DUSQ raises Rs 24 Cr in seed round led by Fireside Ventures

Sleep science and recovery company DUSQ has raised Rs 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.

The capital will be used to scale its sleep regulation platform, expanding its neuroscience and hardware teams, deepening IP development, strengthening fully equipped in house sleep laboratories, and preparing for a US launch, DUSQ said in a press release.

Co founded in 2023 by Siddhant Bhargava, Shalmali Kadu, and Mitansh Khurana, DUSQ is a sleep science and recovery company backed by over 50 million physiological data points. It combines neuroscience and hardware design to define a new category in sleep technology.

Over the past year, DUSQ says it has conducted structured trials inside its proprietary sleep laboratory, testing autonomic recovery pathways under controlled conditions. Early results demonstrate the system’s ability to support sustained recovery cycles and stabilize uninterrupted sleep patterns, a shift from merely observing rest to actively facilitating it.

In a market dominated by wearables that generate sleep scores and dashboards, DUSQ is positioning itself as a regulation first company. Its core hypothesis is that modern sleep failure is driven by brain body desynchrony, and true recovery requires biological regulation, not just tracking.

Over two years of research, the company analyzed more than 50 million physiological data points to formulate a regulation model that connects autonomic signaling and neural downshifting to fragmented recovery.