Participated · Series B · Jan 2026

Articul8 delivers a vertically integrated enterprise AI platform purpose-built for industrial data and mission-critical operations, combining Data Perception for multimodal data intelligence, AgentMesh for multi-AI agent reasoning and orchestration, and a library of domain-specific GenAI models. Its Data Perception product connects directly to more than 25 enterprise and operational systems (including SCADA, data historians, PLM, ERP, engineering drawings, sensor feeds, and maintenance systems) to create a unified knowledge graph without requiring data movement. AgentMesh coordinates multiple AI agents at runtime to support engineering workflows, root-cause diagnosis, compliance validation, and explainable, auditable actions. The platform is deployable across public, private, sovereign, and air-gapped environments and is SOC 2 Type II certified and available through AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Databricks marketplaces. Articul8 reports production-scale model performance advantages on industrial tasks (for example, 96.9% entity-extraction accuracy versus 71% for GPT-5 and substantially higher precision/recall on single-line diagram component detection), serves customers across energy, manufacturing, semiconductors, aerospace, financial services, and telecommunications, and has accumulated more than $100 million in cumulative total contract value. Following the Series B strategic investment, the company expects an eight-figure increase in annual recurring revenue and plans to expand go-to-market efforts and continue building domain-specific models for regulated and asset-intensive industries.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2025

Founded in 2017, FinBox builds B2B credit-infrastructure rails that power digital loan origination, underwriting, fraud detection and embedded lending for financial institutions. Its modular offerings include Sentinel BRE (an AI-native lending platform), the Partnership Lending Stack (Prism), fraud-intelligence tools, and an API suite covering BankConnect, DeviceConnect and KYC. More than 130 large clients—such as HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Aditya Birla Capital, Tata Capital and Poonawalla Fincorp—use its solutions. Since inception the company has processed over $9 billion worth of loan applications and reports 100% year-on-year growth across product lines. With fresh capital, FinBox plans to accelerate product innovation, deepen its AI-driven credit-intelligence stack and expand internationally. The company was co-founded by Rajat Deshpande, Anant Deshpande, Nikhil Bhawsinka and Srijan Nagar.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2025

Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Bengaluru, FirstClub operates a curated online grocery platform carrying about 4,000 SKUs and emphasizes quality checks on fresh produce and lab-testing of certain staples. The startup has crossed 1 million orders and acquired roughly 170,000 households within a year of launch, operating at an annualized gross market value of about $50 million. Customers place more than four orders per month on average and spend roughly ₹1,200 (about $13) per order. FirstClub operates 21 stores in Bengaluru and recently launched three locations in Hyderabad, and employs about 220 people. The company is focused on expanding geographically and into additional categories including home and kitchen products, gifting, and other household essentials.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2024

UptimeAI develops the AI Expert OEx platform to provide AI-based plant monitoring and operational insights for industrial customers. Its software helps firms in the chemical, oil & gas, and utility sectors understand relationships between asset performance and process anomalies to drive operational excellence. The company has been deployed by many global industrial customers across North America, the Middle East, and India. UptimeAI reports that 90% of its revenues come from the US and Middle East and that it is currently profitable. The company plans to expand operations and accelerate development of its platform using the new funding, with a focus on its key regions. UptimeAI develops an AI-based virtual assistant called 'AI Expert' that combines artificial intelligence with subject matter knowledge, using patented self-learning workflows and system models to explain equipment interrelations and deliver prescriptive diagnosis. The software is designed to help operators improve reliability, performance, and energy efficiency with less effort. The company serves energy, chemicals, and other heavy industries and has been deployed in power generation, renewables, oil & gas, LNG, and cement. Over the past 1.5 years UptimeAI has deployed its solution for Fortune 500 companies across Asia, the Middle East, and North America. UptimeAI is led by Jagadish Gattu and Vamsi Yalamanchili and is based in San Francisco, California. The company raised $3.5M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand in the US. UptimeAI builds an AI-based predictive maintenance platform that acts as a virtual plant expert for heavy industries. The product consolidates cutting-edge AI and over 200 years of subject-matter-expert knowledge to monitor plants and provide human-like intelligence at scale. UptimeAI says its patent-pending AI and self-learning workflows enable rapid deployment and can offer up to a 10x reduction in alarms, manual effort and time to act. Founded in 2019 by Jagadish Gattu and Vamsi Yalamanchili, the company has a core team focused on power, oil and gas, chemicals and automotive sectors. It raised a $1.5 million seed round to scale core technology efforts and expand its presence in the US, Europe and the Middle East. Leadership credentials cited include Gattu's 15 years managing predictive maintenance solutions and multiple patents, and Vamsi's prior entrepreneurial exit.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

MoooFarm offers an integrated, scalable dairy management solution that connects all stakeholders across the dairy value chain to improve efficiency, yield and profits. Its app, available in vernacular languages, has been downloaded by over 1.4 million farmers and facilitates buying inputs (cattle feed and cattle) and access to veterinary services. The company plans to use new capital to scale operations across Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana and to expand its geographical footprint into Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. MoooFarm emphasizes ease of use for small and marginal dairy farmers and aims to organize a traditionally unorganized sector through technology. The platform is positioned to increase reliability of inputs and convenience of services at farmers' fingertips, per statements from the founder and investors. MoooFarm is a Gurugram-based agritech startup founded in 2019 that builds a connected-commerce mobile platform for dairy farmers. The app enables farmers to connect with qualified veterinarians, engage with a farmer community, trade cattle, access financial services, and order farm inputs. The startup says it has helped 25,000+ dairy farmers increase daily milk yield and boost income by Rs 3,000–4,000 per month. MoooFarm raised Rs 4.3 crore in a pre-seed funding round and plans to use the capital to strengthen product–market fit and hire key technology talent to launch new services. Founders state they will invest in customer initiatives and build technology moats around the platform. The company positions its product as addressing sector challenges including milk quality, climate impact, and economic and social inclusion of women dairy farmers.