Lending infrastucture SaaS platform to power origination, underwriting, analytics and collections for NBFCs and FinTech lenders, reducing opex by 30% and processing times by 50%. The company operates a fully automated Loan Origination System, works with 20. lenders and processes more than 30K loans per month. It has processed loans of over ₹100CR, currently at ₹200CR annualised. ₹4CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2022, Gurgaon and Calcutta based. Founders: Raman (Panjab University GGDSD College '01; MDI Gurgaon '15) is from corporate banking roles at Deutsche Bank, Tata Capital and HDFC, before heading the commercial credit bureau in India for CRIF (credit bureau); Sudipta (The University of Burdwan '04; IBS Hyderabad '06) is from Tata Adminstrative Services, with six years at Tata Capital (Deputy VP of Corporate Finance) and close to eight years at Tata Steel (Head of Retail Business).

Crisis response management platform which operates an AI-driven security platform to protect infrastructure and high value assets, and empower defence forces and law and order organizations. Its flagship product is PULSE, predictive unified law-enforcement system, which offers a command and control system for security and policing operations. It has completed user trials for the three armed forces. Seed round of an undisclosed round led by ThinKuvate. Founded in Sept 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Chandan (National Defence Academy, Pune '09) was a Squadron Leader for the Indian Air Force for 12 years; CTO Rana (West Bengal University of Technology '11) was at Sabre Corporeation as Principal Product Manager and at Amadeus as Senior Business Analyst (for six years each); CIO Bhavya (Visvesvaraya Technological University) was a staff engineer at Palo Alto Networks

Agentic platform that automates large parts of the embedded software lifecycle, from hardware-optimized code generation to AI deployment. The company targets clients in IOT, robotics, surveillance, industrial automation and autonomous systems. It is at the pilot stage with Indians OEMS across these domains, as well as a semiconductor company in the US. $3M (~₹27CR) seed round. Other investors in the round: Antler. Founded in Dec 2024, Bangalore/SF based. Founders Pratik and Yashwant are both NIT Kurukshetra '14. Pratik (also MDI Gurgaon) started out as a software engineer at Netlink Softwares and TEKsystems before close to five years at PhonePe (most recently as Category Lead for Devices); Yashwant (also NIT Tiruchirappalli) was Founder & CEO of Intelligent Edge Systems (a year) and was Senior System Design Engineer at Xilinx (part of AMD).

AI-powered marketing automation platform with an MVP that launched in Q4 2025. The platform covers six areas of marketing executuon, including outbound campaigns, AI voice calling, paid media optimization and RevOps. $1M pre-seed round. Based in Hyderabad and Raleigh, North Carolina. Founder & CEO Pallav (Penn State; WSU Carson College of Business) held brand management roles in the US at P&G, Kraft Foods and Pepsico before joining ESPN as Head of Brand Strategy. He was then CMO at Merrell (part of Wolverine Worldwide, a listed footwear manufacturer).

AI and digital transformation company which helps enterprises and GCCs adopt AI solutions by providing consulting, architecture and implementation. Some of these solutions include RetailBOT, HR Data Analytics, Spend Analytics, for clients including the top three pharma and life sciences companies, as well as in manufacturing and insurance. $7.5M seed round. Founded in Oct 2020, Noida, Bangalore and New Jersey based. Founders: CEO Anjan (Birla Institute of Technology '87) was the CEO of Birlasoft and of Sasken, after 13 years at MindTree; Co-Founder & Chief of People Success Samit (XLRI Jamshedpur) was CHRO at Airtel and Chief People Officer at Birlasoft, and spent 13 years at Infosys.

Software testing startup offering Autonomous QA as a Solution as an alternative to traditional QA as a service. Agentic testing and human domain experts get enterprises to 80% test coverage in two weeks instead of the typical four months, with agents that build, run and maintain end-to-end tests. $2M round. SF and Bengaluru based. The fourth founder, Sreepad Krishnan Mavila.

Marketing tech platform which uses agentic AI to help websites adapt to visitor context in real time. On-site experience is optimised for both humans users as well as AI-driven traffic. Autonomous agents are embedded into existing URLS which allows for continuous optimization without the traditional A/B testing process. For example, ad intent is used to customise pages, visitors asking questions on AI chatbots also get a customised page. This helps improve CaC and drive engagement, for enterprises across BFSI, telecom and healthcare to start with. $5.7M seed round led by Accel. Last raised a $1.8M pre-seed round in 2024, also led by Accel. Founded in Oct 2022, SF/BLR based. Founders: CEO Ankur (IIT Delhi '11; Stanford MBA '17) is ex-Nestle (R&D Centre); PaperBoat (new product dev.) before founding andMe (supplements for women's health), acquired by GlobalBees; co-founder Pritam (IIT Bombay '14) was Co-Founder & CEO of Manch (hyperlocal content) before product roles at Rippling and CRED.

Software development company for the gaming industry, which uses AI to improve player experiences by enhancing realism; creating dynamic, personalized and infinite content; and accelerating development cycles through automated testing. Some of the work they do includes creating AI-driven NPCs that demonstrate lifelike behaviour, procedural generation of expansive worlds and intelligent matchmaking. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Based in Palakkad, Kerala. No background on the founders.

Freight management SaaS platform with tools for freight scheduling and execution, carrier management, contract transport and freight service network optimization. Customers include Daydean, Exide Energy, Alpex, DICABS. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in Apr 2023, Ahmedabad based. Founders: CEO Farhan (GTU '16) founded Hypertech Logistics and Artyverse (film production); Pala (L.D. College of Engineering '04) was at Sabarmati Gas Limited for eighteen years; Ashwin (also L.D. College '05) is a former software engineer (Infostretch, KPIT).

Integrates AI into company workflows with enterprise-grade agents. Has 25 enterprise clients across BFSI, retail, travel and hospitality. $1M seed round from Bhavesh Gupta (former Paytm COO). Founderd in Jul 2025, Gurgaon based. Founder & CEO Akshat (Dhirubhai Ambani Univ. '05; MDI '07) was a sales manager at Oracle and IBM before founding ePaylater (SME inventory financing).