Gauranteed home resale platform. On the one hand, it uses AI to build valuation intelligence, i.e it analyzes historical transactions, live market signals and buyer engagement data to understand pricing dynamics within micro markets. On the other, it ensures sellers' homes are refurbished and matched with the right pool of qualified buyers. This ensures that sales happen as the home comes on to the market. Currently focused on Noida. $1M pre-seed round, from angels including Bharath Vivek Chandhok. Founded in Apr 2024, Noida based. Founders: Saurav (IIT Bombay '14) was Co-Founder & COO of Pocket52 (acquired by Gameskraft); Alaukik (IIT Bombay '15) was Head of Product Design at Pocket52 and was Lead Designer at PDI (data driven political consulting in the US); Shalin (Institute of Engineering & Management '15) worked in tech roles at Pocket52, Gameskraft and Yubi.

Fandom-driven storytelling platform enabling users to create and consume alternative storylines based on their favourite movies, shows, anime, games and books. It brings together fanfiction, comics, videos and discussions into a single space. Content is hosted across more than 250 fandoms, including Harry Potter, Marvel, The Lion King, with 150K users globally. Its users spend 20 minutes a day and are largely Gen Z, based in the US, Canada, UK and Europe. It has partnered with Arka Media Works to build fan content around Baahubali characters. $1M pre-seed round led by Kalaari Capital and Gruhas. Founded in Feb 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Jatin (NIT Karnataka '18) was an Associate at Kalaari and a Decision Science Analyst at Jumbotail; Nesar (Ramaiah Institute of Technology '18) was also an Associate at Kalaari and was with Gilda VC (a fundraising platform); CTO Arvindmani (NIT Tiruchirappalli '18) was a software engineer at Fidelity Investments.

Quick-commerce platform operating a 'try and buy' model for consumer electronics, with 60-minute delivery and at-home product demos before purchase. It has partnered with 60+ brands (Philips, Samsung, Apple, Dyson, Dell) and scaled nearly 20x since launching in Bengaluru in October 2025. $1M pre-seed round led by InfoEdge Ventures. Angels in the round: Raghu Pavan T S (CIO, Canarys Automations), Anirudh Prasad (AVP, Gokaldas Exports), Bhaskar Raju K (Kalyani Developers family office), Deepak K Gowda (Ascent Capital), Venus Dhuria (Appyhigh), Srinivasan Namala (Porus Laboratories), Vaibhav Vashisht (Acadly), Sanil Bhatia (Wellopia), Akash Jain (D.R. Textiles), Vineet Jain (AVP, Air India Cargos), Mahek Mody (Upliance), Vedang Patel (The Souled Store), Kushal Sanghvi (Board Member of Adtech India), Panshul Garg (senior developer, Flexport), Vaibhav Longani (Simon-Kucher & Partners), Chandrashekhar D H (Independent Consultant). Founded in Mar 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Gotama (Christ University) was Co-Founder & CEO of Openapp (smart locks); CMO Varun (BITS Pilani '16) was Co-Founder & Business Head of The Teaser Company (marketing company for D2C brands); COO Harsha (Griffith University '10) was Co-Founder & COO for VivaVilla (MBO for smart home products) and a Portfolio Management Consultant at Capco (a Wipro company).

Travel platform for verified, quality-assured homestays and cottages in India's lesser-known destinations. The platform currently lists 1,800 hand picked properties across 180 destinations in Sikkim, West Bengal and Odisha. Travellers get an authentic experience, and homestay owners receive another source of income. ₹80 lakhs pre-seed round. Founded in Nov 2019, Kolkota based. Founders: Sourav (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology '09) was Business Head at Breeze (field sales SaaS), AVP at Bookingjini (hotel management SaaS) and Zonal Manager at CARS24; Siddharth (CTU '03: XIM Bhubaneswar '08) is also ex-CARS24 (launch head for Saudi Arabia) and was AVP for Special Projects at Source.One (industrial materials marketplace).

Alcoholic beverage company, which makes Quro, India’s first homegrown aperitif made with botanicals. The company experimented with over 200 indigenous Indian ingredients to craft a modern aperitif using traditional botanicals. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Jan 2024, Goa based. Founder Anmol (LSE) was Director of NovoEarth (sustainable packaging materials).

AI-native streaming platform, i.e. an OTT for AI-generated movies and shows. This offers a new way for creators to reach audiences directly. The platform has released a number of trailers so far (Shivaji, Mahabharat, Gangs of Mexico, for example) which are trending well on social media. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Oct 2024, SF based. Founder & CEO Harshit (Dartmouth College '22) spent a year at EY.

QSR platform which operates 12 multi-brand food courts in Gurgaon and Jaipur, each of which have six cuisines/six distinct in-house brands on offer - Sattva, Everyday 9, Wichwich, White Bowl, Wakingo and Coldplay. The platform combines dine-in, delivery and subscriptions. 500K orders delivered to over 150K customers till date. Looking to reach 50 outlets and ₹55CR in revenue by 2028. ₹12.25CR angel round (equity + WC) from Shivam Mishra (founder of String Ventures). Founded in Jan 2021, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Ankur (Amity '08) and co-founder Abhishek (Nagpur Univ. '05) are engineers by background and co-founders at IT orchestration and cloud management platform Flint for six years, before it was acquired by Freshworks in 2020; co-founder Rajeev (Univ. of Rajasthan '05) was transmission manager at Nokia for a decade. Ankur's mother Anjana is also a director of the company. The three founders set up Ripplewalk, a venture studio for restaurants, where. Pink Adrak was incubated.

Consumer AI startup building AI companion Mello, for audiences in India's Tier II, III and IV cities to explore alternate lives, careers and their aspirations with local cultural settings which reflect linguistic and social nuances of their region. $2.5M seed round which closed around Sep 2025, now officially announced. Other investors in the round: DeVC. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders Akshay and Ajit are both BITS Pilani. Akshay was an engineer at CRED (four years); Ajit worked on product at BuyStars, Leap and Flipkart (six years across these orgs).

Omnichannel "affordable premium" grocery delivery platform focused on becoming the most trusted sourcer for organic, pesticide and antiobiotic free, minimally processed food across fresh produce, dairy, meat, seafood and daily essentials (staples, snacks etc.). The platform will combine farm-led sourcing with its private label brands, and will focus on dense urban micro-markets. Will launch in NCR, with 10-12 neighbourhood stores (3000 square feet format, with a bakery and cafe) along with 1-2 hour delivery, planned for FY27. $9M seed round led by 3one4.

Community-driven platform for competitive sports, with a ladder-based ranking for players to create structured competiitons within their local community. In beta on Android and iOS, users can create customised ladders for societies, clubs and friends groups, across sports. Originally started out of Sports Skill (a sports performance tracking app), SportsSkill Ladder will operate as a separate company. Raise of an undisclosed amount led by Nirav Mody.