February 2025: Robots leave the lab and enter the warehouse

Research snapshot · 16 October 2026. This evolving public-source retrospective has incomplete deal coverage and current-company verification. Provisional mentions are identified separately.

Warehouse automation is a system, not a single machine

Anscer Robotics builds autonomous mobile robots, fleet-management software and industrial automation systems for factories and warehouses. Its February tracker row records a $2 million seed round led by Info Edge Ventures. Founders’ work sits at the intersection of hardware, navigation and operational software: a robot must move safely, coordinate with other units and fit the workflow of a facility. That package makes deployment and reliability as important as the machine itself. The company’s later profile signal, dated 21 May 2026, says it inaugurated a Bengaluru manufacturing facility with capacity for more than 1,000 robots annually. The same report described a $5.4 million Series A, a subsequent event rather than an outcome proven by the February seed. The sequence provides an unusually clear follow-through: early financing preceded a manufacturing step and another round. It still does not show factory utilization, customer count or revenue.

A space link built from light

Astrogate Labs is pursuing a very different engineering bottleneck: high-speed optical communication terminals for small satellites and CubeSats. Its profile describes an end-to-end laser communications system that can connect spacecraft and ground infrastructure. The February tracker reports a $1.3 million pre-Series financing from Piper Serica Angel Fund. A profile signal also notes that Astrogate joined the Seraphim Space and Generation Space accelerator cohort in October 2023. That earlier milestone places the February financing within a longer company path, but the research record does not provide a later commercial deployment or customer milestone. For a space communications product, component performance, integration and mission qualification matter; those are practical considerations inferred from the product description, not claims about Astrogate’s current validation status.

The financing labels describe different clocks

The seed label on Anscer and the pre-Series label on Astrogate are not just fundraising vocabulary. They signal that the companies may be at different points in turning technical systems into repeatable deployments. Anscer’s product must prove utility inside factories and warehouses; Astrogate’s must fit satellite and ground communication environments. Their dollar amounts are not a meaningful measure of which technology is further along. Investor names also need careful treatment: the table transcribes the supplied tracker, while the linked articles establish what each source reported. The profile descriptions offer product context, not a guarantee of maturity.

Later evidence should stay in its time period

For Anscer, the 2026 manufacturing capacity claim is a useful later checkpoint, and the subsequent Series A report suggests continued fundraising. It would be tempting to narrate the 2025 seed as having enabled that factory, but the available evidence does not trace proceeds or establish a causal link. For Astrogate, the dated accelerator signal predates the round and should not be presented as a post-financing outcome. These chronology distinctions make a short month with only 19 tracker rows more informative than a generic market summary: we can see two technical pathways, while remaining honest about what is still unknown.

The missing evidence is part of the engineering story

The source set gives Anscer a concrete later manufacturing milestone but much less follow-up for Astrogate. That imbalance should not be mistaken for a difference in technical merit. Industrial robots can be observed through factory deployments; satellite communications milestones may be less visible, and disclosure may be sparse. The tracker lists 19 rows for February, yet only selected companies have dated signals that support a follow-up narrative. For the rest, the useful editorial choice is to keep the transaction and profile facts available in the tables without manufacturing a success story from silence.

Methods and limits

February’s extracted list is an incomplete union of public sources, not a census and not evidence that market activity fell. Month context is not necessarily an exact announcement date. Later observations are attributed secondary claims; current operating status is unknown in this dataset. The transaction and provisional weekly tables preserve source wording and coverage limits.

Reported transactions in the monthly tracker

Every row below is retained from the extracted tracker, including debt, mixed, secondary and listed-company transactions. Amounts, labels and investor names are shown as reported; follow the source link for the underlying coverage.

Company	Reported amount	Reported round / instrument	Investors as reported	Source
Glance	₹200 Cr (~$23M)	Debt	Stride Ventures	original report
Pickkup	$500K	Seed	We Founder Circle Gaurav Singhvi Neeraj Tyagi Vikas Aggarwal	original report
Astrogate Labs	$1.3 Mn	Pre-Series	Piper Serica Angel Fund	original report
Earthful	₹5 Cr	Seed	Srinivasan Namala Ritesh Agarwal	original report
Geniemode	$50 Mn+	Series C	Multiples Alternate Asset Management Fundamentum Partnership Info Edge Ventures Paramark Ventures	original report
Oxyzo Financial Services	₹100 Cr (~$11.5 Mn)	Debt	AK Capital Finance	original report
Palmonas	₹1.26 Cr (Shark Tank India Season 4)	Seed	Namita Thapar Ritesh Agarwal	original report
The Whole Truth Foods	$15 Mn	Series C	Sofina Sauce.vc Sequoia Capital India Z47	original report
HealthFab	$1 Mn	Pre-Series A	Mistry Ventures Aman Gupta Anupam Mittal Beyondseed +3	original report
Rare Rabbit	₹50 Cr (~$6 Mn)	Undisclosed	A91 Partners	original report
ANSCER Robotics	$2 Mn	Seed	Info Edge Ventures	original report
SpotDraft	$54M Series B	Series B	Trident Growth Partners Vertex Growth Singapore Arkam Ventures Premji Invest +2	original report
Zeta	$50 Mn	Series D	Optum	original report
Eduvanz	$2.9 Mn	Bridge	Capria Fund Juvo Ventures Sequoia Capital India Unitus Ventures	original report
Vahan.ai	Undisclosed	Strategic	PERSOL Venture Partners	original report
Auxilo Finserve	₹50 Cr	Debt	Motilal Oswal Finvest Limited	original report
La Renon Healthcare	₹160 Cr	Secondary	Avendus Future Leaders Fund III	original report
Nua	₹35 Cr (~$4.2 Mn)	Pre-Series C	Mirabilis Investment Trust Samir Singh Shuchi Kothari	original report
Cashfree Payments	$53 Mn	Series C	KRAFTON Apis Growth Fund II	original report

Business, founder and profile classification

Profile fields below come from linked secondary metadata. Business descriptions are paraphrased from the supplied excerpt. “Not stated in packet” means the metadata is silent. Profile classification is a secondary valuation label; it is not operating status. Current operating status is unknown in this collection.

Company	Business and sector (profile-based)	Founders	Founded	Profile classification	Operating status	Profile
Glance	Glance is an AI-powered “screen zero” platform that delivers personalized content, commerce, gaming and advertising directly on the Android smartphone lock screen, without requiring users to unlock the phone or downlo… (AdTech)	Naveen Tewari, Abhay Singhal, Mohit Saxena, Piyush Shah	2019	Unicorn (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Pickkup	Business description not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Astrogate Labs	Bengaluru-based spacetech startup building end-to-end laser (optical) communication terminals for small satellites and CubeSats, providing high-speed, secure space-to-ground and space-to-space data links as an alterna… (Deep Tech)	Nitish Singh, Yogeshwaran J, Subhajit Chakraborty	2017	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Earthful	D2C plant-based nutrition and wellness brand offering clean-label multivitamins, plant proteins, and functional supplements, with a particular focus on women’s health including menopause and PCOS support.	Veda Gogineni, Sai Sudha Gogineni	2020	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Geniemode	Geniemode is a B2B cross-border e-commerce and sourcing platform connecting global buyers/retailers with manufacturers of apparel, home textiles, furniture and accessories across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri La… (Apparel & Textile Manufacturing)	Amit Sharma, Tanuj Gangwani	2021	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Oxyzo Financial Services	RBI-registered NBFC and lending arm of B2B procurement platform OfBusiness, offering customized credit solutions (purchase finance, work order finance, invoice discounting, vendor finance, business loans, machinery fi… (Fintech)	Ruchi Kalra, Asish Mohapatra, Vasant Sridhar	2016	Unicorn (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Palmonas	Direct-to-consumer jewellery brand specialising in demi-fine jewellery made from surgical stainless steel and sterling silver with 18K gold vermeil finish. The brand later expanded into a 9kt gold demi-fine collection. (D2C)	Pallavi Mohadikar, Amol Patwari, Shraddha Kapoor	2022	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
The Whole Truth Foods	Business description not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
HealthFab	Bengaluru-based D2C femtech startup best known for GoPadFree, a reusable leak-proof period underwear brand, which it has since expanded into disposable period underwear and a period pain relief cream (GoPainFree). Sou…	Kiriti Acharjee, Sourav Chakrabarty, Satyajit Chakraborty	2019	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Rare Rabbit	Business description not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
ANSCER Robotics	Anscer Robotics builds autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), intelligent fleet management software, and industrial automation systems for factories and warehouses to help businesses automate goods movement.	Ribin Mathew, Ebin Sunny, Raghu Venkatesh, Raj Mohan	2020	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
SpotDraft	AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform for in-house legal teams, covering AI-assisted redlining, e-signatures, an intelligent contract repository, third-party paper and clickwrap agreements (Artificial Intelligence)	Shashank Bijapur, Madhav Bhagat	2017	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Zeta	Business description not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Eduvanz	Eduvanz is a digital Fintech NBFC that helps learners discover and finance their learning and career goals with fast, convenient, and affordable no-cost financing solutions — covering K-12 school fees, higher educatio… (Education Financing)	Varun Chopra, Raheel Shah, Atul Sashittal, Parth Upadhyay	2016	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Vahan.ai	Business description not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Auxilo Finserve	Auxilo Finserve is a Mumbai-based, education-focused non-banking financial company (NBFC) registered with the Reserve Bank of India. It provides education loans to students for higher studies in India and abroad, and … (Education Finance)	Akash Bhanshali	2017	Soonicorn (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
La Renon Healthcare	La Renon Healthcare is an Ahmedabad-based pharmaceutical company incorporated in August 2007 by Pankaj Singh, engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of branded generic formulations focused on chronic disease manag…	Pankaj Singh	2007	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Nua	D2C women’s health and personal hygiene brand offering period care, intimate hygiene, and skin care products for women, with customisable sanitary pads sold via subscription doorstep delivery, its own website, and mar… (D2C / Ecommerce)	Ravi Ramachandran, Swathi Kulkarni, Projjol Banerjea, Abhishek Ramanathan	2017	Not stated in packet (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile
Cashfree Payments	RBI-authorised Payment Aggregator that helps 1,200,000+ businesses accept online payments across India and globally, offering a payment gateway (180+ payment modes including UPI, cards, net banking, wallets, Pay Later… (API Banking)	Akash Sinha, Reeju Datta	2015	Investor (secondary profile)	Unknown in this dataset	profile

Provisional weekly-report mentions

These rows are secondary-table mentions only. The table’s week/month heading is not an exact announcement date; rows are not verified extra deal claims. Exact company + raw amount + raw round matches to the tracker were removed, while variants may remain.

Company	Sector / headquarters	Amount as listed	Round as listed	Investors as listed	Weekly source
Geniemode	B2B Cross-Border E-commerce / Gurugram	$50 million	Series C	Multiples Alternate Asset Management, Fundamentum, Paramark Ventures, Info Edge Ventures	weekly table
Bridgetown Research	SaaS - Research Analytics / Bengaluru	$19 million	Funding Round	Lightspeed, Accel	weekly table
Oxyzo	Fintech - NBFC Lending / Gurugram	Rs 100 crore ($12M)	Debt Funding	AK Capital Finance	weekly table
Quick Clean	Linen Management - SaaS / Gurugram	Rs 50 crore ($5.7M)	Series A + Debt Funding	Alkemi Growth Capital, Blue Ashva Capital, Rs 10 crore ($1.15M) credit line from Venture Debt Cos	weekly table
Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories	Pharmaceutical Company / Hyderabad	Rs 30 crore	Strategic Investment	Acquired a 0.32% stake by Go Digit (Insurtech - Investments)	weekly table
FanTV	Content - Blockchain/Sui Network / Noida	$3 million	Strategic Investment	Mysten Labs, Cypher Capital, CoinSwitch Ventures, Illuminati Capital	weekly table
Vidyut	EV Full-Stack Platform / Bengaluru	$2.5 million	Funding Round	Flourish Ventures	weekly table
HiWiPay	Fintech - Cross-border Payments / Mumbai	$2 million	Seed Round	Unicorn India Ventures, Dewang Neralla’s Family Office, Jupiter Metaverse LLP, Ritesh Malik, Mitesh Shah, Nilesh Doshi	weekly table
Technodysis	IT - Cloud & DevOps Solutions / Bengaluru	Rs 10 crore	Debt Funding	Recur Club	weekly table
Sisir Radar	Spacetech - SAR Satellite Imaging / Kolkata	$1.5 million	Seed Round	Shastra VC, Riverwalk Holdings, INVSTT	weekly table
Jobizo	HRTech - Healthcare Staffing Solutions / Gurugram	$1.4 million	Pre-Series Funding	Alkemi Growth Capital	weekly table
Astrogate Labs	Spacetech - Satellite Communications / Bengaluru	$1.3 million	Pre-Series Funding	Piper Serica Angel Fund	weekly table
Triple Tap Games	Gaming - Game Development / Mumbai	$1.2 million	Pre-Seed Round	Eximius Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Angel Investors from Entertainment & Gaming Community	weekly table
Dodo Payments	Fintech - Payments Infrastructure / Bengaluru	$1.1 million	Pre-Seed Round	Antler, 9Unicorns, Venture Catalysts, Nitin Gupta, Maninder Gulati, Raymond Russell, Preethi Kasireddy, Nishant Verman	weekly table
Ritualistic	Home Decor - D2C Brand / Gurugram	$1 million	Secondary + Primary Funding	Deep Bajaj, Mohit Bajaj	weekly table
Earthful	Plant-Based Nutrition - D2C Wellness / Hyderabad	Rs 5 crore ($600K)	Seed Round	Srinivasan Namala	weekly table
Pickkup	Logistics - Hyperlocal Deliveries / Gurugram	$500K	Seed Round	We Founder Circle (WFC), Angel Investors	weekly table
Make in Box	Deeptech - Engineering Solutions / Gurugram	$260K	Pre-Series Funding	Mile Deep Works, Mile Deep Capital	weekly table
Lightstorm	Cloud & Data Centre Networking / Gurugram	Rs 700 crore ($80.5M)	Funding Round	NIIF Infrastructure Finance Limited (NIIF IFL)	weekly table
Udaan	B2B E-commerce / Bengaluru	$75 million	Series G	Series G Equity Funding	weekly table
Waterfield Advisors	Wealth Advisory - Fintech / Mumbai	$18 million	Funding Round	Jungle Ventures (Primary & Secondary Investment)	weekly table
Spyne	AI-Powered Visual Merchandising - AutoTech / Gurugram	$16 million	Series A	Vertex Ventures, Accel, Storm Ventures, Alteria Capital	weekly table
The Whole Truth	Clean Label Health Food - D2C / Mumbai	$15 million	Series C	Sofina, Z47, Peak XV Partners, Sauce.VC	weekly table
Singulr AI	Enterprise AI Solutions / Bengaluru	$10 million	Seed Round	Nexus Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital	weekly table
Dogsee Chew	D2C Pet Treats / Bengaluru	$8 million	Series B	Ektha.com, Shivanssh Holdings, Poddar Family Office	weekly table
Rare Rabbit	Omnichannel Fashion Retailer / Bengaluru	Rs 50 crore ($6M)	Growth Funding	A91 Partners	weekly table
Ikonz Studios	Digital Avatars & Holography - AI/VR / Hyderabad	$5 million	Pre-Series A	Marc Jordan, Ramana Thummu, Madhusudan Kela, Akash Bhanshali	weekly table
Probus Smart Things	IoT & Data Analytics / Noida	$5 million	Series A1	Unicorn India Ventures, US-based & Indian Family Offices	weekly table
Swish Club	Devices-as-a-Service - DaaS / Bengaluru	$4.5 million	Pre-Series A	Powerhouse Ventures, Blume Ventures, Founders Fund, Touchstone Ventures, Eternal Capital, Atrium Ventures	weekly table
OneTab AI	Workplace SaaS - AI Solutions / Indore	$3.3 million (Rs 28.6Cr)	Seed Round	LIT Fund, Orbit, Singapore Family Office, SOSV, Sunil Kumar Singhvi, Founders	weekly table
Almonds Ai	Loyalty & Rewards Platform - SaaS / Gurugram	Rs 16 crore ($1.9M)	Seed Round	Promoters of Haldiram’s, JITO Incubation & Innovation Foundation (JIIF), Venture Catalysts, Ever Grow Capital, Nine ALPS	weekly table
NOTO Ice Cream	D2C - Health Foods / Mumbai	Rs 15 crore ($1.75M)	Growth Funding	Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), JITO Incubation & Innovation Foundation, LetsVenture	weekly table
Dynolt Technologies	Deeptech - AI & Analytics / Bengaluru	$1.7 million	Seed Round	Transition VC, Yashowardhan Shah	weekly table
You Care Lifestyle	Independent Verification - E-commerce / Mumbai	$1 million	Funding Round	Luke Coutinho, Narendra Firodia	weekly table
Healthfab	D2C - Reusable Period Panties / Bengaluru	$1 million	Pre-Series A	Mistry Ventures, BeyondSeed, Thrive Ventures, Anupam Mittal, Aman Gupta, Vineeta Singh, Peyush Bansal	weekly table
BYTES	AI-Powered ADAS for Two-Wheelers - MobilityTech / Pune	₹20 lakh (Non-Dilutive)	Grant	Nikhil Kamath’s WTFund (2024 Cohort)	weekly table
EnCharge AI	AI Chips - Semiconductor / California	$100 million+	Series B	Tiger Global	weekly table
ToneTag	Digital Payments - Fintech / Bengaluru	$78 million	Funding Round	ValueQuest Scale Fund, Iron Pillar	weekly table
SpotDraft	Contract Lifecycle Management - CLM SaaS / Bengaluru	$54 million	Series B	Vertex Growth Singapore, Trident Partners, Xeed VC, Arkam Ventures, Prosus Ventures, Premji Invest	weekly table
Zeta	Banking Tech - Fintech SaaS / Hyderabad	$50 million	Investment Round (Valued at $2B)	Strategic Investor	weekly table
75F	Commercial HVAC Automation - IoT & AI / Bengaluru	$45 million	Series B	Accurant International’s Net Zero Alliance, Carrier Global Corporation, Climate Investment, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Next47, WIND Ventures	weekly table
Rapido	Mobility - Bike Taxi Services / Bengaluru	Rs 250 crore ($29.7M)	Series E	Prosus	weekly table
JQR	Affordable Footwear - D2C / Bahadurgarh	$25 million	VC Funding (First Institutional)	Venturi Partners	weekly table
Lucidity	Multi-Cloud Storage - SaaS / Bengaluru	$21 million	Series A	WestBridge Capital, Alpha Wave	weekly table
The Whole Truth	D2C Protein Bars - Foodtech / Mumbai	Rs 133 crore ($16M)	Series C	Sofina Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Matrix Partners, Sauce.vc	weekly table
Nirmata	SaaS - Cloud Security / Bengaluru	$9.6 million	Funding Round	Peak XV’s Surge, Dallas Venture Capital, Dreamit, Z5 Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures	weekly table
BorderPlus	Global Workforce Mobility / Mumbai	$7 million	Institutional Investment Round	Owl Ventures	weekly table
Bold Care	D2C Sexual Wellness - Healthtech / Mumbai	$5 million (Rs 43 Cr)	Series A	Zerodha’s Rainmatter, Mithun Sacheti (CaratLane), Siddhartha Sacheti (Jaipur Diamond), Gruhas Collective Consumer Fund, Claris Capital	weekly table
CapGrid Solutions	B2B Manufacturing - Supply Chain SaaS / Gurugram	$5 million	Funding Round	Anicut Growth Fund, Nexus Venture Partners, Axilor Ventures	weekly table
Nivaan Care	Chronic Pain Management - Healthtech / Delhi	$4.25 million	Seed Round	Endiya Partners, W Health Ventures	weekly table
Toonsutra	Webtoon & Comics - MediaTech / Bengaluru	$3.2 million	Seed Round	Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, GMJP, T-Accelerate, Google, Graphic India	weekly table
Mysa	Unified Finance - Fintech SaaS / Bengaluru	$2.8 million	Seed Round	Blume Ventures, EMVC, Antler, Neon Fund, CIIIE, Sriharsha Majety (Swiggy), Mohit Kumar (Ultrahuman), Naiyaa Saagi (MyGlamm), Nitin Gupta (Uni)	weekly table
Eduvanz	Education Loan - Fintech / Mumbai	Rs 25.52 crore	Bridge Funding Round	Juvo Ventures, Capria Fund, Peak XV, Unitus Ventures	weekly table
ArthAlpha	Investment Tech - Wealthtech / Bengaluru	$2 million+	Seed Round	DSP, Family Offices, Wealth Managers	weekly table
Anscer Robotics	Deeptech - Robotics / Bengaluru	$2 million	Seed Round	Info Edge Ventures	weekly table
The Energy Company	EV Battery Solutions / Bengaluru	$2 million	Pre-Series A	Siana Capital, Callapina Capital, Z21 Ventures, 1Crowd, LetsVenture, other investors	weekly table
Future AGI	AI Infrastructure / Bengaluru	$1.6 million	Pre-Seed Round	Powerhouse Ventures, Snow Leopard Ventures, AngelList Quant Fund, Saka Ventures, Swadharma Source Ventures, 30+ industry stalwarts	weekly table
Cogniquest	Intelligent Document Processing - SaaS AI / Bengaluru	$1.2 million	Seed Round	Cedar IBSI Capital, Dexter Venture, AngelList, Congniphy US	weekly table
Raincheck Earth Co.	Alcoholic Beverage - D2C / Delhi	$1.2 million	Pre-Series A	Japanese Investors, AngelList India Syndicate	weekly table
Rupeeflo	Fintech - Lending Platform / Bengaluru	$1 million	Pre-Seed Round	Piper Serica Angel Fund	weekly table
GoRally	Pickleball Chain - Sports / Bengaluru	Rs 6.6 crore ($750K)	Pre-Seed Round	Sujeet Kumar, Mohit Kumar, Vatsal Singhal, Viren Singhvi, Kartik Kapoor, Abhishek Goyal, Deepak Singh, Arjun Vaidya, Bharat Founders Fund	weekly table
StepOut	Sports Tech - Performance Analysis / Bengaluru	$500,000	Seed Round	Rainmatter (Nithin Kamath), IndigoEdge, Marwah Sports Group, Misfits Capital	weekly table
LegUp	Caregiving Tech - Family & Wellness / Washington	Rs 2 crore ($250K)	Pre-Seed Round	Bluebridge Capital Private Limited	weekly table
Croft Beverages	Sustainable Tea - AgriTech D2C / Coimbatore	$125K	Pre-Seed Round	Angel Investors from tea, sustainability, IT, biotech sectors	weekly table
Myntra	E-commerce - Fashion / Bengaluru	$81 million	Capital Infusion	Flipkart (Parent Company)	weekly table
Captain Fresh	Seafood Supply Chain / Bengaluru	Rs 250 crore ($30 million)	Pre-IPO Funding Round	Prosus Ventures, Accel, Tiger Global, family office of Sriharsha Majety (Swiggy), Sid Khanna, Sunjay Kapur, Shivalik Prints	weekly table
TrueFoundry	AI Deployment & Scaling / Bengaluru	$19 million	Series A	Intel Capital, Eniac Ventures, Peak XV’s Surge, Jump Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Mohit Aron, Cyan Banister, Fortune 1000 executives	weekly table
Cognida.ai	Enterprise AI Solutions / Hyderabad	$15 million	Series A	Nexus Venture Partners	weekly table
HairOriginals	D2C Hair Extensions & Wigs / Gurugram	Rs 43.5 crore ($5 million)	Series A	Anicut Growth Fund, 12 Flags Consumer Holdings, Peyush Bansal (Lenskart)	weekly table
Nua	Women’s Wellness & Hygiene / Mumbai	Rs 35 crore	Pre-Series C	Mirabilis Investment Trust, Samir Singh (Colgate Palmolive), Shuchi Kothari (DSP Family Office)	weekly table
Scentials	D2C Wellness / Mumbai	Rs 34.6 crore ($4 million)	Debt & Equity	Indus Way Emerging Market Fund, TIW Private Equity	weekly table
Dreamfly Innovations	Battery Tech / Bengaluru	Rs 12 crore	Seed Round	Avaana Capital, Sunicon Ventures	weekly table
Mealawe	Foodtech / Pune	$1 million	Funding Round	Shark Tank founders, FDI, angel investors from Goldman Sachs, Oracle	weekly table
Fitspire	Health & Nutrition / Delhi	$1 million	Bridge Round (Pre-Series A)	McDonald’s India (North & East) Promoter Anant Agarwal, MM Agrawal Group (MMG), AKG financials	weekly table
Quicklend	Secured Lending / Bengaluru	Rs 6.75 crore ($774K)	Pre-Seed Round	Inuka Capital, Eximius Ventures, Upsparks Capital, GrowX, strategic angel investors	weekly table
Babynama	Digital Pediatric Care / New Delhi	$700,000	Seed Round	Good Capital, Amplify, Abhishek Gupta (Fashinza), Ankit Gupta (Bicycle Health), Akshay Saxena (Avanti), Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl (Ex-BharatPe)	weekly table
Presage Insights	IoT & AI Predictive Maintenance / Faridabad	Rs 5.6 crore	Seed Round	YourNest Venture Capital (YourNest-SanchiConnect Velocity Program 2024)	weekly table
PlaySuper	Gaming Commerce / Gurugram	$500K	Seed Round	IAN Angel Fund, 100X.VC, angel investors (Uday Sodhi, KRS Jamwal, Pratham Mittal, Rajit Bhattacharya, Ankit Das)	weekly table
Origamis AI	GenAI Startup / Bengaluru	$500K	Seed Round	Vikas Gautam, Naveen Agarwal	weekly table
Astra Security	Cybersecurity / New Delhi	$2.7 million	Funding Round	Emergent Ventures, The Neon Fund, Better Capital, Blume Ventures, PointOne Capital	weekly table
Vahan.ai	AI Hiring Platform / Bengaluru	Undisclosed	Strategic Investment	Persol Group (Asia-Pacific HR Services Provider)	weekly table
BonV Aero	Drone Manufacturing / Bhubaneswar	Undisclosed	Funding Round	Unicorn India Ventures	weekly table
COLUXE	Lab-grown Diamonds - LGD Brand / New Delhi	Undisclosed	Angel Round	Angel Round (Launched by Priyanka Gill, Venture Partner at Kalaari Capital, Co-founder of Good Glamm Group)	weekly table

Sources

• Glance — reported transaction
• Glance — profile
• Pickkup — reported transaction
• Pickkup — profile
• Astrogate Labs — reported transaction
• Astrogate Labs — profile
• Earthful — reported transaction
• Earthful — profile
• Geniemode — reported transaction
• Geniemode — profile
• Oxyzo Financial Services — reported transaction
• Oxyzo Financial Services — profile
• Palmonas — reported transaction
• Palmonas — profile
• The Whole Truth Foods — reported transaction
• The Whole Truth Foods — profile
• HealthFab — reported transaction
• HealthFab — profile
• Rare Rabbit — reported transaction
• Rare Rabbit — profile
• ANSCER Robotics — reported transaction
• ANSCER Robotics — profile
• SpotDraft — reported transaction
• SpotDraft — profile
• Zeta — reported transaction
• Zeta — profile
• Eduvanz — reported transaction
• Eduvanz — profile
• Vahan.ai — reported transaction
• Vahan.ai — profile
• Auxilo Finserve — reported transaction
• Auxilo Finserve — profile
• La Renon Healthcare — reported transaction
• La Renon Healthcare — profile
• Nua — reported transaction
• Nua — profile
• Cashfree Payments — reported transaction
• Cashfree Payments — profile
• Monthly tracker
• Weekly funding table (provisional mentions)