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.
SaaS for football/soccer academies. Helps reduce admin by 75% and improve athlete retention through data driven engagement and performance tracking tools. Serves 14 global academies (across India, MENA, Nepal, US), with 8 paid US pilots. Plans to onboard 100 academies in a year with a targeted $1M in annualised revenue. $100K seed round. Kerala based, founded in Jun 2019. The three founders set up IT services firm Roninaks Ventures. CEO Nihal (Mahatma Gandhi Univ. '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was CEO at Roninaks; Swathy (SCMS '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was Chief Sales Marketing Officer; Nagaraj (SCMS '17; T A Pai Management Institute '22) was a co-founder.
Icertis veterans have come together to build this enterprise AI platform which detects and recovers revenue and procurement leakages. $7.55M seed round. This covers missed commercial obligations, supplier rebate losses, pricing inconsistencies, and settlement-related gaps. Seattle based with engineering in Pune. Founded in Feb 2026. CEO Anand was CRO at Icertis for 14 years; CPO Niranjan was EVP - Product at Icertis for 12 years; co-founder Patrick was Founder & CEO of outsourcing firm Bolton Remote.
Decision intelligence platform for wealth advisors and RIAs, which helps them monitor large volumes of clients' portfolios, identify which portfolios require attention and determine actions aligned with each client's investment mandate. Paying clients across the US, Singapore, India. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round include iOPEX Technologies, angel investors Amit Sheth and Bhavin Manek. New York based, founded in Mar 2024. Founders: CEO Keyur (Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University '03; IISc '06) is ex-Meta (machine learning engineer); Embibe (Chief Data Scientist) and McKinsey (Principal Data Scientist); CTO Peeyush (IIT Kharagpur '06) was CTO at Verloop (customer support automation) and is ex-IndiaVidual Learning, Quikr, Common Floor. He started out as a technical delivery manager at British Telecom.
Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).
AI-native intelligence OS to help enterprises transform fragmented information into actional strategic intelligence. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, from a Middle-East based family office. Founded in Jan 2025, based in Kolkota. Founders: CEO Rana (Univ. of Calcutta '97) was CEO - Retail and Franchise at QSR chain YummyJar Foods; COO Manas (Shiva Institute of Management Studies '02) was Senior Manager - HR for two large hospitals under Narayana Health (for over a decade) and was also with Tata Projects in HR.
Technical assessments using real on-the-job tasks in live production environments. This is using a "Watch-Them-Work" approach, where sessions are fully recorded, candidates can use any tools they want including AI, and all the decisions they make are captured to see their approach. 10,000 candidates have been assessed, with a reported 70% reduction in time-to-hire. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, investors also undisclosed. Founded in Sep 2024, Vadodara and SF based. Founders: Naman (Dhirubhai Ambani Univ. '12; North Carolina State Univ. '14) is an engineer from Microsoft (three years) and Oracle (five years) who was VP of Technology at Euler Motors for a year; Zubin (Univ. of Mumbai '12; North Carolina '14) built a GTM agency for SaaS companies, and was Demand Generation Manager at Perfect Gym Solutions (software for the fitness industry).
Prompt-led AI video editing platform that turns raw footage into production-ready content for creators, agencies and marketing teams. Users can define tone, pacing and narrative pace using prompts, while the AI automatically structures cuts, subtitles, music and visual elements. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, at a $M valuation, with investors undisclosed. Founded in Aug 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Rishabh (no prior information available); Principal Advisor & Director Dishant (Univ. of London '11) is Managing Partner at Pindrop Media (creative consultancy and production house); co-founder Chaithanya (Christ Univ. '21; Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County '24) spent a year at Capgemini as an Analyst.
AI agents purpose built for pharma and medtech companies. It helps these companies automate commercial work including reviewing tenders, drafting proposals and converting marketing documents into videos for doctors. It is targeting $5M in contracted ARR and 100 enterprise client this FY27, and will expand beyond India into LatAm, Southeast Asia and MENA. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round: Atrium Angels. Founded in Nov 2023 as Swish Club (device leasing (laptops, smartphones) on a subscription model), pivoted over to SwishX in Jan 2026. Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Dushyant (IIT Delhi '05; INSEAD '13) was CEO of TinyWhale (SaaS for after school activities) and was a Venture Partner at Antler in Singapore; CPO Jai (Jindal Global Law School '15) was Associate Director of Product Manager at DealShare (~three years) and was a PM at Amazon.
Enterprise blockchain infrastructure company serving government, financial institution and enterprise workflows. The company has delivered over a 1,000 blockchain projects over the last decades, particularly for BFSI and governments globally. $3M round, the first institutional round after a decade of being boot strapped. Founded in Jan 2005, Chandigarh based. Founders: CEO Vikram (Kurukshetra University '01) and COO Shashi (SLIET '06) were co-founders of ASB Academy (blockchain education).
Multi-channel notification system that enables businesses to manage communications through a single API. As expected, this drives up engagement and purchases by end-customers. Serves customers across industries, including Crazy Games, Chargebee, Siemens, HeyReach. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, from Chiratae's Sonic DeepTech program. The program offers up to $2M in funding. The company raised its first round of $1M in Sep 2022 led by BoldCap along with Titan, FortyTwo.VC, All In Capital. Founded in Jan 2022, SF and Bangalore based. Founders: Nikita (IIT Delhi '13) was Product Lead at Aasaanjobs for six years, including after the acquisition by OLX; Gaurav (IIT Bombay '02-'07 - dropped out in the last year) was CTO at RocketApp (jobs portal for front-line and blue collar workers) for seven years.