Bengaluru, July 28: Antler India unveiled nine early-stage startups emerging from its portfolio of earliest bets, introducing founders building solutions across artificial intelligence, climate technology, enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, mobility, and health tech.
After spending months building in stealth with Antler’s support, these startups made their public debut at the Antler India Showcase, where they presented their products, early traction, and long-term vision to investors, ecosystem leaders, and industry stakeholders.
The past editions of Antler Showcase have hosted portfolio startups such as Armory, HouseEazy, Milo, Infer, Dusq and many more that have ended up raising tens of millions of $ from top-tier VCs.
The newly unveiled startups include the following:
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Aspera Industries ,Founded by Khushi Mittal
Aspera Industries is building the world’s most efficient cargo aircraft: the Eureka, a fully autonomous amphibious seaplane that turns 71% of the planet covered by water into a runway. Instead of a conventional hull, Eureka uses a hydrofoil to take off, moving cargo at just -$0.4 per tonne-km, 5x cheaper than conventional air freight, and bringing the speed of air to routes that today depend on slow ocean shipping. The team has already taken the aircraft from design through simulation to a working-scale prototype whose water tests validated the core physics and is now scaling toward larger prototypes and first flight, positioning Aspera to redraw the economics of global cargo.
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MEINE Electric , Founded by Priyansh Mohan and Stuti Kakkar
Meine Electric is pioneering the world’s first fast-charging iron-air battery for Long-Duration Energy Storage. By shrinking charge times from 100 hours to just 6 hours, paired with an 18-hour discharge, the company uses its low-cost, reversible rusting batteries to provide 24/7, reliable green baseload power, directly paired with renewables at a fraction of the cost of all other energy storage technologies, serving utilities and heavy industries as the first mover in the high-growth APAC-MEA market. The team has de-risked the science with 11 patents and independent validation and secured a pilot with India’s largest power producer, with over 100 MWh+ in signed commercial interest.
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Wavelength, Founded by Ishaan Gupta, Vinit Sarode, and Jayanth Emmadi
Wavelength is an AI matchmaker that brings back the “third person” dating apps that have lost someone who knows both people deeply, sees what they can’t see in themselves or each other, and stays involved after the match. Their bet: finding love is a clarity problem, not a supply problem. Early traction proves it women say yes to 70% of introductions , giving 1 in 3 men a match vs. under 1 in 100 elsewhere, and 60% of matched users keep coming back to talk to Wave post-match, a retention signal almost unheard of in dating.
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Rovia , Founded by Shivang Badaya and Arnav Grover
Rovia is the first full-stack wealth platform helping RSU-holding professionals unlock and grow wealth trapped by broken international infrastructure. In under six months since launch, they have blitzscaled to $100M+ in assets tracked.
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Cravv , Founded by Manthan Desai and Prithvi Shetty
Cravv is building the brain of the kitchen. Its first device sits above your stove, uses computer vision to read the pan in real time, what’s in it, how hot it is, and when it’s done, and talks you through the dish, its recipe as you cook. Hand it to someone who’s never cooked, and they’ll make something they didn’t believe they could. Fifty testers so far have had the same reaction every time: ‘Wait, I made this?’ The device is the wedge. Every dish cooked on it teaches the model how real kitchens work, and that becomes the layer cooktops, appliances and robots plug into. Guidance today, actuation next, and the autonomous kitchen after that. Whoever owns the brain owns the kitchen, and nobody owns it yet. Prithvi (Posha, cooking automation) and Manthan (Jumbotail) went from concept to working alpha in six months.
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Resollect ,Founded by Abhishek Rao
Resollect is India’s AI-first, full-stack platform for NPA recovery, connecting lenders, recovery agencies, legal vendors, and auction participants into a single automated workflow. In under a year of operation, they have crossed 19 Cr+ ARR across 4 enterprise clients.
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Naptick Labs , Founded by Anubhab Goel and Nadeem Shaikh
Naptick is the AI-first, full-stack sleep companion bedside hardware that reads and acts on your bedroom environment, with proprietary Nap Agents personalising sleep guidance every night. In under six months from cash-in-bank, we shipped 50+ devices to US customers, deployed $250K, and grew preorders +211% week-over-week. and earned coverage in T3 Magazine and Android Guys. Backed by prominent Bay Area angels, now raising $2M to scale GTM, build sleep lab and scale manufacturing
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Hexo Labs , Founded by Kunal Bhatia and Vignesh Baskaran
Hexo is a neolab building continuous learning infrastructure that helps enterprises switch from closed-model providers to open-weight models, cutting token spend by 90% and letting them own their critical AI infrastructure. Engineers at some of the world’s largest enterprises use Hexo’s SIA to build and own their models. The team’s research credibility backs this up: 5 papers accepted and presented at ICML Seoul 2026, a strong SF-based research team with 6+ AI PhDs, and an open-source product already used by teams at Microsoft, AMD, and large financial institutions.
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Kenko , Founded by Vistar Singh and Rajat Hans
Kenko AI tackles a real problem: local service businesses in the US – gyms, salons, and therapy clinics – spend 5 hours a day on marketing, ops, and finance work they were never trained for. Kenko replaces all of it with three Al agents, turning five hours into five minutes. The traction backs it up: 400+ businesses, $4.6M ARR on $100M in payments volume, a US-based founder and sales team, and $150K+ in new ARR added every month.
Collectively, the cohort reflects Antler India’s continued focus on backing exceptional founders building category-defining companies from Day Zero. While operating across diverse industries, these startups share a common ambition of leveraging breakthrough technologies to solve large-scale global challenges.
Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner, Antler India, said,
“This cohort reflects the incredible depth of founder ambition we’re seeing emerge from India. Across AI, climate, enterprise software, fintech, mobility, healthtech and consumer technology, these founders are building solutions with global relevance from Day Zero. AI is no longer confined to a single sector; it is becoming the foundational layer across industries, enabling startups to solve complex problems faster and unlock entirely new business models. We believe the next generation of category-defining companies will be AI-native, globally ambitious, and built from India, and we’re excited to partner with these founders at the earliest stage of their journey.”
Nitin Sharma, Partner, Antler India, said,
“The future belongs to founders who combine deep domain expertise with AI-first thinking. What stands out in this cohort is the diversity of problems being addressed from scientific research and financial services to energy, mobility, consumer experiences and enterprise automation, all powered by advances in AI. As AI continues to reshape every industry, we expect startups like these to redefine how businesses operate and how people live and work. At Antler, our conviction remains unchanged: back exceptional founders early, equip them with the right ecosystem, and help build globally significant technology companies from India.”
The Showcase offered investors an early look at the next generation of startups before they begin their fundraising journeys, with each company presenting its vision, product, market opportunity, and growth roadmap.
Following the Showcase, Antler India hosted an exclusive Investor Mixer, bringing together venture capital firms, angel investors, corporate leaders, and ecosystem partners to engage directly with the founders and explore investment opportunities.
As these startups enter the market and prepare for their next phase of growth, Antler India continues to strengthen its role in identifying and backing ambitious founders building globally relevant businesses from India.