BusinessWire India
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 6: Solinas Integrity Personal Restricted, a Chennai-based firm pioneering full-stack robotics and AI options for underground water and sanitation infrastructure, has raised $5.5 million in a Collection A1 funding spherical. The spherical was co-led by Mela Ventures and Hero Enterprise Household Workplace with participation from Luthra Group and follow-on investments from present buyers SVL-SME Fund (managed by SBI Ventures Restricted), Rainmatter Capital, and 8X Ventures Fund I.
The spherical marks a major milestone in Solinas’ mission to remodel the inspection, cleansing, and administration of important water, wastewater, and sanitation infrastructure by robotics and synthetic intelligence.
The capital might be used to broaden manufacturing capability, product growth, strengthen software program infrastructure, and help working capital necessities as Solinas scales authorities and enterprise contracts. Alongside home enlargement, Solinas will deepen its worldwide gross sales footprint, with a strategic concentrate on the Center East and Southeast Asia (SEA) markets. Solinas will spend money on new product growth to widen its expertise portfolio throughout WASH, industrial purposes, and protection.
Based in 2018 and incubated at IIT Madras, Solinas has constructed an built-in full-stack robotics platform for underground water and sanitation infrastructure, spanning inspection, sanitation, and AI-powered infrastructure intelligence. The corporate was co-founded by Divanshu Kumar (CEO) and Moinak Banerjee (CTO).
The corporate has deployed its options throughout greater than 30 cities and 15 states, serving municipalities and enterprise clients, together with an energetic worldwide deployment with Dubai Municipality. Solinas has been acknowledged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for its contribution to India’s water and sanitation mission. CEO Divanshu Kumar was named to Forbes India’s 30 Beneath 30 record in 2025, and the corporate was not too long ago chosen as the topic of a Harvard Enterprise Publishing case examine now utilized by enterprise colleges throughout six continents.
‘Solinas has come this far by proving that the expertise & the mannequin works, metropolis after metropolis, contract after contract, at a large scale. As we enter our subsequent part, we’ve got the management staff in addition to the backing of mission aligned institutional buyers in place to construct India’s largest tech firm within the underground asset administration area. From right here, we’re additionally extending into adjoining, highstakes sectors — beginning with Oil & Gasoline and Defence, the place the identical self-discipline round important, unseen infrastructure applies.’
— Divanshu Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, Solinas Integrity
Solinas is addressing a largely invisible however important infrastructure problem. India is estimated to lose 38% of its handled water earlier than it reaches customers, with losses exceeding 60% in some cities. Globally, Non-Income Water leads to an estimated $39 billion in annual losses. On the similar time, regardless of a ban on handbook scavenging, greater than 7,00,000 individuals stay engaged within the handbook cleansing of sewers and septic tanks, with 377 sanitation staff dropping their lives between 2019 and 2023. These challenges are creating an pressing want for technology-led inspection, monitoring, and mechanized sanitation options.
The chance is additional bolstered by government-led infrastructure programmes akin to AMRUT, Jal Jeevan Mission, and the NAMASTE scheme, that are driving adoption of contemporary inspection and sanitation applied sciences by an estimated $1.5-2 billion in annual public and multilateral funding.
‘Present strategies of sustaining India’s water infrastructure are handbook, hazardous, time-consuming, and dear, with just about no visibility into what lies beneath. Solinas is altering that by a vertically built-in robotics platform that maps underground infrastructure, diagnoses points, and delivers end-to-end options. At Mela Ventures, we’ve got adopted Divanshu and the staff’s journey for 4 years, and their development has been outstanding. Backing fearless founders fixing globally arduous issues from India is core to our funding philosophy, and Solinas is without doubt one of the finest examples of that.’
— Krishnakumar Natarajan, Managing Companion, Mela Ventures
To handle this market, Solinas has developed three built-in merchandise.
* Endobot, Asia’s first robotic pipeline inspection system able to navigating pipes as small as 90 mm.
* HomoSEP mechanises sewer and septic tank cleansing at depths of as much as 20 meters, eliminating the necessity for human entry into hazardous confined areas.
* SWASTH AI transforms inspection information into GIS-mapped asset inventories, AI-driven defect classification, and predictive remaining-useful-life analytics, powered by a proprietary Indian pipeline dataset.
Collectively, these options present utilities with a complete, end-to-end platform for inspection, cleansing, and asset administration.
Assets (founder photos, & logos) – [Solinas Press Kit]
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