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GrowthCap leads $1.85 Mn in pre-seed round in Spense

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GrowthCap leads $1.85 Mn in pre-seed round in Spense
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Spense, a Bengaluru-based startup building programmable banking and card infrastructure, has raised $1.85 million in its pre-seed round led by GrowthCap Ventures. Kunal Shah (founder, CRED), Sayandeb Banerjee (co-founder, The Math Company), Suresh Rayasam (Head of Applied AI for GTM), Ravi Sudhakar (Director, AI Global Business Strategy, Microsoft), among others have also participated. According to Spense, the funds will be used to onboard additional banks, grow fintech partnerships, and expand the product and technology stack to support more use cases beyond credit cards. Founded by Pawan Kumar (former head of Applied Science at Uber India) and Srinivas Krishnamurthy (former Technical Lead at BNP Paribas), Spense provides infrastructure for secured credit cards, prepaid cards, and forex programs. The platform is designed to support financial institutions with regulatory oversight and integration capabilities for new credit products. Spense is currently used by regulated entities to launch and manage secured credit programs. The company’s infrastructure enables faster go-to-market timelines and auditability while integrating with legacy systems.

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Space tech startup Akashalabdhi raises $1.2 Mn in pre seed round

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Space tech startup Akashalabdhi raises $1.2 Mn in pre seed round
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Snippets Space tech startup Akashalabdhi raises $1.2 Mn in pre-seed round The proceeds will be used to develop ANTARIKSHAB, an expandable space habitat designed for orbital logistics, microgravity experiments, space habitation, and defense applications. Akashalabdhi, a space tech startup developing expandable space habitats and dual-use defense technologies, has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed funding round from Uday Chatterjee, Romesh Sobti, Suraj Nalin, LVX, 1Crowd, and Riceberg Ventures. "Our vision is clear. We want to put India at the forefront of orbital infrastructure and space habitation by innovating dual-use technologies. The successful close of our pre-seed funding round is a significant milestone that brings us closer to this goal. With the support of our investors, we are one step closer to making ANTARIKSHAB a global reality,” said Siddharth Jena, Founder of Akashalabdhi. Incubated at FSID, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and TIDES, IIT Roorkee, and supported by KickSky Accelerator, the company leverages research and mentorship to transform visionary concepts into scalable solutions.

Bhavik Koladiya-led OTPless raises $3.5 Mn led by SIDBI

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Bhavik Koladiya-led OTPless raises $3.5 Mn led by SIDBI
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Authentication and access management platform OTPless has raised $3.5 million in its pre-Series A funding round led by SIDBI, said its co-founder and chief executive officer Bhavik Koladiya. Venture Highway, FJ Labs, and Piper Serica also joined the firm’s maiden institutional round. With this, OTPless raised $6.5 million to date. The Surat-based startup raised $2.7 million in seed round in February last year from Neeraj Arora, Kunal Shah, Amrish Rau, Jitendra Gupta, Utsav Somani, Amit Jain, Fabrice Grinda, and Luke Skertich. With a team of 50 members, OTPless plans to use the new funds to expand its global presence and service beyond authentication and into authorization, said Kodaliya. Its global peers include Auth0, Clerk, Stytch, Descope and Transmit Security and a few others. Founded by Koladiya, Satyam Nathani and Tanmay Sagar, former executives of fintech unicorn BharatPe, OTPless enables users to sign up and sign in on websites and apps via WhatsApp and other methods. This approach simplifies the process for users and weeds out the need for OTPs. The startup supports various social sign-in methods, including Google, iMessage, Microsoft, Github, Slack, UPI and modern protocols like Passkeys, Network Auth, Protected SMS and Device fingerprinting. As per the company, developers can easily integrate OTPless’s SDKs and APIs, going live within minutes using pre-built UIs. OTPless claims that more than 5,000 companies and 20,000 developers worldwide use the platform to authenticate over 30 million users. OTPless is a recent startup from BharatPe’s group which managed to raise significant funding. For record, CrickPe, led by Ashneer Grover, raised seed money led by ZNL Growth Fund. Last year, Genwise and Vegapay also announced their maiden fundraise after launch. The list of startups and venture funds launched by former BharatPe executives includes Jivi.ai, CubeAPM, GrowthCap Venture, Eternal Capital and OTP Ventures. While Growth Cap Venture and Eternal Capital already announced their maiden fund, Suhail Sameer-led OTP Venture is aiming to secure Rs 400 crore for its debut fund.

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