Lytmus AI, a Bengaluru-based edtech startup constructing AI mentors for aggressive examination preparation, has raised Rs 5 crore in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Boundless Ventures, an early-stage fund backing AI-native corporations.

The startup will use the capital to strengthen its AI capabilities, speed up product growth, and broaden pupil acquisition, with an preliminary give attention to the NEET section.

Based in 2024 by IIT Bombay batchmates Ajit Kumar and Praveen, Lytmus AI has developed an internet platform constructed on two layers. Based on the startup, its infrastructure layer is educated on the instructing patterns of topic consultants to allow its AI mentors to clarify ideas in a teacher-like method. The applying layer is designed to keep up context for every pupil, together with their studying progress, recurring errors and tempo by means of totally different matters.

The startup stated this structure allows its AI mentors to reply questions, establish recurring studying gaps and advocate subsequent studying steps primarily based on a person pupil’s studying historical past, slightly than counting on standardised responses.

“Within the final decade, edtech solved entry to content material. Nevertheless it traded student-teacher interplay for scale, and examination outcomes didn’t observe. College students put together alone, with nobody to information their subsequent step. We constructed Lytmus to shut that hole, not with extra content material, however with mentorship that is aware of every pupil and may really get them to outcomes. No pupil ought to have to arrange alone,” stated Ajit Kumar, who can be the CEO of Lytmus AI.

Ajit is a second-time entrepreneur and IIT Bombay alumnus with expertise throughout product administration, consulting, and startup operations. He beforehand constructed ventures within the agri-tech sector and led product initiatives throughout client and healthcare know-how platforms.

Co-founder and CTO Praveen brings over 10 years of expertise in AI and machine studying and can be a second-time entrepreneur, having beforehand constructed ventures within the foodtech sector. Previous to Lytmus AI, he served as Employees Knowledge Scientist at Simpl, the place he led the info science workforce.