AI for the insurance industry - automates complex document processing that has traditionally been manual - submission processing, audits, claims intake. "Think of FurtherAI as ChatGPT for insurance that automates complex workflows". $5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Y Combinator, ConvergeVC, Xceedance. Founders: Aman was Co-Founder & CRO (earlier CPO) at TurboHire; Sashank from Apple, Oracle. Comps: Consint.AI (Equanimity Ventures, Seafund)

AI agents for the pharma industry - streamlines FDA compliance for regulatory, medical affairs and commercial teams. Two tools: Labeling AI streamlines label updates and competitor comparisons; Ads Promo AI helps review promotional materials and ensures their compliance. $500K seed - YC remains a draw for many of our founders. SF/BLR based. Founders: Sanskar is from GlobalBees; Hemant from Zolve, Oyo; Rishabh a two-time founder.

AI driven audit and compliance automation. $1M seed round. The three founders worked together at Spyne (AI to improve visuals for used car retailing), in sales, product and AI roles.

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.