1. SPUR
Country: New York, USA
News:
Raised $4.5M from First Round, Pear VC, Neo and angels from Figma, Applied AI-OpenAI and others.
Why It’s Interesting:
- AI agents that emulate real users for QA, persona-based and UI/UX testing
- Indian-origin founders with global experience (DeepMind, Meta) solving critical enterprise problems
Potential:
- Gained 30+ enterprise customers, including Fortune 500s, in under a year.
- 10× faster releases with critical bug detection deliver clear ROI in today’s lean economy.
2. EXAFORCE
Country: San Francisco, USA
News:
Secured $75M Series A from Khosla, Mayfield, and Thomvest to build its AI-driven Agentic SOC Platform.
Why It’s Interesting:
- Co-founded by Ankur Singla, with leadership from F5, Google, and other top tech firms.
- Multi-model AI combines LLMs with semantic and behavioral models for real tech differentiation.
Potential:
- Delivers 10x improvements in security operations efficiency and reduces false positives.
- Solves talent gaps and SOC overload with clear ROI.
3. RISA LABS
Country: Bengaluru, India
News:
Raised $3.5M seed funding led by Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, with participation from Oncology Ventures, General Catalyst and others.
Why It’s Interesting:
- AI agents cut cancer care admin time, reducing prior authorizations from 30 minutes to under 5.
- Indian tech talent tackling global healthcare, where 70% of cancer patients face treatment delays.
Potential:
- Deployed at a US cancer center, handling $1M+ in medicines and cutting admin costs by two-thirds.
- Aiming to scale to 100 US cancer centers, showing Indian founders can build for global markets from day one.
4. DEVASSURE
Country: Delaware, USA, and Chennai, India
News:
Closed pre-seed round led by Eximius Ventures to expand agent framework, integrations, and teams in India and the US.
Why It’s Interesting:
- Founded by engineers behind Ally.io’s release stack before its acquisition by Microsoft.
- The AI testing platform turns Figma designs and code into self-healing executable tests.
Potential:
- Cut test creation from days to hours and reduced maintenance by over 80%.
- Founders’ journey shows how global experience positions Indian entrepreneurs to tackle technical challenges in global market
5. REDUCTO
Country: San Francisco, USA
News:
Raised $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, totaling $32.9M to advance state-of-the-art vision models that read documents like humans.
Why It’s Interesting:
- Proven over 20% more accurate than AWS, Google, and Microsoft in benchmark studies.
- Tackles fundamental challenge in AI adoption with unstructured data that causes hallucinations
Potential:
- Processed hundreds of millions of pages for clients like Airtable and Scale, boosting processing speed 3x and reducing engineering time by 90%.
- Unlocks massive value with nearly 80% of enterprise data locked in unstructured formats.
6. VEZA
Country: San Francisco, USA
News:
Raised $108M in Series D led by NEA, with participation from Atlassian, Workday, Snowflake, Google Ventures, and Blackstone.
Why It’s Interesting:
- Founded by Indian talent with global impact, solving critical cybersecurity challenges
- Redefining identity security with platform managing over 20 billion permissions across cloud and SaaS environments
Potential:
- Strong customer traction with 150% Net Revenue Retention and 100% recommendation score.
- Secured multiple Fortune 500/1000 companies in the cybersecurity sector.
7. SIRINOR
Country: Stavanger, Norway, and Pune, India
News:
Completed ground testing of the first all-electric jet engine at Pune facility, achieving NASA’s TRL-6 and delivering 10 kgf thrust at 40,000 RPM.
Why It’s Interesting:
- Perfect Nordic-Indian fusion founded by Ivar Aune and Abhijeet Inamdar (former Equinor energy technology investors)
- USD 20 million valuation with partnerships with seven global companies
Potential:
- Plans to commercialize by mid-2026, advancing zero-emission aviation
- Shows how India’s tech talent can address aviation’s challenge of sustainable propulsion.