Deep-Tech Startup Ctruh Raises $2.5M Seed Funding to Build Spatial Internet Infrastructure

Deep-Tech Startup Ctruh Raises $2.5 Million Seed Funding Led by IPV

The funds will be directed towards advancing its R&D initiatives, product development of its proprietary browser-native 3D engine and VersaAI generative AI platform and scaling its Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts across the United States and the UAE. Ctruh has raised $2.5 Million in a Seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The round also saw participation from Avinya Ventures, India Accelerator, Founder's Avenue, Anthill Ventures, and LVX, alongside angel investors Vivek Sinha (Founder & CEO, Emversity; Ex-COO, Unacademy) and Shivakumar Ganesan (Founder & CEO, Exotel. The funds will be directed towards advancing its R&D initiatives, product development of its proprietary browser-native 3D engine and VersaAI generative AI platform and scaling its Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts across the United States and the UAE. Ctruh has gained national visibility through its appearance on Shark Tank India (Season 5, Episode 13), where it got an offer from Anupam Mittal and Vineeta Singh. The company has earned strong industry recognition, including being named an ELEVATE 2025 Winner by the Government of Karnataka, winning the Aegis Graham Bell Award 2025 for Innovation in Immersive Experience, and a feature on Brands of Tomorrow on JioHotstar. It has also been a finalist for the LinkedIn Talent Awards and the Wharton India Startup Challenge, while being recognized globally in the Forbes Select 200 Companies list. Ctruh is also part of NSRCEL IIM Bangalore and LeapFWD Accelerator Program ecosystems. Commenting on the investment, Vinay Bansal, CEO & Co-Founder, IPV says, "While the AI Space continues to get increasingly crowded, Ctruh is cutting through the noise with a strong technical differentiation. Its patented 3D engine enables high-fidelity 4K, 8K, and even 16K experiences to run smoothly on the web with fast load times. What stands out is how they are combining AI with 3D and XR to scale immersive content creation, making these experiences not just cutting-edge, but usable and scalable for everyday business applications". Speaking on the development Vinay Agastya, Founder & CEO Ctruh says, "At Ctruh, our focus has always been to simplify technology for businesses by making advanced solutions more accessible. We are building an infrastructure for the upcoming generation of digital experiences, where our goal is to create spatial experiences for every business, regardless of size and scale. This funding will accelerate our ability to do exactly that". He further Added, "We're already seeing clear demand signals: AR-enabled products are driving up to 94% higher conversions (Shopify), 80% of retailers are expected to deploy AR by 2026 (Gartner), and IDC forecasts an 87% rebound in XR hardware in 2026, led by Apple Vision Pro M5, Meta Quest, Samsung Moohan, and XREAL smart glasses. This reflects a structural shift towards open, AI-powered, browser-native platforms". For more than a decade, building 3D and XR experiences has been a luxury reserved for enterprises with deep pockets and large engineering teams, with legacy engines demanding specialized talent, high-performance hardware, and bulky SDKs or app downloads just to view a final experience. Ctruh is rewriting that equation from the ground up, with a deep-tech thesis built across three years of foundational R&D. At its core is a proprietary, browser-native, no-code/low-code 3D engine, the horizontal technology that allows high quality immersive experiences to run on any device instantly, with no installs, no SDKs, and no specialized hardware. On top of this engine, Ctruh is building a portfolio of vertical, industry-specific applications, the first of which, Commverse Studio, has already shipped as the world's first AI-Powered Unified XR Commerce Studio, enabling brands to deploy fully immersive 3D experiences in under 30 minutes. Across the 39+ XR companies operating globally, none today unify no-code 3D creation, AI content generation, browser-native deployment, commerce integration, and analytics in a single platform. Powering the stack is VersaAI, Ctruh's generative AI engine that converts images, text, and video into production-ready 3D assets, collapsing what was once weeks of 3D modeling work into minutes, together bringing the cost and complexity of 3D down to a level any business, across retail, automotive, real estate, education, and healthcare, can afford. Headquartered in Bengaluru with a team of 36, Ctruh is gearing up to expand its operations into the United States and the UAE within this year. Vinay Agastya is the Founder and CEO of Ctruh, bringing nearly a decade of experience across customer success, partnerships, and growth. He began his career with roles at Swiggy and Food Mingo, before leading expansion and partnerships at Genie Bazar and Scapic (acquired by Flipkart). He later served as AGM, Customer Success at Exotel and as Associate Director, Partner Channels at Unacademy. Vinay holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from GITAM Deemed University and was a fellow at MIT. The convergence of 3D, XR, and AI is shaping one of the fastest-growing technology categories of this decade. The global XR market is projected to reach $346 Billion in 2026 and scale to over $2.1 Trillion by 2034, growing at a 25-34% CAGR (Fortune Business Insights, IMARC). India is emerging as the fastest-growing XR market in Asia, currently valued at $4.8B and projected to reach $14.1B by 2027, driven by policy tailwinds like Karnataka's AVGC-XR 3.0 Framework, the Government of India's recently expanded deep-tech regulatory framework, and state-level investments exceeding INR 3,000 Cr. A mobile-first infrastructure and 30-40% cost advantage in software delivery further strengthen India's position.

Deep-Tech Startup Ctruh Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round Led by IPV to Build the Infrastructure Layer of the Spatial Internet

Ctruh has raised $2.5 Million in a Seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The round also saw participation from Avinya Ventures, India Accelerator, Founder's Avenue, Anthill Ventures, and LVX, alongside angel investors Vivek Sinha (Founder & CEO, Emversity; Ex-COO, Unacademy) and Shivakumar Ganesan (Founder & CEO, Exotel. The funds will be directed towards advancing its R&D initiatives, product development of its proprietary browser-native 3D engine and VersaAI generative AI platform and scaling its Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts across the United States and the UAE. Ctruh has gained national visibility through its appearance on Shark Tank India (Season 5, Episode 13), where it got an offer from Anupam Mittal and Vineeta Singh. The company has earned strong industry recognition, including being named an ELEVATE 2025 Winner by the Government of Karnataka, winning the Aegis Graham Bell Award 2025 for Innovation in Immersive Experience, and a feature on Brands of Tomorrow on JioHotstar. It has also been a finalist for the LinkedIn Talent Awards and the Wharton India Startup Challenge, while being recognized globally in the Forbes Select 200 Companies list. Ctruh is also part of NSRCEL IIM Bangalore and LeapFWD Accelerator Program ecosystems. Commenting on the investment, Vinay Bansal, CEO & Co-Founder, IPV says, "While the AI Space continues to get increasingly crowded, Ctruh is cutting through the noise with a strong technical differentiation. Its patented 3D engine enables high-fidelity 4K, 8K, and even 16K experiences to run smoothly on the web with fast load times. What stands out is how they are combining AI with 3D and XR to scale immersive content creation, making these experiences not just cutting-edge, but usable and scalable for everyday business applications". Speaking on the development Vinay Agastya, Founder & CEO Ctruh says, "At Ctruh, our focus has always been to simplify technology for businesses by making advanced solutions more accessible. We are building an infrastructure for the upcoming generation of digital experiences, where our goal is to create spatial experiences for every business, regardless of size and scale. This funding will accelerate our ability to do exactly that". He further Added, "We're already seeing clear demand signals: AR-enabled products are driving up to 94% higher conversions (Shopify), 80% of retailers are expected to deploy AR by 2026 (Gartner), and IDC forecasts an 87% rebound in XR hardware in 2026, led by Apple Vision Pro M5, Meta Quest, Samsung Moohan, and XREAL smart glasses. This reflects a structural shift towards open, AI-powered, browser-native platforms". For more than a decade, building 3D and XR experiences has been a luxury reserved for enterprises with deep pockets and large engineering teams, with legacy engines demanding specialized talent, high-performance hardware, and bulky SDKs or app downloads just to view a final experience. Ctruh is rewriting that equation from the ground up, with a deep-tech thesis built across three years of foundational R&D. At its core is a proprietary, browser-native, no-code/low-code 3D engine, the horizontal technology that allows high quality immersive experiences to run on any device instantly, with no installs, no SDKs, and no specialized hardware. On top of this engine, Ctruh is building a portfolio of vertical, industry-specific applications, the first of which, Commverse Studio, has already shipped as the world's first AI-Powered Unified XR Commerce Studio, enabling brands to deploy fully immersive 3D experiences in under 30 minutes. Across the 39+ XR companies operating globally, none today unify no-code 3D creation, AI content generation, browser-native deployment, commerce integration, and analytics in a single platform. Powering the stack is VersaAI, Ctruh's generative AI engine that converts images, text, and video into production-ready 3D assets, collapsing what was once weeks of 3D modeling work into minutes, together bringing the cost and complexity of 3D down to a level any business, across retail, automotive, real estate, education, and healthcare, can afford. Headquartered in Bengaluru with a team of 36, Ctruh is gearing up to expand its operations into the United States and the UAE within this year. Vinay Agastya is the Founder and CEO of Ctruh, bringing nearly a decade of experience across customer success, partnerships, and growth. He began his career with roles at Swiggy and Food Mingo, before leading expansion and partnerships at Genie Bazar and Scapic (acquired by Flipkart). He later served as AGM, Customer Success at Exotel and as Associate Director, Partner Channels at Unacademy. Vinay holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from GITAM Deemed University and was a fellow at MIT. The convergence of 3D, XR, and AI is shaping one of the fastest-growing technology categories of this decade. The global XR market is projected to reach $346 Billion in 2026 and scale to over $2.1 Trillion by 2034, growing at a 25-34% CAGR (Fortune Business Insights, IMARC). India is emerging as the fastest-growing XR market in Asia, currently valued at $4.8B and projected to reach $14.1B by 2027, driven by policy tailwinds like Karnataka's AVGC-XR 3.0 Framework, the Government of India's recently expanded deep-tech regulatory framework, and state-level investments exceeding INR 3,000 Cr. A mobile-first infrastructure and 30-40% cost advantage in software delivery further strengthen India's position.