Led · Equity · Aug 2025

Aeronero provides a suite of Air Water solutions that generate clean, alkaline, drinkable water directly from the atmosphere. Its flagship systems are deployed across homes, offices, and military outposts in India and abroad. Led by CEO and Founder Dr. Durga Das, the company is scaling in-house manufacturing to produce 2,000 units per month and currently holds an order book of nearly ₹30 crore. Aeronero is targeting a ₹100 crore topline and plans to use the new funding to expand operations and development efforts. The company is based in Chennai, India.

Led · Series A · Nov 2024

IKIN Global develops smart locks and logistics-security hardware and software that deliver real-time tamper detection, geo-fencing and audit trails to mitigate cargo theft and improve visibility. The company reports deployments grew from 2,500 to 10,000 trucks in the past year and more than 5 million successful lock and unlock cycles. IKIN counts customers such as Amazon, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zepto, Blue Dart, Licious, Sequel Logistics, Nesto and Syngenta, and has completed pilot projects in the US, the UAE and the UK. The company raised $2 million in a pre-Series A2 round and said proceeds will fund international expansion (US, Europe, West Asia), product development, scaling manufacturing in India and strengthening field operations. IKIN plans to pursue market-specific certifications and expand into additional sectors including cold chain, oil and gas, defence logistics, ocean freight and cash management. CEO and co-founder Nibu Alias is quoted on the company’s mission to reduce pilferage and cargo losses.

Led · Series A · Apr 2024

RUNO is a mobile SIM-based outbound call management Customer Relationship Management startup. Its platform offers a user-friendly interface with highly customisable features and can integrate with other CRMs to centralise lead management and optimise outbound sales operations. The company reports over 800 clients. RUNO said it will use fresh funds to hire a senior management team in product and development. Management plans to use the investment to expand into the MENA region, the United States, and Canada and to develop AI-driven CRM solutions. RUNO also intends to develop products targeted at MSMEs and cited market research to contextualise the CRM market opportunity. Runo offers a full-function CRM suite delivered via a mobile app, with modules for Call Management, sales CRM, collection CRM and POS CRM that can be customized by industry. The product centralizes business calls, emails and meetings so interactions and prospects can be tracked to closure with real-time management reporting. The app emphasizes an easy-to-use interface, remote/team tracking and features aimed at telesales, telecalling and call centers. Founded in 2018 by Rajsekhar Pattnaik and P.V. Vamsi and based in Secunderabad, Runo serves more than 300 paid clients, predominantly SMEs across automobiles, edutech, health‑tech, real estate and financial services. In the last 12 months the company recorded a monthly run rate of Rs 25 lakhs and says it is expected to hit $2 million in ARR by April 2022. The company plans to use new funds to execute its product roadmap and expand into the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the US in a phased manner.

Led · Seed · Nov 2023

Founded in 2021 by Ram and Lakshman Pasala, Neverinstall decouples the operating system from hardware, allowing enterprises to access secure, high-performance virtual desktops and applications through browsers, thin clients, mobile apps, or native desktop clients. Its proprietary CloudLink architecture is protocol-agnostic and supports GPU virtualisation, VDI workloads, application streaming, and BYOD scenarios, making it attractive for distributed teams. Current customers such as Tally, Porter, Alliance Broadband and Primebook already use the platform to support thousands of employees. The company reports threefold growth in FY26 and is building an expanding enterprise pipeline for FY27. Near-term product plans include a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform that enables a “Bring Your Own Infrastructure” model on commodity hardware and an enterprise secure browser with an embedded eBPF-based security layer for regulated sectors like BFSI and healthcare. With a total addressable market of $21–23 billion across VDI, DaaS and GPU virtualisation, Neverinstall aims to evolve into a full-stack workspace orchestration platform. To drive this expansion, the company recently appointed long-time enterprise software executive Ramesh Gopal Krishna as Chief Revenue Officer.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

Produx AI is a product intelligence platform that enables B2B product teams to make revenue-driven decisions by extracting AI-driven insights from prospect and customer feedback. It connects to companies' sources of customer feedback and generates insights tailored for product managers, and is built to plug tightly into B2B product managers' workflows. The founders, Tony Tom and Jerin A Mathews, are former product managers who worked at Insent.ai and scaled products there; Insent.ai was acquired by ZoomInfo. The core team includes two engineers, Gokul G and Lakshmi K N, and a designer, Sanjay Suresh. The company plans to expand in Kerala and beyond and was recently selected to the Techstars Seattle accelerator. Produx AI secured Rs 3.2 crore in pre-seed funding from Callapina Capital, Arjun Pillai, 1.0 Ventures and Nurture Ventures.