Pune-based AI startup CurvetAI has raised Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Merak Ventures, with participation from a group of angel investors.

The startup plans to use the fundingto strengthen its know-how infrastructure, develop its crew and develop AI brokers succesful of dealing with extra advanced duties and workflows on behalf of customers.

Based in December 2025 by Vivek Dubey and Utkarsh Gupta, CurvetAI operates a platform that permits customers to entry and mix a number of AIfashions inside a single workspace.

Dubey studied design on the Symbiosis Institute of Design in Pune and beforehand labored at Infosys, Microsoft and Google, whereas Gupta, the startup’s co-founder and CTO, beforehand labored at Samsung and oversees CurvetAI’s engineering and know-how infrastructure.

The startup’s subsequent section of growth will focus on constructing agent-based merchandise that can coordinate completely different AI capabilities and execute extra advanced duties with higher autonomy.

The method is supposed to scale back the want for customers to manually choose and mix completely different AI fashions, with the platform taking on extra of the work concerned in managing these processes.

“As the quantity of specialised fashions grows, making AI genuinely helpful will rely as a lot on selecting the proper intelligence as on having entry to it,” Dubey stated.

The startup stated it has crossed 100,000 month-to-month customers globally, with India and the United States accounting for its largest markets. It has additionally begun producing income, though it has not disclosed its income figures, quantity of paying prospects or valuation following the funding spherical. 

Bringing a number of AI instruments into one workspace

CurvetAI goals to tackle a rising problem in the generative AI market, the place customers typically want to swap between completely different platforms, handle a number of subscriptions and choose specialised fashions to full their work.

Its platform brings textual content, picture, audio and video capabilities into a single visible workspace, permitting customers to examine outputs from completely different AI fashions and join instruments inside the similar undertaking.

The system is additionally designed to assist establish which underlying AI mannequin is finest suited to a explicit job, lowering the want for customers to make that choice themselves.

“AI has develop into extremely succesful, however more and more fragmented. The consumer is nonetheless anticipated to perceive which mannequin is finest for a explicit job and then determine out how to make completely different instruments work collectively. We imagine that complexity ought to sit with the platform,” stated Vivek Dubey, co-founder and CEO of CurvetAI.

The startup initially operated as a platform for discovering AI instruments and prompts. Nevertheless, its founders discovered that serving to customers establish appropriate merchandise addressed solely half of the drawback, as they nonetheless had to transfer to different platforms to use them.

This prompted CurvetAI to shift in direction of a workspace the place completely different AI capabilities may be accessed and mixed inside the similar undertaking. 

Rising consumer base and business collaborations

In accordance to the startup, its platform is used by people, groups and academic establishments. It additionally supplies AI mannequin builders with a distribution channel to attain customers, acquire suggestions and perceive how their merchandise are being used.

CurvetAI stated it has collaborations with GnaniAI, Rumik AI and Alibaba, though it did not disclose the nature or industrial phrases of these preparations. The startup additionally stated it is working with academic establishments throughout India.

Sheetal Bahl, founding associate at Merak Ventures, stated the rising complexity of the AI ecosystem presents an alternative for platforms that simplify how folks work together with completely different applied sciences.

“The finest know-how corporations typically emerge when a market turns into extra advanced than its customers ought to have to perceive, and Curvet noticed that inflection early,” Bahl stated.

The investmentcomes as CurvetAI prepares to develop past offering entry to completely different AI fashions and in direction of growing agent-based capabilities designed to carry out multi-step workflows on behalf of customers.