Hyderabad-based wellness brand focused on plant-based nutrition and clean-label supplements. Earthful builds products around whole foods and natural ingredients, offering vitamins, minerals and functional blends positioned as everyday nutrition for urban consumers. Operating as a D2C-first brand with a growing offline presence, the company aims to address gaps in preventive health and mindful eating through transparent formulations and education-led branding. ₹26CR Pre-Series A funding round led by Fireside Ventures and V3 Ventures. Atrium Angels also participated in the round. Founders: Veda previously worked in category operations at Meesho; Sai was previously a VP at GVV Construction.

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.

Technology-led K–12 school management company that runs and manages schools - spanning academics, daily operations, finance, HR, compliance and technology. This is end to end school management as a service. Currently operating six schools across ten campuses, with 11,000 students. This round will go towards international expansion. ₹40CR loan positioned as a Pre-Series A funding round by the company, from Axis Finance, the NBFC arm of Axis Bank. Bhubaneswar based, founded in Sep 2022. Founders: CEO Swoyan is the CEO of non-profit schools operator ODM Educational Group, CEO of edtech Digichamps and before that, a management trainee at Helpchat; CBO Harshit was a program manager at 1K Kirana Bazaar and before that, a management trainee at Aditya Birla Capital.

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.

Electric tractor company developing a range of heavy duty tractors, with two products to start with (50HP and 75HP tractors). Unlike most EVs, its tractors are at price parity with the uprfront cost of diesel tractors. The goal is to significantly reduce operating costs by up to 80% for farmers who rely on diesel, and lower emissions. $6M Series A round led by pi Ventures, with participation from Singularity AMC, and existing investors Advantedge Founders and Micelio Fund. The $2.2M seed round was covered by us in July 2025. Founded in July 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Anoop was previously the director of R&D programs at Ola; COO Ravi Kulkarni previously co-founded NAE Mobility and was the head of proto and process engineering at Olectra Greentech.

Home-loan platform simplifying the mortgage journey for first time and repeat borrowers. Built on top of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), it runs a guided three-step process that evaluates a customer’s profile, identifies the most suitable lenders, and manages the home loan process end-to-end. Its assisted, tech-led model aims to remove the usual friction around documentation, eligibility checks and lender coordination, while also helping banks and NBFCs process home-loan applications faster and more consistently. ₹69CR Series A round. A combination of Seed and Pre-Series A rounds led by Peak XV were covered by us in Jan 2025. Founded in Aug 2023, Gurgaon based. Founders: Raghuveer comes from PolicyBazaar, where he worked as the business head of corporate insurance; Rameshwar was the CTO of Freecharge and CarDekho; Rashi was previously the business head at Velocity and an associate director at ZestMoney.

Construction startup building modular, portable and reusable structures through a cloud manufacturing network of partner factories. It produces factory made low-rise structures including modular hospitals, schools, site offices and has delivered over 1,500 buildings in 21 Indian states and parts of Africa for clients such as the Indian Navy and Tata Steel in timelines of under 30 days. Cumulative revenue of ₹200CR since inception (FY25 not disclosed) and profitable. $7.83M Series A round, its first institutional round. The round also saw participation from SVAS Strategic Management, Sigma and angels Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), Sanjiv Rangrass (ex ITC). Founded in Aug 2018, Chennai based. Both co-founders, CEO Shree Ram and COO Gobinath were previously summer interns at Larsen and Toubro and started Modulus Housing straight after graduating from IIT Madras in 2018.

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.

Fintech infrastructure company and the parent of Finvu AA, one of India’s early RBI-licensed account aggregators. The company builds API-led tools that help banks, NBFCs and fintechs securely access and use customer-consented financial data. Its platform supports bank statement analysis, loan monitoring, collections and multi account aggregator connectivity, helping lenders and wealth managers make quicker, more informed decisions for 50 million customers so far. $15M Series A round. Other investors in the round: IIFL Fintech Fund. Founded in Oct 2019, Pune based. Founders: Manoj was previously the co-founder of dev firm Fourcloud; Munish was previously a VP in the Data and Innovations team at Barclays. Both founded Finvu together in 2016.

Manufacturer of EV batteries and battery systems, supporting the transition to electric mobility by offering reliable, locally-made battery solutions for EV two­-wheelers, three-wheelers and small commercial vehicles. By building in-house battery design and production capabilities, it aims to dependence on imports. ₹8CR Pre-Series A round led by Inflection Point Ventures, with participation from Indian Angel Network, Chennai Angels, Keiretsu Forum. Founded in Jan 2018. Founder Ashwin (Purdue, Stanford - Master's in Electrical Engineering) was previously an Incubatee at Venture Center (a science and tech incubator in Pune) and a Research Associate at the Center for Techonology, Innovation and Economic Research.