CleanTech hardware startup building semiconductor-powered embedded systems and power electronics solutions for smart grids, renewable energy infrastructure and battery storage. It operates two segments: smart grid systems; and analyzers and energy storage infrastructure. $5.1M seed round. Angels in the round: founders and operators from Zetwerk, Livspace, Unacademy, Urban Vault, Panthera Peak. Founded in Sep 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Abhay comes from sales at L&T, Adani Energy Solutions,Sterlite Power and was VP & Business Head of Zetwerk for five years; Anupam was in an ops role at Zetwrk and headed the industrial goods division at MJunction (an export focused marketplace).

Marketplace for factory outlets products, focused on branded excess inventory. This allows brand a separate channel for clearing out unsold stock without affecting pricing on their primary sales channels. By definition, the marketplace will have limited stock per SKU. ₹3.2CR pre-seed round. Founded in July 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: Anurag (IIT Delhi) worked at Spring Marketing Capital and at Clovia (founders office); Mohit graduated from Seneca Polytechnic in Dec 2024.

Lifestyle management platform offering guidance on nutrition, exercise, daily habits, sleep and stress. The platform delivers bite-sized video courses and an AI companion to help users build daily habits. Courses are priced between ₹99-250. 70% of its paying users come from Tier 2 cities and beyond. $2M seed round. Founded in June 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Manavdeep Gurjot (both IIM Lucknow) worked at Meesho and PocketFM.

DeepTech startup building systems capable of producing 10–12 inch solar-grade silicon ingots (i.e. the material used for manufacturing high-efficiency solar wafers for solar panels), with a longer term roadmap to produce semiconductor-grade wafers. For the last decade the company has worked on CZ-based crystal growth equipment (i.e. equipment used to produce silicon) and single-crystal materials. It has a ₹12CR order book for FY26, from government departments and national laborotories. $3M seed round. Other investors in the round: PointOne Capital, CIIE Initiatives (IIMA Ventures), Garimella Laxminarayana.

Mobile app for gynaecological care, using an AI chatbot as well as consultations and prescriptions through qualified gynaecologists. It has had 350K users till date covering 320 symptoms and conditions, and has had 40K paying customers so far. This round will help establish physical clinics and expand a range of nutritional supplements. $1M pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Subramanian (former TCS CEO) and Mala Ramadorai, Ajay Nair, Shreyas Srinivasan (Paytm Insider/OML). Founded in Jan 2022, Mumbai based. Founders: Divya (Yale '14, Wharton '21) was at The Bridegspan Group, Akanksha (Clarskon Univ.) is a software engineer who co-founded Fited, A Netherlands based manufacturer of 3D printed prosthetics.

Self-serve voice AI platform that allows enterprises to deploy and manage voice agents without long implementation cycles or specialised AI teams. Its first commercial deployment was in May 2025, now handling 200K calls per day across 1,050 paying customers. Sectors covered including BFSI, eCommerce, logistics, recruitment and education companies in India, with more than 10 Indian languages supported. $6.3M seed round. Other investors in the round: Orange Collective, Pioneer Fund, Transpose Capital, Eight Capital, along with angels Aarthi Ramamurthy, Arpan Sheth, Sriwatsan Krishnan, Ravi Iyer, Taro Fukuyama. Founded in Nov 2023, Bangalore based. Founders: Maitreya (IIT Delhi '20) is ex-Bain and was an EIR at Probo; Prateek (IIT Delhi '14) is a software engineer from Atlassian and BrowserStack.

Business intelligence startup which uses AI to help enterprises track their KPIs in real time and analyze root causes. Used by "200 founders and organisations". This is the combined announcement of a ₹6.2CR pre-seed and seed round, the majority of which was disclosed earlier by the startup in July 2025 (an undisclosed amount) and Oct 2025 (₹4CR). SucSEED Indovation Fund has now come in with an additional ₹1CR. Founded in Dec 2023. Founder Vipul was at BharatPe, most recently as zonal head for Mumbai, Goa and Gujarat, followed by Tijoree, a neobank, where he headed sales.

Helps schools students develop career guidance and relevant skills before college. Students get access to an AI mentor (MU20 Coach), bootcamps and in-school career inubation labs to give htem exposure to entrprenuership, AI and data science and more. It currently works with 300 schools. $500K pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2018, Indore based. Founders: CEO Tejas (ISB '26) and COO Madhur seem to have started this out of college.

M&A platform which helps originate the supply of deals using AI globally, i.e. its an M&A copilot. AI agents analyse a database of over 4M tech companies, helping enterprises, PE-owned companies and high growth startups to identify acquisition targets. According to the company, traditional platforms (e.g. PitchBook or D&B) aggregate data without the AI-led reasoning to find the right targets. It has supported 42 deals so far, as well as 210 LOI-stage discussions. $2.6M round. Founded in Jan 2020, Pune based. Founders: CEO Maneesh (IIT Kharagpur '91; NYU Stern '03) was MD at RuralShores (Lok Capital backed BPO employing rural workers) for eight years. He started his career at Citigroup; CBO Shalu (IIT Kharagpur '12; IIM Lucknow '16) led healthcare GTM at Vilgro. She is ex-MindTickle and Deloitte; CTO Amaresh (Shivaji Univ. '93) held VP Engineering/CTO roles at Accurics (cyber resilience); Qualitia Software (dev firm) and Palatable Technologies (his startup) after 16 years at Symantec.

Autonomous servicing infrastructure to provide ISAM (in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing) for satellites. RPOD, its servicing satellite, can approach and dock with other satellites in orbit, to drive refueling and hardware upgrades as well as inspect them at close range.This can extend satellite life by 6 years. $2M pre-seed round. Angels in the round: Eash Sundaram (Utpata Ventures; Intelsat board) and Arvind Lakshmikumar (Tonbo Imaging). Founded in Oct 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Jay (BITS Pilani) was at Pixxel for two years (Spacecraft Mechanical Engineer); CTO Nithyaa (RV College of Engineering) was an engineer at Trify EV (IoT solutions for charging stations); COO Hrishit (BITS Pilani) joined more recently from Pocket FM. Both Jay and Hrishit worked on Team Anant, an ongoing BITS project to develop nanosatellites. Comps: OrbitAID is developing refueling solutions ($1.5M round in Jan 2025 from Unicorn India Venturs and TANSIM).