Ayurvedic, toxin-free beauty and self-care brand for kids aged 3-14. Products across skincare, haircare and body care. ₹2.4CR (~$270k) pre-seed round. Founders: Kanika (B.Tech and M.Tech in Biotech) was a senior consultant at Eli Lilly for five years; Aditi (ISB) was an engineer at TCIL for five years; Labdhi (IIT Delhi) held growth roles at SARVA and Cuemath, along with a stint as Deputy GM at Jabong. Founded in Dec 2023. Comps: Whimsy Beauty, Sammmm (for teens; Fireside and Sauce VC).

Marketing platform to enable businesses to measure the carbon footprint of their media activities, optimise campaigns through its programmatic intelligence and offset emissions. Four AI agents - Campaign Builder, Creator, Optimiser and Analytics - bring together business goals, carbon offset goals and campaign management on a single platform. Targeting markets outside India. $2M round from undisclosed angels. Founder Neel is the former Chief Digital officer at Vodafone India and at L'Oréal India. He was then CEO, APAC at Pixis (Ai powered advertising solution for consumer brands). Founded in Aug 2025.

Creative marketing agency working across in branding, digital marketing, ATL, BTL and influencer campaigns. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Angels in the round: Rohan Vijay Mantri (Mantri Landmarks), Sanjay Katkar (Quick Heal Technologies), Monish Darda (Icertis), Satyen Patel (Sahyadri Industries). Founders: Mohit co-founded boostrapped ResQ EMS (ambulance booking) and SpottingHawk (HR services); Nahush founded Classomatrix (marketplace for coaching centres). Founded in Jan 2017.

Managed marketplace for construction materials - buying directly in bulk from brands, retailers, and suppliers, selling to end users (home builders, contractors, architects) at the lowest possible price. Focused on Eastern UP, targeting to open experience centers in multiple cities - Lucknow, Kanpur, Ayodhya, Varanasi and Prayagraj. ₹10CR (~$1.1M) seed round from an undisclosed angel investor. No information available on the founder.

Startup building "research manuals". Its first one, an UX for AI Research Manual, is a Notion-based manual built for students, product designers and startups who need a structured approach to build products with AI capabilities - learning the basics before they jump in to using products/tech. Seed round of an undisclosed amount from undisclosed investors. Founder Anil holds a dual role, as head of Product Design at ConverzAI (Seattle based, AI powered virtual recruiters). Founded in Dec 2020.

Enterprise messaging platform for the BFSI industry. $4M seed round which consummated three years ago but was announced this week - founded in Jul 2022, the company has now come out of stealth. The platform offers a compliance first communication infrastructure for banks and NBFCs - unifying integration, orchestration and analytics across more than eight channels including SMS, WhatsApp, email, push notifications and voice. Messaging costs come down by 20-30%, engineering efforts by 90% and all communication adheres to RBI, SEBI and TRAI mandates. Revenue targets: $2M for FY26, $5M for FY27, across India and other emerging markets. Founders Aniketh and Ashish are deeply experienced in this precise domain - they founded Solutions Infini, a Communications Platform as a Service (serving as CEO and CTO respectively) in 2008, which they built out over a decade before merging it with Ubiquity and rebranding into Kaleyra, serving in the merged company as CRO and CTO. Kaleyra was listed on the NYSE before being sold to Tata Comm. in 2023 for ~$100M.

DeepTech startup developing Large Behavioral Models (LBMs), i.e. a new class of AI for robots to understand complex behaviour, e.g. sequences of actions in the physical world. The US and UK are target markets - no information on launch, pilots, clients. ₹44.37CR ($5M) seed round. Founders Suraj and Aruna are both incubatees of Indian Statistical Insitute, Kolkota. They started Assessli in Aug 2022 out of college.

Describing itself as "Stripe for Voice AI", the company is building multilingual voice AI agents for enterprise. it aims to enable businesses, developers and BPOs to deploy human-like, low-latency voice agents across industries. $400K pre-seed round. Founders: Tushar Shinde and Nitish Tripathi (both IISc) worked together at Hypersonix Inc., Tushar then worked on product at OneCard. The third founder Nitish Mishra (IIT Madras) worked at Foxrobe (eCom) followed by SustainoMetric (consulting firm). Founded in Aug 2023.

Defence tech startup focused on autonomous drones. Flagship product Titan is qualified by the Indian armed forces and is a heavy-duty drone built to transport and deliver essential supplies. The second product, Fury, detects hostile drones up to 30km away and launches high speed interceptors (speed: 300km/hour). $2M pre-seed round. Founders: CEO Yeshwanth (IIT Bombay, founder in residence at EF) was Co-Founder & COO of AEREO (aerial mapping, fka AUS-Aarav, backed by JSW, 360 One, 3one4, growX) and Co-Founder & CTO at F-drones (critical logistics for the maritime industry). COO Hemaditya was an engineer at AEREO before building Protoezy as CEO (hardware design prototyping). Founded in Apr 2025.

AI first midcore gaming studio. Its first game, Arcado Champs, is a real time tower defence game built around original IP. Seed round. Gape Labs is the first investment from Lumikai Pixels, our pre-seed program to back exceptional founders building upon ideas with outsized potential. Founder Naren brings seven years of experience building consumer facing products in gaming, payments and lending, with product roles at Dream11 and ZestMoney.