Income-linked financing platform for Indian students pursuing global higher education, replacing traditional loans with a pay-after-employment model. Students repay their loans only after crossing a defined income threshold, with no collateral or co-signer needed. The focus is on Indian startups pursuing master's degrees in the US, UK and Europe, with funding for both tuition and living expenses in the $5,000-20,000 ticket size. Distribution is via 4,500 college counsellors across India. ₹5.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, SF based. Founders: CEO Sreemaan and COO Deborah started Skillsvest while at UC Berkeley (UC Berkeley + ESSEC joint degree). They were part of the LUANCH pre-accelerator program (by Jason Calacanis) and the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator program.

SEBI-RIA AI wealth platform for tracking investments, expenses and taxes, pulling in information from banks, brokerages and mutual funds. The platform provides NovaAI, its AI wealth advisor, and a Pro membership for deeper portfolio and Mutual Fund advisory. Operates on a zero-commission, fee-only model. 30K app downloads. $1.5M seed round. Founded in Apr 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Naveen (HR College '15; IIM Ahmedabad '19) was on the investment team at Miras and at NIIF; Sajal (IIT Delhi '16) was an algorithmic trader; Apurva (Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur; ISB) was an Associate Partner at McKinsey in Dubai.

Digital lending marketplace. Users can compare loans across multiple lenders, with backend integration into banks and NBFCs for faster decision making. Revenue and user scale undisclosed, targetting 10M users in the next 18-24 months. $2.4M (₹22.5CR) seed round led by the Mankind Pharma Promoter’s family office, along with Vi-John Group, Sanjay Singhvi, Bavadeep Reddy, Malani Ventures (Sanjay Shah Family office), Gurshant Singh Bhatia, Sunny Bhatia, Upkaran Singh Chawla, Harbir Dhingra. Founded in Oct 2023, Mumbai based. Founders: Pradeep (Panjab Univ. '02) was Business Head for the Mortage Group at YES Bank; Vijay (Univ. of Mumbai; Narsee Monjee) was Senior President at YES Bank and CIO at Tata Capital; Mohit (Vikram Univ. '05) was President at YES Bank (in roles heading inorganic business, business process and controls, and busines intelligence).

Agentic AI driven financial operations platform for CFO teams, that automates AP, AR and treasury workflows in mid market companies. Early pilots are demonstrating lower FX costs, improved cash flows and faster settlement times. $2M round led by Endiya. Founded in Dec 2025, Hyderabad and Seattle based. Founders: CEO Prudhvi (BITS Pilani '13; University of Cincinnati '16) started out with engineering roles at Tejas Networks and Intel, before stints at CrowdStrike and Confluent; co-founder Sankalp (BITS Pilani '14; Columbia '15; Harvard MBA '20) was an R&D Engineer at Bloomberg in NY and Engagement Manager at consulting firm Keystone AI in Boston.

Personal finance platform focused on young Indian users, with an AI assistant called Jo. The startup uses India's account aggregator framework to provide users with a consolidated view of their savings, spending, investments and liabilities, along with data backed financial guidance. Launched recently with 5K+ users and ~₹25CR of connected savings. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Jaipur based. Founders, CEO Prithviraj (O.P. Jindal Global University, King's College London) and CMO Pankaj (Stoa '22) built news outlet The Indian Wire together and are the hosts of the 'Backstage with Millionaires' podcast.

AI-driven wealth management platform, with an intelligence layer that analyses portfolios and acts as a financial planner and wealth advisor. $1.3M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Amit Gupta, Amit Agarwal, Mohit Aron. Founded in Nov 2024, Bangalore based. Founders Apurv and Ankur are both IIT Kanpur '00. Apurv was CTO at Cohesity (nine years) and was at Google for eight years; Ankur was at Google for 17 years, most recently as Director of Engineering and Bangalore Site Lead for Ads.

Real estate investing platform that enables cross-border investing in premium US real estate. It provides access to curated, income generating real estate investments through multiple ownership structures, for investors based out of India, the Middle East and Singapore. The platform takes away regulatory complexity and the fragmented documentation process, and operates in alignment with India's FEMA and LRS guidelines. $1.3M seed round. Founded in Aug 2022, Austin, Texas and Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Kabir (Umass Amherst '04) and Co-Founder Ayush (Northeastern '24) founded Raveum while in college.

Underwriting and asset management platform for commercial EVs - three and four wheelers, buses and trucks. The platform provides financing, insurance, and assured buybacks. It will also provide savings products and to-up loans to support driver-owners and small fleet operators. The company is an offshoot of Exponent Energy, the vehicle fast charging platform that develops battery packs, charging stations and connectors. $2M pre-seed round. Founded in Sep 2025, Bangalore based. Founder & CEO Sandeep has held a range of roles at Ola, as Head of Strategy & Corp Dev At Ola Electric, VP of Strategic Alliances at Ola, and as CEO and CFO of Ola Fleet. He was also CEO of Envfin, the financing arm of Greaves Electric Mobility.

Stablecoin supported bank accounts in major currencies, for global businesses and HNIs. The platform offers businesses multi-currency accounts, holds and converts fiat and stablecoins, and executes international payouts. It also offers corporate cards for spending onine and offline with merchants worldwide. $1.5M pre-seed round.

Embedded lending platform, which enables embedded credit for MSMEs within digital merchant platforms, for example Pet Pooja and GoKwik. Platforms benefit from making additional income in the form of origination fees, and can integrate easily into Intellend with real time analytics. Merchants get easier access to short term working capital, with low documentation requirements, transparent pricing and flexible payment terms. $1.2M seed round. Founded in May 2025, Mumbai based.