Pre-launch platform for brands (D2C, F&B and retail) to enhance customer engagement and loyalty. The platform embeds rewards into brand sites or at checkout, plugs into their CRM and POS, provides analytics, provides a unified wallet to users (across brands) and runs personalised offers to drive retention. Focused on India and the Middle East, targeting 100 brands and a 100K users in the next three months. Pricing: free for the next 3 months during their pilot. Seed round of an undisclosed amount.

Intelligence and lead generation tool for financial services - helping companies identify, undertake deep research and connect with HNI clients. The platform build a 360 degree profile of HNIs including their personal, professional and social backgrounds as well as financial details. A network graph then identifies how best to connect with these potential clients. The platfform's customers include Kotak Private Wealth, KRISTAL, Neo and Nuvama Group. ₹3CR pre-seed round.

AI memory startup founded by a 19 year old, which extracts "memories" or insights form unstructured data and helps applications understand the context better. Started out as a tool on GitHub which allowed users to chat with their Twitter bookmarks. The platform ingests any kind of data - files, docs, chats, emails and app data streams, while allowing users to add memories in text and connect to apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, or Notion. A chrome xtension also pulls in notes from websites. Enterprise customers include Cluely and Composio - this serves as infrastructure for their own products. ₹3M seed round. Angels include Jeff Dean (Chief Research Scientist at DeepMind) and Dane Knecht (CTO Cloudflare).

Marketing platform to enable businesses to measure the carbon footprint of their media activities, optimise campaigns through its programmatic intelligence and offset emissions. Four AI agents - Campaign Builder, Creator, Optimiser and Analytics - bring together business goals, carbon offset goals and campaign management on a single platform. Targeting markets outside India. $2M round from undisclosed angels. Founder Neel is the former Chief Digital officer at Vodafone India and at L'Oréal India. He was then CEO, APAC at Pixis (Ai powered advertising solution for consumer brands). Founded in Aug 2025.

Startup building "research manuals". Its first one, an UX for AI Research Manual, is a Notion-based manual built for students, product designers and startups who need a structured approach to build products with AI capabilities - learning the basics before they jump in to using products/tech. Seed round of an undisclosed amount from undisclosed investors. Founder Anil holds a dual role, as head of Product Design at ConverzAI (Seattle based, AI powered virtual recruiters). Founded in Dec 2020.

Enterprise messaging platform for the BFSI industry. $4M seed round which consummated three years ago but was announced this week - founded in Jul 2022, the company has now come out of stealth. The platform offers a compliance first communication infrastructure for banks and NBFCs - unifying integration, orchestration and analytics across more than eight channels including SMS, WhatsApp, email, push notifications and voice. Messaging costs come down by 20-30%, engineering efforts by 90% and all communication adheres to RBI, SEBI and TRAI mandates. Revenue targets: $2M for FY26, $5M for FY27, across India and other emerging markets. Founders Aniketh and Ashish are deeply experienced in this precise domain - they founded Solutions Infini, a Communications Platform as a Service (serving as CEO and CTO respectively) in 2008, which they built out over a decade before merging it with Ubiquity and rebranding into Kaleyra, serving in the merged company as CRO and CTO. Kaleyra was listed on the NYSE before being sold to Tata Comm. in 2023 for ~$100M.

DeepTech startup developing Large Behavioral Models (LBMs), i.e. a new class of AI for robots to understand complex behaviour, e.g. sequences of actions in the physical world. The US and UK are target markets - no information on launch, pilots, clients. ₹44.37CR ($5M) seed round. Founders Suraj and Aruna are both incubatees of Indian Statistical Insitute, Kolkota. They started Assessli in Aug 2022 out of college.

Describing itself as "Stripe for Voice AI", the company is building multilingual voice AI agents for enterprise. it aims to enable businesses, developers and BPOs to deploy human-like, low-latency voice agents across industries. $400K pre-seed round. Founders: Tushar Shinde and Nitish Tripathi (both IISc) worked together at Hypersonix Inc., Tushar then worked on product at OneCard. The third founder Nitish Mishra (IIT Madras) worked at Foxrobe (eCom) followed by SustainoMetric (consulting firm). Founded in Aug 2023.

AI-led agritech platform focused on addressing labour shortages. The platform predicts labour demand and connects farmers with skilled workers, through a vernacular easy to use interface. Currently focused on Western Maharashtra’s horticulture belts. No information on current scale. ₹7CR pre-seed round. Founders: CEO Azhaan was an SVP at StrataVision (retail analytics) and head of VC investments at family office Celeres Investments; Gourav (CTO) was co-founder at Bodhi AI (coaching institute SaaS) and Bunkstation (secondhand books marketplace for students). Founded in Apr 2024.

Healthcare SaaS platform for payers (insurers, brokers, corporates, third party systems) to offer OPD/comprehensive healthcare plans to their users, across a range of providers (hospitals, doctors, healthtech companies). The company also provides a range of tools for healthcare providers (e.g. a hospital management system). The company now 20 paying customers. $1.1M seed round. Founder: Abhishek (IIT Roorkee, ISB) was the CPTO of HealthAssure and CTO of BeatO; Avinash (IIT Bombay) was the co-founder of Asappp (app builder) and Bookmycab. Founded in Oct 2023.