Edge AI computing platform for consumer IOT applications and robotics. It provides industrial grade boards for OEMs and end users to build gateways, robots, smart homes and other IoT products. ₹5.5CR invested by Pontaq between this venture and Dweepi, which is run by the same founders but runs independently. This is its second round of investment in both. Founded in Jan 2025. Founders: CEO Prabhu is a software engineer from EMC and Siemens; COO Savitri is a software engineer who worked as a systems analyst in the Karnataka Government. They built a delivery platform for bottled water together.

AI-native B2B procurement platform. Procurement processes have remained largely manual - this platform has onboarded more than 100K vendors, with automated workflows for supplier discovery, RFP creation and multi-round negotiations. This helps customers procure faster as well as save up to 15%. It has 100 enterprise clients globally, including Bacardi India and Benetton. This is a Dubai based company with Russian founders. Why is it being covered here? India seems to be their primary focus. $8M seed round. Founded in 2022. Founders: Anton built Eapteka, Russia's largest online medicine delivery platform, with 20M monthly visitors, and 1 hour delivery in 100 cities; Andry built Bidzaar, a B2B procurement platform in Russia which got to $7B in GMV and $11M in ARR. Anton was on the board of this business.

AI chatbots that act as debt counsellors for banks and other financial institutions, interacting with distressed borrowers to drive the debt recovery process. Works with lenders such as CRED, Nira, Propelld and Freo, managing collections for ₹100CR worth of NPAs each month. This funding will go towards building capabilities in credit risk workflows and managing multilingual conversations. $825K pre-seed round. Angels from Google, Meta, Tesla, M2P, HyperVerge. Founded in Feb 2024. Founders: CEO Ankit, CTO Jayanth and Co-Founder Abhishek are recent graduates from IIT Madras - Ankit went on to Carnegie Mellon before starting Riverline.

Connected mobility platform turning vehicle data into actionable intelligence for OEMS, mobility providers and fleet operators. Used, for example, by an OEM to predictively act on quality issues across 500K vehicles and 4 models; and by a global heavy vehicles manufacturer to identify road defects and accident zones for vehicles used in mining operations. ₹2CR round. Founded in Feb 2022. Founder & CEO Vikas was an MD at Accenture (12 years) in the UK. He worked in a contracted role as Deputy COO of Toyota Connected Europe (a tech outpost which uses vehicle data science to deliver mobility solutions for Toyota group companies).

Fabless semiconductor startup developing an advanced biosensing System on Chip (SoC) for wearable and digital-health devices. SOCs act a a mini device on a chip - integrating sensing, processing, memory and wireless connectivity onto thechip. A biosensing SoC, naturally, reads biological signals - ECG, PPG, respiration, temperature - with very low energy consumption. $2MM seed round. Founded in Jan 2022. Founders: Manish was an engineer at Synopsys and Qualcomm; Jatin was a Director of Sales Strategy & Planning at Dell.

Agentic AI credit intelligence platform to help US based lenders to automate the underwriting decision for small business loans. Agents undertake business verification, cash flow analysis and asset valuation analysis. This reduces lender costs and hastens decision making. $3.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: Karman Ventures, Pythia Ventures, Coughdrop Capital and a host of angels. Founded in Jan 2024. Founders: Utsav spent a decade at Uber and Cruise in the US; Shivi worked on risk analytics at Uber, Amex and Varo Bank also in the US.

B2B platform enabling the fashion supply chain - customers work with the company to manage the coordination of design, sourcing, prototyping and manufacturing. This reduces factory lead times from 180 days to 30-60 days, and enables the creation of 3K designs every month, for 12 clients which include Tata Trent, US Polo Association, Snitch and The Souled Store. $1.4M bridge round. Other investors in the round: Venture Catalysts and We Founder Circle. Founded in Aug 2022. Founders: Piyush (IIT Kanpur) was VP Operations at Newton School; Rishav (IIT Delhi) led the launch of Uber Shuttle in India; and was at AVP Operations at Shuttl.

Unified data platform with lake-first observability for enterprises - i.e. raw logs/traces/metrics are stored directly to avoid heavy upfront indexing. Aiming at 50 customers in India and the US, across logistics, fintech, eCommerce and SaaS. $2.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Campus Fund, Point One Capital. Founded in Nov 2022. Founders: CEO Adarsh (IIT Kanpur) is a blockchain dev who co-founded ZKLabs (DevSecOps for decentralised infrastructure); CTO Balasubramanian graduated from IIT Bombay in 2024.

A full stack, customer to customer attempt at cracking India's secondhand products ("pre-owned") market, which remains undisrupted beyond OLX (inaccurate listings, payment and pickup coordination issues etc.) and used mobile phone sites. This is an ~$18B market with 70M Indians (buyers + sellers) who engage in transactions monthly. Launched in Bangalore in Aug 2025 with a focus on electronics, home appliances and household goods (including furniture). How is this attempt different? A full stack approach means a three day money back gaurantee and doorstep logistics. AI is used to verify listings, catalog-match, grade the condition of products and provide a guidance on price. One hard to solve problem for such sites - second hand UGC product photos just don't look great. ₹3.4CR pre-seed round, led by Titan with the participation of Raveen Sastry (Multiply Ventures). Founded in Apr 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Ankit held product roles at Juniper and Bitclass; Chirag was an Associate Director of Product at Swvl (private bus ride hailing in the UAE).

Conversational AI for the healthcare industry (the second such deal this week) which is clinical grade compliant - this one is for pharma companies in the US to call physicians and patients. Big pharma spends $30B a year to engage doctors and patients, most of which is done manual. Doctors are flooded with too much information, while on the other hand patients don't receive consistent support which leads to an up to 50% drop-off rate in treatment for long term illnesses. $5M seed round. Part of the YC Spring 2025 Cohort - YC is also part of this round. Founded in Dec 2024, SF based. Founders: CEO Supreet was at ZS, McKinsey and JPMorgan in New York; CPO Sahitya is a data scientist, most recently at Audible; Co-Founder Rajashekar is also a data scientist, most recently at AWS.