Music technology group offering distribution, marketing and publishing infrastructure for independent artists and labels. Its community now represents 200K independent artists and labels across 45 countries, with artists on the platform growing 25% in the last month. These artists have collectively crossed 3 billion streams across global streaming platforms. Seed round of an undisclosed amount led by Ahdritz Capital, along with SumoSan, 10X Global, and Marigold Capital. Delhi based, founded in Apr 2022. Founder Rohan (Amity Univ. '15) co-founded Nesho Recycling World (batteries, electronics, plastics) in 2019.

AI Product Manager for software teams, using agentic architectures to help decide what software to build. With AI, the bottleneck for product teams has shifted from execution to deciding what to build. The product manager evaluates ideas for customer value, feasibility, cost, risk and business impact, before dev begins. Early adoption in the US, with government agencies and county-level tech teams. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Palo Alto based, founded in Feb 2025. Founders: CEO Yash (Hindu College '20; Great Lakes '21; Narsee Monjee '24) was a data scientist at MathCo; Ashrey (Boston University '20) was a management consultant at Modular Startups in Boston.

Yet to launch AI assistant that observes, learns and acts, completing tasks across workplace tools without commands. "Most AI tools wait for commands. Sonatic anticipates your needs. Instead of typing prompts or pushing buttons, your apps act like agents: they observe your context, generate the right tasks, and execute them on your behalf." Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, led by a16z Speedrun as part of the SR005 cohort. Angels in the round from Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta SuperIntelligence Labs. SF based, founded in Jan 2025. CEO Kinjal is a Cornell drop-out (started in 2023). He was an EIR at Entrepreneur First.

SaaS for football/soccer academies. Helps reduce admin by 75% and improve athlete retention through data driven engagement and performance tracking tools. Serves 14 global academies (across India, MENA, Nepal, US), with 8 paid US pilots. Plans to onboard 100 academies in a year with a targeted $1M in annualised revenue. $100K seed round. Kerala based, founded in Jun 2019. The three founders set up IT services firm Roninaks Ventures. CEO Nihal (Mahatma Gandhi Univ. '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was CEO at Roninaks; Swathy (SCMS '17; IIM Bangalore '23) was Chief Sales Marketing Officer; Nagaraj (SCMS '17; T A Pai Management Institute '22) was a co-founder.

Icertis veterans have come together to build this enterprise AI platform which detects and recovers revenue and procurement leakages. $7.55M seed round. This covers missed commercial obligations, supplier rebate losses, pricing inconsistencies, and settlement-related gaps. Seattle based with engineering in Pune. Founded in Feb 2026. CEO Anand was CRO at Icertis for 14 years; CPO Niranjan was EVP - Product at Icertis for 12 years; co-founder Patrick was Founder & CEO of outsourcing firm Bolton Remote.

Decision intelligence platform for wealth advisors and RIAs, which helps them monitor large volumes of clients' portfolios, identify which portfolios require attention and determine actions aligned with each client's investment mandate. Paying clients across the US, Singapore, India. $2.2M seed round. Other investors in the round include iOPEX Technologies, angel investors Amit Sheth and Bhavin Manek. New York based, founded in Mar 2024. Founders: CEO Keyur (Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University '03; IISc '06) is ex-Meta (machine learning engineer); Embibe (Chief Data Scientist) and McKinsey (Principal Data Scientist); CTO Peeyush (IIT Kharagpur '06) was CTO at Verloop (customer support automation) and is ex-IndiaVidual Learning, Quikr, Common Floor. He started out as a technical delivery manager at British Telecom.

Open-source usage-based billing and metering infrastructure for AI-native and API-first companies. The platform is used by AI companies to manage billing across API calls, token usage and GPU hours. This comes at a time when software pricing is rapidly shifting from seat based to usage or outcome based. Clients include Krutim, Nava, Simplismart, Segwise. $1.5M seed round led by Shashtra VC. Founded in Dec 2024, SF and Gurgaon based. The three founders are from DTU (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) '19. CEO Manish (Darden '22) was a PM at Aftershoot (18 months; photography post-production) and Magicpin (four years); Koshima was a PM at Noise (two years) and Magicpin (four years); CTO Nikhil is ex-WizCommerce (15 months) and Zomato (four years).

AI-native intelligence OS to help enterprises transform fragmented information into actional strategic intelligence. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, from a Middle-East based family office. Founded in Jan 2025, based in Kolkota. Founders: CEO Rana (Univ. of Calcutta '97) was CEO - Retail and Franchise at QSR chain YummyJar Foods; COO Manas (Shiva Institute of Management Studies '02) was Senior Manager - HR for two large hospitals under Narayana Health (for over a decade) and was also with Tata Projects in HR.

Technical assessments using real on-the-job tasks in live production environments. This is using a "Watch-Them-Work" approach, where sessions are fully recorded, candidates can use any tools they want including AI, and all the decisions they make are captured to see their approach. 10,000 candidates have been assessed, with a reported 70% reduction in time-to-hire. Seed round of an undisclosed amount, investors also undisclosed. Founded in Sep 2024, Vadodara and SF based. Founders: Naman (Dhirubhai Ambani Univ. '12; North Carolina State Univ. '14) is an engineer from Microsoft (three years) and Oracle (five years) who was VP of Technology at Euler Motors for a year; Zubin (Univ. of Mumbai '12; North Carolina '14) built a GTM agency for SaaS companies, and was Demand Generation Manager at Perfect Gym Solutions (software for the fitness industry).

Prompt-led AI video editing platform that turns raw footage into production-ready content for creators, agencies and marketing teams. Users can define tone, pacing and narrative pace using prompts, while the AI automatically structures cuts, subtitles, music and visual elements. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount, at a $M valuation, with investors undisclosed. Founded in Aug 2025, Gurgaon based. Founders: CEO Rishabh (no prior information available); Principal Advisor & Director Dishant (Univ. of London '11) is Managing Partner at Pindrop Media (creative consultancy and production house); co-founder Chaithanya (Christ Univ. '21; Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County '24) spent a year at Capgemini as an Analyst.