1. KINTSUGI

Country: San Francisco, USA

News:

Raised $18M led by Vertex, including $15M minority investment (10% ownership) and $3M from existing investors. Deal values company at $150M post-money, nearly 4x valuation in one year.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • AI-powered sales tax compliance solution that’s half the cost of competitors, solving complex regulatory challenges across borders
  • Co-founded by Indian-origin entrepreneur Pujun Bhatnagar with plans to expand into India and China as key growth markets

Potential:

  • Impressive 93% profit margins with 2,400 customers and remarkably low 0.1% churn rate
  • Strategic partnership with Vertex includes IP sharing and revenue-sharing, accelerating global expansion

2. NUVO

Country: San Francisco, USA

News:

Raised $34M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital. Social network-like platform for B2B trade targeting the $11T physical goods purchasing industry in the US.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Co-founded by diaspora talent Sid Malladi, Nuvo applies Silicon Valley network-building expertise to transform traditional industries
  • Created network effect platform comparable to PayPal/Stripe for payments, but for B2B commerce

Potential:

  • Will reach 50,000 businesses by Q2 2025, including notable clients like Great Dane, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, and Fender
  • Vision to expand into payments, AI, and international markets including Asia-Pacific shows global ambition

3. POSHA

Country: Bengaluru, India 

News:

Secured $8M Series A led by Accel, with participation from Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal and other investors. AI-powered countertop kitchen robot with 500+ recipes across cuisines.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Perfect India-to-global journey with significant R&D in Bengaluru targeting US market
  • $1,500 device automates entire cooking process using computer vision, AI, and robotics

Potential:

  • Addresses universal pain point of time constraints for fresh meal preparation with sophisticated technology
  • Demonstrates Indian engineering talent creating hardware solutions with global market potential

4. CODEANT AI

Country: Bengaluru, India / San Francisco, USA

News:

Raised $2M seed from Y Combinator, Uncorrelated Ventures, and VitalStage Ventures at $20M valuation. Founded by Amartya Jha and Chinmay Bharti in 2023.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Cuts manual code review time and bugs by 50%+ using proprietary language-agnostic AST engine
  • Addresses critical bottleneck as AI-generated code proliferates globally

Potential:

  • Already deployed at 50+ companies including Akasa Air, Cyient, and Fortune 1000 enterprises
  • Elevates developers to focus on high-value work instead of tedious reviews in the AI era

5. WISDOMAI

Country: San Mateo, USA

News:

Secured giant $23M seed led by Coatue, with participation from Madrona, GTM Capital, and others. Founded by former Rubrik co-founder Soham Mazumdar.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • AI data analytics that works with structured, unstructured, and ‘dirty’ data without hallucination issues
  • Uses GenAI only for query formation, not answer creation, addressing enterprise AI trust problems

Potential:

  • Early customers include ConocoPhillips, Cisco, and Descope demonstrating enterprise traction
  • Democratizes data access – business managers can drill into complex data with ‘five key strokes’

6. CUEZEN

Country: Seattle, USA

News:

Secured $5M led by Point 72 Ventures. Founded by Indian tech leaders Ankur Teredesai, Sunil Shinde, and Singapore-based Aloysius Lim.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Leverages AI and sensor data for personalized healthcare recommendations with proven founding team
  • Teredesai’s previous successful exit (KenSci acquired by Tegria) brings deep healthcare AI expertise

Potential:

  • Global customer base includes US healthcare orgs (Titan, Microport) and Singapore government
  • Positioned as foundational layer in emerging digital health stack with Big Tech validation

7. HIGH TIME FOODS

Country: Bengaluru, India (relocated from USA)

News:

Raised $1.2M led by Avaana Capital. Founded by Aakash Shah and Damian Felchlin, relocated HQ from US to Bengaluru in fascinating reverse innovation journey.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Develops non-refrigerated, plant-based protein solutions addressing critical global nutrition challenges
  • Unique “reverse migration” shows India as strategic base for global operations

Potential:

  • Already serving 30+ clients worldwide with B2B approach targeting food manufacturers and institutions
  • Projects 25% India business, 75% global markets including Africa expansion

8. HYPERBOTS

Country: Delaware, USA/ Bengaluru, India 

News:

Raised $6.5M Series A led by Arkam Ventures and Athera Venture Partners. Founded by Niyati Chhaya, Ram Jayaraman, and Rajeev Pathak in 2023.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • AI co-pilots for finance automation trained on 30M+ finance-specific data points
  • 55-strong engineering team primarily in Bengaluru serving US clients across healthcare, media, retail

Potential:

  • Delivers 80% reduction in manual effort with 99.8% accuracy in document processing
  • Plans to launch HyperLM, proprietary LLM pre-trained on finance data for vertical AI solutions

9. AVAMMUNE THERAPEUTICS

Country: Philadelphia, USA / Bengaluru, India

News:

Raised $12M Series A co-led by Capital 2B, Shastra VC, and Kotak Lifesciences Fund. Founded by serial biotech entrepreneurs Arun Papaiah, Srinivasan Namala, and Aditya Kulkarni.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Develops small-molecule immunotherapies targeting innate immunity with focus on accessible treatments
  • Lead compound AVA-NP-695 could be more accessible than traditional biologics in $100B immuno-oncology market

Potential:

  • 40+ member team with collaborations across UCSF, Oxford, and University of  Queensland
  • Oral/accessible therapies address limited access to expensive treatments in India and emerging markets

10. ADOPT AI

Country: San Francisco, USA / Bengaluru, India

News:

Raised $6M seed led by Elevation Capital. No-code platform for integrating intelligent agent capabilities. Founded by Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya, and Anirudh Badam.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Perfect India-US tech corridor model: 11 engineers in Bengaluru collaborating with 5 AI engineers in US
  • Transforms 6-month enterprise AI implementation into 24-hour process

Potential:

  • Agent Builder targets SaaS and B2C companies in banking and healthcare with complex workflows
  • Positioned for evolution where apps must ‘agentify’ themselves to stay relevant

11. SAMAYA AI

Country: Mountain View, California, USA

News:

Raised $43.5M led by NEA with participation from Eric Schmidt, Yann LeCun, David Siegel, and Marty Chavez. Founded by Indian-origin Maithra Raghu with team from Google Brain, Meta AI, AWS, Stanford.

Why It’s Interesting:

  • Expert AI platform for financial services designed for “factuality over fluency”
  • AI agents specifically trained for financial expertise, addressing critical trust issues in financial AI

Potential:

  • Morgan Stanley as customer with 100% month-over-month growth demonstrating product-market fit
  • Latest AI agent ‘Causal World Models‘ can autonomously model entire economy for quantitative predictions