelligence OS to help enterprises transform fragmented information into actional strategic intelligence. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, from a Middle-East based family office. Founded in Jan 2025, based in Kolkota. Founders: CEO Rana (Univ. of Calcutta '97) was CEO - Retail and Franchise at QSR chain YummyJar Foods; COO Manas (Shiva Institute of Management Studies '02) was Senior Manager - HR for two large hospitals under Narayana Health (for over a decade) and was also with Tata Projects in HR.

Curated experiences marketplace with verified listings for adventure sports (river rafting, bungee jumping), cultural tourism and spiritual travel. It has also developed OkGhumo, ERP and CRM software for activity and experience operators to manage their bookings, operations and finances. Since launching in Dec 2025, the company has faciliated ₹4CR in transactions across 22,000 customers. Three vendors that have been onboarded on to OkGhumo collectively see ₹40CR in annual revenues, indicating the substantial size of individual operators. The company will soon launch a consumer app. ₹1.07CR angel round that closed in December, including Arvind Choudhary (Navrang Energy Geoservices), Aenik Shah (Wizzy.ai), Kartik Khatri (Drifbolt), Yash Mehta (Joyspoon). Founded in Dec 2025. The team is currently based in Rishikesh, where they onboarding local operators on the platform. Founders: Shubham (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, All India Rank 36) was a management consultant at Accenture for a year; Nitant (also ICAI) was at PwC for five years (most recently as an Associate on the M&A team); Divyam (LJ Univ. '25) was a dev at Prepseed (AI-led IT dev shop).

Influencer marketing platform for creators to serve brands in India and globally. Its app helps streamline discovery, management and measurement of creator partnerships. Its clients include Uniqlo, Hugo Boss, Lakme, L’Oreal, Reliance Trends and Michael Kors. Seed round of an undisclosed amount at a $5.9M post-money valuation. Founded in Aug 2019, Mumbai based. Founder Tarun is from KC College '17.

Telugu-language audio entertainment app for podcasts, serialised audio stories and music, focused particularly on the US. Built upon the realization that Telugu creators and listeners were spread across multiple platforms without a centralized destination for Telugu storytelling. Raising $150K pre-seed round of which $53K has been committed from undisclosed investors. Founded in Oct 2024, Atlanta based. Founder & CEO Srihith (Georgia Institute of Technology '25) worked as a project manager and software dev at iVue, an Atlanta based drone and world-mapping startup, for two years prior to university.

Building “Zara for the Virtual World”, i.e. trend-led digital fashion for platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The startup sold over 2.5 million virtual fashion units on the Roblox marketplace, generating ~$300K in GMV at a 92% gross margin, while bootstrapped. The startup’s dress-up game, GlamGirls, launched in beta on Roblox in late 2025 and has attracted over 100K paying users, with a 75% female user base and 50% of users aged over 18. While Global brands such as Walmart have partnered with the company to bring real-world products into the digital world, the company also offers a phygital D2C line that turns virtual bestsellers into real-world products. At the core of Meta Fashion’s platform is a proprietary AI-native “fast fashion” engine for digital assets, which analyzes live marketplace trends and demand signals to determine asset creation, and drive higher conversion across virtual marketplaces. UGC platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite are emerging as key ecosystems for entertainment and IP creation, particularly for a Gen Z and Gen Alpha digitally-native demographic. Roblox has grown to 150 million DAU and $6.8B in annual bookings in 2025. The platform paid out over $1.5B to creators in 2025 (up 70% YoY). As Roblox's user base ages up (with 65% of age-verified users now 13+, and 27% aged 18+) and as new monetization surfaces open up, UGC platforms are increasingly becoming home to venture-scale IP businesses. $400K pre-seed round led by Lumikai, with the participation of Big Bets, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Akshat Rathee (Nodwin), Pratham Mittal (Masters’ Union). Founded in Aug 2022, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Arjun (Masters' Union) is a 19 year old Roblox native who started Meta Fashion while in high school; Sanjay (Delhi University; NIFT) founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Paytm.