Coaching company which partners with schools and local sports bodies to run and enhance their sports facilities, as well as the programs in these facilities. Anyone can book a slot at these venues using the TIDA app. It has organised more than 100 tournaments and helped develop players who represent their states as well as country. It operates in Punjab, Haryana and Uttarakhand, across 150 coaching academies. ₹3CR seed round. Founded in March 2023. Founders: Adit (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology) was the founder of OakTree International (a school in Chandigarh); Priyansh (also from Thapar Institute) was an operations manager at DotPe; no information available on third co-founder Sumeet; the fourth co-founder Sanchit (not linked here) was MD at Krissha Textiles (trading company).

AI-native B2B procurement platform. Procurement processes have remained largely manual - this platform has onboarded more than 100K vendors, with automated workflows for supplier discovery, RFP creation and multi-round negotiations. This helps customers procure faster as well as save up to 15%. It has 100 enterprise clients globally, including Bacardi India and Benetton. This is a Dubai based company with Russian founders. Why is it being covered here? India seems to be their primary focus. $8M seed round. Founded in 2022. Founders: Anton built Eapteka, Russia's largest online medicine delivery platform, with 20M monthly visitors, and 1 hour delivery in 100 cities; Andry built Bidzaar, a B2B procurement platform in Russia which got to $7B in GMV and $11M in ARR. Anton was on the board of this business.

B2B platform enabling the fashion supply chain - customers work with the company to manage the coordination of design, sourcing, prototyping and manufacturing. This reduces factory lead times from 180 days to 30-60 days, and enables the creation of 3K designs every month, for 12 clients which include Tata Trent, US Polo Association, Snitch and The Souled Store. $1.4M bridge round. Other investors in the round: Venture Catalysts and We Founder Circle. Founded in Aug 2022. Founders: Piyush (IIT Kanpur) was VP Operations at Newton School; Rishav (IIT Delhi) led the launch of Uber Shuttle in India; and was at AVP Operations at Shuttl.

Network of dark stores that deliver construction and interior materials to homeowners, contractors and architects within 60 minutes in Bangalore, using an all-electric fleet. Currently at ₹35CR annualised GMV, aiming at ₹50CR by Jan 2026. ₹9CR seed round. Other investors in the round: Anupam Mittal (Shaadi.com), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Suraj Nalin (PlaySimple), Raj Sheth and Gautam Shewakramanil (Inuka Capital). Founded in Jun 2024. Founder Pukhraj (IIT Roorkee) was Co-Founder & COO at both Project Hero (marketplace of construction workers) and at Tornado (a general contractor).

Full stack platform for gig workers to find verified jobs, as well as provide them with company or partner operated housing, meals and healthcare, along with access to phones and bikes. Paying guest (PG) housing hubs are located within 1km of major worksites - near logistics, warehousing and manufacturing clusters. This integrated model aims to reduce employee churn. Currently serves 3,000 workers across 50 cities, 150 of whom use Nia operated PGs. Works with companies like Flipkart, Zomato and Bigbasket. $2.4M seed round. Founded in Aug 2024. Founders: CEO Sachin was with Unilever for 14 years till 2010, following which he built Peel Works (Chiratae, Unilever Ventures), SaaS for kirana stores and blue collar workers; COO Lt Col Pushkar Raj was with the Indian Army for 21 years before joining Peel Works as Co-Founder & COO.

Rural distribution platform that helps FMCG brands expand into rural and semi-urban markets through a network of tech-enabled dark stores. Currently operates 10 dark stores which serve 5K retailers across Western UP, working with brands like Bikano, Yellow Diamond and Kingfisher. Aiming at 25 dark stores to serve 25K retailers within the next year. ₹4.5CR pre-seed round. Angels in the round include Kunwar Asheesh Saxena (RedDoorz). Founded in Dec 2022. Founders: Jitendra was a growth partner at 1K Kirana Bazaar (another offline distribution network), a cluster manager at Udaan and the founder of Dhaanika, an organic produce brand; Nishant managed growth and expansion at 1K Kirana and led offline sales for RedDoorz (similar to OYO) in Vietnam, and Treebo back home.

Runs wealthtech platform MIDASX, which functions as a multi-asset class marketplace as a service - offering stock baskets, research calls, corporate FDs, model portfolios, bonds, MLDs, and unlisted equities in one place. This is a B2B2C offering - allowing financial advisors, brokers and distributors to create microsites with this multi-asset offering to their investors. This comes with compliance and an admin/backend for their clients. ₹12CR seed round.

B2B e-commerce platform that specializes in building materials. The company provides a line of credit to emerging architects, contractors and builders, powered by NBFCs like Muthoot Finance and Rupifi. ₹6CR seed round from the corporate venture capital arm of Somany Impresa Group, the owners of Hindware.

High-tech, climate resilient farming startup that produces European strawberries under its Oh! Fruits brand - these are twice as sweet and have three times the shelf life of typical Indian varieties. Output will be boosted from 2-3kg per day to 120kg per day, and will diversify into blueberries and raspberries. The goal is to solve inconsistent fruit quality and the lack of year-round supply in India, the world's second largest fruit producer. $2M seed round. Angels investors include Sashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic). Founders: Harish is from BCG (six years) and Pure Harvest (agribusiness in Dubai); Timothy is a plant scientist from South Africa who also worked at Pure Harvest, and SMARTKAS (smart farms); Damien is also a plant scientist from Spain who worked at Viscon Group (food processing equipment manufacturer) and at SMARTKAS. Founded in Dec 2023.

Manufacturer of modular, stackable fuel-cell systems for power generation. These range from sub-kilowatt modules for defence equipment to multi MW blocks for grid-scale, longer duration storage. Customers can integrate batteries with hydrogen and solar assets in a plug-and-play fashion. The company ultimately wants to build a gigawatt-scale factory, but is starting with field trials with anchor customers in telecom, construction and defence. The long term goal is to make the "diesel generator obsolete". $850K seed round.