Robotics startup Solinas Integrity bags $5.5 million from Hero Enterprise, Mela Ventures
Founded by IIT Madras alumni Divanshu Kumar and Moinak Banerjee, Solinas develops robotics and artificial intelligence systems to inspect, clean, and digitise underground water and wastewater infrastructure. Its technology is currently deployed across more than 35 cities and 15 states in India; the company has also expanded to the Middle East.
Robotics startup Solinas Integrity has successfully secured $5.5 million in funding, bringing its total capital raised to approximately Rs 48 crore. The round was led by Hero Enterprise Partner Ventures and Mela Ventures, with participation from existing investors such as SBI Ventures, Rainmatter, and 8X Ventures Fund I. The company, founded by IIT Madras alumni Divanshu Kumar and Moinak Banerjee, specializes in developing robotics and artificial intelligence systems for inspecting, cleaning, and digitizing underground water and wastewater infrastructure.
Currently deployed across more than 35 cities and 15 states in India, Solinas' technology has also expanded to the Middle East. The company's CEO, Kumar, highlighted that the startup has demonstrated the effectiveness of its technology and model across multiple cities and contracts at a significant scale. Looking ahead, Solinas plans to expand into adjacent sectors like oil & gas and defence, where the focus on critical unseen infrastructure is equally important.
The newly raised capital will be used to expand Solinas' operations into more states and municipal corporations in India, as well as grow its presence in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The company will also invest in enhancing its robotic inspection and cleaning technologies, as well as improving its AI-powered software and asset management platforms. Solinas aims to achieve revenues of Rs 100 crore by the fiscal year 2028, driven by growth in its water, sanitation, and industrial asset management businesses.
Sunil Kant Munjal, chairman of Hero Enterprise, praised Solinas for tackling the challenging problem of underground water and wastewater networks with a robotic solution that addresses water security, worker safety, and the long-term resilience of cities. Mela Ventures managing partner Krishnakumar Natarajan emphasized that traditional methods of maintaining India's water infrastructure are manual, hazardous, time-consuming, and costly, with limited visibility into the underground systems.
Solinas is changing this landscape through its vertically integrated robotics platform that maps, diagnoses, and provides end-to-end solutions for these critical infrastructure systems.
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