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.
Gaming startup developing a yet to launch social gameplay platform called Centarius, which operates on the web (no app required) and offers a selection of midcore titles across genres, integrated with social and competitive elements to drive player engagement. The platform also serves as a distribution mechanism for indie developers. Will collaborate with gaming influencers to expand its user base. $255K pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Dhruv Vohra, Sourav Gupta.
Loyalty and rewards platform for users to manage credit card and travel loyalty rewards. An app that provides rewards management and bill payment services. The company manages 1M credit cards, 400K loyalty program accounts. It has 100K users who pay their credit cards through the platform and an ARR of $1.1M. $1M in a mix of equity and debt Investors in the round: DSP Family Office, Venture Catalysts, and Suvrat Sehgal. Comps: CRED, CheQ.
AI-led B2B visa processing company, which enables agents, corporates and OTAs to process visas for over 80 countries. "“With AI, documentation can be made virtually error-free, reducing rejection chances considerably." 75K visas processed in the last six months with a 99.5% success rate. Also offers an insurance product which refunds booking value in case of visa rejections, and a global eSIM offering. ₹4CR bridge round, further to a ₹6.6CR seed round last year. Founded in 2023, the founders are ex-CRED and MakeMyTrip. Comps: Visa2Fly (M Venture Partners, Flipkart Ventures and others);
Packaged food brand focused on baked products, set to launch this December. The company is building an offline distribution network, aiming at 25,000 general trade stores to start with, particularly in Tier 2/3 cities. They are setting up a 40K square foot fully automated manufacturing facility in Noida. “Our goal is simple: deliver good quality, Indian-made confectionery at a Rs 20 price point, for the real Bharat.” ₹20CR round.
Home cleaning products brand - laundry and dishwashing liquids, floor and surface cleaners. The brand uses paper cartons and has a recycling program to drive down plastic wastage seen by traditional brands. Sold D2C and through marketplaces. Founded in 2021, Mumbai HQ. Comps: The Better Home, Beco, and incumbents like Unilever and Godrej. ₹18CR/$2M round.
Restaurant chain which claims to have invented butter chicken and dal makhani! Operates 15 outlets in India and in Bangkok, the first restaurant in its foreign foray which opened in May 2025. ₹100CR annualized revenue with double digit EBITDA margins. Expansion focused on the UK, GCC and Southeast Asia. Funding of an undisclosed amount.
Platform providing the memory layer for LLM apps. This has become a fundamental problem in chatbots, where individual chat sessions can be recalled but the memory layer - which builds a deeper understanding of its user over time, and seamlessly switches context - is missing. $24M raised across seed and Series A, including $3.9M in a previously announced seed round. The seed round was led by Kindred Ventures, the Series A was led by Basis Set Ventures with the participation of Peak XV Partners, GitHub Fund, Y Combinator. Angels in the round include Scott Belsky, Dharmesh Shah, and CEOs Olivier Pomel (Datadog), Paul Copplestone (Supabase), James Hawkins (PostHog), Thomas Dohmke (ex-GitHub), Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases).
"Events technology" startup which offers tools for event discovery, ticketing and guest management at venues. Events powered by the platform include concerts, marathons, business conferences and cultural festivals. Funding of an undisclosed amount, from actors Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan. Founded in 2022. Comps: BookMyShow, Zomato.
Cybersecurity startup with an autonomous "cyber leadership" infrastructure that replicates CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) level decision making. No information on traction, claims to have onboarded an initial set of customers. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founded in June 2025, Ahmedabad HQ.
Full stack voice AI for call center operations, with a contrarian approach focused on small language models (SLMs). The company provides lifelike voices in 16 global languages, across industries. Enterprise clients include Paytm, MakeMyTrip, ServiceNow. $8M seed round, funding towards R&D as well as India and North America expansion. Founded in 2023, SF/Bengaluru based.