New Delhi: Natural sweetener startup The Sweet Change has secured ₹1.7 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Rebalance, with participation from investors associated with the IAN Angel Fund. The fresh capital will support the company’s plans to expand distribution, introduce new products, and strengthen its position in India’s rapidly growing sugar alternatives market. … Read more
Every time a factory in India flips on a diesel generator, it pays between ₹25 and ₹35 per unit of electricity. Grid power, by comparison, costs ₹6 to ₹9 per unit. Stored solar energy even less. That gap — between what India’s commercial and industrial sector pays for backup power and what it should pay … Read more
Sydney, Australia: Sports technology startup Nardo has secured AU$1 million (approximately US$716,000) in a pre-seed funding round, marking an important milestone in its mission to modernize how amateur sports clubs manage team apparel and uniforms. The funding round also attracted investment from former Australian football legend Tim Cahill, who has joined the company as a … Read more
Quash, a promising startup founded in 2023 by Ameer, Prakhar, and Ayush, has secured $650K in Pre-Seed funding to transform the mobile app quality assurance (QA) process. The funding round saw participation from prominent investors, including Arali Ventures, Java Capital, Peercheque, DeVC, and angel investor Abhishek Goyal from the DeVC Collective. Innovating the QA Process … Read more
Univest, a fintech startup making a sophisticated one resolution for inventory markets, secured funding from angel buyers in its pre-seed part. The fintech platform secured funding value ~3.8 crs, to be utilized in the direction of product launch and crew constructing. Univest – the brainchild of Pranit Arora and Avneet Dhamija, was began with the … Read more
Lightbulb.ai, an emotion ai and engagement analytics platform based in Mumbai, India, has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Chiratae Ventures and 9Unicorns led the round, with Anthill Ventures and VideoVerse joining as investors. Lightbulb.ai intends to use the new funds to expand the datasets for its machine-learning technology and to broaden its product offering … Read more
In a pre-seed fundraising round, ITO Angel Network (JAN), India’s only global community-based Angel network, funded an undisclosed amount in observability platform KloudMate, continuing with its vow to help India’s start-up ecosystem from the very early stages of its development. Amitava Saha, Pranab Buragohain, and Bidyut Baruah founded KloudMate, a deep tech platform that discovers … Read more
PointOne Capital, a pre-seed focused venture capital firm, has announced the final closing of its first 50 crore fund. The final close is less than a year after the first close, which occurred in December 2020. Successful Silicon Valley and India-based entrepreneurs, CXOs and seasoned corporate and startup leaders, as well as mid-sized family offices, … Read more
