Sleep science and recovery startup DUSQ has raised ₹24 crore in a seed funding round led by Fireside Ventures, with participation from Antler India, Climber Capital, Startup Sherpas, Vaishav Investments, Avnish Anand (Founder, CaratLane), and Shivam Puri.
According to the company, the fresh capital will be deployed to scale its sleep regulation platform, expand its neuroscience and hardware teams, deepen its intellectual property development, strengthen its fully equipped in-house sleep laboratories, and prepare for a US market launch.
Founded in 2023 by Siddhant Bhargava, Shalmali Kadu, and Mitansh Khurana, DUSQ positions itself as a sleep science and recovery company backed by more than 50 million physiological data points. The startup integrates neuroscience research with hardware design in an effort to define a new category within sleep technology.
Over the past year, DUSQ has conducted structured trials within its proprietary sleep laboratory, examining autonomic recovery pathways under controlled settings. The company claims early findings indicate that its system can support sustained recovery cycles and help stabilise uninterrupted sleep patterns, shifting the focus from merely tracking rest to actively facilitating biological recovery.
In a market largely dominated by wearables that generate sleep scores and dashboards, DUSQ is taking a different approach. The company describes itself as a “regulation-first” platform, built on the belief that modern sleep disruption stems from brain-body desynchrony, and that effective recovery requires biological regulation rather than passive tracking.
Over two years of research, DUSQ analysed more than 50 million physiological data points to develop a regulation model linking autonomic signalling and neural downshifting with fragmented recovery cycles.
With fresh funding and a research-led foundation, the company is now preparing to expand its footprint and introduce its regulation-focused sleep technology to global markets.
-By Shivani Solanki
