CoRover, a Bengaluru-based conversational AI startup, has secured $4 million in its Series A funding round led by Venture Catalysts, with participation from prominent investors including CanBank Venture Capital Fund (CVCFL), IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, IIIT Delhi's iHub Anubhuti Foundation, Cogniphy LLC, Karekeba Ventures, and Lead Angels.
The fresh capital will enable CoRover to enhance its technology, expand its team of AI specialists, and amplify its go-to-market strategy. The startup plans to further develop its enterprise solutions (B2G and B2B), B2B2C, and B2C offerings while exploring new revenue streams through subscription, ad-based, and transaction-based models.
Founded by Ankush Sabharwal, Kunal Bhakhri, and Manav Gandotra, CoRover offers an AI-powered chatbot platform—Chatbot as a Service (CaaS)—providing self-onboarding capabilities and an AI-based VideoBot to streamline costs, accelerate revenue, and improve customer experiences for businesses.
The company's AI solutions extend across multiple channels, including websites, mobile apps, WhatsApp, IVR, SMS, Microsoft Teams, and other social media and IM platforms, supporting text, voice, and video formats. CoRover is also equipped to cater to diverse linguistic needs, with support for around 12 Indian and over 100 foreign languages.
Some of CoRover's key innovations include BharatGPT (LLM), CoroAssist (a secure, AI-based enterprise copilot), eSevak (Conversational Citizen Grievances Management), and high-profile implementations like AskDISHA (Indian Railways & IRCTC), Ask PAi (NPCI), AskMitra (LIC), Chetna (DMRC), and SEVA (SEBI).
This latest funding signals a robust endorsement of CoRover’s vision to transform conversational AI, positioning it as a key player in the evolving AI landscape.