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Ather Energy Mobility

Tarun Mehta & Swapnil Jain

Founded 2013 by two IIT-Madras grads; built premium fast-charging electric scooters and the Ather Grid network, defining India's smart-EV-two-wheeler category. Went public in 2025.

Flipkart Ecommerce

Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal

The company that proved Indian e-commerce could work, founded 2007 by two ex-Amazon engineers selling books from a Koramangala apartment. Walmart's $16B majority buy in 2018 was a landmark; its alumni seeded...

Infosys IT-services

N. R. Narayana Murthy (+6 co-founders)

India's bellwether IT-services giant, founded 1981 by Narayana Murthy and six engineers with ~$250 of seed capital. Its Electronic City campus became the symbol of India's software boom; the 1993 IPO and 199...

Mindtree IT-services

Subroto Bagchi, Ashok Soota, Krishnakumar Natarajan (+ co-founders)

Founded 1999 by a team of ten ex-Wipro and US-based veterans; grew into a respected digital-transformation firm. Acquired by L&T in a contested 2019 takeover, now part of LTIMindtree.

Mphasis IT-services

Jerry Rao, Jeroen Tas

IT-services and applications company formed via a 2000 merger, long HQ'd in Bengaluru; a key BFSI-tech player, today controlled by Blackstone.

Ola Electric Mobility

Bhavish Aggarwal

Bhavish Aggarwal's EV bet — electric scooters from the giant 'Futurefactory' and an effort to indigenise batteries. Listed on Indian exchanges in 2024.

Swiggy Foodtech

Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, Rahul Jaimini

Launched 2014 in Koramangala; built the logistics layer that made on-demand food delivery viable nationwide, later adding Instamart quick-commerce. Unicorn 2018, blockbuster IPO 2024.

Unacademy Edtech

Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh

Grew from a YouTube channel into one of India's largest online learning platforms (formally founded 2015). Unicorn 2020, with a vast network of educators for test-prep and beyond.

Wipro IT-services

Azim Premji

Pivoted from a vegetable-oil business into IT under Azim Premji, who built it into a global services powerhouse from Bengaluru. His later philanthropy made him India's most consequential giver.

Zerodha Fintech

Nithin Kamath & Nikhil Kamath

Founded 2010; disrupted Indian stockbroking with flat-fee discount trading and the Kite platform — built bootstrapped and profitably with no VC. Its anti-VC ethos became a cultural template.

Rohan M. Ganapathy & Yashas Karanam

Founded 2015 out of the Indian Institute of Science; develops in-space and green satellite propulsion plus orbital-mobility services. A leading Indian deeptech space-propulsion startup.

BigBasket Other

Hari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar, Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari, V.S. Ramesh

India's pioneering online grocery platform (2011), by serial entrepreneurs from the earlier Fabmart venture. Category leader until the Tata Group took a majority stake in 2021.

BlissClub D2C

Minu Margeret

Founded 2020 by Minu Margeret; India's community-first women's activewear brand, known for engineered leggings and a loyal community built before the first product shipped.

CRED Fintech

Kunal Shah

Founded 2018 by Kunal Shah (earlier Freecharge); began as a rewards app for creditworthy card-holders, expanded into a broad financial-services platform. Known for slick design and lavish marketing.

Cure.fit / Cult.fit Healthtech

Mukesh Bansal & Ankit Nagori

Founded 2016 by Myntra's Mukesh Bansal and ex-Flipkart Ankit Nagori; bundled fitness, food and wellness. Cult gyms became a familiar sight across Indian cities.

Curefoods Foodtech

Ankit Nagori

Founded 2020 by Cure.fit co-founder Ankit Nagori; a cloud-kitchen house of food brands (EatFit, Frozen Bottle and others) across Indian cities.

Dunzo Other

Kabeer Biswas, Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Mukund Jha

Began in 2014 as a WhatsApp-based concierge in Bengaluru and pioneered hyperlocal delivery in India, years before quick commerce was a category. It took Google's first direct investment in an Indian startup,...

Eka Care Healthtech

Vikalp Sahni & Deepak Tuli

Founded 2020 by Vikalp Sahni (ex-CTO Goibibo, a volunteer architect of Aarogya Setu) and Deepak Tuli; a connected-health platform for personal health records and clinical tools.

Groww Fintech

Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, Ishan Bansal

Founded 2016 by four ex-Flipkart product leaders; made mutual-fund and stock investing simple for first-time retail investors. Unicorn 2021, high-profile 2025 IPO.

Hasura SaaS

Tanmai Gopal & Rajoshi Ghosh

Popular open-source tooling that instantly generates GraphQL APIs over databases, beloved by developers. Originated in the Bengaluru tech community, later set up a US HQ while keeping strong Indian engineeri...

InMobi AI

Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, Abhay Singhal

Founded 2007; one of India's first unicorns (2011) and a global mobile-advertising/marketing-tech platform. A foundational consumer-tech company whose alumni seeded ventures like Yulu.

Jupiter Fintech

Jitendra Gupta

A neobanking app (2019) by Jitendra Gupta (earlier Citrus Pay/PayU), offering slick consumer banking on top of partner banks. Part of the PayU/Citrus fintech alumni wave.

Juspay Fintech

Vimal Kumar, Sheetal Lalwani, Ramanathan RV

Founded 2012; payments-orchestration and checkout infrastructure powering a huge share of India's online transactions, and a developer of the UPI HyperSDK. Hit unicorn status (~$1.2B) in Jan 2026.

Licious D2C

Abhay Hanjura & Vivek Gupta

Founded 2015; India's leading D2C fresh-meat-and-seafood brand with an owned cold chain. Became India's first D2C meat unicorn in 2021.

Meesho Ecommerce

Vidit Aatrey & Sanjeev Barnwal

Founded 2015 by two IIT-Delhi grads; built social/value commerce bringing small-town India and home resellers online. Unicorn 2021, a poster child for 'Bharat' commerce.

Ananth Narayanan

Founded 2021 by ex-Myntra CEO Ananth Narayanan; a 'house of brands' acquiring and scaling D2C businesses. One of India's fastest to unicorn status.

MoEngage SaaS

Raviteja Dodda & Yashwanth Kumar

Founded 2014; a customer-engagement and marketing-automation platform used by consumer brands worldwide. A globally-scaled SaaS company built out of Bengaluru.

Myntra Ecommerce

Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania, Vineet Saxena

Founded 2007, pivoted into India's leading fashion e-commerce platform; acquired by Flipkart in 2014. Founder Mukesh Bansal went on to build Cure.fit.

Navi Fintech

Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal

After exiting Flipkart, Sachin Bansal co-founded Navi (2018) as a digital-first lending, insurance and mutual-funds group built largely in-house. An ambitious second act.

Ninjacart Agritech

Thirukumaran Nagarajan, Kartheeswaran KK, Sharath Loganathan (+ co-founders)

Founded 2015; one of India's largest agri-supply-chain networks, connecting farmers directly to retailers. A Bengaluru agritech unicorn backed by Flipkart and Walmart.

Bhavish Aggarwal & Ankit Bhati

Founded 2010; India's homegrown ride-hailing answer to Uber. Bhavish later spun the group into EVs (Ola Electric) and AI (Krutrim).

Open Fintech

Anish Achuthan, Mabel Chacko, Ajeesh Achuthan, Deena Jacob

Founded 2017; a neobanking platform for SMEs bundling banking, payments and accounting. Became a unicorn in 2022, rare among SME-focused fintechs.

PhonePe Fintech

Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari, Burzin Engineer

Founded 2015 by ex-Flipkart leaders; rode the UPI wave to become India's largest payments app by volume. Separated from Flipkart ahead of a planned IPO.

Pixxel Deeptech

Awais Ahmed & Kshitij Khandelwal

Founded 2019 by two BITS-Pilani grads; building a constellation of hyperspectral earth-observation satellites for agriculture, mining and climate. A flagship of India's private spacetech, backed by Google.

Porter Mobility

Pranav Goel & Uttam Digga

Founded 2014; an intra-city logistics and goods-transport marketplace (mini-trucks, two-wheelers, movers). Crossed into unicorn territory in 2024.

Postman SaaS

Abhinav Asthana, Ankit Sobti, Abhijit Kane

Started 2012 as a side project at Yahoo Bangalore, incorporated 2014; became the world's leading API development platform, used by tens of millions of developers. Raised at a $5.6B valuation in 2021. HQ move...

Practo Healthtech

Shashank ND & Abhinav Lal

Founded 2008 by two NIT-Karnataka grads; one of India's earliest, largest healthcare platforms — doctor discovery, booking, teleconsult and clinic software.

Rapido Mobility

Aravind Sanka, Pavan Guntupalli, Rishikesh SR

Founded 2015; pioneered bike-taxi ride-hailing in India, expanding into autos and cabs. Became a unicorn in 2024.

Razorpay Fintech

Harshil Mathur & Shashank Kumar

Founded 2014 by two IIT-Roorkee grads; the payments and financial-infrastructure rails for India's online businesses. Unicorn 2020, one of the country's most valuable fintechs.

Vivek Raghavan & Pratyush Kumar

Founded Aug 2023 by two AI4Bharat veterans; building 'sovereign' generative-AI models tuned to Indian languages. Selected under India's national AI mission to build a foundational model.

Simpl Fintech

Nityanand Sharma & Chaitra Chidanand

Founded 2015; a buy-now-pay-later checkout product for Indian e-commerce, consolidating purchases into one bill.

slice Fintech

Rajan Bajaj

Founded 2016; a card-plus-credit product for young, first-time credit users, later merged with North East Small Finance Bank to become a regulated bank-led fintech.

Udaan Ecommerce

Sujeet Kumar, Vaibhav Gupta, Amod Malviya

B2B e-commerce (2016) by three Flipkart veterans, digitising India's wholesale/kirana trade. One of the fastest Indian companies to unicorn status — the flagship of the Flipkart mafia.

Vedantu Edtech

Vamsi Krishna, Anand Prakash, Pulkit Jain, Saurabh Saxena

Founded 2014; pioneered live online tutoring (LIVE classes) for school students. Became a unicorn in 2021, a defining name of the Indian edtech wave.

Wakefit D2C

Ankit Garg & Chaitanya Ramalingegowda

Founded 2016; began with D2C mattresses, grew into a full sleep-and-home brand on data-driven product design. A profitable, IPO-bound consumer story.

Whatfix SaaS

Khadim Batti & Vara Kumar Namburu

Founded 2014; a digital-adoption platform overlaying in-app guidance so enterprise users learn software faster. Became a unicorn in 2024.

Yellow.ai SaaS

Raghu Ravinutala, Jaya Kishore Reddy, Rashid Khan

Founded 2016 (originally Yellow Messenger); a conversational-AI and customer-experience automation platform serving enterprises across Asia and beyond.

Yulu Mobility

Amit Gupta, RK Misra, Hemant Gupta, Naveen Dachuri

Founded 2017 (co-founder Amit Gupta also co-founded InMobi); shared electric two-wheeler micro-mobility with battery-swapping — a Bengaluru answer to last-mile congestion.

Zetwerk Manufacturing

Amrit Acharya, Srinath Ramakkrushnan, Rahul Sharma, Vishal Chaudhary

Founded 2018 by IIT-Madras grads (some ex-ITC); a B2B manufacturing-services marketplace connecting buyers with fabrication and machining suppliers. Unicorn 2021.

Zluri SaaS

Chaithanya Yembari, Ritish Puttaparthi, Sethu Meenakshisundaram

Founded 2020; a SaaS-management and identity-governance platform helping IT teams discover, secure and right-size their software stacks. Backed by Kalaari and MassMutual Ventures.

Acko Insurtech

Varun Dua

Founded in 2016, Acko is India's first fully digital general insurer, licensed as an insurer itself (not an aggregator) and selling auto, health and embedded insurance directly online. Amazon-backed, it beca...

Apna Other

Nirmit Parikh

Founded 2019. Jobs and professional-networking platform for India's blue/grey-collar workforce. Unicorn valued ~$1.1B.

Biocon Biotech

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Founded 1978; India's largest biopharmaceutical company and the anchor of Bengaluru's biotech cluster. Evolved from industrial enzymes into integrated biologics — biosimilar insulins, antibodies and generic ...

Rajesh Yabaji, Chanakya Hridaya, Ramasubramaniam B

Founded 2015 by IIT-Kharagpur alumni, a Bengaluru-HQ'd online trucking/freight marketplace and India's largest digital trucking platform (FASTag, payments, telematics, loads). Raised $359M+; IPO'd (Zinka Log...

Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath

Founded 2011 in Bengaluru; India's flagship K-12 learning app spanning math, science, coding and test-prep, built on Byju Raveendran's earlier CAT-coaching classes. Peaked at a ~$22B valuation as India's mos...

Captain Fresh Ecommerce

Utham Gowda

Founded 2019, B2B tech-led seafood & perishables supply-chain marketplace digitizing catch-to-retail. Turned PAT-profitable in FY25; ~$550M revenue and global roll-up of 10+ companies (Poland, France, Mexico...

CoinSwitch Web3

Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni & Vimal Sagar Tiwari

Founded 2017 (India ops June 2020) by ex-Microsoft/Amazon/Zynga engineers. Grew into one of India's largest crypto investment apps with 20M+ users. Became India's 30th unicorn in Oct 2021 with a $260M Series...

Cult.fit (Cure.fit) Healthtech

Mukesh Bansal & Ankit Nagori

Founded 2016; health-and-fitness unicorn spanning Cult (fitness centres/classes), Care.fit (clinics & diagnostics), Eat.fit and Mind.fit. Valued ~$1.5B with 1.2M+ active members. Founder Mukesh Bansal previo...

DealShare Ecommerce

Vineet Rao, Sourjyendu Medda, Sankar Bora, Rajat Shikhar, Brijesh Bhardwaj

Founded 2018, social/value commerce platform (Pinduoduo-style group buying) targeting Tier-2/3 India for groceries and essentials. Reached unicorn status in 2022 with Tiger Global, Alpha Wave and WestBridge ...

Dhan Fintech

Pravin Jadhav, Jay Prakash Gupta, Alok Pandey

Founded 2021. Trading/investing platform for active traders (ScanX, Upsurge, AI insights via Fuzz). Became a unicorn in 2025.

Drools D2C

Fa-Hertz / Anvis Hospitality (Shashank Sinha)

Pet-food (dog/cat nutrition) D2C and FMCG brand that reached unicorn status in 2025 via a large secondary/primary round. One of India's leading pet-nutrition players.

Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong

Founded 2016 (US-incorporated, large BLR team). AI meeting notetaker/assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls. Became a unicorn in 2025.

Naveen Tewari, Piyush Shah, Abhay Singhal

Founded 2019 (InMobi spinout). AI-powered lock-screen content and commerce platform (Glance, Roposo). Unicorn valued ~$2B.

Kamesh Goyal

Founded in 2017 by ex-Allianz executive Kamesh Goyal and backed by Fairfax Financial, Go Digit is a digital-first general insurer known for simplified motor, health and travel products. It completed a succes...

Mohan Lakhamraju, Hari Krishnan Nair & Arjun Nair

Founded 2013 in Bengaluru; a higher-ed/professional upskilling platform offering data-science, AI, cloud and management programs in partnership with universities like UT Austin and Great Lakes. Largely boots...

Jumbotail Ecommerce

Karthik Venkateswaran, Ashish Jhina

Founded 2015. B2B grocery/food marketplace serving kirana (mom-and-pop) stores, with J24 retail format. Hit unicorn status at ~$1B after a $120M Series D in 2025.

KreditBee Fintech

Madhusudan Ekambaram, Vivek Veda, Karthikeyan Krishnaswamy

Founded in 2017, KreditBee is a digital lending platform offering personal loans to young professionals and the new-to-credit segment. It raised $280M in 2026 at a $1.5B valuation, formally entering the unic...

Bhavish Aggarwal

Launched 2024 by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal; became India's first AI unicorn ($1B) in its $50M Jan-2024 round — fastest Indian unicorn. Built BharatGPT-style LLMs, acquired Bengaluru chip startup Bodhi Com...

Nilesh Patel, Prashant Singh, Sudhakar Gorti

Founded 2011. Sales-execution and marketing-automation CRM platform focused on high-velocity sales teams (edtech, fintech, healthcare). Became India's 103rd unicorn in 2022 after a $153M round led by WestBri...

Livspace Proptech

Anuj Srivastava, Ramakant Sharma

Founded July 2014 by ex-Google and ex-Myntra leaders, Livspace is a full-stack home interiors and renovation platform connecting homeowners with designers, products and execution. Raised ~$450M+; reached uni...

Sai Srinivas Kiran G & Shubham Malhotra

Founded 2018 (parent Galactus Funware Technology). India's flagship real-money / esports gaming platform with 60+ fantasy, card, casual and arcade games. Became India's 2nd gaming unicorn in 2021 at a ~$2.3B...

moneyview Fintech

Puneet Agarwal, Sanjay Aggarwal

Founded in 2014, moneyview is a digital lending and personal-finance app offering instant personal loans, credit lines and money management to underserved borrowers. It crossed into the unicorn club in Septe...

Dhiraj Rajaram

Founded 2004. Decision-sciences and big-data analytics services firm; one of India's earliest analytics unicorns (~$1.5B). Bootstrapped/profitable.

Avneesh Agrawal, David Julian

Founded 2015 (US+BLR R&D). AI-powered fleet safety and video telematics (Driveri). Became a unicorn in 2025.

NoBroker Proptech

Amit Kumar Agarwal, Akhil Gupta, Saurabh Garg

Founded 2013 by three IIT alumni, NoBroker is a brokerage-free real-estate marketplace connecting owners and tenants/buyers directly, monetising via adjacent services (packers, rent payment, home services, l...

Perfios Fintech

V.R. Govindarajan, Debasish Chakraborty

Founded in 2008, Perfios is a B2B financial-data, analytics and credit-decisioning company that powers bank-statement analysis, underwriting and KYC for banks, NBFCs and lenders. It turned unicorn in 2024 af...

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon subsidiary)

Founded 1993; publicly listed Biocon subsidiary operating as a contract research, development and manufacturing organisation (CRDMO) serving global pharma and biotech clients in discovery, development and ma...

Zepto Ecommerce

Aadit Palicha, Kaivalya Vohra

Founded 2021 (ex-KiranaKart), 10-minute quick-commerce dark-store network. Raised $450M at a $7 Bn valuation (Oct 2025); a top-three q-commerce player. NOTE: originally Mumbai-rooted but relocated/built its ...

Zeta Fintech

Bhavin Turakhia, Ramki Gaddipati

Founded in 2015, Zeta is a banking-tech platform whose cloud-native APIs and SDKs let banks and fintechs issue credit/debit cards, run core banking, and launch BNPL and loan products. It became a unicorn in ...

Darwinbox SaaS

Jayant Paleti, Rohit Chennamaneni, Chaitanya Peddi

Founded 2015. Enterprise HR-tech SaaS (HCM suite) used across Asia and the Middle East. Soonicorn; among India's largest HR SaaS players. (Hyderabad roots, strong BLR presence.)

Digantara Spacetech

Anirudh Sharma, Rahul Rawat & Tanveer Ahmed

Founded 2018, IISc/FSID-incubated. Space situational awareness ('Google Maps for space') — tracks orbital objects as small as 5cm. Launched its SCOT surveillance satellite on SpaceX Transporter-12 (Jan 2025)...

Fi (epiFi) Fintech

Sujith Narayanan, Sumit Gwalani

Founded in 2019 by two ex-Google Pay executives, Fi is a neobanking app offering a zero-balance savings account (with Federal Bank), money management, investing and credit. It has raised ~$169M from Ribbit C...

Shan Kadavil, Mathew Joseph, Jayesh Jose

Founded 2015, D2C fresh fish & meat e-commerce brand built on a 100% chemical-free, antibiotic-residue-free promise and an own supply chain. Series D funded (Amazon, Investcorp, the Iron Pillar; backed via S...

HealthifyMe Healthtech

Tushar Vashisht, Mathew Cherian & Sachin Shenoy

Founded 2012 (moved to Bengaluru late 2012); AI-powered nutrition, fitness and weight-management app with the 'Ria' AI coach. One of India's largest health & fitness apps with tens of millions of users globa...

HomeLane Proptech

Srikanth Iyer, Tanuj Choudhry, Vivek Sundaram, Rama Harinath

Founded 2014, HomeLane is a tech-enabled home interiors brand (modular kitchens, wardrobes, full-home interiors) operating 50+ studios across 24+ cities. FY25 revenue ~Rs 756 crore. In late 2024 it acquired ...

iD Fresh Food Foodtech

P.C. Mustafa & cousins

Founded 2005 in Bengaluru, a packaged fresh-food brand best known for preservative-free idli/dosa batter, parotas, curd and filter-coffee decoction. Now a ₹1,000+ Cr brand selling across 45+ cities and the U...

Khatabook Fintech

Ravish Naresh, Jaideep Poonia, Dhanesh Kumar, Ashish Sonone

Founded in 2018 by IIT Bombay alumni, Khatabook is a digital-ledger and SMB-finance app helping small merchants record credit, collect payments and manage books. It raised a ~$100M Series C in 2021 (Tribe Ca...

MediBuddy Healthtech

Satish Kannan & Enbasekar Dinadayalane

Founded 2013; one of India's largest digital healthcare platforms offering 24/7 teleconsultations, lab tests, e-pharmacy and surgery care. Formed its current scale via a 2020 merger with DocsApp and raised a...

MyGate Proptech

Vijay Arisetty, Abhishek Kumar, Shreyans Daga

Founded 2016. Gated-community / society-management and visitor-security app with embedded payments and services. Soonicorn proptech.

Observe.AI AI agents

Swapnil Jain, Sharath Keshava Narayana, Jithendra Vepa & Akash Singh

Founded 2017 (India-built, YC). Agentic conversation-intelligence and automation platform for contact centers; 350+ global enterprises. Raised ~$214M incl. a $125M Series C (SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Zoom, Men...

Tuhin Bhowmick & Arun Chandru

Founded 2011; tissue-engineering and regenerative-medicine company building 3D-bioprinted human tissues and exosome/programmable-tissue therapies — including a corneal-regeneration therapy advancing to clini...

Pixis Generative AI

Shubham A Mishra, Vrushali Prasade & Harikrishna Valiyath

Founded 2018/2020. Codeless AI infrastructure for brands to plan, create and orchestrate marketing campaigns (now agentic AI for marketing). Raised ~$209M from General Atlantic, Celesta, Chiratae, Grupo Cars...

Pocket FM Consumer brands

Rohan Nayak, Prateek Dixit, Nishanth Srinivasagowda, Dana Ram Meghwal

Founded 2018. Audio-series / audio-entertainment platform scaling fast in India and the US (~$250M ARR). Soonicorn; raised ~$197M total.

Shadowfax Mobility

Abhishek Bansal, Vaibhav Khandelwal, Gaurav Jaithliya, Praharsh Chandra

Founded 2015. Crowdsourced last-mile and hyperlocal logistics network (Flipkart-backed). Soonicorn; raised ~$247M; IPO-bound.

Slice / others Fintech

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Placeholder note: Slice (Bengaluru, Rajan Bajaj) is a card/credit fintech that merged with North East Small Finance Bank — included for completeness as a BLR fintech soonicorn.

smallcase Fintech

Vasanth Kamath, Rohan Gupta, Anugrah Shrivastava

Founded in 2015, smallcase lets retail investors buy curated, theme-based baskets of stocks and ETFs, and provides a B2B investing infrastructure layer to brokers and asset managers. It raised a $50M Series ...

82°E D2C

Deepika Padukone, Jigar Saraiya, Mihir Vora

Founded 2021, D2C clinically-tested skincare brand co-founded by Deepika Padukone, with in-house R&D in Bengaluru. Positioned as a premium, science-led Indian self-care line.

Adopt AI AI agents

Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya & Anirudh Badam

Emerged from stealth 2025. No-code platform that turns existing apps into agentic interfaces — an Agent Builder that auto-learns an application and generates actions. Raised $6M seed led by Elevation Capital...

Shashi Kumar & G.N.S. Reddy

Founded 2010 (farms near Bengaluru/Tiptur, Karnataka), India's first certified-organic farmer-network dairy, building a tech-enabled farm-to-home brand for milk, curd, paneer and ghee. Scaled to a ~₹500 Cr r...

Amitabh Saran

Founded 2013, a Bengaluru-HQ'd electric 3-wheeler (cargo/passenger) OEM. Launched the world's fastest-charging electric 3-wheeler with Exponent Energy (15-min charge). Hero MotoCorp invested strategically.

Appsmith SaaS

Abhishek Nayak, Arpit Mohan, Nikhil Nandagopal

Founded 2019. Open-source low-code platform for building internal tools, admin panels and dashboards; integrates 25+ databases and any API. Raised $51.5M (Accel, Insight Partners, Canaan); large open-source ...

Asteria Aerospace Manufacturing

Neel Mehta & Nihar Vartak

Founded 2011. Drones and drone-as-a-service (DaaS) for defence, mapping, oil & gas, mining and telecom. Majority-acquired by Reliance Industries (Jio). Builds indigenous UAV hardware and flight software.

Neha Satak & Prasad HL Bhat

Founded 2015, IISc-incubated. Millimetre-wave wireless backhaul (GigaMesh) and satellite-communication tech using patented software-defined beamforming. Raised ~$10M in 2025; ~97 employees.

Ati Motors Manufacturing

Saurabh Chandra, Vinay V & Saad Nasser

Founded 2017. Autonomous mobile robots (Sherpa AMRs) for industrial material movement, deployed at Hyundai, Forvia and others globally. ~$35.5M raised — highest among Bengaluru autonomous-robotics startups.

Atomicwork AI agents

Vijay Rayapati, Kiran Darisi & Parsuram Vijayasankar

Founded late 2022 by ex-Freshworks/Nutanix leaders. AI-native ITSM/ESM platform — 'universal agents' (voice, vision, action) replacing ticket-centric IT/HR service desks. Raised ~$40M from Khosla Ventures, Z...

Avataar.ai AI agents

Sravanth Aluru & Gaurav Baid

Founded 2014. Evolved into an agentic AI platform for enterprise automation and GTM transformation (also pioneered 3D/AR visual commerce). Raised ~$55.5M from Tiger Global, Peak XV and others; Series B.

Gaurav Hinduja, Sashank Rishyasringa

Founded in 2013 as Capital Float, axio is a digital lender and BNPL pioneer that partnered with Amazon and large e-commerce players for point-of-sale credit. It raised ~$135M from Peak XV, Ribbit and Elevati...

Ayana Renewable Power Climate tech

Founded 2017, Bengaluru-HQ'd utility-scale renewables developer building wind, solar, hybrid and round-the-clock green-storage plants across India; backed by NIIF/British International Investment. Multi-GW p...

Ayu Health Healthtech

Himesh Joshi, Arijit Gupta & Karan Gupta

Founded 2019; hospital-network platform that standardises pricing, claims and care quality across 70+ partner hospitals in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Jaipur and Chandigarh. Raised ~$40M from Stellaris, Vertex, 57...

BigHaat Agritech

Sachin Nandwana, Sateesh Nukala, Raj Kancham & Kiran Vunnam

Founded 2015 in Bengaluru, a direct-to-farmer agri-input marketplace offering 7,000+ SKUs of seeds, crop-protection and nutrition plus crop advisory and market linkage. Has raised ~$35M including a JM Financ...

Bitbns Web3

Gaurav Dahake & Mahushrut Ghai

Launched 2017 in Koramangala, Bengaluru by IIT alumni. Bootstrapped crypto exchange that scaled to 3.2M+ users and 300+ listed tokens — among the most tokens of any Indian exchange — known for products like ...

Lalit Bhise

Founded 2008. Vertical SaaS — mobile-first retail-intelligence and sales-force-automation platform for CPG/FMCG distribution (DMS, retailer app, demand signals). Bengaluru-HQ; ~300+ enterprise customers.

Boldfit D2C

Pallav Bihani

Founded 2018, D2C fitness & wellness brand spanning 400+ SKUs (equipment, supplements, athleisure, yoga gear). Raised ~INR 110 Cr from Bessemer Venture Partners. Profitable, fast-growing health & fitness con...

Bolna AI agents

Maitreya Wagh & Prateek Sachan

Founded 2024 (YC-backed). Voice-AI infrastructure (STT + NLP + TTS) to build, test, deploy and monitor multilingual AI voice agents at scale. Raised $6.3M seed led by General Catalyst (Blume, YC participatin...

Jyotiranjan Harichandan, Mohit Yadav

Founded 2017, a Bengaluru-HQ'd EV charging network — peer-to-peer/AC chargers across India (claims 25,000+ points). Partnered with ChargeZone to widen access. Pivoted from a connected-vehicle OS (RevOS) to c...

Bounce Mobility

Vivekananda Hallekere, Anil G, Varun Agni

Founded 2014 (as Wicked Ride), a Bengaluru-HQ'd dockless scooter-sharing pioneer that raised $190M+ (Accel, Peak XV, B Capital) at a ~$500M valuation. Launched the Bounce Infinity E1 e-scooter with battery-a...

Brick&Bolt Proptech

Jayesh Rajpurohit, Arpit Rajpurohit

Founded 2018 by an uncle-nephew duo (IIT Roorkee), Brick&Bolt is a tech-enabled, quality-assured home-construction marketplace managing end-to-end residential construction with milestone-based payments and Q...

Anand Anandkumar, Santanu Datta & V Balasubramanian

Founded 2014; antibiotic-resistance drug-discovery company developing GYROX, a novel broad-spectrum antibiotic targeting both Gram-negative and Gram-positive multidrug-resistant bacteria, advancing into clin...

Akash Sinha, Reeju Datta

Founded in 2015, Cashfree Payments is a payments and API-banking company offering payment gateway, bulk payouts, instant refunds, KYC and cross-border solutions. A Y Combinator alum, it has raised ~$90M+ fro...

Cellworks Group Biotech

Taher Abbasi & Shireen Vali

Founded ~2007; computational-biology / biosimulation company whose platform builds 'digital drug-model' simulations of patient biology to predict therapy response and personalise oncology treatment. Operates...

Chai Point Foodtech

Amuleek Singh Bijral

Founded 2010 in Bengaluru, a tech-enabled chai retail and delivery chain plus a corporate 'Vending-as-a-Service' (boxC) IoT tea/coffee dispenser business. Has raised ~$54M over multiple rounds (Eight Roads, ...

Archit Gupta, Srivatsan Chari, Ankit Solanki

Founded 2011 (YC-backed). Fintech-SaaS for invoicing, GST/tax compliance, e-invoicing and supply-chain finance for enterprises and SMBs; also B2C tax filing. One of India's largest tax/compliance platforms.

Cloudphysician Healthtech

Dhruv Joshi, Dileep Raman & Dhruv Sud

Founded 2017; tele-ICU / critical-care platform (RADAR) that connects a central command centre of intensivists to remote and under-resourced hospital ICUs across India. Improves outcomes in hospitals lacking...

CloudSEK Cybersecurity

Rahul Sasi

Founded 2015. AI-powered predictive/contextual cyber-threat intelligence — dark-web monitoring, brand protection, attack-surface and supply-chain risk. Raised $19M Series A2/B1 in 2025 (incl. $10M from Conne...

Cogos Technologies Logistics

Prasad Sreeram, Rama Mohan Katta

Founded 2016, a Bengaluru-HQ'd AI-driven intra-city B2B logistics platform with an EV-led fleet (CO2-neutral last-mile). Provides on-demand mini-trucks and 3PL for FMCG, e-commerce and retail.

Colive Proptech

Suresh Rangarajan, Arun Kumar Singh

Founded 2016, Colive is a tech-enabled managed co-living provider offering furnished shared-living spaces with app-based community and services. Series-B funded; a leading Bengaluru-origin co-living operator...

Composio AI agents

Soham Ganatra & Karan Vaidya

Founded 2023 by IIT-Bombay grads. Integration / tool-calling platform that lets AI agents and LLMs act on 100s of real-world apps. 14,500+ developers (incl. Meta, Salesforce, Cisco) adopted it, growing 50%+ ...

CoRover.ai AI agents

Ankush Sabharwal

Founded 2016. Conversational + generative AI platform; flagship BharatGPT is positioned as an indigenous LLM supporting 100+ languages. Powers high-traffic deployments like IRCTC's AskDISHA. Raised ~$5.7M ac...

Cron AI Deeptech

Tushar Chhabra

3D-perception deep-learning platform (senseEDGE) for LiDAR/sensor data used in smart cities, ITS and perimeter security. Partners with Ouster, Lumotive and Innoviz. R&D in Bengaluru; commercial HQ in Derby, UK.

Cropin Agritech

Krishna Kumar

Founded 2010 in Bengaluru, a full-stack agritech SaaS company using satellite imagery, IoT and ML to digitise crop lifecycles and farm operations. Its SmartFarm/cloud platform serves 250+ agribusinesses acro...

Cuemath Edtech

Manan Khurma

Founded 2013 in Bengaluru (parent Cuelearn); an after-school math and coding program for K-12 delivered through a global network of home/online tutors and a proprietary problem-solving curriculum. Backed by ...

Gokul N A & Nikhil Ramaswamy

Founded 2019 (Vyuti Systems). 'Visual object intelligence' — vision-led robotic arms that grasp and manipulate unfamiliar, randomly-oriented objects for a 'universal factory'. Raised Series A; aims to make B...

DaMENSCH D2C

Anurag Saboo, Gaurav Pushkar

Founded 2018, D2C men's essentials/innerwear & loungewear brand (HQ Koramangala 6th Block). Competes with XYXX, Bummer; backed by A91 Partners, Whiteboard Capital. Comfort-tech-led men's wear.

Dashverse (Dashtoon) Generative AI

Sanidhya Narain, Lalith Gudipati & Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Founded 2023. AI-native entertainment ecosystem — proved its model with Dashtoon (AI comics), then Frameo.AI (video) and DashReels (mobile micro-dramas, 5M+ downloads in a month); 20M+ users. Raised $13M Ser...

Decentro SaaS

Rohit Taneja & Pratik Daudkhane

Founded 2020 (YC-backed). 'Plaid for India/APAC' — API banking platform for instant account creation, KYC, payments, collections and lending integrations. Raised a ₹30 Cr Series B to scale API banking.

DesignCafe Proptech

Gita Ramanan, Shezan Bhojani

Founded 2016, DesignCafe is a home interior design firm known for space-efficient designs in compact city apartments; completed 10,000+ homes. Acquired by HomeLane in late 2024 (~Rs 3,000 crore deal). Remain...

Eloelo Gaming

Saurabh Pandey & Akshay Dubey

Founded Aug 2020 by ex-Flipkart execs. Live social-gaming and entertainment platform built on Indian household games (Tambola, Chiriya Udd) plus creator-led live streaming. Raised $50M+ total across rounds f...

Embibe Edtech

Aditi Avasthi

Founded 2012 in Bengaluru; an AI-driven personalized-learning and test-prep platform for K-12, higher-ed and competitive exams, with strong vernacular-language support. Reliance Industries acquired a majorit...

Emmvee Climate tech

D.V. Manjunatha

Founded 1992. One of India's largest solar PV module + cell manufacturers, HQ in Bengaluru with ~7.8 GW module capacity (2025) and major capacity expansion underway. Long-standing Bengaluru renewable-energy ...

Entropik SaaS

Ranjan Kumar, Lava Kumar, Bharat Singh Shekhawat

Founded 2016. Emotion-AI / experience-intelligence SaaS (Decode, Qatalyst) — eye-tracking, facial-coding and AI-moderated research for product, UX and marketing teams. Bengaluru-HQ.

Ethereal Machines Manufacturing

Kaushik Mudda & Navin Jain

Founded 2014. Deep-tech precision manufacturing — 5-axis CNC machines, hybrid additive+subtractive systems and machining-as-a-service; building India's first indigenous CNC controller. Raised $28.5M (2025) f...

Even Healthcare Healthtech

Mayank Banerjee, Matilde Giglio & Alessandro Ialongo

Founded 2020; subscription-based managed-healthcare company integrating primary and secondary care via owned clinics, partner hospitals and a 70-bed multi-specialty hospital opened in Bengaluru (2025). Raise...

Evenflow Brands Consumer brands

Pulkit Chhabra, Utsav Agarwal

Founded 2021, Thrasio-style e-commerce roll-up acquiring and scaling digital-first sellers across pet/baby care, athleisure and kitchenware. Operates a Bengaluru (Sector 2/HSR) base. NOTE: sometimes listed a...

Exotel SaaS

Shivakumar Ganesan, Ishwar Sridharan, Siddharth Ramesh

Founded 2011. Cloud-telephony / CPaaS pioneer in India (voice APIs before 'CPaaS' was a term). Largest voice-centric CPaaS in emerging markets — powers ~25B annual conversations for Flipkart, Paytm and other...

Exponent Energy Climate tech

Arun Vinayak & Sanjay Byalal Jagannath

Founded 2020 by ex-Ather executives. Full-stack rapid-charging energy stack delivering a 15-minute full charge on regular Li-ion cells with a 3,000-cycle warranty for commercial EVs. Raised ~$68M total; late...

FamPay (FamApp) Fintech

Sambhav Jain, Kush Taneja

Founded in 2019 by two IIT Roorkee alumni, FamPay (now FamApp) is building India's first neobank for teenagers, offering a numberless prepaid card and UPI app aimed at young users. It raised a $38M Series A ...

Ananda Verma & Shailendra Tiwari

Founded 2018 in Bengaluru, an IoT + AI precision-farming platform for horticulture crops (grapes, pomegranate, tomato, capsicum) that delivers crop-specific advisory and water/input savings. Has raised ~$19M...

FinBox Fintech

Rajat Deshpande, Anand Prabhudesai, Srijan Nagar, Nikhil Bhawsinka

Founded in 2017, FinBox is an embedded-lending and credit-infrastructure platform providing an 'operating system for digital lending' — credit decisioning, bank-statement and alternative-data analytics, and ...

Fireside Ventures Consumer brands

Kanwaljit Singh

Bengaluru-based consumer-brands-focused VC; India's marquee early-stage D2C fund. Portfolio includes boAt, Mamaearth, Yogabar, Bombay Shaving Company, Slurrp Farm, Samosa Singh and more. Central node of the ...

Floworks AI agents

Sudipta Biswas & Sarthak Shrivastava

Founded 2022 (YC-incubated). End-to-end AI sales automation — agents research prospects, build lists, write personalized emails, handle objections and book calls without human intervention; built its own Tho...

Forus Health Healthtech

K Chandrasekhar

Founded 2010; affordable ophthalmic-screening devices — its 3nethra portable fundus camera detects the five major causes of blindness (diabetic retinopathy, cataract, glaucoma, cornea issues, refractive erro...

FreshMenu Foodtech

Rashmi Daga

Founded 2014, a cloud-kitchen brand serving freshly prepared, daily-changing chef menus across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi NCR. Backed by Lightspeed and Zodius (~$45M raised); staged a profitability-focused ...

FRND Consumer brands

Hitesh Dhingra, Manish Sharma

Made-in-India social/dating and audio-interaction app focused on non-metro (Tier 2/3) cities. Raised ~$25M to expand its dating product.

Frontier Web3

Ravindra Kumar & Vetrichelvan Jeyapalpandy

Founded 2019 by ex-InstaDApp/Woodstock CTO Ravindra Kumar (Bengaluru-based). Multi-chain, non-custodial wallet and portfolio manager for crypto, DeFi and NFTs with its FRONT token. One of the few genuinely p...

Furlenco Proptech

Ajith Mohan Karimpana

Founded 2012, Furlenco is a furniture-and-appliance rental/subscription platform letting users rent fully-furnished home setups on monthly plans. One of India's earliest furniture-rental brands; raised Serie...

Fyle SaaS

Yashwanth Madhusudan & Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan

Founded 2016. AI-powered corporate expense-management SaaS with real-time card feeds and an accounting-integration layer (QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, Xero). Bengaluru-HQ; expanded into US market.

GalaxEye Space Spacetech

Suyash Singh & team

FLAG: Incubated 2021 at IIT Madras (Chennai) and retains a Chennai registered address, BUT now operates from a 50,000 sq ft facility in Bengaluru's aerospace hub (most 2025-26 press calls it Bengaluru-HQ'd)....

Afsar Ahmad & Govind Agarwal

Founded ~2017 by IIT-Kharagpur alumni. Bootstrapped maker of social board games Ludo STAR and Parchisi STAR with 200M+ downloads and 5M+ DAUs. Crossed $100M lifetime revenue (~$40M in 2021 alone); top market...

Gameskraft Gaming

Prithvi Raj Singh, Deepak Singh Ahlawat & Sindhu Devi Jha

Founded 2017, debuted with RummyCulture. Bootstrapped and one of India's most profitable online skill-gaming companies (rummy, fantasy, casual), clocking 1B+ gameplays a year. Largely founder/friends-funded ...

Abhishek Burman & team

IISc-incubated. End-to-end agri-drone crop-protection (Krishak drones, app and hub) plus mapping/survey UAVs. One of the largest agri-drone-as-a-service operators in India.

GIVA D2C

Ishendra Agarwal, Nikita Prasad, Sachin Shetty

Founded 2019, D2C fine & silver jewellery brand with strong omnichannel (200+ stores) expansion. Raised ~INR 530 Cr (2025) led by Creaegis with Premji Invest, Epiq Capital. A leading D2C jewellery scale-up.

Gnani.ai AI agents

Ganesh Gopalan & Ananth Nagaraj

Founded 2016. Voice-first agentic AI for enterprises; processes 30M+ voice interactions/day across 200+ clients. Selected under IndiaAI Mission to build a multilingual, emotion-aware voice foundation model (...

HungerBox Foodtech

Sandipan Mitra & Uttam Kumar

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru, a B2B digital cafeteria-management platform handling end-to-end F&B for corporate and institutional campuses. Manages 565+ cafeterias and 1,500+ food partners; has raised ~$35M fro...

Increff Logistics

Anshuman Agarwal, Romil Jain, Rajul Jain, Vishal Raj

Founded 2016, a Bengaluru-HQ'd retail supply-chain SaaS — AI-driven inventory/merchandising optimization plus a WMS for multichannel fulfillment. Series B; serves fashion/lifestyle brands globally.

Indifi Fintech

Alok Mittal, Siddharth Mahanot

Founded in 2015, Indifi is an MSME lending platform and aggregator that connects small businesses (restaurants, travel agents, e-commerce sellers) to multiple banks and NBFCs through a single digital applica...

IndiQube Proptech

Rishi Das, Meghna Agarwal, Anshuman Das

Founded 2015, IndiQube is a managed/flexible-workspace operator providing tech-enabled, fully-serviced office spaces and managed campuses to enterprises across India. WestBridge/Aravali-backed; listed on Ind...

Indofast Energy Climate tech

IndianOil + SUN Mobility JV

Bengaluru-HQ'd JV between IndianOil and SUN Mobility delivering EV battery-swapping and Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) for electric two- and three-wheelers across India's energy-as-a-service network.

Siraj Dhanani, A Vijayrajan & Jagdish Chaturvedi

Founded 2012; India's first medtech innovation platform / incubator developing affordable critical-care, maternal and neonatal devices for emerging markets (e.g., Fetal Lite labour monitor, Saans neonatal CP...

Kazam Mobility

Akshay Shekhar, Vaibhav Tyagi

Bengaluru-HQ'd EV-charging tech company offering smart chargers, a CMS software platform and energy management for CPOs, fleets and OEMs. One of India's larger asset-light charging software/hardware players.

KRAFTON India Gaming

(studio head; subsidiary of KRAFTON Inc., South Korea)

Indian arm of the BGMI / PUBG maker, building a Bengaluru-based first-party studio to ship India-first titles faster. KRAFTON has committed $150M+ to India's gaming ecosystem (and ~$50M/yr), made investments...

Manish Agarwal & Ishank Gupta

Founded 2022 by Nazara's ex-CEO Manish Agarwal. Web3 gaming venture that raised a $20M seed at a ~$150M valuation (led by Accel; Prosus, Courtside, Nexus, Nazara) and acquired/absorbed the gaming DAO IndiGG ...

Kuvera Fintech

Gaurav Rastogi, Neelabh Sanyal, Mayank Sharma

Founded in 2016, Kuvera is a direct (commission-free) mutual-fund and goal-based investing platform with robo-advisory, tax planning and FD products. It was acquired by fintech unicorn CRED in 2023, marking ...

LetsTransport Logistics

Pushkar Singh, Sudarshan Ravi, Ankit Parasher

Founded 2015 by IIT-KGP alumni, a Bengaluru-HQ'd intra-city, tech-enabled last-mile logistics platform for enterprises (mini-trucks/LCVs, ~50k+ vehicles). Backed by Bertelsmann India, Mitsubishi, Fosun RZ.

LILA Games Gaming

Joseph Kim, Paul Leydon & Avinash Pandey

Bengaluru studio betting India can ship a world-class real-time mobile shooter, founded by ex-Sega/FunPlus/Machine Zone veterans. Raised a $2.8M seed (2021) then a $10M Series A (2022) led by Rainfall Ventur...

Locus Logistics

Nishith Rastogi, Geet Garg

Founded 2015, a Bengaluru-HQ'd AI-powered dispatch/route-optimization and last-mile logistics SaaS used by Unilever, Nestlé, Tata, BlueDart. Backed by GIC, Tiger Global, Qualcomm Ventures. Acquired by IKEA (...

Lyzr AI agents

Siva Surendira

Founded 2023; agent-infrastructure platform for enterprises (Fortune 500 in finance, retail, government) emphasizing secure, sovereign, governed AI agents. Feb 2026 launched an app builder to move agents to ...

Masai School Edtech

Prateek Shukla, Yogesh Bhat & Nrupul Dev

Founded 2019 in Bengaluru; an outcome-driven coding/tech career school using an income-share / pay-after-placement model to train software developers, data analysts and other in-demand roles. Backed by Omidy...

Vaibhavi Gangwar & Akshay Deo

Founded 2023 (Google–Postman duo). GenAI evaluation and observability platform spanning the AI dev lifecycle from design to production. Raised $3M seed led by Elevation Capital (angels incl. founders of Post...

Mech Mocha Gaming

Mohit Rangaraju, Arpita Kapoor & Shilp Gupta

Founded 2013; casual mobile games studio that built 'Hello Play', billed as India's first real-time multiplayer social-gaming platform. Acquired by Flipkart in 2020 to power its gaming push — an early exampl...

MedGenome Biotech

Sam Santhosh & V L Ramprasad

Founded 2013; South Asia's leading genomics/genetic-testing and research company (CAP & NABL-accredited lab) providing diagnostics, NGS-based clinical testing and research services, plus a major South Asian ...

Melorra D2C

Saroja Yeramilli

Founded 2016, D2C fast-fashion fine-gold jewellery brand bringing weekly trend-led collections online. Backed by Lightbox, 8 Roads; built one of India's first digital-first gold jewellery plays.

mfine Healthtech

Prasad Kompalli & Ashutosh Lawania

Founded 2017; AI-driven virtual primary-care platform offering teleconsultations, lab bookings and e-pharmacy with AI-based triage. Partnered 700+ diagnostic centres and 6,000+ doctors, serving 3M+ users. Ba...

Mokobara D2C

Navin Parwal, Sangeet Agarwal

Founded 2019, D2C premium luggage & travel-gear brand (backed/endorsed by Deepika Padukone). Raised Series A from Saama Capital, Sauce VC, Alteria; known for design-led hard-shell luggage and fast D2C growth.

MoneyTap (Freo) Fintech

Bala Parthasarathy, Kunal Varma, Anuj Kacker

Founded in 2015, MoneyTap (now part of the Freo neobank brand) pioneered the app-based personal credit line in India, in partnership with banks like RBL. It has raised ~$90M+ from Sequoia (Peak XV), Prime Ve...

Moonfrog Labs Gaming

Kumar Puspesh, Tanay Tayal, Ankit Jain & Dimpal Maisuriya

Founded 2013 by ex-Zynga colleagues; backed early by Tiger Global and Sequoia (~$15M). Maker of Teen Patti Gold, Ludo Club, Bingo and Baahubali: The Game. Acquired by Sweden's Stillfront Group in 2021 (~$90M...

S K Nandy & Ranjani Narayan

IISc-incubated 2005 — one of India's oldest fabless semiconductor efforts. Reconfigurable-computing SoC platform (REDEFINE/CGRA) for AI, HPC and edge. Raised ~₹42Cr to close a ~₹80Cr Series A; backed by Spec...

Mudrex Web3

Edul Patel, Alankar Saxena, Prince Arora & Rohit Goyal

Founded 2018 by IIT Bombay/Kanpur alumni; US-incorporated, Bengaluru-based. Y Combinator-backed crypto investment platform (Coin Sets / algorithmic baskets, then full exchange) raising Series A from Nexus Ve...

Mukunda Foods Foodtech

Eshwar K Vikas & Sudeep Sabat

Founded ~2012, a kitchen-automation and food-robotics company building machines like Wokie (auto-wok), Rico (rice/noodle cooker) and the DosaMatic. Its robots have automated 3,000+ kitchens across 22+ countr...

Deeptech building a full-stack AI cloud / GPU-infrastructure platform. Rebranded from Kluisz; raised $22M Series A in 2026 led by Greenoaks with RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures.

NestAway Proptech

Amarendra Sahu, Smruti Parida, Deepak Dhar, Jitendra Jagadev

Founded 2015, NestAway is a tech-enabled home-rental and property-management marketplace that lists, furnishes and manages rental homes connecting owners and tenants. Once a SoftBank/Tiger-backed star; acqui...

NEWME D2C

Sumit Jasoria, Shivam Soni

Founded 2022, D2C-first omnichannel fast-fashion brand for Gen-Z women (18–26) across Tier 1/2/3; opened its first store in Bengaluru within 9 months and runs 18+ company-owned stores. Trend-led rapid-drop a...

Sameer Joshi

Founded 2017 by ex-IAF officers. Builds UAV swarms, autonomous high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS) and collaborative-combat aerial systems for defence. Raised ~$33M Series B; one of Bengaluru's top defenc...

Newton School Edtech

Nishant Chandra & Siddharth Maheshwari

Founded 2019 in Bengaluru; a coding/tech upskilling platform (pay-after-placement) that has expanded into Newton School of Technology, a full degree-granting CS & AI program with university partners. Backed ...

Newtrace Climate tech

Prasanta Sarkar & Rochan Sinha

Green-hydrogen deep-tech. Its 'Voltagen' coated cathode drops into existing alkaline electrolysers and cuts hydrogen specific-energy consumption by up to 9.5 kWh/kg without platinum-group metals. Raised ~$12...

Jaisimha Rao

Founded 2015 (rebranded from TartanSense in 2022). AI + computer-vision precision-spraying agri-robots (green-on-green spot spraying) that cut chemical use. Series B; first AgTech firm to monetise green-on-g...

Niyo Fintech

Vinay Bagri, Virender Bisht

Founded in 2015, Niyo is a digital-banking (neobank) platform offering zero-forex travel cards, salary accounts and wealth products in partnership with banks. It raised a $100M Series C in 2021 from Accel, L...

Numocity Mobility

Ravikiran Annaswamy, Siddharth Sreenivasan

Founded 2018, a Bengaluru-HQ'd EV-charging & energy-management SaaS for charge-point operators (CMS for charging/swapping over cloud). ABB acquired a majority stake in 2022.

Nurix AI AI agents

Mukesh Bansal

Founded 2024 by Myntra/Cult.fit co-founder Mukesh Bansal (incubated at Meraki Labs). Builds custom enterprise AI agents with human-like voice and reasoning; launched NuPlay voice platform (June 2025) support...

Oben Electric Mobility

Madhumita Agrawal, Dinkar Agrawal, Sagar Thakkar

Founded 2020 by IIT/IIM alumni, a Bengaluru-HQ'd electric motorcycle startup. Builds the Rorr e-bike with in-house LFP battery tech and a vertically integrated manufacturing approach.

OkCredit Fintech

Harsh Pokharna, Gaurav Kunwar, Aditya Prasad

Founded in 2017, OkCredit is a digital ledger ('bahi khata') app that lets small merchants track credit and customer balances, and has expanded toward merchant payments and lending. It raised ~$85M from Tige...

Onsurity Insurtech

Yogesh Agarwal, Kulin Shah

Founded in 2020, Onsurity is an employee-healthcare and benefits platform for SMEs and startups, bundling group health insurance, doctor consults, wellness and discounted medicines on a monthly subscription....

Peoplebox SaaS

Abhinav Chugh & Alagu Muthuraman

Founded 2019 (YC-backed). AI-native talent/performance-management platform — OKRs, reviews, engagement and (newer) AI hiring/screening. Used by 500+ companies. Bengaluru-HQ.

PlayShifu Edtech

Vivek Goyal & Dinesh Advani

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru; makes augmented-reality STEAM toys and learning kits (e.g. Orboot globe, Tacto, Plugo) for children aged 2–12, sold globally including the US and Europe. Blends physical play with ...

Suraj Nalin, Preeti Reddy & Siddhanth Jain

Founded 2014; a leading global developer of free-to-play word games (Daily Themed Crossword, Word Trip, etc.) with 75M+ installs. Acquired by Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG) in July 2021 for ~$360M after r...

Plum SaaS

Abhishek Poddar & Saurabh Arora

Founded 2019. Tech-driven B2B employee health-insurance and benefits platform (group insurance + telehealth + preventive care) for employers. Series B; backers incl. Tiger Global and Sequoia/Peak XV.

Portea Medical Healthtech

Meena Ganesh, K Ganesh & Vaibhav Tewari

Founded July 2013; India's largest home-healthcare provider delivering nursing, physiotherapy, eldercare, post-operative and chronic-care services at home. Closed an $8M Series A in Dec 2013 (then the larges...

Portkey Generative AI

Rohit Agarwal & Ayush Garg

Founded 2023 (founders ex-Pepper Content). Production stack / AI gateway for GenAI builders — unified LLM routing, observability, load balancing, prompt management and LLMOps. Raised ~$3M+ seed; widely adopt...

Progcap Fintech

Pallavi Shrivastava, Himanshu Chandra

Founded in 2017, Progcap provides specialized supply-chain and working-capital financing plus technology products to underserved small and medium retailers in India's distribution economy. It has raised ~$80...

QpiAI AI

Dr Nagendra Nagaraja

Founded 2019. Deeptech building AI + quantum together — 'intelligence compute'. July 2025 raised $32M Series A (co-led by the Indian government's National Quantum Mission and Avataar Ventures) at ~$162M valu...

Anand Sivaraman & Pramod Kummaya

Founded 2009; maker of AI-powered, smartphone-based and portable ophthalmic imaging devices (fundus-on-phone, NM Fundus camera) for diabetic-retinopathy and broader retinal screening at point of care. Series...

RentoMojo Proptech

Geetansh Bamania

Founded Nov 2014 by an ex-IIT Madras founder, RentoMojo is a furniture, appliance and electronics rental-subscription platform serving urban renters across major Indian cities. Series-D funded (Edelweiss, Ba...

Richpanel SaaS

Amit Sharma

Founded 2020. AI-powered customer-service / helpdesk SaaS for ecommerce brands (2,000+ brands). Sequoia/Peak XV-backed.

River Mobility

Aravind Mani, Vipin George

Founded 2021, a Bengaluru-HQ'd EV startup positioning its 'Indie' scooter as the 'SUV of e-scooters' (55L storage). Raised $40M+ incl. Series B with strategic investor Yamaha Motor; earlier backers Lowercarb...

Rupifi Fintech

Anubhav Jain, Ankit Singh, Jawaid Iqbal

Founded in 2020, Rupifi is a B2B fintech offering embedded working-capital, BNPL and a B2B payments card to SMBs across digital commerce marketplaces. It has raised ~$36M from Bessemer, Tiger Global and Quon...

Saankhya Labs Deeptech

Parag Naik, Hemant Mallapur & Vishwakumara Kayargadde

Founded 2006 — one of India's earliest fabless semiconductor companies. Software-defined radio (SDR) chips and 5G/Direct-to-Mobile broadcast SoCs. Majority-acquired by Tejas Networks (Tata group). A pioneer ...

Saarthi.ai AI agents

Sangram Sabat, Vishnu Ramesh & Aditya Patnaik

Founded 2017. Deeptech multilingual conversational/voice AI; automates customer support in regional Indian languages and now a broader agentic communication suite. IndiaAI-listed. Funded.

Abhijit Kothawale, Rohan Gala & Rahul Vamsidhar

Founded Sept 2023 by IIT/IIM alumni. Defence-electronics platform building indigenous systems and acquiring/integrating defence manufacturing capability. Raised ₹186Cr Series A (2025) at a 4.5x valuation jump.

SatSure Spacetech

Prateep Basu, Rashmit Singh Sukhmani & Abhishek Raju

Founded 2017. Satellite-data 'decision intelligence' across BFSI, agriculture and infrastructure. Member of the Pixxel-led IN-SPACe national EO constellation consortium. Building its own EO satellites (SatSu...

Sauce.vc Consumer brands

Manu Chandra

Consumer-brand-focused early-stage fund active across BLR D2C (backed Mokobara, Yogabar, Wingreens-adjacent F&B). Specialist consumer/D2C capital. (Verify primary office city — operates strongly in BLR D2C d...

Scapia Fintech

Anil Goteti

Founded 2022 (ex-Flipkart). Travel-fintech: co-branded travel credit card and rewards app for younger travelers. Raised $40M Series B (2024) led by Peak XV.

Sea6 Energy Biotech

Shrikumar Suryanarayan, Nelson Vadassery & team

Founded 2010 (IIT-Madras iGEM origin, Bengaluru HQ); ocean/marine-biotech company that mechanises large-scale tropical seaweed farming to produce bio-stimulants, bioplastics, animal-feed and renewable-chemic...

SELCO India Climate tech

Harish Hande & Neville Williams

Founded 1995. Pioneering for-profit solar social enterprise providing solar home systems and clean-energy solutions to underserved rural Karnataka households. Founder Harish Hande won the 2011 Ramon Magsaysa...

Setu SaaS

Sahil Kini & Nikhil Kumar

Founded 2018. API-infrastructure fintech — embeddable APIs for payments, account aggregation/data, KYC, BBPS and lending. Acquired by Pine Labs in 2022; widely used in India's fintech stack.

Signzy SaaS

Ankit Ratan, Ankur Pandey, Arpit Ratan

Founded 2015. Fintech infrastructure SaaS — KYC/KYB/AML APIs, digital onboarding and identity verification used by 600+ financial institutions (HDFC, ICICI, Axis, Yes Bank). Raised ~$39M from Kalaari, SAP an...

SigTuple Healthtech

Rohit Kumar Pandey, Tathagato Dastidar, Apurv Anand & Bharath Cheluvaraju

Founded 2015; AI + robotics for microscopy-based diagnostics. Its AI100 (Shonit/Shonit+) platform robotically scans and digitises blood smears and urine, classifying cell types and flagging anomalies. The AI...

Simple Energy Mobility

Suhas Rajkumar, Shreshth Mishra, Ankit Gupta

Founded 2019, a Bengaluru-HQ'd electric two-wheeler OEM. Its flagship 'Simple One' e-scooter claims ~212 km range and 30L storage. Raised ~$85M+ across rounds incl. a $20M Series A (2024); manufacturing plan...

Simplilearn Edtech

Krishna Kumar

Founded 2009 in Bengaluru as a project-management blog, now a global professional-certification platform for cloud, DevOps, data science, cybersecurity and digital marketing. Acquired by US-based Blackstone ...

Amritanshu Jain & Devansh Ghatak

Founded 2022 by ex-Google/Oracle engineers. Inference / MLOps infrastructure layer to deploy, optimize and manage generative AI models fast. Reportedly raising ~$20M led by Nvidia (2026), valuing it ~$100M.

Skit.ai AI agents

Sourabh Gupta & Akshay Deshraj

Founded 2016 (formerly Vernacular.ai). AI-first voice-automation SaaS for contact centers; VIVA assistant covers 16+ languages and 160+ dialects on 10M+ hours of training data. Raised ~$47.6M incl. a $23M Se...

Skylark Drones Deeptech

Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy & Mrinal Pai

Founded 2014 (started flying prototypes over Lal Bagh). Drone-based data-intelligence platform (Spectra) for mining, infrastructure, energy and survey; clients include Tata and UltraTech. Funded deep-tech dr...

Deepak Anchala & Rahul Bhattacharya

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru. B2B buyer-intelligence / sales-intelligence SaaS surfacing buying signals and technographics. Acquired by US-based 6sense in 2021; Bengaluru remains a key engineering hub. Backers ...

Pradeep Kumar Patra & Nitin Mishra

Founded 2014/2015 in Bengaluru, a digital food-court / cafeteria ordering and contactless-payments platform for enterprises and venues. Acquired by Compass Group (world's largest food-services firm) in 2020 ...

Snaptrude Proptech

Altaf Ganihar

Founded 2017, Snaptrude is a collaborative, browser-based BIM (Building Information Modeling) platform letting architects and design teams plan, design and visualise buildings in real time, auto-generating s...

Snitch D2C

Siddharth Dungarwal

Founded 2020, fast-fashion D2C menswear brand (the 'Zara of India') known for rapid drops and Shark Tank India visibility. ~INR 506 Cr FY25 revenue; raised ~INR 340 Cr Series B at a ~INR 2,500 Cr valuation; ...

Soket AI Labs Generative AI

Abhishek Upperwal

Founded 2019. Open-source frontier-AI lab; one of the first startups backed under the Rs 10,037 Cr IndiaAI Mission (with Sarvam, Gnani, Gan). Building Project EKA — a 120B-parameter open Indic LLM (with IIT ...

Sprinto SaaS

Girish Redekar & Raghuveer Kancherla

Founded 2020. Security & compliance automation SaaS (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA) for fast-growing tech companies. Serves ~3,000+ customers across 75+ countries; founders previously built Recruiterbox. Bac...

Stellapps Agritech

Ranjith Mukundan & co-founders

Founded 2011 (IIT Madras alumni), India's leading dairy-tech company digitising the milk supply chain farm-to-processor via IoT (smartAMCU/mooON), milk-quality sensors and agri-fintech. Deployed across 42,00...

V Vijayasarathy, Ramesh Hariharan & others (IISc spin-out)

Founded 2000 as an IISc spin-out; genomics and computational-biology company providing NGS-based clinical diagnostics (oncology, hereditary disease) and bioinformatics platforms. One of India's pioneering ge...

String Bio Climate tech

Ezhil Subbian & Vinod Kumar

Founded 2013 (operations moved to Bangalore 2014). Industrial biotech using synthetic biology to convert methane/greenhouse gases into protein, agri-biostimulants and specialty ingredients via its String Int...

sugar.fit Healthtech

Madan Somasundaram & Shivtosh Kumar

Founded 2021; AI-driven Type-2 and pre-diabetes reversal/management program combining CGM data, endocrinologists, coaches and diabetes-reversal clinics across Bengaluru. Backed by Cure.fit, Tanglin Venture P...

SuperAGI AI agents

Ishaan Bhola & Mukunda NS

Founded 2021 (formerly Contlo). Rebranded July 2025 into a full-stack agentic AI platform automating marketing, sales and support; early open-source autonomous-agent framework had strong GitHub traction. Rai...

Varun Sadana, Vineet Khanna, Aman Tekriwal, Abhay Hanjura

Founded 2021 (by Licious co-founders), full-stack pet-care D2C platform — food, accessories, online vet consults, pharmacy and now offline vet clinics in Bengaluru. Raised ~$30M to build India's petcare ecos...

Anish Basu Roy, Saumya Kumar, Sumit Kumar

Founded 2019, D2C 'better-for-you' snacking brand (popped potato chips with ~50% less fat) plus functional beverages. Shark Tank India alum; built distribution across modern trade and q-commerce.

Teachmint Edtech

Mihir Gupta, Payoj Jain, Divyansh Bordia & Anshuman Kumar

Founded 2020 in Bengaluru; an edtech-SaaS / teaching-infrastructure platform giving teachers and institutions tools for online classes, content, assessments and an Integrated School Platform. Backed by Learn...

Tonbo Imaging Deeptech

Arvind Lakshmikumar

Founded 2012 (entity ~2003). Electro-optic and infrared imaging systems — night-vision scopes, UAV sensors, missile seekers, battlefield imaging — supplied to DRDO and the armed forces. FY25 revenue ~₹400Cr ...

Toplyne SaaS

Rishen Kapoor, Ruchin Kulkarni, Praveen Singh

Founded 2021. Product-led-growth (PLG) intelligence layer that scores PLG users/accounts most likely to convert and pipes them to sales. Backed by Sequoia/Peak XV and Tiger Global; later pivoted toward AI/GT...

U-Solar Clean Energy Climate tech

K R Hari Narayan

Founded 2010. Solar EPC and clean-energy developer; 250+ projects executed and ~160 MW of solar assets installed across India. Bengaluru-HQ'd C&I/utility solar player.

Ultrahuman Healthtech

Mohit Kumar & Vatsal Singhal

Founded 2019 (Ultrahuman Healthcare Pvt Ltd, RoC Karnataka); metabolic-health and wearables company best known for the Ultrahuman Ring AIR smart ring and the M1 continuous glucose monitor. Exports globally a...

Ultraviolette Automotive Manufacturing

Narayan Subramaniam & Niraj Rajmohan

Founded 2016. Designs and manufactures high-performance electric motorcycles (F77) plus battery/charging hardware — vertically integrated EV deep-tech. Backed by TVS Motor and Qualcomm; TDK Ventures added $2...

Unocoin Web3

Sathvik Vishwanath, Sunny Ray, Harish BV & Abhinand Kaseti

Founded July 2013 — India's first Bitcoin company / exchange, started in Tumakuru and moved to Bengaluru. A pioneer that survived India's banking ban and regulatory whiplash; co-founder Harish BV was briefly...

Updapt (an ESG SaaS) Climate tech

Supreeth Rao, Satish Ramchandani, Mithun Suvarna & Sangat Babu

Climate/ESG SaaS for sustainability reporting, net-zero and emissions tracking, climate-risk analysis and supplier assessment. Bengaluru-based; serves enterprises managing ESG disclosures and decarbonization...

UrbanPiper Foodtech

Anirban Majumdar, Saurabh Gupta, Manav Gupta & Aditya Sharma

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru, a restaurant-tech middleware that unifies Swiggy/Zomato/aggregator orders, menus and inventory into a single POS-integrated dashboard. Processes orders for 35,000+ restaurant locat...

Varaha Climate tech

Madhur Jain, Vishal Kuchanur, Ankita Garg

Founded 2022. Climate-tech: nature-based carbon-removal (biochar, enhanced rock weathering, regenerative agriculture) generating verified carbon credits. Notable for Asia-first ERW credit issuance.

Verloop.io SaaS

Gaurav Singh

Founded 2015. Conversational AI / customer-support automation platform — AI chat & voice agents, agent-assist and real-time analytics across channels. Bengaluru-HQ confirmed.

Vimaan Deeptech

S.K. 'KG' Ganapathi & Marc Mignard

Founded 2017. Computer-vision + AI inventory-management platform (drones/fixed cameras) giving warehouses 100% inventory accuracy. Strong Bengaluru engineering base; corporate HQ in Santa Clara, CA (US-India...

Virgio D2C

Amar Nagaram (ex-Myntra CEO)

Founded 2022 by former Myntra CEO Amar Nagaram, a sustainable, zero-inventory-waste D2C fashion brand for Gen-Z women. Raised ~$37M+ from Accel, Prosus and 30+ investors. Tech-led demand-driven fashion model.

Vogo Mobility

Anand Ayyadurai, Padmanabhan Balakrishnan, Sanchit Mittal

Founded 2016, a Bengaluru-HQ'd dockless scooter-rental company (IoT/OTP keyless access) for short one-way trips across Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Ola-backed; raised $35M+ and pivoted toward electric fleets.

Vymo SaaS

Yamini Bhat & Venkat Malladi

Founded 2013. AI-powered sales-engagement platform purpose-built for financial services, insurance and banking field teams. Backed by Emergence, Sequoia/Peak XV and Bertelsmann India.

Shruti Kapoor, Muralidharan Venkatasubramanian, Srikar Yekollu

Founded ~2018 in Bengaluru. Conversation-intelligence platform for sales teams (call recording, real-time cue cards, deal insights). Acquired by US revenue-ops company Clari in 2022 and rebranded Clari Copil...

Divyaanshu Makkar

B2B commerce SaaS for wholesale distributors/manufacturers to sell online, with CRM and AI sales tooling. Targets US wholesale market; venture-funded.

Manish Chowdhary, Karan Chowdhary, Ashwin Sokke, Arvind Sokke

Founded 2014, D2C beauty & personal-care house (skin, hair, body) built digital-first across own site + marketplaces. ChrysCapital invested ~$50M (2021) at a ~$125M valuation. One of India's earliest large B...

Wysa Healthtech

Jo Aggarwal & Ramakant Vempati

Founded 2016 (Touchkin eServices); AI mental-health chatbot delivering CBT/DBT-based emotional support, now a clinically validated 'phygital' platform used by employers, insurers and the UK NHS. India's most...

YourDOST Healthtech

Richa Singh, Puneet Manuja & Prakhar Verma

Founded 2014; online emotional-wellness and counselling platform connecting users with psychologists and life coaches, with a strong enterprise/EAP business and campus partnerships. One of India's earliest a...

Zolo (ZoloStays) Proptech

Nikhil Sikri, Akhil Sikri, Sneha Choudhry, Isha Choudhry

Founded 2015, Zolo is one of India's largest tech-enabled managed co-living operators, providing fully-managed PG/co-living accommodation for students and working professionals across cities. Backed by Nexus...

Zoomcar Mobility

Greg Moran, David Back

Founded 2013, a Bengaluru-HQ'd self-drive car-sharing / car-rental marketplace that went public (Nasdaq via SPAC, 2023). Operates a peer-to-peer host model across India and emerging markets.

Alt Carbon Climate tech

Shrey & Sparsh Agarwal

Carbon-removal (CDR) startup using Enhanced Rock Weathering — spreading crushed basalt on Darjeeling tea estates to pull CO2 from air into soil while improving yields. First India-HQ'd company to win a Front...

Antinorm D2C

Aparna Saxena

Founded 2024. D2C beauty/personal-care brand with multifunctional, time-saving products for urban women. Raised ~₹28 Cr seed (Jan 2026) led by Fireside Ventures (V3 Ventures, Rukam Capital).

Aditya Kulkarni & Arun B Papaiah

Founded 2013; rare-disease drug-discovery company developing cyclodextrin-based and small-molecule therapeutics for high-unmet-need disorders (e.g., Niemann-Pick Type C). C-CAMP-incubated; an example of Beng...

Aurassure — Climate tech

Climate/air-quality deeptech: IoT environmental sensors with AI-driven pollution prediction. Raised ~₹25 Cr (~$3M) pre-Series A (late 2025) led by Rainmatter Capital and Unicorn India Ventures.

Arindam Ghatak & team

Founded ~2017; air-decontamination biotech building the ZeBox device that captures and kills a broad spectrum of airborne microbes — relevant for hospitals, ICUs and clean environments (infection control). C...

Sebastian C. Peter

JNCASR-incubated carbon-utilization deep-tech converting anthropogenic CO2 (from power, steel, cement, chemicals) into chemicals and fuels like methanol. Spun out of award-winning IISc/JNCASR research on CO2...

Ashim Roy & Avin Agarwal

Founded 2014; AI-driven cardiac/ECG and preventive-screening platform with a portable connected ECG device and clinical decision support for early detection of heart disease, deployed in primary-care and ins...

Confluxe — Other

Bengaluru-based startup that raised ~$1.6M in a pre-seed round (2025/26). Early-stage venture flagged in recent BLR funding roundups.

DOQFY — SaaS

Legaltech startup digitizing legal documentation, e-stamping, and contract management for businesses and individuals. Early/funded BLR legaltech.

Founded 2021. Sportstech app matching amateur players of similar skill and managing turf/venue play. Raised $2M Pre-Series A (2024), backed by Zerodha's Rainmatter and Nithin Kamath.

AI startup; raised ~$2M seed with Speciale Invest and 3one4 Capital participating. Early-stage applied-AI play out of Bengaluru.

Juego Studios Gaming

Mahesh Khambadkone

Founded 2013; full-cycle game development and co-development studio (250+ staff) building for global publishers across mobile, console, AR/VR and game art. One of BLR's largest service/work-for-hire studios,...

Kalvium Edtech

Rajesh Kumar (CEO), Venkataraghulan V & Deepak Venugopal

Founded 2021 in Bengaluru; offers a 4-year work-integrated B.Tech CSE degree (in partnership with AICTE/UGC-recognised universities) that blends a software-product-engineering curriculum with paid apprentice...

Mridula Shridhar & V.K. Manikandan

Founded 2012 in Bengaluru by IIM-Calcutta alumni; an early-childhood-education / preschool-enablement company that equips budget private schools and preschools with a structured '6T' play-based curriculum, m...

Lobb Logistics

Prateek Raju, Jayaram Raju, Venu Kondur, Hemanth G

Founded 2015, a Bengaluru-HQ'd inter-city full-truck-load (FTL) freight marketplace connecting shippers/agents with truckers. Backed by 3one4 Capital and Haxant.

Loopworm Climate tech

Ankit Alok Bagaria & Abhi Gawri

Founded 2019 by IIT-Roorkee grads. Insect-biosciences / circular-economy: rears silkworms and processes them into sustainable protein and fat for aquafeed, poultry and pet food; building toward recombinant p...

Metastable Materials Climate tech

Shubham Vishvakarma, Manikumar Uppala & Saurav Goyal

Founded Oct 2021. Lithium-ion battery recycling using a proprietary 'Integrated Carbothermal Reduction' process to recover high-purity metals at high yield. Raised ~$2.8M seed from Peak XV's Surge, Speciale ...

Multibhashi Edtech

Anuradha Agarwal

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru; a vernacular language-learning app teaching English and ~12 Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, etc.) using mother-tongue-based second-language acquisition, targeting ...

Niramai SaaS

Dr. Geetha Manjunath & Nidhi Mathur

Founded 2016. Healthtech SaaS — AI + thermal-imaging 'Thermalytix' for radiation-free, low-cost breast-cancer screening; portable and privacy-preserving. Bengaluru-HQ; internationally recognized deep-tech.

Nunam Climate tech

Darshan Virupaksha & Prodip Chatterjee

Reuses discarded EV/used Li-ion batteries to give them a second life for energy access in rural and low-income areas. Indo-German non-profit-linked venture; supported by Karnataka govt grants, TERI and SELCO...

Ossus Biorenewables Climate tech

Suruchi Rao, Shanta Rao & Kamar Suhail Basha

Founded 2017. Green hydrogen from first principles: an AI-powered bioreactor (OB HydraCel) that takes carbon from industrial wastewater and produces on-site, on-demand green hydrogen. Raised ~$2.4M pre-Serie...

Petoo Foodtech

Kumar Setu, Ritesh Dwivedi & Abhishek Mandal

Founded 2015 in Bengaluru, a cloud-kitchen brand serving regional Indian meals (rice bowls, biryanis, wraps) optimised for delivery. Raised seed funding from Axilor Ventures and angels; an early entrant in I...

Posibl AI AI agents

Suman Gandham

Founded April 2025. AI voice agents purpose-built for the BFSI sector — lead generation, qualification and enrichment. Bootstrapped and in discussions for a first institutional round to fund product, regulat...

Powerplay Proptech

Iesh Dixit, Shubham Goyal

Founded 2020 by IIT Roorkee graduates, Powerplay is a SaaS construction-management platform letting contractors and builders manage site work, materials, labour and payments from one app. Backed by Accel, Se...

Propsoch Proptech

Ashish Acharya, Ravi Agrawal

Founded ~2023, Propsoch is a buyer-centric real-estate advisory platform that scores properties on 80+ factors (builder credibility, construction quality, future appreciation). After advising 1,500+ families...

Redwing Labs Logistics

Anshul Sharma, Rishabh Gupta, Arunabha Bhattacharya

Founded 2018, a Bengaluru-HQ'd autonomous drone-logistics startup automating last-mile delivery of time-critical medical supplies (blood, vaccines) to hard-to-reach regions. Backed by Seafund, Techstars, Let...

Saahas Zero Waste Climate tech

Wilma Rodrigues

Circular-economy enterprise spun out in 2013 from the non-profit Saahas (founded 2001). End-to-end waste management and resource recovery for large clients (Microsoft, GE, Shell, TI, IIM-B). Operates in Beng...

SafeHats Cybersecurity

Vinod Senthil (et al.)

Founded 2012. Crowdsourced security / bug-bounty and vulnerability-coordination platform connecting vetted researchers with enterprises and SaaS companies. Bengaluru-HQ.

Samosa Party Consumer brands

Amit Nanwani, Diksha Pande

Founded ~2018, tech-enabled D2C QSR/snack brand selling ~50 lakh samosas a year across stores + delivery marketplaces + its own channel. Bringing standardization and branding to India's humble samosa.

Samosa Singh Consumer brands

Shikhar Veer Singh, Nidhi Singh

Founded 2016, D2C/cloud-kitchen samosa & savoury-snacks QSR brand with 50+ outlets and packaged-D2C distribution. Backed by Fireside Ventures. A founder couple who sold their flat to start it.

Settl Proptech

Bharath Bhaskar, Abhishek Tripathi

Founded 2020, Settl operates fully-furnished community-focused co-living and shared-living spaces aimed at young working professionals. Seed-stage and Bengaluru-headquartered; one of the newer-generation co-...

SkyServe Spacetech

Vinay Simha, Vishesh Vatsal & Adithya Kothandhapani

Founded 2020 by ex-TeamIndus (lunar rover) engineers. Edge-computing and onboard-AI platform (STORM/SurgeEdge) that lets satellites process Earth-observation data in orbit in real time. Early/seed-funded.

SpaceFields Spacetech

Apurwa Masook

Founded 2021, IISc-incubated. Solid rocket propulsion systems for UAVs, rockets and spacecraft; has its own firing facility at Challakere, Karnataka. Raised ~₹42Cr ($5M) pre-Series A in 2025; setting up prop...

Founded March 2024. Sportstech/community platform for recreational sports. Raised ~$1.1M seed backed by Blume Ventures, Roots Ventures, and Kunal Shah's QED Innovations Lab.

StockOne Logistics

Rajan Ekambaram, Karthik Bala

Founded 2017, a Bengaluru-HQ'd full-stack supply-chain SaaS (order management, WMS, fulfillment planning) for e-commerce and consumer brands managing distributed inventory.

SuperKalam Edtech

Aseem Gupta & Vimal Singh Rathore

Founded 2023 in Bengaluru; an AI-powered personalized-learning and exam-prep platform (notably UPSC/civil-services mentoring) using an AI mentor to deliver guidance at scale. One of the new wave of AI-native...

Truww Proptech

Nischay Nahata

Founded 2020, Truww is a tech-driven interiors and modular-furniture platform focused on automation, transparent pricing and on-time delivery, operating in Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad. Positions itself as ...

Uravu Labs Climate tech

Swapnil Shrivastav, Venkatesh R, Govinda Balaji & team

Founded 2019. Atmospheric-water-generation: desiccant-based thermal systems that pump air through sorbents to extract moisture and produce drinking water, powered by renewable energy. Raised ~$4.3M; position...

Vital Insurtech

Adils Davdani, Anuraag Sunder

Founded around 2020, Vital is a tech-led health-insurance and benefits startup offering modern, app-first health cover with preventive-care features for individuals and employees. It raised seed funding from...

Vobiz.ai AI agents

Suman Gandham & Vikash Srivastava

Founded 2025. AI-first telephony infrastructure layer for companies deploying voice agents at scale — programmable APIs, low-latency routing and AI-optimised media infra to connect agents to telecom networks...

Wow Labz Web3

Amit Singh & Roshit Omanakuttan

Founded 2011; bootstrapped Bengaluru product studio building full-stack AI + blockchain/Web3 products (400+ products across 20+ industries). Founder Amit Singh also co-founded Headstart Network, a long-runni...

Who funds founders in Bengaluru

The funding ladder here, from a first angel cheque up to later-stage funds. Jump to a rung, or browse the list.

Operator angels 4

Often a founder's first cheque, from operators who've built here.

Co-founder and, since February 2025, chief executive of Livspace, the home interiors platform launched in Bengaluru in 2014; invests as an angel. Has backed Airmeet, Captain Fresh and Convin.

Co-founder and chief executive of Groww, the investment platform founded in 2016 and based in Bengaluru; invests as an angel. Has backed Ultrahuman, SuperK and ZILO.

Co-founder and group chief executive of Swiggy, the Bengaluru-headquartered on-demand convenience platform; invests as an angel. Has backed The Whole Truth and Anveshan.

Co-founder of Udaan, the Bengaluru-headquartered B2B e-commerce platform founded in 2016; invests as an angel. Has backed Third Wave Coffee and Kofluence.

Angel networks 1

Syndicates that pool angel money into early rounds.

LetsVenture / LVX Koramangala

Bengaluru-based startup investing platform founded in 2013 by Shanti Mohan and Sanjay Jha as LetsVenture, renamed LVX in 2025. It runs angel syndicates and a SEBI-registered angel fund for early-stage rounds, and has added a growth-stage...

Micro-VCs 2

Small, fast funds writing the first institutional cheques.

Java Capital Indiranagar

Bengaluru-based deep tech investor started in 2020 by Bhargavi V, Vinod Shankar and Karteek Pulapaka, now on its third fund, investing at the seed and pre-Series A stages in robotics, space, defence, photonics, energy and climate. Its po...

Bengaluru-based early-stage VC now called Shastra VC, led by former founders Vasant Rao, Avijeet Alagathi and Ashis Nayak; it backs frontier tech, climate tech and AI startups and launched a third fund in 2026. Its portfolio includes Alt...

Venture capital firms 10

Multi-stage firms that lead Series A and beyond.

Early-stage venture capital firm, typically investing from seed to Series B, with offices in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Gurugram, founded in 2006 as Matrix Partners India and renamed Z47 in July 2024. Its portfolio includes Razorpay and Ola.

Fireside Ventures Indiranagar

Bengaluru-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage consumer brands, founded in 2017 and led by managing partner Kanwaljit Singh. Its portfolio includes boAt, Mamaearth and Yoga Bar.

Arkam Ventures Indiranagar

Bengaluru-based early-stage venture capital firm co-founded by Rahul Chandra and Bala Srinivasa, investing from seed to Series B in AI, aerospace, fintech, SaaS and manufacturing. Its portfolio includes KreditBee and Jai Kisan.

Bengaluru-based early-stage venture capital firm investing from seed to Series A in consumer tech, enterprise SaaS, deep tech and fintech. Formerly Inventus India, it took the name Athera Venture Partners in 2022.

Growth-stage venture capital firm with offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram and Santa Clara, founded by Mohan Kumar and Nishant Rao. It invests in B2B and SaaS companies and works with them on global go-to-market, M&A and IPO readiness.

Antler India Koramangala

The India arm of global venture capital firm Antler, launched in Bengaluru in 2020 and led by partners Rajiv Srivatsa and Nitin Sharma. It backs founders from day zero, including through a residency programme, and currently focuses on AI...

pi Ventures Indiranagar

Bengaluru-based deeptech venture capital firm co-founded by Manish Singhal and Umakant Soni, investing at seed and Series A in AI, robotics, energy, life sciences, quantum computing and advanced materials. Its portfolio includes Niramai,...

Global early-stage venture capital firm with offices in New York, London, Bengaluru, Paris and Dubai, investing at seed, Series A and Series B in B2B and B2C technology. Its portfolio includes CRED, Datadog and Delivery Hero.

India arm of US venture firm Bessemer Venture Partners, in India since 2006 and run from Bengaluru, backing early-stage founders in AI-enabled services, SaaS, fintech, digital health, consumer and cybersecurity. Its portfolio includes Sw...

Multiply Ventures Koramangala

Bengaluru early-stage VC founded by operators Bhushan Patil, Sanjay Ramakrishnan and Raveen Sastry, investing in consumer brands, consumer tech and fintech; its first fund was registered with SEBI in 2020 and a second in 2025. Its portfo...

Corporate venture 1

Corporate venture arms investing off their own balance sheet.

Wipro Ventures Whitefield

Wipro's strategic investment arm, set up in 2015 by the Bengaluru-headquartered technology services company. Invests in early to mid-stage enterprise software companies in AI, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, DevOps and quality...

Family offices 2

Private capital investing across stages.

Bengaluru investment firm that manages the assets of Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy and his family across public equity, private equity and growth-stage venture capital, currently focused on export-oriented precision manufacturing...

Evergreen investment firm set up in 2006 by Wipro founder chairman Azim Premji, with offices in Bengaluru and Menlo Park; it invests from early stage to public markets and primarily supports the Azim Premji Foundation. Its portfolio incl...

Accelerator funds 2

Programs that invest as they take you through a cohort.

Surge (by Peak XV) Koramangala

Peak XV's seed investing programme, started in 2019, which as of 2026 invests $500,000 to $5 million per company and runs a yearly eight-week cohort ending with an immersion in San Francisco. Its portfolio includes Khatabook, Plum and In...

Axilor Ventures Koramangala

Bengaluru seed fund set up in 2014 by a group including Infosys co-founders Kris Gopalakrishnan and S. D. Shibulal, investing across supply chain, enterprise SaaS, fintech, healthcare, agriculture, consumer and climate. Its portfolio inc...

Incubators & accelerators in Bengaluru

Incubators, accelerators, corporate programs and institutions. Jump to a type, or browse the list.

Incubators 5

C-CAMP (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms) NCBS / GKVK Campus, Bellary Road

India's premier life-sciences and biotech incubator, hosted on the NCBS/inStem campus and designated a K-Tech Technology Business Incubator by the Karnataka government. Focuses on startups in biotech, healthtech, agritech and life scienc...

Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) Electronics City / Helix Biotech Park

Flagship government bio-incubator jointly established by Karnataka's Dept of IT/BT/S&T and the central Dept of Biotechnology (DBT). Spans 50,000+ sq ft on a 10-acre campus with a Central Instrumentation Facility and state-of-the-art labs...

Social Alpha Bengaluru (HQ)

Innovation foundation backed by Tata Trusts that incubates and funds science- and technology-driven startups solving social challenges in diagnostics, maternal health, clean cooking, financial inclusion and sustainable agriculture. Runs ...

Technology business incubator promoted by JSS Mahavidyapeetha and backed by the central NSTEDB/DST machinery. Supports technology startups with mentoring, infrastructure and government-scheme access. One of Bengaluru's longer-standing go...

AIC Tataguni / Kanakapura Road

NITI Aayog–supported Atal Incubation Centre hosted by the Jyothy Institute of Technology Foundation, focused on scientific entrepreneurship including materials and food tech. Provides labs, mentorship and Atal-network access to deep-scie...

Accelerators 4

Forge Innovation & Ventures Bengaluru (+ Coimbatore HQ)

Industrial-innovation accelerator (founded 2014, HQ Coimbatore) that catalyses national-scale industrial digital transformation by connecting government and industry with deep-tech innovators. Runs vertically integrated incubation coveri...

Khosla Labs Bengaluru

Venture-building studio (associated with Khosla Ventures) tackling large-scale technology problems, with a focus on mobile payments, machine learning and retail efficiency. Builds and incubates companies rather than running fixed cohorts...

Bangalore Alpha Lab Koramangala

Independent early-stage incubator/accelerator near Koramangala providing space, mentorship and network access to founders. Portfolio has included Zoomdeck, BuyHatke and SignEasy. A grassroots, founder-friendly option in the city's denses...

Accelerator focused on mobile, social and cloud products, working with startups across travel, education, healthcare, media and fintech. Provides structured cohort support, mentorship and investor introductions. One of Bengaluru's earlie...

Corporate programs 9

Cisco LaunchPad Cisco Campus, SEZ Bengaluru

Cisco's startup accelerator offering business and technical mentorship, access to validated enterprise use cases, and networking with clients, partners and investors. Mentored by Cisco executives and industry leaders. Portfolio includes ...

Airbus BizLab Bengaluru

Bengaluru node of Airbus's global aerospace accelerator network (alongside Toulouse, Madrid and Hamburg). Runs a six-month acceleration program giving early-stage aerospace and adjacent startups wide-ranging support and access to Airbus ...

SAP.iO Foundry Bangalore Whitefield (SAP Labs)

SAP's startup accelerator in Bengaluru — its ninth global Foundry — running a 13-week, zero-cost, equity-free program for B2B software startups. Focuses on enterprise integration with SAP's global customer base and tech stack. Equity-fre...

SAP Startup Studio (Sparx) Whitefield (SAP Labs)

Corporate accelerator at the SAP Labs campus in Whitefield housing a ~75-seat incubator that nurtures early/disruptive-stage enterprise-SaaS startups for periods up to a year. Complements the equity-free SAP.iO Foundry with deeper on-cam...

Microsoft's global startup program with strong Bengaluru activity, providing Azure cloud credits, go-to-market support, technology access and community space. Connects founders to Microsoft's enterprise customer and partner ecosystem. A ...

Google's equity-free accelerator for growth-stage Indian startups, with heavy participation from Bengaluru founders. Offers technical mentorship, cloud credits, AI/ML support and access to Google's product and partner networks. Cohorts i...

NASSCOM 10,000 Startups Bengaluru (+ national)

Flagship NASSCOM initiative supporting Indian tech startups with mentorship, funding access and resources, backed by partners including Microsoft, Google, Kotak and Verisign. Programs span Incubate, Virtual Incubate, NIPP and Integrate. ...

Described as India's largest deep-tech innovation ecosystem, this CoE brings together startups, enterprises and government around IoT, AI, data science, AR/VR, ML and robotics. Jointly driven by MeitY and NASSCOM with a major Bengaluru h...

Brigade REAP WTC Brigade Gateway, Malleshwaram

Asia's first proptech accelerator, run by the Brigade Group, supporting real-estate and built-environment startups with mentorship, pilots and direct connections to real-estate customers and operator partners. Helps startups run live pil...

University & research 6

IIIT-B Innovation Centre Electronics City

Technology incubator at IIIT Bangalore focused on frontier tech including AI, AR and bots, run via its IMACX initiative. Provides mentorship, infrastructure and seed support to deep-tech founders, often emerging from the institute's rese...

DERBI Foundation Kumaraswamy Layout (Dayananda Sagar)

Technology Business Incubator hosted by Dayananda Sagar Institutions with a strong healthtech focus. Runs staged programs — PACE (pre-incubation), Gallop (incubation) and Emerge (acceleration) — for early, mid and late-stage startups. On...

PESU Venture Labs PES University, Banashankari

Deep-tech-focused micro-fund and venture builder set up in 2021 as a partnership between PES University and CoCreate Ventures, operating at the pre-prototype/pre-ideation stage. Offers up to ~$200K per startup plus team, mentoring and in...

ARTPARK @ IISc IISc Campus, Malleshwaram

AI & Robotics Technology Park at IISc that incubates and invests in deep-tech startups bridging lab research to real-world products. Its Venture Incubation Program provides direct investment and venture-building support for AI and roboti...

Wadhwani-IISc Innovation Centre / InQubate IISc Campus, Malleshwaram

Deep-tech innovation centre launched in 2026 by IISc with the Wadhwani Foundation to accelerate commercialisation of quantum and deep-tech research. Operates InQubate, a startup acceleration platform offering mentorship, infrastructure a...

NID Bengaluru Incubation (NDBI) Yelahanka (NID Campus)

Design-led incubation initiative associated with the National Institute of Design's Bengaluru campus, supporting design-driven and creative enterprises. Government-supported with wide mentorship access. Fills the design-entrepreneurship ...

Government & public 6

CySecK IISc Campus, Malleshwaram

Karnataka government's K-Tech Centre of Excellence in cybersecurity, formed in 2017 and housed on the IISc campus. Supports cybersecurity startups, skilling and research, connecting industry, academia and government. Karnataka's flagship...

K-Tech CoE Bengaluru

Karnataka's K-Tech Centre of Excellence for Data Science & AI, run in partnership with NASSCOM, with a stated vision to make Karnataka a global top-3 destination for DS&AI. Supports AI startups with infrastructure, talent and corporate c...

Karnataka K-Tech Centre of Excellence providing state-of-the-art facilities to boost the AVGC (animation, visual effects, gaming and comics) sector in Bengaluru and the state. Offers technology infrastructure, skilling and startup suppor...

Karnataka K-Tech Centre of Excellence in Aerospace and Defence, established by the Dept of IT/BT with Dassault Systèmes and VTU. Focuses on skilling and producing industry-ready manpower for the aerospace & defence sector, with startup a...

Umbrella innovation-hub framework under Karnataka's Dept of IT/BT/S&T that coordinates the state's 21 Centres of Excellence (14 live, more in progress), incubators and startup schemes. Acts as the state-level connective tissue for emergi...

CATS Bengaluru

New Karnataka government centre approved in January 2026 (with a ~$2.4M investment) in partnership with NASSCOM, focused on AI, robotics, automation and digital transformation. Aims to give startups and industry applied-AI capability and...

Coworking spaces in Bengaluru

Where founders and early teams set up.

IndiQube Outer Ring Road / citywide

Bengaluru-headquartered managed-office and coworking brand offering design-led, tech-enabled workspaces from dedicated desks to large managed offices. Operates 40+ locations in Bengaluru alone and is present across 6 Indian cities. Popul...

Smartworks Whitefield / ORR

India's leading Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) provider, delivering configured, tech-enabled managed offices at scale. Targets growth-stage startups and enterprises needing large fully-managed floors rather than hot desks. Operates multip...

GoodWorks Cowork Bellandur / citywide

Bengaluru-grown coworking operator running since 2017, now with 8,000+ seats across key commercial localities. Serves a mix of Fortune 500 teams, SMEs and startups, and offers free trials before booking. Known as a de-facto standard opti...

315Work Avenue Koramangala / HSR / CBD

Fast-growing coworking brand managing 2M+ sq ft with centres in CBD, HSR Layout, Koramangala, Outer Ring Road and Indiranagar. The HSR and Koramangala locations are especially popular with startups and creative teams. An eChai-relevant v...

Aggregator-style flexible workspace platform offering the widest spread of coworking and day-pass options, with 160+ locations across 20 cities. Lets startups and freelancers book desks across many Bengaluru localities on flexible terms....

UrbanVault HSR Layout / Koramangala

Bengaluru-born managed-office brand specialising in custom-built offices with modern interiors, also present in Pune and Gurgaon. Strong cluster in HSR Layout (Sector 6) and the southeast startup belt. An eChai-relevant venue that regula...

Bengaluru node of the global Draper Startup House network (founded under the Draper Venture umbrella) blending coworking with co-living for travelling founders, digital nomads and remote workers. Located in the heart of Koramangala near ...

WorkEZ Devarabisanahalli (ORR)

Coworking and managed-office operator with a flagship 7-floor, 125,000 sq ft, 3,300-seat centre on Outer Ring Road at Devarabisanahalli. Offers custom-built offices and flexible leases for startups and enterprises. Also operates in Chenn...

Canvas Offices Koramangala / HSR

Boutique coworking brand in Bengaluru's southeast startup belt offering design-forward shared and managed offices for small startup teams. An eChai-relevant venue used for community meetups and founder events. Positioned for early-stage ...

COWRKS RMZ Ecoworld, Bellandur

Premium coworking brand (backed by RMZ Corp) with marquee centres inside RMZ EcoWorld and other Grade-A campuses on Outer Ring Road. A top choice for tech companies and mid-sized teams wanting a blend of performance and aesthetics. Stron...

Stylework citywide (aggregator)

Flexible-workspace aggregator giving startups on-demand access to a wide network of coworking centres across Bengaluru on flexible terms. Useful for teams wanting to compare and book space without long leases. Operates a marketplace plus...

Table Space ORR / Whitefield

Large managed-workspace and flex-office provider operating Grade-A campuses across Bengaluru's IT corridors, popular with GCCs and scale-up startups needing fully-managed floors. Focuses on enterprise-grade fit-outs rather than hot-deski...

Startup communities & events in Bengaluru

The wider scene eChai is part of: communities, recurring meetups and annual conferences. Jump to a type, or browse the list.

Communities 10

TiE Bangalore Citywide (Koramangala)

Bangalore chapter of the global TiE entrepreneur network. Runs mentorship, the TiE HyperGrowth Circle, masterclasses, investor connect, a legal clinic, and incubation support, plus recurring events and an annual flagship. One of the city...

World's largest pay-it-forward, volunteer-driven community of SaaS founders. The Bengaluru chapter runs Playbook Roundtables, Demo Rooms, and Socials. Parent of SaaSBoomi Annual and the AIBoomi initiative.

Launched 2025 under the SaaSBoomi umbrella as a home for AI-first founders. Runs AIBoomi ONE gatherings and the AIBoomi Caravan, and maps India's AI startup ecosystem. The 2026 annual runs under the AIBoomi brand.

The Product Folks Citywide (Koramangala)

Bangalore-born (May 2019) volunteer-driven product community, now 30,000+ members. Runs Grabchai offline meetups, Productpedia, weekly newsletters, a podcast, and a Women in Product track.

Community founded by Swati Awasthi for women and allies in product leadership and entrepreneurship. Peer learning, mentorship, and curated events; hosts The Great Product Festival in Bangalore.

GrowthX Citywide (Koramangala)

Invite-only paid club (founded 2019) of 4,000+ product, marketing, and growth leaders. Pairs an online growth program with offline monthly roundtables, mixers, and deep-dives across 11+ cities; Bangalore is a core chapter.

Hasgeek Citywide (Indiranagar)

Bangalore-based organisation helping technologists meet, collaborate, and self-organise. Runs conferences, hacknights, workshops, and geekups; parent/host of The Fifth Elephant, JSFoo, Rootconf, and Anthill Inside.

Lossfunk Citywide (Koramangala)

AI research-and-builder community founded by Paras Chopra, exploring foundational AI questions. Regularly hosts talks on AI at its Bangalore office and online, aimed at independent researchers and builders.

Surge (Peak XV) Citywide (Koramangala)

Rapid scale-up program and founder community from Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India/SEA), the Singapore-to-Bengaluru VC. Up to ~$3M seed plus a 4-month curriculum, workshops, and a 400+ founder community. Cohort-based, twice-yearly.

Antler India (community) Citywide (Koramangala)

Day-zero VC running a Bengaluru residency that has drawn 50,000+ applications. Operates a pre-formation founder community ('Before Day Zero') plus an early-stage fund, hosting cohort gatherings and co-founder matching.

Recurring meetups 12

Headstart Citywide

India's largest early-stage startup community (est. 2008). Its flagship Startup Saturday runs monthly with free networking, pitches/demos, and learning. The Bangalore chapter is among the most active and has crossed 100 editions.

Local chapter of the global ProductTank network (Mind the Product). Free, informal, volunteer-run meetup for product managers on design, development, management, UX, and metrics. Recurs roughly monthly.

One of India's largest and oldest Python user groups (13,000+ members), part of the PSF Meetup Pro network. Meets monthly in Bangalore with talks, workshops, and code sprints.

GDG Bangalore Citywide

Google Developer Group for Bangalore where developers connect, learn, and share through talks and hands-on workshops across Google and broader technologies. Hosts recurring themed meetups.

Community of Google Cloud engineers, architects, and evangelists sharing best practices; runs recurring meetups including joint Kubernetes & Cloud sessions.

Community of AWS developers, architects, and evangelists meeting to share best practices and discuss new features; one of the larger cloud-dev meetups in the city.

Microsoft's developer community program for Bengaluru running workshops on Fabric, SQL, Power BI, and AI, connecting developers with data leaders. Mix of virtual and in-person events.

Bengaluru chapter of FOSS United, enabling free/open-source software and hardware in India. Runs a recurring (roughly monthly) FOSS meetup for the local open-source community.

Rootconf (community) Citywide (Indiranagar)

Hasgeek-run community of systems/ops engineers, DevOps programmers, and SREs sharing knowledge on reliable systems, serverless, observability, and security. Year-round community plus annual conference.

AI Tinkerers Bengaluru Citywide (Koramangala)

Local chapter of the global AI Tinkerers network. Recurring meetups, talks, and builder demos for engineers, founders, and researchers working on AI agents, RAG, voice/multimodal, evals, and production AI infra.

Community for learning and practicing AI, Generative AI, LLMs, and Agents. Regularly invites tech leads to share experiences; runs deep-dive talks (some with Google Developers), code labs, and networking.

Bangalore-rooted AI Agents developer community for builders shipping real-world AI agents and autonomous workflows; recurring builder-focused meetups.

Annual conferences 10

Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS) BIEC, Tumkur Rd

Asia's premier government-backed tech summit, run by Karnataka's Dept. of Electronics, IT & BT. Held annually ~Oct–Dec; the 29th edition runs 17–19 Nov 2026 at BIEC, theme 'AI & Beyond', with 1,200+ exhibitors and 50K+ visitors.

NASSCOM's 18+ year flagship showcasing Indian products and startups (~2,000 attendees). Now evolved as 'Future Forge' with a deeptech focus on build/fund/adopt, startup-corporate collaboration, and investment. Historically held in Bengal...

SaaSBoomi Annual (AIBoomi Annual '26) Citywide (Bengaluru region)

Asia's seminal SaaS founder conference and a global benchmark; 2.5 days of tactical sharing and networking, ~1,350 attendees in 2025, run by volunteers. From 2026 the annual runs under the AIBoomi brand.

YourStory's flagship and India's largest startup-tech festival (15+ editions), bringing together founders, investors, government, and tech leaders. 2025 edition ran 10–12 Sept in Bengaluru. (Media-driven flagship; YourStory also runs Dev...

India's flagship/largest AI conference by Analytics India Magazine. The 10th edition runs 7–9 Oct 2026 at KTPO Whitefield: conference + AI Expo + AI Awards, with 5,000+ attendees and 150+ speakers across GenAI, LLMs, agents, MLOps.

Asia's largest gathering of women and allies in technology, by AnitaB.org India. GHCI 2025 (2–4 Dec) at KTPO drew 10,000+; GHCI 2027 set for 20–22 Jan 2027. Three days of networking, learning, and hackathons. Held in Bengaluru.

The Fifth Elephant (Hasgeek) Citywide (Indiranagar)

One of Asia's foremost data science and ML conferences, by Hasgeek since 2012. Now a year-round forum plus an annual July flagship on data/ML engineering, production data science, and data privacy. 2025 edition over two days in Bangalore...

JSFoo (Hasgeek) Citywide (Indiranagar)

Hasgeek's JavaScript-focused conference (editions like JSFoo:VueDay) for front-end/full-stack engineers to learn, share techniques, and network. Bengaluru-based.

droidcon India Citywide (Indiranagar)

India edition of droidcon, the largest Android developer conference series outside the USA. A forum for Android/mobile developers to network, share techniques, and announce apps; editions held in Bangalore.

Rootconf (annual conference) Citywide (Indiranagar)

Hasgeek's annual DevOps/SRE/infrastructure conference (now incorporating DevConf), bringing systems and operations engineers together on reliable systems, observability, and security.

Media & platforms 4

YourStory Citywide (Bengaluru HQ)

India's pioneering startup media platform (founder Shradha Sharma), HQ'd in Bengaluru. Covers startups, funding, and tech; runs the TechSparks and DevSparks franchises and HerStory vertical. A central touchpoint for the ecosystem.

Inc42 Citywide

India's largest startup media & intelligence platform (13,000+ stories, 10M+ monthly reach) covering the tech/startup/internet economy with news, data, reports, and events. (HQ in Delhi-NCR, not Bengaluru; India-wide coverage.)

The Ken Citywide (Bengaluru HQ)

Subscriber-only premium business/tech publication based in Bengaluru, launched 2016, known for in-depth daily analysis. Founders include Rohin Dharmakumar and Seema Singh. Influential among founders and investors.

The Morning Context Citywide (Bengaluru HQ)

Subscriber-funded investigative/analytical publication founded 2019 by Ashish Mishra (ex-The Ken), covering technology, business, and culture in depth. Bengaluru-based.

Cafes to work from in Bengaluru

Laptop-friendly cafes founders actually work from. Jump to your area, or browse the list.

Indiranagar 11

Paper & Pie Indiranagar

Solo deep work; private/confidential calls; client meetings; podcast

Purpose-built work cafe: focus pods, podcast room, conference room, workstations; bagels/pies

~8:00 AM–11:00 PM

Beanlore Coffee Roasters Indiranagar

Video calls; investor/team meetings; back-to-back calls

Own-roasted coffee; soundproof call booths, private meeting pods, conference room

Third Wave Coffee Indiranagar

Solo work; quick business meetings; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee; reliable espresso, cold brews; quiet corners

~8:00 AM–1:00 AM

Starbucks Indiranagar

Solo work; 1:1 catch-up; casual meetings

Reliable chain coffee, AC + power + wifi

~7:30 AM–11:45 PM

Yogisthaan Cafe Indiranagar

Solo deep work; calm focus sessions; meditation breaks

100% vegetarian organic menu; free yoga classes with qualifying spend

The Hole in the Wall Cafe Indiranagar

Breakfast meetings; casual catch-up; light work between meals

All-day continental breakfast — pancakes, waffles, big plates

Matteo Coffea Indiranagar

Casual catch-up; light solo work on mobile data; reading

Long-running Italian-style coffee bar; good espresso, reasonable prices

~9:00 AM–11:00 PM

Toit Indiranagar

Lively daytime work; casual team meetups (daytime), beers after

Iconic craft microbrewery — stout, hefeweizen, wood-fired pizzas

~8:30 AM–1:00 AM

Glen's Bakehouse Indiranagar

Casual catch-up; light work; informal meetings

Bakery + pizzeria — desserts, cakes, coffee; warm wooden interiors

~9:00 AM–12:30 AM

Nanav Store & Cafe Indiranagar

Quiet solo work; reading; calm 1:1s

Nostalgic balcony cafe; praised continental breakfast

~8:30 AM–9:30 PM

Mitti Cafe Indiranagar

Quiet solo work; casual catch-up; mindful breaks

Social enterprise (staffed by people with disabilities); healthy food

~11:00 AM–9:00 PM

Koramangala 11

Dialogues Cafe Koramangala

Solo deep work; long sessions; calls (conference room)

Time-based coworking model, unlimited refreshments, conference room, library, board games

long-stay friendly

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters Koramangala

Solo work; casual meetings; coffee-first focus

Top-tier single-origin coffee; indoor AC + outdoor seating

Matteo Coffea Koramangala

Solo work on a budget

Affordable specialty coffee; friendly staff

Third Wave Coffee Koramangala

Solo work; study

Specialty coffee chain; dedicated workstation corner

The Hole in the Wall Cafe Koramangala

Solo work on weekdays; all-day breakfast meetings; brainstorming

Legendary all-day breakfast — pancakes, waffles, gluten-free; markets as a 'workcafe'

all-day

Starbucks Koramangala

Reliable fallback; calls; casual meetings

Consistent chain coffee, pastries

Extended/long hours

Koramangala Social Koramangala

Daytime founder networking; casual meetings

Cocktails, pizza; 'work pass' daytime cowork program

Work pass ~11 AM–6 PM, Mon–Fri

Cafe Reset Koramangala

Quiet focused solo work

Coffee, baked goods; calm distraction-free setup

The Tea Toast Co. Koramangala

Peaceful solo work; tea-lovers

Teas, toasts, sandwiches; minimalist spacious

DYU Art Cafe Koramangala

Quiet solo reading/writing; offline focus; ambience

Restored-house art cafe, courtyard, natural light, aesthetic

154 Breakfast Club Koramangala

Early-morning work; breakfast meetings

Breakfast + specialty coffee

Opens early

HSR & South 19

Beanlore Coffee Roasters HSR Layout

Investor meetings; video calls; solo deep work

Specialty roasts; soundproof call booths, private meeting pods (hourly), conference room

~8 AM–11 PM

Dialogues Cafe JP Nagar

Solo deep work; investor meetings; team offsite

Cafe that doubles as coworking; sofas, beanbags, swing chairs, meeting rooms, board games, events

Cafe Hustle HSR Layout

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee, sandwiches, salads; bright industrial interiors + outdoor seating

10:00 AM–10:30 PM

Iris Café & Kitchen JP Nagar

Solo deep work; investor meetings; casual catch-up

Spacious garden/rooftop with plants/pond; specific noise-free areas

myHQ (work cafe / flexi space) HSR Layout

Solo deep work; team offsite; calls — guaranteed seating

Dedicated work zones, beverages included

business hours

Third Wave Coffee HSR Layout

Solo work; small meetings; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee blends, clean minimalist interiors

~7:30 AM–1:00 AM (14th Main)

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters HSR Layout

Solo work; casual catch-up; coffee-first remote work

High-quality single-origin coffee, pour-over/cold brew; cozy nooks + communal tables

typical cafe hours

The Caffeine Baar Jayanagar

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Single-origin from own Baarbara Estate (Baba Budangiri); 24-hr cold brews, bakes

Third Wave Coffee Jayanagar

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Artisanal/manual-brew specialty coffee, vegan-friendly

~8 AM–11 PM

Starbucks Jayanagar

Solo work; casual meetings; video calls

Reliable chain coffee, AC, predictable infrastructure; ~450 m from 4th Block bus station

long hours

154 Breakfast Club JP Nagar

Casual catch-up; morning solo work; small meetings

Extensive all-day breakfast; well-lit rustic décor, outdoor seating, pet-friendly

breakfast-focused (daytime)

Third Wave Coffee Basavanagudi

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee; reliable wifi+outlets

~8 AM–11 PM

Third Wave Coffee BTM Layout

Solo work; calm long sessions; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee; the most reliable BTM work cafe

typical cafe hours

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters JP Nagar

Solo work; casual catch-up

Premium specialty single-estate coffee, roastery

Beetle Cafe JP Nagar

Budget solo deep work; students; freelancers

Budget-friendly neighbourhood work cafe

Brewz Coffee BTM Layout

Solo work; calls

Cafe + coworking hybrid (bookable via myHQ)

business hours

North Star Cafe HSR Layout

Casual catch-up; breakfast meetings

Healthy/keto/vegan; breakfast; pet-friendly, sustainable; indoor+outdoor

daytime cafe hours

Cafe Azzure HSR Layout

Casual catch-up; team lunch meetings

All-day breakfast, pizzas, burgers; rooftop seating

all-day

Cafe Pascucci BTM Layout

Casual catch-up; short work sessions

Italian-style coffee

cafe hours

Central & MG Road 12

Third Wave Coffee Cunningham Road

Solo deep work; long remote days

Specialty coffee, multiple charging points; roomier than Church St branch

~8 AM–11 PM

Third Wave Coffee Church Street

Solo deep work; daily remote

Specialty Karnataka beans; right beside MG Road Metro

~8 AM–11 PM

Starbucks Church Street

Solo deep work; long sessions; casual meetings

Two-floor space, diverse seating, <1 min from metro

~8 AM–11 PM

Matteo Coffea Church Street

Casual meetings; networking; brainstorming; creative work

Old-school charm; hot chocolate, mocha shakerato; group seating

Trippy Goat Cafe Cunningham Road

Team offsite; casual meetings; daytime work

Colonial bungalow, alfresco under trees, wine bar, manual brews

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters Sadashivnagar

Solo deep work; quiet meetings

Premium single-estate specialty coffee, roastery

Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters Lavelle Road

Focused solo work ('quiet table + good coffee')

In-house roasted award-estate beans; cortados, cold brew, pour-overs

Glen's Bakehouse Lavelle Road

Casual catch-up; light work; breakfast meetings

Bakery/Continental; puffs, pastries, weekend breakfasts

Cafe Noir MG Road / UB City

Investor meetings; client lunches

French/Italian/Continental; bakery-bistro; polished UB City setting

Smoke House Deli Lavelle Road

Investor meetings; team lunches; casual catch-up

Continental/Italian/BBQ deli; brunch

Maverick & Farmer Coffee MG Road

Investor/coffee meetings; coffee appreciation

Estate-to-cup Coorg beans, expert roasting; valet parking

Hard Rock Cafe MG Road / St. Mark's

Team offsite/celebration; lively catch-up

American food, music memorabilia, bar

Whitefield & ORR 11

Paper & Pie Bellandur

Investor meetings; video calls; team huddles

Work pods, podcast/conference rooms

Paper & Pie Whitefield

Investor meetings; video calls; confidential work

Private enclosed pods + conference room + workstations

Third Wave Coffee Sarjapur Road

Solo deep work; video calls

Dedicated work section with skylight / natural light

~8 AM–11 PM

The Kind Roastery & Brew Room Bellandur

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

In-house roastery, pour-overs, strong vegan/veg/Jain menu; 'Zen table' for focus

Third Wave Coffee Whitefield

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Specialty single-origin coffee, minimalist interiors

~8 AM–11 PM

Starbucks Whitefield

Solo work; 1:1 meetings; video calls

Consistent chain reliability; predictable seating + power; two floors

Third Wave Coffee Marathahalli

Solo deep work; casual catch-up

Specialty coffee, work-oriented seating

~8 AM–11 PM

SOCIAL Sarjapur Road

Team offsite; informal meetings; casual catch-up (day)

All-day cafe + bar; 'work then unwind' format

~9 AM–1 AM

Lavonne Cafe Whitefield

Casual catch-up; light solo work; informal meetings

Renowned patisserie/desserts and bakes

Trippy Goat Cafe Bellandur

Casual catch-up; light solo work

Strong manual-brew coffee; wine taste-and-buy concept; patio

Matteo Coffea Whitefield

Solo work; casual catch-up

Long-running Bangalore coffee brand (premium Arabica)

North & West 5

Third Wave Coffee Rajajinagar

Solo deep work; daily remote work; casual meetings

Specialty coffee; built for 8+ hr sessions

~8 AM–11 PM

Third Wave Coffee Malleshwaram

Solo deep work; daily remote work; casual meetings

Specialty coffee; built for long sessions

~8 AM–11 PM

Hebbal SOCIAL Hebbal

Team offsite; casual meetings; daytime solo work

Daytime coworking + fusion food + cocktails; double-decker eco-brutalist space

all-day into night

Starbucks Yeshwanthpur

Solo work; casual meetings; video calls (find a corner)

Reliable chain coffee + work infra near Yeshwanthpur metro / Orion Mall

mall hours (~10 AM–11 PM)

Matteo Coffea Malleshwaram

Solo work; casual catch-up; reading

Specialty (top-10% arabica, SCAA standard); continental small plates

~8:00 AM–11:00 PM

Startup neighbourhoods in Bengaluru

The neighbourhoods where the city's founders cluster.

Koramangala

Biocon started here in a rented shed in 1978, and Flipkart in a rented flat in 2007. Ola and Juspay have their headquarters in Koramangala.

52 companies 11 cafes 7 investors 5 coworking

Strong in Fintech, Consumer brands

Ola ElectricSwiggyCREDDunzoNaviOla (ANI Technologies)
HSR Layout

HSR is short for Hosur Sarjapur Road Layout. Capillary Technologies, Khatabook and MFine have their offices here.

25 companies 8 cafes 3 coworking

Strong in Proptech, SaaS

BigBasketslice
Indiranagar

CRED has its corporate office in Indiranagar, Sarvam AI its registered office and Postman its Bengaluru office.

14 companies 11 cafes 6 investors

Strong in Consumer brands, Foodtech

Outer Ring Road

The Outer Ring Road's IT corridor runs from Silk Board to KR Puram. Flipkart and Swiggy have their headquarters at Embassy Tech Village on it, and Udaan is in Bellandur.

22 companies 4 cafes 1 investor 6 coworking

Strong in Ecommerce, Fintech

FlipkartGrowwMeeshoMyntraPhonePeUdaan
Whitefield

Whitefield began in the 1880s as an Anglo-Indian settlement on land granted by the Maharaja of Mysore. It is now home to International Tech Park Bangalore, where Kalaari Capital has its office.

4 companies 5 cafes 1 investor 4 coworking

Strong in AI, Biotech

Electronic City

Conceived by R. K. Baliga in the late 1970s and set up by Keonics, the state's electronics development corporation, Electronic City is home to the headquarters of Infosys and Biocon.

4 companies

Strong in Biotech, Healthtech

Infosys
JP Nagar

JP Nagar is named after Jayaprakash Narayan. Zerodha has its head office here, and SELCO India, a solar energy social enterprise, is based here too.

3 companies 5 cafes

Strong in Fintech, SaaS

Zerodha

Answers about the Bengaluru startup scene

What does the startup ecosystem in Bengaluru look like?

By Inc42's count in August 2026, 55 of India's unicorns are based in Bengaluru, more than in any other city. It runs deep in fintech, SaaS and AI, with healthtech, mobility, deeptech and consumer brands close behind. The vertical pages map who is building what.

Where do founders network in Bengaluru?

Mostly in the Koramangala, HSR Layout and Indiranagar belt, at community meetups rather than conferences. eChai runs free, open founder meetups across the city, and there is a thick layer of vertical communities (SaaS, AI, product, developer groups) listed below. The simplest first step is to show up to an upcoming event.

How do I find a co-founder in Bengaluru?

Go where founders already gather: most pairings start between people who already know each other's work. Come to a few eChai gatherings and meet people building near what you are building.

How do I join the startup community in Bengaluru?

Pick an upcoming Bengaluru gathering on eChai and register. There is no membership fee, and some gatherings take applications. eChai has brought founders together since 2009, and its gatherings put first-time founders and seasoned operators in the same conversations.

Who are the top startup founders in Bengaluru?

The city's founder lineage runs from the IT pioneers (Narayana Murthy, Azim Premji) through the Flipkart generation (the Bansals and their alumni who built PhonePe, Groww, Udaan, Navi and more) to today's AI and deeptech founders. The Startups section lists them company by company, with the founders named.

Which incubators and accelerators are in Bengaluru?

Among them C-CAMP for the life sciences, ARTPARK at IISc for AI and robotics, NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore and the Karnataka government's K-Tech centres of excellence, with a deep coworking bench around them. The full list is in the incubators and coworking sections.

Who are the active angel investors and VCs in Bengaluru?

Many of India's large funds have a Bengaluru office, among them Peak XV, Accel, Lightspeed, Blume and Elevation, alongside micro-VCs and angel networks. The VCs section lists the firms, micro-VCs and angel networks here.

How is the AI startup scene in Bengaluru?

Sarvam AI and Gnani.ai, two of the first four startups the IndiaAI Mission chose to build foundation models, are based here, alongside a deep bench of applied-AI, voice-AI and AI-agent startups. See the AI, AI agents and Generative AI vertical pages.

What are the best startup events and meetups in Bengaluru?

The events section lists what is coming up on eChai in the city. Beyond eChai, the city runs SaaSBoomi, Headstart's Startup Saturday, Hasgeek's conferences, the Bengaluru Tech Summit and many vertical meetups, all listed in the communities section.

New to Bengaluru's startup scene? Start here.

eChai runs free, open founder meetups across Bengaluru. No membership, no fee, just show up. RSVP to the next one and meet the people building the city.

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