SUMMARY
- PedalStart hosted Founder-Investor Fusion events across four cities with over 350 participants.
- Six startups pitched live and secured soft funding commitments worth ₹6 crore.
- The series connected early-stage founders with investors for funding, mentorship, and ecosystem access.
PedalStart, a startup accelerator, has wrapped off its signature “Founder-Investor Fusion” offline event series in multiple cities.
More than 350 people from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Gurugram attended the invitation-only event, which also included over 220 angel investors and High Net Worth Individuals (HNIs). Through the event series, over 90 new and developing entrepreneurs at different stages of growth were able to learn and network, and six startups that actively pitched were given soft commitments totaling ₹6 crore.
“Founder-Investor Fusion,” which was introduced in March of this year, is to strengthen early-stage start-ups (POC to early revenue phases) while also providing a limited number of investors with the chance to invest in some of the most promising start-ups in the nation. Good participation at the event gave carefully chosen startups a good platform, and six of them made pitches for funding rounds. To showcase their breakthroughs and expansion strategies, ventures including Flowwat, InsightAI, Shoegr, Bull Agritech, Iztri, and Oopar Club took center stage.
Bridging the gap between promising early-stage entrepreneurs and the strategic financing, mentorship, and ecosystem access they require to succeed was the series’ main goal, according to PedalStart.
Manas Pal and Aditya Darolia, co-founders of PedalStart, stated, “From live pitches to strategic networking, the Fusion events offered immense value to founders and investors alike, and we are extremely proud to have received overwhelming support and active participation from the startup community across the country.”
More than 60 people, including founders from PedalStart’s portfolio, participated in the first two chapters of the Founder-Investor Fusion series in Hyderabad and Mumbai in March 2025. In total, more than 150 angel investors and startup founders attended the subsequent chapters in Hyderabad and Mumbai. More than 100 investors and more than 20 prospective business founders attended the event’s last part, which was recently hosted at DLF Cyber Park in Gurugram.
A startup accelerator called PedalStart is committed to providing early-stage founders with practical advice, execution help, and strategic expansion. It chooses 15–18 high-potential startups annually for active funding and coaching after a three-month screening process. The accelerator assists new businesses in growing, entering new markets, and laying solid groundwork for sustained success.
