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.
Workforce optimization - field agent monitoring, attendance management, expense management. Seed round, amount undisclosed. Basudha, CEO, comes from Ericsson and Serco. Manoj was (or still is) the founder of VegaStack.
Creatives automation platform joining the race to provide higher conversions for sellers on eCommerce, with AI generated ads and catalogs. Their pro plan is <$10 a month. $2.7M seed round. Venus and Aneesh co-founded AppyHigh, developer of productivity and utility apps; Akshit was the Head of Data Science there as well as a Venture Partner at Shastra VC.
As the name might suggest, low-GI mithai made with stevia. ₹1.3CR pre-seed round. Angels in this round: Kavirut (OYO), Dhruva Dubey (Vishal Mega Mart), Rachna Bahadur (Wellness Forever). Prabhinder was a production executive at Nestle, before stints at Amazon, OYO, Flipkart.
Capsule hotels come to India! Starting with one location in Noida, the startup will provide affordable, hygienic, tech-driven stays in IT hubs and near religious sites. The budget hotel market in India is $20B and growing 13-15% a year. $500K pre-seed round. Nitin was the founder of 247around (acquired by Servify), repair and maintenance for home appliances. Himanshu comes with a decade of experience as a customer experience manager.
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.