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.

Authentication platform for AI agents - for the last two decades identity systems assumed a human would login to software, now it is AI agents. Which means that by 2028, one in four enterprise breaches will trace back to comprised agents, according to Gartner. With this platform, agents can be given secure access on behalf of users across common enterprise apps (e.g. Gmail, Slack, Notion). $5.5M seed round. Angels in the round: Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda. The two founders Satya and Ravi are BITS Pilani, built data integration platform Pipemonk which was acquired by Freshworks, and subsequently spent six years at Freshworks where they built its auth platform - most recently as Chief of Staff to the CEO; and Senior Director of Product Management. Satya also co-founded YourBus (real time location alerts) acquired by Goibibo. Founded in Aug 2023, SF based.

Proprietary AI platform for enterprises, which operates seamlessly across cloud, on-prem and fully offline environments without external APIs, to ensure data privacy at factories, defence facilities, healthcare companies. The company is banking on a cost advantage, integrating its AI platform into businesses at 15x lower cost vs. global players. $150K pre-seed round from undisclosed investors. Founder Anurita co-founded Tella in the US (a multi-channel customer support platform). Genovation was founded in Dec 2020.

AI agents for the asset management industry at large. Agents analyze financial data, extracts insights and automate deep research, for institutional investors across PE, hedge funds, investment banks and public market investors. Enterprise grade security ensures all data is connected, analyzed and audited for compliance, while staying private. According to Deloitte, leveraging AI can save 45 working days a year for analysts, before accounting for the cost of missed insights from human analysis. $3.1M seed round. Other investors in the round: Antler and angels including Akash Prakash (Amansa Capital), Vikas Jain (Generation IM), Thomas Yao (RDM). Founders Vibhav and Mithun are IIT Kharagpur. Vibhav was Chief Product & Innovation Officer at MPL, after three year stints at AWS and Kalaari. Mithun was Director of Product Management at Sharechat and subsequently joined Apna as Head of Product - Candidate Engagement. He started his career at Barclays Capital.

AI tools for schools and EdTech companies. Three core functions are covered: evaluation (for example, of handwritten exam notes or oral presentation skills), personalised learning experiences (a knowledge graph for each learner resulting in personalised action plans for teachers) and content generation (lesson plans, exam practice materials). No customers listed yet. Round of an undisclosed round from Startup India. Incubated at IIT Mandi. Founder Rahul (IIT Delhi) was with Pratham (the education sector nonprofit), founded Unlearn Kids (platform for math lessons) and headed product at Tripoto and CollegeDekho. Founded in Apr 2024.

Unified platform for access monitoring and AI observability. AI systems are now accessing sensitive enterprise data in ways legacy database monitoring tools can't see or control - the platform gives this visibility, tying each query and data flow to a real identity. The company has a few dozen clients across FinTech, banking and SaaS, including Razorpay, PayTM, Slice and Meesho. Now focused on US enterprise expansion. $2.2M seed round. Angels: former Meta executives (Chris Bream, Rahul Sood, Karandeep Anand, Mala Ramakrishnan), Postman founders (Ankit Sobti, Abhinav Asthana). Founders: Apurv (Univ. of Illinois '18) was Data Science Lead for business messaging at Meta; Krishna (IIT Kharagpur '17) was with Meta (product security) and Jupiter (Head of Security and Compliance); Akash (IIT-K '17) was Director of Engineering at Sprinklr. Founded in Mar 2023. Offices in Sunnywale and Bengaluru.

AI co-pilot for brands to manage growth marketing and related functions for their quick commerce operations. Helps with hyperlocal inventory management, improving brand visibility, optimizing pricing and ad campaign targeting. The differentiation is real-time analytics and automation. Pre-seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: Satwik (NSIT) is from Walmart (engineer working on omnichannel solutions); Ritvik (NSIT) is from Microsoft (engineer) - after which they co-founded SuperCrew, an agency which helped D2C brands with growth marketing and tech. Founded in Oct 2024.

Enterprise data governance solutions. Provides companies with a model-agnostic platform to implement AI solutions across their operations with complete control over data governance. $230K pre-seed round. Founders Ashwani and Amarsh are both IIT Kanpur as well as co-founders of Transerve (location intelligence) for 14 years, till its acquisition by Precisely (data integrity co. with 12K customers).

AI research startup that brings alignment and steering to models, to ensure they offer reliable and accurate domain-specific output in enterprise deployments. Pre-seed round by Antler from their inaugural AI Disrupt program, with $1M funded in capital and in kind (GPU perks). Founders: CEO Aakash has a PhD in Computational Mathematics from École des Mines (Paris) with postdoctoral research at Stanford; COO & CMO Mrunmayee was the co-founder of CourtEasy (AI for legal professionals) for c. two years. Founded in Feb 2025.