StartupXseed Ventures

StartupXseed Ventures LLP is the Investment Manager of “Aaruha Technology Fund” registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as Category I - under Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations 2012. StartupXseed is a Strategic programme, for supporting the aspiring entrepreneurs with great ideas. StartupXseed is a unique programme combined with Seed fund, Strategic support, Market Access, Mentorship and closely supported by the Investor/advisory board of StartupXseed. It acts as a “Co-Founder/Seed Partner” in helping innovation to succeed in the Technology and Technology enabled areas across sectors in India. Backed by the team of pioneers of IT, Entrepreneurs, Educationist and Industrialist, the StartupXseed provides small business innovators with a complete structured help of Startup eco system to help navigate the unique challenges of building the sustainable growth businesses in India.

Kishore Kumar

Principal

Krishna Mikkilineni Ph.D

General Partner

BV Naidu

Founder and Managing Partner

Ravi Thakur

Co-Founding Partner

Ramakrishna Venkatraman

Co-Founder and General Partner

B. V. Naidu

Founder and Managing Partner

20 past transactions

eZdia

Seed Round in 2023
Quality Content @ Scale. eZdia delivers high-quality, scalable content solutions to the world's most successful companies. Reduce costs, increase quality and accelerate your ROI. eZdia has proven success delivering tens of thousands of written content blocks per month to Fortune 500 Companies. With our platform, we are able to save 30% on average on the cost of content with a measurable increase in quality and engagement. Our mission is to make the web more readable, engaging and enjoyable by connecting growing ecommerce companies with the world's most motivated writers. If we can also create one million jobs by 2020, then consider us satisfied. Headquarters in Silicon Valley, California. The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, ebay, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Bank of America, Chase, HP, HCL, TimesOfIndia and Accenture. Specialties Web Content Writing, Ecommerce Content, SEO & Content Marketing

Humalect

Seed Round in 2022
Humalect is a low-code platform that helps you automate your DevOps.

Bellatrix Aerospace

Series A in 2022
Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion.

Zenduty

Seed Round in 2021
Zenduty is a provider of end-to-end incident alerting, on-call management and response orchestration platform.

AlphaICs

Series B in 2021
Alphaics is advancing AI compute with its patented technology called RAP, which would revolutionize the autonomous systems. Alphaics owns several inventions critical to AI computing. Currently Alphaics is commercializing the RAP (Real AI Processing) for use in Self driving cars, Robotics, Intelligent cloud computing, UAV and more.

SAWO

Seed Round in 2020
SAWO provides a customer-centric, standardized, and device-based secure authentication solution for apps and websites to deliver a seamless user experience, by removing the need for login passwords and OTPs. SAWO provides Authentication as a Service (PaaS) for Indian app publishers and IT/software enterprises deploying authentication for their products. It was founded in 2020 and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

SmarterBiz Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
SmarterBiz is an AI-powered customer experience platform that enables remote management of customer journeys and agent life cycles. SmarterBiz has helped several enterprises, including unicorns build scalable, flexible, and hyper-local customer experience, cost-effectively.

Steradian Semiconductors

Series A in 2020
SteradianSemi is a fabless semiconductor company focused on CMOS millimeter wave products for Radar. Founded by Industry experts in Wireless and RFIC design with more than 50 patents and several publications to their credit.

Jobiak

Seed Round in 2019
Jobiak is an AI-based recruitment marketing platform that publishes job postings to Google, maximizing its visibility and accelerating the flow of qualified candidates. Recruiters, talent acquisition teams, and HR professionals use Jobiak for fast and direct path to posting jobs on Google for Jobs with “three clicks to publish,” all without the need for HTML coding or developer support. It is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, and was founded by Venkat Janapareddy in 2018.

Bellatrix Aerospace

Seed Round in 2019
Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion.

CloudSEK

Seed Round in 2019
At CloudSEK we combine the power of Cyber Crime monitoring, Brand Monitoring, Attack Surface monitoring, and Supply chain intelligence to give context to our customers’ digital risks. Our single unified dashboard allows customers to triage and visualize all digital threats in one place. We also offer workflows and integrations to manage and remediate the identified threats. For more information visit: https://www.CloudSEK.com or email: sales@cloudsek.com

CloudSEK

Seed Round in 2018
At CloudSEK we combine the power of Cyber Crime monitoring, Brand Monitoring, Attack Surface monitoring, and Supply chain intelligence to give context to our customers’ digital risks. Our single unified dashboard allows customers to triage and visualize all digital threats in one place. We also offer workflows and integrations to manage and remediate the identified threats. For more information visit: https://www.CloudSEK.com or email: sales@cloudsek.com

Singularity Dynamics

Seed Round in 2018
The Market today is at an inflexion point with an explosion of newer SW Applications defining a new era of highly connected and automated world based on custom optimized SOC and CPU/NOC designs. Their innovation takes aim at the core chip design technology fueling this revolution and decisively accelerates Rapid Prototyping/Production and Response time to market needs at Lower Cost

Aereo

Seed Round in 2018
Aereo, formerly known as Aarav Unmanned Systems, was founded in 2013 at IIT Kanpur and has since grown to become India's premier homegrown drone manufacturing and solutions company. Based in Bangalore, they specialize in providing enterprise solutions for a variety of industries such as urban and rural development, agriculture, mining, construction, irrigation, forest conservation, renewable energy, and infrastructure development. Their drones are 10X faster & generate million times richer data, helping deliver advanced business intelligence that drives critical decision-making. Being one of the only companies to provide end-to-end drone solutions, they have mapped over 34,000 villages and touched the lives of over 45 million people. Aereo was the first company to launch India’s first DGCA-certified survey-grade PPK drone – Aereo INP. Apart from pushing technology benchmarks, they have intensively worked to impact productivity, people, and the planet through superior aerial intelligence. Aereo is backed by well-known early-stage deep tech investors like Auxano Capital, KARSEMVEN fund, StartupXseed Ventures, 3one4 Capital, GrowX ventures, 500 Durians, Ashok Atluri (MD of Zen Technologies), etc

ShieldSquare

Series A in 2017
Forrester Research has ranked ShieldSquare as a Leader in their New Wave™: Bot Management Report for Q3 2018. ShieldSquare offers a non-intrusive API-based solution to detect and eliminate bad bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. Our solution leverages intent-based deep behavior analysis, device fingerprinting, and domain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. We protect against automated attacks such as account takeover, application DDoS, API abuse, carding, content scraping, ad fraud, form spam, and other fraudulent activities. ShieldSquare safeguards over 80,000 internet properties owned by global online brands spread across 70 countries.

Darwinbox

Series A in 2017
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

Darwinbox

Seed Round in 2016
Darwinbox Digital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is a Hyderabad-based company that specializes in developing cloud-based integrated human resource management and analytics solutions. Founded in 2015, Darwinbox offers a comprehensive HRMS platform designed to enhance employee engagement and streamline HR processes across various functions, including onboarding, payroll, attendance, performance management, and talent management. The platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide features such as an HR voicebot and advanced talent analytics. Recognized as one of the leading human capital management platforms in the Asia-Pacific region, Darwinbox serves over 350 global enterprises, including prominent names like Arvind, Dr. Reddys, and Swiggy, and has a user base of more than 850,000 employees. The company aims to transform the relationship between the workforce and technology, supported by investments from notable firms such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed.

Aibono

Seed Round in 2016
Aibono uses comprehensive data instruments, predictive analytics, and process improvements to help farmers improve yields. The company synchronizes Real-time Production with Real-time Consumption of super perishable Fruits & Vegetables by using Predictive Analytics, Precision Farming, and Just-In-Time harvests. They start right from the sowing stage, monitoring the seed growth and we extend our services till harvest. On the farm, their patent-pending drones, retrofitted with multispectral cameras, fly around capturing data that was previously unavailable to the farmers. They monitor, plant growth, vigor and stress levels due to disease and deficiencies via the drone and our experts on the field carry out advanced nutrient testing, weather and soil measurements across many parameters. Using these data, we provide implementable solutions for your farm managers to help them make precise decisions to counter any situation and improve productivity. Aibono was received the Economic Times Startup Award for the Best Social Enterprise in 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Aereo

Seed Round in 2016
Aereo, formerly known as Aarav Unmanned Systems, was founded in 2013 at IIT Kanpur and has since grown to become India's premier homegrown drone manufacturing and solutions company. Based in Bangalore, they specialize in providing enterprise solutions for a variety of industries such as urban and rural development, agriculture, mining, construction, irrigation, forest conservation, renewable energy, and infrastructure development. Their drones are 10X faster & generate million times richer data, helping deliver advanced business intelligence that drives critical decision-making. Being one of the only companies to provide end-to-end drone solutions, they have mapped over 34,000 villages and touched the lives of over 45 million people. Aereo was the first company to launch India’s first DGCA-certified survey-grade PPK drone – Aereo INP. Apart from pushing technology benchmarks, they have intensively worked to impact productivity, people, and the planet through superior aerial intelligence. Aereo is backed by well-known early-stage deep tech investors like Auxano Capital, KARSEMVEN fund, StartupXseed Ventures, 3one4 Capital, GrowX ventures, 500 Durians, Ashok Atluri (MD of Zen Technologies), etc

Aibono

Seed Round in 2015
Aibono uses comprehensive data instruments, predictive analytics, and process improvements to help farmers improve yields. The company synchronizes Real-time Production with Real-time Consumption of super perishable Fruits & Vegetables by using Predictive Analytics, Precision Farming, and Just-In-Time harvests. They start right from the sowing stage, monitoring the seed growth and we extend our services till harvest. On the farm, their patent-pending drones, retrofitted with multispectral cameras, fly around capturing data that was previously unavailable to the farmers. They monitor, plant growth, vigor and stress levels due to disease and deficiencies via the drone and our experts on the field carry out advanced nutrient testing, weather and soil measurements across many parameters. Using these data, we provide implementable solutions for your farm managers to help them make precise decisions to counter any situation and improve productivity. Aibono was received the Economic Times Startup Award for the Best Social Enterprise in 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
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