SaaS for football/soccer academies. Helps reduce admin by 75% and improve athlete retention through data driven engagement and performance tracking tools. Serves 14 global academies (across India, MENA, Nepal, US), with 8 paid US pilots. Plans to onboard 100 academies in a year with a targeted $1M in annualised revenue. $100K seed round. Kerala based, founded in Jun 2019. The three founders set up IT services firm Roninaks Ventures. CEO Nihal (Mahatma Gandhi Univ. '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was CEO at Roninaks; Swathy (SCMS '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was Chief Sales Marketing Officer; Nagaraj (SCMS '17; T A Pai Management Institute '22) was a co-founder.

AI companion named Doro, which helps 3-10 year old children build their confidence and improve speaking skills. Conventional speech models struggle with children's speech because of differences in rhythm and pacing. The company has developed VedAnsh-v1, a proprietary speech-to-text and voice activity detection system designed for kids' voices. 500K downloads. $1.5M seed round led by IndiaQuotient, with the participation of General Catalyst. Gurgaon based, founded in Aug 2025. Founders: Shivam (IIT Madras '17) was Head of Product at Probo, starting out as a PM at Paytm and Urban Company; Siddhant (NIT Kurukshetra '15) was an engineer at Probo and technology associate at Goldman Sachs.

Icertis veterans have come together to build this enterprise AI platform which detects and recovers revenue and procurement leakages. $7.55M seed round. This covers missed commercial obligations, supplier rebate losses, pricing inconsistencies, and settlement-related gaps. Seattle based with engineering in Pune. Founded in Feb 2026. CEO Anand was CRO at Icertis for 14 years; CPO Niranjan was EVP - Product at Icertis for 12 years; co-founder Patrick was Founder & CEO of outsourcing firm Bolton Remote.

Decision intelligence platform for wealth advisors and RIAs, which helps them monitor large volumes of clients' portfolios, identify which portfolios require attention and determine actions aligned with each client's investment mandate. Paying clients across the US, Singapore, India. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round include iOPEX Technologies, angel investors Amit Sheth and Bhavin Manek. New York based, founded in Mar 2024. Founders: CEO Keyur (Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University '03; IISc '06) is ex-Meta (machine learning engineer); Embibe (Chief Data Scientist) and McKinsey (Principal Data Scientist); CTO Peeyush (IIT Kharagpur '06) was CTO at Verloop (customer support automation) and is ex-IndiaVidual Learning, Quikr, Common Floor. He started out as a technical delivery manager at British Telecom.

Robotics for the retail industry. Its flagship product, RobAd, is an in-store marketing device designed for in-store promotions in supermarkets for CPG brands, and for retailers. Used by over twenty brands incuding Britannia. ₹1CR seed round. Founded in Oct 2020, Thrissur based. Founders: CEO Christo Varghese (APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University '20) started out of college; CTO Rahul VIncent (also APJ '20) joined after a year as Quality Assurance Engineer at Wipro; Christo Kollannur (Jyothi Engineering College '20) started out of college; Bonsto (APJ '20) joined after a year as Mechanical Design Engineer at Packmen Machineries.

Soon to launch AI-native EdTech platform for K-12 students and competitive exam prep including JEE and NEET. The company's AI companion will understand a student's level and adapts teaching in real time. ₹30CR (~$3.2M) pre-seed round led by BEENEXT, along with Eximius and Antler. Founded in April 2026, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Ravneet (IIT Hyderabad '14) was Director of Technology at Vedantu (~four years) before co-founding FC.ONE, automating back office tasks for sports businesses, clubs and academies.

Advisory platform for homebuyers, which brings together data-driven insights and experts to help buyers shortlist, evaluate and negotiate residential purchases. Properties are evaluated keeping over 80 factors in mind, including builder credibility, construction quality, livability, project efficiency and appreciation potential. $2M seed round led by Athera, along with Sparrow and real estate developer Vakil Group. Previously raised $600K from angels and Vakil Group. Founded in Mar 2022, based in Bangalore. Founders: CEO Ashish (Visvesvaraya College of Engineering '04; Great Lakes '07) was with Godrej Properties for 12 years (heading Asset Management & Strategy, and Investments in South & NCR, while starting out in marketing and sales) and was with property consultant Anarock for two years (as director of land services); Ravi (BITS Pilani, Goa '15) was a PM at Spinny, AVP of Product & UX at Smallcase (~five years) and Head of Product and Design at Upraised (~two years).

Egocentric data collection to train robots. Collects real-world first-person video and sensor data, to be used towards building dexterous and perceptive robots. Works with home services, hotel and restaurant businesses in India. Workers wear special caps, capturing everday tasks, with over a 1,000 headsets deployed. Robotics labs and frontier AI companies face a critical botteneck, of high-quality, real-world traning data showing humans everyday work. $8.2M seed round from. Part of the YC W26 cohort. Founded in Jan 2026, SF based. The founders were students prior to this. CEO Raj, CTO Samay, and Rushil are from UC Berkeley; Shloke is from Stanford. Raj and Shloke are cousins.

Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).

AI-native wealth management platform for institutional and retail clients, starting with a quant hedge fund. Plans to provide portfolio services, advisory solutions, alternative investment products. Operates as part of the FPL Group of Companies. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Aug 2024, Chennai and New York based. Founder & CEO Sai (College of Engineering, Guidy; USC Marshall '18) has been with the FPL Group (auto retail, manufacturing, financial services) who started out as an IB analyst at Merill Lynch.