Early-stage startups Chapter Home, TravClan, Karta AI, Harajuku Tokyo Café, and SpectraGaze have secured funding from various investors in separate rounds, the companies said Thursday.
Home and kitchen products company Chapter Home has raised Rs 63 crore through a mix of equity and debt from Bessemer Venture Partners, Stride Ventures, influencer Tanmay Bhat and a group of family offices.
The funding round valued the company close to Rs 1,000 crore, Chapter Home said in a statement.
The company said it will deploy the capital to strengthen product development, expand into newer categories, invest in technology and brand building, and scale omnichannel distribution, including its first physical touchpoints, currently underway.
The company was founded in 2025 by former Pharmeasy executives Nitin Chugh, Akarsh Bharadwaj, Shrey Mittal, Dhiraj Jain and Dheeraj Goyal. It is building focused consumer brands across categories for home and kitchen needs, such as bed and table linen, cookware, home décor and small kitchen appliances, running on a shared platform for sourcing and supply chain, content, technology and distribution.
TravClan, a travel platform, has raised $5 million (about Rs 47.5 crore) from online retailer Flipkart, investment firm August One and debt financing from Trifecta Capital.
The company will use the capital to deepen its global supply network, expand its technology and AI capabilities, and strengthen destination operations across key international markets.
With this round, TravClan has raised over $11 million to date from investors including Leo Capital, The Ventures, Hashed, August One, Flipkart and angel investors.
TravClan said it enables travel agents to plan and price complex international itineraries by combining its supply infrastructure with AI. It brings global inventory, pricing, booking, AI-powered workflows and destination fulfillment into one platform. The company said more than 15,000 travel agents across India use its platform to book flights, hotels, activities and destination services.
Karta AI
Karta AI, an agentic voice AI platform, has raised $3 million in funding led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital, with Wyser VC, CDM Capital, and Seedstars participating in the round.
Founded in 2024 by Vijaypal Singh and Abhishek Kushwaha and based in Bengaluru, Karta AI serves financial institutions across India. The startup builds voice agents that answer inbound customer calls for banks, lenders, fintech and insurance companies. Its platform integrates with enterprise systems, fully absorbing the organizational context and then stitching together the workflows needed for end-to-end automation.
The capital will be used to strengthen the voice AI platform for end-to-end automation and multilingual capabilities, expand deployments with financial institutions, and scale engineering and go-to-market teams.
Harajuku
Harajuku Tokyo Café, the Japanese food and beverage business operating Harajuku Tokyo Café and Harajuku Bakehouse, has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Zero W.
Existing seed investors Indian Angel Network and Samved VC, along with new investors including Blume Founders Fund, Brijesh Parekh Family Office, and Rahul Jain (co-founder of Epigamia) also participated in the round.
Founded in 2021 by Gaurav Kanwar and operated by Craftpac Hospitality, Harajuku is a Japanese food and beverage business with a presence in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. It offers a full-service dining concept featuring conveyor-belt sushi and Tokyo-inspired interiors.
SpectraGaze
GVFL led a Rs 3.7 crore seed funding round in Ahmedabad-based deep-tech startup SpectraGaze Systems Pvt Ltd, which is developing optical imaging sensors and electro-optical payloads for space, defence and scientific applications.
The round also included participation from angel investors and marks its first external fundraise.
Founded in 2023 by former ISRO scientist Arup Banerjee, SpectraGaze is developing imaging technologies and counts customers such as ISRO, the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and Kaynes Technology India Ltd.
The funding will support product development, execution of existing customer programmes, engineering team expansion, testing infrastructure upgrades and business development.
