Pune-based CurvetAI has raised ₹6 crore in pre-seed funding led by Merak Ventures to develop a workspace that does more than bring AI models together. The startup plans to build agents that coordinate those models and carry out complex workflows, reducing the work users do to choose tools and connect them.
Angel investors also participated in the round, though they were not named. CurvetAI says the capital will strengthen its technology infrastructure and expand its team, alongside development of agent-based products. Those products are planned work, rather than a new release announced with the financing.
From finding tools to using them
CurvetAI began as a platform for discovering AI tools and prompts. Its founders found that discovery solved only part of the problem: users still had to leave the platform to use the products they found. The company shifted toward an integrated workspace where those capabilities could be used together.
The current workspace brings text, image, audio and video models into one visual interface. Users can compare outputs from different models and combine capabilities within the same project. That is a different proposition from a directory: the platform provides a place to work, not just a route to another tool.
Vivek Dubey and Utkarsh Gupta founded the company in December 2025. Dubey, its CEO, previously worked at Infosys, Microsoft and Google. Gupta, the co-founder and CTO, previously worked at Samsung and leads CurvetAI’s engineering and technology infrastructure—the operations the new funding is intended to strengthen.
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.
Vivek Dubey, co-founder and CEO of CurvetAI
Access versus coordination
CurvetAI’s system is also designed to help identify which underlying model suits a particular task. Its next phase aims to go further: agent-based products would coordinate different AI capabilities and execute more complex tasks with greater autonomy. The intended change is from helping users assemble a workflow to taking on more of its management.
Merak founding partner Sheetal Bahl framed the investment around that complexity. He said an opportunity emerges when technology becomes more complicated than users should have to understand. That is the investor’s rationale for backing the platform, not a demonstrated result of the planned agents.
A user base, with limited commercial detail
CurvetAI says it has more than 100,000 monthly users globally, with India and the United States its largest markets. It reports usage by individuals, teams and educational institutions. It has begun generating revenue, but has not disclosed revenue figures, paying-customer numbers or its valuation following the round.
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