AI agents for the asset management industry at large. Agents analyze financial data, extracts insights and automate deep research, for institutional investors across PE, hedge funds, investment banks and public market investors. Enterprise grade security ensures all data is connected, analyzed and audited for compliance, while staying private. According to Deloitte, leveraging AI can save 45 working days a year for analysts, before accounting for the cost of missed insights from human analysis. $3.1M seed round. Other investors in the round: Antler and angels including Akash Prakash (Amansa Capital), Vikas Jain (Generation IM), Thomas Yao (RDM). Founders Vibhav and Mithun are IIT Kharagpur. Vibhav was Chief Product & Innovation Officer at MPL, after three year stints at AWS and Kalaari. Mithun was Director of Product Management at Sharechat and subsequently joined Apna as Head of Product - Candidate Engagement. He started his career at Barclays Capital.

AI tools for schools and EdTech companies. Three core functions are covered: evaluation (for example, of handwritten exam notes or oral presentation skills), personalised learning experiences (a knowledge graph for each learner resulting in personalised action plans for teachers) and content generation (lesson plans, exam practice materials). No customers listed yet. Round of an undisclosed round from Startup India. Incubated at IIT Mandi. Founder Rahul (IIT Delhi) was with Pratham (the education sector nonprofit), founded Unlearn Kids (platform for math lessons) and headed product at Tripoto and CollegeDekho. Founded in Apr 2024.

Unified platform for access monitoring and AI observability. AI systems are now accessing sensitive enterprise data in ways legacy database monitoring tools can't see or control - the platform gives this visibility, tying each query and data flow to a real identity. The company has a few dozen clients across FinTech, banking and SaaS, including Razorpay, PayTM, Slice and Meesho. Now focused on US enterprise expansion. $2.2M seed round. Angels: former Meta executives (Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan), Postman founders (Ankit Sobti, Abhinav Asthana). Founders: Apurv (Univ. of Illinois '18) was Data Science Lead for business messaging at Meta; Krishna (IIT Kharagpur '17) was with Meta (product security) and Jupiter (Head of Security and Compliance); Akash (IIT-K '17) was Director of Engineering at Sprinklr. Founded in Mar 2023. Offices in Sunnywale and Bengaluru.

Health-tech startup developing AI-powered diagnostic solutions for respiratory and hepato-pancreatico-biliary (HPB) diseases. Its main product bridges the gap caused by India's acute shortage of radiologists in tier 2 and smaller cities, where diagnosis is delayed by up to 10 days with error rates of up to 40%. “We're not just building AI diagnostic tools – we're saving lives by ensuring that a patient in a tier-3 city gets the same quality chest X-ray/CT/MRI/PET-CT Scan interpretation as someone in a metro hospital. Our 40.1% improvement in missed case detection, validated in Nature Scientific, proves that AI can be the great equalizer in healthcare access.” ₹4CR round from BioAngels (a part of IAN). IAN angels in this round: Nitin Zamre, Samir Kalia, Mitesh Shah. Founders: Ankit is a Professor in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow; Saumya has a PhD in Public Health and was part of the Google Brain team for three years. Founded in 2020.

Platform offering digital twins for remote asset management and predictive maintenance. Little information available on the company's customers or current scale. Founded in 2016, originally as a provider of technical education using VR and AR. The current CEO, Vishnuvardhan, was the Director of Trend Instrumentation and Automation and is an instrumentation engineer by background; the former CEO and current director Karthik was briefly a product designer at Ather. ₹4CR round.

AI co-pilot for brands to manage growth marketing and related functions for their quick commerce operations. Helps with hyperlocal inventory management, improving brand visibility, optimizing pricing and ad campaign targeting. The differentiation is real-time analytics and automation. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Satwik (NSIT) is from Walmart (engineer working on omnichannel solutions); Ritvik (NSIT) is from Microsoft (engineer) - after which they co-founded SuperCrew, an agency which helped D2C brands with growth marketing and tech. Founded in Oct 2024.

Enterprise data governance solutions. Provides companies with a model-agnostic platform to implement AI solutions across their operations with complete control over data governance. $230K pre-seed round. Founders Ashwani and Amarsh are both IIT Kanpur as well as co-founders of Transerve (location intelligence) for 14 years, till its acquisition by Precisely (data integrity co. with 12K customers).

AI research startup that brings alignment and steering to models, to ensure they offer reliable and accurate domain-specific output in enterprise deployments. Pre-seed round by Antler from their inaugural AI Disrupt program, with $1M funded in capital and in kind (GPU perks). Founders: CEO Aakash has a PhD in Computational Mathematics from École des Mines (Paris) with postdoctoral research at Stanford; COO & CMO Mrunmayee was the co-founder of CourtEasy (AI for legal professionals) for c. two years. Founded in Feb 2025.

Full-stack Edge AI hardware platform - the company builds modular Edge AI computing platforms that integrate compute, connectivity and storage on a single board - with 5000 shipped to date. This hardware is deployed in industrial gateways, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drones and defence systems. Competes against boards provided by global players: Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Jetson, Google Coral, Qualcomm. ₹1.39CR seed round. Founders: CEO Prabhu is from EMC, Siemens and Affiliatics; Savitri was a director at WaterBot Online Solutions for a decade (IoT systems). Founded in Jan 2025.

Formerly HealthPresso. $300K angel round from undisclosed investors that closed in July. Founders: Daleep was Senior VP & Country Head of McCann Health for 12 years; Manuj, ex Sapient and Accenture, was Director of Client Services at Essence Software Solutions for close to a decade. The fourth co-founder, Dr Swadeep Srivastava, is not linked here. Founded in May 2023.