Banza bags pre-seed funding led by Campus Fund
04 May 2026, 09:22 PMThe funding round also saw participation from Avalanche and a group of angel investors.
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AI-driven data-sharing startup Banza has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Campus Fund.
The funding round also saw participation from Avalanche and a group of angel investors.
The Bengaluru-based startup will use the fresh capital to accelerate product development, enhance user experience, expand the team, and strengthen the foundation for its personal AI category.
Banza was founded in January 2025 by Mehdi A and Aditya Vijayakumar. The startup aims to enable users to build and own a personal AI Twin that becomes more useful over time by learning from their digital behaviour.
Banza says that its platform addresses the problem of fragmented user data across digital services, which results in siloed and incomplete experiences, by unifying this data to help users build an AI that understands them more deeply.
The AI Twin it adds adapts to a user's preferences, habits, and context, helping them make better everyday decisions ranging from what to eat and watch to where to go, what to buy, and how to plan experiences.
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