All in one business intelligence AI to optimise operations across industries. For e.g. it provides real time insights into store operations and staff effectiveness, optimizes marketing spends across acquisition channels and forecasts inventory requirements for retailers. $1.4M pre-seed round from undisclosed angel investors. Founders: Amit started IdeateLabs (creative agency) in 1997; Vrutika, ex-GroupM, joined him in 2008. UAE and India based, founded in 2018.

Compliance automation for financial institutions in the UK and Europe. AI agents continuously read regulations, flag gaps and keep businesses audit-ready at all times, unlike the traditional, point in time manually updated checklists and spreadsheets currently used by financial services clients. Clients include Monzo, Juni and Novobanco. $4.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: No Label Ventures, Start Ventures, angels - Alan Morgan (Adfisco), Richard Davies (Allica Bank), Mark Ransford, Rohit Mathur (Gresham House). Founders: Ritesh (Said Business School) was Co-Founder & COO of ClearGlass (fintech) in the UK; Shashank founded Thirdwatch (fraud prevention, acquired by Razorpay) and was a Director of Product Management at PhonePe. Founded in Aug 2024.

Business intelligence AI that pulls in all data sources to build dashboards with automated chart generation and analysis. For use across enterprises - by marketing, sales and finance teams. $80K pre-seed round, including $30K raised earlier in the year. Founders: the CEO Unni (IIT Delhi) is from Whatfix and ran Foradian Technologies (EdTech ERP) for a decade; CTO Nekender joined straight out of college (Poornima University). Founded In Jun 2024.

An "AI-native operating system" for e-commerce brands. The commerce stack 1) brings together AI agents to automatically generate content for catalogs and marketing; 2) creates localised ad campaigns and identifies customer segments and 3) adapts online stores for each visitor in real time (layout/content/recommendations). $20M round. Co-founders Sai Krishna (Stanford) and Ajay built Scapic together - AR/VR experiences for e-commerce, acquired by Flipkart. The two then worked together at Flipkart to head Flipkart Labs, before joining Polygon Labs together. Founded in Mar 2024. Comps: lots.

Generative simulation engine for robotics, allowing robotics companies to train and test their systems faster and at a lower cost. Its text to generation "Multimodal World Model (MMWM)" reduces six month testing cycles to weeks at a fraction of the cost. Funding will be used towards product dev, entering the US and running pilots across warehouse automation, industrial robotics and autonomous systems. $1M pre-seed round, which also includes Indian Angel Network (IAN). Both co-founders were part of the Antler India Residency's first cohort; CEO Ayush was a robotics software engineer at three firms; CTO Arjun is a software engineer who was also a Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First. Founded in July 2022.

The company runs ENQBooks, an AI powered lead management platform - automating workflows, scoring leads and improving conversions. Since launch it has generated 2M leads and is used by 100 professionals across industries. Funding from an undisclosed angel. Originally incubated at AIC-BIMTECH. Founded in Oct 2023. The two founders, Divya and Keshav, have been running KBCD, an IT services firm, for over a decade.

Omnichannel Gen AI stack to help enterprises drive sales conversion. The company drives sales automation 24/7 across voice, text-base chat and digital, and provides conversation insights. Clients across industries/geographies range from Giva (jewellery brand) and Emaar to Mashreq Bank, Aditya Birla Capital. $1.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Growth Sense, Growth91, angels (Ankit Nagori, Sanjay Suri, Amit Lakhotia, Mekin Maheshwari). Founders: Ajay is a Venture Partner at First Cheque, was an Associate Director for New Initiatives at PayU and a GM for Market Expansion at CARS24; Hanit looked at business finance for North and East India at Udaan, prior to which she was at EXL; Kushal is from a sales background (Prestige Group, Hindustan Coca Cola). All three are from IIM. Founded in Jan 2022.

SaaS for childcare centres, from standalone preschools to chains that run such centres. "Aims to become the global operating system for childcare centres" - used by 3000 centres across 56 countries. Provides the full suite of SaaS tools - parent communication, learning and assessment tools, enrolment, attendance tracking and billing/payments. $2.5M seed round. Founders: CEO Navneet was an engineer at Media iQ for five years; CTO Sourabh and CPO Purva were also at Media iQ and at Oracle - Purva was also briefly Director of Product Management at Paytm Ads. Founded in Mar 2018. Comps: Brightwheel (SF, $55M Series C from Addition, Emerson Collective); Lillio (Canadian, $50M Series B from Bain Capital Double Impact); LineLeader (PE owned).

Cybersecurity firm that simulates real world attacks on AI systems for enterprise. $1.2M seed round. Angels in the round: Charlie Songhurst (board member at Meta), Vivek Raghavan (Sarvam.ai), Satya Vyas (Project Hero). The two co-founders were at IIT Roorkee together before founding Repello. They built Strello (enabling chat with users on the same website) for a year prior to this during college. SF and Bengaluru based.

Social commerce product suite to simplify monetisation for creators via high-traffic platforms (IG/WhatsApp/Telegram). 4 primary tools: link-in-bio storefronts; chat automation tools; smart links to streamline mobile checkout; affiliate program infrastructure to connect brands with influencers. $200K pre-seed round from undisclosed angels. Founders: the CEO was founder of Encore 2.2 (motorcycle accessories brand); the COO was the founder of MAGIC and comes from Genpact and GE Capital. Comps: Kosmc presents itself as an all in one alternative to Linktree+Shopify+Bitly and so on.