Led · Equity · Mar 2026

OpenCFO is an AI fintech startup developing a financial operating system that links banking systems, ERP tools, and global payment infrastructure into a single execution layer. Within the platform, autonomous AI agents manage financial workflows while preserving approvals, compliance controls, and audit trails, allowing finance teams to move away from fragmented spreadsheets and bank portals. Early pilot deployments show the software can automate multi-day invoice-processing tasks and cut cross-border transaction costs by more than 50 %, delivering near-instant settlement and reconciliation across currencies and entities. The company targets mid-market businesses that operate internationally and need integrated liquidity, FX, and payments management. With the new funding, OpenCFO will expand engineering teams in the United States and India, enhance its automation agents, and scale go-to-market in the US, India, the UK, the EU, and Canada. Co-founders Prudhvi Rao Shedimbi and Sankalp Singayapally plan to launch the full version of the platform by mid-2026. To date, the startup’s only external capital is the recently announced $2 million round, and no revenue figures have been disclosed.

Led · Series B · Mar 2026

AquaExchange builds hardware-enabled and software-driven products for shrimp and fish farmers, including PowerMon for power management and AquaBot for automated feed dispensing. Its platform monitors more than 80,000 acres of aquaculture ponds worldwide and is already automating over 25% of India’s shrimp-farming acreage. Beyond farm automation, the company connects growers to formal crop loans and working-capital facilities. AquaExchange operates across five Indian states and in international markets such as Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Madagascar. For FY25, operating revenue grew 2.3× year-over-year to ₹240.51 crore, while losses widened to ₹12.71 crore; management expects to reach EBITDA profitability within the current fiscal year. Founders are Pavan Kosaraju, Hemasundar Dhavili, Kareem Mohammod and Kiran Bandi.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Founded in 2024 by Dr. Vivek Vishwakarma and Dr. Sainyam Galhotra, ThirdAI Automation builds an agentic industrial AI framework that ingests sensor data, equipment logs, service records, and technical documentation from semiconductor fabs to surface causal insights and accelerate root-cause analysis. The San Francisco–headquartered startup positions its platform as a turnkey solution for optimizing yield and reducing downtime in highly complex manufacturing settings. Its architecture emphasizes knowledge mining and automated troubleshooting, enabling engineers to isolate defects faster than with traditional analytics tools. Proceeds from its recent financing will be used to deepen product R&D, expand the engineering team, and scale go-to-market efforts globally. The company also plans to broaden deployments beyond semiconductors to adjacent industrial verticals. ThirdAI Automation operates with teams in both the United States and India and has raised $3 million to date.

Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

Nivaan Care offers a specialized healthcare platform that combines interventional pain management, physiotherapy, and coordinated patient support to create a standardized care pathway for chronic pain sufferers. The company differentiates itself from generalist settings through a clinician-centric, outcomes-measured approach intended to deliver consistent improvements for patients. By centralizing diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up, Nivaan aims to address the fragmented access that affects an estimated 270 million Indians living with chronic pain. Investor commentary highlights the team’s clinical depth and its ability to scale specialty care without sacrificing quality. With fresh capital, the company plans to accelerate national expansion, open additional locations, and deepen its platform capabilities to make specialist pain care more accessible and repeatable. Although specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the sizable market opportunity and operational focus have attracted multiple healthcare-focused investors.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Bengaluru-based Maieutic Semiconductor is building a generative AI copilot that integrates with established electronic design automation (EDA) tools to streamline the traditionally manual task of analog and mixed-signal chip creation. Trained on publicly available patents and research papers, the assistant can parse specifications, circuit diagrams and simulation outputs, answer engineers’ questions in natural language, and suggest alternative circuit architectures while flagging design inconsistencies. The company says the software can shorten portions of the analog design cycle by 50-66 percent, speeding time-to-market for chipmakers. Early customer trials are scheduled to begin by March, with a wider commercial launch to follow, initially targeting global chipmakers with design centres in India and Japanese semiconductor firms. Users will be able to run the tool locally to protect sensitive design data. Maieutic recently raised $6 million in seed funding, providing capital to support product refinement, hiring and go-to-market execution.