Live2.ai raises $14M pre-Series B led by IvyCap Ventures

Bengaluru-based Live2.ai raised Rs 130 crore in a pre-Series B round led by IvyCap Ventures. Coverage puts the amount at roughly $13M to $14M depending on the exchange rate used. The startup builds AI agents that turn social-media conversations into marketing and commerce decisions for consumer brands. The company plans to use the money to scale its platform globally and strengthen its engineering and data science teams. The round also funds a cloud infrastructure buildout across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Consumer brand marketing is a crowded category, and the company is positioning its agents as decision tools rather than content generators. For AI builders, the deal shows Indian founders can raise sizable pre-Series B rounds on a conversation-data thesis. Teams building agents for brands should watch how quickly they can prove commerce outcomes, since that is the metric investors will weigh.