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Autonomous AI startup Redapto has raised $500K in a pre-seed round led by Y Combinator to advance its full-lifecycle customer engagement systems.

The funding will support deeper work across activation, expansion, and lifecycle personalization, along with improvements to data pipelines and AI accuracy.

Founded in 2025 by Anirudh Pupneja and Cheril Shah, Redapto builds AI systems that identify churn risks, surface expansion opportunities, and equip account teams with detailed customer signals. Its platform manages personalized engagement across onboarding, retention, renewal, and other touchpoints by integrating with engagement, marketing, and CRM systems.

The company claims its AI audits 100% of customer interactions across chat, voice, and email to detect quality issues, knowledge gaps, and potential “hallucinations” in real time.

Redapto reports strong early demand from marketplaces and product-led SaaS companies where customer volume makes automated lifecycle management essential.

Dream11 has started moving beyond fantasy gaming, rolling out a new sports entertainment experience built around creator-led watch-alongs, fan reactions, banter streams, and free-to-play fantasy formats. 

The company said the product is designed as a second-screen experience that complements live sports broadcasts, aimed at deeper engagement for its user base of more than 250 million. 

Founded in 2008 by Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth, Dream11 is now restructuring its broader operations under Dream Sports to support the pivot. The shift follows the government ban on real-money games for stakes, after which the platform closed all paid fantasy contests and began focusing on free-to-play models and creator-driven sports content. 

The move also aligns with Dream Sports’ growing portfolio. The parent company recently launched Dream Money, a personal finance app that lets users invest in digital gold, open fixed deposits, and track expenses and assets by linking bank accounts. 

Speaking at a press briefing, Harsh Jain said the team has been working on this transition over the past few months. The goal is to offer fans a place to watch matches with creators, join conversations, and explore new engagement formats that run alongside live sports. 

The updated Dream11 product works more like a community-based streaming platform than a game, taking cues from global creator watch-along models. Independent streamers will be able to host their own match sessions, grow fan communities, and monetise through advertising. A major share of ad revenue will go to creators. 

Jain added that many sports viewers already use a second device while watching live events, creating a wider global opportunity for Dream11 as it expands into the sports entertainment market. 

TIDA Sports, a multi-sport training and coaching company focused on young athletes, has raised Rs 3 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures.

The company plans to expand its presence across five states and 30 cities, upgrade its technology stack, strengthen its B2B partnerships, bring more certified coaches onboard, and increase its on-ground outreach efforts.

Founded in 2023 by Adit Goel, Sumeet Malik, Priyansh Matta and Sanchit Budhiraja, TIDA Sports works with schools and local sports academies to offer structured training programs. The platform aims to support young players through a model that connects coaching, competition exposure and academic balance.

The startup has partnered with institutions including GD Goenka, DPS, DAV and Aravali to run and enhance their sports programs. It has conducted more than 100 tournaments and has trained players who have gone on to compete at state and national levels.

TIDA Sports currently operates in Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana with training centers across Rishikesh, Haridwar, Dehradun, Chandigarh tricity, Patiala, Jalandhar, Ambala, Amritsar, Ludhiana and Ferozepur. With over 150 academies in its network, the company aims to enter larger cities and build a broader sports development ecosystem across India.

Mirror Security, a cybersecurity company has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Sure Valley Ventures and Atlantic Bridge. 

The company plans to use the capital to expand its engineering and AI security teams across Ireland, the US and India, advance work on encrypted inferencing and secure fine-tuning, and strengthen its presence in the US enterprise market. 

Founded in 2024 by Pankaj Thapa and Aditya Narayana K, Mirror Security was spun out of University College Dublin. The startup builds a platform designed to help enterprises run AI systems without exposing sensitive information during training or inference. Its offering includes AgentIQ for agentic system security, DiscoveR for automated red-teaming, and VectaX, a fully homomorphic encryption engine that allows computation on encrypted data. 

Mirror has also signed a strategic agreement with G42’s Inception AI to deploy its platform across enterprise and government environments. The company said it is working with partners including Intel, MongoDB, Qdrant, SiSys AI and Accops to support its expansion. 

The startup aims to reduce the operational risks organisations face when processing proprietary or regulated data through AI systems. 

Mannjal, a full-stack lending infrastructure startup, has raised ₹17.5 crore in seed funding from Arali Ventures and B Capital, with additional backing from Sparrow Capital and Gemba Capital.

The funding will support expansion of Mannjal’s lender network and advance product development across its credit-technology platform.

Founded in 2023 by Prashant Adurty, Aman Bhargava, and Harshit Lingamneni, the Bengaluru-based company operates a full-stack lending system that helps financial institutions distribute priority-sector and impact-linked credit products at scale.

The platform enables digital and physical data journeys, integrates external information sources, and structures borrower data for credit analysis.

Institutions using Mannjal can configure workflows for risk, operations, and business teams. The company says lenders on its platform have seen reduced turnaround times and higher sanction ratios.

Mannjal has facilitated around ₹1,000 crore in disbursements over the last 18 months, spanning unsecured business loans, loans against property, and affordable housing finance. The platform currently partners with over 75 lenders.

CoreOps.AI, an enterprise-focused software firm, has secured $3.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round spearheaded by Siana Capital Management, alongside contributions from Kettlebrough, Aroa Venture Partners, and several angel investors.

The new capital will fuel growth in engineering resources, quicker product build cycles, and large-scale deployments for enterprise users.

CoreOps.AI, launched in 2024 by founders Rajesh Janey, Ankur Sharma, Rajnish Gupta, and Rajiv Srivastava, provides an AI-led solution that enables big organisations to refresh outdated systems, bring data together, and optimise operations.

The company says its platform supports more than 20 enterprise use cases across sectors including manufacturing, financial services, retail, and healthcare.

CoreOps.AI positions its model as a platform-first approach that replaces long consulting cycles with automation-led upgrades and integrated data workflows.

Apparel startup ReplyAll has raised ₹6.8 crore in its first funding round led by Sparrow Capital and Antler India.  

Bharat Founders Fund, DeVC, and several D2C entrepreneurs including Shantanu Deshpande, Revant Bhate, Ashish Goel, Sangeet Agarwal, Navin Parwal, Nikhil Bhandarkar, and Arjun Vaidya also participated. 

The capital will help the company build out product development, expand its material and design pipeline, and strengthen its market reach. Part of the focus includes developing technical fabrics and adaptive designs that support versatile everyday use. 

Founded by Rushabh Sanghavi, ReplyAll operates in the all-day clothing category, creating apparel intended for continuous wear across work, movement, travel, and daily routines. The company’s model is rooted in material science and fabric engineering, tailored to India’s climate and consumer behaviour.

ReplyAll is debuting with a men’s clothing line made using fabrics engineered for breathability, thermoregulation, sweat resistance, and stretch. The company positions itself away from fast fashion, and instead focuses on purpose-built wardrobe essentials suited for modern urban lifestyles.