AI-native management platform for preschools and daycare centres, which automates a large share of their administrative tasks. The full stack platform covers academics (as a teaching assistant), attendance, health logs, billing, admissions and parent comms. Voice AI is a key part of the offering, with teachers recording voice debriefs which get converted into structured academic updates, record keeping or parent facing communication. GTM across India and Southeast Asia (where it works with 130 schools), expanding to the GCC and US. Aiming at 1,000 schools in the next 12-18 months. $1.8M pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2023, Calcutta based. Founders: CEO Ankur (IIT Kharagpur '17) was the founder of pre-school Arth Early Learning Spaces; CTO Manav (IIT Kharagpur '16; University of Illinois '17) was at Instagram for seven years till this Dec 2025, most recently as Senior Staff Software Engineer; COO Adithya (Symby '12; Harvard Kennedy School '18) is ex-Teach for India and was most recently Co-Founder & CPO at Hushl.ai (custom chatbots for enterprise).

Agentic AI platform for large scale enterprise code migrations and software overhauls, using its proprietary SLMs which are purpose built for migration from legacy systems. Time and costs can come down by up to 80%. Revenue traction undisclosed, works with BFSI and SaaS enterprises in India and the US. This is a $23B market today, expected to reach $51B by 2031. $1.7M seed round. Founded in Jan 2024, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Aravind (Cochin Univ. of Science & Technology '16; IIT Delhi '19) was a data scientist at Meesho and Flipkart; CTO Vinay (IIT Kanpur '15; IIT Delhi '19) was a data scientist at AiDash (intelligence for electric utilities) and SigTuple (healthcare diagnostics); co-founder Prathosh (Indian Institute of Science '15) was Co-Founder at CogniAble (autism detection) and Assistant Professor at both IISc and IIT Delhi.

AI-native and pre-emptive cybersecurity startup. KnightGuard, the company's platform, helps enterprises continuously identify, validate, and reduce the most critical security gaps before attackers exploit them. A mesh of AI agents cover core cybersecurity functions, with agents acting as a Customer Specific CTI Analyst, a SOC Analyst, Red and Blue Teams and on ITOps. Customers and revenue traction undisclosed. $3.4M seed round led by Expeditions (European cybersecurity investor) along with the VC arm of Bitfender. Founded in Feb 2024, Amsterdam based. Founders: CEO Anuj (Delhi Univ '01; FORE '04; MSc in Cyber Security from Leiden University '18) is a technology architect from FireEye (cybersecurity), Accenture and Netherlands based OCLC (six years); CRO Manuj was a director of the enterprise business at RSA Security, Symantec and Dell EMC.

Legal-tech startup which is focused on the mobility sector. It has two offerings - LOTS247, which is a roadside legal assistance platform with a network lawyers available on call or at the accident site 24/7; and ChallanPay, a unified platform to find, resolve, and track traffic challans across all states/enforcement authorities. Revenue numbers undisclosed. The company has helped 600K vehicles and 800 businesses remain compliant. It will expand into other sectors - finance, real estate, healthcare. ₹8.5CR round, raised on Zee TV's entrepreneurship show Ideabaaz from Pawan Jaggi (Peakzi), Sandeep Sharda (Miracle Systems), Priyanka Salot (The Sleep Company), Arjun Vaidya (V3 Ventures). Founded in May 2018, Gurgaon based. Founder & CEO Himanshu (Punjab Engineering College '99; IIM Calcutta '15) is a software engineer by background who was at LexisNexis India (the global content and tech provider focused on legal research) for 10 years, most recently as Associate Director of Online Solutions.

Voice AI startup. Provides evaluation, observability and a self-learning layer for voice agents used by enterprises. The platform helps enterprises move from voice AI pilots to production faster by improving voice AI reliability and reducing failure rates. Will focus on US clients in sectors that face a high risk from errors/mistakes: healthcare, finance, insurance. Current clients unknown. $1.2M pre-seed round by Kalaari's CXXO Initiative for women founders. Angels in the round: Rikant Pitti (EaseMyTrip), Arjun Pillai (Docket AI), Sharath Narayanan (Sanas AI), Harish Manian (BMH Group), Nivin Pauly (an actor). Founded in Feb 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Nikkitha was the co-founder of Shoppre (shop anywhere online in India and ship abroad) for close to nine years; CTO Neethu (BITS Pilani '10; IIT Madras PhD in voice AI '17) is an AI scientists from ZS and Uniphore, was briefly co-founder at Mila AI (Gen AI e-commerce) and was part of Antler India's fourth cohort.

Exclusively announced here: AI co-pilot for risk and compliance teams in financial institutions, using Graph AI and Agentic AI for fraud detection, better underwriting and automated due diligence. Launched with payments, wealth management and market listing platforms in India, POCs in the UAE. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Angels in the round: Sidd Gandhi (Venture Builders Collective). Grant from WTFund earlier this year. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sunit (IIT Kanpur '21) spent three years at Marcus by Goldman Sachs (its consumer banking brand), building ML capabilities for fraud detection for Apple Card; COO Somesh was at KPMG as Assistant Manager (in the financial crimes practice) and at the NSE as Deputy Manager.

AI platform for customer support teams to manage customer interactions; driving activation, retention, expansion opportunities and complete lifecycle personalization by ingesting signals from multiple enterprise systems. The product is yet to publicly launch beyond initial pilots with Coinbase, Adobe and Amazon. Legacy (i.e. SaaS!) account management systems constitute a $14-16B market in the US. Less than 5% of current customer interactions get reviewed, whereas Redapto will audit 100% of them. $500K round, part of the YC Fall 2025 cohort. Founded in July 2025, SF based. Founders: CEO Anirudh is BITS Pilani '24 and spent a year as an engineer at Coinbase (working remotely); CTO Cheril is Pune Institute of Computer Technology '24 and UC San Diego '25.

Cybersecurity startup providing Gen-AI native security. Its products include AgentIQ, which provides security where AI has a touchpoint with any kind of enterprise data; and DiscoverR, which continuously tests AI systems for vulnerabilities. The goal is to make sure enterprises can adopt AI while ensuring data confidentiality during model training and day to day usage. $2.5M pre-seed round. Founded in May 2024. Founders: CEO Pankaj was India Country Head at KATIM (secure comms for governments) and was Co-Founder & VP of Engineering at Mobiliya (a dev firm acquired by QuEST Global); co-founder Aditya's PhD thesis at University College Dublin ("Adversarial AI models for Cyber Security") was the genesis of Mirror Security. Prior to Mirror, Aditya was the co-founder of Maxime Tools (legal Gen AI).

AI led digital food labelling SaaS for the world. The goal is to transform food labels required by regulators from a manual to automated process - it streamlines label generation and artwork validation, and most importantly ensures compliance with regulation. This reduces the time taken to ensure compliance from hours to under 30 minutes. $500K seed round from undisclosed investors. Founded in June 2018. Founders: Partho was the head of marketing for Mahindra's tractor and agri business for 15 years, followed by the same role for 7 years at International Tractors (Sonalika/Solis brands); Rashida was a nutritionist in the same business unit at Mahindra, developing a new product range for their healthy food cafe brand, Saboro.

Connected mobility platform turning vehicle data into actionable intelligence for OEMS, mobility providers and fleet operators. Used, for example, by an OEM to predictively act on quality issues across 500K vehicles and 4 models; and by a global heavy vehicles manufacturer to identify road defects and accident zones for vehicles used in mining operations. ₹2CR round. Founded in Feb 2022. Founder & CEO Vikas was an MD at Accenture (12 years) in the UK. He worked in a contracted role as Deputy COO of Toyota Connected Europe (a tech outpost which uses vehicle data science to deliver mobility solutions for Toyota group companies).