Creating a "Disney from the East". Building a production studio to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales to a worldwide audience. "Mythik plans to modernise ancient narratives using immersive technology", for e.g. Ram v. Ravan and Buddha's First Sermon. Now has a 200 member team. $5M additional round following on a $15M seed round raised in May 2025. The company's valuation crosses $50M with this round which includes investors Harsh Jain (Dream11), Rajat Gupta (McKinsey’s former Global MD), Bharti Mittal Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, Ishan Sinha (Point72). The prior $15M round was from Sakal Media Group, BITKRAFT, VC Grid, along with the founder himself, Visceral Capital, Shah Rukh Khan’s family office, the Patni family office and angels. Founded in Jul 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Jason Kothari (Wharton undergrad) was the CEO of Housing.com after Rahul Yadav, CEO of Freecharge, and CSO at Snapdeal. Prior to all of this he was CEO and then Vice Chairman of Valiant Entertainment (which has rights to the third most popular universe of superhero characters after Marvel & DC Entertainment).

Headphones that know how you feel and change it, in other words these are closed-loop neuromodulation headphones for mental wellness. The device combines neurostimulation, biometric tracking and adaptive AI to measure your stress, and creates personalized neuroadaptive experiences (music) aimed at stress reduction, focus enhancement, sleep support and overall mental wellness. Priced at $499 in introductory pricing for the first 200 units which ship July 2026. A hundred users have helped the company refine the product, which has secured approval from India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). $3.5M (₹31.5CR) seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Gurgaon and NY based. Founders: CEO Ria (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology '15; NTU + Technical University of Munich Master's in IC Design ‘17) was the Co-Founder & CEO of Neuphony (smartwatch for brain training) for six years; and was Development Engineer for Physical Design at Infineon Technologies (semiconductors) for five years; CTO Bhavya (Jaypee '15; Universität Passau Master's in Mobile and Embedded Systems drop-out) was Co-Founder & CTO at Neuphony and was an R&D Engineer at Logic-Fruit Technologies (design firm for embedded computing solutions).

Quantitative trading infrastructure for retail and institutional investors to execute quant investment strategies across equities, ETFs and mutual funds. Offers Kalpi.ai for retail investors and KalpiQuant.com for institutions (AIFs, RIAs, brokers, family offices). Retail users can create stock baskets, analyze portfolios and invest directly through broker integrations. Institutions can build, backtest, automate and execute quant strategies. Institutional grade infrastructure that typically costs hedge funds ₹1-2CR a year can be accessed through the platform. ₹3.75CR seed round. Founded in Feb 2025, Hyderabad based. Founder & CEO Ashwar (BITS Pilani '19) was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for close to five years at Zeotap (enterprise customer data).

Gen Z-focused stock-trading platform. The platform uses AI for stock discovery and simplifies trading onto a single screen. Account opening is at no cost, along with zero account maintenance charges for the first year. Equity brokerage is at 0.25% or ₹20 per trade, whichever is lower, whereas F&O is at a maximum of ₹20 per order. "We refuse to accept a future where investing is confusing, overwhelming, and brain draining". $3.7M seed round. Angels in the round: Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Roman Saini, Tanmay Bhatt, Varun Mayya, Gaurav Kapoor. The company last raised a $1M seed round from MGA Ventures, GSF and others in Aug 2025. Founded in May 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Vedant (Christ Univ. drop-out); CCO Aryan (Jai Hind College '24); Chief Growth Officer Siddharth (Narsee Monjee) started out during university.

Freeze-dried fruit snacks (mango, strawberry, banana, pineapple and mixed fruit) with no added sugar, preservatives or additives. Freeze-drying process helps retain up to 97% of nutritional value while enhancing portability and shelf life. Seed round of an undisclosed amount from angels including Atul Rajani and Deeksha Rajani (Be.), Sifat Khurana (Innovist), Dhruv Bhasin (Arata), Gaurav Khatri (Noise), Saurav Adlakha (DailyObjects). Founded by five Tetr College students led by CEO Matias Tejerina.

AI-native esports platform helping gamers build communities, compete and monetize gameplay. Gamers can play tournaments, win convertible rewards, stream with ease and create short highlight reels. The platform also offers a social network for gamers along with expert courses on becoming an esports professional. 25K organic users on the platform. $100K pre-seed round from Ujjwal Jain (Share.Market by PhonePe). Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Roushan (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra) was a senior product designer at PhonePe for ~three years; CTO Abhijeet (JSS Academy Of Technical Education Karnataka '23) was an SDE at Calibr (Gen AI based learning management system); co-founder Sweta (Magadh Univ. '19) was a senior UX designer at Builder.ai (~a year) and at dev firm Metafic (also a year).

QR tags to recover lost valuables. The startup addresses the problem of lost valuables through smart QR products that allow finders to instantly connect with owners without exposing personal phone numbers. Works globally, for use cases including luggage, keys, wallets, passports, electronics and pet tags. The QR code is placed on products appropriate for the use case, for e.g. the pet tag is shaped to allow for an airtag cavity as well as the QR codes. In other words, this is a "digital identity layer" for physical belongings. $260K pre-seed round from a Dubai based VC firm. Founded in Nov 2025, Bangalore and Dubai based. Founder & CEO Jesintha (Christ Univ.) was the CEO for Cloud Services at G7 CR Technologies India (an IT consulting and cloud services business) for a decade.

Embedded investment infrastructure for FinTech startups and online businesses to launch regulated investment products on their platforms, such as FDs, digital gold, recurring deposits, bonds, mutual funds and National Pension Scheme (NPS) offerings. Offered via APIs, SDKs and web integrations, with partnerships including Mahindra Finance, Shriram Finance and Bajaj Finserv. Its customers include Wealthy Nivesh, Navia, PickMyWork, EzeePay and SimplifyMoney. Seed round of an undisclosed amount led by VideoCX.io. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Ankit (COER Univ. '08) was the co- founder of IT services firm TechEnhance and is ex-Accenture (Cloud Implementation Manager), PWC (Senior Technical Lead) and NTT Data Americas; Krishna also co-founded TechEnhance and was Eircsson (Senior Solution Architect) for 12 years prior.

Independent music platform which supports independent and regional artists with music streaming, distribution, publishing, YouTube growth management and royalty collection. Priced at ₹1,149 to ₹3,999 a year for music artists. In addition to helping artists build distribution on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, it has its own B2C app for Indian regional music. It also helps artists become members of publishing societies like the IPRS, enabling them to access long term publishing royalties and additional revenue streams. Strategic investment of ₹5CR from Hindustan Times. Founded in Feb 2021, Mumbai based. Founder & MD Ram (Univ. of Calcutta) was Head of Talent at Zee Live and Business Head - Digital (International) at HMV Saregama. He more recently founded Fathom Pictures, which produced two music reality shows for Zee TV, including the Indian Pro Music League.

Technical assessments using real on-the-job tasks in live production environments. This is using a "Watch-Them-Work" approach, where sessions are fully recorded, candidates can use any tools they want including AI, and all the decisions they make are captured to see their approach. 10,000 candidates have been assessed, with a reported 70% reduction in time-to-hire. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, investors also undisclosed. Founded in Sep 2024, Vadodara and SF based. Founders: Naman (Dhirubhai Ambani Univ. '12; North Carolina State Univ. '14) is an engineer from Microsoft (three years) and Oracle (five years) who was VP of Technology at Euler Motors for a year; Zubin (Univ. of Mumbai '12; North Carolina '14) built a GTM agency for SaaS companies, and was Demand Generation Manager at Perfect Gym Solutions (software for the fitness industry).