BusinessWire India
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 6: Solinas Integrity Private Limited, a Chennai-based firm pioneering full-stack robotics and AI options for underground water and sanitation infrastructure, has raised $5.5 million in a Series A1 funding spherical. The spherical was co-led by Mela Ventures and Hero Enterprise Family Office with participation from Luthra Group and follow-on investments from present traders SVL-SME Fund (managed by SBI Ventures Limited), Rainmatter Capital, and 8X Ventures Fund I.
The spherical marks a major milestone in Solinas’ mission to remodel the inspection, cleansing, and administration of vital water, wastewater, and sanitation infrastructure by robotics and synthetic intelligence.
The capital can be used to develop manufacturing capability, product growth, strengthen software program infrastructure, and assist working capital necessities as Solinas scales authorities and enterprise contracts. Alongside home enlargement, Solinas will deepen its worldwide gross sales footprint, with a strategic deal with the Middle East and Southeast Asia (SEA) markets. Solinas will spend money on new product growth to widen its know-how portfolio throughout WASH, industrial functions, and protection.
Founded 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 firm was co-founded by Divanshu Kumar (CEO) and Moinak Banerjee (CTO).
The firm 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 Under 30 listing in 2025, and the corporate was just lately chosen as the topic of a Harvard Business Publishing case research now utilized by enterprise colleges throughout six continents.
‘Solinas has come this far by proving that the know-how & the mannequin works, metropolis after metropolis, contract after contract, at a large scale. As we enter our subsequent part, we’ve the management workforce in addition to the backing of mission aligned institutional traders in place to construct India’s largest tech firm within the underground asset administration house. From right here, we’re additionally extending into adjoining, highstakes sectors — beginning with Oil & Gas and Defence, the place the identical self-discipline round vital, unseen infrastructure applies.’
— Divanshu Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, Solinas Integrity
Solinas is addressing a largely invisible however vital 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-Revenue Water leads to an estimated $39 billion in annual losses. At the identical time, regardless of a ban on guide scavenging, greater than 7,00,000 folks stay engaged within the guide cleansing of sewers and septic tanks, with 377 sanitation staff shedding their lives between 2019 and 2023. These challenges are creating an pressing want for technology-led inspection, monitoring, and mechanized sanitation options.
The alternative is additional bolstered by government-led infrastructure programmes resembling AMRUT, Jal Jeevan Mission, and the NAMASTE scheme, that are driving adoption of recent inspection and sanitation applied sciences by an estimated $1.5-2 billion in annual public and multilateral funding.
‘Current strategies of sustaining India’s water infrastructure are guide, hazardous, time-consuming, and expensive, 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 adopted Divanshu and the workforce’s journey for 4 years, and their development has been exceptional. Backing fearless founders fixing globally onerous issues from India is core to our funding philosophy, and Solinas is among the greatest examples of that.’
— Krishnakumar Natarajan, Managing Partner, 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 knowledge into GIS-mapped asset inventories, AI-driven defect classification, and predictive remaining-useful-life analytics, powered by a proprietary Indian pipeline dataset.
Together, these options present utilities with a complete, end-to-end platform for inspection, cleansing, and asset administration.
Resources (founder photographs, & logos) – [Solinas Press Kit]
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