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Applies AI to manufacturing procurement by interpreting technical drawings and automating RFQ and sourcing decisions for OEMs and suppliers. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Oct 2025, a remote team which is SF/India/Mexico based. Founders: CEO Vineeth was Head of Products for Tech Mahindra's factory of the future initiative, and is ex-Deloitte and Accenture; President Suri (University of Ottawa '83) is also ex-Tech Mahindra (Global Head - Cloud Services); Head of Europe Christoph (UW Foster '98) built co-working business Jagolofts in Germany for seven years.
Autonomous agents for SAP and ERP maintenance, reducing manual L1/L2 support and ticket resolution time. Part of the Accel Atoms AI Cohort 2026. The company will receive up to $2M in funding, split equally between Accel and the Google AI Futures Fund. It will also receive $350K in credits across Google Cloud/Gemini/DeepMind. Founded in Sep 2025, SF based. Founders: CEO Rebhav (BITS Pilani) was on the investments team and subsequently an EIR at Antler, where he co-founded Interface AI (dispute management for CPG brands); CTO Aditya (also BITS Pilani) was at PYOR (Web3 analytics) for a year and was also a co-founder of Interace AI.
Business intelligence startup which is building an AI SuperAnalyst, which turns raw ERP, CRM and spreadsheet data into finished reports, presentations and models which teams can trust, with every number being fully traceable. The company is opening its waitlist with this round. Designed to be used across every business function in the org - finance, compliance, ops, sales and marketing and more. $5M (~₹46CR) seed round led by Together Fund. Founded in July 2025, BLR/SF based. Founders: CEO Pavan and CTO Prashant built enterprise product discovery platform Unbxd over 15 years, from 2010-2025. It was acquired by Netcore in 2022 for c. $100M.
AI customer-engagement automation platform for enterprises which integrates marketing, support and sales workflows in order to optimize CaC-LTV. Has served 150+ enterprise clients, grew revenue 450% YoY over the last two years, and claims to have generated ₹500CR in additional revenue for customers through retention automation. ₹8CR seed round. Other investors in the round include LetsVenture, VCMint, Invention Engine, and angels Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures), Anand Shahani (WedMeGood), Vivek Mathur (ex-Elevation), Ajeet Khurana (Reflexical), Nitin Verma (InstAstro). Founded in Oct 2021, Bangalore based. Founders: Nishant (VIT '14; ISB '18) started out as an engineer at Cisco and was a product manager at Razorpay, Lenskart, HolidayIQ; Avinash (also VIT '14; XLRI '16) is from Darwinbox (enterprise accounts), ADPL, Coforge; Priam (VIT '21) was the founder of dev firm Rapca Infotech.
Voice AI agents that run human-like lead qualification phone calls towards high ticket sales (i.e. $50K-$5M transactions). Supports more than 100K concurrent calls, with 570K minutes of conversations every momth across 33 clients in India, the UAE, Malaysia and the US. $450K pre-seed round led by Antler Singapore, bringing total funding to $1M. Founded in Jul 2024, Dubai and Bengaluru based. The three founders are IIT Delhi '13 and built Big.Jobs (hiring suite) together from 2019. CEO Himanshu (also IIM Calcutta '16) was CEO of Big.Jobs and also founded Gingr (mobile messenger for businesses) back in 2012; Shubham was Co-Founder & CTO of Big.Jobs; Sunil was Co-Founder & Head of Product at Big.Jobs prior to which he was a Senior Product Manager at UnitedHealth.
AI-based construction planning engine focused on improving planning and execution workflows in the US. Referred to by the company as "a construction-native AI system", it will understand building codes, materials, sequencing, procurement constraints, along with construction means and methods. $10M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Pankaj Mitra and Aparna Chaganty). Founded in Oct 2024, Berkeley and Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Kanav (IIT Kharagpur '10) was Co-Founder & CPO at Innovacer (over a decade); COO Tanmaya (DCE '05; Stanford '08) was at DPR Construction (general contractor) for 13 years.
Data infrastructure startup providing a serverless datastore for real-time streaming data (i.e. live data like chats, game state syncing, AI agent messaging), specifically designed to power collaborative, agent-based, multiplayer applications. $3.85M seed led by Accel, along with with Uncorrelated Ventures. Part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in Jun 2023, SF based. The three founders are ex-Etsy. CEO Shikhar (Symby 'LLB '06; Constructor University '09) is from Etsy (Senior Staff Software Engineer), Facebook, Confluent and Bloomberg; CTO Stephen (Univ. of Chicago '13; NYU '18) was at Etsy for six years (Staff Machine Learning Engineer); co-founder Dwarak (SASTRA '15; Univ. of Ottawa '20) was there for 3.5 years (Senior Applied Scientist
Agentic AI marketing startup helping SMBs get discovered via AI-led search workflows, capturing customers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. As chatbots chip away from search traffic, businesses need help in surfacing. Gushwork uses AI agents to 1) automatically generate and update search-optimized content from both AI chatbots and traditional search engines, 2) build 10-20 backlinks per customer through 200-300 partner websites, 3) track inbound leads. The company has 300 paying customers, with subscriptions from $800 a month (i.e. $9-10K ACVs), with annualised revenue at $1.5M, and $3.0-3.5M annualised targetted in the next three months. 20% of Gushwork's customers get their site traffic from chat-led search. $9M seed at $33M post-money, led by SIG and Lightspeed, along with B Capital, Beenext, Seaborne Capital, Sparrow Capital, 2.2 Capital. Lightspeed led the $2.1M pre-seed at $7.5M post-money, in July 2023. Founded in Jun 2023, Delaware HQ, Bangalore based. Founders: Nayrhit (IIT Kharagpur '16; Chicago Booth MBA '23) was Product Lead at Prodigal and an Associate at Chiratae; Adithya (also IIT Kharagpur) was a Product Manager at Prodigal.
AI-native GTM execution platform automating workflows for revenue teams, with a system of work and a system of insights. This is a single platform for GTM teams, unifying lead identification to deal close to account expansion, using contextual AI. $3M seed round. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore and SF based. Founders: CEO Arun (Bangalore Univ.; NUS MBA) was at Dell for 18 years, with leadership roles at Dell Global Displays, followed by Sprinklr; CTO Ramakrishna (Manipal Academy '03) was at Sprinklr for 10 years (SVP Engineering).
AI-powered bulk-hiring platform focused on automating high-volume recruitment workflows, including sourcing, candidate engagement, screening and evaluation. Integrates into HMRS platforms and applicant tracking systems. $2M seed round. Other investors in the round: CareerNet. Founded in May 2024, Gurgaon based. Founders: Sharad Deharadun Institute of Technology) was at LinkedIn for eight years (Key Account Director); Kumar (Visvesvaraya Technological Univ. 12) founded Zipnip, after dev roles at Zuma (AI for real estate) and WittyParrot (AI content for enterprise).