Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
AI-native shopping assistant for consumers to discover products, compare prices, and make purchase decisions across eCommerce platforms. Integrates with Amazon, Flipkart, and more than 5,000 brand websites. It has crossed 500K app installs, with 50,000 DAU and the facilitation of over ₹15CR in monthly transactions. Plans to serve global markets. ₹4.7CR round. Founded in Jul 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Hiren (Univ. of Mumbai '20) worked on enterprise growth at Plum (insurance), and spent three years as co-founder across ventures Leapflo (marketplace to connect verified manufacturers with D2C brands) and Tiepograph (marketplace for freelancers); CTO Ravi (Punjab Technical Univ. '19) was Co-Founder & CTO at Leapflo and was more recently an engineer at Fynd.
Consumer AI companion building an emotionally intelligent voice AI interface for Indian language users who prefer speaking in their local language (English, Hindu, Telegu), over text. Users can shop, make travel bookings, find jobs, find properties, access government services, and run their business using voice on the Maya AI app. The app has been downloaded over 3M times in India, MENA and SE Asia. $1.9M seed round led by South Park Commons. Founded in Mar 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Dheemanth (SRM IST '23; NYU '24) started soon after his Master's degree, along with CTO Bharath (SASTRA, Thanjavur '23; NYU '25) who was Member of Technical Staff at Oracle for a year.
Managed marketplace for used two-wheelers. It offers instant valuation, doorstep inspection, paperwork handling, instant online payments, and direct connection with the right buyers. It plans to integrate AI across its value chain, including vehicle sourcing, assessment, price discovery, and sales operations. Works with 200 dealer partners across Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune, and has partnered with two-wheeler EV manufacturers for exchange programs. Crossed ₹30CR GMV and 4,000 vehicles sold in the last year, growing 5x in that time. ₹10CR seed round. Founded in Oct 2024, Pune based. Founders: CEO Sagar (AMII MBA) was VP of Sales at CredR (two-wheeler marketplace) and RentoMojo (four years each), starting out in sales roles at Spencer's, Reliance Comm., Sify, and IndiaProperty.com. COO Ajit (Savitribai Phule Pune Univ. '11) is also ex-CredR and RentoMojo (four years each) and started out at Sakal Media Group and Radio Mirchi.
EV ride-hailing platform, with airport transfers, city rides and hourly rentals across Delhi NCR. 5,000 bookings to date, with plans to add 500 vehicles this FY27. Currently adding 25 vehicles a month, including the MG Windsor, MG ZS EV, Kia Carens Clavis EV, BYD e6. $1M round. Other investors in the round: Rohit Qamra, RMRN Ventures, BP Jain Holdings, Bipin Preet Singh, Aakash Goyal, Aakash Anand, Aditya Singh. Gurgaon based, founded in Jun 2025. Founders: CEO Mishu (Delhi Univ. '99) founded Torq Rides (motorcycle rentals, tour operator) and was Chief of Staff at Novatr; COO Rishi (Amity Univ. '09) set up motorcycle dealership Super Suzuki and also set up organic mushroom farm, Veggie Basket.
Wedding planning platform offering venues, décor, catering, photography, and logistics. Has over 2000 vendors, with service order value growing from ₹51CR in FY25 to ₹115CR in FY26, and ₹350CR planned for FY27. 1,500 wedding bookings drive about ₹350CR in business, i.e. ₹23 lakhs a wedding. Aims to deliver a premium customer experience for consumers navigating the wedding planning process. $2.75M seed round. Other investors in the round include Vivek Mathur, Rahul Garg, Apurva Patel, Synergy Capital Partners. Bangalore based, founded in Apr 2023. Founders Pawan (BIT Mesra '09; MIT MBA '15) and CPTO Rahul (IIIT Hyderabad '13; MIT MSc '15) built Betterhalf (matrimony app without the parents, funded by YC, Tribe and others) over close to a decade.
Quick commerce platform for Tier II/III households, with the app and its search experience in local languages, along with assisted shopping (with a call to order feature). Present in Ramanagara and Mandya, districts in Karnataka with a population of 1-2M each as per the 2011 census. It has hit 1,800 orders a day in its pilot city. $7.8M seed round. Angels in the round include Vidit Aatrey, Karthik Gurumurthy, Prashant Sachan, Arjun Purkayastha, Nitin Saluja, Siddharth Gadia, Ayyappan R, and Aravind Charanyan. Bangalore based, founded in Dec 2025. Founders: Priyanshu (IIT Bombay '23) was Senior Manager - Consumer Strategy at Zepto; Arjun (RV College '12; SPJIMR '17) is ex-Zepto (revenue planning), Myntra (customer experience), Swiggy (strategy) and PRTM; Tarithnay (St. Xavier's, Kolkata; ISB) is ex-Zepto (revenue pricing, customer strategy) and Myntra (revenue).
Wedding planning platform offering venues, décor, catering, photography, and logistics. Has over 2000 vendors, with service order value growing from ₹51CR in FY25 to ₹115CR in FY26, and ₹350CR planned for FY27. 1,500 wedding bookings drive about ₹350CR in business, i.e. ₹23 lakhs a wedding. Aims to deliver a premium customer experience for consumers navigating the wedding planning process. $2.75M seed round. Other investors in the round include Vivek Mathur, Rahul Garg, Apurva Patel, Synergy Capital Partners. Bangalore based, founded in Apr 2023. Founders Pawan (BIT Mesra '09; MIT MBA '15) and CPTO Rahul (IIIT Hyderabad '13; MIT MSc '15) built Betterhalf (matrimony app without the parents, funded by YC, Tribe and others) over close to a decade.
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).
Home services startup operating in Gurgaon, with trained professionals for the installation, maintenance and repair of ACs and home appliances. Plans to expand into mobile and laptop repair, home maintenance, and electronics buyback and recommerce. $440K angel round. Founded in Mar 2026, based in Gurgaon. The founders have built this kind of business before. CEO Saurabh (Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore '07; ESCP '10) was a Reliance Retail, heading Reliance ResQ (device repairs and maintenance) and Swapeasy (ReCommerce) and at Flipkart, as Director of Recommerce & Liquidation. COO Aksh (Panjab Univ. '09) was COO of Cashify for a decade.
Curated experiences marketplace with verified listings for adventure sports (river rafting, bungee jumping), cultural tourism and spiritual travel. It has also developed OkGhumo, ERP and CRM software for activity and experience operators to manage their bookings, operations and finances. Since launching in Dec 2025, the company has faciliated ₹4CR in transactions across 22,000 customers. Three vendors that have been onboarded on to OkGhumo collectively see ₹40CR in annual revenues, indicating the substantial size of individual operators. The company will soon launch a consumer app. ₹1.07CR angel round that closed in December, including Arvind Choudhary (Navrang Energy Geoservices), Aenik Shah (Wizzy.ai), Kartik Khatri (Drifbolt), Yash Mehta (Joyspoon). Founded in Dec 2025. The team is currently based in Rishikesh, where they onboarding local operators on the platform. Founders: Shubham (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, All India Rank 36) was a management consultant at Accenture for a year; Nitant (also ICAI) was at PwC for five years (most recently as an Associate on the M&A team); Divyam (LJ Univ. '25) was a dev at Prepseed (AI-led IT dev shop).