PointOne Capital
F04, Ozone Residenza, Harlur Road, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560102, India
Overview
PointOne Capital focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage technology-enabled startups in emerging sectors. Our is to plug the early stage liquidity gap in the pre-seed market and provide active sector-specific expertise until a Series A round.
- Total investments
- 27
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 5
- Active investors
- 3
Investment portfolio
- Potpie
Participated · Seed · Feb 2026
Potpie AI builds a platform that acts as a foundational context layer for engineering teams, automating high-impact, non-trivial tasks such as debugging cross-service failures, maintaining and authoring end-to-end tests, blast-radius detection, and system design. The system is aimed at large enterprises with codebases starting around one million lines and scaling to hundreds of millions. Potpie is already working with Fortune 500 and publicly listed companies in regulated sectors like healthcare and insurtech, demonstrating early enterprise traction. Founded by Aditi Kothari and Dhiren Mathur and headquartered in San Francisco, the company plans to deepen its core context and agent infrastructure. The newly raised capital will also fund expansion of the engineering team and support additional early enterprise deployments. No operating metrics such as revenue or user counts were disclosed in the article.
- SimplAI
Participated · Seed · Feb 2026
SimplAI offers an Agentic AI Operating System that enables enterprises to build, deploy, monitor, and scale production-grade AI agents while ensuring security, compliance, and observability. Its cloud-agnostic architecture supports on-prem, private cloud, VPC, and sovereign environments, helping organizations transition AI projects from pilots to mission-critical deployments in a matter of days. The platform focuses on regulated sectors such as banking, financial services, insurance, and government, where auditability and governance are paramount. To bolster go-to-market efforts, the company recently added former UiPath president Manish Bharti as Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer. Seed funding is being directed toward expanding sales across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East and deepening proprietary multi-agent orchestration and vertical-specific solutions. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Dubai and Gurgaon, SimplAI is positioning itself as the foundational system layer for enterprise AI adoption.
- Raana Semiconductors
Participated · Seed · Jan 2026
Headquartered in Tamil Nadu, Raana Semiconductors designs and builds integrated Czochralski (CZ) crystal growth systems capable of producing 10- to 12-inch silicon ingots, a foundational material for wafer fabrication and solar cells. The company, led by founder Rajasekar Elavarasan, positions itself as an indigenous alternative in a segment traditionally dominated by global suppliers. Raana has secured confirmed orders worth INR 12 crore for FY26 and reports a revenue CAGR of roughly 30% over recent years. It recently completed a project for India’s Ministry of Defence, validating its technical capabilities and opening additional government opportunities. Management is targeting revenues exceeding INR 200 crore within the next three to four years, underscoring an aggressive growth roadmap supported by rising domestic semiconductor demand. The newly raised capital will accelerate product development and research, particularly toward higher-diameter CZ systems. By localizing critical equipment, Raana aims to reduce India’s reliance on imported crystal growth machinery and capture a growing share of the semiconductor and solar supply chains.
- CtrlB
Participated · Seed · Nov 2025
Founded in 2022, CtrlB is a Bengaluru-based SaaS startup that delivers a unified data platform aggregating logs, traces, metrics, and alerts into a single interface. Its solution is designed to help engineering and security teams rapidly analyze large-scale datasets, making high-volume observability both affordable and reliable. The platform targets enterprise customers in logistics, fintech, e-commerce, and other SaaS sectors. CtrlB positions itself as an all-in-one alternative to fragmented monitoring and security tooling, aiming to cut costs and reduce operational complexity. With headquarters in India and a growing presence in the United States, the company plans to bolster its engineering and R&D efforts, secure patents, and obtain enterprise security certifications. Future initiatives also include expanding go-to-market operations in India and the US while scaling partnerships and customer success programs. Financially, the company has attracted seed backing to fund these growth plans, though detailed revenue or user metrics have not been disclosed.
- UGX.ai
Participated · Seed · Sep 2025
UGX.ai is a deep-tech company focused on digitising discrete manufacturing through an integrated hardware, middleware and software stack. Its proprietary Industrial Edge Gateway and communication protocol library link factory machines to the cloud, while applications such as MES, Machine Monitoring, Traceability and vision-based Quality Inspection drive productivity, efficiency and quality. Co-founded by Abhishek Kumar, Ankur Singh, Ankit Agarwal and Prakhar Nigam, the business serves more than 20 enterprise customers in the automotive and electronics sectors. The startup claims 5× revenue growth over the past two years, signalling strong product-market traction. Newly raised capital will be channelled into accelerating domestic and overseas expansion, deepening product innovation and widening adoption of its AI-powered enterprise apps and connectors. The company positions itself as foundational data infrastructure for Industry 4.0 transformation.