Gopu S K

A seed round headed by Climate Angels and the Bengaluru-based venture capital firm Kalaari Capital nets Clean Electric, a startup offering energy storage solutions, $2.2 million.

Kerala natives Pavithra and Rinas left their highly-paid jobs in Mumbai to pursue organic farming. Today, they grow several conventional rice varieties and harvest roughly 15 tonnes of paddy each year.

Covvalent, a platform for specialty chemicals, raises $4.3 million in a seed round that was co-led by Nexus Venture Partners.

Mehul Shroff, an MBA graduate, from Madhya Pradesh uses garbage and banana stems to create natural fibres for a variety of eco-friendly handicrafts while earning lakhs of dollars each month and saving countless farmers their hard earned money.

Prodo, a startup specialising in on-demand manufacturing, raises a $1 million seed investment. 

The Bodhi Tree, co-founded by Deepti Natarajan Iyer, works with CSR projects, high-net-worth individuals, business entities, and students to assist them to give back in terms of cash, time, and expertise.

Through their cloud kitchen, The Chhaunk, Hiranyamayi Shivani and her daughter-in-law Manjari Singh from Delhi prepare and market delicacies from Bihar.

The unified payment interface, or UPI, the ecosystem has seen the rise of Walmart-owned PhonePe, which routinely dominates in terms of volume and value. Its scale, which more than doubled to reach Rs 1,646 crore during FY22, further demonstrates its dominance in UPI payments.

HealthKart, an omnichannel health tech platform, raises Rs 536.52 crore, or around $66 million, in a Series H round that was led by Temasek and included A91 Partners.

PeakMind is a digital platform with the mission of empowering students by cultivating in them the traits of competitiveness, performance motivation, optimism, mindfulness, and mental toughness necessary for competitive success and holistic development.