New Delhi, July 29 -- Sales-enablement startup Sharpsell, app testing platform Drizz, family-management company Family Space, travel-tech startup Passprt Trips, and creative technology startup Astra Studios have secured funding in separate rounds, the companies said on Tuesday.

Sharpsell.ai

Sales-enablement platform Sharpsell.ai has raised Rs 30 crore (around $3.5 million) in its latest funding round, including an investment of Rs 10 crore from Equentis Angel Fund, a Category-I AIF.

The startup said the fresh funding will be deployed to enhance product capabilities, deepen sectoral penetration within existing verticals, and fuel the company's global ambitions. It also plans to foray into international markets, primarily across Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Sharpsell.ai is a sales playbook automation platform founded by Hanuman Kamma and Arun Subramanian in 2022. It is used by sales representatives across more than 30 leading Indian BFSI, auto, consumer electronics and pharma companies. Its SaaS-based platform provides ready-to-use sales pitches, dynamic personalized content, and contextual coaching tools. Its investors include Mistry Ventures, Cornerstone Venture Partners, and Equentis Angel Fund.

Drizz

Mobile app-testing platform Drizz has raised $2.7 million (around Rs 23 crore) in a seed round, led by Stellaris Venture Partners, with participation from Shastra VC, former Cleartrip executive Anuj Rathi, and Vaibhav Domkundwar.

The funding will help Drizz enhance its Vision AI engine, expand its engineering team and boost research capabilities, the startup said in a statement.

Founded in 2024 by engineers Yash Varyani, Partha Mohanty, and Asad Abrar, Drizz helps developers and QA teams to write, run, and maintain end-to-end test coverage using plain prompts in English, allowing them to run tests across iOS and Android.

Family Space

Family Space announced it has raised a total of $1.5 million (around Rs 13 crore) across its pre-seed and seed funding rounds. The startup didn't provide any names of the early supporters.

The capital raised was used in the expansion of Family Space and its sister product FamTree, the startup said. It added that the funding enabled the company to enhance its technology, expand into new markets, and grow its team.

Family Space is a family management app that helps families stay connected, coordinated, and rooted. The platform lets users with a range of tasks from daily planning to heritage preservation. The app includes features such as, an intuitive family tree builder, shared calendars for events and appointments, collaborative to-do and shopping lists, a private gallery for sharing photos and stories, among other things.

Passprt Trips

Passprt Trips has raised $500,000 (around Rs 4.3 crore) in a pre-seed round led by Aroa Venture Partners to build a tech stack for travel.

Passprt Trips is a personal travel advisor founded in 2023 by Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai, which enables users plan and book their trips, from inspiration and discovery to planning, bookings, and on-trip assistance.

The startup will use the capital to deepen product capabilities, expand its community of travellers, and roll out to 20 destinations across Asia Pacific (APAC) and the Middle East over the next three months.

The company said it is building a vertical large language model (LLM) stack for travel, powered by community-contributed data and an integrated supply network. This includes offbeat stays, taxi rentals and curated activities.

Astra Studios

Hombale Group, a construction and infrastructure developer which owns Hombale Films, a producer of Kannada language movies KGF, Salaar and Kantara, has partnered with Perpetual Capital to launch Astra Studios.

Hombale has invested along with Perpetual an undisclosed amount in the creative-technology venture. The company will focus on end-to-end creative solutions for films such as series and brand campaigns, ideation, visualisation, VFX, generative AI solutions and post-production development of original character universes among other things.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from VC Circle.