Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

Hippo Innovations develops e-commerce software products, notably StoreHippo and Mystore, to provide scalability, flexibility, and reliability for online businesses. Founded in 2015, the company serves a portfolio of over 13,000 registered sellers, including Amul, Hero, Aditya Birla Group, Godrej Appliances Croma, and 5,000+ FPOs, artisans, and SHGs. Hippo plans to use newly raised funds to boost marketing, automate workflows with AI, and strengthen its enterprise offerings. The company is pursuing strategic partnerships with industry bodies, logistics and payment providers, and service integrators to expand its ecosystem. Hippo and its investors endorse participation in the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to democratize marketplace access. The product roadmap and commercial efforts emphasize inclusive growth for businesses of all sizes across India.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2024

Nected offers a low-code/no-code rule engine and workflow automation platform that provides ready-made components for launching dynamic workflows, experimentation, and faster iteration. The platform targets product, growth, and tech teams to reduce inefficiencies and development delays. Nected is used by over 20 customers across five countries, including online pharmacy Tata 1mg. Founded in 2022 and based in Gurugram, the company plans to enhance product usability, simplify integrations with various technologies, and scale operations. The business recently completed a $1.5 million seed raise in July 2024 to support those initiatives. The company operates as SocioVerse Tech Pvt Ltd and focuses on making workflow automation accessible without extensive engineering effort.

Participated · Seed · Feb 2024

SigScalr is a unified application observability platform purpose-built for modern microservice architectures, providing a single view for logs, metrics, and traces. The company emerged from stealth and closed a $1.76M pre-seed round to tackle cost inflation in enterprise observability. SigScalr is launching an open-source product, SigLens, a columnar database built for observability with dynamic compression and micro-indices that enable searching over compressed data without uncompressing 98% of data. The company reports SigLens is 54x faster than ClickHouse and 1,025x faster than Elasticsearch, can search and aggregate billions of log lines in under a second, run thousands of concurrent sub-second queries on terabytes of data, and support up to 1 petabyte. SigScalr can operate inside organizational firewalls or be hosted via SaaS to help customers reduce egress and cloud spend. The new funding will be used to launch SigLens OSS, expand go-to-market efforts, and recruit software and product development experts.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

Dubdub.ai provides an AI/ML-powered multilingual dubbing platform that enables recording videos in 40 languages and reduces the need for studio recordings. The company was launched in 2021 and its app is currently in beta. It competes with creator-tool players such as Invideo and Gurugram-based Dubverse.ai. The startup recently raised seed funding to expand its capabilities. According to reporting, proceeds will be used to build tech capabilities, improve offerings, and test use-cases for global consumers. The company previously raised $800K in a seed round in June last year led by Kalaari Capital.