AI first midcore gaming studio. Its first game, Arcado Champs, is a real time tower defence game built around original IP. Seed round. Gape Labs is the first investment from Lumikai Pixels, our pre-seed program to back exceptional founders building upon ideas with outsized potential. Founder Naren brings seven years of experience building consumer facing products in gaming, payments and lending, with product roles at Dream11 and ZestMoney.

Quick commerce medicine delivery, albeit with an omni-channel approach. It has one store in Bangalore, while delivering within 15-60 minutes. 20 stores planned over the next 12 months. A typical pharmacy has 4-5K SKUs, while Plazza stores stocks 20K SKUs. $1.4M seed round. Other investors in the round: Bhishek Goyal, Vivekananda Hallekere, Singhania family office, JK Tyre family. Founders: Aman was at Zomato (Business Head for Dining in India & the UAE, and for Online Ordering in Turkey) before joining Kenko Health (subscription plans to cover monthly healthcare costs); Aniruddha was the Co-Founder of Kenko Health and Head of Digital at Cignia TTK Health Insurance. Founded in Apr 2024. Comps: Pharmeasy, Zepto; while PlatinumRx (Stellaris) and Truemeds (Accel, Peak XV) are focusing on branded generics.

Car servicing platform, with a 90 minute live-streamed express car service. Differentiating against the neighbourhood mechanic with transparent pricing, genuine spare parts and on-time service. Rajasthan focused, currently in Jaipur, going to Jodhpur and Udaipur. Currently at ₹2CR annualised revenue with 2000 customers so far. ₹1.5CR pre-seed round. Founders: CEO Sarvesh was a Mahindra First Choice and GoMechanic franchisee, while building an earlier version of GaadiMech from 2019, called RK Autohouse; little information on co-founder Surakshit (BITS Pilani). Founded in Oct 2024.

Full stack re-commerce for consumer electronics. Operates across sourcing, refurbishing and reselling - with a retail presence across 60 stores, on e-commerce and via B2B. 15,000 devices sold in FY25 with ₹26CR in revenue. ₹16CR round (a mix of equity and debt, and either a seed extension round or Pre-Series A following its seed round in April 2025). Other investors in the round: India Accelerator. Founders: Shrey is ex-Punj Llyod and L&T; Nitin was an engineer at Microsoft. Founded in Oct 2018.

EV motorcycle brand with a proprietary high voltage motorcycle architecture. Deliveries are planned for later this year in Bengaluru and Chennai - priced at ₹2.39 lakhs. Round of an undisclosed amount from the Technology Development Board (TDB), the Government of India's fund that earlier supported Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin. Founder Dinesh started Raptee in 2018 after running a Royal Enfield dealership for six years. He spent a brief eight months at Tesla (program management) after his Master's in Industrial Engineering at Purdue.

Real world branded rewards integrated into mobile games. This operates as "rewards as a service" - i.e. consumer products as well as gift cards for gamers - with an SDK that automatically embeds rewards into gameplay. Currently at a GMV of $350K, driving higher user engagement and revenue for its gaming studio partners. Customers include KGEN, STAN, SVG. $1M seed round. Angels in the round: Dhruv Vohra (Meta). Founders: two of the founders, Shouradeep and Upamanyu, built CollegeShala (online lessons) and subsequently joined acquirer LectureNotes; Abhir was the marketing and community manager at IndiGG. Founded in Jan 2024.

AI driven astrology app with guidance from human astrologers. A subscription model is supplemented with paid consultations. ₹7.5CR pre-seed round. Three of the founders, Nitesh (IIT Bombay), Devaang and Gaurav (IIT Bhubaneswar), are from Gameskraft - respectively as VP Business & Strategy, Chief of Staff and Director, Business & Revenue. Nitesh founded Pocket52 which was acquired by Gameskraft. The fourth founder and CTO, Piyush Nagle (also IIT Bombay) is ex engineering at PhonePe, Razorpay and Pagarbook. Comps: AskMyGuru (Lumikai), AstroTalk (Left Lane, Elev8), Vaya (Accel, Arkam), AstroSure (angels).

Petcare services at home, in Mumbai. Currently provides grooming services, with 3,000 clients so far, at a ₹1,500-2,000 price point. It employs cat groomers, an under-addressed segment in the pet care market. $200K angel round with investors undisclosed. Founders: Aditi was with P&G for close to seven years; Anshika spent twelve years between P&G and Mondolez. Comps: IncrediPets (GSF), Sploot (InfoEdge).

Quick commerce for baby care products delivered within 60 minutes. Currently live from one dark store covering 10 pin codes in Bengaluru. $3.2M seed round. Angels in the round: Maninder Gulati (OYO), Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn), Nitin Gupta (Uni), Arjun Vaidya (V3). Founders: Chetan (IIT Kharagpur), ex Deutsche Bank, was a VP at Leap Finance; Vivek (IIT Kharagpur) is also from Deutsche Bank as well as BCG, followed by OYO (close to six years); Abhijit (IIT-BHU) was the Co-Founder of MojoStay followed by engineering roles at Leap and Skydo. Founded in Aug 2025. Comps: FirstCry now offers same day delivery in 40 cities.

Casual dining and QSR chain for - you guessed correctly - Japanese food. The company has three models - a café, a bakehouse (faster service) and the KoiKoi Essentials food products brand (ramen kits, frozen meals) - with 7 outlets across Delhi NCR and Mumbai currently at an ₹30CR (~$3.4M) annualised revenue. The goal is to get to 90 outlets/20 cities/₹200CR (~$23M) by 2027. $2M seed round. Includes the participation of Capitar Ventures, a venture debt firm. Founder Gaurav started this in 2019, soon after his Masters degree.