Agentic AI startup Adopt AI raises $6 million in round led by Elevation Capital
The next big trend in
artificial intelligence
(AI), after Generative AI (GenAI), is
agentic AI
, and Silicon Valley-based
Adopt AI
is riding that wave. The company's platform enables businesses to easily integrate intelligent agent capabilities into their applications, a process that would otherwise take months to build in-house.
Founded by Deepak Anchala, Rahul Bhattacharya and Anirudh Badam, Adopt AI is emerging from stealth with the announcement of a
seed funding
round of $6 million led by
Elevation Capital
. Other investors include Foster Ventures, Powerhouse Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, and some angel investors.
Based in San Francisco and Bengaluru, the startup is primarily using the funding to strengthen its AI and engineering teams, build its technology and implement its go-to-market strategy.
"In the agentic AI world, applications are coming closer to humans with
natural language
," Anchala told ET. "Applications as they stand today will lose out to agentic AI companies unless they change. So we are building an agentic layer for them to turn any application into an agentic one, within 24 hours," he said.
One of the startup's offerings is Agent Builder, a
no-code builder
that helps companies build, launch and monitor the agent experience for their in-house application instantly by automatically learning it and generating actions.
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Companies can create these agentic layers themselves, but it takes over six months of engineering experience and significant investment. It is mainly targeting
software-as-a-service
(SaaS) companies and business-to-customer (B2C) firms that have complex workflows in sectors such as banking and healthcare.
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Big Tech players like Meta, Anthropic, and Microsoft are also investing in agentic AI. However, they are likely to focus on scaling the technology broadly, rather than going deep into specialised applications, Anchala said.
He added that the next evolution in agentic AI will require apps like Apple's Siri to interact directly with other apps to complete tasks for users. In the future, this means most apps will need to 'agentify' themselves to stay relevant.
The Adopt team has 16 members: five in the US and 11 in Bengaluru. The India team comprises full-stack engineers, product managers and designers, while the former has AI engineers.
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