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.

Enterprise software provider using an AI-first approach to modernise core business systems as an alternative to consulting-led digital transformation. It adds an intelligence layer on top of ERPs and CRMs, helping companies automate workflows, analyse data in real time and unify information across departments. Current traction/customers unknown. $3.5 million Pre-Series A round. Founded in Nov 2023, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Rajiv was the Managing Director of Reddington Group and CEO of Indian Energy Exchange. He spent almost two decades at HP; CRO Rajesh serves as an independent director at Xerox India and is the founder of Scalorg (a GTM accelerator). He was SVP of Global Alliances at Dell, where he spent a decade; COO Rajnish was previously VPand Head of India and the Subcontinent in Zebra Techonologies and also spent two decades at HP; CTO Ankur was VP of Operations at Mode Mobile and spent almost seven years at Intel.

Startup developing optical interconnect technology to speed up how data moves inside AI/high performance computing systems. The company builds small, energy-efficient optical modules that can replace traditional copper connections, offering faster data transfer, lower power use and a lighter hardware footprint. The tech is built for AI data centres, edge devices, 5G networks, aerospace systems and other compute-heavy industries, positioning the company as an emerging enabler of next-generation data infrastructure. $6.5M Pre-Series A round led by pi Ventures. Other investors in the round: 500 Global, Indian Accelerator, 8X Ventures, Java Capital. Founded in 2019 as LightSpeed AI Labs. Part of the Entrepreneur First Bangalore cohort. Bangalore/Singapore based. Founders: CEO Rohin was earlier the R&D Chief at MyTi Technetronics, an R&D company in electronics design; CTO Ramana was the Director of Research at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

YC Winter 2021. An AI-led insurtech company modernising how commercial insurance is underwritten. Its flagship offering, “CURE” (Centralised Underwriting Risk Environment), brings all the key undewriting steps - collecting submissions, reading documents, doing research, scoring risk and managing workflows - into one system, helping underwriters work faster (by up to 85%) and make more accurate decisions. $7M Series A round led by Stellaris Venture Partners. The company is SF and Bengaluru based. Founded in Apr 2020. Founder and CEO Akash Agarwal (IIT Roorkee), previously worked at Playment (data labelling infra) as a project manager.

Noida-based AI research startup building multilingual LLMS and enterprise AI tools for businesses in India and other emerging markets - for example,it combines natural language search and data from 700M professionals to drive lead generation and talent acquisition for its clients. The goal is to "democratize artificial intelligence for the next 3 billion users in emerging markets". $10M Series A round. Other investors in the round: Korea Development Bank Capital, Daekyo Investment, and DS & Partners. Founded in 2018, the company started out as McKinley & Rice, an IT and HR cross-border outsourcing firm. Founders: CEO Felix was an attorney in Korea.

AI led FinOps automation platform that helps finance teams with AI-led insights across finance functions - accounting, treasury and MIS reporting. This drives down reconcilation times and time taken to close books by up to 80%. No information on current customers. Founded in 2021, Hyderabad based. $7.35M Series A round led by Valorshield (no information available on this investor). The three founders are from Open, the neobank - CEO Satya was SVP and Division Head - Contexual Banking; CBO Nilotpal was VP of Sales.; Raghavendra was VP & Business Head of Lending & Wealth. Prior to this, the three worked together at Optobizz (founded by Satya), a GST and financial automation platform, which was acquired by Open in 2021 for $5M in cash+stock.

Mumbai-based music licensing marketplace that offers brands, creators and content producers access to a library of over 12,000 copyright-cleared music tracks and sound effects. It combines AI-driven tagging, digital rights management (DRM) workflows and a transparent royalty sharing model to simplify licensing for creators, while also enabling musicians and labels to monetise their work more equitably. It has 30K creators and 180 B2B clients onboard, and has paid out ₹4.5CR in royalties so far. The startup is building partnerships across Bollywood, regional labels and international publishers. ₹4CR raised in the first tranche of a Pre-Series A. Founded in Dec 2021. Founders Gaurav and Meghna built Songfest, a creative agency, together. Meghna also earlier led marketing teams in several companies - HUBILO (the webinar platform), YesssWorks (coworking) and FundTonic.

Mobile-first social gaming platform that connects gamers, creators and publishers through community clubs, live game integrations and creator monetisation features. 30M downloads till date. Will now focus on AI-powered personalisation, creator tools and global expansion. FY25 revenue of $7.8M. $10.5M Series A. Founded in Apr 2022. Founders: Parth was previously the Founder and CEO of EWar Games, an RMG based esports platform, before which he worked at JPMorgan as an associate; CTO Rahul was also CTO at EWar, prior to which he was an UI developer; COO Nauman was the head of e-sports at India Today Gaming.

SaaS platform building customer-support with voice-first, emotionally-aware agents. The company’s platform is designed for online ordering/e-commerce companies (used by Doordash) and regulated industries like finance, telecommunications and healthcare and enables large companies to deploy AI agents that reason in real time, recall context, and reduce reliance on traditional call-centres, while handling complex policy logic at scale. $61M Series A round. Founded in Jul 2023, SF based. Founders started straight out of IIT Kharagpur: CEO Varun declined a Stanford PhD and a quant trading job to build this, while CTO Esha turned down a systems-engineering offer at a high-frequency-trading firm.