Cross border supply chain enablement platform. $4M seed round. Other investors in the round: Rohan Bajaj's Syndicate, Nandan Capital (Nandan Growth Fund), angel investors including Saurabh Deep Singla (ex UpGrad), Sumit Jalan (UBS), Amit Tyagi (iServeU), Nitin Sethi. Delhi based, founded in Feb 2024. Founders: CEO Dibyanshu (Calcutta Univ. '12) was at Ecom Express for seven years (National Sales Manager); COO Utkarsh (Delhi Univ. '14) is the founder of Morpheus Services (industry unknown), and was at Sky Ocean Logistics for six years (National Operations Manager for a freight forwarder);Chief Customs Officer Vineet built Sapphire Exim Services over 20 years; the fourth founder who is not linked here, Shobhit Singh (IIT Roorkee '12, ISB '20), manages Product and Tech, and was Co-Founder & CPTO of uniQin.ai (ad optimization). He is ex MMT, Amazon and Quikr.

AI-native software suite for interior design studios (as well as architects, contractors and manufacturers in the supply chain). Its full suite (which includes a CRM, design management tool, site tracking, financial management and more) addresses project delays and margin leakages caused by fragmented tools, manual workflows and a lack of real-time visibility. It has 150 interior design firms in India as clients, with pilots in the UAE and the US. Funding of an undisclosed amount, led by Modulor Capital. Other investors in the round include We Founder Circle, EvolveX, Thapar Innovate. Founded in May 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Nikhil (SRM IST Chennai '14) was most recently VP of Business Development at 91Squarefeet and AVP at Express Stores, prior to which he co-founded startups Bistro Restaurants and MyGroceryBag.in; CPO Abhishek (BITS Pilani '21) was also at 91Squarefeet (product lead) and Express Stores (PM).

Institutional grade, AI-native, equity research platform for retail investors in India. It has 10K users, ₹5K CR of connected portfolios and ₹10 lakhs in annualised revenue. ₹1.4CR pre-seed round. ₹65 lakhs raised prior to this from friends and family. Founded in Nov 2023 (the beta launch was in mid 2025), Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Aaditya (IIT Kanpur '18) was at AmEx for three years and GS for two.

Tech services firm which works with startups and enterprises to implement AI heavy projects. It has over 80 customers in under a year and has productized accelerators across voice, data and AI/ML workloads. The company offers strategy consulting, customized AI solutions and managed AI operations under one roof. Revenue scale undisclosed. $4.6M seed round led by Sorin with participation from Bessemer. Founded in Feb 2025, Coimbatore and Bengaluru based. The four ounders are from AWS. CEO and Tech Head Kousik (PSG '06) was at AWS for 5 years, was the Co-Founder & CEO of Healtho5 (healthcare CRM), and built Sphata (IT consulting) over a decade; Co-Founder (Growth Ops) Praveen (Coimbatore Institute of Tech. '05 and NIT Rituchirappali '09) was at AWS for a decade, as well as Quest Software and VMware (all BD roles); Co-Founder (Delivery) Ashwin (Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Tech. '16) was at AWS for eight years (leading growth stage startup relationships); CRO Aadarsh was at AWS for 5 years (account manager), and at Oracle and Akamai.

Voice AI startup, with agents that engage in long, complex sales conversations on behalf of financial institutions (Bank of Baroda, Aditya Birla, Insurance Dekho etc.). Agents can handle an unlimited number of calls, undertake live actions on call (send payment links, pull data real time), with calls that can cross over 15 minutes. In the pilot stage with customers in India and South East Asia. $3M seed round. Angels in the round: founders and execs from CRED, M2P, Turtlemint, Kissht. Founded in Oct 2022, Bengaluru based. Founders: CEO Devyani (Wharton '17) was an Antler Founder in Residence in 2022 and was at BCG for three years; CTO Vengadanathan (Coimbatore Institute of Technology '14) was a software engineer with Amazon India (7 years) followed by stints of 9-18 months at Airbnb, Uber and Rippling - all in Bengaluru.

Agentic AI platform for large scale enterprise code migrations and software overhauls, using its proprietary SLMs which are purpose built for migration from legacy systems. Time and costs can come down by up to 80%. Revenue traction undisclosed, works with BFSI and SaaS enterprises in India and the US. This is a $23B market today, expected to reach $51B by 2031. $1.7M seed round. Founded in Jan 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Aravind (Cochin Univ. of Science & Technology '16; IIT Delhi '19) was a data scientist at Meesho and Flipkart; CTO Vinay (IIT Kanpur '15; IIT Delhi '19) was a data scientist at AiDash (intelligence for electric utilities) and SigTuple (healthcare diagnostics); co-founder Prathosh (Indian Institute of Science '15) was Co-Founder at CogniAble (autism detection) and Assistant Professor at both IISc and IIT Delhi.

AI-enabled platform making materials engineering more predictable. AI and ML are combined with physics based simulations to design and validate new materials, which can significantly reduce R&D timelines and lower costs. The company works with sectors such as specialty chemicals, polymers, paints, coatings, aerospace, advanced manufacturing and composite materials. ₹4.15CR pre-seed round led by Theia Ventures. Incubated at ICT NICE, the innovation hub of the Institute of Chemical Technology. Founded in Aug 2025, Mumbai based. Co-Founder & CEO Ajaz (Institute Of Chemical Technology '25) started out of college; no information available on his co-founder Ayesha.

AI-native and pre-emptive cybersecurity startup. KnightGuard, the company's platform, helps enterprises continuously identify, validate, and reduce the most critical security gaps before attackers exploit them. A mesh of AI agents cover core cybersecurity functions, with agents acting as a Customer Specific CTI Analyst, a SOC Analyst, Red and Blue Teams and on ITOps. Customers and revenue traction undisclosed. $3.4M seed round led by Expeditions (European cybersecurity investor) along with the VC arm of Bitfender. Founded in Feb 2024, Amsterdam based. Founders: CEO Anuj (Delhi Univ '01; FORE '04; MSc in Cyber Security from Leiden University '18) is a technology architect from FireEye (cybersecurity), Accenture and Netherlands based OCLC (six years); CRO Manuj was a director of the enterprise business at RSA Security, Symantec and Dell EMC.

AI-native wearables startup. The first product, Neo 1, is a Personal AI Assistant (PAIA) that transforms everyday conversations into actionable insights. It builds upon persistent memory and analyzes emotions from conversations. Conversations are transcribed, not audio recorded. The larger goal is to build out NeoOS, their OS layer for AI assistants, for use on all wearable devices - from glasses to pendants, to watches and rings. Neo 1 is worn on a chain around your neck, currently priced at ₹11,999. $2M seed round. Angels in the round: Awais Ahmed (Pixxel), Anupam Mittal (Shaadi.com), Sameer Mehta (boAt), Namita Thapar (Emcure), Aprameya Radhakrishna (Koo). Founded in Jan 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Dhananjay (Christ Univ. '11, Virginia Commonwealth Univ. '12) is from Homelane (leading product and marketing for lead gen), ClearTax (head of marketing) and Razorpay (marketing); CTO Aryan (IIT Madras dual degree '21) had a brief prior stint as co-founder of SqFt 51 (co-pilot for architects) and as a PM at ICICI. Order here - https://neosapien.xyz

A new AI-led email client. Provides a contextually intelligent and prompt free email experience. The goal is to improve productivity, with superior thread organization, better attachment handling, semantic search and group summarization features. Currently available for Gmail and Google Workspace users in a desktop-only beta. 30-day free trial, then priced at ₹125 a month for two email accounts, and ₹49 a month for each additional account. $200K pre-seed round. Founded in Sep 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Neeraj (BITS Pilani '14, ISB '19) was the head of product design at Insider, and went on to JP Morgan investment banking and BCG after his MBA. Comps: this takes on Superhuman, Spark, Fyxer. Sign up for a free trial here - https://faraday.email