Quick commerce for fashion, with delivery in 60 minutes. The immediate goal is to cover 80% of Bangalore's PIN codes, while diversifying into over seven lifestyle categories (categories undisclosed), and expanding across Tier 1/2 in the next five years. It's Try & Buy feature allows you to do exactly that, while the delivery exec waits. $3.2M seed round, with participation from existing investors (Better Capital, Untitled Ventures) and angels Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Abhinav Pathak (Perpule), Madhav Tandan, Nikhil (Panthera), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global). The three founders worked together at Amazon and Perpule (self checkout solutions).

Mobile games publisher. Focuses on hybrid-casual games in collaboration with 10 Indian studios. Has crossed $1M ARR in Feb (4x of Nov 2024's number) and 1M downloads with its top titles - Seek & Find and Nova Solitaire. $3M seed round. Existing investors DeVC and Visceral Capital also participated. Anurag, the CEO, was Co-Founder at Wakao (social video app); ex-Swiggy, ex-Snapdeal.

Capsule hotels come to India! Starting with one location in Noida, the startup will provide affordable, hygienic, tech-driven stays in IT hubs and near religious sites. The budget hotel market in India is $20B and growing 13-15% a year. $500K pre-seed round. Nitin was the founder of 247around (acquired by Servify), repair and maintenance for home appliances. Himanshu comes with a decade of experience as a customer experience manager.

Building India's first dedicated PC and console game publishing house, to publish world-class indie and AA games for global audiences. Three upcoming releases announced for this year. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Deepak (co-founder) built Street Lamp Games (hyper casual games) for eight years; while Mantena (co-founder) most recently spent 5 years at PTW (ptw.com), as VP of Products. Other investors in this round: Sridhar Muppidi (YesGnome), Tanay Tayal (Ex-Moonfrog), the founders of Playsimple, Vatsal Chintalpati (ExMachina Investment Partners), Rick Herman (Ex-Sony)

Mobile gaming studio for hyper and hybrid casual games. Developing mobile games in the “relax and unwind” category for audiences in the US/Europe. $1.2M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Visceral Capital, Signal Ventures, Surojit Roy (Firescore) and other angels. The founder, Karan, was earlier co-founder of Firescore Interactive, acquired by CrazyLabs, a Top 3 mobile games publisher globally. Core members of the team also come from Firescore.

It was inevitable the pickleball craze would bounce outside the court and get funding - the setup doesn't need much space, the ROI is great. GoRally operates four centers across Bengaluru with 15 courts, including a 15,000 square feet indoor facility near Indiranagar. Will expand to eight centres and 42 courts by year end (two of which will be paddle courts). $750K pre-seed round. Other investors include Mohit Kumar and Vatsal Singhal (Ultrahuman), Viren Singhvi (ex-American Razor Safety Co.), Kartik Kapoor (East Africa Racquet Sports), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Deepak Singh (Gameskraft), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures).

Platform for webtoons in India. Webtoons are episodic digital comics that are usually meant to be read on smartphones. The company licenses comics from around the world, arranges them into episodes and translates them into Indian languages. 500K MAU, 2M+ downloads and over 3,100 comic titles in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Working with Google's Gemini to drive translation, case study here (https://ai.google.dev/showcase/toonsutra). Seattle based. Vishal, Co-Founder & CEO, was CPO at DailyHunt, CleverTap and Freecharge. $3.2M seed round. Other investors in this round: T-accelerate Capital, Graphic India. Sony is an existing investor.

Virtual platform for users to book pujas, receive prasad via home delivery and consult with priests. Partners with 60 lakh temples and gets 300K monthly organic site visits. Will enter spiritual merchandising. ₹6.4CR seed round. Previously raised ₹2CR seed from India Quotient (June '23).

AI-driven fashion search engine. “For Gen-Zs, over 75% of fashion inspiration discovery happens on Instagram and Pinterest. We started Shoppin’ seven months ago with the idea of bridging the gap between inspiration discovery on social platforms and e-commerce discovery on marketplaces and D2C brand websites.” Launching in beta in Feb 2025. $1M round.

Farm to table fresh produce, delivered the next morning. 250 SKUs. Online ordering, with a plan to expand to 200 supermarkets in Bengaluru and Chennai over the next year. $1M pre-seed round. Steve Vinod is Chief Growth Officer (not linked below).