Prashanth Prakash, Accel India founding associate
Accel India founding associate and Padma Shri awardee Prashanth Prakash has joined Nikhil Kamath-backed WTFund as a strategic advisor, marking a big addition to the fund’s efforts to again India’s youngest entrepreneurs. His entry comes because the fund unveiled the eight-startup cohort of WTFund C1/25, chosen from a aggressive pool of early-stage founders below 25.
Prakash, one in every of India’s most influential enterprise traders, is anticipated to form the fund’s funding technique and strengthen its mentorship mannequin, significantly for DeepTech, shopper, sustainability, and superior manufacturing-led ventures. His expertise in constructing world B2B corporations and nurturing breakthrough concepts is anticipated to present WTFund sharper visibility into high-impact innovation.
The newly introduced C1/25 cohort spans AI, well being tech, safety, electronics manufacturing, and biomedical innovation, underscoring the fund’s give attention to younger founders fixing real-world issues.
WTFund Bootcamp
The fund additionally introduced its first WTFund Bootcamp, a structured programme providing founders mentorship, trade insights, and entry to traders and area consultants. The bootcamp goals to equip start-ups with operational playbooks, sharper enterprise fashions, and a platform for long-term scale.
WTFund gives grants and community entry to under-25 founders, permitting them early momentum with out rapid dilution pressures. With Prakash’s addition, the fund expects to broaden its footprint throughout frontier-tech and impact-led ventures rising from India’s youngest entrepreneurial expertise pool.
WTFund — an early-stage initiative backed by Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath that provides grants, mentorship and ecosystem entry to very younger founders — positioned the transfer as a part of a broader plan to broaden India’s early innovation pipeline whereas lowering dilution stress on the seed stage.
The eight start-ups embrace, Aeyi, which turns present CCTV infrastructure into AI-backed, real-time anomaly detection techniques; Antimattr, which is constructing an AI-powered audio wearable with a modular digital camera for hands-free ambient computing; and BloomRehab, which has developed a robotic physiotherapy system for sufferers recovering from stroke, spinal twine accidents, and traumatic mind accidents.
Others within the cohort embrace O3 Safety, a supply-chain safety platform for detecting software-borne assaults; Astraeus Innovus, which is growing a ₹100 saliva-based fast check for early oral most cancers detection; and Placestation, which gives desktop-scale PCB meeting machines to democratise electronics manufacturing.
Prava, constructing a cost orchestration layer for AI purchasing apps, and Turocrates, an AI-enabled reasonably priced pathology platform that digitises slides utilizing low-cost microscopy attachments, spherical off the cohort.
Printed on December 11, 2025
