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Upcoming eChai events in Bengaluru
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eChai Startup Demo Day in Bengaluru
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Bengaluru Startup Meetup
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Sun, 26 Jul · tomorrow
eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
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People in the Bengaluru eChai community
Some of the founders who've been to eChai meetups in Bengaluru over the years. Always more to add.
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Startups building in Bengaluru
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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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kabeer Biswas, Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Mukund Jha
Began 2014 as a WhatsApp-based concierge in Bengaluru, became a hyperlocal delivery app with Reliance backing. A beloved local brand whose later troubles became a quick-commerce cautionary tale.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Nityanand Sharma & Chaitra Chidanand
Founded 2015; a buy-now-pay-later checkout product for Indian e-commerce, consolidating purchases into one bill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Nirmit Parikh
Founded 2019. Jobs and professional-networking platform for India's blue/grey-collar workforce. Unicorn valued ~$1.1B.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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.)
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)...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Vijay Arisetty, Abhishek Kumar, Shreyans Daga
Founded 2016. Gated-community / society-management and visitor-security app with embedded payments and services. Soonicorn proptech.
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...
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...
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.
Abhishek Bansal, Vaibhav Khandelwal, Gaurav Jaithliya, Praharsh Chandra
Founded 2015. Crowdsourced last-mile and hyperlocal logistics network (Flipkart-backed). Soonicorn; raised ~$247M; IPO-bound.
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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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%+ ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 (...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
(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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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 (...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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....
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amit Sharma
Founded 2020. AI-powered customer-service / helpdesk SaaS for ecommerce brands (2,000+ brands). Sequoia/Peak XV-backed.
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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; ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Bengaluru-based startup that raised ~$1.6M in a pre-seed round (2025/26). Early-stage venture flagged in recent BLR funding roundups.
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.
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,...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vinod Senthil (et al.)
Founded 2012. Crowdsourced security / bug-bounty and vulnerability-coordination platform connecting vetted researchers with enterprises and SaaS companies. Bengaluru-HQ.
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.
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.
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-...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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 6
Often a founder's first cheque, from operators who've built here.
Bengaluru-based founder of CRED (and earlier FreeCharge) and India's most prolific operator-angel, on the cap table of ~299 companies. Writes small (~$100K) early cheques. Notable bets: Razorpay, Unacademy, Spinny, Shiprocket.
Bengaluru-based founder/CEO of Zerodha; angel investor across consumer and fintech. Backed Licious and Ultrahuman; also invests via Zerodha's Rainmatter (climate, fintech, health) initiative.
Bengaluru-based co-founder of unicorn Livspace and a top operator-angel with 50–60+ investments. Notable bets: slice (fintech unicorn), CoinSwitch Kuber, Airmeet, Captain Fresh, Convin.
Bengaluru-based co-founder/CEO of Groww; finance-operator angel investing in healthcare, wellness and fintech-adjacent startups. Brings consumer-fintech scaling experience to early-stage founders.
Bengaluru-based co-founder/CEO of Swiggy; angel investor across consumer-internet and food/commerce-adjacent startups, leveraging deep marketplace and logistics operating experience.
Bengaluru-based co-founder of B2B unicorn Udaan; operator-turned-investor with expertise scaling tech-led commerce and supply-chain businesses. Backs product/ops/consumer-internet founders early.
Angel networks 6
Syndicates that pool angel money into early rounds.
Bengaluru-founded (2013, Shanti Mohan + Sanjay Jha) full-stack angel-investing marketplace that industrialised Indian angel investing; 900+ portfolio startups, 13,000+ investors. Rebranded to LVX (private-market investing for 'India@2047').
Asia's largest angel network, 500+ investors across 10+ countries, with an active Bengaluru chapter; invests in early-stage businesses and runs the IAN Fund alongside the network. One of India's oldest angel groups (est. 2006).
Founded 2018, one of India's largest angel networks (7,000+ members, ~290+ investments) with strong Bengaluru activity. Founder-friendly, investor-focused; backs early-stage startups across sectors.
Integrated incubator + angel network providing ~$500K–$2M plus 18–24 months of incubation support; pan-India with active Bengaluru deal flow. Sister accelerator-fund 9Unicorns extends the seed pipeline.
Early-stage angel/investor network funding startups (~INR 3–3.5 Cr typical), with 10+ exits and 25+ ventures securing follow-on rounds. Runs structured deal syndication across Indian metros including Bengaluru.
Investor network investing in early-stage startups across sectors and geographies, syndicating angel cheques into seed rounds. Active in the broader Bengaluru early-stage funding pipeline.
Micro-VCs 10
Small, fast funds writing the first institutional cheques.
Early-stage micro-VC structured as a founder network ('going all in on founders who go all in'), led by Anirudh Damani and Kushal Bhagia. Writes first cheques into pre-seed/seed founders across sectors.
India's largest pre-seed fund, solo-GP-led by 3x founder Vaibhav Domkundwar; ~$100M AUM, 200+ companies, 2 unicorns, median cheque $250K–$500K. Notable bets: Slice, M2P, Open, Probo, Vegrow.
Bengaluru B2B-SaaS micro-VC launched by Siddhartha Ahluwalia and Nansi Mishra (hosts of the Neon Show / 100x Entrepreneur podcast). Backs early B2B SaaS aiming for $10M ARR within five years; now on a later fund.
Seed-stage fund (founded 2021) backing global B2B SaaS startups built from India. Concentrated, high-conviction portfolio with hands-on post-investment support. (HQ Chennai; deeply active in the Bengaluru SaaS scene.)
India seed-stage micro-VC (Fund I) investing in fintech, AI and internet startups; among the operator-led first-cheque funds backing deep tech and defence with patient specialised capital.
Bengaluru operator-VC founded 2020 by Vasant Rao, Avijeet Alagathi, Venus Dhuria and Ashis Nayak; first close of ~INR 250 Cr fund (Aug 2023) from family offices/CXOs. Focus: enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, deeptech, creator economy.
India's dedicated pre-seed fund ('Cheque Zero'), backing founders at idea stage, sometimes pre-incorporation; typically $500K–$1M first institutional rounds. Publishes the annual India Pre-seed Landscape report.
Operator-angel-led micro-VC founded 2016 backing founders across categories; ~107 companies with 3 unicorns. Notable bets: CRED, BigBasket. (Mumbai-rooted but a core part of the BLR first-cheque network.)
Early-stage accelerator-VC (co-founded by serial entrepreneur Anil G. Jain, 90+ angel investments) writing high-volume first cheques into very-early startups across sectors, paired with an accelerator-style support program.
Early-stage VC (operations in Mumbai, Bangalore and Washington DC) investing in innovative products and technology companies in India. Part of the operator-led micro-VC wave writing early cheques.
Venture capital firms 12
Multi-stage firms that lead Series A and beyond.
Bengaluru-based early-stage VC founded 2006; rebranded from Matrix Partners India to Z47 in 2024 (the '47' nods to India@2047). ~$3.5B AUM with 10 unicorns; Fund IV closed ~$550M. Notable BLR bets: Razorpay and Ola.
Bengaluru consumer-brands VC founded 2017 by Kanwaljit Singh, investing seed to Series A in early-stage D2C/consumer companies. Builds an in-house brand-support network. Notable BLR bet: boAt; also Mamaearth, Yogabar.
Bengaluru early-stage VC (Rahul Chandra, Bala Srinivasa) backing 'Middle India' startups across fintech, SaaS, AI, manufacturing and aerospace. Series A focused. Notable BLR-region bet: Jai Kisan, KreditBee.
Bengaluru early-stage VC investing Seed and Series A across consumer, enterprise and deep tech. Rebranded from Inventus Capital Partners India. Notable BLR bet: Poshmark (early), redBus-era network; recent deep-tech and SaaS bets.
Bengaluru growth-stage VC partnering with B2B and SaaS companies to scale; operator-heavy 'scale partner' model. Founded by Mohan Kumar and Nishant Rao. Backs late-Series-B+ enterprise software.
Bengaluru arm of global day-zero VC Antler, founded 2018; GPs Rajiv Srivatsa and Nitin Sharma run a residency that co-creates companies then funds them. First India fund ~$75M; ~30 startups backed in 2024 across AI, fintech, deeptech, cl...
Deeptech-first VC (also Chennai) backing science/engineering-first founders at seed; ~$1M sweet spot with half the fund reserved for follow-on. Space, energy, robotics, semiconductors. Notable bet: Agnikul Cosmos, GalaxEye.
Bengaluru deeptech/AI VC (Manish Singhal, Umakant Soni) making early-stage bets on applied-AI and frontier-tech companies. One of India's earliest dedicated AI funds. Notable bet: Niramai, SigTuple, Locus.
Product-centric early-stage VC (also Hyderabad) co-founding IP-led startups in SaaS, semiconductors and digital health; avoids ops-heavy models. Notable bet: Darwinbox, SigTuple, Steradian (acquired by Renesas).
Global early-stage VC with a Bangalore office; ~217 portfolio companies and an active India cadence. Backs technology founders from seed/Series A. Notable BLR bet: CRED; globally Datadog, Delivery Hero.
India arm of US firm BVP, active 15+ years with 65+ India investments from seed to Series A across consumer, enterprise, healthcare, SaaS, e-commerce. Notable BLR bet: BigBasket, Urban Company, Swiggy (later rounds).
Bengaluru thesis-driven early-stage VC founded 2019, focused on consumer-tech / Indian-consumption brands very early in their journey. ~52 companies as of 2026. Distribution-and-brand-savvy consumer specialists.
Corporate venture 1
Corporate venture arms investing off their own balance sheet.
Corporate VC arm of Bengaluru-HQ'd Wipro, making strategic investments in early/growth enterprise-tech and cybersecurity startups that align with Wipro's business; provides go-to-market access to portfolio companies.
Family offices 2
Private capital investing across stages.
Bengaluru family office/investment arm of Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy, founded 2010. Multi-asset (JVs, PE, public equity, growth VC) with active mentorship. Notable bets: Udaan, Acko, VerSe (Dailyhunt/Josh), SEDEMAC, Aequs.
Bengaluru private-investment arm of Wipro founder Azim Premji's family (est. 2006); large, long-horizon investor across growth and late stage. Notable bets: Swiggy, Lenskart, FirstCry, Udaan, Zomato.
Accelerator funds 3
Programs that invest as they take you through a cohort.
Peak XV's apex Indian accelerator; up to $3M seed plus a 16-week founder/operator-led program. Backed by a ~$600M fund (2026). ~200 companies, 2 unicorns. Notable BLR bets: Cult.fit, InVideo, Seekho.
Bengaluru hybrid seed fund + accelerator founded by Infosys co-founders Kris Gopalakrishnan and S. D. Shibulal; cheques ~$500K–$1.5M, 80+ companies, 75%+ follow-on rate. Consumer internet, SaaS, healthtech, AI, fintech.
Accelerator-fund arm of the Venture Catalysts ecosystem providing seed cheques plus a structured cohort program; high-volume early-stage deployment with strong Bengaluru deal flow alongside the VCats angel network.
Incubators & accelerators in Bengaluru
Incubators, accelerators, corporate programs and institutions. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Incubators 5
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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'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 ...
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'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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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...
Hasgeek's JavaScript-focused conference (editions like JSFoo:VueDay) for front-end/full-stack engineers to learn, share techniques, and network. Bengaluru-based.
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.
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
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.
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.)
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.
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
Solo deep work; private/confidential calls; client meetings; podcast
Purpose-built work cafe: focus pods, podcast room, conference room, workstations; bagels/pies
Video calls; investor/team meetings; back-to-back calls
Own-roasted coffee; soundproof call booths, private meeting pods, conference room
Solo work; quick business meetings; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee; reliable espresso, cold brews; quiet corners
Solo work; 1:1 catch-up; casual meetings
Reliable chain coffee, AC + power + wifi
Solo deep work; calm focus sessions; meditation breaks
100% vegetarian organic menu; free yoga classes with qualifying spend
Breakfast meetings; casual catch-up; light work between meals
All-day continental breakfast — pancakes, waffles, big plates
Casual catch-up; light solo work on mobile data; reading
Long-running Italian-style coffee bar; good espresso, reasonable prices
Lively daytime work; casual team meetups (daytime), beers after
Iconic craft microbrewery — stout, hefeweizen, wood-fired pizzas
Casual catch-up; light work; informal meetings
Bakery + pizzeria — desserts, cakes, coffee; warm wooden interiors
Quiet solo work; reading; calm 1:1s
Nostalgic balcony cafe; praised continental breakfast
Koramangala 11
Solo deep work; long sessions; calls (conference room)
Time-based coworking model, unlimited refreshments, conference room, library, board games
Solo work; casual meetings; coffee-first focus
Top-tier single-origin coffee; indoor AC + outdoor seating
Solo work on a budget
Affordable specialty coffee; friendly staff
Solo work; study
Specialty coffee chain; dedicated workstation corner
Solo work on weekdays; all-day breakfast meetings; brainstorming
Legendary all-day breakfast — pancakes, waffles, gluten-free; markets as a 'workcafe'
Reliable fallback; calls; casual meetings
Consistent chain coffee, pastries
Daytime founder networking; casual meetings
Cocktails, pizza; 'work pass' daytime cowork program
Quiet focused solo work
Coffee, baked goods; calm distraction-free setup
Peaceful solo work; tea-lovers
Teas, toasts, sandwiches; minimalist spacious
Quiet solo reading/writing; offline focus; ambience
Restored-house art cafe, courtyard, natural light, aesthetic
HSR & South 19
Investor meetings; video calls; solo deep work
Specialty roasts; soundproof call booths, private meeting pods (hourly), conference room
Solo deep work; investor meetings; team offsite
Cafe that doubles as coworking; sofas, beanbags, swing chairs, meeting rooms, board games, events
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee, sandwiches, salads; bright industrial interiors + outdoor seating
Solo deep work; investor meetings; casual catch-up
Spacious garden/rooftop with plants/pond; specific noise-free areas
Solo deep work; team offsite; calls — guaranteed seating
Dedicated work zones, beverages included
Solo work; small meetings; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee blends, clean minimalist interiors
Solo work; casual catch-up; coffee-first remote work
High-quality single-origin coffee, pour-over/cold brew; cozy nooks + communal tables
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Single-origin from own Baarbara Estate (Baba Budangiri); 24-hr cold brews, bakes
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Artisanal/manual-brew specialty coffee, vegan-friendly
Solo work; casual meetings; video calls
Reliable chain coffee, AC, predictable infrastructure; ~450 m from 4th Block bus station
Casual catch-up; morning solo work; small meetings
Extensive all-day breakfast; well-lit rustic décor, outdoor seating, pet-friendly
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee; reliable wifi+outlets
Solo work; calm long sessions; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee; the most reliable BTM work cafe
Solo work; casual catch-up
Premium specialty single-estate coffee, roastery
Budget solo deep work; students; freelancers
Budget-friendly neighbourhood work cafe
Solo work; calls
Cafe + coworking hybrid (bookable via myHQ)
Casual catch-up; breakfast meetings
Healthy/keto/vegan; breakfast; pet-friendly, sustainable; indoor+outdoor
Casual catch-up; team lunch meetings
All-day breakfast, pizzas, burgers; rooftop seating
Central & MG Road 12
Solo deep work; long remote days
Specialty coffee, multiple charging points; roomier than Church St branch
Solo deep work; daily remote
Specialty Karnataka beans; right beside MG Road Metro
Solo deep work; long sessions; casual meetings
Two-floor space, diverse seating, <1 min from metro
Casual meetings; networking; brainstorming; creative work
Old-school charm; hot chocolate, mocha shakerato; group seating
Team offsite; casual meetings; daytime work
Colonial bungalow, alfresco under trees, wine bar, manual brews
Solo deep work; quiet meetings
Premium single-estate specialty coffee, roastery
Focused solo work ('quiet table + good coffee')
In-house roasted award-estate beans; cortados, cold brew, pour-overs
Casual catch-up; light work; breakfast meetings
Bakery/Continental; puffs, pastries, weekend breakfasts
Investor meetings; client lunches
French/Italian/Continental; bakery-bistro; polished UB City setting
Investor meetings; team lunches; casual catch-up
Continental/Italian/BBQ deli; brunch
Investor/coffee meetings; coffee appreciation
Estate-to-cup Coorg beans, expert roasting; valet parking
Whitefield & ORR 11
Investor meetings; video calls; team huddles
Work pods, podcast/conference rooms
Investor meetings; video calls; confidential work
Private enclosed pods + conference room + workstations
Solo deep work; video calls
Dedicated work section with skylight / natural light
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
In-house roastery, pour-overs, strong vegan/veg/Jain menu; 'Zen table' for focus
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Specialty single-origin coffee, minimalist interiors
Solo work; 1:1 meetings; video calls
Consistent chain reliability; predictable seating + power; two floors
Solo deep work; casual catch-up
Specialty coffee, work-oriented seating
Team offsite; informal meetings; casual catch-up (day)
All-day cafe + bar; 'work then unwind' format
Casual catch-up; light solo work; informal meetings
Renowned patisserie/desserts and bakes
Casual catch-up; light solo work
Strong manual-brew coffee; wine taste-and-buy concept; patio
North & West 5
Solo deep work; daily remote work; casual meetings
Specialty coffee; built for 8+ hr sessions
Solo deep work; daily remote work; casual meetings
Specialty coffee; built for long sessions
Team offsite; casual meetings; daytime solo work
Daytime coworking + fusion food + cocktails; double-decker eco-brutalist space
Solo work; casual meetings; video calls (find a corner)
Reliable chain coffee + work infra near Yeshwanthpur metro / Orion Mall
Startup neighbourhoods in Bengaluru
The neighbourhoods where the city's founders cluster.
The original startup high street. Flipkart sold its first books from an apartment here; Swiggy, Ola, Navi and Razorpay all grew up nearby.
52 companies 11 cafes 14 investors 5 coworking
Strong in Fintech, Consumer brands
The founder-dense residential grid that became a startup quarter. eChai's HSR meetups sit in the middle of it.
25 companies 8 cafes 3 coworking
Strong in Proptech, SaaS
Wealthtech and consumer brands cluster here, alongside the cafes where half the city's first meetings happen.
14 companies 11 cafes 7 investors
Strong in Consumer brands, Foodtech
The corporate-tech spine: Bellandur and the ORR parks house the larger scale-ups and global offices.
22 companies 4 cafes 1 investor 6 coworking
Strong in Ecommerce, Fintech
The eastern tech hub, strong on deeptech, hardware and enterprise R&D.
4 companies 5 cafes 2 investors 4 coworking
Strong in AI, Biotech
Where it started: Infosys and Wipro built here, and EV and deeptech makers now share the address.
4 companies
Strong in Biotech, Healthtech
South Bengaluru's quieter founder pocket, home to Zerodha and a band of bootstrapped, profit-first companies.
3 companies 5 cafes 1 investor
Strong in Fintech, SaaS
Answers about the Bengaluru startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Bengaluru look like?
It is India's largest and most mature startup ecosystem: 16,000+ startups, the biggest share of national VC funding, and most of the country's unicorns. It runs deep in fintech, SaaS and AI, with strong healthtech, biotech, mobility, deeptech and consumer clusters. The Founder Circuit and vertical pages above 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. Day-zero programs like Antler and Surge run co-founder matching, but most pairings start informally at meetups. Come to a few eChai events, meet people building adjacent things, and the conversations tend to find their own way to co-founder fit.
How do I join the startup community in Bengaluru?
eChai is free and open: pick an upcoming Bengaluru event above, RSVP, and walk in. There is no application or membership fee. The community has brought founders together since 2009, and the meetups are built so first-time founders and seasoned operators end up 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 Founder Circuit above lists them company by company, filterable by vertical.
Which incubators and accelerators are in Bengaluru?
Bengaluru has one of India's densest support layers: C-CAMP and ARTPARK for deeptech and bio, NSRCEL at IIM Bangalore, K-Tech's centres of excellence, corporate programs like Airbus BizLab and Brigade REAP, plus a deep coworking bench. The full list is in the coworking and incubators section below.
Who are the active angel investors and VCs in Bengaluru?
The city hosts most of India's major funds (Peak XV, Accel, Lightspeed, Blume, Elevation and many more) alongside active micro-VCs and angel networks, and operator-angels like Kunal Shah and Nithin Kamath. The investors section below lists firms, micro-VCs and angel networks based here.
How is the AI startup scene in Bengaluru?
It is among the strongest in the world right now. Three of the four IndiaAI Mission foundational-model winners are based here, and there is a deep bench of applied-AI, voice-AI and AI-agent startups. See the AI, AI agents and Generative AI vertical pages, and the AI x SaaS meetups in the events section.
What are the best startup events and meetups in Bengaluru?
The upcoming events block above is live: filter it for this weekend, free, or AI. 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.
Which are the fastest growing startups in Bengaluru?
The clearest signal is the soonicorn pipeline: companies one round from unicorn status across fintech, AI, consumer and logistics. Filter the Founder Circuit by stage to see them, or browse a specific vertical to find the names rising in that category.
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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