In a fresh funding boost, Bengaluru-based Gnani.ai has raised $10 million in the first tranche of its Series B round, led by Aavishkaar Capital, with participation from existing investor Info Edge Ventures.
The company, which builds voice-based artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, said the funds will support global expansion, strengthen its product and engineering teams, and accelerate the development of multilingual and industry-specific offerings.
Founded in 2016 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, Gnani.ai handles over 30 million voice interactions daily across more than 12 languages and serves over 200 enterprise clients.
“At Gnani, our mission has always been to make customer engagement more human, more secure, and more scalable through voice-first AI,” said the co-founders. “Partnering with Aavishkaar Capital is a powerful validation of that vision. Their investment will help us deepen our generative AI capabilities and accelerate our global expansion,” they added.
The company recently introduced Inya VoiceOS at the AI Impact Summit 2026, describing it as India’s first 5-billion-parameter voice-to-voice sovereign foundational AI model. Released as a research preview ahead of a planned 14-billion-parameter model, Inya VoiceOS enables end-to-end spoken intelligence by working across acoustic and semantic layers, removing the need for intermediate speech-to-text and text-to-speech systems.
Gnani.ai also launched Vachana STT, an enterprise-grade speech recognition model trained on over 1 million hours of voice data across 1,056 domains, along with Vachana TTS, a text-to-speech model offering human-like voice output and zero-shot voice cloning across 12 Indic languages.
“Deep-tech is no longer a niche — it is becoming central to solving the defining challenges of our time: agricultural resilience, financial inclusion, climate adaptation, and equitable access to services,” said Shilpa Maheshwari, Managing Director, Aavishkaar Capital.
The funding marks the first close of a larger Series B round.
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