Generative AI startup Ema has successfully raised $25 million in its inaugural funding round, with leading investment support from Accel, Section 32, and Prosus Ventures. The funding initiative also saw participation from key investors such as Wipro Ventures, Venture Highway, AME Cloud Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Maum Group, and Firebolt Ventures. Noteworthy individuals, including Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, also joined as high-profile angels.
Established in 2023 by Surojit Chatterjee, Souvik Sen, and Swati Trehan, Ema specializes in AI solutions designed to automate enterprise processes and workflows. The platform seamlessly integrates with popular productivity tools like Zendesk, OneDrive, Google Drive, Teams, and Slack. Ema’s AI capabilities encompass engaging in conversations, contextual comprehension, continuous human feedback incorporation, reasoning, and informed decision-making. Leveraging approximately 30 large public language models, including GPT-4, GPT-3.5-turbo, Claude 2.1, Gemini, Mistral-S, and Llama2, alongside proprietary in-house models, Ema ensures accuracy in its operations.
The newly acquired funds will be utilized for research and development, enhancing existing product suites, and furthering Ema’s technological advancements. Catering to diverse industries such as healthcare, retail, travel, hospitality, finance, manufacturing, e-commerce, and technology, Ema showcases adaptable AI capabilities.
With a current workforce spanning India and the United States, Ema stands out as the second-highest funded early-stage startup in this domain with an Indian base. In December 2023, another generative AI startup, Sarvam AI, secured $41 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed, accompanied by Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures.
