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.
Chain of healthcare clinics in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities combined with telemedicine. In the last year, the company has "facilitated" 100K consultants. It onboards doctors across multiple specialties for online consultations, and partners with local pharmacies and healthcare providers to opens satellite clinics. It plans to launch over 500 "phygital" centers in the next 24 months. ₹4CR seed round. Founded in July 2021. Founders Dr. Vishesh Kasliwal managed two family-run hospitals in Indore; Rachita Kasliwal is a former marketing executive.
Financial infrastructure platform building a real-time cross border payments system that eliminates the need for pre-funded liquidity (banks usually park large sums of money in different currencies to enable instant payments, which lies idle in these accounts). $5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Transpose Platform VC, Polymorphic Capital, Tykhe Ventures, and Contribution Capital. Founded in Jan 2025, launched in April. Founders: CEO Prashanth is a Venture Partner at Woodstock, the Web3 fund, and was at BCG; CTO Manish was CTO at Amazon Pay India and led tech at Lendingkart; COO Abhishek was Founder & CEO of Nitro Network (a decentralized communication network).
Beauty and personal care startup that will launch its first brand this quarter. Starting with a premium offering in the haircare space. ₹7CR round. Founded in Jan 2025 by Founder & CEO Siddharth, who spent five years at Honasa (MamaEarth's parent co.), building two of their brands - Dr. Sheth's and Staze Beauty.
AI-led autonomy software stack for drones and unmanned systems, which allows them to operate without GPS, any comms support or operator intervention. Working on pilots with the Indian Navy and Indian Army, on projects such as ship-to-ship drone delivery in difficult weather conditions. $1M pre-seed round led by the GM for Taiwan & SE Asia at ASML - a key supplier to the semiconductor industry. Now plans to raise ~$8M in a seed round. Incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2019. The startup is named after its founder Vinayak Tsalla, who was Chief Designer and a subject matter expert on unmanned aerial systems at Bharat Forge. His Master's thesis in Sweden's Linköping University was on "Design and Analysis of a VTOL Hybrid Unmanned Aerial System for Long Range Human Organ Transport".
Runs wealthtech platform MIDASX, which functions as a multi-asset class marketplace as a service - offering stock baskets, research calls, corporate FDs, model portfolios, bonds, MLDs, and unlisted equities in one place. This is a B2B2C offering - allowing financial advisors, brokers and distributors to create microsites with this multi-asset offering to their investors. This comes with compliance and an admin/backend for their clients. ₹12CR seed round.
Recycling company focused on India's growing solar waste problem. They recycle end-of-life solar panels, recovering more than 95% of materials - glass, silicon, silver, copper, aluminum. India's solar adoption could generate about 1.2M tons of photovoltaic waste by 2040, much of which is hazardous. Panels are sourced from asset developers, EPC firms, manufacturers and dismantlers. 2,000 metric tons in their pipeline. ₹5CR pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Oorjan Cleantech, Gautam Das. Founded in 2024.
B2B e-commerce platform that specializes in building materials. The company provides a line of credit to emerging architects, contractors and builders, powered by NBFCs like Muthoot Finance and Rupifi. ₹6CR seed round from the corporate venture capital arm of Somany Impresa Group, the owners of Hindware.
Therapeutics company developing a new class of targeted medicines for genetic kidney diseases. Nanoparticle therapeutics deliver "cargo" directly to kidney cells. This is a disease modifying medicine that transforms life for 12 million patients worldwide who have no effective treatment options for ADPKD, an inherited disorder. $3.5M seed round, bringing total funding till date to $6M. Founded in 2021.
Platform for the sale/purchase of pre-owned residential properties, starting with the Gurgaon market. The goal is to scale monthly GMV from ₹10CR to ₹100CR over the next 12-18 months. Properties are verfified, and come with a 900 day sale guarantee and complete transaction management - this is to take on issues of bogus listings, price opacity and unprofessional brokers. Their Data IQ engine analyses over 100K market data points to predict prices. $2M seed round. Other investors in the round: Mohit Gupta and Gunjan Patidar (Zomato), Gaurav Sharma (SaaS Labs), Ramanshu Mahaur (Spinny). Co-Founder Rahool was the founder of Fitso (acquired by Zomato).
AI data privacy and governance platform for enterprises. The focus is on payments companies and NBFCs and will expand to other financial institutions. No information on traction/pilots. ₹12CR seed round.