Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
Platform offering digital twins for remote asset management and predictive maintenance. Little information available on the company's customers or current scale. Founded in 2016, originally as a provider of technical education using VR and AR. The current CEO, Vishnuvardhan, was the Director of Trend Instrumentation and Automation and is an instrumentation engineer by background; the former CEO and current director Karthik was briefly a product designer at Ather. ₹4CR round.
AI co-pilot for brands to manage growth marketing and related functions for their quick commerce operations. Helps with hyperlocal inventory management, improving brand visibility, optimizing pricing and ad campaign targeting. The differentiation is real-time analytics and automation. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Satwik (NSIT) is from Walmart (engineer working on omnichannel solutions); Ritvik (NSIT) is from Microsoft (engineer) - after which they co-founded SuperCrew, an agency which helped D2C brands with growth marketing and tech. Founded in Oct 2024.
Enterprise data governance solutions. Provides companies with a model-agnostic platform to implement AI solutions across their operations with complete control over data governance. $230K pre-seed round. Founders Ashwani and Amarsh are both IIT Kanpur as well as co-founders of Transerve (location intelligence) for 14 years, till its acquisition by Precisely (data integrity co. with 12K customers).
AI research startup that brings alignment and steering to models, to ensure they offer reliable and accurate domain-specific output in enterprise deployments. Pre-seed round by Antler from their inaugural AI Disrupt program, with $1M funded in capital and in kind (GPU perks). Founders: CEO Aakash has a PhD in Computational Mathematics from École des Mines (Paris) with postdoctoral research at Stanford; COO & CMO Mrunmayee was the co-founder of CourtEasy (AI for legal professionals) for c. two years. Founded in Feb 2025.
Full-stack Edge AI hardware platform - the company builds modular Edge AI computing platforms that integrate compute, connectivity and storage on a single board - with 5000 shipped to date. This hardware is deployed in industrial gateways, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drones and defence systems. Competes against boards provided by global players: Raspberry Pi, Nvidia Jetson, Google Coral, Qualcomm. ₹1.39CR seed round. Founders: CEO Prabhu is from EMC, Siemens and Affiliatics; Savitri was a director at WaterBot Online Solutions for a decade (IoT systems). Founded in Jan 2025.
Formerly HealthPresso. $300K angel round from undisclosed investors that closed in July. Founders: Daleep was Senior VP & Country Head of McCann Health for 12 years; Manuj, ex Sapient and Accenture, was Director of Client Services at Essence Software Solutions for close to a decade. The fourth co-founder, Dr Swadeep Srivastava, is not linked here. Founded in May 2023.
Marketing automation system called MAGI (Marketing AGI) that brings together the intelligence and orchestration layer. $1.9M pre-seed round. Founders: Deepesh and Shrestha are both IIT Kharagpur. Deepesh was the Co-Founder of Drivebarn (SaaS for car dealers in the US) and a PM at energyX Solutions and Sonatype; Shrestha was a Team Lead at Meta in the UK, prior to which he was a software engineer at Swiggy and Clip. Founded in Oct 2024.
AI native infrastructure to automate software integrations at enterprises. AI agents plan, build and maintain integrations across the tech stack. In current use cases, agents have automated reconciliation in finance workflows; unified inventory and ordering systems; built real-time ERP-to-CRM data syncs. Currently at 30 paying enterprise clients, 1500 active users and a seven figure ARR. Typically, integration hurdles have stalled enterprise sales for 95% of SaaS vendors. $6.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Ahead VC, Karman Ventures, Z21. Founders Jugal (IIT Kharagpur) and Abhishek (IIT Roorkee) were co-founders of JustDoc, a remote digital health platform to connect with doctors which was acquired by NetMeds. Jugal was then Head of Strategy, BD & New Products and Abhishek was Head of Product at Netmeds - before and after Netmeds' acquisition by Reliance. Founded in Jan 2023, based in San Mateo and Bengaluru.
Agentic AI to make off-road vehicles autonomous. Called NeuralPilot, AI agents combine data from cameras, LiDAR, and GPS sensors to equip off-road vehicles with navigation, mission planning and real time monitoring. Works with Neuralbox, its hardware device which can be retrofitted on to any vehicle. $2.4M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Saka Ventures, Appreciate Capital, Astir Ventures, IIMA Ventures, SIDBI, Heston Castelino. Founders Mohan and Aditya were respectively Co-Founder & CTO and Head of Robotics and AI Engineering at Flo Mobility (robots for moving materials at construction sites, warehouses and mining operations). Founded in Dec 2023.
Skilling and placement platform for nursing students and professionals. Uses gen-AI for personalised training and simulates real-world clinical scenarios. It also supports nursing professionals with mock interviews, resume building and automated assessment tools for job readiness. It claims to "reach 2M learners monthly". It also partners with hospitals and other healthcare service providers for placements. Now building out in regional languages for Tier 2/3 cities. Undisclosed seed round. Other investors in the round: Aayush Phumbhra, along with other angels and family offices. Founders: three of the founders, Prince, Utkarsh and Gourav, studied their Bachelors in Medicine from AIIMS Jodhpur before starting NPrep. The fourth founder, Shrey Gupta, is not linked here. Founded in Jul 2023.