Developer of service and delivery robots for hospitality, retail, QSR and healthcare. For example, its robots can undertake room service delivery, drive interactive promotions in-store, automate food delivery within a restaurant, and move medical supplies and meals within hospitals. Its robots are available via a subscription model (₹25,000-₹80,000 a month) to over 20 clients including Hilton and Reliance Smart. Building for the India market as well as the US/UK/MENA. ₹36CR (~$3.8M) Pre-Series A led by Alkemi. Founded in Oct 2022, Noida based. Founder & CEO Sanjeev spent seven years as Senior General Manager in Design & Technology at Nissan based in Japan, prior to which he was CTO at Diageo India (~five years) and RUMA Technology Head at Reckitt (nine years). His most recent stint was as Head of Strategy at digital transformation firm DigiTaiken.

Full-stack AI compute platform for enterprise and data center workloads. The company is developing what it calls its Omni Processing Unit (OPU) for the semiconductor industry, aimed at supporting AI inference, training, and reinforcement learning. The OPU integrates CPU, GPU, memory, and connectivity into a single architecture. In Nov 2025, it announced $100M in pre-orders for the OPU. $5M Series A led by Pavestone. $17.9M seed round in Feb 2025. Founded in Oct 2023, California based. Founders: CEO Shalesh (Wichita State University, Case Western Reserve University) was the Founder, CEO & CTO of Tanzanite Silicon Solutions (specialized chips that let servers share memory across machines), which was acquired by Marvell Technology. He was Senior Director of the Extreme Compute Processors & Accelerators Group at Intel, and Director, Hardware (ASIC) Engineering at Cisco for 15 years; CDO Supriya (Wichita State University '93; USC '95) was Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Tanzanite, and was Senior Director of Engineering at Intel (25 years); COO Guntrum was COO at Tanzanite and is also ex-Intel and Cisco (Principal Engineer, 12 years).

Fabless semiconductor startup building secure, high-performance System on Chips (SoCs) focused AI Vision applications, that enable machines to process and interpret visual data instantly. These are critical for applications such as smart surveillance, autonomous systems and industrial automation, where decisions need to be made on the local device, not the cloud. This comes at a time when the majority of India’s surveillance and CCTV infrastructure relies on imported, predominantly Chinese SoCs. $6M Pre-Series led by IAN Alpha Fund, along with existing investors Vertex Ventures, IvyCap Ventures. Vertex led the $3M seed round in Aug 2024. Founded in 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sunil (IIT Madras '92, IIM Bangalore '95) was Director- APAC at Broadcom, led new platforms and solutions at Intel India, and co-founded Zenoti (SaaS for spas); Co-Founder & Head of System Engineering Renuka (RV College of Engineering '92) is also ex-Broadcom (Associate Technical Director) and was a design engineer at Beceem Communications and Cypress Semiconductor; Co-Founder & Head of Technical Engineering Dinesh (BIET '94, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka '97) was Director of Engineering at Intel Corporation for seven years and is also ex-Cypress Semiconductor.

Fabless semiconductor company developing REDEFINE, a runtime reconfigurable core processor designed for use cases in data centres, AI infrastructure and high-performance computing. Its many-core architecture allows hardware to reconfigure itself in real time, which means a single chip can handle multiple applications without needing separate hardware. Commercial launch in 2027. ₹42CR (~$4.4M) raised from Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures, Colossa Ventures and Navam Capital as part of a Series A round which closes at ₹80CR. The company had closed ₹38.4CR (~$4.3M) earlier, in Oct 2025 from IAN Alpha Fund, Speciale Invest, IvyCap Ventures, Golden Sparrow Ventures, IIMA Ventures, DeVC. Bangalore based, founded in Jun 2006 by Ranjani Narayan and S.K. Nandy, with Deepak Shapeti joining as CEO in 2021. Founders: CEO Deepak (BMS College of Engineering '03; Stanford '06) was Co-Founder & COO of Scool (mentorship platform), was Head of Strategy at TutorMate, and Director of Rupak Enterprises (API manufacturer) for a decade; CTO Ranjani (IISc PhD '89) was a technical lead at HP for a decade; S.K. Nandy has been a Professor at IISc since 1982.

Surveillance-technology company building AI-powered systems for defence and commercial use. The company develops imaging platforms that provide real-time, actionable insights across land, air, and aerospace applications. Its technology is deployed with the Indian Army and Indian Navy, and across Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), India Optel Limited, and L&T Defence. ₹35CR round led by Exfinity Ventures with existing investors Blume, Mela Ventures, Venture Catalysts Group Angel Fund. Founded in 2017, Bangalore based. Founders: Sandeep (Gujarat University '01, IIM Calcutta '04) has been the chairman of Optimized Solutions (automated test equipment, monitoring and automation) for 21 years; Dharin (IISc) was a principal engineer at MediaTek for two years, before which he was co-founder of Immensa Semiconductors for two years. He was with Texas Instruments for over a decade. Purvi (KS School of Business Management '02) was Chief Strategy Officer at Paperchase (accountancy firm for the hospitality industry) and has been a non-executive director at Optimized Solutions since 2009.

Agentic-AI led platform that helps users check, build, and improve their credit score. By integrating with major bureaus and payment systems, it provides actionable insights, credit-building tools, and bill payment features to drive better credit behavior. Current scale undisclosed. At the time of the last round in Sep 2025, the company had 2M users and had processed ₹100CR in credit repayments. Founded in Jan 2024, Bengaluru based. ₹130CR (~$14M) round led by Accel. Investors that led the $8M seed round in Sep 2025, Lightspeed and Z47, along with angels including Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa (Meesho) participated. Founder & CEO Utkrishta (IIT Kharagpur) was previously Chief Experience Officer at Meesho for five years, before which he was in the founding team of Hopscotch.

AI-native cybersecurity company building platforms for real-time threat detection and response. Its products use continuous learning to identify anomalies, prevent breaches, and secure digital identities and data. It serves clients across BFSI, fintech, and enterprise, including Canara Bank, Karnataka Bank, DCB Bank, CSB, NCRTC and BVH. ₹16CR Pre-Series A led by Unicorn India Ventures. Other investors in the round: SB Investment (UAE), Prakash Govindan (Gradiant), Himanshu Singhal (inMorphis). Founded in 2021, based in Hyderabad. Founders: CEO JP Mishra (IIM Calcutta '13, IIT Mandi '26) was previously the founder and CEO of DA Algorithms LLP for four years, before which he was a senior manager of data science at Sutherland Healthcare Solutions.

AI-powered hiring platform that uses autonomous agents to streamline recruitment workflows. Its agents handle tasks like background verification and candidate sourcing, enabling faster, more accurate, and scalable hiring. By combining multiple AI agents, the platform connects data, decisions, and workflows to simplify talent acquisition. The company’s flagship agent, Trace, is now used by nearly 300 enterprise customers across India and Europe for automated background verification. $8 million Series A funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, with IIFL co-investing as a strategic partner. Founded in May 2020, based in Delhi. Founders: Jaibir (Pepperdine University '20) was previously a partner in the Nihal Singh Family Office (his family's) for six years. Armaan (UCLA '20) joined almost straight out of college, during which time he was an intern at SoftBank Investment Advisors and the WEF.

AI-powered growth platform that helps brands scale revenue by identifying gaps, optimizing performance, and automating key functions across digital commerce. Acting as a data-driven growth agent, it analyzes patterns, surfaces opportunities, and enables teams to make faster, more effective decisions. $15M Series A ed by Susquehanna (SIG), along with existing investors InfoEdge Ventures and Kae Capital. Founded in 2024, Gurugram based. Founders: CEO Manas (IIM Bangalore '07, IIT Delhi '05) was in the core leadership team at Blinkit for 6 years, before which he was a Director in Standard Chartered Bank for a year; CBO Srikumar (IIT Bombay '07) was the head of category at Blinkit for six years, before which he was a senior manager in the supply chain department at Snapdeal; CTO Nitish (IIIT Allahabad '12) was previously the director of technology at Blinkit for five years, before which he was in PayU Payments for three years.

Also known simply as Grid. AI native operations intelligence platform for utilities across power, water, and gas. The company enables real time data integration, predictive analytics and workflow automation to help utilities improve efficiency, reliability and decision making. it works with over 20 utilities globally and manages data from millions of smart meters. ₹22.5CR round, likely a Series A. Founded in 2017, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Udit (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata '14) was a data scientist for a year each at Quizizz, SocialCops, MuSigma; COO Shreyansh (RV College Of Engineering '15) was a data analyst at Mu Sigma for two years; CTO Aayush (RV College Of Engineering '15) was a data engineer at LogMeIn and Citrix for two years each; co-founder Shaurya (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai '15) was an account manager at Google for two and a half years.