EV ride-hailing platform, with airport transfers, city rides and hourly rentals across Delhi NCR. 5,000 bookings to date, with plans to add 500 vehicles this FY27. Currently adding 25 vehicles a month, including the MG Windsor, MG ZS EV, Kia Carens Clavis EV, BYD e6. $1M round. Other investors in the round: Rohit Qamra, RMRN Ventures, BP Jain Holdings, Bipin Preet Singh, Aakash Goyal, Aakash Anand, Aditya Singh. Gurgaon based, founded in Jun 2025. Founders: CEO Mishu (Delhi Univ. '99) founded Torq Rides (motorcycle rentals, tour operator) and was Chief of Staff at Novatr; COO Rishi (Amity Univ. '09) set up motorcycle dealership Super Suzuki and also set up organic mushroom farm, Veggie Basket.

Wedding planning platform offering venues, décor, catering, photography, and logistics. Has over 2000 vendors, with service order value growing from ₹51CR in FY25 to ₹115CR in FY26, and ₹350CR planned for FY27. 1,500 wedding bookings drive about ₹350CR in business, i.e. ₹23 lakhs a wedding. Aims to deliver a premium customer experience for consumers navigating the wedding planning process. $2.75M seed round. Other investors in the round include Vivek Mathur, Rahul Garg, Apurva Patel, Synergy Capital Partners. Bangalore based, founded in Apr 2023. Founders Pawan (BIT Mesra '09; MIT MBA '15) and CPTO Rahul (IIIT Hyderabad '13; MIT MSc '15) built Betterhalf (matrimony app without the parents, funded by YC, Tribe and others) over close to a decade.

Quick commerce platform for Tier II/III households, with the app and its search experience in local languages, along with assisted shopping (with a call to order feature). Present in Ramanagara and Mandya, districts in Karnataka with a population of 1-2M each as per the 2011 census. It has hit 1,800 orders a day in its pilot city. $7.8M seed round. Angels in the round include Vidit Aatrey, Karthik Gurumurthy, Prashant Sachan, Arjun Purkayastha, Nitin Saluja, Siddharth Gadia, Ayyappan R, and Aravind Charanyan. Bangalore based, founded in Dec 2025. Founders: Priyanshu (IIT Bombay '23) was Senior Manager - Consumer Strategy at Zepto; Arjun (RV College '12; SPJIMR '17) is ex-Zepto (revenue planning), Myntra (customer experience), Swiggy (strategy) and PRTM; Tarithnay (St. Xavier's, Kolkata; ISB) is ex-Zepto (revenue pricing, customer strategy) and Myntra (revenue).

Wedding planning platform offering venues, décor, catering, photography, and logistics. Has over 2000 vendors, with service order value growing from ₹51CR in FY25 to ₹115CR in FY26, and ₹350CR planned for FY27. 1,500 wedding bookings drive about ₹350CR in business, i.e. ₹23 lakhs a wedding. Aims to deliver a premium customer experience for consumers navigating the wedding planning process. $2.75M seed round. Other investors in the round include Vivek Mathur, Rahul Garg, Apurva Patel, Synergy Capital Partners. Bangalore based, founded in Apr 2023. Founders Pawan (BIT Mesra '09; MIT MBA '15) and CPTO Rahul (IIIT Hyderabad '13; MIT MSc '15) built Betterhalf (matrimony app without the parents, funded by YC, Tribe and others) over close to a decade.

Advisory platform for homebuyers, which brings together data-driven insights and experts to help buyers shortlist, evaluate and negotiate residential purchases. Properties are evaluated keeping over 80 factors in mind, including builder credibility, construction quality, livability, project efficiency and appreciation potential. $2M seed round led by Athera, along with Sparrow and real estate developer Vakil Group. Previously raised $600K from angels and Vakil Group. Founded in Mar 2022, based in Bangalore. Founders: CEO Ashish (Visvesvaraya College of Engineering '04; Great Lakes '07) was with Godrej Properties for 12 years (heading Asset Management & Strategy, and Investments in South & NCR, while starting out in marketing and sales) and was with property consultant Anarock for two years (as director of land services); Ravi (BITS Pilani, Goa '15) was a PM at Spinny, AVP of Product & UX at Smallcase (~five years) and Head of Product and Design at Upraised (~two years).

Home services startup operating in Gurgaon, with trained professionals for the installation, maintenance and repair of ACs and home appliances. Plans to expand into mobile and laptop repair, home maintenance, and electronics buyback and recommerce. $440K angel round. Founded in Mar 2026, based in Gurgaon. The founders have built this kind of business before. CEO Saurabh (Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore '07; ESCP '10) was a Reliance Retail, heading Reliance ResQ (device repairs and maintenance) and Swapeasy (ReCommerce) and at Flipkart, as Director of Recommerce & Liquidation. COO Aksh (Panjab Univ. '09) was COO of Cashify for a decade.

Curated experiences marketplace with verified listings for adventure sports (river rafting, bungee jumping), cultural tourism and spiritual travel. It has also developed OkGhumo, ERP and CRM software for activity and experience operators to manage their bookings, operations and finances. Since launching in Dec 2025, the company has faciliated ₹4CR in transactions across 22,000 customers. Three vendors that have been onboarded on to OkGhumo collectively see ₹40CR in annual revenues, indicating the substantial size of individual operators. The company will soon launch a consumer app. ₹1.07CR angel round that closed in December, including Arvind Choudhary (Navrang Energy Geoservices), Aenik Shah (Wizzy.ai), Kartik Khatri (Drifbolt), Yash Mehta (Joyspoon). Founded in Dec 2025. The team is currently based in Rishikesh, where they onboarding local operators on the platform. Founders: Shubham (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, All India Rank 36) was a management consultant at Accenture for a year; Nitant (also ICAI) was at PwC for five years (most recently as an Associate on the M&A team); Divyam (LJ Univ. '25) was a dev at Prepseed (AI-led IT dev shop).

Telugu-language audio entertainment app for podcasts, serialised audio stories and music, focused particularly on the US. Built upon the realization that Telugu creators and listeners were spread across multiple platforms without a centralized destination for Telugu storytelling. Raising $150K pre-seed round of which $53K has been committed from undisclosed investors. Founded in Oct 2024, Atlanta based. Founder & CEO Srihith (Georgia Institute of Technology '25) worked as a project manager and software dev at iVue, an Atlanta based drone and world-mapping startup, for two years prior to university.

Building “Zara for the Virtual World”, i.e. trend-led digital fashion for platforms like Roblox and Fortnite. The startup sold over 2.5 million virtual fashion units on the Roblox marketplace, generating ~$300K in GMV at a 92% gross margin, while bootstrapped. The startup’s dress-up game, GlamGirls, launched in beta on Roblox in late 2025 and has attracted over 100K paying users, with a 75% female user base and 50% of users aged over 18. While Global brands such as Walmart have partnered with the company to bring real-world products into the digital world, the company also offers a phygital D2C line that turns virtual bestsellers into real-world products. At the core of Meta Fashion’s platform is a proprietary AI-native “fast fashion” engine for digital assets, which analyzes live marketplace trends and demand signals to determine asset creation, and drive higher conversion across virtual marketplaces. UGC platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite are emerging as key ecosystems for entertainment and IP creation, particularly for a Gen Z and Gen Alpha digitally-native demographic. Roblox has grown to 150 million DAU and $6.8B in annual bookings in 2025. The platform paid out over $1.5B to creators in 2025 (up 70% YoY). As Roblox's user base ages up (with 65% of age-verified users now 13+, and 27% aged 18+) and as new monetization surfaces open up, UGC platforms are increasingly becoming home to venture-scale IP businesses. $400K pre-seed round led by Lumikai, with the participation of Big Bets, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Akshat Rathee (Nodwin), Pratham Mittal (Masters’ Union). Founded in Aug 2022, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Arjun (Masters' Union) is a 19 year old Roblox native who started Meta Fashion while in high school; Sanjay (Delhi University; NIFT) founded two startups, one of which was acquired by Paytm.

Creating a "Disney from the East". Building a production studio to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales to a worldwide audience. "Mythik plans to modernise ancient narratives using immersive technology", for e.g. Ram v. Ravan and Buddha's First Sermon. Now has a 200 member team. $5M additional round following on a $15M seed round raised in May 2025. The company's valuation crosses $50M with this round which includes investors Harsh Jain (Dream11), Rajat Gupta (McKinsey’s former Global MD), Bharti Mittal Family Office, Blume Founders Fund, Ishan Sinha (Point72). The prior $15M round was from Sakal Media Group, BITKRAFT, VC Grid, along with the founder himself, Visceral Capital, Shah Rukh Khan’s family office, the Patni family office and angels. Founded in Jul 2024, Mumbai based. Founder Jason Kothari (Wharton undergrad) was the CEO of Housing.com after Rahul Yadav, CEO of Freecharge, and CSO at Snapdeal. Prior to all of this he was CEO and then Vice Chairman of Valiant Entertainment (which has rights to the third most popular universe of superhero characters after Marvel & DC Entertainment).