Liquid-cooling hardware and software for high-performance data centres. It offers Direct-to-Chip cooling (to address processor hotspots), Rear Door Heat Exchangers (to add cooling capacity as rack heat loads increase), immersion cooling systems, coolant distribution units, along with a proprietary cooling intelligence platform called NexusFlow OS. $1.1M seed round led by Arkam. Founded in Mar 2026, Ahmedabad based. The company has five founders, four of whom are ex-Ola Electric. CEO Shailesh (IIT Bombay '04) was Director - Automation at Ola Electric (three years) prior to which he was Vice President of Manufacturing at Padmini VNA Mechatronics (seven years). Co-Founder & Head - IT, Digital Ops & Business Dev Vishant (Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar '09) is ex-Koch, Ola Electric (Associate Director - Digital Transformation, three years), Industry AI and Schneider Electric. Kamish (Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology '14) was a Managing Partner at Trident Corporation (six years) and is ex-Tata Motors (ops manager, five years). CTO Jasvipul (IIT Bombay '06) was Senior Director, Vehicle System Architect at Ola Electric (four years) and is ex-ReNew Power (three years). Co-Founder & Head, Ops. & Biz Dev Kishan (Gujarat Technological University '14) was Associate Director at Ola Electric (five years) and is ex-Bajaj Auto and Mahindra.

AI autopilot for software engineering. The platform plans to move beyond AI coding assistants by developing an autopilot system capable of handling planning, coding, testing, code reviews, and deployment. Existing AI coding tools still require engineers to oversee much of the development process. "Autopilot is the level above: set the destination, it flies the whole route, you supervise by exception." The platform uses all frontier models. $15M seed round led by Y Combinator, with participation from Peak XV Partners, Powerset, Alliance. Angels in the round: Parker Conrad (Rippling), Immad Akhund (Mercury) and Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase). Founded in Jan 2026, Bangalore based. Founder Prasanna Sankar (NIT Tiruchirappalli '08) was the founder of 0xPPL (also Peak XV backed), a decentralized social network for crypto natives, and was Co-Founder & CTO of HR software platform Rippling.

AI-powered accounting platform for SMEs, covering billing, bookkeeping, compliance and reporting. It reports 30,000 sign-ups, 2,700 paying businesses and ₹25 lakh in monthly revenue for June 2026. Customer acquisition is via performance marketing and a CA Partner Program. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, from undisclosed investors. Founded in May 2022, Surat based. Founders: Shrigopal (Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat '21; qualified CA '18) co-founded Finnacle Advisory in 2019, before starting Hisabkitab, along with Abhinav (also Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat '17; qualified CA '19) who joined him at Finnacle as MD in 2021.

AI-led personalised exam-prep platform for IGCSE, AS and A Level, IBDP and other school boards. Its AI tutor, 'Sorty,' is a board-aligned assistant with personalised doubt-solving, curriculum-specific guidance and exam preparation support.  It serves students across more than 15 countries, with 71% acquired organically. $350K pre-seed round from angels including Boman Irani (Rustomjee Group, Rustomjee International School); Sameer Mehta (boAt); Subrat Pani (OneAssist); Rohini Kasturi (HG Insights); Ranjit Pawar (London Stock Exchange Group). Backed by PIEDS, the Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society at BITS Pilani. Founded in Sep 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Ananya (Ashoka University '24) is ex-Prime Securities; Chief Product & Innovation Officer Aryaman (Trinity College Dublin '25) was with E&Y for six months; Naman (Narsee Monjee '24) started soon after college.

Provides voice and chat AI agents that qualify and convert leads for enterprises across education, real estate, BPO, D2C, automotive, healthcare, and BFSI. The company has added 15 customers in the two months since it launched the platform, with a number of clients processing 50-100K AI powered calls per month. Its customers, largely educational institutions, include Chanakya University, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Global Tree, Ambuja, Rainmaker, Pyrotech, and PU Sterling College. ₹1.2CR pre-seed round. Founded in Nov 2025, Udaipur based. Founders: Atishaya (IIM Calcutta '20) is ex-Flexport, Sprinklr and BCG; Abhinav and Gunjan were at Gateway International (study abroad consultants); Fivos founded Elite Architects AI in the US.

AI-native discovery and ticketing platform for live entertainment, across concerts, comedy, sports and more. Its conversational agent, Shadow, work with curators of experiences to help fans discover events through natural conversation vs. search. $3.75M pre-seed round, from Bollywood musicians Arijit Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Badshah, alongside VSS Investco (Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s investment vehicle), Madhur Deora (Paytm), Shray Chandra (Capitalmind), VG Jairam (Hyperlink Brand Solutions). Founded in June 2026, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Varun is Paytm Insider’s former COO (five years). Shreyas (VTU '04) was Paytm Insider's CEO (10 years) and worked as CPO of Consumer Products at Paytm following Insider's acquisition. Prior to this he founded Only Much Louder. Alaap has been a Partner at Tarsame Mittal Talent Management since 2013.

Provider of maritime intelligence for defence, national security, ports and commercial maritime operations, through two solutions/platforms. Its commercial maritime solution provides operational intelligence for ports, fleets, shipyards and fisheries through real-time visibility, regulatory compliance and performance optimisation. Its AI solution supports threat detection, adversary monitoring and persistent cross-domain situational awareness. Works with the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, Bharat Electronics, DRDO laboratories, Mumbai Port Authority, Dubai Maritime City and The Nature Conservancy. $2.2M round led by Pravega and Shastra VC. Angels in the round include Suraj Nalin (PlaySimple) and Yashwanth Madhusudhan (Fyle). Founded in Oct 2020, Bangalore based. CEO Roshan and Avinash (doctorate in artificial intelligence from Imperial College London) are IIT Madras alumni (BTech + MTech degrees). Roshan was a product engineer at Siemens Electric for under a year, while Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Avinash spent six months with Elaitra in the UK.

Develops Physical-AI foundation models to train industrial robot arms to learn tasks through operator demonstrations. This is already being deployed in production environments, including an undisclosed automotive company, and high precision assembly applications across automotive and consumer electronics. $3M pre-seed round led by Version One Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, Unisol, iSeed. Angel investors include Soumith Chintala (Thinking Machines), Adarsh Kulkarni (Foundry Robotics), Ashish Kulkarni (GrayMatter), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital). Founded in June 2019, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Puru (IIT Guwahati, Carnegie Mellon MS specialising in robotics '17) was a robotics engineer at Near Earth Autonomy (navigation systems for aerial drones), CBO Adityanag (RV College of Engineering '01) was most recently VP of Hardware Product Engineering at Sensara Technologies, Safar (IIT Madras) was a manager at Tata Steel for a year before joining Mowito as a robotics engineer in 2021.

Platform providing AI agents for customer research - automating interviews, surveys and analysis while adding human researcher oversight. Its AI can conduct interviews with hundreds of customers simultaneously and generate reports along with video clips and customer quotes, in a matter of hours. $300K/₹2.5CR pre-seed round led by AJVC. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sreenadh (Anna University Chennai '10; University of Rochester - Simon Business School '16) and CTO Dhara (IIT Madras) are Entrepreneur First EIRs who first founded Friendly Brands Club, a network of digital-first consumer brands that work together to unlock new sales for the entire ecosystem.

Positioned as an AI-native consumer brands platform, with an initial focus on launching nutrition and wellness products. Brands will be built with an operating platform working across three proprietary AI engines. "Resonance" focuses on audience building and consumer insights; "Nucleus" analyzes audience demand signals around products; "Meridian" is focused on marketing, across creative testing, media buying, budget allocation and optimizing ROAS. The company is actively seeking experts/ practitioners in the wellness space who bring clinical experience and will partner with them to build their online content engine and audience, launch products with them, and drive sales. ₹42CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: Kashyap (BIT, Mesra; IIM Calcutta) was CMO at Pepperfry for a decade, prior to which he was with eBay India for ~five years, including as CMO. Ravi (Andhra Univ. '03; BIM Tiruchirapalli '06) was Co-Founder at Doubtnut (2020-23) at CBO at Vedantu. Ravi is also ex eBay India (leading digital marketing, and fashion and lifestyle). Anubhav (VESIT; University of Maryland Baltimore County) was MD at Dentsu APAC, and was Co-Founder & CEO of Merkle Sokrati for 14 years, which was acquired by Dentsu. He is a former software engineer from Amazon.