Cybersecurity startup providing agentic AI for real-time, multimodal deepfake detection. It's fintech clients use it to detect deepfakes in their video KYC processes. $600K pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Soonicorn Ventures. SF/BLR based. Piyush, CEO, was a research fellow at MIT and CEO of Manush Labs, a corporate innovation lab. The CTO and CDO are from IT services firm Calance.

Unified data engine for security and observability. Companies are spending 30-40% of their cloud budget on observability, but struggle maintain a single long-term repository that serves developers, security teams and compliance officers. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Both founders are engineers, IIT Kanpur and IIT-B.

fka Gyaan AI. Customer journey management platform for SaaS companies to bridge the gap between customer acquisition and customer success. SaaS teams currently use an average of 14 disconnected tools to manage these functions. $7.8M seed round. This is the second deal by Dell's venture arm in the last month, following Singulr AI. SF and Pune based. Founder Sonny Aulakh was most recently VP of Products, Solutions & Vertical Marketing at Pure Storage. Coincides with the appointment of a CEO and CRO, who bring leadership experience from Palo Alto Networks, EMC, and most recently Securiti.ai.

Workforce optimization - field agent monitoring, attendance management, expense management. Seed round, amount undisclosed. Basudha, CEO, comes from Ericsson and Serco. Manoj was (or still is) the founder of VegaStack.

Creatives automation platform joining the race to provide higher conversions for sellers on eCommerce, with AI generated ads and catalogs. Their pro plan is <$10 a month. $2.7M seed round. Venus and Aneesh co-founded AppyHigh, developer of productivity and utility apps; Akshit was the Head of Data Science there as well as a Venture Partner at Shastra VC.

No-code platform for micro SaaS startups to build web apps. "Fuzen provides the most robust backend building capabilities among NoCode platforms. And being able to build a fully functional backend is a game changer for our customers who are looking to build SaaS apps." $100K pre-seed round.

Full-stack customer engagement platform using Gen AI. The vision is to empower e-commerce businesses with its Agent as a Service model, leveraging AI agents to deliver personalised engagement, thereby reducing CaC and enhancing repeat purchases and LTV. $200K pre-seed round.

Workplace SaaS to simplify project management workflows for developers. OneAsk, its AI agent, is designed to manage the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), integrating project management, communication, API development, and deployment. $3.3M seed round. Other investors in the round:

Governance and security platform for enterprises using AI. Clients can automatically discover and manage what employees are doing with AI models and services across the organizations - CIOs can rationalize costs, while CISO's can streamline the onboarding of safe AI use cases and prevent data leakage. The founders built Arkin Net, sold to VMware. Palo Alto and Pune based. $10M seed round.

AI-powered channel loyalty and rewards platform. Helps brands reward their channel partners as well as drive customer loyalty, engagement, education and rewards. 100 clients include Coca Cola, Pepsi, Hyundai, Nestle, Asian Paints etc. and their 6M channel partners. ₹16CR (~$1.9M) seed round. Other investors in the round: Ever Grow Capital, Nine ALPS, Hemant Jain (KLJ Group), Nitin Jain (OfBusiness).