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.

Formerly HealthPresso. $300K angel round from undisclosed investors that closed in July. Founders: Daleep was Senior VP & Country Head of McCann Health for 12 years; Manuj, ex Sapient and Accenture, was Director of Client Services at Essence Software Solutions for close to a decade. The fourth co-founder, Dr Swadeep Srivastava, is not linked here. Founded in May 2023.

Marketing automation system called MAGI (Marketing AGI) that brings together the intelligence and orchestration layer. $1.9M pre-seed round. Founders: Deepesh and Shrestha are both IIT Kharagpur. Deepesh was the Co-Founder of Drivebarn (SaaS for car dealers in the US) and a PM at energyX Solutions and Sonatype; Shrestha was a Team Lead at Meta in the UK, prior to which he was a software engineer at Swiggy and Clip. Founded in Oct 2024.

AI native infrastructure to automate software integrations at enterprises. AI agents plan, build and maintain integrations across the tech stack. In current use cases, agents have automated reconciliation in finance workflows; unified inventory and ordering systems; built real-time ERP-to-CRM data syncs. Currently at 30 paying enterprise clients, 1500 active users and a seven figure ARR. Typically, integration hurdles have stalled enterprise sales for 95% of SaaS vendors. $6.5M seed round. Other investors in the round: Ahead VC, Karman Ventures, Z21. Founders Jugal (IIT Kharagpur) and Abhishek (IIT Roorkee) were co-founders of JustDoc, a remote digital health platform to connect with doctors which was acquired by NetMeds. Jugal was then Head of Strategy, BD & New Products and Abhishek was Head of Product at Netmeds - before and after Netmeds' acquisition by Reliance. Founded in Jan 2023, based in San Mateo and Bengaluru.

Observability tool for the AI age which provides real time production insights to developers. "Our mission is to redefine how software evolves, not after deployment but as it is being built". It helps devs eliminate unused code and improve software quality through a continuous feedback loop. The solution is targeted towards e-com, fintech and logistics firms, where fast-paced deployment and large codebases require greater visibility and automation. $2.5M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: SenseAI Ventures, Stargazer Ventures. Founders: Anant (BITS Pilani) was the Principal Architect at Flipkart, with the firm for close to nine years; Priyanka was also an architect with Flipkart for close to ten years.