AI avatars that replace static chatbots with audio-visual, product-aware conversational agents trained on sales and marketing content. An agent lives on your website as a human-like avatar. The moment a visitor lands on your site, it starts a conversation, answering questions and showcasing the product through an interactive experience, as if they were actually using it. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, from Chiratae's Sonic DeepTech program. The program offers up to $2M in seed funding. Founded in Aug 2024, SF based. Founders: CEO Suyash (IIT Kharagpur ‘21) had brief stints as a PM (WizCommerce) and engineer (Barclays Wealth Management); CTO Utsav (IIT Delhi ‘22) was an engineer at EightFold (upskilling platform); CRO Sudhir is a former accounts exec from Fractal, Whatfix and 6sense.

API-driven telephony infrastructure for voice AI agents. The platform offers Direct Inward Dialing provisioning (i.e. activating virtual phone numbers) low-latency SIP (i.e. voice over internet calls) trunking, real-time streaming, noise cancellation, and compliance automation, enabling developers to integrate voice AI quickly. $1M seed round. Founded in Jul 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Suman (Osmania '02; IT-Universitetet i København '05) was Founder & CEO of Finin (neobank) which was acquired by Open, where he then headed Strategy & New Initiatives; CTO Vikash (Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) '15) was a software architect at Bandwidth Inc. and SDE at Plivo.

Developer of Aerios, an operating system for airports, which integrates real-time terminal operations and airside operations into a unified platform. This covers a whole lot including flight scheduling, the management of gates, counters and baggage belts, lost and found, billing, maintenance audits, DGCA compliance. The company's first deployment is with the Airports Authority of India (AAI) at Chennai International Airport, with its Airside Management software reducing runway occupancy time by 22% during a 20 day study across 3,500 flights. While Chennai is a major airport, smaller regional airports often operate with manual processes, while mid-sized airports operate with fragmented systems. $1M seed round. Founded in Nov 2018, Chennai based. Founders: CEO Suseendar (Aeronautical Engineering '12 from Hindustan University; Electromechanical Engineering '15 from Tamkang University) worked as a Systems Architect at Intlosol Works (hardware + software solutions for cold supply chain); COO Cherukuru (Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bharathiar Univ.) was Solutions Architect Aviation at Esteem E Technologies, Technical Director at MindVTelecom (wireless tech for government and defence organisations) and Technical Architect at Techroutes Network (also telecom).

Outcome-based legal AI platform which combines AI for legal research, document review, drafting and workflow efficiency with a marketplace of legal professionals. Used by 500 clients across law firms, enterprises, public institutions. Building for a global user base. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round: 8i Ventures. Founded in Mar 2023, SF/Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Varun (National University of Juridical Sciences) was an associate at law firm AZB; co-founder Manas (SMU) was with HubSpot (accounts exec); CTO Sumit (IIT Delhi '21) was with Magnify Labs and Harmonic. Varun and Manas are brothers.

Outcome-based AI-native software delivery company using agents across solution design, workflow creation, code, testing and deployment. The company offers AI Library MCP, a unified infrastructure layer designed to simplify how AI agents operate in real-world enterprise environments. Clients include Tally, Times Group, Burger Singh, DeKoder. $560K pre-seed round at a $7.5M cap from undisclosed investors. Founded in 2023, SF based. Co-Founder & CEO Arani (St. Stephens '11) built software dev firm Iarani for over a decade, from 2012 onwards.

Automates back-office workflows for healthcare intake coordinators (i.e. admissions/front-desk workers) in the US healthcare system. The company specifically automates tasks like patient intake, prior auth and insurance verification, which have been dependent on manual coordination and outdated tools (e.g. fax machines). Its platform integrates with existing Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and payer portals. $12.5M seed round. Founded in Sep 2024, NY based. Both founders are IIIT Hyderabad '21. Ajay was at Whatsapp eCommerce enabler LimeChat (founding engineer, then product lead) for ~four years; Aniket is also ex-LimeChat (SDE, then ML Lead) for ~three years.

Voice AI agents for support, sales and admin calls handled by Indian enterprises. Its clients include SBI. The two main angel investors in this round will help lead the company's push into BFSI. $200K seed round led by P S Jayakumar (former CEO, Bank of Baroda) and Joginder Rana (Vice Chairman, CASHe). Founded in Jul 2024, Surat based. Founders: CEO & CTO Divy (Jaipur National Univ. '17; IISc '19) was Lead AI Scientist at Farm and Rural Credit Mission was as an AI Research Scientist at Archeron Group; CBO Karan (Amity Univ '16) managed Government Sales at Gupshup, prior to which he was a sales rep at ELCOM (earlier Punjab Wireless Systems) and 24 Frames Digital (commercial webcasting).

AI agents that detect, investigate, and resolve cloud issues autonomously. The platform supports SRE, CloudOps and FinOps functions, with tools for troubleshooting, workflow automation and cloud cost optimisation. $3M seed round. Founded in Jul 2023, Pune based. Founders: CEO Rakesh (NIT Calicut '97) was at Talent Quotient Partners prior to which he was Country Manager - India Ops at Saama (dev firm). He also headed IT at Reliance Retail and at photo division for Walgreens; Shiv (Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya '10) was founder at Pollux Technologies (product engineering company) and was an engineering manager at Saama. Comps: companies like Datadog and NewRelic sound alerts only.

AI infrastructure to automate commodity hedging. $10 trillions of comodity derivatives are traded every year, and are hedged using manual workflows (excel, email). The company automates the complete hedging process and compliance. Focused on the US market. $350K pre-seed cheque from All In Capital's “Golden Ticket” program to relocate to the US. Founded in Jan 2025, Singapore based, now relocating to SF. Founders: CEO Siddharth (BITS Pilani '22) was an analyst at Nomura (three years); CTO Yash (IIT Bombay '25) had internships at Barclays, Floworks (AI sales assistant), Sqwish.

Industrial AI startup focused on machine-health and energy efficiency, using IoT and predictive analytics. Its flagship product, Intellivible, uses AI and sensors to detect machine faults and helps prevent downtime. It serves 50+ enterprises including Jindal, JSW, Adani, Ultratech, Dalmia and L&T. ₹17CR seed round led by Pentathlon. Founded in Feb 2018, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sri (Government College of Technology, Coimbatore; Western Michigan Univ. '93) is a software engineer who was India Country Development Manager at the Associated Press (13 years); CTO Aswin (Anna Univ. '15) was Principal R&D Engineer at Fourth Frontier (smart health monitor).