Intelligent commerce platform that provides AI powered conversational infrastructure for businesses to convert customer interactions into automated, measurable business operations. This works across industries - healthcare (e.g. patient bookings, rescheduling and reminders), retail (e.g. browsing catalogs and delivery confirmations), automotive, logistics and education. Building for India and Africa. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Feb 2026, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Hanumant (B.Tech '92 and MBA '97 from IIT Kharagpur) spent 13 years at Idea Cellular, was VP of Sales at Airtel Zambia, and then founded Mamastops (cashless fuel purchases) in Zambia (~three years). CPO Ritu Raj (Annamalai University '14; ML at Royal Holloway, University of London '18) was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Urban Vyapari and senior PM at Bots 'N Brains. VP of Engineering Yogesh (Maharishi Markandeshwar (Deemed to be University) '26) has been a part time software dev at Zambia based Mount Meru Group while completing his undergrad.

AI-native incident management software that investigates production issues. Enterprises can investigate and manage production incidents across cloud-native and microservices-based systems, with integration into over 30 enterprise tools. Customers in India include Fynd, Lokal, and TradeIndia. ₹7.5CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, SF based. Founders: Gaurav (dual degree from IIT Bombay '12) was CTO at Doubtnut (five years) and was Co-Founder & CTO at Aasaanjobs; Akshat (IIT Gandhinagar '19) was Search Infrastructure Lead and a backend dev at Doubtnut (five years).

Continuous integration platform for engineering teams in the AI software development era. Unlike traditional CI, the platform integrates seamlessly with GitHub through a simple one-line configuration change, allowing engineering teams to continue using familiar workflows while improving performance. The platform is designed to make GitHub Actions up to 10 times faster. It also makes diagnosing failed builds faster: teams receive AI-generated summaries that clearly explain the root cause of failures in plain language. T ₹4.0CR pre-seed round. Founded in Jun 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Ujjwal (IIT Roorkee '23) was at Deutsche Bank for two years; CTO Nitin (IIT Roorkee '23) was CTO at ezAIx Inc. (AI-led route cause analysis) for two years.

Enterprise AI services company that helps large enterprises adopt AI to produce real results. This means building, changing, and running the software that runs the business at a fraction of the preceding cost and time. Working with customers across industries, including Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Fresenius. "Today, very few enterprises can use AI to significant advantage; most are not, and indeed they take on cost and risk without the benefit." $32M seed round led by Mayfield, with a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures. Founded in Jun 2026, based in Menlo Park. Founder & CEO Vishal Sikka (Stanford '96) was CEO at Infosys (2014-17) after 12 years at SAP (Executive Board Member, CTO). You can read the launch announcement here - https://hangten.ai/press

CCTV video intelligence platform that turns existing CCTVs into agentic intelligence for footfalls, dwell time, queues, staff activity and hotspots. The software can identify people of interest and has a 98% re-identification rate, outperforming commercial benchmarks. Used at over 500 retail stores, with over 12,000 connected cameras in 45 cities. This is at a time when critical AI infrastructure is dominated by foreign players, with this company positioning itself as a sovereign alternative in computer vision and security intelligence. ₹7.5CR first institutional round from Le Travenues Technology Ltd., the parent company of Ixigo. Founded in Sep 2023, Noida based. Founders: CEO Adarsh (IIT BHU '04) was Chief Data Scientist at mobile gaming studio Octro, founded RTO fraud prevention startup ThirdWatch, acquired by Razorpay, and was CTO of HT Mobile Solutions. Tushar (NSIT '21) was Data Scientist at Octro. Piyush (IIT Bombay '12) was Lead Data Scientist at Octro, AVP of Innovation at HDFC ERGO General Insurance and was very briefly (seven months) CTO at Purple Style Labs.

AI-first in-store music intelligence platform for retail, hospitality and commercial spaces. Live in 30 locations, its Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Music Engine dynamically adjusts music based on venue type, weather, temperature, time of day, and customer environment. The platform analyses characteristics including tempo, rhythm, energy, spectral balance to select the right music for the venue. It also operates a QR-based song request platform for restaurants, bars, clubs, and entertainment venues. ₹5CR seed round led by Nikhil Gandhi through GIPL. Other investors: MGB Family Office, Narendra Singh Yadav (Paytm), and angel investors through One Love Technologies, the startup's parent company. Founded in Jan 2025, Mumbai based. Founder & CEO Amandeep (Christ Univ. 17) started out at E&Y, was Head of Growth & Analytics at Amazon MX Player (four years) and was a GM at Paytm (~two years).

Verification layer for high-stakes AI usage in tax, healthcare, financial compliance and government policy. It turns complex domain knowledge into machine verifiable truth, where every claim is grounded, traceable, and accountable. $27M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Other investors: Accel, Boldcap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and Unbound. Founders: CEO Ranjan (IIT Madras '17) co-founded Astra (automating sales pipeline execution) and is ex-Propshort (ML architect); Google (software engineer) and Graviton Research Capital (software engineer); CTO Krishan (IIT Madras '16) was a software engineer at Glean prior to which he was Staff Software Engineer at Google (~six years); Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Sanjay (IIT Madras '16) was a software engineer at Google DeepMind (~three years) and Google (~five years).

Music technology group offering distribution, marketing and publishing infrastructure for independent artists and labels. Its community now represents 200K independent artists and labels across 45 countries, with artists on the platform growing 25% in the last month. These artists have collectively crossed 3 billion streams across global streaming platforms. Seed round of an undisclosed amount led by Ahdritz Capital, along with SumoSan, 10X Global, and Marigold Capital. Delhi based, founded in Apr 2022. Founder Rohan (Amity Univ. '15) co-founded Nesho Recycling World (batteries, electronics, plastics) in 2019.

AI Product Manager for software teams, using agentic architectures to help decide what software to build. With AI, the bottleneck for product teams has shifted from execution to deciding what to build. The product manager evaluates ideas for customer value, feasibility, cost, risk and business impact, before dev begins. Early adoption in the US, with government agencies and county-level tech teams. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Palo Alto based, founded in Feb 2025. Founders: CEO Yash (Hindu College '20; Great Lakes '21; Narsee Monjee '24) was a data scientist at MathCo; Ashrey (Boston University '20) was a management consultant at Modular Startups in Boston.

Yet to launch AI assistant that observes, learns and acts, completing tasks across workplace tools without commands. "Most AI tools wait for commands. Sonatic anticipates your needs. Instead of typing prompts or pushing buttons, your apps act like agents: they observe your context, generate the right tasks, and execute them on your behalf." Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, led by a16z Speedrun as part of the SR005 cohort. Angels in the round from Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta SuperIntelligence Labs. SF based, founded in Jan 2025. CEO Kinjal is a Cornell drop-out (started in 2023). He was an EIR at Entrepreneur First.