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Wk 29 (14-20 Jul)

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).

July 15, 2025
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Jul 14
Wk 29 (14-20 Jul)

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.

July 14, 2025
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Wk 28 (7-13 Jul)

SaaS for petcare businesses - vets, boarders, groomers. Live in India, expanding to the UAE and Australia. “Walk into most vet clinics or grooming centers and you’ll still find handwritten notes, WhatsApp threads, and scattered reminders.” The platform offers digital medical records, vaccination tracking, appointment scheduling, inventory management, payments and customer communication. Priced at ₹500 per branch per month in India, ₹3500 in the UAE. ₹5CR seed round. The Founder, Anil, founded Lollypop Design Studio, a UI/UX Studio in 2012. Founded: Jan 2024.

July 10, 2025
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Jul 9
Wk 28 (7-13 Jul)

Tools for the gTLD system - i.e. the system that manages generic top level domains (.com, .org etc). Provides enterprises brand protection, domain portfolio management and advisory on the new gTLD ecosystem (there are a number of new top level domains on market). “As the internet grows and technology plays a bigger role for business, the need for robust brand protection and domain intelligence will only grow. Their approach is both policy-aware and tech-first — exactly what global enterprises need.” Angel round of an undisclosed amount, from the investors named above as well as David Yu Liu (Information Industry) and Vinay Hebbar (Harvard Business Impact). Founders Vinay (CEO) and Vivek (COO) started out in Aug 2017. Vinay is ex Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, Vivek is ex Reliance Jio.

July 9, 2025
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Wk 28 (7-13 Jul)

SaaS tool providing revenue/monetization infrastructure for enterprise customers to unify pricing, billing and revenue management using a single no-code system. This gives clients the ability to experiment and scale new pricing strategies without being limited by legacy tools. Global customers including Neysa, NCR Voyix and Akoya. "Strategic investment" of an undisclosed amount from a $25M US-India fund. The company has already raised seed funding from Endiya Partners, Silicon Valley Quad and Idealabx. Founders: Murali is the CTO and sole founder. Ex Cisco and Intuit, he was the co-founder of Financial Technologies 360 (SaaS solution for banks in the US). Jayaram, CEO (not co-founder), was the CEO of Zenprise (acquired by Citrix). Founded in Feb 2021.

July 8, 2025
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Wk 28 (7-13 Jul)

AI-driven MMP (Mobile Measurement Partner). MMP’s are third party tools to optimize mobile advertising campaigns. Customers can integrate Linkrunner’s MMP within 90 minutes - a process which has traditionally taken 2-4 weeks and 3-5 people. Most app installs for Indian customer acquisition campaigns are unattributed, given the cost of of attribution is a a significant % of CPI. The goal is to drastically reduce this attribution cost per install - alongside unifying customer data to run more affective campaigns. $560K pre-seed round. Founders: Shreyans (BITS Goa) and Darshil (SVIT) built Bluelearn together - a social learning platform also backed by Titan and 2am. Founded in Jul 2024.

July 8, 2025
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Jul 3
Wk 27 (30 Jun - 6 Jul)

All in one business intelligence AI to optimise operations across industries. For e.g. it provides real time insights into store operations and staff effectiveness, optimizes marketing spends across acquisition channels and forecasts inventory requirements for retailers. $1.4M pre-seed round from undisclosed angel investors. Founders: Amit started IdeateLabs (creative agency) in 1997; Vrutika, ex-GroupM, joined him in 2008. UAE and India based, founded in 2018.

July 3, 2025
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Wk 27 (30 Jun - 6 Jul)

Compliance automation for financial institutions in the UK and Europe. AI agents continuously read regulations, flag gaps and keep businesses audit-ready at all times, unlike the traditional, point in time manually updated checklists and spreadsheets currently used by financial services clients. Clients include Monzo, Juni and Novobanco. $4.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: No Label Ventures, Start Ventures, angels - Alan Morgan (Adfisco), Richard Davies (Allica Bank), Mark Ransford, Rohit Mathur (Gresham House). Founders: Ritesh (Said Business School) was Co-Founder & COO of ClearGlass (fintech) in the UK; Shashank founded Thirdwatch (fraud prevention, acquired by Razorpay) and was a Director of Product Management at PhonePe. Founded in Aug 2024.

July 1, 2025
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Jun 30
Wk 27 (30 Jun - 6 Jul)

Business intelligence AI that pulls in all data sources to build dashboards with automated chart generation and analysis. For use across enterprises - by marketing, sales and finance teams. $80K pre-seed round, including $30K raised earlier in the year. Founders: the CEO Unni (IIT Delhi) is from Whatfix and ran Foradian Technologies (EdTech ERP) for a decade; CTO Nekender joined straight out of college (Poornima University). Founded In Jun 2024.

June 30, 2025
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Jun 26
Wk 26 (23-29 Jun)

An "AI-native operating system" for e-commerce brands. The commerce stack 1) brings together AI agents to automatically generate content for catalogs and marketing; 2) creates localised ad campaigns and identifies customer segments and 3) adapts online stores for each visitor in real time (layout/content/recommendations). $20M round. Co-founders Sai Krishna (Stanford) and Ajay built Scapic together - AR/VR experiences for e-commerce, acquired by Flipkart. The two then worked together at Flipkart to head Flipkart Labs, before joining Polygon Labs together. Founded in Mar 2024. Comps: lots.

June 26, 2025
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