CraftifAI raises $3 Mn in seed round led by Ankur Capital

CraftifAI, a multi-agent GenAI-powered platform, has raised $3 million (approximately Rs 27.2 crore) in a seed funding round led by Ankur Capital.

The round also saw participation from IvyCap Ventures, Capital-A, Antler, among others. 

The fresh proceeds will be used to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams and expand into global markets.

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“The embedded software industry has struggled with the same inefficiencies for decades- manual driver development, hardware vendor lock-in, and lengthy development cycles,” said Pratik Sharda, Co-Founder and CEO of CraftifAI. “I experienced these pain points firsthand at PhonePe while leading SmartSpeaker development, and my Co-founder Yashwant faced similar challenges building edge AI applications for customers at AMD and SIMA.ai. We saw how these bottlenecks delay product launches and significantly increase costs. With CraftifAI Orbit, we’re bringing the same AI-powered productivity revolution that developers love in tools like Cursor to the embedded systems world. Our vision is to make embedded development as accessible and efficient as modern software development, enabling any engineer to build Edge applications & firmwares without being locked into specific hardware vendors.”

Shiva Shanker, Partner at Ankur Capital, added, “The embedded software market is experiencing a fundamental transformation. Smart devices of all types are becoming both more common and more complex. We are investing in CraftifAI because we believe this sector is at a critical inflection point. As  Ankur Capital’s thesis, we look for opportunities where technological shifts create new opportunities at scale. The convergence of AI, edge hardware proliferation, and the talent shortage represents exactly that kind of inflection point. CraftifAI’s AI-native approach addresses this critical gap by making existing developers significantly more productive.

“We’re excited to back CraftifAI as part of India’s emerging AI infrastructure story. Generative AI-led development tools will redefine semiconductor software workflows. By accelerating firmware porting and code creation, the platform enables faster time-to-market and positions India to build globally relevant AI-native chip tooling”, mentioned Ankit Kedia, Founder and Lead Investor at Capital-A.

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About CraftifAI 

Founded in 2025 by Pratik Sharda and Yashwant Dagar, CraftifAI is developing CraftifAI Orbit, an AI platform that automates embedded software development for Edge, IoT, and AI-powered devices.

Embedded software controls the functions of dedicated hardware, and CraftifAI Orbit simplifies this process by combining automated, hardware-optimized code generation with AI/ML deployment. The platform unifies fragmented toolchains into a single AI-driven workflow, supporting end-to-end product design, development, and manufacturing—helping clients bring hardware ideas to market faster and more accurately.

The startup has secured pilot projects with several Indian OEMs in robotics, drones, IoT, and AI cameras, as well as a US-listed semiconductor company.

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