Building India's first dedicated PC and console game publishing house, to publish world-class indie and AA games for global audiences. Three upcoming releases announced for this year. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Deepak (co-founder) built Street Lamp Games (hyper casual games) for eight years; while Mantena (co-founder) most recently spent 5 years at PTW (ptw.com), as VP of Products. Other investors in this round: Sridhar Muppidi (YesGnome), Tanay Tayal (Ex-Moonfrog), the founders of Playsimple, Vatsal Chintalpati (ExMachina Investment Partners), Rick Herman (Ex-Sony)

Mobile gaming studio for hyper and hybrid casual games. Developing mobile games in the “relax and unwind” category for audiences in the US/Europe. $1.2M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Visceral Capital, Signal Ventures, Surojit Roy (Firescore) and other angels. The founder, Karan, was earlier co-founder of Firescore Interactive, acquired by CrazyLabs, a Top 3 mobile games publisher globally. Core members of the team also come from Firescore.

It was inevitable the pickleball craze would bounce outside the court and get funding - the setup doesn't need much space, the ROI is great. GoRally operates four centers across Bengaluru with 15 courts, including a 15,000 square feet indoor facility near Indiranagar. Will expand to eight centres and 42 courts by year end (two of which will be paddle courts). $750K pre-seed round. Other investors include Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal (Ultrahuman), Viren Singhvi (ex-American Razor Safety Co.), Kartik Kapoor (East Africa Racquet Sports), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Deepak Singh (Gameskraft), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures).

Platform for webtoons in India. Webtoons are episodic digital comics that are usually meant to be read on smartphones. The company licenses comics from around the world, arranges them into episodes and translates them into Indian languages. 500K MAU, 2M+ downloads and over 3,100 comic titles in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Working with Google's Gemini to drive translation, case study here (https://ai.google.dev/showcase/toonsutra). Seattle based. Vishal, Co-Founder & CEO, was CPO at DailyHunt, CleverTap and Freecharge. $3.2M seed round. Other investors in this round: T-accelerate Capital, Graphic India. Sony is an existing investor.

Virtual platform for users to book pujas, receive prasad via home delivery and consult with priests. Partners with 60 lakh temples and gets 300K monthly organic site visits. Will enter spiritual merchandising. ₹6.4CR seed round. Previously raised ₹2CR seed from India Quotient (June '23).

AI-driven fashion search engine. “For Gen-Zs, over 75% of fashion inspiration discovery happens on Instagram and Pinterest. We started Shoppin’ seven months ago with the idea of bridging the gap between inspiration discovery on social platforms and e-commerce discovery on marketplaces and D2C brand websites.” Launching in beta in Feb 2025. $1M round.

Farm to table fresh produce, delivered the next morning. 250 SKUs. Online ordering, with a plan to expand to 200 supermarkets in Bengaluru and Chennai over the next year. $1M pre-seed round. Steve Vinod is Chief Growth Officer (not linked below).

Astrology platform that uses Generative AI to provide a personalized, detailed daily horoscope. Touted as "your private AI companion for your private questions". $6M raised in this seed round led by Pradeep Dadha (Founder of Netmeds) - it appears he is also a founder in a non-executive role and owns a significant stake.

Online platform for seniors to connect, talk, and get support from each other. Provides sarathis (senior companions) and coaches, organizes weekly support groups. $430K raised in this pre-seed round with the participation of angels.

Laundry and dry cleaning service. Partners with local providers and provided dedicated logistics. Currently at 5,000 monthly orders in Delhi and Gurgaon. Undisclosed amount raised in this pre-seed round.