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).

Telugu-language audio entertainment app for podcasts, serialised audio stories and music, focused particularly on the US. Built upon the realization that Telugu creators and listeners were spread across multiple platforms without a centralized destination for Telugu storytelling. Raising $150K pre-seed round of which $53K has been committed from undisclosed investors. Founded in Oct 2024, Atlanta based. Founder & CEO Srihith (Georgia Institute of Technology '25) worked as a project manager and software dev at iVue, an Atlanta based drone and world-mapping startup, for two years prior to university.

Building “Zara for the Virtual World”, i.e. trend-led digital fashion for platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The startup sold over 2.5 million virtual fashion units on the Roblox marketplace, generating ~$300K in GMV at a 92% gross margin, while bootstrapped. The startup’s dress-up game, GlamGirls, launched in beta on Roblox in late 2025 and has attracted over 100K paying users, with a 75% female user base and 50% of users aged over 18. While Global brands such as Walmart have partnered with the company to bring real-world products into the digital world, the company also offers a phygital D2C line that turns virtual bestsellers into real-world products. At the core of Meta Fashion’s platform is a proprietary AI-native “fast fashion” engine for digital assets, which analyzes live marketplace trends and demand signals to determine asset creation, and drive higher conversion across virtual marketplaces. UGC platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite are emerging as key ecosystems for entertainment and IP creation, particularly for a Gen Z and Gen Alpha digitally-native demographic. Roblox has grown to 150 million DAU and $6.8B in annual bookings in 2025. The platform paid out over $1.5B to creators in 2025 (up 70% YoY). As Roblox's user base ages up (with 65% of age-verified users now 13+, and 27% aged 18+) and as new monetization surfaces open up, UGC platforms are increasingly becoming home to venture-scale IP businesses. $400K pre-seed round led by Lumikai, with the participation of Big Bets, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Akshat Rathee (Nodwin), Pratham Mittal (Masters’ Union). Founded in Aug 2022, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Arjun (Masters' Union) is a 19 year old Roblox native who started Meta Fashion while in high school; Sanjay (Delhi University; NIFT) founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Paytm.

Creating a "Disney from the East". Building a production studio to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales to a worldwide audience. "Mythik plans to modernise ancient narratives using immersive technology", for e.g. Ram v. Ravan and Buddha's First Sermon. Now has a 200 member team. $5M additional round following on a $15M seed round raised in May 2025. The company's valuation crosses $50M with this round which includes investors Harsh Jain (Dream11), Rajat Gupta (McKinsey’s former Global MD), Bharti Mittal Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, Ishan Sinha (Point72). The prior $15M round was from Sakal Media Group, BITKRAFT, VC Grid, along with the founder himself, Visceral Capital, Shah Rukh Khan’s family office, the Patni family office and angels. Founded in Jul 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Jason Kothari (Wharton undergrad) was the CEO of Housing.com after Rahul Yadav, CEO of Freecharge, and CSO at Snapdeal. Prior to all of this he was CEO and then Vice Chairman of Valiant Entertainment (which has rights to the third most popular universe of superhero characters after Marvel & DC Entertainment).

Headphones that know how you feel and change it, in other words these are closed-loop neuromodulation headphones for mental wellness. The device combines neurostimulation, biometric tracking and adaptive AI to measure your stress, and creates personalized neuroadaptive experiences (music) aimed at stress reduction, focus enhancement, sleep support and overall mental wellness. Priced at $499 in introductory pricing for the first 200 units which ship July 2026. A hundred users have helped the company refine the product, which has secured approval from India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO). $3.5M (₹31.5CR) seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Gurgaon and NY based. Founders: CEO Ria (Jaypee Institute of Information Technology '15; NTU + Technical University of Munich Master's in IC Design ‘17) was the Co-Founder & CEO of Neuphony (smartwatch for brain training) for six years; and was Development Engineer for Physical Design at Infineon Technologies (semiconductors) for five years; CTO Bhavya (Jaypee '15; Universität Passau Master's in Mobile and Embedded Systems drop-out) was Co-Founder & CTO at Neuphony and was an R&D Engineer at Logic-Fruit Technologies (design firm for embedded computing solutions).

AI-native esports platform helping gamers build communities, compete and monetize gameplay. Gamers can play tournaments, win convertible rewards, stream with ease and create short highlight reels. The platform also offers a social network for gamers along with expert courses on becoming an esports professional. 25K organic users on the platform. $100K pre-seed round from Ujjwal Jain (Share.Market by PhonePe). Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Roushan (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra) was a senior product designer at PhonePe for ~three years; CTO Abhijeet (JSS Academy Of Technical Education Karnataka '23) was an SDE at Calibr (Gen AI based learning management system); co-founder Sweta (Magadh Univ. '19) was a senior UX designer at Builder.ai (~a year) and at dev firm Metafic (also a year).

QR tags to recover lost valuables. The startup addresses the problem of lost valuables through smart QR products that allow finders to instantly connect with owners without exposing personal phone numbers. Works globally, for use cases including luggage, keys, wallets, passports, electronics and pet tags. The QR code is placed on products appropriate for the use case, for e.g. the pet tag is shaped to allow for an airtag cavity as well as the QR codes. In other words, this is a "digital identity layer" for physical belongings. $260K pre-seed round from a Dubai based VC firm. Founded in Nov 2025, Bangalore and Dubai based. Founder & CEO Jesintha (Christ Univ.) was the CEO for Cloud Services at G7 CR Technologies India (an IT consulting and cloud services business) for a decade.

30-minute doorstep smartphone repair service backed with an up to 12-month warranty. Certified technicians arrive on site, with a price up to 50% below OEM service centres. Currently operates in Gurgaon, and will now expand beyond iPhones to premium Android phones. ₹7.55CR pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Anish Srivastava (SVP at Blinkit), Bharat Kalia (Lifelong). Founded in Oct 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: Aniket (IIT Bombay '21) was with Blinkit for four years (Senior Cateogry Manager for electronics); Chetan (DCE) was also with Blinkit for a similar period (PM, including for the IoT Service and Automated Replensihment System for their Frozen Supply Chain).