Pre-launch functional beverages brand. Zero calorie beverages made with natural ingredients will include nutrition shots and herb-infused carbonated drinks. ₹2CR pre-seed round funded by undisclosed angels. Founder & CEO Nidhi built contract research organization Karmic Lifesciences (Mumbai Angels, IAN) which was acquired by Cliantha Research, another CRO, for ~$2M. She subsequently built Zoctr (home and tele health), before joining Accenture. Founded in Mar 2025.

Conversational AI for call centres. Focused on clients in insurance, healthcare and debt collection. Has processed 3M minutes of calls, reducing the volume of calls handled by human agents by up to 70%. No information on clients. $1.1M seed round. Founders Sameer and Shubham are IIT Bombay alum; Sameer is from Thoucentric (data scientist at a management consulting firm) and Fitmint; Shubham is from Topmate (Head of Growth). Founded in Oct 2023.

EdTech platform for upskilling engineers. "We started Protrainy to address a critical skill gap in professional education across core sectors like construction, manufacturing, and energy." Taught via cohort-based classes, on-demand video courses and project-specific modules. 20K learners to date, with 70% claimed to have secured promotions, new roles or salary increases. Co-branded skilling programs with IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee and others. Undisclosed seed round. Other investors in the round: AIC Nalanda, Dhiraj Sinha (SucSEED), Suresh Reddy, Dr.Moti Vyas, Avantika Sahay. Founders: Biswajit (KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) was a Junior Manager at JSW Infrastructure for four years. Founded in Aug 2020.

AI enabled SaaS tool for game studios to automate the experimental and deployment of monetization strategies - personalising the in-game economy for users. This product is called Sentinel, while the company will also launch Grow, a one-click embedded financing service that gives studios access to marketing/customer acquisition financing in one click. $5.4M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: DeVC. Founders: Vivek is from Electronic Arts (product management and analytics), Big Viking Games (Head of New Products) and spent two years at Z47; Sashank is from King (the studio behind Candy Crush), MPL and BCG. Founded in Apr 2025, SF/Bengaluru based.

Algae-powered photo-bioreactors that integrate into building exteriors and containerised micro-farms to capture CO₂, release oxygen and generate commercially valuable biomass including vegan Omega-3 oil and spirulina-based protein. Installed in urban spaces as building panels and street furniture. Each square meter of the company’s BioMimetic Facade captures 52 kg of CO₂ annually and produces 28 kg of algal biomass. The company has a signed LoI with a German developer for an airport decarbonisation project. Research and production is in Coimbatore, while its HQ appears to be in London. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: CEO Karthika is a Doctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Science from UAE University; CTO Rahul was a technical consultant at Stratema (in Germany); COO Gopakumar is from SBI.

Game development studio developing Takedown Genesis, a third person shooter game for PC and console. Funding is towards developing a "vertical slice", a 5-8 minute prototype that demonstrates game narrative and core mechanics. The studio will then bring on publishers and raise a further $5M to take the prototype to full production. The studio is collaborating with Vicky Arora, a Bollywood action director (URI, RRR) to lead action design and choreography. $1M seed round from undisclosed angels. Founders: Jeet built Bizdateup, an angel investing platform; Vidhit joined out of university.

Agentic AI platform to manage all the apps we use, through natural language prompts - for e.g. to manage Gmail, Slack, Notion, Trello. A unified interface offers access to more than 300 AI Agents, removing the need to engage with apps one by one. For example, the platform can "automatically review new GitHub pull requests, identify bugs or improvements using Code Interpreter, and post detailed feedback as comments before manual review." Aimed at multiple business personas - founders, devs, recruiters and marketers, to manage their workflows. $4M "pre-seed" round. Founder Sowmay was the Co-Founder & CEO of Instadapp (DeFi platform which raised $12M) for six years. Founded in Apr 2025.

EV logistics marketplace for low-emission last-mile deliveries. Launched in April 2025, the company offers real time tracking with carbon savings analytics. It will expand into 12 Tier II cities this year (e.g. Jaipur, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Surat) by December. It aims to establish two regional operations hubs and 20,000 drivers. $500K angel round from undisclosed investors. Founders: CEO PPrakarsh started ILine soon after his MBA (Hult International Business School); CSO Renu was at Verizon for 20 years, most recently as Head of Consumer Product Innovation and Insights. Founded in Jul 2024.

Billing solutions provider for a new generation of AI (i.e. SaaS) companies. The goal is to reduce the complexity and time sink in building in-house usage based and hybrid billing systems. As software companies move from subscription models to AI workload based consumption, traditional billing tools are proving inadequate. The company will integrate with payment gateways such as Stripe and Razorpay. It estimates AI billing infra is a $4B market. $500K pre-seed round, which included angel investors from Magicpin, Zomato and Innovaccer. Founders: CEO Manish is a PM from Magicpin and Aftershoot; CTO Nikhil is an engineer from Zomato and WizCommerce; while co-founder Koshima was also a PM at Magicpin as well as Noise.

AI powered travel discovery and booking app. With a hyper personalized discovery experience, they plan to offer 20 destinations in APAC and the Middle East. “The holiday booking experience is broken. Most travellers still rely on offline agents and get pre-packaged itineraries with limited flexibility. At Passprt, our goal is to empower users to travel their way with more choice, freedom, and context.” $500K pre-seed round. Founders: CEO Ujjwal is a software engineer who worked on product at Lokll (also travel discovery) before joining Barco as an R&D Engineer; co-founder Manoj is from WheelsEye (BD) and ApinBus (supply growth). Founded in Apr 2023. Comps: The Tarzan Way (IPV), Holiday Tribe (GSF, Powerhouse), Rimigo (Reazon, SGgrow), 30Sundays (InfoEdge), GydeXP (Rukam Sitara).