Voice AI startup Navana.ai bags pre-Series A funding
16 Jul 2025, 11:29 AMThe round also saw participation from prominent angel investors including Ajay Agarwal, Ronnie Screwvala, and Sandeep Singhal.
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Voice technology startup Navana.ai has raised Rs 7 crore ($800,000) in its pre-Series A funding round led by Antler India.
The round also saw participation from prominent angel investors including Ajay Agarwal, Ronnie Screwvala, and Sandeep Singhal.
This latest investment brings the company's cumulative funding to Rs 13.2 crore. Earlier the startup had raised Rs 6.2 crore in angel funding round led by Singhal from Nexus Venture Partners and supported by Stanford Angel Fund, Rajan Mehra and Saahil Goel.
The company will use the fresh capital to enhance research and development capabilities, expand product implementation, with particular emphasis on developing a language AI infrastructure tailored specifically for the Indian market.
Established in 2018 by founders Raoul and Jai Nanavati, Navana.ai says it has developed a comprehensive voice AI solution designed for Indian businesses.
The company's product portfolio encompasses voice AI-powered contact centers, speech recognition application programming interfaces, and contact center analytics APIs, all supporting multiple Indian languages.
The startup says it has partnered with more than 40 enterprise customers, including major financial services company Bajaj Finserv. Its voice bot technology operates across over 12 languages, serving a broad spectrum of users from urban English-speaking customers to those using regional dialects in rural areas.
Investor interest in voice technology is growing in India with venture capital funding increasing to $202 million in 2024 across 12 deals, up from $7 million in 2023, per Venture Intelligence.
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