Medical coding platform Arintra, domestic help startup Pronto, electronics design manufacturing firm Brandworks, communications startup Comminent, retail platform ZenZebra, and medtech startup Cureous Labs have secured funding in early-stage rounds.
Separately, visa processing platform StampMyVisa has acquired Kunal Shah-backed travel tech startup Teleport to expand visa services.
Arintra
Arintra, an autonomous medical coding platform for healthcare providers, has garnered $21 million (around Rs 183 crore) in Series A funding led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Endeavor Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Counterpart Ventures, Spider Capital, Ten13, and other strategic investors.
The startup said the investment will fuel product development, scale up its team, and open a new San Francisco headquarters to meet rising demand.
Founded by Preeti Bhargava and Nitesh Shroff, Arintra’s GenAI native platform combines large language models with clinical knowledge graphs to interpret patient charts in context and apply specialty-specific coding guidelines.The platform integrates with leading electronic health record systems (EHRs) such as Epic and Athena.
Household help platform Pronto has raised $11 million (around Rs 96 crore) in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital, with participation from existing investor Bain Capital Ventures (BCV).
The startup said the funding will support the onboarding and training of 10,000 more professionals, investment in quality‑assurance systems, and rollout of real‑time operations technology that drives its shift‑based model.
Over the next 12-18 months, Pronto plans to expand beyond Gurugram into Mumbai, Bengaluru, and other metros, setting up micro‑hubs across key residential clusters to guarantee fulfillments in less than 10-minutes.
Pronto, founded in 2024 by Anjali Sardana, offers a 10‑minute, shift‑based model for on‑demand home services for urban households. The platform connects households with trained, background‑verified professionals for everyday tasks such as cleaning, laundry, utensil washing, and basic meal prep. It operates on a hyperlocal hub‑and‑spoke model.
Early-growth venture capital firm Cactus Partners has led a $7 million (around Rs 61 crore) Series A round in electronics design-led manufacturing company Brandworks Technologies Pvt. Ltd, marking Cactus' eleventh investment and its third in the manufacturing sector.
Brandworks Technologies is a manufacturing firm which makes AI hardware, IoT solutions, advanced audio systems, charging technologies, financial devices, surveillance systems, and renewable energy products.
The company said it will expand and upgrade its R&D centers, build partnerships and customer relationships in international markets, and invest in next-generation product platforms. It also looks to scale manufacturing through new production lines and to hire top engineering, design, and operations talent.
Refold AI
Refold AI has emerged from stealth mode, securing $6.5 million (nearly Rs 57 crore) in funding to build an AI-native infrastructure for the service sector.
The seed round was led by Eniac Ventures and Tidal Ventures with participation from Better Capital, Ahead VC, Karman Ventures, Z21 and angel investors.
The startup intends to use the fresh capital to expand its engineering team, deepen product integrations, and support its growing enterprise customer base.
It currently works with over 30 paying enterprise customers, including Incorta and Naehas.
Founded by the team behind JustDoc (acquired by Reliance) — Jugal Anchalia and Abhishek Kumar — Refold AI is an AI-native platform that helps enterprise solutions to be integrated with the customer's operations fast.
Deep-tech communications startup Comminent has raised $2 million (around Rs 17.5 crore) in funding from energy transition-focused Bengaluru-headquartered fund Transition VC, as it expands portfolio across smart metering rollout and unlocks opportunities in broader smart city applications such as smart lighting, water metering, and intelligent infrastructure management.
The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, building intelligent, device-agnostic IoT infrastructure for smart cities and utilities, said it will scale up hiring, strengthen its manufacturing automation, and build strategic inventory to service demand at speed and scale.
Founded by Amarjeet Kumar and Vikas Kashyap, Comminent is involved in large-scale smart infrastructure deployments of last-mile communication. Its solutions include radio frequency (RF) mesh modules, edge gateways, and a network management stack. The company’s platform is built to integrate across device types and utility systems.
Retail startup ZenZebra has raised an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed funding round led by Delhi-headquartered Rukam Capital.
The startup said it is looking to scale across urban India by setting up shopping centres into places such as co-working hubs, fitness centres, hotels, and educational campuses. With the fresh funds, it plans to expand its touchpoints across Indian cities, and enhance its technology capabilities to enable real-time consumer engagement, while strengthening partnerships with emerging Indian brands.
The company has so far worked with over 150 Indian startups in the lifestyle and consumer brands category, offering them an offline channel for customer discovery at touchpoints.
Founded in 2024 by Tanmay Jain and Gurpreet Juneja, ZenZebra offers curated brand setups into high-traffic spaces such as Awfis, Smartworks, and The Lodhi by DLF, enabling shoppers to discover useful, exciting products organically as part of their daily routines.
Medtech startup Cureous Labs has raised Rs 1.66 crore ($190,000) in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), with participation from Anthill Ventures.
The company will use the funding to manufacture the first batch of Cureous’ flagship automated patient repositioning systems that helps prevent bedsores, called Eturnal, build inventory, and scale commercial operations through strategic hiring in sales and business development. It will also invest in the launch of its disinfection centre for safe product testing and certifications, and expand the product portfolio for B2B customers across India.
Cureous Labs, led by Asish Mohandas, has developed Eturnal which is retrofittable, and the company claims that these systems have been deployed across hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and home care settings.
StampMyVisa
Business-to-business (B2B) visa platform StampMyVisa, which is in advanced talks to raise funding, has acquired travel tech startup Teleport, backed by CRED founder Kunal Shah, Meesho CEO Vidit Aatrey, and former RedBus CEO Phanindra Sama, in line with the company's plan to scale visa services across India and Southeast Asia.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“With this acquisition, we are bringing together the best of both worlds: Teleport’s consumer innovation and SMV’s scalable visa infrastructure,” said Rahul Borude, co-founder and CEO at StampMyVisa.
Founded in 2023, StampMyVisa offers visa processing, enabling travel agents, corporates, OTAs, and MICE companies to process visas for over 60 countries. In just six months, the company has processed more than 50,000 visas and scaled revenue 4x in eight months, the startup claimed. It is also in advanced talks to raise $3 million