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Revspot Raises $4.8M Series A to Scale AI‑Native Pipeline Automation for High‑Ticket B2C Brands

Revspot Raises $4.8 Million Series A to Scale AI‑Native Pipeline Automation for High‑Ticket B2C Brands
(L to R) Varun Garg, Darshan Subash, Chirag Wadhera
  • Round co-led by Inflexor Ventures and Info Edge Ventures; Pentathlon Ventures and Silicon Road Ventures join as significant institutional investors, along with continued participation from Titan Capital.
Revspot, an AI-native platform that automates qualified pipeline generation for high-ticket B2C businesses, has raised US$4.8 million in Series A funding.

The round was co-led by Inflexor Ventures and Info Edge Ventures, with Pentathlon Ventures and Silicon Road Ventures joining as significant institutional investors, along with continued participation from Titan Capital.

The company will use the funding to deepen its product and engineering capabilities in India, strengthen its buyer-intelligence and AI qualification infrastructure, expand into new high-ticket B2C sectors, and build its customer presence across selected international markets.

Revspot had earlier raised US$1.4 million in seed funding in late 2024, led by Info Edge Ventures and Titan Capital, with participation from angel investor Kunal Shah.

Founded by Darshan Subash, Chirag Wadhera and Varun Garg in 2024, Revspot automates the two connected systems required to generate qualified pipeline: lead generation and lead qualification. Its platform brings together consumer intelligence, acquisition workflows, campaign analytics, lead enrichment, Voice AI, WhatsApp-led engagement, qualification and sales handoff. This enables businesses to identify the right buyers, improve acquisition quality, qualify enquiries earlier and give sales teams clearer visibility into buyer fit, intent, timing and readiness.

Revspot Raises $4.8 Million Series A to Scale AI‑Native Pipeline Automation for High‑Ticket B2C Brands
Team Revspot

The company currently serves more than 50 customers across sectors including real estate, education, automotive and wealth management. It is also expanding into broader BFSI categories, where qualification quality and speed directly influence revenue outcomes.

Commenting on the fundraise, Darshan Subash, CEO and Co-Founder, Revspot, said, “B2C customer acquisition is still stitched together across media teams, agencies, CRMs, call centres, sales teams and multiple point tools. Companies spend heavily to generate enquiries, but continue to lose significant time and money between finding the right buyer and handing sales a real opportunity. Revspot brings lead generation and lead qualification into one AI-native system. We have built and proven this model in complex Indian B2C sectors, and this round will help us deepen the product in India, enter new sectors and take the platform to select international markets.”

Murali Krishna Gunturu, Partner, Inflexor Ventures, said, “Qualified pipeline generation is a large and fundamental problem for high-ticket B2C businesses. Revspot's combination of AI-native infrastructure, deep customer understanding and strong execution gives it the potential to define an important new category in B2C revenue technology.”

Rishabh Katiyar, Partner, Info Edge Growth, said, “We backed Revspot early because the team had a clear view of a large and painful problem in B2C customer acquisition that could now be solved differently using AI. Since our seed investment, the company has demonstrated strong customer pull, rapid product development and a consistent focus on outcomes. We are excited to deepen our partnership with Revspot as they enter this next phase.”

As part of its product expansion strategy, Revspot is also developing Spot, its orchestration platform and agent harness for qualified-pipeline workflows. Spot connects campaign planning and Meta-native campaign analysis with lead enrichment, Voice AI qualification and downstream lead-quality feedback.

About Revspot

Revspot

Headquartered in Bengaluru, Revspot is an AI-native platform for qualified pipeline generation. The company helps high-ticket B2C businesses identify, acquire, qualify and route high-intent buyers by bringing together consumer intelligence, acquisition workflows, campaign analytics, enrichment, Voice AI, WhatsApp engagement and sales handoff.

Customers can work with Revspot through an outcome-led managed model, deploy its qualification stack on existing leads, or run qualified-pipeline workflows through its platform.

Website: https://revspot.ai/

Anscer Robotics Secures $2 Mn in Seed Funding Led by Info Edge Ventures

Anscer Robotics Secures $2 Mn in Seed Funding Led by Info Edge Ventures
  • The latest funding round was led by Info Edge Ventures.
  • The company, which is also part of SanchiConnect’s DeepTech community, has shown rapid growth from an early-stage startup to a key player in industrial automation and robotics-driven logistics.
Anscer Robotics, a pioneering developer of intelligent autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), has successfully raised $2 million in a seed funding round, marking a significant milestone in its journey. The company, which is also part of SanchiConnect’s DeepTech community, has shown rapid growth from an early-stage startup to a key player in industrial automation and robotics-driven logistics, driven by multiple strategic partnerships. The latest funding round was led by Info Edge Ventures. This round further validates the company’s market potential and its role in transforming warehouse automation and smart manufacturing across global markets.

The $2 million in funding will fuel ANSCER Robotics' next phase of growth, supporting the establishment of a new manufacturing centre, the hiring of 50+ robotics experts, and the expansion of operations into the United States.

The funding comes at a time when India’s DeepTech ecosystem is gaining significant momentum, with increased investments and government initiatives aimed at fostering technological innovation. Robotics and automation are set to play a crucial role in shaping the future of industrial operations, and Anscer Robotics is well-positioned to capitalise on this growing demand.

"The journey of Anscer Robotics has been one of continuous learning, innovation, and perseverance. Scaling a DeepTech startup in the robotics space comes with its own set of challenges, but having access to a strong ecosystem like SanchiConnect has made a significant difference. Being part of this community has provided us with valuable industry connections, technical collaborations, and insights that have shaped our approach to automation. Additionally, having SanchiConnect as our trusted strategic advisor has been instrumental in helping us navigate the investment landscape, secure strategic partnerships, and accelerate our growth. With this funding, we are excited to strengthen our presence in global markets and push the boundaries of autonomous robotics in industrial automation.” said Raghu Venkatesh, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer, Anscer Robotics.

"This funding marks a pivotal moment for ANSCER Robotics as we scale our operations, enhance our technology, and expand our market presence," said Ribin Mathew, CEO, Anscer Robotics. "With automation demand surging across industries, we remain committed to making robotics more accessible, intelligent, and seamlessly integrated into industrial ecosystems."

As part of this expansion, Mark Messina, former Amazon/Kiva Robotics executive, has joined ANSCER Robotics as Managing Director & CEO of U.S. operations. With decades of expertise in robotics and automation, Messina will lead the company’s mission to deliver advanced AMRs, AGVs, and intelligent automation solutions to businesses across the U.S.

"Anscer Robotics is a great example of how DeepTech startups in India are redefining industrial automation. Supporting such high-impact startups with access to capital, strategic partnerships, and market expansion is critical to strengthening India's DeepTech landscape. We look forward to seeing Anscer Robotics scale new heights and lead the next wave of robotics-driven transformation.” Shares Dr. Sunil K Shekhawat, CEO, SanchiConnect

Since its inception, Anscer Robotics has rapidly gained traction, delivering scalable automation solutions to some of the world’s leading industrial enterprises. The startup’s AMRs integrate seamlessly into existing manufacturing workflows, offering real-time analytics, AI-driven optimisation, and adaptive navigation capabilities.

With rising demand for robotics-driven automation, Anscer Robotics is focused on expanding into new geographies and diversifying its product lines to cater to evolving industry needs. The new investment will accelerate research and development, strengthen manufacturing capabilities, and drive greater adoption of AMRs across global markets.

About Anscer Robotics

Founded in 2020 by Ribin Mathew, Ebin Sunny, Raghu Venkatesh, and Raj Mohan, Anscer Robotics is at the forefront of industrial automation with its intelligent AMRs. The company designs advanced robotic solutions for manufacturing and supply chains, helping enterprises streamline their operations with automation.

About SanchiConnect

Founded in 2022, SanchiConnect is committed to empowering startups by focusing on key areas such as investor outreach, mentorship, and corporate networking. SanchiConnect’s DeepTech community platform brings together over 3,000 DeepTech startups, investors, incubation centres, and corporates, enabling seamless networking and knowledge exchange. Believing in the power of collaboration, SanchiConnect drives growth and success within the DeepTech ecosystem through its GTM and funding-led accelerator programs, providing early capital, mentorship, POCs, market access, and networking opportunities to startups.

Metaverse Gaming Startup AvatarLife Raises $1.5 Mn from Info Edge Ventures

Metaverse Gaming Startup AvatarLife Raises $1.5 Mn from Info Edge Ventures

Info Edge Ventures, a venture capital firm backed by Naukri.com parent Info Edge India Ltd and Temasek, has led a $1.5 million seed funding round in metaverse gaming platform AvatarLife.

The startup plans to utilize the freshly raised capital into backing product research and development, community building and global team expansion.

Founded in 2022, by Sushant Chandrasekar and Gaurav Gupta, AvatarLife offers single- player, multi-player and play-to-earn skill- based games in its virtual world. It also allows other creators to develop and operate games on its platform.

AvatarLife is a Web 3.0 native gaming company building games for the metaverse and offer a wide variety of games from PvP to PvE, P2E to free-play. The gaming startup's focus is to build player-first games. AvatarLife also has its OpenSim Metaverse with games and other attractions.

The platform also allows creators to develop and operate their own games.

“We are transitioning from a 2D internet living on our screens to a 3D space present inside our screens. This will require new ways of thinking about the user experience and, ultimately, product development. We will continue to invest in building the technology and developing capabilities in-house,” Gaurav Gupta said in a statement as quoted by Economic Times.

Earlier, Info Edge Ventures has led the $2.5 Mn funding of AR-based toymaker Mirana and popular fantasy esports platform Fan Clash. 

In start of this month, a report, by Arthur D. Little, said that Indian web3 and metaverse market will reach US $200 billion by 2035. The retail (37%) and financial services sector (15%) will drive the Web3 and Metaverse adoption in India. 

All-in-One Enterprise Gifting Platform Swageazy Raises 7 Cr Led by Info Edge Ventures

All-in-One Enterprise Gifting Platform Swageazy Raises 7 Cr Led by Info Edge Ventures
(L-R) Sameer Wahie, Founder & CEO, Swageazy & Sneh Setu, Founder & CPTO, Swageazy

  • The platform is already catering to 125+ enterprises and have curated 30,000+ swag packs
  • Some of the company’s key customers include LinkedIn, Coursera, Amazon, Pidilite, and Chargebee, amongst others
  • The funding will be deployed towards the acquisition of talent, as well as bolstering product development and technology, in a bid to acquire new users
Swageazy, one of India’s all-in-one enterprise gifting platforms has raised INR 7 crores in a seed funding round led by Info Edge Ventures. The round also saw participation from Anicut Capital (Through their Angel fund arm), Huddle Ventures, and other prolific angel investors including Ankur Agarwal, Co-founder, Dunzo, Dhruv Toshniwal, CEO & Founder, The Pant Project, and Kartik Mandaville, CEO, Springworks amongst others. The freshly raised funds will be used by the start-up to acquire talent, and bolster product development as well as technology, with a vision to further expand its customer portfolio.

Founded by Sameer Wahie and Sneh Setu in March 2021, Swageazy was established with a vision to simplify and streamline gifting and make the whole gifting process as easy as a push notification. Through its tech-first approach, the company has built a platform that enables businesses to curate a gift pack of their choice, with Swageazy handling everything else—from design assistance to last-mile delivery across Indian and international markets.

Commenting on the Company’s vision and fundraise, Sameer Wahie, Founder & CEO, Swageazy said, “The corporate gifting industry has boomed over the past few years, as the new work paradigms have heightened the importance of building a rapport with employees, clients, and potential customers alike. Our goal is to bring the efficiency and scale of the digital era to the age-old channel of offline gifting. It will integrate with current marketing, sales, and HR management applications and enable users to automate gifting based on milestones. We also intend to use data to estimate the return on investment for these gifting initiatives. The latest round of funding will enable us to accelerate our product development and improve our go-to-market (GTM) strategy to add significant value for our clients.”

Speaking on their investment in Swageazy, Rishabh Katiyar, Principal at Info Edge Ventures said, “Anyone who has ordered swag or gifts for their employees, customers, prospects or key stakeholders knows how broken and inefficient the entire process is. Swageazy offers one of the most comprehensive end-to-end gifting platforms with a marketplace of curated vendors, ability to customize giftpacks, seamless integration with existing HRMS/CRM tools, global fulfilment and deep analytics. In a short span of time, Swageazy has become a trusted partner to enterprises like Amazon, Linkedin, Coursera, Chargebee, Pidilite, among others. The team has executed well in a bootstrapped manner so far and we are very excited to partner with them on this journey of scaling Swageazy into a brand that becomes synonymous with swag/gifting.”

Sanil Sachar, Founding Partner, Huddle added, “Swageazy has built an offering which is essential in the value chain of organisations, irrespective of their scale. The efficiency of their product has been witnessed by several startups and global organisations, leading to reduced costs, increased employee morale, improved processes for HR within these organisations, with a solution that has a global use-case. We're incredibly proud to see how Sameer and Sneh, have built this venture keeping a fundamental focus on sustainability and then scale, to get to this point, where we are joined by a great list of brilliant investors to help continue their scale. We're excited to take Swageazy across geographies in a solution that has been increasingly demanded.”

Swageazy has ambitious growth plans for the coming years and seeks to enhance its tactics to fuel expansion across Indian and international markets. The platform has so far curated, packed, and shipped 30,000+ swag packs since its inception and have been brewing swag for 125+ enterprises including LinkedIn, Coursera, Amazon, Pidilite, and Chargebee, amongst others.

About Swageazy

Swageazy is an all in one enterprise gifting platform assisting enterprises to leverage the power of physical sends through gifts, cards, and custom merchandise to drive engagement, boost brand awareness and build authentic connections. Founded in March 2021 by Sameer and Sneh, Ex-Uber, as they realised the potential and growing scale of swag in the Indian market. We are India’s first platform that automates gifting for employees, customers, and prospects globally.

About Info Edge Ventures

Info Edge Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backed by Info Edge and Temasek. The firm invests as the first or second institutional cheque in Seed to Series A technology companies across consumer internet, e-commerce, SaaS, and fintech, with significant capital reserved for follow-ons. They are long-term patient capital with holding period of more than a decade. The team has previously deployed over $250mn across 25+ early-stage startups, where they are the first investors and continuing large shareholders of market leading companies like Zomato (NSE: ZOMATO) and Policybazaar (NSE: POLICYBZR). They have invested in startups across consumer internet, b2c and b2b ecommerce, fintech, edtech, healthtech, logisticstech, gaming, digital media, and SaaS.




Geospatial SaaS Startup Attentive Raises Pre Series A Funding From Info Edge Ventures



Attentive, an early-stage B2B SaaS startup, recently announced that it has raised funding in a round led by Info Edge Ventures. The primary and secondary transactions together saw the investors investing over $2M in the company. Redstart Labs, Pavitar Singh (CTO, Sprinklr), Abhishek Khurana (SVP Product Engineering, Sprinklr), and 5 Alumni from IIT Delhi also participated in the round.

Attentive’s SaaS platform enables outdoor services and insurance companies to grow their businesses by accessing valuable property attributes at the click of a button. Founded in 2017 by IIT-Delhi alumni, Attentive has grown into one of the most promising geospatial AI start-ups in India, with a clientele based in the United States. According to the official statement, Attentive will utilize the funds to expand the organization, and further their investment in innovative technology.

Commenting on the funding, Shiva Dhawan, Co-Founder & CEO of Attentive, said, “The outdoor services industry, with over 200,000+ businesses in the U.S alone, has historically been behind the curve in the adoption of modern software solutions. Attentive has built a SaaS solution that allows for sales automation. The core technology runs on state-of-the-art computer vision models, developed over years of R&D effort. Early adoption and customer feedback indicate encouraging Product-Market-Fit (PMF), making it the best time for our bootstrapped company to raise money now and rapidly scale up our go-to-market (GTM) efforts. The money raised will allow us to continue our aggressive geographical expansion besides investment in growing our team and continuous innovation to keep us ahead of the curve.”

Amit Behl, Partner, Info Edge Ventures said, "We are highly impressed by the Computer Vision IP Attentive has built in the Geospatial domain to emerge as a leading deep-tech company from India. We are excited to partner with Shiva and the Attentive team as they extend this IP to build a full-stack SaaS offering for insurance and landscaping companies, enabling them to completely automate their measurement and estimation efforts and provide real-time quotes for their customers, thus helping these companies significantly expand their business funnels."

Pavitar Singh who is currently the CTO of Sprinklr and in his individual capacity, an active angel investor remarks, "I am impressed with the vision Shiva has on democratizing AI for small business owners. I see Attentive and its offerings scaling revenue and increasing profitability for millions of small businesses".

About Attentive:

Founded in 2017 by IIT Delhi alumni, Attentive is an early-stage B2B SaaS start-up that uses Artificial Intelligence to enable businesses to make better and faster decisions using remote property intelligence. The Attentive platform enables outdoor services and insurance companies to grow their business by accessing valuable property attributes at the click of a button. Attentive has grown into one of the most promising SaaS geospatial start-ups in India, with a clientele based in the United States.

Lumiq Raises $2 Mn in a Seed Round Led by Info Edge Ventures



Funding to be utilized by Lumiq to augment its products and geographic expansion

New Delhi, 24 August 2021: Lumiq, India's leading data and analytics company that powers data-driven decision-making for financial enterprises has raised $2 Million seed round funding led by Info Edge Ventures. The round also saw participation from Redstart Labs and angel investor Parampreet Bhasin. Lumiq plans to utilize the funds in the company’s sales growth, enhancing product offerings as well as expanding their global footprint.

Lumiq is on the mission to make financial enterprises manage their data better. Currently, data pipelines of most financial enterprises are broken and their data lives in silos. This results in an inefficient and suboptimal utilization of a vast pool of data which, when managed better, can provide invaluable insights to the institutions. Lumiq’s emPower data platform with its inbuilt data models enables financial enterprises in the banking and insurance sectors to activate and monetize their data.

Lumiq has developed over 70 ready to deploy AI/ML data models and is live on 20+ cloud data platforms of financial enterprises. The company has so far analysed over 1 Bn customer interactions and influenced more than 100 Mn customer journeys. The company has long-term trusted partnerships with more than 30 customers with an impeccable track record of zero churn. Over the last 6 months, their emPower platform has also received great adoption in overseas markets like US, and South-East Asia.

Kitty Agarwal, Partner at Info Edge Ventures, said, “With the pace of digital transformation accelerating faster than ever before, managing data effectively is now one the biggest challenges for enterprises. Lumiq closely works with some of the most reputed financial institutions in India and overseas helping them implement modern DataOps techniques. Many of these enterprises further connect with Lumiq’s plug and play suite of SaaS products to bring in further efficiencies in their data. With the team’s expertise around data science and data engineering, they have been able to achieve over 100% YoY growth consistently while remaining in bootstrapped and we hope this round of funding help them accelerate their plans "

Speaking on the successful funding round, Shoaib Mohammad, Founder, and CEO, Lumiq said, "According to Gartner’s Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2021, data and analytics is shifting to a core business function instead of being a secondary activity. Modern data stacks have become mainstream enabling API-based connectivity with multitude of collaborative tools and business intelligence tools."

He further added, "Lumiq’s emPower platform provides Cloud-native, AI solutions and accelerators for the financial service providers that boost customer experience and enhance business productivity. This is enabling enterprises to accelerate and power customer outcomes to deliver digital efficiencies faster with visible difference in less than 100 days of implementation. We are really excited to partner with Info Edge Ventures as this association will help us expand our product portfolio as well as take our sales and operations to the global market."

Lumiq with its consulting-led prescriptive analytics approach with API driven integration for most business platforms is helping customers drive business transformation faster, quicker, and more efficiently driven with passionate, innovative, and experienced associates.

About Lumiq

Lumiq is a data and analytics platform company focused on enabling financial service enterprises to make better sense of their data and monetise it. Lumiq's ready-to-use emPower platform, and accelerators help power customer outcomes and deliver digital efficiencies faster. Lumiq’s customers include leading insurers, banks and NBFCs. 

The company helps financial enterprises with their data-driven decision-making with AI and machine learning solutions, enabling improved productivity and the enhanced customer experience in their chosen business function. This is achieved by leveraging deep domain expertise and experience across data engineering and data science. Headquartered in Delhi-NCR, the company was founded by Shoaib Mohammad. Lumiq is a people-first company driven by a team of passionate, innovative, and experienced professionals, helping customers drive business outcomes faster, quicker and more efficiently.

For more information, visit: https://lumiq.ai/

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