# StartupXseed Ventures

> StartupXseed Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 45 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 45
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupxseed-ventures-llp/about/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/startup_xseed
- Website: http://startupxseed.in/

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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $385k–$3M |
| Series A | $1.6M–$15M |
| Series B | $8M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 11 | 24% |
| Software | 10 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 11% |
| Internet | 5 | 11% |

57 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 51% |
| Series A | 7 | 16% |
| Series B | 6 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 21 | 47% |
| United States | 7 | 16% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| B. V. Naidu | Founder & Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-v-naidu |
| Ravi Thakur | Co-Founding Partner | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ravi-thakur-2 |
| J A Chowdary | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/j-a-chowdary |
| Mohandas Pai | Partner | 46 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tv-mohandas-pai |
| V Balakrishnan | Chairman | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/v-balakrishnan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bellatrix Aerospace | Bellatrix Aerospace is an Indian space R&D company that specializes in satellite propulsion. | $20M | Series B | Mar 27, 2026 |  |
| EcoSoul Home | 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 | 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 |  |
| Mugafi | Learn from legends, Building World's first Collaborative Economy |  | Seed | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Mugafi | 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 | Optiwise is a platform for marketplace optimization based in California. | $2.4M | Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| plutos ONE | plutos ONE provides Get quick cash vouchers on your phone from leading brands. | $2M | Seed | Aug 27, 2024 |  |
| Aereo | Aarav Unmanned Systems is a bunch of designers, artists, developers & engineers from IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore & IIST building the future of Drones and their applications in enterprise space. Their Drones provide high-value engineering solutions to enterprises across GIS Surveying/Mapping, Industrial inspection &Precision agriculture. Their drones are 10X faster & generate million X richer data, helping create insightful analytics so that businesses make well-informed decisions. Cost-savings & revenue raise follow naturally. The company develops professional drone solutions for enterprisesAarav Unmanned Systems builds autonomous drones which come with ease of operation and can be operated by any user without specialized training. Drones at AUS are constantly setting world-class tech benchmarks due to tremendous efforts on Drone Intelligence, Hardware optimization & Design innovation for the last 3 years of its existence. The goal is to be global; Having served key players across the verticals, | $15M | Series B | Jul 19, 2024 |  |
| Aereo | AEREO offers drone solutions for mapping, surveying, and analytics across infrastructure, mining, and agriculture sectors. | $15M | Series B | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Contiinex | 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 |  |

10 of 45 investments shown.

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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 45 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 $385k–$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.

### How do I contact StartupXseed Ventures?

Public channels for StartupXseed Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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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