Girish Redekar

The Circle GTM Studio specializes in helping global startups soft-land in India. A structured accelerator designed to help growth-stage founders localize for India, run pilots, acquire early customers, and prepare for fundraising — backed by deep ecosystem access and real-world insights from founders who’ve successfully navigated the Indian market. If India is on your roadmap, this is where you begin. #thecircle #acceleratorprogram #startups #growth

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FUNDED: PowerUp Money raises $12M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from existing investors Accel, Blume Ventures, Kae Capital, 8i Ventures, and DeVC.

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Agilitas x Virat Kohli partnership is one of the masterstroke deals I have seen in recent times. Virat invests 40 CR in Agilitas for a 1.94% stake, putting Agilitas’s valuation around 2000 CR. 📈 In turn, Agilitas acquires one8world, making Virat a co-founder and shareholder. They now get two very important growth levers: ⬇️ 1. A powerful manufacturing (via Mochiko Shoes - a 600 CR+ footwear brand that Agilitas acquired in 2008 ), 2. India’s biggest athlete — exclusively aligned. Easily becomes a 4000 CR revenue brand in the next 5 years. Footwear + retail scale requires capital — but this partnership compresses customer acquisition, product cycles, and brand-building like few others. Even Virat said in his podcast with Abhishek Ganguly, the co-founder of Agilitas that, “I didn’t want a brand deal… I wanted to build something that outlives me.” And Abhishek said something even beautiful - “An ambition to build from India but be globally relevant.” This isn’t marketing. This is legacy building with shared skin in the game. And that is how startups work - shared ambition with one goal (to make the company big) and food (read stake) in the table for everyone! A company that can be built in the long term with culture, capital, and conviction aligned. This might be the first time in India, where an athlete joins hands with a sport company to re-imagine and build the sport ecosystem of India - truly revolutionalising the game with a clear vision. 🙌

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Today, we’re announcing a $2M Seed round led by Kalaari Capital, with Antler, Infinyte Club, and Careernet joining in. Having one of India’s most respected early-stage funds back us is a strong signal of where recruiting is headed. For years, recruiters have been stuck with tools that only track candidates. The real work - sourcing, outreach, screening, evaluation, and follow-ups—still rests on human shoulders. HireBound is built to change that. Our Agentic AI now runs sourcing, engagement, screening, and recommendations end-to-end across Voice, WhatsApp, SMS and email. It has already powered over 3 million candidate conversations, been trained on 2 million+ resumes and 30,000+ roles, and helped teams significantly reduce cost-to-hire. This round allows us to double down on what’s working: deepen our agentic engine, expand globally across staffing firms and enterprise talent teams, and evolve from a hiring copilot into a true talent-intelligence layer. We’re grateful to Kalaari Capital for leading the round and believing in a category-defining opportunity in AI-first recruiting, and to Antler, Infinyte Club, and Careernet for their continued trust. The execution layer for modern recruiting is being built now and we intend to be that layer. https://lnkd.in/g7iHYMyM Kumar VikramadityaTanmey GoswamiAman ChopraHarsh BainsJebin JoyDhanisha HedauYashika KhuranaNishant ThapaSrikant KumarShashank BistMD FaizalSuvam MoitraZaid H.

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India’s enterprise SaaS sector is witnessing an unprecedented surge in private equity funding, reaching $1.38 billion in the first seven months of 2025, a remarkable 66% jump from the $833 million invested throughout 2024. Leading the charge are high-growth startups like Impetus, Innovaccer, WhatFix, and Capillary Technologies, which are successfully attracting substantial investments due to their scalable models and profitable operations. This intense PE activity is driven by the maturity and resilience of the Indian SaaS ecosystem, with over 150 firms now earning upwards of $1 million annually. Investors believe the predictable cash flows and repeatable playbooks make SaaS ventures prime candidates for acquisitions and expansion in healthcare and enterprise software sectors. With major deals already under discussion and the SaaS market projected to hit $62.9 billion by 2032, India’s SaaS startups are firmly in the spotlight for founders and executives seeking growth, innovation, and long-term success in the digital economy. #SaaS #PrivateEquity #FundingUpdate #BusinessGrowth #IndianStartups #StartupNews #Founders #Entrepreneur #StartupIndia #StartupToday

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We Don’t just Consult. We Build. We Execute. CodeApto is a Growth Execution Firm and Venture Builder operating across the India-GCC corridor. We partner with ambitious founders, owner-led enterprises, and family offices to design, build, and scale systems that compound - operationally, technologically, and financially. Because strategy without execution is just presentation. We step in where consulting stops. We stay until systems run. We build what others only blueprint. From idea to infrastructure. From roadmap to revenue. From intent to impact. Reach out to us to build in Bharat. Warehouse Management - AptoWMS

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Earlier this year, the community at Ops Matters spent the morning in an interactive session on Operations as a Key Lever for Growth with Nitin Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO of Navadhan Capital. https://lnkd.in/ga95AemG For the past 2 decades, Nitin has played key roles at some of the top lending institutions in the country, as CEO at Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited - a listed NBFC, and Deputy CEO at Ashv Finance and AVP at Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd.

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