Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Patent Watch builds tools to help patent holders monetize and protect their patent portfolios and recently launched Patent Watch 2.0, which adds custom workflows, improved modules, and a refreshed user interface. The company is part of Y Combinator’s F25 batch and is led publicly by Alex Stroe alongside co-founder Andy. It raised $2.8M in a seed round and has now raised $3.2M in total capital. The product update and fundraising were announced together, indicating concurrent focus on product development and growth. The announcement highlights investor support from Y Combinator, FundersClub, Transpose Platform, Blast Club, MyAsiaVC, Asymmetry Ventures, Team Ignite Ventures, No Talking Capital and multiple angels. No revenue, user, or valuation figures were disclosed in the announcement.

Participated · Series A · Feb 2026

Founded in 2022, Material Depot offers a one-stop catalog of more than 300,000 products spanning tiles, laminates, plywood, wall panels, wallpapers, quartz and wooden flooring. About 60% of its portfolio is made up of private-label brands, giving the company greater margin control. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup follows an omnichannel approach: users browse curated collections and 3D visualisations online, then visit physical Experience Centres to inspect materials before purchase. To date it has served over 15,000 customers and operates three Experience Centres in its home city. Future plans include expanding to more than 30 centres across India and growing its customer base to 50,000 within 12–18 months. The newly raised capital will be directed toward strengthening supply-chain tech, inventory planning and in-store assisted selling, as well as broadening curated offerings.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Sensesemi designs single-chip edge-AI processors that combine AI inferencing, wireless mesh connectivity and precision analogue sensing to deliver real-time, on-device intelligence with minimal power draw. By vertically integrating compute, connectivity and sensing, the company aims to cut system complexity, size and cost while extending battery life for mission-critical applications such as predictive maintenance, driver monitoring, cardiac monitoring and smart drug delivery. It is also building an analogue-domain AI inference processor to push power consumption even lower for battery-operated and implantable devices. The startup plans to use freshly raised capital to complete chip tape-outs, build reference designs and expand its engineering team. Partnerships with device makers are being pursued to accelerate commercial adoption. Management believes rising demand for edge computing and India’s expanding semiconductor market position the company well for growth. The firm has not yet disclosed revenue or shipment figures, but cites forecasts of 5–7 billion annual edge-AI chip shipments globally by 2030.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2025

Founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife team Ismael and Sophia Belkhayat, Chari began as a mobile marketplace enabling corner shops to procure fast-moving consumer goods directly from distributors. The company has since evolved toward a banking-as-a-service model, using its recently obtained payment-institution licence from Bank Al-Maghrib to embed digital payments, credit, and other financial tools inside its merchant app. More than 20,000 small retailers across Morocco, Tunisia, and Côte d’Ivoire now use Chari’s platform, making it one of the region’s largest informal-retail digitisation plays. With a “super app” approach, Chari aims to transform these mom-and-pop stores into grassroots financial access points for underbanked communities. Future plans include opening its in-house financial rails to third-party developers, positioning the startup as a regional fintech enabler across Francophone Africa. To date, Chari has raised roughly $17 million in venture funding, which supports both its commerce logistics operations and the build-out of its fintech infrastructure.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

Pipeshift provides an end-to-end MLOps stack for enterprises to train, deploy and scale open-source GenAI models, including LLMs, vision, audio and image models, across any cloud or on-prem GPUs. The company emphasizes a modular stack that lets enterprises bring down GPU infrastructure costs without additional engineering effort. Pipeshift positions its platform to help customers deploy AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. The startup raised $2.5M in a Seed funding round and said it will use the proceeds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The round was led by Y Combinator and SenseAI Ventures, with participation from multiple VCs and angels. Founders are Pranav Reddy, Arko Chattopadhyay and Enrique Ferrao.