The Week that Was: Indian Startup News Overview (14th December- 20th December)


Funding News: Aurassure Raises Rs 25 Crore to Scale Climate Intelligence Platform

Startup: Aurassure

Founders: Akanksha Priyadarshini and Vamsi Krishna 

About us: Aurassure is a climate tech startup that operates a climate intelligence platform delivering real time, hyperlocal environmental risk data to enterprises and public sector organisations. The platform combines data from a dense network of street level sensors, satellite inputs, and proprietary AI physics fusion models to provide insights on air quality, heat stress, rainfall, flooding, and other climate related parameters. This intelligence supports proactive risk management and operational decision making for businesses and cities facing increasing climate volatility. 

Founded Year: 2022 

Office: Headquartered in Bhubaneswar, India, with deployments and operations spanning multiple cities in India and internationally. 

Sector: Climate Tech / Environmental Intelligence 

Funding Round: Pre Series A 

Investors: Rainmatter (Zerodha’s investment arm), Unicorn India Ventures, and participation from Maithan Alloys Limited 

Aurassure has raised Rs 25 crore in a Pre Series A funding round to scale its climate intelligence platform and expand globally. The capital will be used to accelerate international expansion particularly across the Global South including Latin America, South Asia, and Africa enhance product development with advanced AI driven predictive models, and scale hardware manufacturing for next generation hyperlocal sensing systems. 

Website: https://www.aurassure.com

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