The goal is to develop and launch MOI-1, India’s first AI laboratory in space. ₹5.5CR pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: AC Ventures. Ronak spent 12 years as co-founder of NowFloats (SaaS for SMEs).

Spacetech startup which has built India’s first drone-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. $1.5M seed round. Tapan, the Chairman, is the former Director of the Space Applications Center (SAC) at ISRO; Soumya, CEO, worked at Hike, Creo, Intel; and co-built Summachar, an edtech startup with Urmi, the CTO.

Solutions for the food industry focused on "mobile smart factories". Its core product, Mfreezer, flash freezes produce at origin, ensuring food quality and simplifying supply chains. Ullas, the founder, had brief stints in the UK at Fiat Chrysler, Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren; before running UE Tech Ltd (business description N/A) in the UK for nine years. $260K pre-seed round.

Power converters for clean energy products - EV chargers and battery swapping stations. Also developing solutions for clean energy storage and for hydrogen electrolysers. Has deployed 14K power converters across 20 clients in India. Dynolt's expertise is in control systems using general-purpose microcontrollers and software, instead of traditional application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which gives it a cost and efficiency advantage. $1.7M seed round.

Robots for moving things around within warehouses, factories and logistics centers, also known as autonomous mobile robots (AMR). 15 enterprise customers (Samsung, Tata, Bajaj etc.) across the US, India, Singapore and Japan. Brijesh CA is the 4th co-founder, not linked below. Recently appointed a CEO for the US business. $2M seed round.

Longer lasting, fast-charging batteries for agricultural drones. Existing drone batteries result in a short flying time which requires drone operators to carry up to six additional battery packs. The company specialises in Graphene and Lithium-ion based batteries, allowing drones to spray 40 litres of chemicals and pesticides over 4 acres in a single charge. $1.4M seed round.

Aerospace startup building advanced propulsion systems for satellites. Developing ATOM, a thruster that utilizes an eco-friendly, nontoxic propellant; and CubeHood, a propulsion module which works with ATOM to power CubeSats (a particular class of small satellites). USPs: cheaper than alternative propulsion systems from the global market; environmentally friendly; made in India for defence clients. Chennai and IIT Kanpur based. ₹3CR raised in this pre-seed round.

Enables truely green battery production. Converts organic waste (coconut shells etc.) into nanocarbons, which are used in energy storage devices (batteries and capacitors). This reduces our dependence on extracting raw materials from the ground, while increasing the energy density for lithium-ion hybrid batteries by 125% (e.g, a two-wheeler with a 100km range can now run 225km). Jaipur based. $1.2M seed round. Other investors in this round: Sagana.

Diagnostics solutions startup with a range of products to tackle Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), diabetes and preeclampsia (a pregnancy complication). Proflo-U measures albumin and creatinine round the clock; Eyera Sense allows for high efficiency processing of fluid samples; while Embargo offers a portfolio of DNA and RNA based diagnostics kits. Bhubaneswar based. ₹3CR raised in this seed round.

BioTech startup which uses nanotechnology to target cancer stem cells while sparing healthy cells, thereby reducing the need for chemotherapy and reducing relapse. The company uses exosome-based drug delivery. Exosomes are small sacs that are naturally released by cells and can carry a variety of molecules. Exosomes can be used to transport drugs to specific cells or tissues. The company will manufacture its products inhouse. Bhubaneswar based. ₹3CR raised in this seed round.