Grapevine secures $4.1 million funding from Kae Capital, Peak XV
17 Mar 2026, 12:48 PMThe anonymous social media startup will use the fresh capital to scale its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product called Tal.
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Grapevine has raised $4.1 million in a funding round from venture capital firms Kae Capital and Peak XV Partners, along with upGrad cofounder and chairman Ronnie Screwvala.
The anonymous social media startup will use the fresh capital to scale its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product called Tal, said Saumil Tripathi, co-founder, Grapevine, in a LinkedIn post.
It was one of the five AI startup ventures selected by Peak XV Partners last month at the India AI Impact Summit to invest in.
Grapevine was founded in 2023 by Tripathi, Jainam Talsania and Shreeyash Dharmadhikari with the objective to drive genuine and inclusive technology-led community interaction. The social media platform lets users have discussions around career doubts, experiences and matters of professional growth. It also lets users create hyper-local groups centered around their interests, activities, neighbourhoods or events.
The company also has an AI-led platform for practicing job interviews called Round1.
Grapevine's latest offering is Tal, an AI-led job discovery platform that provides personalised job recommendations over chat based on the user's needs and requirements. The company said in a post that the 'personal talent agent' provides users the support they need to find tailored opportunities not limited to their resume.
It is a direct competitor to the professional networking platform LinkedIn, which had recently come up with AI-powered job searches that users could generate using written prompts.
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