Led · Series A · May 2026

The EleFant operates a toy-subscription and circular play platform for children aged 0–12, offering more than 1,000 toys and books from over 90 brands. Families subscribe through monthly plans starting at Rs 599 and can return toys after use and select new ones through the platform. The company uses a Franchise-Invested, Company-Operated (FICO) model and has over 125 franchise partners across 18 cities. Founded by Sourabh Jain and Srishti Jain, The EleFant has set goals to cross 50,000 subscribers and expand into more than 20 cities within the next 12 months. Following its recent $1 million pre-Series raise, the startup plans to use proceeds to strengthen technology infrastructure and expand its market presence.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Mannlich operates as a D2C men's grooming brand offering personal care products directly to customers. The company recently raised $294,000 in a seed round to support its growth. It plans to use the capital to enhance research and development and to grow its team, especially in R&D and branding functions. The seed round brought institutional investors as well as notable angel backers, indicating early external validation. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, founding year, or location. Mannlich's near-term focus appears to be product development and brand building backed by the new funding.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2025

Founded in 2011 by Pooja Bajaj, Mumbai-based ExtraMile Play offers a gamified employee-engagement SaaS platform featuring a library of 180-plus digital and virtual activities. The product is designed to help enterprises run measurable programs that align play, purpose, and productivity, leveraging behavioral science and AI to enhance engagement, learning, and wellbeing. Over the past year, the company reports working with more than 100 enterprises across BFSI, retail, pharma, consulting, and IT sectors, engaging over 150,000 employees. Key clients include Motilal Oswal, EY, Cipla, Aditya Birla Capital, Edelweiss, and Nexus Malls. Recent product extensions address learning games, diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI), and wellbeing. Proceeds from the latest funding will support product innovation, technology upgrades, and expansion into new verticals and global markets. The company positions itself as a solution for creating happier, more connected workplaces worldwide.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2025

Darwix AI (CUR8 Ventures Pvt. Ltd.) offers an omnichannel generative AI platform, Transform+, powered by a proprietary LLM stack to provide conversational intelligence to enterprises. The platform delivers real-time agent assistance, automation and actionable insights across voice, chat, email and in-person interactions. Darwix targets enterprise verticals including BFSI and retail and operates across the US, India and the Middle East. Founded by Ajay Sethi and Hanit Awal, the company is focused on unifying and enhancing customer interactions through its AI solutions. The firm plans to deploy recent funding toward product development, market expansion, team growth and scaling its omnichannel platform.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2023

TransBnk offers a single-window “common operating system” and foundational layer of microservices that enable use cases such as treasury, liquidity, escrow management, reconciliation, and API/SDK integrations. The platform integrates with multiple banks and enterprise stacks to consolidate transaction banking workflows across web, mobile, and developer interfaces. It works with 60 banks (40 fully integrated) and serves 220 customers — roughly 80% merchants (lenders, fintechs, NBFCs) and 20% banks white-labeling its software. Operationally, the company processes about 110 million transactions monthly, covers roughly 11,000 bank accounts, and leverages over 1,500 APIs. Financially, TransBnk says it grew revenue more than 12x to around $12 million ARR, turned profitable after taxes in February, and reports healthy gross margins of about 80%. The startup plans to use capital to continue building its infrastructure platform layer, expand beyond India into Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and extend its product reach into sectors such as real estate, pharma, and renewable energy. TransBnk offers a transaction banking platform that enables corporates, commercial and institutional clients to execute agile, secure transactions via embedded finance and SaaS. The company launched in 2022 and is led by CEO Vaibhav Tambe. In 20 months it has partnered with over 25 banks, exposed more than 200 APIs, and serves roughly 100 BFSI clients. The platform has supported over 5,000 accounts including escrows and processed more than 50 million transactions. Its customers include NBFCs, microfinance institutions, banks and fintechs using the platform for treasury management, co-lending, supply chain finance and cash-flow based lending. TransBnk plans to expand its network of banking partners and pursue global expansion focusing on the Middle East and Southeast Asia. TransBnk provides a programmable transaction banking platform that empowers banks, lenders and other financial ecosystem players to manage multi-party transactions compliantly. Its technology has been embraced by banks and lenders to manage capital flows for use cases such as co-lending and lease rental discounting. The company has established partnerships with more than 10 private banks and has served over 50 corporate, institutional and fintech clients. Founded in 2022 and led by CEO Vaibhav Tambe, TransBnk plans to use its recent funding to bolster product and technical teams, enhance its tech stack, and expand its product line. The startup raised $1M in Seed funding to support these growth and product initiatives.