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Peak XV Partners 旗下种子投资平台 Surge 近日公布了新一期 18 家初创企业名单，并宣布将单家企业的投资上限从原先的 300 万美元提高至 500 万美元。这是 Surge 第十二期项目（Surge 12），也是首次按照新投资上限运作的一期。据 Peak XV 披露，该期项目累计投资超过 5000 万美元，入选企业合计已融资逾 9000 万美元种子资金，单家企业投资中位数也有所上升，但公司拒绝透露具体数字。

Peak XV 管理合伙人拉詹·阿南丹在接受采访时表示，如今初创企业迈向 A 轮融资的门槛已大幅提高，同时公司也看到越来越多资本密集型企业在种子轮就寻求更大规模融资，尤其是在深科技领域。他还指出，Surge 的每一期项目都变得更加全球化，本期入选企业的创始人和公司分布于从旧金山到悉尼的多个城市。18 家初创企业中，仅 5 家专注于印度市场，但超过半数公司注册在印度，其余 13 家则瞄准全球市场，凸显出企业设立地与目标客户所在地之间的差异。

Surge 自 2019 年推出以来（当时 Peak XV 以红杉资本印度和东南亚的名义运营），已累计投资超过 180 家初创企业，创始人来自 18 个以上国家。Peak XV 表示，这些项目中成长最快的 10 家公司目前合计年收入已超过 10 亿美元。阿南丹将 Surge 描述为 Peak XV 在种子阶段投资的方式之一，与公司常规种子投资并行，同时 Peak XV 也会在企业后续融资轮次中继续参与。他透露，Surge 投资的创始人通常包括连续创业者、经验丰富的运营管理者以及高度专业化的技术创始人，典型一期项目中约 50% 至 60% 的人来自成熟科技公司的运营岗位。

本期入选企业涵盖人工智能、机器人、航天、消费品、医疗健康、音乐和金融科技等领域，从 AI 安全和个人计算，到用于地下管道的自主机器人以及从轨道探测射频信号的卫星，不一而足。

具体来看，Alma 由 Nischith Shadagopan M N 和 Vinod Ganesan 创立，正在打造一个专注于让计算机使用更快捷、更经济的个人计算平台，创始人此前曾在微软研究院工作，并担任过 Sarvam AI 的创始工程师。August AI 由 IIT-BHU 校友 Anuruddh Mishra 于 2022 年在一场个人医疗误诊经历后创立，提供结合 AI 与医生主导诊疗的医疗平台，已覆盖 160 个国家的超过 900 万用户。Ditto 由加州大学伯克利分校辍学生 Allen Wang 和 Eric Liu 创立，在 iMessage 内提供 AI 约会匹配服务，帮助大学生将线上介绍转化为线下见面，该公司此前已在 Peak XV 领投的种子轮中融资 920 万美元。GameStock 由 Antoine Mistico、Easton Dana 和 Vivek Indlebele Narasimha Prasad 创立，将竞争机制引入金融市场，让投资和交易变得更具竞技性，Mistico 是连续创业者，曾是职业棒球运动员。HiLoop 由 Jad Ghalayini、Karan Brar 和 Thomas Boser 创立，通过其后训练平台帮助 AI 公司将通用开源权重模型适配到特定应用，创始团队包括前 Reducto 工程师和一位 24 岁获得剑桥大学计算机科学博士学位的成员。Hoola Health 由 Deeksha Senguttuva 创立，专注于儿童及其家庭的健康护理，在单一平台上提供问诊、疫苗接种、药品、诊断、发育治疗和牙科服务，Senguttuvan 成长于医疗世家，其家族曾创办并运营医院集团。Kello 由 Mona Gandhi 和 Subramanya Jingade 创立，正在打造一个 AI 驱动的人才发现平台，专注于识别候选人的潜力和发展轨迹，而非主要依赖传统资历，Gandhi 称自己是 Airbnb 首位女性工程师，此前创办过 Upraised，Jingade 则曾联合创办 AmbitionBox。Kindling 由 Adam Miller 和 Sachin Shah 创立，正在为科技初创企业打造所谓的“叙事操作系统”，利用 AI 帮助企业开发和制作传播内容。Puralink 由 Harrison Crowe-Maxwell、Shyeon Delnawaz 和 Thien “Long” Tran 创立，正在开发能够在地下管网中自主导航的机器人，Crowe-Maxwell 从小就开始制造机器人，并将大学研究成果转化为公司背后的专利驱动技术。Reinforce Labs 由 Anish Das Sarma 创立，正在开发用于评估、红队测试和修复企业 AI 系统的工具，Sarma 此前创办的公司被 Airbnb 收购，后又在谷歌担任总监，领导 AI 和机器学习团队。Riffle 由 Anurag Choudhary 和 deo 创立，正在打造一个基于浏览器的平台，让音乐人能够创作、协作和分享音乐，减少创作过程中在多个工具之间切换的需要。Rosella 由 Chris Dwyer 和 Sean Stuart 创立，正在为美国企业打造 AI 原生的商业保险经纪服务，利用 AI 自动化传统上依赖人工的企业保险寻找和投保流程，该公司此前已在 Peak XV 和 Intact Private Capital 领投的预种子轮中融资约 250 万美元。Tribe Money 由 Himanshu Arora 和 Nikhil Shanker 创立，提供 AI 驱动的个人理财平台，帮助用户追踪资金、研究投资并做出投资决策。ULOOK 由 Adheesh Boratkar 和 Siddhesh Ravindra Naik 创立，正在打造用于射频感知和频谱情报的自主卫星系统，面向全球客户，创始团队参与过 12 次以上卫星任务，该公司在加入 Surge 前已从 growX Ventures 和 InfoEdge Ventures 获得约 230 万美元种子资金。Wingit 由 Nikunj Kothari 和 Saksham Khandelwal 创立，正在打造面向印度不断增长的高端消费市场的美妆平台，聚焦消费者如何发现和购买高端美妆产品。

此外，本期还有三家初创企业尚未公开名称或产品，Peak XV 表示它们分别从事教育、应用 AI 和医疗产品领域。

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Peak XV Partners 是投资印度和东南亚等市场的大型风险投资公司之一，管理资产超过100亿美元。随着其种子阶段投资平台 Surge 推出新一批18家公司，该公司通过 Surge 提高了对每家初创企业的投资金额。

在这一批公司中，至少有三分之一在加入 Surge 之前已经完成过外部融资，部分甚至来自 Peak XV 自身。

这一新批次名为 Surge 12，是首个在 Peak XV 更高投资上限下运作的批次，单家公司最高投资额从此前的300万美元提升至500万美元。Peak XV 表示，该机构在本批次中投资超过5000万美元，而这些公司合计已筹集超过9000万美元的种子资金。其单家公司投资额中位数也有所上升，但该公司拒绝披露具体数字。

Peak XV 董事总经理 Rajan Anandan（见图）在接受采访时表示：“如今拿到 A 轮融资的门槛已经大幅提高。”他还补充说，公司也看到越来越多资本密集型企业的出现，尤其是在深科技领域，这些公司在种子阶段就筹集更大规模的资金。

Anandan 告诉 TechCrunch，Surge 随着每一批次的推进变得更加全球化，最新一批涵盖了从旧金山到悉尼的创始人和公司。在 Surge 12 的18家初创企业中，只有5家专注于印度市场，而超过一半的公司总部位于印度。其余13家则面向全球市场，这凸显了公司设立地与预期客户所在地之间的差异。

自2019年推出以来——当时 Peak XV 仍以 Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia 的名义运营——Surge 已支持超过180家由来自18个以上国籍的创业者创立的初创企业。Peak XV 表示，这些批次中诞生的10家最大公司目前合计年收入已超过10亿美元。

Anandan 将 Surge 描述为 Peak XV 在种子阶段进行投资的一种方式，与其标准种子投资并行，同时该公司在公司后续融资轮次中仍继续作为投资者参与。他说，其支持的创始人通常包括连续创业者、经验丰富的运营管理者以及高度专业化的技术型创始人，一个典型批次中约有50%至60%的人来自成熟科技公司的运营岗位。

本批次的初创企业涵盖人工智能、机器人、航天、消费产品、医疗健康、音乐和金融科技，范围从 AI 安全和个人计算，到用于地下管道的自主机器人，以及设计用于从轨道探测射频信号的卫星。

Surge 12 批次

Alma——由 Nischith Shadagopan M N 和 Vinod Ganesan 创立——正在打造一个个人计算平台，重点是让计算机使用更快、更可负担。其创始人此前曾在微软研究院工作，并曾是 Sarvam AI 的创始工程师。Sarvam AI 是一家总部位于班加罗尔、为印度语言构建 AI 模型的初创公司。

August AI——由 Anuruddh Mishra 创立。他毕业于 IIT-BHU，在2022年经历一次个人医疗误诊后创办了该公司——提供一个将 AI 与医生主导护理相结合的医疗平台，已覆盖160个国家的超过900万用户。

Ditto——由加州大学伯克利分校辍学生 Allen Wang 和 Eric Liu 创立——在 iMessage 内充当 AI 约会红娘，旨在帮助大学生把线上介绍转化为线下联系。（TechCrunch 上个月曾对该项目做过更多报道。）该公司此前已在今年早些时候宣布的一轮由 Peak XV 领投的种子轮中筹集了920万美元。

GameStock——由 Antoine Mistico、Easton Dana 和 Vivek Indlebele Narasimha Prasad 创立——将竞争机制引入金融市场，使投资和交易成为一种更具竞争性的体验。Mistico 是连续创业者，也曾是职业棒球运动员。

HiLoop——由 Jad Ghalayini、Karan Brar 和 Thomas Boser 创立——通过其后训练平台，帮助 AI 公司将通用开源权重模型适配到特定应用场景。其创始团队包括前 Reducto 工程师，以及一位24岁完成博士学位的剑桥计算机科学博士。

Hoola Health——由 Deeksha Senguttuva 创立——专注于儿童及其家庭的护理，在一个平台上提供咨询、疫苗接种、药品、诊断、发育治疗和牙科服务。Senguttuvan 在医疗环境中长大，她的家族曾建设并运营一家医院集团。

Kello——由 Mona Gandhi 和 Subramanya Jingade 创立——正在打造一个 AI 驱动的人才发现平台，重点是识别候选人的潜力和发展轨迹，而不是主要依赖传统资历。Gandhi 表示，她曾是 Airbnb 的首位女性工程师，此前还创办了 Upraised；Jingade 则曾联合创办 AmbitionBox。

Kindling——由 Adam Miller 和 Sachin Shah 创立——正在为科技初创公司打造其所称的“叙事操作系统”，利用 AI 帮助企业开发和制作其传播与内容。

Puralink——由 Harrison Crowe-Maxwell、Shyeon Delnawaz 和 Thien “Long” Tran 创立——正在开发能够在地下管网中导航的自主机器人。Crowe-Maxwell 从小就开始制造机器人，并将大学研究成果转化为该公司背后的专利驱动技术。

Reinforce Labs——由 Anish Das Sarma 创立——正在开发用于评估、红队测试和修复企业 AI 系统的工具。Sarma 此前创办的一家公司被 Airbnb 收购，后来又在 Google 担任总监，领导 AI 和机器学习团队。

Riffle——由 Anurag Choudhary 和 deo 创立——正在打造一个基于浏览器的平台，让音乐人可以创作、协作和分享音乐，从而减少创作过程中在多个独立工具之间切换的需要。

Rosella——由 Chris Dwyer 和 Sean Stuart 创立——正在为美国企业打造一家 AI 原生的商业保险经纪公司，利用 AI 自动化传统上依赖人工的企业保险寻找与投保流程的一部分。Rosella 今年早些时候筹集了约250万美元的种子前轮融资，由 Peak XV 和 Intact Private Capital 领投。

Tribe Money——由 Himanshu Arora 和 Nikhil Shanker 创立——提供一个 AI 驱动的个人理财平台，帮助用户追踪资金、研究投资并做出投资决策。

ULOOK——由 Adheesh Boratkar 和 Siddhesh Ravindra Naik 创立——正在构建用于射频感知和频谱智能的自主卫星系统，目标客户遍及全球。其创始人已参与超过12次卫星任务。该公司在加入 Surge 之前，已从 growX Ventures 和 InfoEdge Ventures 筹集了约230万美元种子资金。

Wingit——由 Nikunj Kothari 和 Saksham Khandelwal 创立——正在打造一个面向印度不断增长的高端消费市场的美妆平台，聚焦消费者如何发现和购买高端美妆产品。

该批次中的另外3家初创公司尚未公开披露其名称或产品。Peak XV 表示，它们分别从事教育、应用 AI 和医疗产品领域。

英文来源：

Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage investing platform, as it unveils a new cohort of 18 companies.
At least three of the companies in this cohort had already raised outside funding, in some cases from Peak XV itself, before joining Surge.
The new batch, called Surge 12, is the first to operate under Peak XV’s higher investment ceiling of up to $5 million per company, up from $3 million previously. The venture firm invested more than $50 million across the cohort, which has collectively raised over $90 million in seed funding, according to Peak XV. Its median investment per company has also increased, though the firm declined to disclose the figure.
“The bar to raise a Series A has gone up pretty significantly,” Rajan Anandan (pictured above), managing director at Peak XV, said in an interview. He added that the firm is also seeing more capital-intensive companies, particularly in deeptech, that are raising larger rounds at the seed stage.
Surge has become more global with each cohort, Anandan told TechCrunch, with its latest group spanning founders and companies from San Francisco to Sydney. Just five of the 18 startups in Surge 12 are focused on the Indian market, while more than half of the companies are based in India. The remaining 13 target global markets, highlighting the difference between where the companies are built and where they expect to find customers.
Since its launch in 2019, when Peak XV operated as Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia, Surge has backed more than 180 startups founded by entrepreneurs representing more than 18 nationalities. Peak XV says the 10 largest companies to emerge from those cohorts now generate more than $1 billion in combined annual revenue.
Anandan described Surge as one way Peak XV invests at the seed stage, alongside its standard seed investing, while the firm still remains an investor as companies progress through later funding rounds. The founders it backs typically include repeat entrepreneurs, experienced operators, and highly specialized technical founders, he said, with about 50% to 60% of a typical cohort made up of people coming from operating roles at established technology companies.
This cohort’s startups span AI, robotics, space, consumer products, healthcare, music, and fintech, ranging from AI safety and personal computing to autonomous robots built for underground pipes and satellites designed to detect radio-frequency signals from orbit.
The Surge 12 cohort
Alma — founded by Nischith Shadagopan M N and Vinod Ganesan — is building a personal computing platform focused on making computer use faster and more affordable. Its founders previously worked at Microsoft Research and were founding engineers at Sarvam AI, a Bengaluru-based startup building AI models for Indian languages.
August AI — founded by Anuruddh Mishra, an IIT-BHU alumnus who started the company in 2022 after a personal medical misdiagnosis — provides a healthcare platform that combines AI with physician-led care, reaching over 9 million users across 160 countries.
Ditto — founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu — works as an AI dating matchmaker inside iMessage, aimed at helping college students turn digital introductions into in-person connections. (TechCrunch wrote more about this one last month.) The company had already raised $9.2 million in a Peak XV-led seed round announced earlier this year.
GameStock — founded by Antoine Mistico, Easton Dana, and Vivek Indlebele Narasimha Prasad — brings competition mechanics to financial markets, turning investing and trading into a more competitive experience. Mistico is a two-time founder and former professional baseball player.
HiLoop — founded by Jad Ghalayini, Karan Brar, and Thomas Boser — helps AI companies adapt general-purpose open-weight models for specific applications using its post-training platform. Its founding team includes former Reducto engineers and a Cambridge computer science PhD who completed his doctorate at 24.
Hoola Health — founded by Deeksha Senguttuva — focuses on care for children and their families, providing consultations, vaccinations, medicines, diagnostics, developmental therapy, and dental services on a single platform. Senguttuvan grew up around healthcare, as her family built and operated a hospital group.
Kello — founded by Mona Gandhi and Subramanya Jingade — is building an AI-powered talent-discovery platform focused on identifying a candidate’s potential and trajectory rather than relying primarily on conventional credentials. Gandhi says she was Airbnb’s first female engineer and she previously founded Upraised, while Jingade previously co-founded AmbitionBox.
Kindling — founded by Adam Miller and Sachin Shah — is building what it calls a “storytelling operating system” for technology startups, using AI to help companies develop and produce their communications and content.
Puralink — founded by Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, Shyeon Delnawaz, and Thien “Long” Tran — is developing autonomous robots that can navigate underground pipe networks. Crowe-Maxwell has been building robots since childhood and turned university research into the patented drive technology behind the startup.
Reinforce Labs — founded by Anish Das Sarma — is developing tools to evaluate, red-team, and remediate enterprise AI systems. Sarma previously founded a company acquired by Airbnb and later served as a director at Google, where he led AI and machine-learning teams.
Riffle — founded by Anurag Choudhary and deo — is building a browser-based platform where musicians can create, collaborate on, and share music, reducing the need to move between separate tools during the creative process.
Rosella — founded by Chris Dwyer and Sean Stuart — is building an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage for U.S. businesses, using AI to automate parts of the traditionally manual process of finding and placing business insurance. Rosella raised a roughly $2.5 million pre-seed round led by Peak XV and Intact Private Capital earlier this year.
Tribe Money — founded by Himanshu Arora and Nikhil Shanker — gives an AI-powered personal finance platform that helps users track their money, research investments and make investing decisions.
ULOOK — founded by Adheesh Boratkar and Siddhesh Ravindra Naik — is building autonomous satellite systems for radio-frequency sensing and spectrum intelligence, targeting customers globally. Its founders have worked on more than 12 satellite missions. The company had already raised roughly $2.3 million in seed funding from growX Ventures and InfoEdge Ventures before joining Surge.
Wingit — founded by Nikunj Kothari and Saksham Khandelwal — is building a beauty platform aimed at India’s growing premium-consumer market. It is focused on how consumers discover and shop for higher-end beauty products.
Three other startups in the cohort have yet to publicly reveal their names or products. Peak XV said they are working in education, applied AI, and medical products.