The startup picture in Visakhapatnam

Visakhapatnam's venture layer is present but thin. Only 64 tracked companies have ever raised outside money, against 108 funded startups in Nagpur and 292 in Kochi; the city's capital story lags its company and research footprint.

Startups in Visakhapatnam - Funding, Founders & Investors

Everything startup in one place: who's building, how the landscape clusters, the people and investors behind it, and whether the capital is real.

Nekkanti Sea Foods

Nekkanti Sea Foods: India's Largest Shrimp Exporter

est. 1983 · 1,383 staff · raised outside money

Sita Nekkanti — Founder

Venkat Nekkanti — CEO & Managing Director

Alivira

Veterinary Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

est. 2013 · 849 staff · raised outside money

Manish Gupta — Managing Director

Gautam Kumar Das — Managing Director

Coastal

40-year seafood processing & distribution company

est. 1981 · 772 staff · raised outside money

Valsaraj Thottoli — CEO & Managing Director

Fluentgrid

Digital Transformation for Utilities and Cities

est. 2001 · 629 staff · raised outside money

Murali Krishna Gannamani — Founder & Managing Director

Pankaj Jaiswal — CEO

SEIL

SIMHADRI TMT Rebars: Building a Stronger India

est. 1999 · 532 staff · raised outside money

Satish Kumar — Managing Director

SevenHills

Healthcare company with three decades of experience

est. 1988 · 501 staff · raised outside money

Jitendra Maganti — Founder

Queens NRI Hospital

Standalone multi-specialty hospital

est. 1994 · 175 staff · raised outside money

Vijaya Chalasani — Co-Founder

Ranga Chalasani — Co-Founder

Granules OmniChem

Provider of drug research, development, and analytical services

est. 2011 · 154 staff · raised outside money

Venkatanaga R — Co-Founder

Jean Agnus — Co-Founder

Verdant Life Sciences

Manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediate products for global supply

est. 2008 · 150 staff · raised outside money

V Murthy — Co-Founder

U Amarnath — Co-Founder

SuperK

Retail chain of supermarkets

est. 2019 · 128 staff · raised outside money

Anil Thontepu — Co-Founder · Bachelor of Engineering BITS Pilani

Neeraj Menta — Co-Founder · Bachelor of Engineering BITS Pilani

Vijay Nirman

Visakhapatnam Real Estate Services

est. 1982 · 112 staff · raised outside money

Y.V. Ramana — CEO

Harmony Foods

Maheswari Flour Mills: Premium Quality Flour Products

est. 2004 · 88 staff · raised outside money

Kartik Nayyar — Founder

Purushottam Bajaj — Owner

Revidd

Revidd - No-Code SaaS Platform for Customizable Video Streaming and Digital TV

est. 2020 · 65 staff · raised outside money

Naresh Uppada — Co-Founder

Sampath Mallidi — Co-Founder, CEO · Master Of Business Administration - Mba Indiana University of Pennsylvania

SWEKEN

Platform offering business management solutions

est. 2014 · 64 staff · raised outside money

Vamsi Gummadi — CEO · BEng Andhra University

Geo Climate Risk Solutions

Sustainable Solutions for Global Environmental Challenges

est. 2014 · 50 staff · raised outside money

Prasad Babu — Founder & CEO · Master of Science Andhra University

GreenJams

Agrocreteu00ae The worlds first carbon-negative building material made from crop residues and by-products.

est. 2019 · 42 staff · raised outside money

Tarun Jami — Co-Founder & CEO · Bachelor of Engineering Jain College

Hirawats

Brand of multi category apparel products for men, women, and kids

est. 1954 · 29 staff · raised outside money

Anik Hirawat — CEO

Agency

Provider of personal and commercial insurance services

est. 2021 · 18 staff · raised outside money

Abinadi Barrientos — Co-Founder · Bachelor of Science Utah Valley University

Wessly Anderson — Co-Founder

Connetin

Provider of management consulting services

est. 2016 · 13 staff · raised outside money

Umesh Bharadwaj — CEO

Mudunuru

ICT Company with Advanced Technologies in Security and Cloud

est. 2004 · 13 staff · raised outside money

Mudunuru M S Raju — Chairman & MD

ZocketHub

IoT product development for various industries with off-the-shelf IoT solution platform

est. 2016 · 9 staff · raised outside money

D S Aditya — CEO

Golintu

Golintu: Tech-enabled logistics platform with a unique approach to peer-to-peer delivery

est. 2017 · 3 staff · raised outside money

Venkata Reddy — Co-Founder · Arts et Metiers

CouponMachine

Online Retail Coupons Website

est. 2014 · 2 staff · raised outside money

Abdul Sattar — Founder & CEO

Synergies Castings

Manufacturing of precision aluminium alloy wheels

est. 2005 · 1 staff · raised outside money

Shekhar Movva — CEO & MD

cluster · 144 companies

Healthcare

67 founded since 2018 · 9 funded

Sub-themes

clinics · 41hospitals · 38biopharma outsourcing · 16home healthcare · 6hospital chains · 6services for healthcare providers · 5

e.g. Alivira, King George Hospital, RK Hospital

cluster · 133 companies

Business Services

51 founded since 2018 · 4 funded

Sub-themes

it services · 47marketing services · 21iot services · 12digital transformation services · 10hr services · 10ai services · 10

e.g. Imaginnovate, Maple Software, Acninfotech

cluster · 128 companies

Consumer

62 founded since 2018 · 6 funded

Sub-themes

local services · 20professional consumer services · 16logistics tech · 16wedding tech · 13matchmaking · 12road transport tech · 12

e.g. Kankatala, Inventrax, Profi Marker

cluster · 79 companies

Enterprise Applications

37 founded since 2018 · 3 funded

Sub-themes

hrtech · 19enterprise resource planning · 12marketingtech · 10saas · 7enterprise software · 7adtech · 5

e.g. Prospecta Technologies, Akrivia HCM, Akrivia MHM

cluster · 68 companies

Retail

33 founded since 2018 · 6 funded

Sub-themes

fashion tech · 11b2b e-commerce · 9horizontal e-commerce · 8retailers · 6online gifting · 5b2c e-commerce · 5

e.g. Vijetha, Vaibhav Jewellers, Kankatala

cluster · 56 companies

Education

15 founded since 2018 · 5 funded

Sub-themes

higher education institutions · 21k-12 schools · 9academic tutoring · 7educational support services · 6continuing education chains · 5k-12 edtech · 5

e.g. GITAM, GVPCE, Raghu Engineering

cluster · 55 companies

Real Estate And Construction

21 founded since 2018 · 1 funded

Sub-themes

real estate & infrastructure developers · 18facility management services · 9building materials · 9construction management services · 6construction contractors · 4architects · 3

e.g. DOZCO, RKEC Projects, m. venkata rao infra projects

cluster · 43 companies

Food And Agriculture

14 founded since 2018 · 4 funded

Sub-themes

food & beverage products · 9food service chains · 6food processing · 6food retailers · 5food distributors · 4aquaculture trading · 4

e.g. Devi Sea Foods, Vijetha, Devi Fisheries

cluster · 38 companies

Edtech

16 founded since 2018 · 1 funded

Sub-themes

k-12 edtech · 17continued learning · 11test preparation tech · 6higher education tech · 6academic tutoring · 5enterprise resource planning · 2

e.g. Erudex, Tech Gurus India, Iles

cluster · 33 companies

Food And Agriculture Tech

22 founded since 2018 · 2 funded

Sub-themes

online grocery · 16food tech · 13crop tech · 5livestock tech · 2b2b e-commerce · 1online travel · 1

e.g. Bluefrog Mobile Technologies, Apgirijanonline, Dreambot

Founder & Background	Role	Company
Venkat Nekkanti Designated Partner - Ns Trading And Investments \| Pamplin College of Business 2004	CEO & Managing Director	Nekkanti Sea Foods
Manish Gupta Sequent Scientific, ex-CEO Strides Arcolab, wockhardt. MSU BE 1989, SPJIMR MMS 1993	Managing Director	Alivira
Valsaraj Thottoli Andhra University 1977	CEO & Managing Director	Coastal
Anil Thontepu Ex-Kaodim, PhonePe, Think & Learn, hike messenger. BITS Pilani BE, MS 2012	Co-Founder	SuperK
Neeraj Menta Ex-Zeta India, ex-HungerBox, Flipkart. BITS Pilani BE 2012	Co-Founder	SuperK
Purushottam Bajaj Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University B.Tech 1990	Owner	Harmony Foods
Dilip Maheshwari Maheswari Flour Mills.	Managing Director	Harmony Foods
Naresh Uppada Chief Technology Officer - Revidd, Ex-log.os, American Express \| G.M.R. Institute of Technology (2007)	Co-Founder	Revidd
Sampath Mallidi Founder Intandemly, ex-NetSuite. GMR Institute of Technology 2007, Indiana University of Pennsylvania MBA 2009	Co-Founder, CEO	Revidd
Vamsi Gummadi Greenduniya, ex-Verizon. Andhra University BEng	CEO	SWEKEN
Prasad Babu Founder & CEO-Geo Climate Risk Solutions,Geonova \| Ex-UNDP,WAISP,AIR Worldwide \| Andhra University MSc 2001,IIT Kanpur ME 2003	Founder & CEO	Geo Climate Risk Solutions
Tarun Jami UpLink - World Economic Forum.	Co-Founder & CEO	GreenJams
Abinadi Barrientos Co-Founder Team by The Minute, Insurance Agency Owner, ex-Brett Baker State Farm Insurance. Utah Valley University BSc 2008	Co-Founder	Agency
Wessly Anderson Founder Financial Network, Co-Founder Alliance Financial Network, ex-IROM	Co-Founder	Agency
D S Aditya Ex-GreenLine Technologies, Hobbypep, INV TECHNOLOGIES, Academy of Robotics. Avanthi Institute Of Engineering & Technology B Tech 2	CEO	ZocketHub
Venkata Reddy Founder Shipmantra, ex-Career BreakCareer. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University BTech 2011, Arts et Métiers ParisTech - Natio	Co-Founder	Golintu
Shekhar Movva IIM 1985, Michigan State University MS 1987, Northwestern University MMM 1994	CEO & MD	Synergies Castings
Srikanth Mummidavarapu Bni, ex-Visakha Society For The Protection And Care Of Animals, University of Selam, 2006	CEO & Director	Academy of Robotics
Rajaneesh Vasanta Antar Iot, ex-Dxc Technology, ex-Csc, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, 2011	Chief Executive Officer	ANTAR IoT
Karthik Bavana Ex-Tesla EMS. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada BTech	Founder & CEO	Austhraa

backgrounds shown where available

255 investors are on record backing Visakhapatnam companies. The most committed:

Most active — backed 2+ companies

Startup Accelerator India

10000 Startups

XLr8 Andhra Pradesh

Govin Capital

2ClimateLaunchpad

2BIRAC

2Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Institutional

Startup Accelerator India · accelerator / incubator10000 Startups · accelerator / incubatorXLr8 Andhra Pradesh · accelerator / incubatorGovin Capital · accelerator / incubatorClimateLaunchpad · accelerator / incubatorMars Shot Ventures · VC fundBlume Venture · VC fundQED Innovation Labs · VC fundXeed Ventures · VC fundArtha India Ventures · VC fundSTRIVE · VC fundFirst Cheque · VC fundSilverneedle Ventures · VC fundVeltis Capital · VC fund+ 33 more

Private & corporate backers

BIRACMinistry of Electronics & Information TechnologyNew Horizon InvestmentsMotilal OswalWhite OakMadhusudan KelaCaptain FreshAanavinvestmentVenkata LakshmiB Trinath+ 198 more

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Funded startups — peer cities

Kochi

292

Thiruvananthapuram

171

Bhubaneswar

139

108Nagpur

64Visakhapatnam

Companies that have raised

Company	Industry	Rounds	Latest Round	Founded
Alivira	pharmaceuticals	1	2014-04	2013
Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital	hospital & health care	4	2012-10	2005
Fluentgrid	information technology and services	1	2016-11	2001
CouponMachine	other services (b2c non-financial)	1	2015-01	2014
KWIKBOX	retail	2	2021-07	2019
ZocketHub	security and investigations	0	—	2016
Academy of Robotics	education management	1	2017-07	2010
Agency	facilities services	1	2023-04	2021
AMTZ	medical devices	0	—	2016
CDOE, Andhra University	education management	0	—	2022
ANTAR IoT	computer software	1	2018-05	2017
Apps Daily Solution	retail	0	—	2009
Austhraa	other consumer durables	1	2023-04	2020
Biomimicry Technologies	healthcare & lifesciences	0	—	2017
Bothra Group	maritime	0	—	2011
Caare	hospital & health care	0	—	2021
Coastal	fishery	0	2021-03	1981
Connetin	information technology and services	2	2020-06	2016
Crumbd	internet	0	—	2016
Dreambot	consumer electronics	0	—	2024
Geo Climate Risk Solutions	renewables & environment	2	2020-09	2014
Gena HealthX	health, wellness and fitness	0	—	2022
GMR Visakhapatnam International Airport	airlines/aviation	1	2023-12	2020
Granules OmniChem	pharmaceuticals	0	—	2011
GoGreen Industries	food production	0	—	2019

round amounts sparse for tier-3 cities — counts shown, dollar totals withheld

Company	Industry	Founded	Employees
Ayuelectronics	medical devices	2025	—
Iles	e-learning	2025	—
Jotlee	computer software	2025	—
Aixlo Technology	computer software	2025	—
Cyberxon	computer software	2025	—
Dravin	computer software	2025	—
Farm Vaidya	farming	2025	—
Griva Healthcare	medical devices	2025	—
Jms Talentrise Tech Solutions	human resources	2025	—
Kyndskinn	cosmetics	2025	—
Motherly	hospital & health care	2025	—
Lucidus	education management	2025	—
Quable Rare Resources	mining & metals	2025	—
Quantum Gandiva	research	2025	—
SkillInfyTech	education management	2025	—
Swasa Cloud	information technology and services	2025	—
Syddhi	information technology and services	2025	—
ACIAM	legal services	2024	—
Akshaya Aerospace	aviation & aerospace	2024	—
Amaris Brand Creation	design	2024	—

The startup picture in Visakhapatnam

Nekkanti Sea Foods

Alivira

Coastal

Fluentgrid

SEIL

SevenHills

Queens NRI Hospital

Granules OmniChem

Verdant Life Sciences

SuperK

Vijay Nirman

Harmony Foods

Revidd

SWEKEN

Geo Climate Risk Solutions

GreenJams

Hirawats

Agency

Connetin

Mudunuru

ZocketHub

Golintu

CouponMachine

Synergies Castings

Healthcare

Business Services

Consumer

Enterprise Applications

Retail

Education

Real Estate And Construction

Food And Agriculture

Edtech

Food And Agriculture Tech

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