Participated · Series A · Dec 2025

CoreOps.AI is an enterprise-focused software company headquartered in New Delhi that delivers a platform combining agentic intelligence, automation and data-driven insights to overhaul legacy corporate processes. Its technology is positioned as an alternative to consulting-heavy digital-transformation projects by offering a product-led approach that shortens time-to-value. Customers can deploy the platform to upgrade and integrate workflows in departments such as information technology, finance, human resources and supply-chain management. By reducing manual intervention and embedding AI throughout operational stacks, CoreOps.AI aims to boost efficiency and enable data-backed decision-making. The company was founded by Rajesh Janey, Ankur Sharma, Rajnish Gupta and Rajiv Srivastava. Proceeds from its most recent financing will fund additional product development and geographic or vertical expansion initiatives. No operating metrics such as revenue, user counts or customer numbers were disclosed in the article.

Led · Equity · Feb 2024

Samarth Life is a Gurugram-based elder care startup that provides comprehensive care services and individualized subscription plans for senior citizens. The company works with insurance companies to offer insurance benefits through a lifestyle card and charges monthly subscription fees ranging from Rs 200 to Rs 15,000. Samarth Life says it serves a community of over 35,000 people and aims to generate Rs 12 crore in revenue by the end of the year. The Rs 12 crore raised in the recent funding round will be used to support the company's expansion and growth plans. The company was founded by Asheesh Gupta, Gaurav Agarwal, Anuradha Das Mathur, and Sanjay Ahuja and is based in Gurugram. Competitors named in the article include Age Care Labs, Goodfellows, KareWise, SeniorWorld, GetSetUp, 60Plus India, ElderAid Wellness, and GenWise.

Led · Series A · Oct 2021

ClearDekho sells affordable eyewear and operates an online marketplace alongside a network of physical stores. The company targets low‑income mass‑market consumers across Tier II, III and IV Indian cities and towns. It follows an asset‑light omnichannel O2O model and has opened over 100 stores across 40 Indian cities since its 2017 founding. Management reported the business grew by almost 60% from FY21 to FY22. The company plans to use new funding to support operations and its expansion strategy in Bharat. ClearDekho emphasizes standardising a largely unorganised optical retail market and scaling organised penetration. ClearDekho operates an affordable eyewear retail brand aimed at improving accessibility of high-quality eyeglasses for low-income, mass-market consumers across Tier II/III/IV towns in India. Founded in 2017 by Shivi Singh and Saurabh Dayal, the company combines retail stores and private-label products to serve underserved smaller cities. It plans aggressive physical expansion, targeting 200 stores across Tier II/III/IV towns and presence in 100+ cities within 12 months, with a longer-term ambition to add another 1,000 retail stores via collaborations over the next three years. The company will use funding to expand stores (40%), drive marketing and on-ground customer acquisition (30%), and strengthen backend operations including automation of fittings and quality checks, hiring, training, inventory, and private-label development (20%). The article does not disclose revenue or user metrics. Management says the funding will strengthen backend operations and scale the customer experience as it standardises a fragmented optical market. ClearDekho (Cleardekho Eyewear Pvt. Ltd), founded in 2016, operates an online and retail marketplace offering budget eyewear including prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses and branded contact lenses. The company uses an asset-light franchise model and has opened 25 stores across Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan within six months of operations. It claims to be serving more than 50,000 customers. ClearDekho raised Rs 2 crore (about $300,000) in a pre-Series A investment and will deploy the funds to boost marketing, strengthen back-end operations and hire talent. The startup plans to expand its product portfolio and launch private-label brands in the budget category. Leadership includes co-founders Shivi Singh and Saurabh Dayal, who have prior experience at VisionSpring, Paytm and other firms.

Led · Equity · Oct 2021

Wiingy offers a platform combining robotics kits and one‑to‑one live classes to teach coding, hardware, and science through hands‑on projects. The company’s curriculum emphasizes experiential "learning by building" to keep students engaged while teaching science, coding, and hardware concepts. Its initial offering is robotics courses delivered via live instructors and supported by DIY kits. Wiingy says it will expand its course catalogue in the coming months to include artificial intelligence, wireless networking, coding, and physics. The startup also runs online and offline community events and a guided coding platform as part of a multi‑modal learning approach. Founder Asit Biswal, an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, intends to use funding to scale the robotics‑kits supply chain and build an early team across technology, product, teaching, and design.

Participated · Series B · Aug 2021

Founded in 2015 by Sneh Vaswani, Prashant Iyengar, and Chintan Raikar, Miko develops conversational learning robots such as Miko 3 and the smaller Miko Mini for children aged 5-12. The devices blend artificial intelligence, robotics, and IoT to deliver interactive, personalised educational experiences. Its product suite also includes Miko Chess Grand, the subscription-based content service Miko Max, and the secure family video-calling feature Mikonnect. The company claims to have a presence in more than 140 countries across the US, Europe, the Middle East, and beyond. A newly announced partnership with iHeartMedia will embed iHeart’s audio content into Miko’s ecosystem, broadening educational and entertainment options. Miko is also expanding offline distribution and recently entered Costco’s North American retail network. The latest funding round positions the company to accelerate both content partnerships and global retail expansion.