AI-first MarTech (marketing-tech) platform built for D2C and eCommerce brands to turn traffic into revenue. It helps brands identify previously anonymous website visitors, personalise on-site journeys and improve conversions through products around identity resolution, intent-based advertising beyond cookies, and cart-recovery workflows. $5M Series A funding round led by Cornerstone Ventures, along with India Accelerator/Finvolve, Equentis Wealth Advisory Services, Grand Anicut Angel Fund, Razorpay Ventures, Rukum Sitara Fund, Ankurit Capital. Founded in Aug 2023, Delhi based. Founders: CEO Umair was previously the founder at Wigzo Technologies (marketing cloud for eCommerce); CTO Shamail was Director of Engineering at Cyware (SecOps); CBO Pratik was CBO at Wigzo by Shiprocket.

Logistics SaaS platform utilising deep-tech to reinvent supply-chain operations for sectors such as FMCG, manufacturing and e-commerce. The company offers an AI-powered Warehouse Management System (WMS) and a Transportation Management System (TMS) designed for high-volume, regulated enterprise logistics environments, which enables enterprises to replace manual routing with real-time, autonomous decision-making. FY25 numbers not out, FY24 revenue was ₹25.7CR. Clients include Walmart, Dabur, Godrej, Marico. $4M Series A led by Enrission India Capital in November 2025, joined by White Whale Venture Fund this month. Founded around 2017/2018, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Venktesh previously worked as Head of Supply Chain at ITC; Sabyasachi had earlier been a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Shanmukha had formerly co-founded Afferent Technologies and worked as a Software Developer at Quantum Phinance; Nitin is from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.

Tech services firm which works with startups and enterprises to implement AI heavy projects. It has over 80 customers in under a year and has productized accelerators across voice, data and AI/ML workloads. The company offers strategy consulting, customized AI solutions and managed AI operations under one roof. Revenue scale undisclosed. $4.6M seed round led by Sorin with participation from Bessemer. Founded in Feb 2025, Coimbatore and Bengaluru based. The four ounders are from AWS. CEO and Tech Head Kousik (PSG '06) was at AWS for 5 years, was the Co-Founder & CEO of Healtho5 (healthcare CRM), and built Sphata (IT consulting) over a decade; Co-Founder (Growth Ops) Praveen (Coimbatore Institute of Tech. '05 and NIT Rituchirappali '09) was at AWS for a decade, as well as Quest Software and VMware (all BD roles); Co-Founder (Delivery) Ashwin (Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering & Tech. '16) was at AWS for eight years (leading growth stage startup relationships); CRO Aadarsh was at AWS for 5 years (account manager), and at Oracle and Akamai.

Voice AI startup, with agents that engage in long, complex sales conversations on behalf of financial institutions (Bank of Baroda, Aditya Birla, Insurance Dekho etc.). Agents can handle an unlimited number of calls, undertake live actions on call (send payment links, pull data real time), with calls that can cross over 15 minutes. In the pilot stage with customers in India and South East Asia. $3M seed round. Angels in the round: founders and execs from CRED, M2P, Turtlemint, Kissht. Founded in Oct 2022, Bengaluru based. Founders: CEO Devyani (Wharton '17) was an Antler Founder in Residence in 2022 and was at BCG for three years; CTO Vengadanathan (Coimbatore Institute of Technology '14) was a software engineer with Amazon India (7 years) followed by stints of 9-18 months at Airbnb, Uber and Rippling - all in Bengaluru.

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.