In a country where voice often bridges the digital divide, Mumbai-based Navana.ai is doubling down on building India-first language intelligence. The voice AI startup has raised ₹7 crore (~$800K) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Antler India, with support from marquee angel investors like Ajay Agarwal, Ronnie Screwvala, and Sandeep Singhal.
This latest round brings Navana.ai’s total funding to ₹13.2 crore, following a ₹6.2 crore angel round last year led by Singhal (Nexus Ventures), with participation from the Stanford Angel Fund, Rajan Mehra, and Saahil Goel.
At its core, Navana.ai is building something quietly powerful — a full-stack voice AI platform tailored for Indian enterprises, capable of understanding and responding in over 12 Indian languages. Whether it’s a customer in Mumbai speaking fluent English or a rural user interacting in regional dialects, Navana’s tech is designed to meet them where they are — through voice.
“Our mission has always been to build technology that truly works for India’s linguistic diversity,” said Raoul Nanavati, co-founder and CEO. “This funding will help us go deeper on R&D and deploy our made-for-India language stack at scale.”
Founded in 2018 by brothers Raoul and Jai Nanavati, the startup offers a suite of voice-first tools — including a voice AI contact center, speech recognition API, and real-time voice analytics — helping businesses reduce costs while improving customer engagement.
The platform is already making an impact: with over 40 enterprise clients, including Bajaj Finserv, Navana.ai is focused primarily on the BFSI (banking, financial services, and insurance) space — a sector where timely and clear communication is critical, but often hampered by linguistic and digital barriers.
From handling millions of customer calls to unlocking insights from speech data, Navana.ai is giving Indian enterprises the ability to listen, understand, and act — across languages, regions, and devices.
With this new capital, the company plans to scale product deployment and continue investing in R&D to further improve its multilingual, real-time voice stack — built from the ground up for India.
As voice becomes the new frontier of digital interaction, Navana.ai is making sure no Indian is lost in translation.
By- Priyanka Chatterjee
