A new AI-led email client. Provides a contextually intelligent and prompt free email experience. The goal is to improve productivity, with superior thread organization, better attachment handling, semantic search and group summarization features. Currently available for Gmail and Google Workspace users in a desktop-only beta. 30-day free trial, then priced at ₹125 a month for two email accounts, and ₹49 a month for each additional account. $200K pre-seed round. Founded in Sep 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Neeraj (BITS Pilani '14, ISB '19) was the head of product design at Insider, and went on to JP Morgan investment banking and BCG after his MBA. Comps: this takes on Superhuman, Spark, Fyxer. Sign up for a free trial here - https://faraday.email

Korean quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain, which appears to have four outlets (soon, five) in Bangalore. K-everything is a theme across India - beauty/music/dramas/food. ₹4CR seed round. Founder Hasan (Ramaiah '16; UBC Sauder '18) worked in Canada in accounts/BD roles (in a recycling company for food processors, for example) before returning to India to start Koriken in May 2022

As the name suggest, ironing and dry cleaning services with on demand home pickup, returned within 24 hours, starting in Bangalore. Traction: in a year the company is at ₹3CR annualised revenue and has served 7K customers. ₹1.5CR ($180K) pre-seed round. Founded in Oct 2024. Founders: Rohit (VIT, Mica) led the trade marketing function in Kerala and Karnataka for Unilever; Ankit (IIT Delhi) was at Shadowfax for close to a decade (Chief of Staff, Director for Strategic Planning and other roles).

Chain of ayurvedic clinics starting out with its first clinic in HSR, Bangalore. The goal is to provide structured, doctor-led ayurvedic care to urban consumers. $800K seed round. Founded in Mar 2024. Founders: Puroo (IIT Kharagpur, IIM Ahmedabad), was at Flipkart Ventures before which he was an investment banking analyst at JP Morgan; Rahul (also IIT Kharagpur) was with Deutche Bank in London for 8 years, most recently as Vice President. He left DB at the end of 2024 to join Puroo as a co-founder. Comps: Kerala Ayurveda.

A full stack, customer to customer attempt at cracking India's secondhand products ("pre-owned") market, which remains undisrupted beyond OLX (inaccurate listings, payment and pickup coordination issues etc.) and used mobile phone sites. This is an ~$18B market with 70M Indians (buyers + sellers) who engage in transactions monthly. Launched in Bangalore in Aug 2025 with a focus on electronics, home appliances and household goods (including furniture). How is this attempt different? A full stack approach means a three day money back gaurantee and doorstep logistics. AI is used to verify listings, catalog-match, grade the condition of products and provide a guidance on price. One hard to solve problem for such sites - second hand UGC product photos just don't look great. ₹3.4CR pre-seed round, led by Titan with the participation of Raveen Sastry (Multiply Ventures). Founded in Apr 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: Ankit held product roles at Juniper and Bitclass; Chirag was an Associate Director of Product at Swvl (private bus ride hailing in the UAE).

Premium managed hospitality provider, with 650 beds in Pune across Tribe Student Accommodation (student hostels), Tribe Commune (co-living for office workers) and Tribe Suites (executive apartments). Launching 1,000 new beds this FY with a goal to get to 25K beds across Tier 1 cities eventually. $2.8M seed round. Angels in the round include Kunal Khanna (Vivaldis), Krishna Jain (unknown). Founded in Apr 2018. Founder Yogesh was the Co-Founder & CEO of YOLO Life (fully furnished smart homes) and of Better Homes Pune. Comps: YourSpace, Stanza Living.

Wedding planning company that aggregates wedding services through a package-based model to simplify planning for users in India and abroad. There is growing demand amongst Indians overseas to plan destination focused celebrations in India. $250K angel round. Founded in Jan 2021. Founder Rohit started out as a project manager at The Park Hotel in Hyderabad.

Experience booking platform, with a thousand bookings per month in Bangalore and Hyderabad. The platform conceptualizes and creates its own experiences, in partnership with hosts, across adventure, food, art, wellness and culture. ₹6CR round. Founded in Jan 2023. Founder Vivek is a software engineer who led Entrepreneur First in India, prior to which he was Co-Founder & CTO of Excubator (platform to connect startups and investors).

"Health first" F&B brand which offers nutritionist backed meals on subscription along with operating a chain of cafes in Bangalore. It currently operates four cafes as well as supplies 21K meals per month, with plans to expand to Hyderabad. Meal subscription prices range from ₹250 per meal (on three month plans) to ₹300 per meal (on one month plans). Think whole wheat hakka noodles or quinoa with grilled chicken. Seed round of an undisclosed round from Rainmatter, Aniketh Jain and Ashish Agarwal (Fyno, Kaleyra), R. Raghunathan (Prizm). Founded in Dec 2020. Founders: co-founder Vivek was COO of Game Theory (aggregator of sports venues), no background available on Neeraj).

Gaming startup developing a yet to launch social gameplay platform called Centarius, which operates on the web (no app required) and offers a selection of midcore titles across genres, integrated with social and competitive elements to drive player engagement. The platform also serves as a distribution mechanism for indie developers. Will collaborate with gaming influencers to expand its user base. $255K pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Dhruv Vohra, Sourav Gupta.