Pune-based CurvetAI has raised Rs 6 crore in pre-seed funding led by Merak Ventures to address fragmentation in the AI tool ecosystem. Founded by Vivek Dubey and Utkarsh Gupta in December 2025, the platform has crossed 100,000 monthly users globally by integrating multiple AI capabilities into a single workspace.

CurvetAI Secures Rs 6 Crore in Pre-Seed Round

CurvetAI, a Pune-based AI workspace platform, has raised Rs 6 crore in pre-seed funding led by Merak Ventures, with participation from angel investors

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. Founded in December 2025 by Vivek Dubey and Utkarsh Gupta, the startup addresses fragmentation in the AI tool ecosystem by consolidating text, image, audio and video capabilities into a single visual workspace

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. The unified AI workspace has already crossed 100,000 monthly users globally, with India and the United States emerging as its largest markets

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. The company has also begun generating revenue

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Source: CXOToday

Source: CXOToday

Tackling the Growing Complexity of AI Models

The rapid expansion of generative AI has created a challenge where users must decide which tool suits a specific task, maintain multiple subscriptions and switch between different products to complete workflows

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. CurvetAI enables users to compare outputs and connect tools within the same project, determining which underlying technology is best suited to a particular task

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. "AI has become incredibly capable, but increasingly fragmented. The user is still expected to understand which model is best for a particular task and then figure out how to make different tools work together. We believe that complexity should sit with the platform," said Vivek Dubey, Co-founder and CEO of CurvetAI

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From Tool Discovery Platform to Integrated Workspace

CurvetAI initially launched as a tool discovery platform for AI tools and prompts but quickly pivoted when founders realized discovery addressed only part of the problem

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. Users still had to leave the platform to actually use those products, prompting the shift towards a workspace where different capabilities could be accessed and combined within the same project

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. The platform now serves individuals, teams and educational institutions while providing AI model developers with a distribution channel to reach users, gather feedback and understand usage patterns

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. CurvetAI has established collaborations with GnaniAI, Rumik AI and Alibaba, and is working with educational institutions across India

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Strengthening Technology Infrastructure and Agent-Based Products

The fresh capital will be deployed to strengthen technology infrastructure, expand the team and build agent-based products for complex workflows that can execute multi-step tasks with greater autonomy on behalf of users

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. This represents a shift from simply providing access to different AI tools towards executing increasingly complex workflows autonomously

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. Sheetal Bahl, Founding Partner at Merak Ventures, noted that "the best technology companies often emerge when a market becomes more complex than its users should have to understand, and Curvet saw that inflection early"

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. Dubey, who studied design at the Symbiosis Institute of Design in Pune, has previously worked at Infosys, Microsoft and Google, while Utkarsh Gupta, Co-founder and CTO, previously worked at Samsung and leads CurvetAI's engineering and technical infrastructure

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