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 agents to manage cross-platform workflows for product managers. ₹1.3CR pre-seed round. The three founders are software engineers - the CEO had short stints at Microsoft and ControlShift.
SaaS platform for companies to manage their recruitment process. Works with companies in FinTech and IT to manage resume verification, skill assessment and checking the cultural fit of candidates. ₹5CR seed round, investors undisclosed. Co-Founder Nihar spent close to 17 years at Axis Bank.
Privacy compliance and data governance startup. $400K pre-seed round. The founder is based in the Netherlands, started a dev firm there and was also the CIO of Mobinck (the incubation arm of AutoBinck Group).
SaaS product that enables live video eCommerce for brands as well as shoppable reels. It combines live video shopping, Agentic AI and conversational commerce to reduce bounce rates and drive engagement up by 2x, as well as increase sales by up to 30%. It has over 300 clients from Manyavar to Thomas Cook. $300K seed round. It had previously raised from 100x and Pentathlon Ventures. Founders: The CEO comes from Publicis Sapient (heading Cloud Managed Services) and Infosys; the CTO is from Publicis Sapient and Globallogic.
AI-powered construction monitoring platform that transforms 360-degree helmet-mounted site videos into intelligent, time-stamped virtual walkthroughs, enabling real-time visibility, collaboration and progress tracking across construction projects. Pilots done, exploring India and the US market. Seed round, amount undisclosed. Founder Yash (IIT Bombay, Cornell) is from Beacon Associates, a civil contractor.
AI-powered "Product Experience Management" platform. Online sellers can create, manage and distribute product listings across channels - with automated catalog creation, product listing updates and visual content generation. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Angels in the round: Sangeet Agarwal and Navin Parval (Mokobara), Rohin Mittal (AdYogi). Founders: Himanshu is ex-Reliance Retail and P&G; Ankit and Vipin are ex-AdYogi. All three worked together at ANS (Flipkart). Comps: some overlap with Phot.AI (InfoEdge, Together, AC Ventures), which focuses on the visuals for cataloging.
Agentic AI driven test orchestration platform. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. The three founders worked together at Ally.io (acquired by Microsoft) and then at Microsoft. Investment thesis captured here: https://eximiusventures.medium.com/why-we-invested-in-devassure-503e7e528c2e
Privacy management and fraud prevention. Its products mask sensitive data, and also detect and prevent synthetic identity fraud. Compliant with India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act. Seed round, amount undisclosed. Founder Sudhir led the Banking and Financial Services practice at Vaco (recruitment firm) for 10 years.
AI-led DevOps platform. Devs can deploy code and infrastructure autonomously across multi-cloud platforms, reducing dependency on DevOps teams. ₹1.4CR pre-seed round. Founders: Kalpesh was the first salesperson at ZoomInfo acquired Insent.ai (the founders of which are investing in this round); Vedant is from BrowserStack.