News
Lavni Ventures Fund II Crosses ₹200 (~$21M) Crore Target
Lavni Ventures today announced that Fund II, the second of its early-stage deep-tech impact funds, has closed its ₹200 crore (~ $21M) target in committed capital, a year after first close in August 2025. The fund structure retains a green-shoe option of ₹100 crore.
Monitra Health Raises Capital as upBeat® Emerges as Scalable Global Cardiac Monitoring Platform
Monitra Health, the medtech company behind upBeat® – a full-stack remote cardiac monitoring platform – has closed a new round of funding led by IAN Group, with participation from New Age India Fund, Lavni Ventures, VCMint, Global HealthX (led by Dr. Ravindranath Kancherla), We Founder Circle, Hyderabad Angels, and prominent angels and family offices of healthcare operators including Dr. Ramesh Kancherla.
Sanitary waste recycler PadCare Labs raises $3 million from Nithin Kamath’s Rainmatter, others
Sanitary waste recycling startup PadCare Labs has raised $3 million in a funding round led by Zerodha cofounder Nithin Kamath’s Rainmatter. The funding round, which comprised a mix of equity and debt, also saw 3one4 Capital, PKRBCV Shroff Trust, Brigade Reap and existing investors Lavni Ventures, and 3i Partners participate.
Lavni Ventures marks first close of Rs 200 Cr deeptech fund
Lavni Ventures has reached the first close of its second fund, moving closer to its target of raising Rs 200 crore to back early-stage deep-technology startups from India with ambitions to scale globally.
Monitra Health Secures USD 1.5mn in Pre-Series A Funding Led by Equanimity and Kotak
Monitra Health, based at T-Hub in Hyderabad, India, announces the successful closure of its Pre-Series A funding round, securing USD 1.5mn in investment led by Equanimity Ventures and Kotak Alternate Asset Managers. The funding will fuel the growth of Monitra Health’s innovative remote cardiac monitoring platform, upBeat®, designed for both domestic and global markets.
Clean-tech Startup PadCare closes Rs.5 crore seed funding round to boost growth
PadCare Labs, a Pune-based start-up for sustainable sanitary waste processing and recycling, has closed on a Rs.5 crore seed funding round led by Social Alpha with strategic investments from Lavni Ventures, 3i partners, Rainmatter, and Spectrum Impact.
Vidcare Technologies Raises $300,000 In Pre-Seed Funding
Vidcare Technologies, a point-of-care and consumer diagnostic testing platform, has raised $300,000 in a pre-Seed funding round led by Social Alpha. The round also saw participation from Lavni Ventures and Derbi Foundation. The fund raised will be used to further product development, clinical testing, real world effectiveness and early commercialization.
Learning Matters, Bengaluru’s AI based Ed-Tech receives Pre-series A Funding from Lavni Ventures and Angel Investors
Learning Matters, Bengaluru’s AI based Ed-Tech receives Pre-series A Funding from Lavni Ventures and Angel Investors.
Healthtech startup MedPrime Technologies raises seed round
Healthtech startup MedPrime Technologies, which focuses on providing digital solutions to the microscopy segment of medical diagnostics, has raised a seed funding from Mumbai Angels Network and Social Alpha. MedPrime Technologies will be using the capital to scale up its Cilika product line and make it more profitable. In addition, the funds will also be utilised to develop the AI component for MICALYS. SINE IIT Bombay, RiSo Capital, Lavni Ventures, and Keiretsu Forum also participated in the round.
DeepIQ, Inc. Receives Funding from CSL Ventures, Schlumberger and Lavni Ventures
DeepIQ, a developer of software for self-service analytics focused on industrial data, announces the closing of an investment round led by CSL Ventures, with participation from Schlumberger and Lavni Ventures. The company will use the capital to accelerate the delivery of its flagship software and expand its marketing initiatives in the industrial data science space.
YC-Backed Edtech Startup StayQrious Bags $2 Mn In Seed
Bengaluru-based edtech startup StayQriousStayQrious Datalabs_in-article-icon has raised $2 Mn in seed funding round from Learn Capital’s dedicated seed fund Learnstart, Draper Associates, Y Combinator, First Principles VC Nitin Sharma, Lavni Ventures and Japan-based Dream Incubator. It will use this funding to build its product, coach tools and instructional content that will enable its ‘classroom of the future’.