B2B raw materials procurement platform serving for the recycling industry, starting with plastics. The company supplies recyclers with high quality, pre-processed inputs, while helping waste generators get better realizations. India generates about 10M tons of plastic waste annually of which 15% is collected for recycling but <9% is recycled given rudimentary sorting processes. As a result India generates 20% of worldwide plastic waste emissions. ₹5.3CR seed round. Angels in the round: Ganesh Natarajan, Ashish Goel, Chaitanya Kejriwal, and Shruti Deorah. Founders: CEO Viral was Co-Founder/CEO of StayAdobe (student housing) and Co-Founder at Smartstaff (blue collar staffing platform funded by Nexus, Arkam Blume); CRO Nirja (Columbia, HBS) is ex-Dalberg; Director of Ops Sharan was the Founder of Greenearth Industries (plastic waste processor). Founded in Jul 2024.

Robotics startup developing perception hardware (i.e. multi-sensor, gyro stabilized cameras) and agentic AI for use on drones across air, ground and sea. Target customers in defence, policing and industrial inspection. No information on current traction. ₹3.5CR seed round. Founder Vignesh (robotics at Washington University in St. Louis) was Group Product Manager at Asteria Aerospace (drones). Founded in Jun 2024.

SpaceTech startup developing expandable space habitats and dual use defence-space technologies. This round will go towards developing an expandable space habitat for use in orbital logistics, in-space experiments and space habitation. $1.2M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: LVX, 1Crowd, and Riceberg Ventures. Founders: Siddharth (CEO) has a PhD in Wind Engineering; Manjesh (COO) was a global supply manager at Lucid Motors in California; Manoj (CBO) is an engineer from AYRO Inc., Cruise and Volvo. Manjesh and Manoj continue to hold other full time roles, it appears. Founded in May 2024.

Online fashion wholesaler, combining an agile supply chain with a buying process for their retailer customers that combines agent assistance, live video shopping and a video product catalog. The company uses AI to analyze over 10K YouTube videos and 500K product images each month to identify trends before they become mainstream and ships them to retailers in 7-10 days. For example, the sari Alia Bhatt wore, supplied to retailers in small towns like Muzaffarpur and Samastipur. Retailers from over 250 districts have bought their products. ₹8CR seed round. Last round investors: DeVC, Bharat Founders Fund. Founders: Suparn and Anshul are both IIT Delhi. Suparn spent 8 years at McKinsey; Anshul is ex-Tata Strategic Management Group, Paytm, Kearney. Founded in Jan 2022 as Bizup, renamed to Navo around the time of this round.

Manufacturer of battery management systems (BMS) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) for EVs and energy storage. BMS' have been traditionally reliant on foreign components and the goal is to build an indigenous system. $2.3M seed round. Supported by T-Works, T-Hub and their AIC program. Founders: CEO Satish, ex-Microsoft and Roche, was the founder of Pascalcase (tools on top of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP); CTO Sonu is also ex-Bosch; CMO Varshith is a former engineer from QuillBot. Founded in Apr 2024.

Healthcare SaaS platform for payers (insurers, brokers, corporates, third party systems) to offer OPD/comprehensive healthcare plans to their users, across a range of providers (hospitals, doctors, healthtech companies). The company also provides a range of tools for healthcare providers (e.g. a hospital management system). The company now 20 paying customers. $1.1M seed round. Founder: Abhishek (IIT Roorkee, ISB) was the CPTO of HealthAssure and CTO of BeatO; Avinash (IIT Bombay) was the co-founder of Asappp (app builder) and Bookmycab. Founded in Oct 2023.

Agentic AI led platform for consumers to improve their credit scores. The platform combines actionable credit insights, EMI management and rewards for responsible customer behaviour. ₹100CR in credit repayments and 2M users since launch, now approaching $1M in annualized revenue. $7M seed round. Angels in the round: Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal (Meesho), Ramakant Sharma (Livspace), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Rajesh Yabaji (BlackBuck), Nitin Gupta (Uni), Madhusudan R (M2P), Anil Goteti (Scapia) and Arnav Kumar (Leap). Founders: Utkrishta (IIT Kharagpur) was the Chief Experience Officer at Meesho. Founded in Jan 2024. Comps: Moneyview (Apis, Tiger Global) and CRED provide credit tracking amongst other services.

SpaceTech startup building satellite constellations to deliver accurate, secure, and sovereign Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services from Low Earth Orbit, as an alternative to GPS. The company is developing spoofing-proof and jamming-resistant signals, issues faced by existing systems using GPS or GLONASS (the Russian equivalent of GPS). ₹14CR pre-seed round. Founders: CEO Lokesh, CBO Vibhor and CTO Anurag are all IIT Madras and worked together on Avishkar Hyperloop - a 422m long test bed vacuum tube developed by the students of IIT Madras, along with ArcelorMittal, L&T, the Indian Railways and Hindalco. Founded in Jun 2023 as AeroDome Technologies, before renaming to VyomIC in Aug 2025.

Full stack re-commerce for consumer electronics. Operates across sourcing, refurbishing and reselling - with a retail presence across 60 stores, on e-commerce and via B2B. 15,000 devices sold in FY25 with ₹26CR in revenue. ₹16CR round (a mix of equity and debt, and either a seed extension round or Pre-Series A following its seed round in April 2025). Other investors in the round: India Accelerator. Founders: Shrey is ex-Punj Llyod and L&T; Nitin was an engineer at Microsoft. Founded in Oct 2018.

₹7CR seed round. Other angels in the round: Vivek Gambhir, Amit Sinha. Founder: Anish was with Unilever for 15 years including as CHRO Australia/NZ; Kshitij was with Amazon for eight years and at P&G for 16 years, in senior finance roles; Shashank is ex Amazon (Director, HR, Godrej Consumer Products (CEO, Chile), Unilever. Founded in Jul 2023.