Parking solutions provider which offers a range of IoT solutions - a smart parking barrier that secures individual parking spaces for particular customers (using a pop-up barrier), automated boom barriers and EV fleet charging infrastructure. A marketplace also allows private parking owners to rent out their unused spaces by the hour, using the parking barrier/lock. The company currently facilitates 20,000 parking slot bookings a month. ₹2.09CR seed round. Founders: Amrit started Nick IT Solutions, a services firm, 18 years ago; Raj Kumar is from the advertising industry. Founded in Apr 2023.

Automobile spare parts marketplace for distributors and workshops, along with a SaaS tool for both parties to manage their orders and accounts. Offers access to over eight million parts across 25 leading car brands. ₹4.55CR (~$530K) seed round. Founders: Shaleen (CEO) was the CEO of India Automotives (Maruti Suzuki parts distributor) for close to a decade; Sahil (CTO) is a software engineer (MS, Adobe, Amazon); Varun (COO) was a Partner at KFL Marketing (commercial vehicle spare parts). Founded in 2019.

B2B solution for FinTech platforms (brokers, payment apps and wealth-tech companies) to offer a broad range of investment products (from multiple banks and NBFCs) to their clients. Over 30 FinTech companies like Mobikwik and Upstox currently offer fixed deposits and will soon be able to offer other investment and savings products. ₹4CR (~$470K) seed round, including funds raised earlier in the year from Mobikwik and Kapil Bharti (Delhivery). Founders: Ravi comes from PKC Advisory (close to a decade); Sandeep is from IndusInd, YES Bank and ICICI; Uday founded Teknomatics (IT services); the fourth founder Pankaj Pratap Singh is the CTO, who worked briefly at Teknomatics. He is not linked here. Founded in 2021.

Man-made fibre (MMF) manufacturing for large fashion retailers in India - clients include Vishal Megamart, Westside, Shoppers Stop and Ritu Kumar. Provides end to end design and manufacturing using MMF, working with weavers, mills and processors in Surat. Digitising the supply chain optimises for reliability and speed. ₹13.75CR ($1.6M) seed round. Founder Ramya (XLRI) is from Infosys, Hewitt, Accenture and was a Founding Partner at 6Y Collective (event wear company). Founded in Surat in Feb 2023.

Building a house of brands in the architectural and interior design space - the company will partner with existing omnichannel brands - investing in them and supporting them with tech, "internet-led manufacturing" and distribution. The idea is to modernize fragmented segments in interiors - sanitaryware, furniture, kitchen, wardrobes, furnishings, lighting, hardware. The company has already partnered with four brands - FIAMARC (distributor for European brands), The House of W (bathroom fittings distributor), ColourCoats (surface coatings) and Metalia (metal building facades). Rumoured $20M seed round at a $120M valuation. Angels include Siddharth Shah (PharmEasy), Niket Shah (Motilal Oswal), Shalibhadra Shah (Motilal Oswal), Kabir Narang (B Capital). The three founders are co-founders of PharmEasy. Founded in Nov 2024.

Creative agency covering storytelling, ad film production, digital campaign execution, influencer marketing. Clients include Swiggy, Netflix, BGMI, Mumble, CRED, Ather, Amazon Prime Video. Round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Naveed was head of production at All India Bakchod (AIB) for five years and executive producer at Only Much Louder; Aakash headed social media at AIB for eight years. Founded in Apr 2020.

B2B platform for SMEs and D2C brands to manage their export operations - from logistics (shipping, warehousing, returns, customs, insurance) to compliance to marketplace solutions (enabling sales on Amazon/Tiktok/Walmart). "The company aims to make international selling as seamless as domestic commerce." Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Used by 1000 customers to ship to over 220 countries. Founders: two of the founders, Anshul and Darpan, built two businesses together - Sponsoredby (to connect event organizers with sponsors) and Paapos (on demand delivery); the third co-founder Sanchit was an engineer at Walmart and Uber, and co-founded Shyp (B2B logistics, YC23). Founded: May 2024.

EV as a service fleet operator for Amazon, Flipkart, Blue Dart and Porter. Fleet of 1,000 two and three wheelers. Profitable in key markets - Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad. Expanding into Southeast Asia. $2.5M round, the company has raised seed rounds in the past, in 2019 and 2020. This round is funded by individuals - Vijay Kedia (public markets investor), Lloyd Balajadia (Lloyd Laboratories in the Philippines), Rahul Bothra (CFO at Swiggy). Visakh, the Founder & CEO, started this out of IIT Madras Research park almost 12 years ago as Pi Beam, an EV manufacturer, which then pivoted to the current model.

Refrigerated container shipping platform for perishible goods. Operates in a niche for temperature-controlled exports of fresh produce, meat, marine products and flowers from India. "Our platform has been instrumental in solving export inefficiencies for Indian SMEs. We’ve reduced booking times from 72 hours to just 10 minutes, while also helping clients cut down spoilage and expand market reach by over 40%.” ₹2.5CR bridge round, following on ₹2.75CR raised earlier. The founders have built this business over the last nine years. The CEO comes from the freight industry. Comps: Wiz Freight, Cogoport, Intercont.

Food-tech startup offering non-refrigerated plant-based protein products - mixes for samasos, momos, kebabs and so on. The impact angle - it aims to reduce protein deficiency in markets with limited cold chain infrastructure, while also reducing emissions compared to the farming, production and transport of non-vegetarian, cold-chain dependent products. The company has 30 B2B clients, including food manufacturers and HoReCa customers. The company is looking beyond India, to West Africa and other markets. Founders: the CEO co-founded Wok Hospitality (cloud kitchen with 20 locations).