Man-made fibre (MMF) manufacturing for large fashion retailers in India - clients include Vishal Megamart, Westside, Shoppers Stop and Ritu Kumar. Provides end to end design and manufacturing using MMF, working with weavers, mills and processors in Surat. Digitising the supply chain optimises for reliability and speed. ₹13.75CR ($1.6M) seed round. Founder Ramya (XLRI) is from Infosys, Hewitt, Accenture and was a Founding Partner at 6Y Collective (event wear company). Founded in Surat in Feb 2023.

Building a house of brands in the architectural and interior design space - the company will partner with existing omnichannel brands - investing in them and supporting them with tech, "internet-led manufacturing" and distribution. The idea is to modernize fragmented segments in interiors - sanitaryware, furniture, kitchen, wardrobes, furnishings, lighting, hardware. The company has already partnered with four brands - FIAMARC (distributor for European brands), The House of W (bathroom fittings distributor), ColourCoats (surface coatings) and Metalia (metal building facades). Rumoured $20M seed round at a $120M valuation. Angels include Siddharth Shah (PharmEasy), Niket Shah (Motilal Oswal), Shalibhadra Shah (Motilal Oswal), Kabir Narang (B Capital). The three founders are co-founders of PharmEasy. Founded in Nov 2024.

Creative agency covering storytelling, ad film production, digital campaign execution, influencer marketing. Clients include Swiggy, Netflix, BGMI, Mumble, CRED, Ather, Amazon Prime Video. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Naveed was head of production at All India Bakchod (AIB) for five years and executive producer at Only Much Louder; Aakash headed social media at AIB for eight years. Founded in Apr 2020.

B2B platform for SMEs and D2C brands to manage their export operations - from logistics (shipping, warehousing, returns, customs, insurance) to compliance to marketplace solutions (enabling sales on Amazon/Tiktok/Walmart). "The company aims to make international selling as seamless as domestic commerce." Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Used by 1000 customers to ship to over 220 countries. Founders: two of the founders, Anshul and Darpan, built two businesses together - Sponsoredby (to connect event organizers with sponsors) and Paapos (on demand delivery); the third co-founder Sanchit was an engineer at Walmart and Uber, and co-founded Shyp (B2B logistics, YC23). Founded: May 2024.

EV as a service fleet operator for Amazon, Flipkart, Blue Dart and Porter. Fleet of 1,000 two and three wheelers. Profitable in key markets - Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad. Expanding into Southeast Asia. $2.5M round, the company has raised seed rounds in the past, in 2019 and 2020. This round is funded by individuals - Vijay Kedia (public markets investor), Lloyd Balajadia (Lloyd Laboratories in the Philippines), Rahul Bothra (CFO at Swiggy). Visakh, the Founder & CEO, started this out of IIT Madras Research park almost 12 years ago as Pi Beam, an EV manufacturer, which then pivoted to the current model.

Refrigerated container shipping platform for perishible goods. Operates in a niche for temperature-controlled exports of fresh produce, meat, marine products and flowers from India. "Our platform has been instrumental in solving export inefficiencies for Indian SMEs. We’ve reduced booking times from 72 hours to just 10 minutes, while also helping clients cut down spoilage and expand market reach by over 40%.” ₹2.5CR bridge round, following on ₹2.75CR raised earlier. The founders have built this business over the last nine years. The CEO comes from the freight industry. Comps: Wiz Freight, Cogoport, Intercont.

Food-tech startup offering non-refrigerated plant-based protein products - mixes for samasos, momos, kebabs and so on. The impact angle - it aims to reduce protein deficiency in markets with limited cold chain infrastructure, while also reducing emissions compared to the farming, production and transport of non-vegetarian, cold-chain dependent products. The company has 30 B2B clients, including food manufacturers and HoReCa customers. The company is looking beyond India, to West Africa and other markets. Founders: the CEO co-founded Wok Hospitality (cloud kitchen with 20 locations).

Logistics startup providing last mile delivery for D2C brands and e-commerce sellers. It operates a network of dark stores, offering 4-hour, same day and next day delivery. It processes 15,000 orders a day, helping brands reduce RTOs and increase on-time delivery. ₹6.5CR seed round. Founders: the CEO managed procurement at Greaves Electric, Ola and Honda Motorycles; the COO was former COO at GO with DOT (last mile delivery).

Music licensing platform for independent artists in Asia, i.e. "vernacular sounds, regional beats, and culturally relevant music assets". 30,000 musicians on the platform which launched in 2019, no metrics provided on usage. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. The Founder & CEO is from investment banking (Technology Holdings, Yukon).

B2B supplier of Indian sweets - single serve sizing, preservative-free with a 6-month shelf life. Sold through 27 B2B clients across 1,500 distribution points. Clients are largely HoReCa, it will now look at smaller scale HoReCa (chains with <5 outlets), caterers and launch a B2B2C brand - "FAAD". Targetting ₹20CR revenue in the next 15 months and entering the Middle East in 2026. ₹2CR seed extension round. Co-Founder Sanket ran Urban Spice for a decade, operating food kiosks in corporate parks.