AI led cybersecurity firm working on fraud prevention for the finance industry. The company has developed adapIDAI, which is an "adaptive behavioural intelligence identity security risk engine" (i.e. an engine to track typical user behaviour and look out for unusual usage patterns) and BotShield, which can prevent zero-day attacks and mitigates DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. Targeting BFSI customers in India, as well as Kenya, South Africa, the UAE and South East Asia. ₹10.8CR (~$1.25M) seed round. Founder & CEO J P Mishra (PhD from IIT, Mandi) is a software engineer from Tech Mahindra, UnitedHealth and SAP. Founded in Dec 2021.

Cloud management platform that brings down cloud costs and drives AI application performance. The platform delivers real-time observability, cost control, chargeback, and optimisation through AI. It offers a unified experience through its partnerships with MSPs and cloud resellers. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Founders: CEO Suchit (IIT Roorkee) spent 13 years at Oracle and a number of years across Hitachi Vantara, Dell and Veritas in VP/Director of Engineering roles; CPO Desmond (UC Berkeley; Stanford) is from VMWare and Symantec. SF based.

AI comes to screen recordings. Companies use screen recordings at scale, for example for product demos, user guides, sales enablement and training videos. Trupeer adds AI voiceovers, automates zooms and can edit the script post recording - none of which main comp Loom does today. Now used by over 10,000 clients - from startups to the Fortune 500. $3M seed round. Founders: Shivali and Pritish (IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay respectively) worked together at BCG, following which Shivali was at WhiteHat Jr (CEO's Office) And Pillow (The DeFI company, as Head of Growth) while Pritish spent five years at Dozee (remote patient monitoring). Founded in Feb 2024. Comps: Loom ($1.5B valuation - YC, A16Z, Sequoia).

SaaS for petcare businesses - vets, boarders, groomers. Live in India, expanding to the UAE and Australia. “Walk into most vet clinics or grooming centers and you’ll still find handwritten notes, WhatsApp threads, and scattered reminders.” The platform offers digital medical records, vaccination tracking, appointment scheduling, inventory management, payments and customer communication. Priced at ₹500 per branch per month in India, ₹3500 in the UAE. ₹5CR seed round. The Founder, Anil, founded Lollypop Design Studio, a UI/UX Studio in 2012. Founded: Jan 2024.

Tools for the gTLD system - i.e. the system that manages generic top level domains (.com, .org etc). Provides enterprises brand protection, domain portfolio management and advisory on the new gTLD ecosystem (there are a number of new top level domains on market). “As the internet grows and technology plays a bigger role for business, the need for robust brand protection and domain intelligence will only grow. Their approach is both policy-aware and tech-first — exactly what global enterprises need.” Angel round of an undisclosed amount, from the investors named above as well as David Yu Liu (Information Industry) and Vinay Hebbar (Harvard Business Impact). Founders Vinay (CEO) and Vivek (COO) started out in Aug 2017. Vinay is ex Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, Vivek is ex Reliance Jio.

SaaS tool providing revenue/monetization infrastructure for enterprise customers to unify pricing, billing and revenue management using a single no-code system. This gives clients the ability to experiment and scale new pricing strategies without being limited by legacy tools. Global customers including Neysa, NCR Voyix and Akoya. "Strategic investment" of an undisclosed amount from a $25M US-India fund. The company has already raised seed funding from Endiya Partners, Silicon Valley Quad and Idealabx. Founders: Murali is the CTO and sole founder. Ex Cisco and Intuit, he was the co-founder of Financial Technologies 360 (SaaS solution for banks in the US). Jayaram, CEO (not co-founder), was the CEO of Zenprise (acquired by Citrix). Founded in Feb 2021.

AI-driven MMP (Mobile Measurement Partner). MMP’s are third party tools to optimize mobile advertising campaigns. Customers can integrate Linkrunner’s MMP within 90 minutes - a process which has traditionally taken 2-4 weeks and 3-5 people. Most app installs for Indian customer acquisition campaigns are unattributed, given the cost of of attribution is a a significant % of CPI. The goal is to drastically reduce this attribution cost per install - alongside unifying customer data to run more affective campaigns. $560K pre-seed round. Founders: Shreyans (BITS Goa) and Darshil (SVIT) built Bluelearn together - a social learning platform also backed by Titan and 2am. Founded in Jul 2024.

All in one business intelligence AI to optimise operations across industries. For e.g. it provides real time insights into store operations and staff effectiveness, optimizes marketing spends across acquisition channels and forecasts inventory requirements for retailers. $1.4M pre-seed round from undisclosed angel investors. Founders: Amit started IdeateLabs (creative agency) in 1997; Vrutika, ex-GroupM, joined him in 2008. UAE and India based, founded in 2018.

Compliance automation for financial institutions in the UK and Europe. AI agents continuously read regulations, flag gaps and keep businesses audit-ready at all times, unlike the traditional, point in time manually updated checklists and spreadsheets currently used by financial services clients. Clients include Monzo, Juni and Novobanco. $4.8M seed round. Other investors in the round: No Label Ventures, Start Ventures, angels - Alan Morgan (Adfisco), Richard Davies (Allica Bank), Mark Ransford, Rohit Mathur (Gresham House). Founders: Ritesh (Said Business School) was Co-Founder & COO of ClearGlass (fintech) in the UK; Shashank founded Thirdwatch (fraud prevention, acquired by Razorpay) and was a Director of Product Management at PhonePe. Founded in Aug 2024.

Automobile spare parts marketplace for distributors and workshops, along with a SaaS tool for both parties to manage their orders and accounts. Offers access to over eight million parts across 25 leading car brands. ₹4.55CR (~$530K) seed round. Founders: Shaleen (CEO) was the CEO of India Automotives (Maruti Suzuki parts distributor) for close to a decade; Sahil (CTO) is a software engineer (MS, Adobe, Amazon); Varun (COO) was a Partner at KFL Marketing (commercial vehicle spare parts). Founded in 2019.