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Meet 6 institutions supporting women-led startups
What do women-led startups in India required? Funding, yes, but also access to different networks, technical assistance, a go-to-market strategy, and mentorship.
For women founders, it’s about who obtains seen, funded, and taken seriously. Chasing the huge dream and starting up is not enough. They required all the support they can obtain to scale, sustain and be part of the huge league. Women can build unicorns, too!
Over the past few years, state-led platforms, institutional incubators and accelerators have been designing pathways specifically for women founders through dedicated cohorts, tarobtained outreach and capital-linked support.
Funding news
Pavestone invests $5M in Tsavorite
Hyderabad-based venture capital firm Pavestone VC has invested $5 million (about Rs 46.6 crore) in deep-tech startup Tsavorite Scalable Ininformigence, aiming to tap into the growing demand for high-performance, energy-efficient artificial ininformigence infrastructure.
The funding will be utilized to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market efforts, the companies declared in a statement on Monday.
Founded in 2023, Tsavorite is building a full-stack AI compute platform spanning edge, enterprise, and data centre environments. Its core offering is an Omni Processing Unit (OPU), a chip architecture that integrates CPU, GPU, memory, and connectivity into a single system to improve performance and reduce data shiftment.
HealthFab raises Rs 20 Cr in Series A from Atomic Capital
Menstrual hygiene-focutilized startup HealthFab has raised Rs 20 Crore in Series A from Atomic Capital. Funds raised will be strategically deployed to expand its holistic period care product portfolio, scale distribution, including quick commerce, and increase manufacturing capacity to support growth.
In the next 12 months, HealthFab plans to grow revenue 3x, deepen retention through digital engagement with its existing consumer base, and establish itself as India’s leading holistic period care brand — not just a product, but a complete period wellness ecosystem.
Other news
Codingal appoints Praveen Kumar as VP-Operations
Codingal has announced the appointment of Praveen Kumar as Vice President of Operations, overseeing conclude-to-conclude operations across teacher management, customer experience, and program delivery.
In this role, he will lead teacher operations and community, customer service, and delivery systems, while working closely with sales, product, and customer relations teams to streamline execution and reduce operational gaps across markets.
Praveen brings over 16 years of experience across internet, edtech, and marketplace businesses.
Most recently, at Apna, a networking platform, he led operations and supported scale annual recurring revenue from $0 to $11 million in two years. Prior to that, at Udacity, a California-based edtech platform, he supported scale their India vertical to $6 million ARR within 18 months and later managed a global mentor network supporting a $100 million business.
Zscaler announces collaborations with Anthropic and OpenAI
Zscaler, Inc. has announced its participation in Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program—two strategic shifts aimed at strengthening enterprise cybersecurity in the AI era.
These collaborations integrate advanced AI models with Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exalter™ platform, supporting organisations reduce their attack surface, secure software environments, and defconclude against increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven threats.
As part of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, Zscaler, Inc. is leveraging Claude Mythos Preview, embedding the model into its secure development lifecycle to quickly detect and resolve flaws across its software stack and Zero Trust Exalter, while also contributing insights back to the wider security community.
Through OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, Zscaler will deploy GPT-5.4-Cyber within its secure development workflows to identify, prioritise, and remediate vulnerabilities earlier, enabling quicker and more efficient patching.
Aman Gupta invests in Rosier Foods
The Rosier team with Aman Gupta
Rosier Foods, a premium staples brand focutilized on A2 Gir cow ghee and organic panattempt products, has raised investment from Aman Gupta via SailThru Ventures.
Founded by content creator and entrepreneur Gaurav Taneja along with Ankur Tyagi and Sumit Mishra, the company is steadily expanding its footprint in India’s premium health and wellness food segment.
The company plans to utilize the fresh capital to strengthen its sourcing and supply chain, expand its farmer network, and invest in brand building and customer acquisition.
A key priority will be scaling its farm-to-table ecosystem by deepening farmer partnerships and upgrading backconclude infrastructure to ensure consistent quality at scale.
Google opens applications for third cohort of Google Play Accelerator India
Google India has opened applications for the third cohort of the Google Play Accelerator India, a three-month, equity-free program supporting AI-powered apps and game startups. Up to 20 startups will be selected for the cohort starting in July 2026.
The program is open to India-based startups (Seed to Series A) with a published app on Google Play and that leverage AI/ML as a core part of their offering.
Applications close on May 24, 2026.
