StepUp Ventures
669F, (HBR Layout) 3rd Floor, 2nd Block, Layout, Bangalore, Karnātaka, 560043, INDIA
Overview
The StepUp Ventures is building Bharat’s future by enabling ambitious founders to scale with speed and clarity. They go beyond incubation — working hand-in-hand with startups to refine their narrative, strategy, and execution while opening daoors for market access and capital.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- Crink
Participated · Seed · Feb 2026
Crink operates a ‘Human + AI’ wellbeing platform that pairs real-time, AI-driven emotional guidance with sessions from licensed therapists. Its product addresses four key life domains—self, work, parenting and relationships—helping users manage stress, build emotional resilience and improve family as well as workplace dynamics. The company says it has already served more than 15,000 clients, signalling early product-market fit and demand among busy professionals. By using AI to surface stress patterns instantaneously, Crink lets its human therapists concentrate on deeper, outcome-oriented interventions. The founders—Rustum Usman, Mariyam and Sruthi—plan to deploy new capital to broaden the therapist network, enrich AI capabilities and reinforce the hybrid model. Over the next 2-3 years, management aims to position Crink as the default wellbeing solution for mid-to-senior professionals in India and eventually overseas. Financially, the startup has just secured ₹1.8 crore in pre-seed funding, adding to earlier backing from Kerala Startup Mission, Microsoft and The Step Up Ventures, giving it runway to scale product and distribution.
Team
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