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When 17-year-olds were thinking about college, Anshul was thinking about how to detect arthritis in dogs earlier.
And Pawpath - an AI-powered smart collar that helps detect health conditions in dogs was born.
Anshul Bhatt, spoke about his journey at DeVC Demo Day in MTW
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Getting customers is hard. Losing them at checkout is
painful.
@gokwik has spent the last few years obsessing over everything that happens after someone clicks "Buy"- from payments and checkout to returns and retention.
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Pooja and Varun's kids were watching slop on YouTube. And they thought there has to be something better than this. So they built it, Emomee - a platform that teaches life skills to kids via cartoons.
We caught up with the founders at Mumbai Tech Week!
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Hola Bay Area 👋 We’re back in town to host DugOut - this time in a salon format to address the burning question: “(how) does GTM change in the AI era?
We have incredible 2 guest speakers:
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We’re bringing together the OpenAI engineering and product team with India’s startup CTOs and technical founders for a working session in Bengaluru.
Led by Wulfie Bain, Nikunj Handa, and Thomas Jeng from OpenAI, we'll go deep with implementation patterns, live problem-solving,
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Thrilled to announce our investment in CoCreate (YC S25)🎉
Video is eating the world — but the production process hasn’t caught up. That’s where CoCreate steps in.
And their origin story is even more interesting. Tamish, Sid, and Archish are musicians who bonded at Stanford
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We are delighted to double down on our partnership with Confido Health as part of their $10M Series A round
Confido is taking on a major challenge in the US Healthcare ecosystem: Staff shortage results in delayed response time to inbound calls from patients
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Delighted to share our investment in VyomIC 🥳
VyomIC is building Bharat’s first and largest private global satellite constellation to deliver highly accurate, secure, and sovereign Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services from Low Earth Orbit 🛰
They announced:
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India’s Consumer Internet ecosystem is going through its biggest shifts in years.
Millions of users, thousands of operators, and billions of minutes of attention are moving all at once.
What happens next? The mechanics that kept people engaged in gaming:
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Excited to share our investment into Aurva 🎉
Former Meta engineers Apurv Garg (CEO), Krishna Bagadia (CTO) and Akash Mandal (Architect) partnered together to start Aurva to give enterprises end-to-end visibility into who/how/why a human or AI agent is accessing sensitive data:
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Hello SFO 👋Today 6 of our portfolio companies will be presenting at YC’s 25 Demo Day
We’ve been investing in YC companies for a while now: Boost Robotics (X25), CodeAnt AI (W24), Mantys (W23), EthosX (S22) and Material Depot (W22)
YC has produced outlier companies in India:
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Thrilled to share our investment in Nixo (YC S25) 🎉
Priya and Priti met in Stanford in their Freshman year - they’ve been close friends ever since. Now they’re building Nixo, the first ops platform for forward deployed engineers (FDEs):
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Delighted to share our investment in Autosana (YC S25) 🎉
Yuvan and Jason are high school buddies who are on their 4th rodeo together - this time going after a painful problem statement for any Engineering Manager - mobile app QA!
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Delighted to share our partnership with Frizzle (YC S25) 🎉
Abhay & Shyam have been friends since high school - where they started a Not For Profit organization called the Midwest Maths Circle.
Their love for Maths, teaching & technology made them partner up again
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Delighted to share our investment in Alter AI (YC S25) 🎉
Srikar & Kevan have been friends for several years - Alter AI was born based on a deep rooted problem statement which Srikar discovered while working at Goldman Sachs as a platform lead in the post trade execution team:
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We're excited to be hosting our 2nd Dugout tomorrow (5th September) in SFO
This our quarterly curated gathering for portfolio founders, co-investors & friends of the firm.
We're co-hosting Dugout this time with a fantastic line-up:
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We're excited to be hosting the Berkeley Hoppy Hours tomorrow (3rd September) as part of our DeVC Tribes initiative
This edition of Hoppy Hours is being co-hosted with Kevin Chang from Berkeley Ventures and Shubhan Dua from Answers AI
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Yesterday, Jonathan Ross (Founder & CEO of Groq) interacted with 40+ AI founders & builders at our office in Bangalore
The first audience question was: “What brings you to India?”
Jonathan didn’t hesitate for a second & shared that
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Jonathan architected Google’s 1st TPU and at now at his company Groq, he is leading the development of the world's 1st LPU - an ASIC designed specifically for AI inference workloads.
Groq has scaled GroqCloud from 0 to 2 million developers in less than 18 months;
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We are thrilled to announce our investment into GameRamp
GameRamp has raised a $5.4M Pre-Seed round led by BitKraft Ventures with participation from Mixi, Southpark Commons India, us (DeVC) & select Angel investors
Our former colleague Vivek R left Z47 last year to partner with
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Excited to share our investment in AuraML which is building the “Generative simulation engine for industrial robots” 🥳
AuraML has raised a $1M Pre-Seed round led by Turbostart with participation from us (DeVC), GFS Accelerator and India Angel Network:
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In Sept 2023 - Brij, Pradeep and Nilesh decided to team up to start Snowmountain AI - an R&D focused AI Lab which builds vertical focused business agents, apps & solutions.
Brij left behind a 10+ year career as a VC investor and earlier building Enterprise finance & legal AI.
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We are delighted to share that our portfolio company *PowerUp Money* has raised a $7.1M Seed round 🎉🔥
This funding round is led by Accel in India, Kae Capital & Blume Ventures with participation from 8i Ventures, us (DeVC) & prominent Angels
PowerUp is built for the 5cr+ Indians who are using MFs to build long term wealth. This audience is swamped with a lot of informal advice and hearsay from friends, family and 100s of influencers.
This is where PowerUp Money comes in - a DIY advisory app to declutter MFs & put users long term wealth creation in control.
Our investment thesis for PowerUp is based on 3 tenants:
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If you haven’t heard Homer Simpon crack a joke in Hindi then you must check out how Smallest AI’s latest voice models. Smallest AI is able to make Homer sound like a desi uncle.
Sudarshan and Akshat teamed up in 2023 to start Smallest AI -
ALT Smallest AI founders - Sudarshan & Akshat
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We are thrilled to share that our portfolio company Isler has secured $2.5M in funding from Häfele 🥳
Isler is focused on kitchen appliance manufacturing. They design, create & manufacture aesthetically appealing, silent, and energy-efficient kitchen chimneys, hobs etc.
The company was founded a little over 2 years ago - DeVC had invested alongside Singularity VC and two members of the DeVC Collective (Ramakant Sharma and Amiya Pathak).
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We are super excited to announce our investment into Cleevo 🥳
Cleevo is a next-generation home hygiene brand reimagining cleaning floor and surface cleaning for Indian households.
They offer concentrate-based cleaning products that are more efficient, affordable, and environmentally friendly than traditional liquid cleaners.
Cleevo has served 1.5 Lakh unique customers since inception in March 2023 and has a formidable presence across all commerce platforms such as Zepto, Amazon and Flipkart.
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Akash and Bonish are serial entrepreneurs & batchmates from IIT-B. They have built & sold 2 companies together:
2014-2015: HandyHome – acquired by Urban Company
2017-2018: AblePlus IoT – acquired by OYO
In 2021, they decided to join hands for the 3rd time—once again in the hospitality space—by starting Atica:
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In 2015, Sidu & Aakash sold their company C42 Engineering to their largest client Gojek (now the GOTO Group).
They played a pivotal role in building Gojek’s engineering team & culture to help it scale from 100s of rides per day to millions of rides per day.
After a stellar run at Gojek, they decided to jump back into the startup arena by co-founding realfast and partnered with Steve Sule:
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“MCP to MVP” — (how) is AI, Agents & MCP is accelerating shipping velocity at the top companies?
We’re delighted to host a virtual DugOut on Friday 16th May with an all star line of demos:
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At the height of the COVID pandemic in 2021, former Microsoft exec Varun & Plaid security lead Ashish decided to venture out to fight mankind’s next major battle i.e. Cyberspace.
The duo had spent over 7 years working together at Microsoft’s Redmond campus — Ashish moved on to Uber & then Plaid while Varun stuck it out at Microsoft (spending a total of 15 years there!)
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Amartya & Chinmay are slightly different engineers - they love coding but they really know how to sell.
For most of 2024, our office was bright & buzzing post 9PM because Amartya would be doing customer calls & demos to US based clients.
This duo founded CodeAnt AI in June 2023 — they are hardworking, resilient and focused builders. You might remember them from their “successful YC admit on 4th try” story.
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Delighted to share that our portfolio company InspeCity has raised a $5.6M Seed round led by Ashish Kacholia's Family Office 🚀
This round saw participation from MountTech Growth Fund - Kavachh and Anicut Capital along with all existing investors (us, Speciale Invest, Antler India & Shastra VC)
A damaged home, car or relationship can be fixed. But, how do you fix a satellite in space which is travelling 7.8 kilometers per second?
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👋 Hello SFO - we're super excited to share that we are hosting our 1st DugOut in the Bay Area in partnership with Z47 & Aarthi Ramamurthy
Although we're a Bangalore based team - we have had the privilege of being early investors for many teams building in & from the US as a result of our Collective:
(1) Kintsugi - Sales Tax automation
(2) AnswersAi - Education
(3) Confido Health - Healthcare Front-office
(4) Smallest AI - Voice AI Infra
(5) RapidClaims - Healthcare RCM
(6) CodeAnt AI (YC W24) - Code Gen
(7) PineGap AI - Equity research
(8) Highperformr - Sales automation
(9) Snowmountain AI - Enterprise AI
& many others unannounced or in stealth mode.
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Delighted to share that our portfolio company Kintsugi has raised an $18M Series A led by Vertex 🥳
The founders — Pujun Bhatnagar and Jeff Gibson — are both a force of nature — in under 2 years, they have built a formidable Sales tax compliance franchise in the USA with a 95+ member team serving a base of 2,400 customers.
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How are AI agents transforming healthcare clinics & patient experience?
Calling a clinic in the U.S. often feels like entering a customer service labyrinth. Long hold times. Frustrated staff. Delayed care.
That’s the exact pain Confido Health’s founders felt — quite literally:
ALT Chetan & Vichar - founders of Confido Health
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👋 Calling all founders who are building in AI or FinTech — we’re hosting our next DugOut on 25th April 2025 (this Friday):
The common grouse in AI is “show, don’t tell” - therefore, no panel this time — ONLY demos from AI X FinTech companies who have paying customers or
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We are thrilled to share that our portfolio company RapidClaims AI has raised a $8M Series A led by Accel India
DeVC had invested in RapidClaims in the previous Seed round ($3M) led by Together with participation from Peercheque, Neon VC and Better Capital:
ALT Founders of RapidClaims
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👋Calling Founders, Product & Design leaders who are building in AI — we are hosting an all star panel on “AI X Design” on Wednesday
The panelists will address the elephant in the room head on — “(how) will AI change how we design?” —
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We’re thrilled to announce our investment in Stance Health — a Bangalore based HealthTech startup.
Stance Health has raised a $1M Pre-Seed funding round led by General Catalyst India with participation from Antler India, us and Angels.
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We are excited to double down on our partnership with Anurag & Felicity by backing them in their current $3M seed round led by 3one4 capital 🚀
Anurag and team are building one of the most compelling publishing playbooks for gaming, deeply rooted in rapid prototyping in
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👋 Hello Delhi! We’re super excited to host our quarterly NCR DugOut on 5th March 2025.
This time, the panel discussion will be centered on the ‘the Idea to IPO & Beyond’ journey featuring :
(1) Rohit Bansal (Co-Founder, AceVector Group)
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We’re excited to unveil the Jury for the ‘Elevator Pitch’ session at Mumbai Tech Week 2025 👀
The jury members are ⤵️
(1) Consumer Tech & B2B — Sameer Pittalwala, Yash Dholakia and Mohit Sadaani
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Showcasing DeVC’s Consumer portfolio — the creators of customer love, the engineers of habit forming products & the designers of tomorrow’s means of expression.
DeVC has partnered with 29 Consumer companies over the last 2 years — our sector WhatsApp group is always buzzing!
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👋Calling all Mumbai based founders - here is your opportunity to raise up to $500K in funding from DeVC & our Collective
We’re delighted to announce our partnership with Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) and Government of Maharashtra for MTW Mumbai Tech Week 2025
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We’re delighted to share that our portfolio company Ambak has announced $7M in funding across its Seed & Pre-Series A round.
We doubled down on our partnership with Rashi Garg , Raghuveer Malik & Rameshwar Gupta by investing in the Pre-Series A round
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We are excited to share our investment in Tractor Factory🚜🏭 — an omni-channel marketplace for purchasing new & old tractors
Tractor Factory was founded by Shailesh Tiwari in 2024. Shailesh is an IIM-C grad who has spent time at TAFE
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Excited to share that we have doubled down on our partnership with Dhruv & Boba Bhai. 🎉
Boba Bhai just announced a ₹30 crore follow-on investment led by 8i Ventures with participation from Titan Capital, Global Growth Capital and us (DeVC).
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We have been investing across the Machine learning, AI and Data (MAD) landscape with special focus on Applied AI
To date, we have made 19 investments and are privileged to have partnered with some of the boldest and most ambitious founders
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It is heartening to see DeVC’s active investment push in AI startups being called out by good folks at ET! :)
Together with our collective members Ashwini, Aakrit, Arjun, Vishesh, Aakash, Soumitra and many more, who are seasoned founders and investors from the domain,
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We are pleased to announce our investment into Quash 🙌
Quash has raised $650K in Pre-Seed funding from Arali Ventures, Java Capital, peercheque, us (DeVC) and Abhishek Goyal (Angel & member of the DeVC Collective).
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