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Navana.ai funding, valuation and investors
Indian-language voice AI for regulated BFSI enterprises, with on-premise deployment options.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series A
$4.2M (~₹40 Cr) · September 2026
Latest known valuation
Not publicly disclosed
Total disclosed equity funding
Not publicly disclosed
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
series a · India
Investors in latest funding
Lead: Ronnie Screwvala
Other: Antler India , Sharad Sanghi , Sandeep Singhal , Paula Mariwala
Overview
Navana.ai, founded by brothers Raoul Nanavati and Jai Nanavati, builds proprietary Bodhi speech models and voice-AI contact-center tools for Indian BFSI. Analytics India Magazine and Indian Startup Times reported a ₹40 crore (~$4.2 million) Series A on September 7, 2026 led by Ronnie Screwvala, with Antler India, Sharad Sanghi (Neysa), Sandeep Singhal, and Paula Mariwala participating. The company says it has processed more than 100 million voice AI minutes for customers including Bajaj Finserv, Protean, Ujjivan SFB, Jana SFB, and Grihum Housing Finance. Prior July 2025 pre-Series A was ₹7 crore led by Antler India.
Why Navana.ai is interesting
September 7, 2026 ₹40 crore (~$4.2M) Series A led by Ronnie Screwvala with Antler India — company-claimed 100M+ voice AI minutes for named banks/NBFCs across 12 languages and 45 dialects, betting compliance and linguistic fit beat generic cloud voice models.
Product & use cases
On-prem-capable voice agents, ASR, contact-center automation, and evaluation tooling trained for Indian languages, accents, noise, and code-switching.
- BFSI sales, collections, compliance, and support voice automation
- Regulated deployments that require data residency / on-premise models
- Multilingual customer contact across Indian languages and dialects
Key facts
- $4.2M (~₹40 Cr) Series A led by Ronnie Screwvala; Antler India participates (Sep 7, 2026)
- Company-claimed >100M voice AI minutes; 12 Indian languages / 45 dialects
- Named BFSI users include Bajaj Finserv, Ujjivan SFB, Jana SFB (company)
Funding history (newest first)
Series A
2026-09 $4.2M (~₹40 Cr)- Ronnie Screwvala (lead)
- Antler (participant)
- Sharad Sanghi (participant)
- Sandeep Singhal (participant)
- Paula Mariwala (participant)
Pre-Series A
2025-07 ₹7 CrInvestors in our directory
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