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-powered "Product Experience Management" platform. Online sellers can create, manage and distribute product listings across channels - with automated catalog creation, product listing updates and visual content generation. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Angels in the round: Sangeet Agarwal and Navin Parval (Mokobara), Rohin Mittal (AdYogi). Founders: Himanshu is ex-Reliance Retail and P&G; Ankit and Vipin are ex-AdYogi. All three worked together at ANS (Flipkart). Comps: some overlap with Phot.AI (InfoEdge, Together, AC Ventures), which focuses on the visuals for cataloging.
Agentic AI driven test orchestration platform. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. The three founders worked together at Ally.io (acquired by Microsoft) and then at Microsoft. Investment thesis captured here: https://eximiusventures.medium.com/why-we-invested-in-devassure-503e7e528c2e
Privacy management and fraud prevention. Its products mask sensitive data, and also detect and prevent synthetic identity fraud. Compliant with India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act. Seed round, amount undisclosed. Founder Sudhir led the Banking and Financial Services practice at Vaco (recruitment firm) for 10 years.
AI-led DevOps platform. Devs can deploy code and infrastructure autonomously across multi-cloud platforms, reducing dependency on DevOps teams. ₹1.4CR pre-seed round. Founders: Kalpesh was the first salesperson at ZoomInfo acquired Insent.ai (the founders of which are investing in this round); Vedant is from BrowserStack.
AI for the insurance industry - automates complex document processing that has traditionally been manual - submission processing, audits, claims intake. "Think of FurtherAI as ChatGPT for insurance that automates complex workflows". $5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Y Combinator, ConvergeVC, Xceedance. Founders: Aman was Co-Founder & CRO (earlier CPO) at TurboHire; Sashank from Apple, Oracle. Comps: Consint.AI (Equanimity Ventures, Seafund)
AI agents for the pharma industry - streamlines FDA compliance for regulatory, medical affairs and commercial teams. Two tools: Labeling AI streamlines label updates and competitor comparisons; Ads Promo AI helps review promotional materials and ensures their compliance. $500K seed - YC remains a draw for many of our founders. SF/BLR based. Founders: Sanskar is from GlobalBees; Hemant from Zolve, Oyo; Rishabh a two-time founder.
AI driven audit and compliance automation. $1M seed round. The three founders worked together at Spyne (AI to improve visuals for used car retailing), in sales, product and AI roles.
Cybersecurity startup providing agentic AI for real-time, multimodal deepfake detection. It's fintech clients use it to detect deepfakes in their video KYC processes. $600K pre-seed round. Other investors in this round: Soonicorn Ventures. SF/BLR based. Piyush, CEO, was a research fellow at MIT and CEO of Manush Labs, a corporate innovation lab. The CTO and CDO are from IT services firm Calance.
Unified data engine for security and observability. Companies are spending 30-40% of their cloud budget on observability, but struggle maintain a single long-term repository that serves developers, security teams and compliance officers. Pre-seed round, amount undisclosed. Both founders are engineers, IIT Kanpur and IIT-B.
fka Gyaan AI. Customer journey management platform for SaaS companies to bridge the gap between customer acquisition and customer success. SaaS teams currently use an average of 14 disconnected tools to manage these functions. $7.8M seed round. This is the second deal by Dell's venture arm in the last month, following Singulr AI. SF and Pune based. Founder Sonny Aulakh was most recently VP of Products, Solutions & Vertical Marketing at Pure Storage. Coincides with the appointment of a CEO and CRO, who bring leadership experience from Palo Alto Networks, EMC, and most recently Securiti.ai.