Rovia, a worldwide wealth platform serving to equity-rich professionals switch, handle, and develop their wealth throughout borders, has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Antler India, together with co-investors CDM Capital, AC Ventures, Operators Studio and angels throughout US and India.

The startup is constructing monetary infrastructure for tens of millions of worldwide tech workers, notably professionals at US-listed know-how corporations, whose wealth is more and more tied to fairness compensation however who face vital friction in accessing and diversifying it.

Rovia was co-founded in 2025 by Shivang Badaya (Co-Founder and CEO) and Arnav Grover (Co-Founder and CPO).

The startup mentioned its on-line platform allows customers to switch, diversify, and reinvest their fairness compensation with considerably decreased friction. It claims to have secured registration as an SEC-registered funding adviser in the US.

“I spent years watching this downside up shut, first as an investor learning wealth infrastructure globally, then inside Zolve the place I noticed how a lot worth worldwide workers have been leaking each time they tried to entry their very own cash,” mentioned Shivang Badaya, Co-Founder and CEO of Rovia.

“The RSU is the entry level, however the greater alternative is turning into the complete wealth working system for equity-rich professionals globally. That’s what Arnav and I are constructing.”

Since launching its beta, Rovia has been rising belongings below administration at 100% month-on-month, and is presently monitoring over $60 million in RSUs and fairness compensation belongings throughout its person base, sourced from workers at greater than 300 corporations.

“The $1.5 trillion sitting in fairness compensation globally is likely one of the most under-managed swimming pools of particular person wealth, solely rising additional with the AI increase. Nonetheless, worldwide workers are at a structural drawback and lose vital worth when making an attempt to handle or diversify, due to friction in varied varieties. We’ve got watched Shivang and Arnav intently, as they iterated organically by way of the Antler Residency, and arrived at this large alternative. Their prior expertise offers them each a wealthy understanding of this buyer, and an understanding of the right way to scale product infrastructure for a cross-border monetary play”, mentioned Nitin Sharma, Associate at Antler India.

The startup plans to make use of the funding to increase its engineering and product crew, deepen brokerage and monetary infrastructure integrations, and speed up regulatory and compliance capabilities because it scales throughout world tech worker communities.