CuePilot AI, a voice-first, AI-native platform for preschools and daycares, has raised $1.8 million in a pre-seed funding spherical led by Unilazer Ventures, backed by Ronnie Screwvala, founding father of upGrad.

The spherical additionally noticed participation from Eximius Ventures and Titan Capital.

The startup will use the capital to deepen its voice and AI orchestration stack, roll out integrations for precedence geographies, and scale its go-to-market efforts throughout India, the Center East and Southeast Asia. It plans to subsequently develop into the USA, the place common income per consumer is greater and fee volumes are important.

Based in 2023 by Adithya Narayanan and Ankur Agarwal, CuePilot is a voice-first, AI-native, full-stack preschool administration system designed to automate a big share of administrative work. The platform makes use of voice-enabled AI to seize brief trainer debriefs and classroom context, that are then transformed into structured data, progress updates, and operational outputs.

Based on the startup, this permits academics to scale back display time and spend extra time partaking with youngsters in lecture rooms. As an AI-native administration platform, CuePilot covers teachers, attendance, well being logs, billing, admissions, and mum or dad communication.

The startup is focusing on a phase the place knowledge is commonly fragmented throughout WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and legacy software program methods, limiting visibility for college directors and including to academics’ administrative burden.

Ankur Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of CuePilot AI, stated, “Preschool academics have an exceptionally difficult job. A lot of their workday is spent on actions outdoors the classroom, which is unlucky. We constructed CuePilot to automate 80 per cent of that work and provides them their time again, to allow them to spend time with youngsters within the classroom.”

Agarwal beforehand launched Arthshala, a Reggio-inspired preschool in Kolkata.

Ronnie Screwvala, founding father of Unilazer Ventures, stated, “CuePilot is rethinking early schooling with an AI-native, voice-first strategy – one which I consider will outline the subsequent main shift in how we work together with expertise. Early studying is the place outcomes are most foundational, and voice turns into probably the most inclusive and scalable strategy to ship real-time personalisation. The founders have a robust grasp of the preschool ecosystem and a well-balanced working–product dynamic that positions them nicely to seize a big, evolving market.”

Preeti Sampat, companion at Eximius Ventures, stated, “Voice seize and LLM reasoning flip unstructured classroom narratives into institutional reminiscence. That’s the unlock in early childhood, the place knowledge is never captured and personalisation is the whole lot. We’re excited to again a staff that’s profitable by constructing merchandise attuned to stakeholders’ pure workflow, and that may construct in India for international markets.”

A Titan Capital spokesperson stated, “CuePilot is constructing a category-shaping product for the way forward for schooling. At Titan, we consider in backing founders who convey deep readability to massive, underserved markets, and this staff does precisely that. Their early traction and sharp execution sign a sizeable alternative forward.”

CuePilot claims that it at present serves greater than 130 faculties throughout India and Southeast Asia. The startup goals to achieve 1,000 faculties globally over the subsequent 12 to 18 months, with an aggressive enlargement technique targeted on the US market.