Tracking pre-seed and seed rounds that close in India every week
Links out to the the websites of the startup and its investors, along with LinkedIn profiles of the founders and fundraising news.
AI-driven search for the workplace, that brings together a user's files, notes and information across apps while ensuring data privacy/security. The goal is to become an alternative to Dropbox or Google Drive - cloud storage with easily collatable information. Pre-seed, amount undisclosed.
AI presentation maker - "ChatGPT for presentations". In the company's own words it has "gone on to amass millions of users and millions of dollars in profit, not just revenue". $3M seed round. Twenty angels participated including Vijay Shekhar Sharma (Paytm), Kunal Shah (CRED), Girish Mathrubhootham (Freshworks).
Conversational commerce tools to help sales and marketing teams convert more leads, faster. Serves 10,000 SMBs across 45 countries in automating their Whatsapp leads in particular. $3.5M seed round.
Modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components, on cloud or on-premises. Enterprises can deploy AI workloads to production faster and with greater reliability. $2.5M seed round. Other funds in the round: Good News Ventures, Nivesha Ventures, Astir VC, GradCapital, MyAsiaVC.
Video editing platform. Web based post production allows for off-premises editing and global collaboration, which brings down costs by 20-40%. Gen-AI tools enable content localization. Currently at $1M in ARR in the Indian enterprise market, will expand into the US. $1M raised in this seed round.
Tech platform for manufacturers to automate 80% of the compliance work they undertake to be compliant with more than 30 global standards (for example, the ISO 9001 Standard). Traditionally, smaller manufacturers have been at a disadvantage in getting certified and maintaining these standards. Each industry also has particular standards to adhere to, BPR Hub has started with a focus on pharma, food and packaging. San Francisco/Bengaluru based. $2.6M seed round. A Forbes article (link below) explains the opportunity in detail.
SaaS platform to streamline global trade processes for enterprises. The platform connects businesses with suppliers, vendors, banks, and the government’s Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP). $2M seed round.
SaaS platform focused on sustainability for the fashion and textile industry. Provides the typical suite of products offered by CleanTech-SaaS: carbon accounting, ESG Reporting, supply chain decarbonisation and traceability. $1.2M raised in this seed round which also included Zeca Ventures, Anshuman Bapna (Terra.do), Sumit Jain (Zalora), Pankaj Vermani (Clovia), Amit Kumar (Nobroker) and Senthil Sankar (Ecoline).
SaaS for supply chain management, with a focus on traceability (using blockchain); tracking Scope 1,2,3 emissions and providing a network of verified recyclers. ₹8.6CR raised in this pre-seed round with participation from angels.
Mobile app testing through autonomous QA agents. Agents automate the complete testing lifecycle and eliminate the need for manual testers. $635K raised in this pre-seed round which also includes DeVC and Abhishek Goyal (Tracxn founder).