Fashion startup Littlebox, factory digitization firm DesignX, metering platform Flexprice, street snacks brand Wah! Puchka Wah! Litti, and recruitment firm Vahan.ai have secured funding in early-stage rounds. Vahan.ai also acquired upskilling platform L.earn from Temasek-backed GoodWorker.
Fast fashion brand Littlebox has raised Rs 17.5 crore (about $2.1 million) in its maiden funding round led by Huddle Ventures and Prath Ventures, with participation from a group of angel investors.
Guwahati-based Littlebox said the funding will be used to deepen category verticals, strengthen the UI/UX and logistics experience, invest in packaging and consumer experience, and scale marketing efforts.
Founded in 2022 by Rimjim Deka and Partha Kakati, the direct-to-consumer (D2C) fashion platform offers trend-led fashion for Gen Z shoppers. It operates on a real-time retail model with weekly product drops and a 25-day stock cycle to minimize dead stock. It has a 40,000-sq-ft facility in Noida and introduces around 100 new SKUs every week.
DesignX, a digital transformation platform for factory operations, has secured $2 million (Rs 17.5 crore) in a pre-Series A round from Rockstud Capital, We Founder Circle, Piper Serica, and some of its clients.
Founded in 2015 by brothers Rajat and Nishant Srivastava, the Noida-headquartered company digitizes operations for manufacturers through its flagship offering, Digital Factory Operating System (Df-OS), which enables digitization of 600-plus factory processes via a comprehensive library of configurable forms and workflows. The platform integrates with ERP systems, IoT devices, and enterprise tools to create a unified digital infrastructure.
The capital will be used to enhance the platform’s capabilities, deepen industry integrations, and expand domestically and internationally.
Billing and metering platform Flexprice has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding to deepen its open-source offerings for AI and agentic AI companies.
The round was led by early-stage VC firm TDV Partners, with participation from operators and angel investors such as Magicpin co-founder Brij Bhushan, Zomato senior executives Gunjan Patidar, Ram Singla and Pradyot Ghate, Innovaccer co-founder Sandeep Gupta, Observe.AI co-founder Akash Singh, and Aftershoot founder Harshit Dwivedi.
Flexprice said it will expand its engineering team, accelerate integrations with popular payment gateways, and deepen its open-source offerings such as billing stack for AI and agentic companies. It is working with early-stage AI companies building LLM tools, search infrastructure, and real-time analytics engines.
Founded this year by Manish Choudhary, Koshima Satija, and Nikhil Mishra, the company offers developers a modular billing layer, supporting usage-based and hybrid pricing. Its plug-and-play architecture integrates with payment providers like Stripe, Adyen, and Razorpay, helping AI companies scale efficiently and avoid vendor lock-in.
Wah! Puchka Wah! Litti, a quick service restaurant QSR startup, has raised $230,000 in funding from Wow! Momo co-founder Sagar Daryani, Dot & Key co-founder Abhishek Rungta, and other angel investors.
Founded by Deepak Kumar, Wah! Puchka Wah! Litti sells street snacks operating 18 outlets in Kolkata, serving over 200,000 customers so far. It recently launched its own D2C platform, wahfoods.com, offering 30-minute delivery.
With the fresh capital, the company plans to open 19 more outlets in Kolkata, strengthen its core team, and build systems to set up 100 outlets across six metro cities in the next two years.
Vahan.ai, a recruitment platform, has secured strategic investment from Singapore-based LemmaTree, an investment firm founded by Temasek, and announced the acquisition of upskilling tech platform L.earn from GoodWorker. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded by Madhav Krishna, Vahan.ai has placed over 1 million blue-collar workers across 920 cities and currently facilitates about 40,000 placements per month, working with clients like Zepto, Swiggy, Blinkit, and Zomato.
The startup said it will primarily deploy the capital to enhance its proprietary tech stack, including the development of advanced AI capabilities for large-scale, multilingual recruitment. It plans to add support for eight Indian languages, enabling deeper access in tier II and III markets. The firm also plans to expand its footprint across India and international markets such as Southeast Asia and MENA region.
Meanwhile, the acquisition of L.earn adds an upskilling component tailored for gig and frontline workers in logistics, manufacturing, and retail sectors.
