SaaS for restaurants and cloud kitchens that are on Zomato and Swiggy. The platform tracks prep times, provide item-level out-of-stock tracking, manages reviews and flags refund issues in real time. Used by 800 restaurant locations across India with 5M orders tracked every month. They charges ₹1,000 per location per month with volume discounts available for multiple locations. Seed round, with investors and round size undisclosed. Founder Harshendar led product and tech at Ghost Kitchens India for 3 years, prior to which he built a restaurant management stack (menu digitalisation) called WTF (Where's The Food) which was acquired by Ghost Kitchens. Founded in June 2025.

Manufacturing company for AI-enabled IOT devices. The company is a one-stop shop Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) for startups, SMEs and enterprises developing Ai powered products - meaning that it designs, prototypes as well as manages the production process. It has delivered 1M smart IoT devices so far and has an $81M order book. This is a $4M seed round from two companies that seem to have incubated Rapidise - Napino Tech Ventures (an electronics manufacturer) and Teksun Microsys (which itself is an IoT and AI product development firm). Founder Brijesh (BITs Pilani, IIM Ahmedabad) founded Teksun 10 years ago.

AI native cloud platform for enterprises, which is yet to launch. Developers can define performance, compliance or cost objectives while the platform auto-manages deployment and execution across infrastructure stacks. $9.6M seed round. Other investors in the round: Climber Capital and angels including Ritesh Agarwal (Oyo), Ritesh Malik (Innov8), Aditya Virwani (Embassy Group). Founders: all three are IIT Kharagpur. Abhinav (HBS) was Global COO & CPO at OYO; Vamshidhar (ISB, Stanford) was a Partner at McKinsey for 13 years after 5 years at AMD; Abhijeet was with AT&T for 15 years in the US followed by three years at Jio as VP Cloud Tech & Infra. Founded in Apr 2025. Comps: Neysa ($30M Series A from Nexus, NTTVC, Z47).

AI digital marketing automation for small businesses in India, e.g. gyms, salons, hospitality providers and clinics. Manages SEO and automates all communication (automated responses, follow-ups and ongoing customer conversations). Used by 21,600 businesses since its beta. ₹15.5CR seed round. Other investors in the round: Vernalis Capital and angel investors including Revant Bhate, Vaibhav Domkundwar, Ramakant Sharma, Sumit Gupta. Founders: CEO Ashutosh built Matrix funded Testbook for 13 years before it was acquired by Classplus; CTO Ayush (IIT Kanpur), CPO Arpit (IIT Bombay) and CMO Narendra Agrawal (IIT Bombay) were also respectively CTO, CPO and CMO at Testbook. Narendra is is not linked here. Founded in May 2024.

SaaS tools for hospitals and other healthcare service providers, including an outpatient (OPD) department management system, an end-to-end hospital OS, a clinical AI notetaker and an app for patients. Incubated at IIT Madras, the company is also integrating blockchain into a number of tools, for e.g. in managing sensitive organ donation databases. ₹6.5CR seed round. Founders: all three are IIT Madras. Prabhu is Head of the School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at IIT Madras; Vijayaraja was co-founder at Gemicates (automation systems) for six years; Anirudh started out while still studying at IIT. Founded in Apr 2023.

Business intelligence platform, focused on automation and conversational analytics. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Angels in the round include Gaurav (Noise) and Amit (Central Warehousing Corporation). Founder Vipul Prakash had brief stints at Delhivery and IndusInd Bank, and was a Zonal Head at BharatPe. Founded in Dec 2023.

AI led cybersecurity firm working on fraud prevention for the finance industry. The company has developed adapIDAI, which is an "adaptive behavioural intelligence identity security risk engine" (i.e. an engine to track typical user behaviour and look out for unusual usage patterns) and BotShield, which can prevent zero-day attacks and mitigates DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Targeting BFSI customers in India, as well as Kenya, South Africa, the UAE and South East Asia. ₹10.8CR (~$1.25M) seed round. Founder & CEO J P Mishra (PhD from IIT, Mandi) is a software engineer from Tech Mahindra, UnitedHealth and SAP. Founded in Dec 2021.

Cloud management platform that brings down cloud costs and drives AI application performance. The platform delivers real-time observability, cost control, chargeback, and optimisation through AI. It offers a unified experience through its partnerships with MSPs and cloud resellers. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: CEO Suchit (IIT Roorkee) spent 13 years at Oracle and a number of years across Hitachi Vantara, Dell and Veritas in VP/Director of Engineering roles; CPO Desmond (UC Berkeley; Stanford) is from VMWare and Symantec. SF based.

AI comes to screen recordings. Companies use screen recordings at scale, for example for product demos, user guides, sales enablement and training videos. Trupeer adds AI voiceovers, automates zooms and can edit the script post recording - none of which main comp Loom does today. Now used by over 10,000 clients - from startups to the Fortune 500. $3M seed round. Founders: Shivali and Pritish (IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay respectively) worked together at BCG, following which Shivali was at WhiteHat Jr (CEO's Office) And Pillow (The DeFI company, as Head of Growth) while Pritish spent five years at Dozee (remote patient monitoring). Founded in Feb 2024. Comps: Loom ($1.5B valuation - YC, A16Z, Sequoia).

AI research startup developing models using small datasets particularly for drug discovery. The goal is to create creative co-pilots and lifelong learning agents, with initial results expected by this December. The idea is that AI could recombine known patterns to propose novels ones, with the potential to revolutionise drug discovery. $2.6M seed round. Angels in the round include Girish Mathrubootham (Freshworks), Manav Garg (Eka Software). Founders: two of the co-founders Govind and Srikant built Curio, the AI-driven news companion, together for eight years. Co-founder Suzanne (PhD in Biological Sciences, Monash) has been an external collaborator at DeepMind the past five years, while Edgar (not linked here) has been at Google for a decade including as Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Founded in Apr 2025.