Here is the list of top startups by Anna University Alumni
Retailer of South Indian snacks and sweets. The company offers a variety of traditional sweets, snacks, and coffee products. It provides items such as milk mixes, chips, papads, pickles, and powders.
Key facts about Sweet Karam Coffee
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Chennai (India)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $15M
- Investors: Fireside Ventures, Peak XV Partners and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 18, 2026, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 74/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 770 Competitors
2. Fresh Bus
Operator of intercity bus services using electric vehicle transport fleets. These services provide scheduled passenger transportation between cities using battery-powered vehicles. The business manages booking systems for seat reservations and maintains infrastructure for vehicle charging and passenger boarding. Operations include the deployment of buses equipped with seating and climate control systems to facilitate travel between designated transit points.
Key facts about Fresh Bus
- Founded Year: 2019
- Location: Bengaluru (India)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $15.6M
- Investors: Maniv Mobility, Ixigo and 24 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 30, 2026, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 73/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 11 Competitors
3. Ai Palette
AI-powered platform for CPG innovation, trend discovery, and product development. It is a SaaS platform that helps consumer packaged goods brands discover emerging trends in real-time, create new product concepts, and virtually validate them. The platform offers solutions for marketing, R&D innovation, and consumer insights, catering to various industries like flavor and fragrance houses, and ingredient companies. It provides tools like Foresight Engine, Concept Genie, Screen Winner, FoodGPT, and Brand SAY to monitor brand equity and accelerate innovation. The platform uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide data-driven insights for faster, cost-effective brand discovery, launch, and growth. It helps in innovation, renovation, and optimizing product portfolios. The platform offers resources like blogs, reports, webinars, and case studies. It is a cloud based platform that offers subscription based services.
Key facts about Ai Palette
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Singapore (Singapore)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $12.7M
- Investors: Exfinity Venture Partners, pi Ventures and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 24, 2024, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 71/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 3 of 1,419 Competitors

4. Talview
AI-powered interviewing and proctoring platform for enterprises. It provides an online video interview feature that allows recruiters to assess candidates soft skills, motivation, gauge emotions, analyze tone, psycholinguistics, and more using AI, NLP, behaviour insights and ML algorithms. It offers an automated recruitment chatbot that shcedules interviews, verify and review candidates, text to speech conversion tool, and more. It is a tool availble on the subcription based pricing model.
Key facts about Talview
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: San Mateo (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $22.5M
- Investors: Eileses Capital, Storm Ventures and 30 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jul 29, 2021, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 69/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 552 Competitors

5. Oro Money
Provider of secured lending services using gold as collateral. The company facilitates loan applications using an online platform and offers doorstep service. Interest can be paid monthly. Customer support is available through the app and service personnel. The app is designed to be user-friendly and transparent.
Key facts about Oro Money
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Chennai (India)
- Stage: Unfunded
- Tracxn Score: 67/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 3 of 14 Competitors
