Cybersecurity startup providing agentic AI for real-time, multimodal deepfake detection. It's fintech clients use it to detect deepfakes in their video KYC processes. $600K pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Soonicorn Ventures. SF/BLR based. Piyush, CEO, was a research fellow at MIT and CEO of Manush Labs, a corporate innovation lab. The CTO and CDO are from IT services firm Calance.

AI courses, internships and certification. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Prashant ran Jetihire, a recruiting firm, prior to this.

Aggregator for ambulances and healthcare professionals, with 650 ambulances and 25 hospital partners, operational in Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune. Also provides air ambulances, train ambulances at affordable rates, medical air cargo services and doctor visits at home. ₹1.7CR pre-seed round from existing investors. Kishore, CEO, was head of ops and business at RED.Health, a competing provider. Shaik Mehtab, the COO, is also from RED.Health.

University admissions platform for global education. Expert guidance is combined with tools to identify the right colleges, courses and scholarships, along with an AI tool which has studied over a million past admissions to come up with a tailor made application strategy. A 6 month subscription package offers the online tools, with the Elite package offering expert support. $2M seed round.

Mobile games publisher. Focuses on hybrid-casual games in collaboration with 10 Indian studios. Has crossed $1M ARR in Feb (4x of Nov 2024's number) and 1M downloads with its top titles - Seek & Find and Nova Solitaire. $3M seed round. Existing investors DeVC and Visceral Capital also participated. Anurag, the CEO, was Co-Founder at Wakao (social video app); ex-Swiggy, ex-Snapdeal.

Unified data engine for security and observability. Companies are spending 30-40% of their cloud budget on observability, but struggle maintain a single long-term repository that serves developers, security teams and compliance officers. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Both founders are engineers, IIT Kanpur and IIT-B.

Female wellness and hygiene brand catering to Tier 2/3 cities. ₹3CR pre-seed round. Other investors: BeyondTeQ Ventures, Black Pepper Holding.

Another month, another LAMF (Loan Against Mutual Funds) product gets funded (see Quicklend, funded 5th Feb). LAMFs are available at rates starting from 10.5%, vs. ~30% for personal loans. Now expanding into lending against stocks, insurance and digital assets. ₹9.2CR round. Ashutosh is ex-Navi and Swiggy, Aryan is ex-BrowserStack.

Ayurvedic skincare brand, sells on Nykaa in India and Sephora in the UK, now launching with Sephora in the US. Part of the Sephora Accelerate program. $5M seed round. The company last raised a seed round in 2022. Diipa is an influencer (2M followers on IG).

fka Gyaan AI. Customer journey management platform for SaaS companies to bridge the gap between customer acquisition and customer success. SaaS teams currently use an average of 14 disconnected tools to manage these functions. $7.8M seed round. This is the second deal by Dell's venture arm in the last month, following Singulr AI. SF and Pune based. Founder Sonny Aulakh was most recently VP of Products, Solutions & Vertical Marketing at Pure Storage. Coincides with the appointment of a CEO and CRO, who bring leadership experience from Palo Alto Networks, EMC, and most recently Securiti.ai.