Industrial AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform that help businesses monitor, optimise, and automate operations in real time. Its hardware platform KLEON and AI-enabled software layer SAMASTH enable real time adjustments. The focus is on smart water management, air quality, solar PV remote monitoring, concrete management on construction sites and air quality monitoring. The company has digitised over 23,000 borewells. It mentions 5,000 customers on its website including Jio BP, Adani, HCL, Indian Oil, L&T, UltraTech. ₹10CR seed round led by Piper Serica, along with angels Shibam Das (Atomberg) and Sumit Chhazed (OTO). Founded in March 2024, Mumbai based. The four founders built Ushva (solar inverters) together. CEO Visat (IIT Bombay '16) was Founder & CTO of Ushva; co-founder Archit (Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology '16) was a Product Engineer at the company; COO Hetvi (Shri Vile Parle Kelavani Mandals Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering '17) was also Product Engineer; CTO Akhilesh Thorat (University of Mumbai '16) was a Software and Hardware Engineer there.

Building an ecosystem of indigenous ocean robotics including deep-water Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), surface vessels, crawling robots and AI imaging. It aims to reduce India's dependence on imported underwater and water-surface operated robotics equipment. It has secured two Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) grants from the Indian Army and Indian Coast Guard. Its Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) systems are gaining adoption in offshore marine exploration applications. $1M seed round. Founded in Nov 2018, Chennai based. Founders: Rajeuv (Mohamed Sathak Engineering College, Kilakarai '06; Birla Institute of Technology '08) was a Project Scientist at National Institute of Ocean Technology and was a Design Engineer at Aeolus Aero Tech (testing lab for aerospace companies); no prior information available on co-founder Rajagurunathan.

Social media app with 1M Android users, which enables them to create high definition AI content. Round of an undisclosed amount. Treefe Technology is the company name. Founded in Jan 2024, Mumbai based. No background available on Founder & CEO Kapil (Univ. of Mumbai '03).

Consumer AI concierge which automates household decisions, coordination and everyday services. "Don't Tell me, Tell M” is the tagline. ₹102CR (~$11M) seed round, from Peak XV ($5M, 15.5% stake), Blume ($4M, 12.4%) and CRED ($2M, 6.2%), with a 21.11% ESOP pool. Founded in Jan 2026, Bangalore based. Founders: Kabeer (Univ. of Mumbai '04; Narsee Monjee '07) was Co-Founder & CEO of Dunzo; Kartik (IIT Madras; MIT '14) was VP & Business Head at Dunzo; co-founded Pillow (financial services on web3 rails) and was briefly Head of Business at Swish (10 min. food delivery). This lies at the intersection of quick commerce as well as home services. Snabbit is in talks to raise $55M at c. $400M, rumoured to be led by SIG; with Pronto looking for $20M at c. $200M from Lachy Groom; and Urban Company reporting instant home services crossed 1M bookings in March.

Automates back-office workflows for healthcare intake coordinators (i.e. admissions/front-desk workers) in the US healthcare system. The company specifically automates tasks like patient intake, prior auth and insurance verification, which have been dependent on manual coordination and outdated tools (e.g. fax machines). Its platform integrates with existing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and payer portals. $12.5M seed round. Founded in Sep 2024, NY based. Both founders are IIIT Hyderabad '21. Ajay was at Whatsapp eCommerce enabler LimeChat (founding engineer, then product lead) for ~four years; Aniket is also ex-LimeChat (SDE, then ML Lead) for ~three years.

Voice AI agents for support, sales and admin calls handled by Indian enterprises. Its clients include SBI. The two main angel investors in this round will help lead the company's push into BFSI. $200K seed round led by P S Jayakumar (former CEO, Bank of Baroda) and Joginder Rana (Vice Chairman, CASHe). Founded in Jul 2024, Surat based. Founders: CEO & CTO Divy (Jaipur National Univ. '17; IISc '19) was Lead AI Scientist at Farm and Rural Credit Mission was as an AI Research Scientist at Archeron Group; CBO Karan (Amity Univ '16) managed Government Sales at Gupshup, prior to which he was a sales rep at ELCOM (earlier Punjab Wireless Systems) and 24 Frames Digital (commercial webcasting).

AI agents that detect, investigate, and resolve cloud issues autonomously. The platform supports SRE, CloudOps and FinOps functions, with tools for troubleshooting, workflow automation and cloud cost optimisation. $3M seed round. Founded in Jul 2023, Pune based. Founders: CEO Rakesh (NIT Calicut '97) was at Talent Quotient Partners prior to which he was Country Manager - India Ops at Saama (dev firm). He also headed IT at Reliance Retail and at photo division for Walgreens; Shiv (Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya '10) was founder at Pollux Technologies (product engineering company) and was an engineering manager at Saama. Comps: companies like Datadog and NewRelic sound alerts only.

AI-led medical tourism marketplace matching patients from the GCC, UK and Africa with hospitals, surgeons and destinations. Live with a directory of 6K hospitals across 47 countries and 45 specialities. It works with 380 accredited partner hospitals across medical tourism hubs like Mexico, Turkey, Thailand, India, and Georgia. Its AI cost estimator is trained on over 634 procedure records .$600K pre-seed round from angels including Roman Saini (Unacademy), Himanshu Ratnoo (Cars24), Kunal Gupta (EMotorad), Devaiah Bopanna (Moonshot), Vikrant Potni (FundEnable). Founded in Jun 2025, Pune based. Founders: CEO Aditya (CEPT Univ. '14; NICMAR Univ. 16) was Co-Founder & CEMO of EMotorad (electric bikes); CMO Mikhail (Masters from Univ. of Tampa '16) was Co-Founder & CMO of HARBOR365 (protective clothing brand). Comps: The Medical Tourism Company, Bookimed.

AI infrastructure to automate commodity hedging. $10 trillions of comodity derivatives are traded every year, and are hedged using manual workflows (excel, email). The company automates the complete hedging process and compliance. Focused on the US market. $350K pre-seed cheque from All In Capital's “Golden Ticket” program to relocate to the US. Founded in Jan 2025, Singapore based, now relocating to SF. Founders: CEO Siddharth (BITS Pilani '22) was an analyst at Nomura (three years); CTO Yash (IIT Bombay '25) had internships at Barclays, Floworks (AI sales assistant), Sqwish.

Last covered by us in Week 18, 2025. High-resolution thermal imaging through a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Applications across agriculture, environmental conservation, urban planning and defence. "Beyond economics, thermal EO can help cut 2 Gigaton of GHG emissions annually and drive nature-positive action". In agriculture, for example, thermal imaging optimizes irrigation practices and prevents crop failure. The company has developed its first thermal payload, TAPAS-1, and is prepping for satellite integration. It has also started pilots to monitor heat and air pollution in Ahmedabad and Tumkur (KN). Its pipeline has $42M in LOIs. $2.2M seed round led by Unicorn India Ventures along with existing investors Merak, Java, IIMA-CIIE. The company raised a $3.3M pre-seed round in April 2025 led by Merak, along with Huddle (as well as GVFL, Java, IIMA, PointOne). Shravan (CEPT Univ '11; IIM Calcutta '15) and Urmil (Sahajanand College '96) are from Amnex Infotechnologies, heading business development for satellite solutions. Ranendu was a scientist at ISRO for 26 years.