AI-first in-store music intelligence platform for retail, hospitality and commercial spaces. Live in 30 locations, its Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Music Engine dynamically adjusts music based on venue type, weather, temperature, time of day, and customer environment. The platform analyses characteristics including tempo, rhythm, energy, spectral balance to select the right music for the venue. It also operates a QR-based song request platform for restaurants, bars, clubs, and entertainment venues. ₹5CR seed round led by Nikhil Gandhi through GIPL. Other investors: MGB Family Office, Narendra Singh Yadav (Paytm), and angel investors through One Love Technologies, the startup's parent company. Founded in Jan 2025, Mumbai based. Founder & CEO Amandeep (Christ Univ. 17) started out at E&Y, was Head of Growth & Analytics at Amazon MX Player (four years) and was a GM at Paytm (~two years).

Consumer AI companion building an emotionally intelligent voice AI interface for Indian language users who prefer speaking in their local language (English, Hindu, Telegu), over text. Users can shop, make travel bookings, find jobs, find properties, access government services, and run their business using voice on the Maya AI app. The app has been downloaded over 3M times in India, MENA and SE Asia. $1.9M seed round led by South Park Commons. Founded in Mar 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Dheemanth (SRM IST '23; NYU '24) started soon after his Master's degree, along with CTO Bharath (SASTRA, Thanjavur '23; NYU '25) who was Member of Technical Staff at Oracle for a year.

Verification layer for high-stakes AI usage in tax, healthcare, financial compliance and government policy. It turns complex domain knowledge into machine verifiable truth, where every claim is grounded, traceable, and accountable. $27M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors: Accel, Boldcap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and Unbound. Founders: CEO Ranjan (IIT Madras '17) co-founded Astra (automating sales pipeline execution) and is ex-Propshort (ML architect); Google (software engineer) and Graviton Research Capital (software engineer); CTO Krishan (IIT Madras '16) was a software engineer at Glean prior to which he was Staff Software Engineer at Google (~six years); Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Sanjay (IIT Madras '16) was a software engineer at Google DeepMind (~three years) and Google (~five years).

Creator management platform that brings growth, learning, monetisation, discovery, verification, and collaboration management into a single platform. 500K creators onboarded. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in June 2022, Udaipur based. Founders: CEO & CMO Sankalp, CTO Tushar and COO Shivani were co-founders of social media and influencer marketing agency GrowShal.

Managed marketplace for used two-wheelers. It offers instant valuation, doorstep inspection, paperwork handling, instant online payments, and direct connection with the right buyers. It plans to integrate AI across its value chain, including vehicle sourcing, assessment, price discovery, and sales operations. Works with 200 dealer partners across Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune, and has partnered with two-wheeler EV manufacturers for exchange programs. Crossed ₹30CR GMV and 4,000 vehicles sold in the last year, growing 5x in that time. ₹10CR seed round. Founded in Oct 2024, Pune based. Founders: CEO Sagar (AMII MBA) was VP of Sales at CredR (two-wheeler marketplace) and RentoMojo (four years each), starting out in sales roles at Spencer's, Reliance Comm., Sify, and IndiaProperty.com. COO Ajit (Savitribai Phule Pune Univ. '11) is also ex-CredR and RentoMojo (four years each) and started out at Sakal Media Group and Radio Mirchi.

AI-native fractional family office and asset management platform for founders, HNIs and institutions. Its offering includes asset allocation, investment oversight, consolidated reporting, tax-efficient structuring, succession and estate planning, governance, philanthropy, real assets, alternatives, and long-term wealth stewardship. $3.1M in pre-seed funding round led by BEENEXT, Sparrow, Shastra VC, DeVC, Warmup Ventures, Atrium Ventures, and 91ventures. Angels: Amit Ranjan (DigiLocker, SlideShare), Chirag Taneja (GoKwik), Revant Bhate (Mosaic Wellness), Shantanu Deshpande (Bombay Shaving Co.), Kashish Sharma (EquityList). Founded in Jul 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: Girish (NSIT '07; FMS '10) was Co-Chief Investment Officer at Welpsun One, prior to which he was Head of Investments at Godrej Fund Management for close to a decade. He started out with Godrej Properties for close to four years; Zuhaib (Jamia '07; FMS '09) was VP International Expansion at Leap Finance. He started out at JP Morgan, co-founded Shopatplaces (marketplace for authentic artisanal products); followed by five years with the Apeejay Stya & Svran Group, acting as CEO for their admissions consulting, coaching, EdTech solutions for schools and colleges, and travel-tech businesses.

Music technology group offering distribution, marketing and publishing infrastructure for independent artists and labels. Its community now represents 200K independent artists and labels across 45 countries, with artists on the platform growing 25% in the last month. These artists have collectively crossed 3 billion streams across global streaming platforms. Seed round of an undisclosed amount led by Ahdritz Capital, along with SumoSan, 10X Global, and Marigold Capital. Delhi based, founded in Apr 2022. Founder Rohan (Amity Univ. '15) co-founded Nesho Recycling World (batteries, electronics, plastics) in 2019.

AI Product Manager for software teams, using agentic architectures to help decide what software to build. With AI, the bottleneck for product teams has shifted from execution to deciding what to build. The product manager evaluates ideas for customer value, feasibility, cost, risk and business impact, before dev begins. Early adoption in the US, with government agencies and county-level tech teams. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Palo Alto based, founded in Feb 2025. Founders: CEO Yash (Hindu College '20; Great Lakes '21; Narsee Monjee '24) was a data scientist at MathCo; Ashrey (Boston University '20) was a management consultant at Modular Startups in Boston.

Yet to launch AI assistant that observes, learns and acts, completing tasks across workplace tools without commands. "Most AI tools wait for commands. Sonatic anticipates your needs. Instead of typing prompts or pushing buttons, your apps act like agents: they observe your context, generate the right tasks, and execute them on your behalf." Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, led by a16z Speedrun as part of the SR005 cohort. Angels in the round from Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta SuperIntelligence Labs. SF based, founded in Jan 2025. CEO Kinjal is a Cornell drop-out (started in 2023). He was an EIR at Entrepreneur First.

Preventive health and longevity focused startup which will launch a physician-managed preventive health program called 150, later this year, with 300-biomarker panels. The company is also developing longevity-focused supplements and a health data platform tailored to South Asian populations. $2.6M round. Other investors in the round: Jayanti Reddy (designer). Singapore and Hyderabad based. Founder Ajay (University of Leeds '08; University of Warwick '09) is ex-Google (five years) was Senior Director of Product for the maps product at Grab. In 2020 he co-founded NextBillion.ai (custom mapping and location intelligence) which was acquired by US based Velocitor Solutions.