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.
Pre-launch platform for brands (D2C, F&B and retail) to enhance customer engagement and loyalty. The platform embeds rewards into brand sites or at checkout, plugs into their CRM and POS, provides analytics, provides a unified wallet to users (across brands) and runs personalised offers to drive retention. Focused on India and the Middle East, targeting 100 brands and a 100K users in the next three months. Pricing: free for the next 3 months during their pilot. Seed round of an undisclosed amount.
Intelligence and lead generation tool for financial services - helping companies identify, undertake deep research and connect with HNI clients. The platform build a 360 degree profile of HNIs including their personal, professional and social backgrounds as well as financial details. A network graph then identifies how best to connect with these potential clients. The platfform's customers include Kotak Private Wealth, KRISTAL, Neo and Nuvama Group. ₹3CR pre-seed round.
AI memory startup founded by a 19 year old, which extracts "memories" or insights form unstructured data and helps applications understand the context better. Started out as a tool on GitHub which allowed users to chat with their Twitter bookmarks. The platform ingests any kind of data - files, docs, chats, emails and app data streams, while allowing users to add memories in text and connect to apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, or Notion. A chrome xtension also pulls in notes from websites. Enterprise customers include Cluely and Composio - this serves as infrastructure for their own products. ₹3M seed round. Angels include Jeff Dean (Chief Research Scientist at DeepMind) and Dane Knecht (CTO Cloudflare).
Marketing platform to enable businesses to measure the carbon footprint of their media activities, optimise campaigns through its programmatic intelligence and offset emissions. Four AI agents - Campaign Builder, Creator, Optimiser and Analytics - bring together business goals, carbon offset goals and campaign management on a single platform. Targeting markets outside India. $2M round from undisclosed angels. Founder Neel is the former Chief Digital officer at Vodafone India and at L'Oréal India. He was then CEO, APAC at Pixis (Ai powered advertising solution for consumer brands). Founded in Aug 2025.
Enterprise messaging platform for the BFSI industry. $4M seed round which consummated three years ago but was announced this week - founded in Jul 2022, the company has now come out of stealth. The platform offers a compliance first communication infrastructure for banks and NBFCs - unifying integration, orchestration and analytics across more than eight channels including SMS, WhatsApp, email, push notifications and voice. Messaging costs come down by 20-30%, engineering efforts by 90% and all communication adheres to RBI, SEBI and TRAI mandates. Revenue targets: $2M for FY26, $5M for FY27, across India and other emerging markets. Founders Aniketh and Ashish are deeply experienced in this precise domain - they founded Solutions Infini, a Communications Platform as a Service (serving as CEO and CTO respectively) in 2008, which they built out over a decade before merging it with Ubiquity and rebranding into Kaleyra, serving in the merged company as CRO and CTO. Kaleyra was listed on the NYSE before being sold to Tata Comm. in 2023 for ~$100M.
Describing itself as "Stripe for Voice AI", the company is building multilingual voice AI agents for enterprise. it aims to enable businesses, developers and BPOs to deploy human-like, low-latency voice agents across industries. $400K pre-seed round. Founders: Tushar Shinde and Nitish Tripathi (both IISc) worked together at Hypersonix Inc., Tushar then worked on product at OneCard. The third founder Nitish Mishra (IIT Madras) worked at Foxrobe (eCom) followed by SustainoMetric (consulting firm). Founded in Aug 2023.
Healthcare SaaS platform for payers (insurers, brokers, corporates, third party systems) to offer OPD/comprehensive healthcare plans to their users, across a range of providers (hospitals, doctors, healthtech companies). The company also provides a range of tools for healthcare providers (e.g. a hospital management system). The company now 20 paying customers. $1.1M seed round. Founder: Abhishek (IIT Roorkee, ISB) was the CPTO of HealthAssure and CTO of BeatO; Avinash (IIT Bombay) was the co-founder of Asappp (app builder) and Bookmycab. Founded in Oct 2023.
₹7CR seed round. Other angels in the round: Vivek Gambhir, Amit Sinha. Founder: Anish was with Unilever for 15 years including as CHRO Australia/NZ; Kshitij was with Amazon for eight years and at P&G for 16 years, in senior finance roles; Shashank is ex Amazon (Director, HR, Godrej Consumer Products (CEO, Chile), Unilever. Founded in Jul 2023.
Vibe coding platform to make full, production-ready apps and websites vs. quick prototypes. One of India's first vibe coding startups, this takes on Lovable, Cursor and Bolt. Three months since its beta launch in June, the company has 400K users, 10K paying subscribers, $4.5M in ARR. Goals: $20-25M by this December, $60-70M by June 2026. According to the CEO, 80% of its customers build "serious" applications. According to TechCrunch, "generating the first application takes about 25 minutes — much slower than most vibe-coding tools, which usually produce results within three. But in our early testing, Rocket.new delivered a more comprehensive user experience, with all essential modules included." $15M seed round. Founders: CEO Vishal and CTO Rahul started DhiWise in Mar 2021, which pivoted to Rocket this June 2025. They started out by founding a dev firm, Coruscate Solutions, in 2013. COO Deepak (IIT Ahmedabad, HBS) was CFO at BrowserStack and CleverTap, and Co-Founder & CEO of DocuX (document management). Founded in Jun 2025, primarily in Surat now going to Palo Alto given the US is its largest market. Comps: identified above.
AI tools for content creation - organises all your content in a central repository, with tools for editing across images/video/audio/text. $1.2M seed round from a strategic investor in the power cables business. Founder Anubhav was a SAP Consultant at HCL, before founding 360Hoardings (out of home media) and Picnara (marketplace for photographers). Founded in Dec 2021.