Two products under one parent: Shodh — an AI productivity workspace bringing people, projects, knowledge, and AI agents into one connected platform. Prime AI — privacy-first on-prem AI for organizations that can't legally use cloud LLMs. ₹25 L angel raised from RR Raval. Pre-money ₹20 Cr. Mentored by Prof. Pritam Anand. Pitched at MGVCL.
The thesis
A simple, durable bet on a market that is structurally cut off from cloud-only AI.
India's regulated industries — pharma, law, state utilities, manufacturing — generate millions of pages of compliance-bound knowledge. Cloud-only LLMs are off-limits for legal, audit, and IP reasons. The market is large, captive, and underserved.
Shodh — AI productivity workspace (knowledge base + AI agents + RAG + workflow automation) for teams that want a single source of truth. Prime AI — on-prem private AI for organizations that legally cannot use cloud LLMs. Both ship with RBAC, audit trails, and developer APIs.
On-prem RAG that meets enterprise compliance is hard. Cloud-only competitors can't enter. We pair that with a 7-year India-specific operator profile — government panels, Gujarat policy access, a profitable services entity behind us, and 60+ engagements of execution proof.
Traction
Use of funds
Concrete, milestone-driven. No fluff.
Take the existing MGVCL pitch into a paid pilot. Prove utility-grade deployment in production.
Pharma + law + research vertical. Use Gujarat govt access as warm-intro engine.
3 senior engineers (RAG, on-prem ops, frontend) + 2 enterprise-sales hires.
Build the regulated-industry GTM playbook. ABM into the top 50 Indian pharma/law firms.
Team
Co-founder · Product & Engineering
26. Founded Uminber Designs at 17. India #1 EV (college). Cyber Expert Panel · Gujarat Govt. Policy panel member. iHub jury. 60+ engagements shipped across 8 sectors. Hardware × Software × AI fluent.
Co-founder · Strategy & GTM
Co-director, Swap Automotive Pvt Ltd. Co-founder, Corp8 AI. Operating partner across the holding — owns commercial agreements, partnerships, and enterprise GTM. Long-time collaborator with Niraj on the EV-conversion thesis since 2022.
Mentor · AI & ML
Academic mentor on the AI architecture and research direction of Shodh and Prime AI. Advises on RAG architecture, retrieval quality, and on-prem deployment — the technical bedrock the regulated-industry thesis depends on.
De-risking the founder
Government grants secured across the company portfolio
Gujarat Government Cybercrime Department
Multiple Gujarat Government policy-making panels
iHub Gandhinagar — Gujarat's flagship deep-tech incubator
Uminber Designs LLP — 60+ engagements · 7 years · cash-flow positive
National inter-college EV competition winner
Investor FAQ
Pre-Seed/Seed. Cheque sizes from ₹25 L (angel) to ₹5 Cr+ (institutional). Specific terms shared in the deck. Open to SAFE or priced rounds depending on lead.
Pharma, law, and state utilities are legally barred from sending compliance-bound documents to cloud LLMs. They need RAG that runs inside their network with audit trails. ChatGPT, Claude, and similar cloud-only products structurally cannot serve this market.
RAG tooling matured in 2024–2025 — pgvector, citation-grounded retrieval, fast on-prem LLMs. Indian regulated industries are simultaneously waking up to AI but cannot use cloud-only products. The window to anchor this market is short.
Shodh — RAG with citation grounding, RBAC, multi-file chat, on-prem deployment path. Live product. MGVCL pitch already filed (state utility). Mentored by Prof. Pritam Anand. ICPs defined for 5 verticals.
Swap is an existing operating company in the holding portfolio (founded 2022, workshop built 2023, AMC live). It's profitable as a Service Provider. Not part of this raise. Swap can be discussed separately as a Series-A scoping conversation later.
Engineering hires within 60 days. First paid pilot conversion within 90 days. ABM motion live within 120 days. Cap table tight — 2 founders + advisor — so decisions move fast.
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