Cybersecurity firm that simulates real world attacks on AI systems for enterprise. $1.2M seed round. Angels in the round: Charlie Songhurst (board member at Meta), Vivek Raghavan (Sarvam.ai), Satya Vyas (Project Hero). The two co-founders were at IIT Roorkee together before founding Repello. They built Strello (enabling chat with users on the same website) for a year prior to this during college. SF and Bengaluru based.

Social commerce product suite to simplify monetisation for creators via high-traffic platforms (IG/WhatsApp/Telegram). 4 primary tools: link-in-bio storefronts; chat automation tools; smart links to streamline mobile checkout; affiliate program infrastructure to connect brands with influencers. $200K pre-seed round from undisclosed angels. Founders: the CEO was founder of Encore 2.2 (motorcycle accessories brand); the COO was the founder of MAGIC and comes from Genpact and GE Capital. Comps: Kosmc presents itself as an all in one alternative to Linktree+Shopify+Bitly and so on.

Agentic-AI led debt recovery platform that connects financial institutions (banks and NBFCs), legal teams, recovery agents and valuers on a single automated system. Traditionally, manual and branch-dependent processes lead to compliance issues for banks as well as delays (40% of delays could be avoided with automated workflows). "Banks rely on Excel spreadsheets and manual procedures for something that ought to be highly automated and compliance-driven. This increases operational costs and also diminishes recovery efficiency". Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founder Abhishek was the co-founder of SYAN Automation (IoT for home) with brief stints at BCG and Deloitte.

Connects travelers with passionate local guides. Tackling "three deep-rooted travel challenges: fragmented planning, superficial connections, and post-trip memory loss". Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount at a ₹15CR valuation. The three founders started this out of IIT Delhi last year.

SportsTech startup with a mobile app that standardises sports assesments for young athletes and delivers data-based feedback to improve their athletic potential. Benchmarking tools are in line with globally accepted frameworks. It then connects these athletes with scouts from Indian and global leagues, along with sponsors. Coaches and parents get to track progress in real time. $1M round. Other investors in the round: M Pallonji, Jeena and Co., Ayaz Billawala, Nimesh Kampani, Jaimin Bhat (ex-Kotak). Founders: the CEO was Head of Engineering, GetMega; the CTO was an Android Engineer at the same startup; the third co-founder was a Managing Partner at Thermotech (transformer components). Comps: SportsSkill (Waimea Bay Investments); KIBI Sports (angels).

Data security for Gen AI apps. Gives IT and security teams visibility into how AI is used across enterprises. Unbound's infras makes AI safe, observable and governable within large organisations. Their main product, Unbound AI Gateway, integrates with tools like Cursor, Roo, Cline, and internal copilots. "Defaulting to blanket bans on AI tools is like being in the times of GPT-3.5," notes CTO Subbiah. "Unbound introduces surgical security controls into every AI request so teams can innovate without compromising sensitive data." $4M seed round. Other investors in the round: Massive Tech Ventures, Northside Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Pioneer Fund, Ram Shriram and others. Founders: the CEO started out at Datamattic and Adobe in Bengaluru, followed by Imperva and Palo Alto Networks in the Bay Area - and is also a Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. His co-founder was at Adobe for seven years followed by Tophatter. Both founders are PSG College of Technology alumni. Comps: Singulr AI (Nexus, Dell).

AI for QA and QC in the construction industry, that automatically detects and tracks every defect across the construction site. A ~30mm accurate 3D model of the site is built using helmet mounted 360 degree cameras. The company claims it is seeing early enterprise adoption in India and abroad. $1.2M seed round. Founded at Entrepreneur First. Founders: the CEO, IIT Bombay was an EIR at Entrepreneur First and Head of Autonomy at Airbound. The CTO, IIT Madras, was the AI Lead and on the founding team of the ePlane Company. Comps: SitePace (funded by SucSEED Ventures in April) is a direct comp.

Agentic AI solutions for 7M+ local service businesses in the US. Helps small businesses like beauty salons, wellness studios, pet groomers get discovered, booked and re-booked - for e.g. by responding to leads 24/7. In a year the startup has driven 120K bookings for 1000 businesses, helping those businesses generate $10M in revenue. $6M seed round. Other investors in the round: Better Capital. The founders are IIT Kharagpur. The CEO Ashish had stints at Cognitio Education, WedMeGood, Able Jobs; Robin was a consultant at EXL.

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.