$1.5M seed round. Founders: CEBiotech company developing a vaccine targeting obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver. Funding is towards the the preclinical development of UT009, its immunotherapeutic candidate, and eventually Phase I human trials. "UT009 represents a paradigm shift by differentiating it from current obesity drugs by addressing the root causes of weight gain". $1.5M seed round. Founders: CEO Gopi (VIT) was the CEO of Kyntox Biotech (diagnostics kits for snakebites); co-founder Uday was Chief Scientific Officer at Dr Reddy's and has been the CEO of two nutraceuticals companies since. Founded in Mar 2024.O Gopi (VIT) was the CEO of Kyntox Biotech (diagnostics kits for snakebites); co-founder Uday was Chief Scientific Officer at Dr Reddy's and has been the CEO of two nutraceuticals companies since. Founded in Mar 2024.

Man-made fibre (MMF) manufacturing for large fashion retailers in India - clients include Vishal Megamart, Westside, Shoppers Stop and Ritu Kumar. Provides end to end design and manufacturing using MMF, working with weavers, mills and processors in Surat. Digitising the supply chain optimises for reliability and speed. ₹13.75CR ($1.6M) seed round. Founder Ramya (XLRI) is from Infosys, Hewitt, Accenture and was a Founding Partner at 6Y Collective (event wear company). Founded in Surat in Feb 2023.

Building a house of brands in the architectural and interior design space - the company will partner with existing omnichannel brands - investing in them and supporting them with tech, "internet-led manufacturing" and distribution. The idea is to modernize fragmented segments in interiors - sanitaryware, furniture, kitchen, wardrobes, furnishings, lighting, hardware. The company has already partnered with four brands - FIAMARC (distributor for European brands), The House of W (bathroom fittings distributor), ColourCoats (surface coatings) and Metalia (metal building facades). Rumoured $20M seed round at a $120M valuation. Angels include Siddharth Shah (PharmEasy), Niket Shah (Motilal Oswal), Shalibhadra Shah (Motilal Oswal), Kabir Narang (B Capital). The three founders are co-founders of PharmEasy. Founded in Nov 2024.

The company runs ENQBooks, an AI powered lead management platform - automating workflows, scoring leads and improving conversions. Since launch it has generated 2M leads and is used by 100 professionals across industries. Funding from an undisclosed angel. Originally incubated at AIC-BIMTECH. Founded in Oct 2023. The two founders, Divya and Keshav, have been running KBCD, an IT services firm, for over a decade.

Carbon emissions management platform. Combines SaaS tools with a network of solutions providers to provide the typical services offered, i.e. carbon measurement across the supply chain, benchmarking, reporting and compliance. 30 clients include Thermax, Delhivery and VW Group. $3M seed round. Founders: CEO Akash was most recently at Arista Networks, co-founders Rohit and Ravi were respectively co-founder and engineer at Arkin Net (acquired by VMware), the fourth co-founder Hemant Joshi (not linked here) is a Founding Partner of Pentathlon Ventures, the SaaS-focused VC firm. Founded in Apr 2022. Comps: GreenStitch (focuses on fashion/textiles, funded by Equirus/IvyCap, Warmup), Fitsol (focuses on manufacturing clients, funded by Transition VC), Sustainiam (also provides certificate issuance and trading, funded by Orios).

Creative agency covering storytelling, ad film production, digital campaign execution, influencer marketing. Clients include Swiggy, Netflix, BGMI, Mumble, CRED, Ather, Amazon Prime Video. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Naveed was head of production at All India Bakchod (AIB) for five years and executive producer at Only Much Louder; Aakash headed social media at AIB for eight years. Founded in Apr 2020.

Omnichannel Gen AI stack to help enterprises drive sales conversion. The company drives sales automation 24/7 across voice, text-base chat and digital, and provides conversation insights. Clients across industries/geographies range from Giva (jewellery brand) and Emaar to Mashreq Bank, Aditya Birla Capital. $1.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Growth Sense, Growth91, angels (Ankit Nagori, Sanjay Suri, Amit Lakhotia, Mekin Maheshwari). Founders: Ajay is a Venture Partner at First Cheque, was an Associate Director for New Initiatives at PayU and a GM for Market Expansion at CARS24; Hanit looked at business finance for North and East India at Udaan, prior to which she was at EXL; Kushal is from a sales background (Prestige Group, Hindustan Coca Cola). All three are from IIM. Founded in Jan 2022.

SaaS for childcare centres, from standalone preschools to chains that run such centres. "Aims to become the global operating system for childcare centres" - used by 3000 centres across 56 countries. Provides the full suite of SaaS tools - parent communication, learning and assessment tools, enrolment, attendance tracking and billing/payments. $2.5M seed round. Founders: CEO Navneet was an engineer at Media iQ for five years; CTO Sourabh and CPO Purva were also at Media iQ and at Oracle - Purva was also briefly Director of Product Management at Paytm Ads. Founded in Mar 2018. Comps: Brightwheel (SF, $55M Series C from Addition, Emerson Collective); Lillio (Canadian, $50M Series B from Bain Capital Double Impact); LineLeader (PE owned).

B2B platform for SMEs and D2C brands to manage their export operations - from logistics (shipping, warehousing, returns, customs, insurance) to compliance to marketplace solutions (enabling sales on Amazon/Tiktok/Walmart). "The company aims to make international selling as seamless as domestic commerce." Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Used by 1000 customers to ship to over 220 countries. Founders: two of the founders, Anshul and Darpan, built two businesses together - Sponsoredby (to connect event organizers with sponsors) and Paapos (on demand delivery); the third co-founder Sanchit was an engineer at Walmart and Uber, and co-founded Shyp (B2B logistics, YC23). Founded: May 2024.

Fintech platform focused on lending and insurance for dairy farmers in rural India. The lending model captures industry specific data (e.g. milk production, weather patterns, cash flow trends). Present across MH, Karnataka and UP with ₹55CR in asset backed loans disbursed. Also provides a team of para-vets to farmers, helping them manage nutrition, hygiene, and overall cattle health. Works closely with dairy cooperatives (e.g. AMUL), lenders (RBL, Shivalik etc.) and insurers (IFFCO Tokio etc.) $2.6M Pre-Series A round, not seed. Seed round by Incubate, Seedstars, Sparrow VC. Founding team of veteran bankers: Arun comes from Citibank (Head of Structured Trade), Deutsche Bank, ICICI, HSBC, HDFC; Indrajyoti is from Innoterra and spent 15 years at HDFC; Ravi is from Yes Bank; Rahul (CTO, not linked here) is from Nokia and most recently Innoviti Payment Solutions (VP-Tech). Founded in mid 2022.