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Contrails AI raises $1 Mn in pre-seed round from Huddle Ventures and IAN Group

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Contrails AI raises $1 Mn in pre-seed round from Huddle Ventures and IAN Group
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Contrails AI raises $1 million in pre-seed round from Huddle Ventures and IAN Group. Trust and safety-tech AI startup Contrails AI has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Huddle Ventures and IAN Group. The fresh funds will be used to fuel the US and EU pilots running across industries such as marketplaces, media houses, financial firms, and leading digital platforms, Contrails said in a press release. Co-founded by Digvijay Singh and Amitabh Kumar, Contrails AI aims to safeguard internet companies in the age of GenAI. The company delivers solutions trusted by marketplaces, media houses, financial services, and global digital platforms. According to the Bengaluru-based startup, it combines deep-tech innovation with multimodal AI expertise to engineer a compliance-ready safety infrastructure that safeguards digital ecosystems globally. By partnering with the companies in services and technology, the startup aspires to drive adoption of trust & safety solutions while building an interconnected, secure digital ecosystem. Contrails’s proprietary forensics and manipulation detection AI delivers real-time analysis with layered explainability, enabling platform review teams to detect, assess, and act on threats proactively. The platform tackles the threat of cyber crimes with a multimodal approach across video, image, audio, and text, merging fraud detection with forensic DNA analysis and global data expertise. As per market research, from 500,000 in 2023 to 8 million in 2025, deepfake files have grown 16-fold and due to phishing attacks resulted in losses of $17,700 every minute.

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True Diamond raises $3 Mn led by India Quotient

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True Diamond raises $3 Mn led by India Quotient
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True Diamond raises $3 Mn led by India Quotient Lab-grown diamond jewelry brand True Diamond has raised Rs 26 crore ($3 million) in a pre-Series A funding round led by India Quotient along with participation from existing investors Titan Capital, Winners Fund, and Huddle Ventures. Prior to this, it had raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by Titan Capital, along with participation from Huddle Ventures, Zeropearl Ventures, and personal investments from Ashutosh Valani, Priyank Shah, Aashka Goradia Goble, Mamaearth founder Ghazal Alagh, Abhishek Goyal, and Anmol Jain. The proceeds will be used to accelerate its omnichannel strategy and focus on offline expansion, True Diamond said in a press release. Co-founded in 2024 by Darayus Mehta and Parin Shah, True Diamond aims to modernise the jewelry experience for contemporary Indian consumers. The brand focuses on design and material innovation, bold content, and accessible luxury. It has launched retail outlets in Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Noida, with more stores planned across metro cities. The Mumbai-based company offers a variety of products, including rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces, mangalsutras, bracelets, and tennis bracelets, among others. The startup also provides customized jewellery and men’s collections. True Diamond claims to have built a catalog of over 5,000 designs and achieved a 1.7x customer repeat rate. The brand offers innovative products with unique launches like over the 160 facet Portuguese diamonds, black diamonds, and many more.

AutoDukan raises $1 Mn in pre-Series A round

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AutoDukan raises $1 Mn in pre-Series A round
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Snippets AutoDukan raises $1 Mn in pre-Series A round AutoDukan, an AI-driven automobile aftermarket platform, has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A round led by Choice Group and select HNIs. Existing investors MetroMax Group (India) and Ankit Sajnani also participated. The startup earlier raised a seed round from Rohit Goyal, Windrose Capital, and Raghu Venkatraman, followed by an angel round from MetroMax Group (USA) and Ankit Sajnani, which helped launch and expand its core platform. AutoDukan works in the auto aftermarket by digitising spare part procurement, insurance claim workflows, and multi-brand workshop enablement. Its AI-powered platform maps spare parts to vehicle models, predicts demand, and automates procurement, delivering speed and transparency to insurers, fleet operators, and workshops. The new funds will be used to scale operations across key automotive regions, enhance AI capabilities in demand prediction and claims automation, and deepen partnerships with insurers, fleet operators, and OEM suppliers. The company also plans to strengthen its team across AI, operations, and market development. AutoDukan reported 10× growth in the past two years, serving over 2,000 clients nationwide, mapping 2 million spare parts, and maintaining a live inventory of 200,000 parts updated daily. The firm competes with players like GoMechanic, Automovill, and OEM-backed service platforms.

MiClient raises seed round from IAN Group, others

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MiClient raises seed round from IAN Group, others
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MiClient, an AI-driven B2B sales enablement platform, has raised Rs 3.9 crore in its seed funding round led by IAN Group with participation from Anicut, GSF, RTAF, and Keiretsu. Vikas Kuthiala and Pratik Mathurkar from IAN led the round. The round follows an initial pre-seed investment in October 2023 from 100x.VC. The proceeds will be used to build a stronger team and expand market presence across more geographies in India. In addition to market expansion, MiClient is developing an AI-based model to create quotations and invoices in seconds, further streamlining the sales process for its users. Led by Swati Sharma, MiClient’s easy-to-use CPQ platform helps sales teams close deals three times faster, with the average deal now closing in just 10 days. Expanding further into India’s industrial hubs, MiClient is executing a feet-on-the-street go-to-market strategy. MiClient is expanding into more industrial hubs across India using a direct sales approach. With over 150 customers and over 1,500 users, the company serves SMEs, particularly in the B2B manufacturing sector, with a user-friendly platform.

AuraML raises $1 Mn in pre-seed round led by Turbostart

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AuraML raises $1 Mn in pre-seed round led by Turbostart
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Snippets AuraML raises $1 Mn in pre-seed round led by Turbostart Deeptech startup AuraML has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Turbostart, with participation from DeVC, GSF Accelerator, Indian Angel Network (IAN), and other investors. The funds will be used to accelerate product development, expand its presence in the US, and scale enterprise pilots across warehouse automation, industrial robotics, and next-generation autonomous systems. Founded by Ayush Sharma, AuraML is building a generative simulation platform that allows robotics companies to model, test, and deploy systems faster, more safely, and at lower cost. Its technology helps bridge the “sim-to-real” gap faced by traditional simulation tools, offering realistic testing environments for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and forklifts. AuraML’s simulation capabilities include text-to-world generation, advanced sensor noise modeling for LiDAR and camera data, and scalable cloud-based multi-robot deployment testing. By shifting from physical to virtual testing, AuraML claims to cut timelines from six months and $500,000 to just one week at a fraction of the cost. Its platform, AuraSIM, combines physically accurate 3D environments and synthetic data engines to support scalable, real-world-ready robotics development.

SatLeo Labs raises $3.3 Mn in pre-seed round Merak Ventures

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SatLeo Labs raises $3.3 Mn in pre-seed round Merak Ventures
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SatLeo Labs, a spacetech company focused on thermal imaging from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has raised $3.3 million in its pre-seed funding round led by Merak Ventures, with Huddle Ventures. GVFL, Java Capital, IIMA Ventures, PointOne Capital, and angel investors Manish Gandhi and Dheer Baldua have also participated. The proceeds will be used for SatLeo’s proprietary thermal imaging payload, team expansion, regulatory approvals, and infrastructure enhancements. Founded by Ranendu Ghosh and Shravan Bhati, SatLeo Labs is developing high-resolution thermal and visible imaging systems to deliver actionable data for applications in agriculture, energy, urban planning, and strategic surveillance. The Ahmedabad-based startup is building a dual-band, fused multispectral imaging system aimed at creating scalable solutions across climate-sensitive sectors. The platform estimates that its technology can help mitigate risks linked to climate change, including crop loss and wildfires, and contribute to emission reduction goals and sustainable development outcomes.

ProsParity raises $2 Mn pre-seed round from BEENEXT, others

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ProsParity raises $2 Mn pre-seed round from BEENEXT, others
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Fintech startup ProsParity has raised $2 million in its pre-seed round from global institutional investors such as BEENEXT, Sparrow Capital, All In Capital, DeVC, and Huddle Ventures. Angel investors like Dr Ashish Gupta (co-founder of Junglee and Helion Ventures), Raj Dugar (ex-Eight Roads Ventures), Dhyanesh Shah (co-founder of Mosaic Wellness), Abhishek Goyal (co-founder of Tracxn) and Nitin Kaushal (co-founder of Country Delight) also participated in this round. The funds will be used for building proof of concept, technology, and expanding origination networks, starting with central India. ProsParity is also building a comprehensive partnership network across original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), fleet operators, dealerships, and lenders. Founded by Saurabh Khodke and Anirudh Dhakar, ProsParity is an end-to-end electric mobility financing platform that focuses on compliance, scalability, and agility for lenders, while easing access to financing relationships for EV dealers and OEMs to enable financing for their end-customers. Through its proprietary platform and approach of origination, the firm aims to aggregate the demand for financing on a single platform for the lenders to channelize their capital in the emerging EV financing asset class.

Trading platform Trackk raises $1 Mn in seed round

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Trading platform Trackk raises $1 Mn in seed round
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url: https://entrackr.com/snippets/trading-platform-trackk-raises-1-mn-in-seed-round-9652110 Content: Trackk, a new-age trading platform, has raised $1 million in seed round funding from prominent investors, including Mga Ventures, GSF Ventures, GNP Group, Paras Defence, along with leading family offices and angel investors. Prior to this, the Mumbai-based company had raised $100K in a pre-seed funding round from Maahavir Ventures. The fresh funds will be deployed in team building, technology and crafting a better user experience, Trackk said in a press release. The company has recently received approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to begin brokerage services on both the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Before securing this license, Trackk operated for over three years as an Authorised Person, acquiring more than 1.5 lakh registered users and facilitating over 6,000 trades daily — building a strong foundation of active traders and product insights. Co-founded in 2021 by Vedant Gupte, Aryan Jain, and Siddharth Thakkar, Trackk is a next-gen stock trading app that helps users discover stocks, trade from a single screen, and gain behavioural insights on their trading journey. “We believe the next generation deserves a seamless, technology-driven platform,” said Vedant Gupte, CEO at Trackk. “With our funding, SEBI approval, and strong leadership team, we are ready to bring a fresh, ambitious vision to India’s capital markets.” Trackk plans to launch its trading platform in the coming months, introducing a single-screen, intuitive trading experience designed for India's youth. Alongside this, the platform will offer personalised stock reports, data-backed portfolio ideas, and behavioural insights to help users make informed decisions and improve their trading habits over time. It primarily competes with other major companies in this space such as Groww and Zerodha.

Beauty brand Asaya raises $1.5 Mn from OTP Ventures and others

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Beauty brand Asaya raises $1.5 Mn from OTP Ventures and others
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Premium skincare brand Asaya has raised Rs 12 crore ($ 1.5 million) in Seed funding round led by OTP Ventures and Huddle Ventures, with additional investments from Eternal Capital. The funds will be allocated towards melanin-centric research and developing more products that cater to melanin-specific needs, the company said in a press release. Part of the funding will also be utilised to enhance market reach. Launched in September 2023 by Neeraj Biyani (former Co-founder of Paper Boat), Mandeep Bhatia, and Eeti Sharma, Asaya has rapidly expanded its sales and customer base, retailing through its website and online retail platforms like Nykaa, Amazon, Flipkart, and Myntra. Currently, it claims to have more than 11 products and 23 SKUs. According to Biyani, this funding will help us go from 20,000 to over 250,000 consumers in the next 12 months. Suhail Sameer, who is the former CEO of BharatPe, is serving venture capital firm OTP Venture as managing partner. As per a media report, OTP Ventures is also looking to close its debut fund at Rs 400 crore by June. The firm recently led $1 million round in CirclePe.

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