Preventive healthcare company Cent, social-gaming platform Matiks, luxury watch brand Rotoris, US markets trading platform Mochatrade, deeptech startup Nova Spectral AI, trivia app dubdub, defence-tech startup Paar Autonomy, childcare startup Maasi, AI hardware design startup CopperPilot and physical AI startup Tensrai have secured fresh funding.
Preventive health intelligence company Cent has raised $15 million (around Rs 143 crore) in a Series A round co-led by Blume Ventures and existing investor South Park Commons (SPC), with participation from individual investors including former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, former OpenAI B2B CTO Srinivas Narayanan, Sharath Narayana, Krishna Sridhar and Aprameya Radhakrishna.
Cent was started in 2025 by Shashank ND, founder of Practo and OneFlow Holdings, former Ola Electric CMO Anshul Khandelwal and former Lenskart product head Arpit Garg. The company is building a preventive healthcare platform combining purpose-built hardware, AI-driven radiology and diagnostics, and bioinformatics. Cent said that it has completed 10,000 preventive whole-body scans across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi since inception.
The round comprises equity and debt, and the company has also acquired Medsee, an AI-powered radiology reporting platform founded by Chitra Singh.
Matiks
Social-gaming platform Matiks has raised $10 million (around Rs 95 crore) in a pre-Series A funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and existing investors Info Edge Ventures, Tanglin Venture Partners and Untitled Ventures.
Founded in 2024 by Sudhanshu Bhatia, Sushant and Mohan, the platform offers mentally challenging games across mathematics, memory, logic and puzzles, including head-to-head duels and daily challenges. Matiks said 2.2 million people played 48 million games on its platform in September 2026.
The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand internationally, develop new games and launch an artificial intelligence-powered game creation platform that will let users build and publish games without coding.
Matiks will initially prioritise expansion in the US before entering other major markets.
Rotoris
Gurugram-backed Rotoris, an independent luxury watch brand, has raised Rs 70 crore (around $7.4 million) in a Series A funding round led by Blume Ventures, with participation from 9Unicorns, Centricity, and a group of family offices and individual investors.
Co-founded by Aakash Anand, who previously built and exited Bella Vita, and Prerna Gupta, Rotoris launched its first collection of 2,100 numbered timepieces in February 2026.
The company will use the fresh capital for research and development, expanding production and growing its Rotoris House retail presence in India and overseas. The company plans to expand internationally, including to New York, as it seeks to build an Indian luxury watch brand for global markets.
Rotoris said nearly 100,000 people have registered for access to its watches, with 40% of demand coming from markets outside India, including the US, Dubai and Australia.
Mochatrade, a trading platform targeting Indian investors seeking exposure to US markets, has raised $5.5 million (around Rs 52 crore) in seed funding led by CoinFund, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Zero Knowledge Ventures and other investors.
Earlier backers include Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund.
Founded by Utkarsh Sinha, Chetan Manda and Parth Maheshwari, the company allows users to fund accounts through UPI, track margins and profits or losses in rupees, and take long or short positions through perpetual futures contracts linked to US company stock prices, without owning the underlying shares.
The startup is part of Y Combinator’s Spring 2026 batch and claims it has crossed 25,000 sign-ups on its waitlist.
The company will use the fresh capital to develop its trading technology and risk infrastructure and acquire more active traders in India.
Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup Nova Spectral AI, which is developing short-wave infrared (SWIR) image sensor chips for defence and consumer applications, has raised Rs 21.15 crore (around $2.2 million) in a seed funding round led by Shastra VC, with participation from Equirus InnovateX Fund and angel investors.
Founded by Dr Anish Priyadarshi and Sanjeev Kumar, the company is developing chips using indium arsenide colloidal quantum dots and standard silicon CMOS manufacturing processes. It claims that the technology is designed to enable drones, surveillance systems, robots and autonomous vehicles to capture images at night and through smoke, haze and dust. Nova Spectral AI aims to reduce sensor costs by up to 100 times compared with conventional indium gallium arsenide technology, which is largely imported.
The company will use the fresh capital to expand its team and develop a field-ready prototype within 18 months. It has received an in-principle go-ahead to incubate at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, according to co-founder and CEO Priyadarshi.
Trivia and puzzle app dubdub has raised $1.3 million (around Rs 12.3 crore) in a seed funding round led by 3one4 Capital, Antler and Stellaris Venture Partners.
Founded in 2026 by Kaustubh Priye and Supan Shah, the startup offers interactive content across more than 20 categories including cricket, Bollywood, pop culture, mythology, general knowledge and logical reasoning.
The app uses artificial intelligence and user interactions to personalise challenges, while allowing users to compete with friends and compare scores. The founders previously built Aldun, a health-tech company focused on hospital insurance processing and patient discharge, which was acquired by Care.Fi.
Bengaluru-based defence technology Paar Autonomy, which is developing perception systems and autonomous software for unmanned platforms, has raised over Rs 10 crore (around $1.05 million) in a seed funding round led by AdvantEdge Founders.
Founded in June 2024 by Vignesh Sivaram Jayaraman, the company develops electro-optical and infrared sensor payloads and GPS independent navigation systems for drones and unmanned platforms across land, air and sea. The company also develops onboard AI software that enables unmanned systems to execute missions in environments where GPS signals and communication links are disrupted.
Paar Autonomy will use the fresh capital to scale up its aerial payloads into serial production, establish a dedicated manufacturing and testing facility in Bengaluru, and complete field validation of its NorthStar navigation system.
Bengaluru-based childcare startup Maasi has raised Rs 6 crore (around $630,000) in a pre-seed funding round led by Better Capital, with participation from Antler India and angel investors including Rapido co-founder Rishikesh SR, Shadowfax co-founder Vaibhav Khandelwal, Xoxoday co-founder Sumit Khandelwal, Siddhant Goyal of Crane VC and Sanjay Ramakrishnan of Multiply Ventures.
Founded by Aashu Manchali, Gargi Pandey and Reshov Roy, the company provides verified and trained nannies for families. It said its caregivers undergo a training programme led by preschool directors, nurses and former airline cabin crew trainers.
Maasi said its public launch on October 20 attracted more than 4,000 parents to its waitlist within five days. The company has served over 1,200 parents through a network of more than 500 caregivers and is growing 20% week on week, according to the startup.
AI design agent for electronics hardware CopperPilot has raised $390,000 (around Rs 3.7 crore) in a pre-seed funding round led by Neon Fund, with participation from US-based angel investors.
Founded in October 2025 by Aditya NG, Mohit Bagur and Anish Harsha, the startup develops software that converts plain-language descriptions into circuit board designs, automating tasks such as component selection, schematic creation and board routing.
It has published around 30 open-source circuit boards for inspection and has paying customers across the US, UK and Europe, alongside users in India and other markets.
The fresh capital will be used for product research and engineering to improve the AI agent’s speed, reliability and capabilities, as well as to expand the engineering team.
Hyderabad-based physical AI startup Tensrai has received an undisclosed pre-seed investment from Finvolve and India Accelerator.
Founded in 2022 by Nikhil Gona, the company is building a retrofittable autonomy platform, which combines computer vision, AI based localisation, navigation and mission planning, which helps existing machines and robots to operate autonomously, including in GPS-denied environments.
The investment will support technology development, engineering, deployments and market expansion. Tensrai is targeting applications such as material handling and cleaning across factories, warehouses, airports, hospitals, malls and commercial campuses. It is also developing a general-purpose mobile manipulator combining autonomous mobility with robotic arms for tasks spanning manufacturing, construction and material movement.
Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.