Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
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Conversational AI for call centres. Focused on clients in insurance, healthcare and debt collection. Has processed 3M minutes of calls, reducing the volume of calls handled by human agents by up to 70%. No information on clients. $1.1M seed round. Founders Sameer and Shubham are IIT Bombay alum; Sameer is from Thoucentric (data scientist at a management consulting firm) and Fitmint; Shubham is from Topmate (Head of Growth). Founded in Oct 2023.
AI enabled SaaS tool for game studios to automate the experimental and deployment of monetization strategies - personalising the in-game economy for users. This product is called Sentinel, while the company will also launch Grow, a one-click embedded financing service that gives studios access to marketing/customer acquisition financing in one click. $5.4M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: DeVC. Founders: Vivek is from Electronic Arts (product management and analytics), Big Viking Games (Head of New Products) and spent two years at Z47; Sashank is from King (the studio behind Candy Crush), MPL and BCG. Founded in Apr 2025, SF/Bengaluru based.
Agentic AI platform to manage all the apps we use, through natural language prompts - for e.g. to manage Gmail, Slack, Notion, Trello. A unified interface offers access to more than 300 AI Agents, removing the need to engage with apps one by one. For example, the platform can "automatically review new GitHub pull requests, identify bugs or improvements using Code Interpreter, and post detailed feedback as comments before manual review." Aimed at multiple business personas - founders, devs, recruiters and marketers, to manage their workflows. $4M "pre-seed" round. Founder Sowmay was the Co-Founder & CEO of Instadapp (DeFi platform which raised $12M) for six years. Founded in Apr 2025.
Billing solutions provider for a new generation of AI (i.e. SaaS) companies. The goal is to reduce the complexity and time sink in building in-house usage based and hybrid billing systems. As software companies move from subscription models to AI workload based consumption, traditional billing tools are proving inadequate. The company will integrate with payment gateways such as Stripe and Razorpay. It estimates AI billing infra is a $4B market. $500K pre-seed round, which included angel investors from Magicpin, Zomato and Innovaccer. Founders: CEO Manish is a PM from Magicpin and Aftershoot; CTO Nikhil is an engineer from Zomato and WizCommerce; while co-founder Koshima was also a PM at Magicpin as well as Noise.
Modern day software outsourcing/technology consulting firm which aims to reimagine India's traditional IT services model. As outsourcing giants increase layoffs, the company is focused on delivering software using smaller, AI-native teams working with AI agents. The goal is to deliver faster, with greater precision and with continuous delivery. The company has 50 clients so far, with the engineering team in India and BD in the US. “Heizen is our attempt to rebuild Infosys for the AI age. We believe velocity, not headcount, should be the core metric. We are combining elite engineering talent with AI agents to deliver high-quality software products in weekly sprints.” $500K pre-seed round. Angels in the round include Varun Alagh (Mamaearth), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn). The company was formerly known as OpenGig. Founders: Aman is software engineer and former founder of Athenasquare (recruitment automation) which he co-founded with Abhilasha, who then went on the Microsoft before joining Heizen; the third founder Nijansh co-founded SpeakIn (EdTech). Founded in Apr 2024.
Vision-AI powered app testing platform. The platform replaces traditional locator-based test scripts with natural language prompts, enabling iOS and Android testing in plain English - providing 97% test reliability while reducing time for test creation. $2.7M seed round. Angels in the round include Anuj Rathi (Cleartrip) and Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital). Founders: Asad (IIT Kharagpur) is an experienced PM (Meesho/Coinbase/GOJEK/Swiggy), Partha (NIT Rourkela, ISB) is also from a product background (BlackBuck/Zolo/Mensa Brands); while Yash was an engineer + PM at Amazon for 6 years. Founded in 2024.
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.