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.
Curated retail displays/outlets for D2C brands, located in hotels, co-working hubs, gyms and campuses. Has partnered with 150 D2C brands to offer their locations, including Awfis, Smartworks, The Lodhi Hotel (Delhi). Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Tanmay was Chief of Staff at Sleepy Owl Coffee; Gurpreet worked at IndoSup, a B2B procurement platform. Founded in Jan 2024.
AI-powered dashcams for fleet operators that offer real-time safety alerts to prevent road accidents. Used by public transport, school bus and commercial fleet operators. It has 60 customers. $3M raised in a seed round - $1.2M was raised in April and $1.8M this August. Other investors in the round: Venture Catalysts, Vibha Chetan (Cheravi Ventures), Raveen Sastry (Multiply Ventures), Vivekananda Hallekere (Bounce), Nishchay AG (Jar). Founders: Ankit (NIFT, IIM Calcutta) was with Bounce and Bounce Infinity in a variety of roles (CEO's office; comms manager); Pranjal (Roorkee Institute of Tech.) was an EIR at Antler, and an engineer at Urban Company and Dream11. Founded in Oct 2023. Comps: Fleetx (Series C from IndiaMART and Beenext in May 2025); Safe Cams (bootstrapped).
EV logistics marketplace for low-emission last-mile deliveries. Launched in April 2025, the company offers real time tracking with carbon savings analytics. It will expand into 12 Tier II cities this year (e.g. Jaipur, Chandigarh, Bhopal, Surat) by December. It aims to establish two regional operations hubs and 20,000 drivers. $500K angel round from undisclosed investors. Founders: CEO PPrakarsh started ILine soon after his MBA (Hult International Business School); CSO Renu was at Verizon for 20 years, most recently as Head of Consumer Product Innovation and Insights. Founded in Jul 2024.
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.