Back-office AI platform built for restaurant and retail brands. It works like an always-on digital teammate, automating messy operational and finance workflows tied to food delivery and in-store operations. The company works with restaurant brands such as Lazy Dog and Starbird. The US delivery market has $140B in annual revenues. $14M Series A led by Nyca Partners. with participation from Gokul Rajaram, Base10, Afore Capital, Converge, Alumni Ventures, Data Tech Fund, John Pepper, 9Yards Capital and Operators Studio. Founded in Jun 2022, SF/BLR based. Founders: Anand (BITS Pilani '12) is an engineer from Uber, Ather, Flipkart; Sundar (IIT Madras '17) is also from Uber and more recently ShareChat; Vinod (BITS Pilani '13) was at Google for seven years, most recently as Senior Manager for Webspam).

Conversational AI startup helping businesses automate voice calls at scale. The platform lets companies deploy multilingual AI voice agents that handle inbound and outbound calls across use cases like collections, customer support, logistics coordination, healthcare appointments, HR screening, and more. It powers more than 1.5M customer conversations a month, 77% of which are fully automated. 20 enterprise customers across India, the US, Saudi Arabia, including CRED, PharmEasy, Shiprocket, Flipkart, Shell. $5.5M in a Series A round led by Arkam Ventures, along with Groww Founder Fund, Kunal Shah, White Venture Capital and existing investor Capital2B who led the $1M seed in May 2025. Founded in Oct 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: Siddharth (BITS Pilani '19) was previously a PM at Groww and Flipkart; Utkarsh (VIT '19) previously worked in data science at Blinkit and Atlan; Kali (IIT Hyderaad) is also ex-Flipkart. Siddharth and Kali built FlyWheel together (slack superbot for community management).

Performance analysis for football clubs and youth academies. Uses AI/ML upon video feeds to track every event on the field. This automates the traditionally time-consuming manual data collection process, providing valuable insights into player and team performance. Works with elite clubs from around the world - AFC Ajax from the Eredivisie (league in the Netherlands) and Rayo Vallecano from La Liga (Spain). $1.5 million in a Pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter, along with SucSEED Innovation Fund and Misfits Capital. $500K seed round in Feb 2025. Bengaluru based, NIT Durgapur grads. CEO Sayak was previously a business analyst at Energy Plus; CTO Jeet was an engineer at WorkIndia and CashRich.

AI-first operating system for cancer care that helps oncology centres move faster by automating heavy administrative work. Its platform uses AI agents to handle tasks like insurance checks, prior authorisations, and documentation, i.e. areas that often delay treatment. By reducing manual effort, the company enables providers to focus more on patients and ensure quicker treatment. "At one partner site, approximately 80% of administrative staff time has been freed up, denials have been reduced by up to 40%, and first-pass approval rates have reached 97.8%." $11.1M Series A co-led by Cencora Ventures and Optum Ventures, with the participation of Oncology Ventures, Z21 Ventures, John Simon (Ventureforgood) and Binny Bansal (Flipkart). $3.5M seed round led by Binny Bansal in April 2025. Founded in June 2024, Palo Alto/Bangalore based. Founders Kshitij and Kumar (and Rishabh, who appears to have stepped back between the seed round and this round) were at IIT Kanpur together and co-founded urbanhealth.ai - a self care AI coach funded by 3one4 and Venture Highway.

AI infrastructure and analytics company focused on making enterprise AI systems reliable, governable and production-ready. The company started with analytics for conversational AI, allowing teams to understand how users interact with AI products and improve performance. It is now expanding into AI reliability and governance, offering tools that monitor AI agents in real time and act as guardrails in production. Alongside its platform, Coxwave also works with enterprises to help them deploy AI across core business operations. $5M pre-series A funding led by L&S Venture Capital, with participation from existing investor KB Investment and new investors Hyundai Venture Investment, Hyundai Motor Company's ZERO1NE Ventures, and KDB Capital. Founder Gijung previously worked at Enterprix. Co-founder Joowon was previously a senior manager at Qraft Technologies.

AI agents that enable predictive, diagnostic and prescriptive intelligence across large industrial assets. Its solutions are for oil & gas, manufacturing and utilities, using AI to predict equipment failures, diagnose issues and recommend corrective actions before breakdowns occur. By converting large volumes of operational data into clear, actionable insights, operators improve uptime, reduce downtime and optimise plant performance. $6.7M in a funding round (a Series A?). Founded in Jan 2024, Valley based. Founders: CEO Prashant (Stanford Master's in Electrical Engineering) was a GM at GoDaddy; he started out as CTO of Andale Inc. (multi channel e-commerce platform); Co-Founder Sukrit ((IIT Kanpur '08) was at E&Y for six years, as well as Oyo, Snapdeal and Deutsche Bank. He also seems to continue being Founder & CEO of InteligenAI, an AI dev firm.

Logistics SaaS platform utilising deep-tech to reinvent supply-chain operations for sectors such as FMCG, manufacturing and e-commerce. The company offers an AI-powered Warehouse Management System (WMS) and a Transportation Management System (TMS) designed for high-volume, regulated enterprise logistics environments, which enables enterprises to replace manual routing with real-time, autonomous decision-making. FY25 numbers not out, FY24 revenue was ₹25.7CR. Clients include Walmart, Dabur, Godrej, Marico. $4M Series A led by Enrission India Capital in November 2025, joined by White Whale Venture Fund this month. Founded around 2017/2018, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Venktesh previously worked as Head of Supply Chain at ITC; Sabyasachi had earlier been a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Shanmukha had formerly co-founded Afferent Technologies and worked as a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Nitin is from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

AI-first MarTech (marketing-tech) platform built for D2C and eCommerce brands to turn traffic into revenue. It helps brands identify previously anonymous website visitors, personalise on-site journeys and improve conversions through products around identity resolution, intent-based advertising beyond cookies, and cart-recovery workflows. $5M Series A funding round led by Cornerstone Ventures, along with India Accelerator/Finvolve, Equentis Wealth Advisory Services, Grand Anicut Angel Fund, Razorpay Ventures, Rukum Sitara Fund, Ankurit Capital. Founded in Aug 2023, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Umair was previously the founder at Wigzo Technologies (marketing cloud for eCommerce); CTO Shamail was Director of Engineering at Cyware (SecOps); CBO Pratik was CBO at Wigzo by Shiprocket.

Vibe coding startup for non-technical users to build full stack, production ready web and mobile apps through simple natural-language prompts. Some numbers: currently at $15M in ARR, with 1M users who have built 1.5M apps so far. Undisclosed strategic investment from Google’s AI Futures Fund. Follows a Series A of $23M in Sep 2025 from Lightspeed, YC, Together). Founded in Aug 2024, SF based. Founders: CEO Mukund (Motilal Nehru NIT, Columbia) was the CTO of Dunzo for close to nine years; CTO Madhav (IIT BHU, Penn State) was an ML engineer at Dropbox, with engineering stints at Sigma Computing, Mixpanel, Amazon and Zenefits. Comps: Replit, Adept.

Startup offering high-performance optical connectivity solutions to address challenges in data movement for AI and high-performance computing systems. Their HBxIO platform integrates photonics with silicon using advanced packaging to facilitate faster, lower-power data transfer necessary for scaling large AI systems. The company plans to use the recent funding to accelerate product development and expand its R&D facilities across the US, India, and Taiwan. $33M in Series A round led by ICM HPQC Fund with participation from TDK Ventures, Systemiq Capital, Banpu Innovation & Ventures, G Vision Capital, Ajinomoto Group Ventures, AVITIC Innovation Fund. Founded in Sep 2023, San Jose and Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Vivek was the Director of R&D in the optical systems division at Broadcom Inc., having spent seven years as a design engineer at Intel; CPO Rebecca was the director of product management at Lightmatter and also the principal engineer and product line manager at Broadcom Inc. Comps: LightSpeed Photonics, which raised a $6.5M Pre-Series A a week ago from pi Ventures, Java and India Accelerator.