Chip-design automation startup using AI reasoning to understand circuit structure and cut custom-chip timelines. Custom built chips can deliver 100x performance improvements vs. general purpose hardware. $1.7M (~₹15.4CR) pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland. Founded in October 2025, London based. Founders: CEO Bragadeesh (IIT Madras '19) worked at Fractile (which is also working to chips and software to make LLMs inference faster), as well as CoMind and Imagination Technologies in London; co-founder Lannan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute '21; ETH Zurich '24) built TimeMatcher (WeChat mini program for group scheduling).

Medical equipment maker using an asset-light model with MSME manufacturing partners, to supply affordable, globally compliant medical devices and consumables. Targetting mid-tier hospitals in India with 50-200 beds. The ultimate goal is to build a large horizontal OEM platform that can serve multiple categories in domestic and global markets. $4M seed led by 3one4 Capital, along with Incubate Fund Asia and Stride Ventures. Founder in Jun 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Anshul was at Zetwerk for six years, heading the General Fabrication Unit as well as across sales roles; Nishant (Manav Rachna '12; IBS Hyderabad '14) was also at Zetwerk, for close to five years as VP and Business Head of the Railways and Metros unit, prior to which he was at BlackBuck for five years.

Data infrastructure startup providing a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data (i.e. live data like chats, game state syncing, AI agent messaging), specifically designed to power collaborative, agent-based, multiplayer applications. $3.85M seed led by Accel, along with with Uncorrelated Ventures. Part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in Jun 2023, SF based. The three founders are ex-Etsy. CEO Shikhar (Symby 'LLB '06; Constructor University '09) is from Etsy (Senior Staff Software Engineer), Facebook, Confluent and Bloomberg; CTO Stephen (Univ. of Chicago '13; NYU '18) was at Etsy for six years (Staff Machine Learning Engineer); co-founder Dwarak (SASTRA '15; Univ. of Ottawa '20) was there for 3.5 years (Senior Applied Scientist

Personal finance platform focused on young Indian users, with an AI assistant called Jo. The startup uses India's account aggregator framework to provide users with a consolidated view of their savings, spending, investments and liabilities, along with data backed financial guidance. Launched recently with 5K+ users and ~₹25CR of connected savings. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Jaipur based. Founders, CEO Prithviraj (O.P. Jindal Global University, King's College London) and CMO Pankaj (Stoa '22) built news outlet The Indian Wire together and are the hosts of the 'Backstage with Millionaires' podcast.

Agentic AI marketing startup helping SMBs get discovered via AI-led search workflows, capturing customers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. As chatbots chip away from search traffic, businesses need help in surfacing. Gushwork uses AI agents to 1) automatically generate and update search-optimized content from both AI chatbots and traditional search engines, 2) build 10-20 backlinks per customer through 200-300 partner websites, 3) track inbound leads. The company has 300 paying customers, with subscriptions from $800 a month (i.e. $9-10K ACVs), with annualised revenue at $1.5M, and $3.0-3.5M annualised targetted in the next three months. 20% of Gushwork's customers get their site traffic from chat-led search. $9M seed at $33M post-money, led by SIG and Lightspeed, along with B Capital, Beenext, Seaborne Capital, Sparrow Capital, 2.2 Capital. Lightspeed led the $2.1M pre-seed at $7.5M post-money, in July 2023. Founded in Jun 2023, Delaware HQ, Bangalore based. Founders: Nayrhit (IIT Kharagpur '16; Chicago Booth MBA '23) was Product Lead at Prodigal and an Associate at Chiratae; Adithya (also IIT Kharagpur) was a Product Manager at Prodigal.

Robotics startup building a snake-like flexible robotic arm for inspection and maintenance. This is for hazardous environments where human entry can be dangerous, in shipbuilding, nuclear, oil and gas, and aviation. $2.1M pre-seed round led by pi Ventures, with Inuka Capital, Boundless Ventures, Boost VC, Turbostart, gradCapital. Founded in Jan 2024, Bengaluru based. Founders: CEO Vishrant; CTO Ayush and co-founder Prateesh started soon after IIT Kanpur '23.

AI-native GTM execution platform automating workflows for revenue teams, with a system of work and a system of insights. This is a single platform for GTM teams, unifying lead identification to deal close to account expansion, using contextual AI. $3M seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore and SF based. Founders: CEO Arun (Bangalore Univ.; NUS MBA) was at Dell for 18 years, with leadership roles at Dell Global Displays, followed by Sprinklr; CTO Ramakrishna (Manipal Academy '03) was at Sprinklr for 10 years (SVP Engineering).

Full-stack dermatology platform, which will offer AI diagnostics, dermatologist-formulated products, clinical validation and real-time progress tracking. Ahead of launching, the company acquired HealthQ Life Science, the parent company of D2C skincare brand SKINQ. ₹34CR (~$3.7M) pre-seed led by Spring Marketing Capital, with Stride Ventures. Founded in Apr 2025, Delhi based. Founders: Hitesh (Delhi Univ. '02) and Bhisham (Visvesvaraya Technological University '03; IBS Hyderabad '08) co-founded The Man Company together, Ashish was Co-Founder & CBO of Clensta (personal care) after serving as SVP at Mamaearth.

EV battery technology startup focused on fast-charging and long-life battery systems for medium and heavy duty vehicles. The complete battery technology stack has been built in-house, from its BMS, liquid cooling systems, charging systems and IoT enabled analytics. ₹20CR seed round to scale manufacturing and product development in Navi Mumbai. Founded in Aug 2020, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Ameya and COO Darshil at IIT Kanpur '16 and '15 respectively. Ameya is ex-Oxane Partners (IB analyst role at this tech provider for debt markets); Darshil is ex-Schlumberger (engineering).

AI-powered bulk-hiring platform focused on automating high-volume recruitment workflows, including sourcing, candidate engagement, screening and evaluation. Integrates into HMRS platforms and applicant tracking systems. $2M seed round. Other investors in the round: CareerNet. Founded in May 2024, Gurgaon based. Founders: Sharad Deharadun Institute of Technology) was at LinkedIn for eight years (Key Account Director); Kumar (Visvesvaraya Technological Univ. 12) founded Zipnip, after dev roles at Zuma (AI for real estate) and WittyParrot (AI content for enterprise).