Multi-Model AI Workspace CurvetAI Raises Rs 6 Crore Pre-Seed Round Led by Merak Ventures
Pune-based AI startup CurvetAI has raised Rs 6 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by Merak Ventures, with participation from a group of angel investors, giving the young company fresh capital less than a year after its launch.
Here's what CurvetAI is actually building. The platform started out as a tool for discovering AI tools and prompts, before evolving into a unified AI workspace that lets users access and combine multiple AI models from a single interface, rather than constantly switching between separate standalone products for text, image, audio and video tasks.
The fresh capital has a clear purpose. CurvetAI plans to expand its engineering and technology infrastructure and build more advanced agent-based capabilities designed to handle increasingly complex, multi-step workflows for its users.
The founding team brings genuine depth here. CurvetAI was founded in December 2025 by Vivek Dubey, who previously worked at Infosys, Microsoft and Google, and Utkarsh Gupta, who has experience at Samsung and now leads the company's engineering and technical infrastructure. Despite being less than a year old, the startup already counts more than 100,000 monthly users globally, with India and the United States as its biggest markets, and it has already started generating revenue, used by individuals, teams and educational institutions alike.
The investor's conviction is worth noting too. Sheetal Bahl, Founding Partner at Merak Ventures, said the best technology companies often emerge when a market becomes more complex than its users should have to understand, and that CurvetAI identified that inflection point early. The startup has also built real traction with the broader AI ecosystem, forming collaborations with GnaniAI, Rumik AI and Alibaba, and working with educational institutions across India.
As the number of AI models multiplies by the month, CurvetAI is betting that simplifying access to all of them, rather than building just one more model, is where the real value lies.
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