StartupXseed Ventures
VC Fund
Bangalore, India
StartupXseed Ventures is a VC fund in Bangalore focused on Information Technology and Software. StartupXseed Ventures LLP is the Investment Manager of “Aaruha Technology Fund” registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) as Category I - under Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) Regulations 2012.StartupXseed is a Strategic programme, for supporting the aspiring entrepreneurs with great ideas. StartupXseed is a uniqueprogramme combined with Seed fund, Strategic support, Market Access, Mentorship and closely supported by the Investor/advisory board of StartupXseed. It acts as a “Co-Founder/Seed Partner” in helping innovation to succeed in the Technology and Technology enabled areas across sectors in India.Backed by the team of pioneers of IT, Entrepreneurs, Educationist and Industrialist, the StartupXseed provides small business innovators with a complete structured help of Startup eco system to help navigate the unique challenges of building the sustainable growth businesses in India.
- Total investments:
- 46
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 39%
- Fund size:
- $30M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries StartupXseed Ventures invests in
Stages StartupXseed Ventures invests in
Countries StartupXseed Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $493k–$3M
- Series A
- $1.6M–$15M
- Series B
- $8M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Information Technology 11 (24%)
- Software 10 (22%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (15%)
- SaaS 6 (13%)
- Internet 5 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (50%)
- Series A 7 (15%)
- Series B 6 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Country
- India 21 (46%)
- United States 7 (15%)
- Germany 1 (2%)
- Singapore 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
B. V. Naidu
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Ravi Thakur
Co-Founding Partner
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Co-Founding Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
J A Chowdary
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Mohandas Pai
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 49 | Find email | |
V Balakrishnan
Chairman
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Chairman | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $20M / Series B / Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| EcoSoul is a company that creates bio-based and organic household items. The company's products are made from natural materials such as areca palm leaves, birchwood, bamboo, and corn starch to create eco-friendly goods that are compostable and free of toxins, plastics, or chemicals. | $17M / Series B / Sep 16, 2025 | ||
| CloudSEK provides AI-driven cybersecurity solutions that help organizations identify, monitor, and respond to digital risks and external threats. Its platform uses contextual artificial intelligence to scan a wide range of online sources, offering insights into data leaks, brand impersonation, exposed infrastructure, and supply chainvulnerabilities. CloudSEK’s suite includes tools for digital risk protection, attack surface monitoring, supply chain risk tracking, and proactive threat intelligence alerts that support security teams in prioritizing and addressing potential issues. The technology correlates threat data across surface web, deep web, and dark web signals to give contextualized alerts and visibility into an organization’s external attack surface. CloudSEK also supports integration of its threat insights into existing security systems to streamline risk management workflows. | $19M / Series B / May 20, 2025 | ||
| Learn from legends, Building World's first Collaborative Economy | Seed / Apr 09, 2025 | ||
| Mugafi is a next-generation entertainment company engineering original IPs through a powerful blend of AI, imagination, and cultural storytelling. Combining proprietary AI tools with a creator-first platform, Mugafi enables the development of stories into comics, films, games, and virtual assets at scale. With 30,000+ creators, partnerships acrossIndia, GCC, and SEA, and breakout projects like Kubera, Mugafi is building a vertically integrated studio system — from script ideation to global franchise monetization. | $3M / Seed / Apr 09, 2025 | ||
| Optiwise is a platform for marketplace optimization based in California. | $2.4M / Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | ||
| plutos ONE provides Get quick cash vouchers on your phone from leading brands. | $2M / Seed / Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Aereo, formerly known as Aarav Unmanned Systems, was founded in 2013 at IIT Kanpur and has since grown to become India's premier homegrown drone manufacturing and solutions company. Based in Bangalore, they specialize in providing enterprise solutions for a variety of industries such as urban and rural development, agriculture, mining,construction, irrigation, forest conservation, renewable energy, and infrastructure development.Their drones are 10X faster & generate million times richer data, helping deliver advanced business intelligence that drives critical decision-making. Being one of the only companies to provide end-to-end drone solutions, they have mapped over 34,000 villages and touched the lives of over 45 million people. Aereo was the first company to launch India’s first DGCA-certified survey-grade PPK drone – Aereo INP. Apart from pushing technology benchmarks, they have intensively worked to impact productivity, people, and the planet through superior aerial intelligence.Aereo is backed by well-known early-stage deep tech investors like Auxano Capital, KARSEMVEN fund, StartupXseed Ventures, 3one4 Capital, GrowX ventures, 500 Durians, Ashok Atluri (MD of Zen Technologies), etc | $15M / Series B / Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| AEREO offers drone solutions for mapping, surveying, and analytics across infrastructure, mining, and agriculture sectors. | $15M / Series B / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| Contiinex is an operator in the speech AI market. It analyzes audio files to assist organizations in better understanding their clients and making tactical business choices. | $2M / Seed / Aug 17, 2023 | ||
| See all 46 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does StartupXseed Ventures invest in?
StartupXseed Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 46 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is StartupXseed Ventures's check size?
StartupXseed Ventures typically joins rounds of $493k–$3M at Seed, $1.6M–$15M at Series A and $8M–$20M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds StartupXseed Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at StartupXseed Ventures?
The team at StartupXseed Ventures includes B. V. Naidu (Founder & Managing Partner), Ravi Thakur (Co-Founding Partner) and J A Chowdary (Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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