Capsule hotels come to India! Starting with one location in Noida, the startup will provide affordable, hygienic, tech-driven stays in IT hubs and near religious sites. 20 properties planned by FY27. The budget hotel market in India is $20B and growing 13-15% a year. ₹2CR pre-seed round from IPV, following on a $500K round by T9L Qube in March. Nitin was the founder of 247around (acquired by Servify), repair and maintenance for home appliances. Himanshu comes with a decade of experience as a customer experience manager.

Medical devices company. It's first product, NoWound, is a negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) device designed for controlled healing of complex wounds. NPWT is a treatment method that uses a device to create suction on a wound, promoting healing. ₹8.4CR pre-seed round towards expanding its product range and building distribution across hospitals, clinics and for home-care. Angels in the round: founders of Tata 1mg, NephroPlus, SafeExpress, Eye Q Hospital, Hexa Health, AstroTalk. Founders: The CEO comes from Tata 1mg, Pristyn Care and most recently, as CBO of Antara Senior Care; the COO is from Pristyn, Apollo Hospitals and E&Y.

Off-grid zero-emission hybrid power systems for defense, homeland security, disaster management and telecom clients. Customers including DRDO, Indian Railways, Lockheed Martin and Bharat Electronics. Its Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology provides energy systems that can be used above 18,000 feet/in temperatures below -35°C. $1M seed round. The founder was with the central government for over twenty years, including as Network and Server Farm Incharge.

Products for the EV ecosystem including AC and DC chargers, solar inverters and a Charger Management System (CMS). Manufacturing is inhouse, incidentally near Kasauli in HP. Clients include VOLTTIC, GreenCell, EzUrja, Infineon. Comps: IPEC, which raised $3M this April. Founders: the CEO was SVP at Delhivery and COO at Superplum (fresh fruit supply chain); the CTO has a PhD in Power Electronics from IIT Bombay and was Head of R&D at ElectroWaves Electronics (UPS manufacturer).

Platform focused on personalized lifestyle coaching to improve cancer-care outcomes for patients in the US. Dedicated coaches provide personalized daily guidance for lifestyle modification - focusing on physical activity, nutrition and mind-body practices. $16M seed round. Founders: CEO Karan Bajaj was the Founder & CEO of WhiteHat Jr. (acquired by Byju's); Co-Founder Trupti Mukker also served as CEO of WhiteHat Jr. after Karan stepped down.

Skincare brand with anti-aging solutions, just launched with its initial product. ₹2CR seed round. Angels include Aditya Agarwal (P-TAL). The founder was previously the founder of BOTNAL, another skincare brand.

Wedding planning company, focused as much on weddings abroad as on NRIs planning their weddings in India. $2M seed round, little known on the company or investors.

Marketplace for salons, spas and wellness clinics. 700 outlets across NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune, no traction provided. $550K seed round. Angels in the round: the founders of Swiggy Dineout and Orra. One of the founders was a Business Development Manager at BBLUNT (salon chain), the other two recenty graduated from college and built AndBooks (home delivery of college books).

Bringing AI to tender management. AI analyses and summarises RFPs, checks for compliances and simplifies bid proposals. This in turn brings down manual review times by 90% and increases tender win rates for clients. ₹5.1CR seed round. Angels in the round: Haresh Chawla, Abhishek Goyal and more. Two of the founders built UltraPawz (Fitbit for pets); the third was CTO at Blozum (conversion optimization for WhatsApp).

Integrating AI agents and copilots into existing applications, getting jobs done for end users using natural language prompts. The platform comes with an agent builder as well as "agent experience", i.e. an AI-powered agentic interface for applications that simplifies user interactions. $6M seed round. Other investors in the round: Darkmode Ventures. Founders: Deepak and Rahul were co-founders of Slintel (GSF, Stellaris, Accel), acquired by 6Sense, where they then worked. The third co-founder Anirudh was CTO & Co-Founder of alloan.ai after a decade as a researcher at Microsoft.