Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
Building a network of nano satellites for enterprises to run compute in lower earth orbit. Their test satellite was launched on ISRO's PSLV in December. ₹5.5CR pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: AC Ventures. Ronak, a software engineer, spent 12 years as co-founder of Reliance acquired NowFloats.
No-code platform for micro SaaS startups to build web apps. "Fuzen provides the most robust backend building capabilities among NoCode platforms. And being able to build a fully functional backend is a game changer for our customers who are looking to build SaaS apps." $100K pre-seed round.
Beauty and wellness supplements, sold online and in partnership with VLCC. Expanding via retail - dermatologists, pharmacies, and wellness centers. ₹3CR pre-seed round, following on its ₹6CR raise last year (AC Ventures, GSF, Fluid Ventures). Shreyansh comes from Alcatel and Whirlpool. Anousha is a former model.
Debt resolution platform for banks and NBFCs. Product offering is almost identical to CredResolve (also funded in the same week, see below). $3.5M seed round. The founders are two of the four co-founders behind digital lending startup Kissht - Karan was CTO/Sonali was COO over there.
Micro-investing platform that rounds up your online transactions and invests the spare change in mutual funds. $3M seed round. Satyajeet was the co-founder of Grospire, an aquaponics startup.
Chain of fertility clinics, with the first location now open in Whitefield, BLR (fertility testing, consultations, egg freezing, and IVF), and scaling to 10 locations in NCR, MUM, BLR by 2027. Started as a commmunity product with 40K members currently, along with online consultations. $1M pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Galaxy. Founders: Dipalie comes from Adobe (BLR/SF), Nidhi was with Earlsfield Capital Partners.
SaaS tools for debt collection. Works with over 20 banks and NBFCs. Automates constant communication with borrowers during the tenure of their loan along with customised payment links, sends digital notices, solves litigations online and provides a multi-lingual field collection app. $1.1M seed round. Founders: Balaji, IIT Roorkee, comes from WheelsEye Finance (unsecured credit for fleet owners); Prashanth is a software lead from WheelsEye; Vijay, IIT Roorkee, brings product experience, also ex-WheelsEye.
Building India's first dedicated PC and console game publishing house, to publish world-class indie and AA games for global audiences. Three upcoming releases announced for this year. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Deepak (co-founder) built Street Lamp Games (hyper casual games) for eight years; while Mantena (co-founder) most recently spent 5 years at PTW (ptw.com), as VP of Products. Other investors in this round: Sridhar Muppidi (YesGnome), Tanay Tayal (Ex-Moonfrog), the founders of Playsimple, Vatsal Chintalpati (ExMachina Investment Partners), Rick Herman (Ex-Sony)
Home decor products capturing "the essence of Indian traditions while making it relevant for modern homes". $1M seed round (mix of primary+secondaries). Co-Founder Neha was a Buyer at Trent and Shoppers Stop.
Spacetech startup which has built India’s first drone-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. $1.5M seed round. Tapan, the Chairman, is the former Director of the Space Applications Center (SAC) at ISRO; Soumya, CEO, worked at Hike, Creo, Intel; and co-built Summachar, an edtech startup with Urmi, the CTO.