Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
High-fidelity voice AI agents for call centres, aiming to handle nuanced communications inside existing SaaS stacks. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Dec 2025, Bangalore/LA based. Founder & CEO Utkarsh (Australian National Univ. '20) built an IT consulting business in Dubai for two years before starting up.
AI co-scientist for research across life sciences, physics and chemistry, with open-source tools for intelligent task execution. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Oct 2025, SF based. The founders are both American. David (Caltech '05; Caltech PhD '10), Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, was Co-Founder & CEO of NuProbe, Inc. (advanced diagnostics) and is also the Founder & CEO of Biostate AI (AI to predict individualised health changes); Co-Founder & CTO Timothy (Georgia Institute of Technology PhD '15) was Head of AI at Biostate, prior to which he was Head of AI & Data Science at Matterworks (predictive biology).
AI-native streaming platform, i.e. an OTT for AI-generated movies and shows. This offers a new way for creators to reach audiences directly. The platform has released a number of trailers so far (Shivaji, Mahabharat, Gangs of Mexico, for example) which are trending well on social media. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Oct 2024, SF based. Founder & CEO Harshit (Dartmouth College '22) spent a year at EY.
Applies AI to manufacturing procurement by interpreting technical drawings and automating RFQ and sourcing decisions for OEMs and suppliers. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Oct 2025, a remote team which is SF/India/Mexico based. Founders: CEO Vineeth was Head of Products for Tech Mahindra's factory of the future initiative, and is ex-Deloitte and Accenture; President Suri (University of Ottawa '83) is also ex-Tech Mahindra (Global Head - Cloud Services); Head of Europe Christoph (UW Foster '98) built co-working business Jagolofts in Germany for seven years.
Autonomous agents for SAP and ERP maintenance, reducing manual L1/L2 support and ticket resolution time. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Sep 2025, SF based. Founders: CEO Rebhav (BITS Pilani) was on the investments team and subsequently an EIR at Antler, where he co-founded Interface AI (dispute management for CPG brands); CTO Aditya (also BITS Pilani) was at PYOR (Web3 analytics) for a year and was also a co-founder of Interace AI.
Business intelligence startup which is building an AI SuperAnalyst, which turns raw ERP, CRM and spreadsheet data into finished reports, presentations and models which teams can trust, with every number being fully traceable. The company is opening its waitlist with this round. Designed to be used across every business function in the org - finance, compliance, ops, sales and marketing and more. $5M (~₹46CR) seed round led by Together Fund. Founded in July 2025, BLR/SF based. Founders: CEO Pavan and CTO Prashant built enterprise product discovery platform Unbxd over 15 years, from 2010-2025. It was acquired by Netcore in 2022 for c. $100M.
AI-led preventive healthcare platform which uses MRI, CT and biomarkers to detect 300+ conditions early. Operating on a direct to consumer model, It has completed 1,500+ scans and is at about $2M in annualised revenue. $5M seed round from OneFlow Holdings (co-founder Shahsank's family office) and South Park Commons. Founded in Feb 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Shashank (NIT Karnataka '09) was Co-Founder & CEO of Practo; co-founder Arpit (BITS Pilani '10; IIM Indore '15) started out at Morgan Stanley (technology manager), was VP of Products and Business at Belong and Head of Product at Lenskart; co-founder Anshul (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology '07; IIM Kozhikode '11) headed marketing at BlueStone, UpGrad, LBB, before 5 years at Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer at Ola, and Head of Product Strategy and Planning at Ola Electric.
AI customer-engagement automation platform for enterprises which integrates marketing, support and sales workflows in order to optimize CaC-LTV. Has served 150+ enterprise clients, grew revenue 450% YoY over the last two years, and claims to have generated ₹500CR in additional revenue for customers through retention automation. ₹8CR seed round. Other investors in the round include LetsVenture, VCMint, Invention Engine, and angels Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures), Anand Shahani (WedMeGood), Vivek Mathur (ex-Elevation), Ajeet Khurana (Reflexical), Nitin Verma (InstAstro). Founded in Oct 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: Nishant (VIT '14; ISB '18) started out as an engineer at Cisco and was a product manager at Razorpay, Lenskart, HolidayIQ; Avinash (also VIT '14; XLRI '16) is from Darwinbox (enterprise accounts), ADPL, Coforge; Priam (VIT '21) was the founder of dev firm Rapca Infotech.
Voice AI agents that run human-like lead qualification phone calls towards high ticket sales (i.e. $50K-$5M transactions). Supports more than 100K concurrent calls, with 570K minutes of conversations every momth across 33 clients in India, the UAE, Malaysia and the US. $450K pre-seed round led by Antler Singapore, bringing total funding to $1M. Founded in Jul 2024, Dubai and Bengaluru based. The three founders are IIT Delhi '13 and built Big.Jobs (hiring suite) together from 2019. CEO Himanshu (also IIM Calcutta '16) was CEO of Big.Jobs and also founded Gingr (mobile messenger for businesses) back in 2012; Shubham was Co-Founder & CTO of Big.Jobs; Sunil was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Big.Jobs prior to which he was a Senior Product Manager at UnitedHealth.
AI-based construction planning engine focused on improving planning and execution workflows in the US. Referred to by the company as "a construction-native AI system", it will understand building codes, materials, sequencing, procurement constraints, along with construction means and methods. $10M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Pankaj Mitra and Aparna Chaganty). Founded in Oct 2024, Berkeley and Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Kanav (IIT Kharagpur '10) was Co-Founder & CPO at Innovacer (over a decade); COO Tanmaya (DCE '05; Stanford '08) was at DPR Construction (general contractor) for 13 years.