Bengaluru-based enterprise AI startup QwikBuild has raised $2.3 million (about Rs 22 crore) in a pre-seed spherical led by Tokyo-listed expertise firm Globalway, and is organising a three way partnership with its lead investor to promote its platform in Japan.

Blume Ventures, DeVC and Marsshot additionally took half within the spherical, together with angel investors Lalit Keshre, founding father of Groww, and Ankit Nagori, CEO of Curefoods.

QwikBuild mentioned it can use many of the contemporary funding for go-to-market actions, together with organising a group within the US and increasing operations throughout Southeast Asia.

The Japan three way partnership

The three way partnership with Globalway is anticipated to change into operational by the tip of 2026. It’ll provide QwikBuild’s platform to Globalway’s present and potential enterprise prospects in Japan.

“We have now been working along with Globalway to develop ‘QwikBuild’ right into a service that meets the calls for of the enterprise market, together with Japan,” mentioned Pradeep Ayyagari, founder and CEO of QwikBuild.

“Globalway’s data of Japanese firms’ operations and system growth has performed an important function within the evolution of ‘QwikBuild,’” he added. By the three way partnership, he mentioned, the corporate hopes to “ship ‘QwikBuild’ to Japanese firms and collectively pioneer a brand new period the place enterprise departments take the lead in creating methods”.

Masato Kakamu, chairman and CEO of Globalway, mentioned, “Japanese firms have lengthy confronted the problem of system growth requiring lengthy durations of time and a big workforce, making it tough to maintain up with modifications in enterprise operations. We imagine that QwikBuild is a revolution that may basically change the best way methods are constructed.”

“By combining the expertise created by wonderful engineers in India with the data now we have constructed along with Japanese enterprises, we are going to ship QwikBuild to Japan,” Kakamu added.

What QwikBuild does

QwikBuild was based in 2025 by Ayyagari, a former government at fintech firm slice who has additionally labored at Flipkart and Swiggy. The startup combines customized software program growth with AI-driven workflow automation.

Companies can use the platform in 3 ways: to exchange legacy methods solely, to construct customized software program layers on high of instruments from firms similar to SAP and Salesforce, or to construct purposes from scratch. As soon as a system is operating, they’ll add AI brokers to automate workflows.

Its fundamental product, AgentQ, is an AI development agent backed by human builders who deal with advanced integrations and code evaluations. QwikBuild mentioned prospects absolutely personal the code that’s produced, and claims greater than 20,000 apps have been constructed on its platform.

Ayyagari mentioned the corporate focuses on codifying enterprise choices moderately than solely automating particular person duties. A monetary providers firm, for instance, has to resolve which prospects to contact, which filters to use and which scripts to make use of for every buyer section.

A specialised AI startup may automate the calling itself, whereas QwikBuild goals to codify the choices that decide which calls are made within the first place. Companies can then deploy voice brokers or different instruments to hold out these workflows, by way of QwikBuild or different suppliers.

QwikBuild claims to serve greater than 100 enterprises throughout India, Southeast Asia, the US and Dubai. About 10-12% of its purchasers are giant enterprises, whereas about 30% are smaller companies that use the platform to deploy software program with out organising their very own expertise groups.

The corporate mentioned Asia’s largest electronics element exporter automates its export documentation on software program constructed by QwikBuild on high of SAP. An industrial procurement firm has used the platform to automate fee processing, and a healthtech firm with 3,000 staff has changed its applicant monitoring and HR methods with QwikBuild purposes.