Sanjay Mandava 🦈

Betterhalf serves a single purpose - create a secure place for the individuals who are #LookingToSettle and willing to #TakeTheCharge to find a compatible life partner of their own choice, at their own pace; without direct involvement of parents. In short, we are on a mission to redefine the arranged marriage way of matchmaking in India. What makes us different? 👀 We offer users the worlds fastest matching in a single click. The US patented technology is faster than dating apps and more accurate than matrimonial sites, thereby providing a quick turnaround time to find a potential and compatible match. This technology predicts religion, language, salary insights, community, partner preferences, and behavioral traits of users in a single click. Moreover, it onboards users in a few seconds compared to a 20-min wait in traditional matrimonial sites and then matches them with potential profiles. The emphasis is on providing verified matches in the virtual world by authenticating the profiles through – Facebook, personal email, phone number, selfie verification, and government ID. Besides, the feature of providing feedback by users filters out non-serious daters from the platform. We take pride to get matches for a premium pool of independent professionals from more than 25,000 companies in India including Google, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Accenture to name a few. Our backbone 💪🏼 Backed by Y Combinator, we were able to raise $3M as part of its pre-Series A funding in April 2021. The funding saw the participation of venture capital firms including S2 Capital, Quiet Capital, and marquee angel investors like Kunal Shah and Samvit Ramadurgam. The aim is to utilize the recently raised $3M in boosting user engagement on the app, adding monetization features, and increasing product discovery across organic channels.

Seaflight is an affordable drone air cargo service for islands and coastal communities. Were a Y Combinator (S22) company, backed by top-tier venture funds and the National Science Foundation. FAQ: Q: Are you a logistics company or a robotics company or an aircraft company? A: Yes

Abridge is an intelligent logistics partner for importers/exporters who want to ship freight into or out of the APAC region. Abridge digitizes the full shipment lifecycle (online freight booking, optimized container load plans, automatically generated compliance documents, and online communication channels).

Maverick Metals is a specialty chemical solutions provider transforming the critical metals industries with LithX™. LithX is a breakthrough lixiviant technology that achieves higher recovery rates while lowering costs and reducing environmental impact – without requiring significant CAPEX. As global demand surges for critical metals processing, LithX offers a scalable, next-generation solution to strengthen supply chains. LithX seamlessly integrates into existing mining operations, unlocking greater profitability and efficiency for critical metals production.

Anq envisions a transformed India where a concentric financial ecosystem empowers everyone with wealth-building tools embedded into the customer’s financial journey. Earn | Invest | Borrow | Spend |

Notebook uses Zero-Knowledge to set a new standard for Web3 identity. When a user creates their unique Notebook, they can prove their humanity and credentials to protocols across wallets and chains, without having to reveal any personal information.

Bunting Labs automates the digitization of maps into GIS and CAD. Backed by YC (S22), founded by MIT and USC grads.

Raven provides a reliable infrastructure to manage all customer communication in one place. A single API delivers notifications across Push Notifications, SMS, Email, WhatsApp, Voice, In-App, Slack etc with any provider like Twilio, MessageBird, MSG91, Kaleyra etc. This saves tons of engineering time and helps you build great notification experiences for customers. You get a 360 degree view of all communication in one place and can optimize the best channel to reach out to a user. Manage all your templates at one place and edit/preview them directly from the dashboard. Retry/Fallback rules let you handle message delivery failures and make sure that your messages reach your users by using multiple channels and providers. We aim to make lives of developers and product managers easy so that they can focus on what they are building.

Backed by Y Combinator, Kamion is building Uber for Trucks for the Turkish market. Turkey is MENA’s largest economy, with ~850,000 independent truckers and a logistics TAM of 73 Billion USD. However, in its current state, freight forwarding for trucking includes many phone calls, emails, and f2f conversations. Trucking is also fragmented, with SME fleets having ~95% market share. Kamion is the main point of contact for the shippers to book trucks, reducing complexity. We also utilize technology to do more with fewer people and collect data.

91Squarefeet is simplifying commercial fit-outs in India by investing in the technology and skill development of our workers. We build offices, retail shops, and warehouses and we are the fastest-growing design-n-build fit-out company in India. In our journey post covid, our business grew by 25x and team size by 8x. We have delivered 1100+ projects for 60+ clients including TATA, DLF, Godrej, Asian Paints, Kotal, Bluestone, etc. We raised $11Mn in funding from Y Combinator and Stellaris Venture Partners. We have seen early signs of the magic technology brings in construction management, which allowed us to drastically reduce our project management overheads and improve our speed of delivery by 25%. As we gear up for scale now, we are digitally connecting the stakeholders in construction i.e. Material Suppliers, Factories, and Banks; with project managers at the center of this ecosystem.

Roots Studio is reimagining cultural preservation by bridging cultures.

Betterhalf serves a single purpose - create a secure place for the individuals who are #LookingToSettle and willing to #TakeTheCharge to find a compatible life partner of their own choice, at their own pace; without direct involvement of parents. In short, we are on a mission to redefine the arranged marriage way of matchmaking in India. What makes us different? 👀 We offer users the worlds fastest matching in a single click. The US patented technology is faster than dating apps and more accurate than matrimonial sites, thereby providing a quick turnaround time to find a potential and compatible match. This technology predicts religion, language, salary insights, community, partner preferences, and behavioral traits of users in a single click. Moreover, it onboards users in a few seconds compared to a 20-min wait in traditional matrimonial sites and then matches them with potential profiles. The emphasis is on providing verified matches in the virtual world by authenticating the profiles through – Facebook, personal email, phone number, selfie verification, and government ID. Besides, the feature of providing feedback by users filters out non-serious daters from the platform. We take pride to get matches for a premium pool of independent professionals from more than 25,000 companies in India including Google, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Adobe, and Accenture to name a few. Our backbone 💪🏼 Backed by Y Combinator, we were able to raise $3M as part of its pre-Series A funding in April 2021. The funding saw the participation of venture capital firms including S2 Capital, Quiet Capital, and marquee angel investors like Kunal Shah and Samvit Ramadurgam. The aim is to utilize the recently raised $3M in boosting user engagement on the app, adding monetization features, and increasing product discovery across organic channels.

Seaflight is an affordable drone air cargo service for islands and coastal communities. Were a Y Combinator (S22) company, backed by top-tier venture funds and the National Science Foundation. FAQ: Q: Are you a logistics company or a robotics company or an aircraft company? A: Yes

Abridge is an intelligent logistics partner for importers/exporters who want to ship freight into or out of the APAC region. Abridge digitizes the full shipment lifecycle (online freight booking, optimized container load plans, automatically generated compliance documents, and online communication channels).

Maverick Metals is a specialty chemical solutions provider transforming the critical metals industries with LithX™. LithX is a breakthrough lixiviant technology that achieves higher recovery rates while lowering costs and reducing environmental impact – without requiring significant CAPEX. As global demand surges for critical metals processing, LithX offers a scalable, next-generation solution to strengthen supply chains. LithX seamlessly integrates into existing mining operations, unlocking greater profitability and efficiency for critical metals production.

Anq envisions a transformed India where a concentric financial ecosystem empowers everyone with wealth-building tools embedded into the customer’s financial journey. Earn | Invest | Borrow | Spend |