Solutions for the food industry focused on "mobile smart factories". Its core product, Mfreezer, flash freezes produce at origin, ensuring food quality and simplifying supply chains. Ullas, the founder, had brief stints in the UK at Fiat Chrysler, Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren; before running UE Tech Ltd (business description N/A) in the UK for nine years. $260K pre-seed round.

Cross border payments for the world. Merchants globally (not just in India) can accept payments from 150 countries, using 25 payment methods, with a 90% success rate. $1.1M pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Nitin Gupta (Uni Cards/PayU), Maninder Gulati (Oyo/Lightspeed), Raymond Russell (Boom Supersonic), Preethi Kasireddy (a16z), Nishant Verman (Flipkart). Founders: Rishabh, the CEO, BITS Pilani + LBS, worked at Prodigy Finance (cross border payments) and briefly at Wise (fka TransferWise). Ayush, the CPTO, IIT-Roorkee, worked at Tournafest and briefly at IndiGG. Comps: Infinity, funded on 6 Feb 2025, is tackling this in a different way.

Workplace SaaS to simplify project management workflows for developers. OneAsk, its AI agent, is designed to manage the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), integrating project management, communication, API development, and deployment. $3.3M seed round. Other investors in the round:

Personalized therapy for special-needs children. Therapists work with kids at home, with this funding to be used towards setting up centres and special schools. 1 in 8 children in India grapple with neurodivergent conditions, including autism, ADHD, mental retardation, down syndrome or learning disorders broadly. Vikas Deep, the 4th co-founder, is not linked below. ₹2CR pre-seed round.

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.