Devices to help factories save energy and cut emissions. The company's 'steam expander' devices capture the steam traditionally lost by pressure releasing valves (PRVs) attached to industrial boilers. India has over 45,000 industrial boilers that generate over 1.2 billion tons of steam annually across virtually every industry. The steam power lost by PRVs (which regulate steam input to safe levels but result in losing much of that excess steam) per year amounts to energy losses of over ₹66,000CR. Devices see a payback of 6-12 months and reduce 180 tons of CO2 per location per year. $1M pre-seed round. Founders: Balachandran is a Doctoral Researcher from IIT Madras (eight years), Vipin is a project scientist at IIT Madras and was a design engineer at Forbes Marshall, Satyanarayanan is a professor and the Head of the Energy Centre and Energy Consortium at IIT Madras. Founded in Aug 2022.

Vibe coding platform to make full, production-ready apps and websites vs. quick prototypes. One of India's first vibe coding startups, this takes on Lovable, Cursor and Bolt. Three months since its beta launch in June, the company has 400K users, 10K paying subscribers, $4.5M in ARR. Goals: $20-25M by this December, $60-70M by June 2026. According to the CEO, 80% of its customers build "serious" applications. According to TechCrunch, "generating the first application takes about 25 minutes — much slower than most vibe-coding tools, which usually produce results within three. But in our early testing, Rocket.new delivered a more comprehensive user experience, with all essential modules included." $15M seed round. Founders: CEO Vishal and CTO Rahul started DhiWise in Mar 2021, which pivoted to Rocket this June 2025. They started out by founding a dev firm, Coruscate Solutions, in 2013. COO Deepak (IIT Ahmedabad, HBS) was CFO at BrowserStack and CleverTap, and Co-Founder & CEO of DocuX (document management). Founded in Jun 2025, primarily in Surat now going to Palo Alto given the US is its largest market. Comps: identified above.

EV motorcycle brand with a proprietary high voltage motorcycle architecture. Deliveries are planned for later this year in Bengaluru and Chennai - priced at ₹2.39 lakhs. Round of an undisclosed amount from the Technology Development Board (TDB), the Government of India's fund that earlier supported Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. Founder Dinesh started Raptee in 2018 after running a Royal Enfield dealership for six years. He spent a brief eight months at Tesla (program management) after his Master's in Industrial Engineering at Purdue.

Spin-out from Climes, the carbon-offset marketplace backed by the same set of investors. The company develops carbon removal projects in conjunction with farmer-producer organizations (FPOs) across agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, mangrove restoration and biochar. Funding will be used towards expanding 8 projects across 9 states - with a target to remove 20M tonnes of carbon. (which is what approx. 10M households in India would emit in a year for context). $3M seed round. Founders Siddhanth (Purdue) and Sricharann (NUS) were both at Climes as Co-Founder and Lead - Business & Investments respectively. Siddhanth worked at Kalaari for five years. Comps: Varaha (Orios, RTP).

D2C nutrition brand focused on filling daily nutrient gaps. products include Supply6 360, which is a blend of 63 nutrients, probiotics and superfoods; and Supply 6 Salts, a zero sugar hydration mix. $1.1M seed round. Revenue scale unknown. The brand is endorsed by South African cricketer AB de Villiers and will enter high adoption markets including the GCC. Angels in the round: Kunal Shah (CRED), Ashutosh Valani and Priyank Shah (Renee Cosmetics), Yogesh Kabra (XYXX). Founders: Vaibhav (Christ, Bengaluru and Warwick Business School) started Supply6 in May 2019; Rahul was at AIG and Skyshot Media before joining in 2020.

Real world branded rewards integrated into mobile games. This operates as "rewards as a service" - i.e. consumer products as well as gift cards for gamers - with an SDK that automatically embeds rewards into gameplay. Currently at a GMV of $350K, driving higher user engagement and revenue for its gaming studio partners. Customers include KGEN, STAN, SVG. $1M seed round. Angels in the round: Dhruv Vohra (Meta). Founders: two of the founders, Shouradeep and Upamanyu, built CollegeShala (online lessons) and subsequently joined acquirer LectureNotes; Abhir was the marketing and community manager at IndiGG. Founded in Jan 2024.

Beauty and wellness brands for the Middle East, starting with its first brand - AÏZA, beauty products using regional ingredients - dates, black seed, and bakhoor with clinical actives. Products are crafted in global labs - e.g. in Korea or Italy. Revenue/customer scale today is undisclosed. $3M seed round. Founder Shubham (Wharton) was at Peak XV (working on India and MENA deals) prior to which he was at Bain. Founded in Jul 2023, based in Dubai.

AI tools for content creation - organises all your content in a central repository, with tools for editing across images/video/audio/text. $1.2M seed round from a strategic investor in the power cables business. Founder Anubhav was a SAP Consultant at HCL, before founding 360Hoardings (out of home media) and Picnara (marketplace for photographers). Founded in Dec 2021.

Fine jewelry brand using lab grown diamonds. Building an omnichannel approach with its first retail location in Mumbai. $5.5M seed round. Angels include the founders of Dot & Key, Livspace, Snitch, Bewakoof. Founders: CEO Rupesh Jain founded Candere in 2012 - an omnichannel jewelry brand to make (real) diamonds accessible, which Kalyan Jewelers invested in, in 2017, and ultimately bought out in 2024. Candere had a revenue at the time of ₹130CR (~$15M, in FY24). His wife Vandana joined him in the business and is a co-founder in Lucira. Lucira was founded in Apr 2025. Comps: IVANA Jewels (Avinya Ventures), Firefly Diamonds (WestBridge), True Diamond (Titan, Huddle, Zeropearl), Fiona Diamonds (Venture Catalysts, AC Ventures), Coluxe (Startups Sherpas), Limelight Lab Grown Diamonds, Jewelbox (V3).

Authentication platform for AI agents - for the last two decades identity systems assumed a human would login to software, now it is AI agents. Which means that by 2028, one in four enterprise breaches will trace back to comprised agents, according to Gartner. With this platform, agents can be given secure access on behalf of users across common enterprise apps (e.g. Gmail, Slack, Notion). $5.5M seed round. Angels in the round: Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda. The two founders Satya and Ravi are BITS Pilani, built data integration platform Pipemonk which was acquired by Freshworks, and subsequently spent six years at Freshworks where they built its auth platform - most recently as Chief of Staff to the CEO; and Senior Director of Product Management. Satya also co-founded YourBus (real time location alerts) acquired by Goibibo. Founded in Aug 2023, SF based.