Governance and security platform for enterprises using AI. Clients can automatically discover and manage what employees are doing with AI models and services across the organizations - CIOs can rationalize costs, while CISO's can streamline the onboarding of safe AI use cases and prevent data leakage. The founders built Arkin Net, sold to VMware. Palo Alto and Pune based. $10M seed round.

Premium apparel brand that launched earlier this month. Catering to the premiumisation trend, while the majority of new brands have entered fast fashion. One of the co-founders has a family business in manufacturing/export. ₹6CR seed round.

Power converters for clean energy products - EV chargers and battery swapping stations. Also developing solutions for clean energy storage and for hydrogen electrolysers. Has deployed 14K power converters across 20 clients in India. Dynolt's expertise is in control systems using general-purpose microcontrollers and software, instead of traditional application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which gives it a cost and efficiency advantage. $1.7M seed round.

AI-powered channel loyalty and rewards platform. Helps brands reward their channel partners as well as drive customer loyalty, engagement, education and rewards. 100 clients include Coca Cola, Pepsi, Hyundai, Nestle, Asian Paints etc. and their 6M channel partners. ₹16CR (~$1.9M) seed round. Other investors in the round: Ever Grow Capital, Nine ALPS, Hemant Jain (KLJ Group), Nitin Jain (OfBusiness).

Online English and Maths tutoring for 4-12 year olds. "Bambinos Doodle", an AI-enabled camera, live-streams a child's writing to their teacher for instant feedback. Current revenue undisclosed, targeting ₹100CR ARR by December. ₹1CR round by Shark Tank angels (company was on Season 4). Last raised a $500K seed round in 2021 at which time it covered a broader set of categories (music, dance, art).

Robots for moving things around within warehouses, factories and logistics centers, also known as autonomous mobile robots (AMR). 15 enterprise customers (Samsung, Tata, Bajaj etc.) across the US, India, Singapore and Japan. Brijesh CA is the 4th co-founder, not linked below. Recently appointed a CEO for the US business. $2M seed round.

Real-time and wireless intelligent patient monitoring across hospitals, ambulances and home care. FDA-approved hardware and software is used by over 200 hospitals in India, reducing the burden on nurses and reducing Code Blue's by 90%. Undisclosed seed round, the company had raised $1.6M earlier, including from this round's investor.

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). Bengaluru based, NIT Durgapur grads. $500K seed round. Other investors include Marwah Sports Group.

It was inevitable the pickleball craze would bounce outside the court and get funding - the setup doesn't need much space, the ROI is great. GoRally operates four centers across Bengaluru with 15 courts, including a 15,000 square feet indoor facility near Indiranagar. Will expand to eight centres and 42 courts by year end (two of which will be paddle courts). $750K pre-seed round. Other investors include Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal (Ultrahuman), Viren Singhvi (ex-American Razor Safety Co.), Kartik Kapoor (East Africa Racquet Sports), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Deepak Singh (Gameskraft), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures).

Unified finance and banking platform for mid-size businesses ($10-40M revenue scale). The platform takes care of 1) Billing - ensuring bills are pulled in from various sources (email, slack) and errors in billing are automatically addressed, 2) Accounting - with AI replacing the need for large inhouse accounting teams and 3) Banking - automatically taking care of payments. Fundraise coincides with the company coming out of closed beta. The founders worked together on games and gamification at Flipkart. $2.8M seed round. Other investors in this round: Neon Fund, IIMA Ventures and angels - Sriharsha Majety (Swiggy), Mohit Kumar (Ultrahuman), Naiyaa Saagi (EDTLife, ex-MyGlamm), Nitin Gupta (Uni), Nishith Rastogi (Locus).