Surge’s cohort-9 founders
Surge, a rapid scale-up programme run by leading Indian and Southeast Asian VC firm Peak XV Partners (earlier Sequoia Capital), has launched its ninth cohort featuring 32 founders across 13 early-stage startups.
Cohort 09 also marks Surge’s foray into the greater Asia Pacific by including Australia-based startups.
Also Read: Sequoia India & Southeast Asia rebrands as Peak XV Partners
“As we kick start new company-building journeys with our Surge 09 founders, it is clear that we are witnessing the incredible growth of AI and deeptech innovation, as well as the abundant talent in these sectors emerging from Asia,” said Rajan Anandan, Managing Director, Peak XV and Surge.
Below are the brief descriptions of the 13 companies of the cohort-09 of Surge.
A stealth mode startup
An AI platform that helps software teams increase productivity by providing contextual answers for their codebase.
Dozer
Dozer is an open-source data infrastructure platform that helps data scientists and engineers build highly scalable, real-time data APIs in minutes.
Founders: Matteo Pelati and Vivek Gudapuri.
Elivaas
Elivaas is a tech-driven villa and luxury apartment management company that allows owners to monetise, monitor, and maintain their vacation homes in India.
Founders: Karan Miglani and Ritwik Khare.
Ethereal Machines
Ethereal Machines is an advanced manufacturing company that produces precision engineering components through its proprietary multi-axis
computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
Founders: Kaushik Mudda and Navin Jain.
Horizon Quantum Computing
Horizon makes software development tools to unlock the potential of quantum computing hardware.
Founder: Joe Fitzsimons.
Also Read: Tencent, SGInnovate join US$18.1M Series A round of Horizon Quantum Computing
InCore
InCore is a fabless semiconductor startup focusing on building RISC-V-based processor solutions for industries, including industrial automation and consumer electronics.
Founders: Arjun Menon, Gautam Doshi, GS Madhusudan, and Neel Gala.
Mercu
Mercu is an employee engagement platform for companies to hire, train, and engage with their frontline teams.
Founders: Elliott Gibb and Jascha Zittel.
Mindgrove
Mindgrove designs India’s cost-effective and scalable microprocessor technology for the global semiconductor market. The company designs System-on-Chips (SoCs), integrated circuits combining an electronic device’s elements onto a single chip instead of separate components.
Founders: Sharan Srinivas J and Shashwath T R.
Neurowyzr
Neurowyzr is a healthtech company developing state-of-the-art technologies to mitigate early brain decline.
Founders: Pang Sze Yunn and Navdeep Vij Singh.
Also Read: Healthtech startup specialising in brain health Neurowyzr raises US$2.1M
Newtrace
Newtrace is a climate tech startup that manufactures innovative electrolysers to produce green hydrogen efficiently and affordably.
Founders: Prasanta Sarkar and Rochan Sinha.
Pix.ai
Pix.ai is an AI-powered anime art generator. The platform equips users with a range of tools and character generation templates to create personalised anime art.
Founders: Alvin Li, Raven Gao, and Veronica Liao.
Relevance AI
Relevance AI is a machine learning startup on a mission to help companies build an AI workforce that automates workflows with no code.
Founders: Daniel Vassilev and Jacky Koh.
ZeroK
ZeroK is an AI platform that helps developers troubleshoot production incidents faster. ZeroK is an Observability copilot that intelligently performs checks to guide developers to root causes faster, reducing downtime.
Founders: Mudit Krishna Mathur, Varun Ramamurthy, Samyukktha Thirumeni, Shivam Nagar.
Surge 09 started last week, and the founders are going through a 16-week hybrid programme focused on company building. Past Surge speakers and mentors have included William Tanuwijaya (Tokopedia/GoTo), Siu Rui Quek (Carousell), Patrick Collison (Stripe), Nithin Kamath (Zerodha), Kunal Shah (CRED), Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy), Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Info Edge), Amrish Rau (Pine Labs), Chatri Sityodtong (One Championship), Andre Soelistyo (GoTo), Vidit Aatrey (Meesho), Jaspreet Singh (Druva), Girish Mathrubootham (Freshdesk).
Surge’s curated community of startups now includes over 330 founders and 140 startups across 16-plus sectors, and they have collectively raised over US$2 billion in follow-on funding.
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