Gravity, Arivihan, EDT and Others Raise Fresh Capital as OpenMetal Acquires Economize

Indian startups across home interiors, education, consumer technology, healthcare and physical AI have announced new funding, while cloud-infrastructure company OpenMetal has expanded through the acquisition of Economize. The latest deals highlight continued investor interest in specialised businesses despite a more selective startup funding environment.

A group of startups spanning premium home interiors, edtech, consumer products, longevity healthcare, healthcare AI and physical artificial intelligence have secured fresh capital in a series of recently announced transactions.

Among the larger deals, Gravity has raised $15 million, while education platform Arivihan secured $10 million in Series A funding. Consumer design brand EDT has raised $2.4 million, and healthcare startup Vytalyou has secured ₹9 crore.

Healthcare AI company Prodoc AI also announced a seed round of undisclosed size, while physical AI startups Ordo and WearSynapse received investment commitments of ₹25 lakh each.

Separately, US-based cloud infrastructure company OpenMetal has acquired Economize, bringing cloud-cost management capabilities into its private-cloud, bare-metal and GPU infrastructure offering.

Gravity raises $15 million to build a premium interiors platform

Gravity, a platform focused on premium home interior materials, has raised $15 million (approximately ₹144 crore) through a combination of equity and debt.

The round was led by 3one4 Capital and Info Edge Ventures, with participation from Alteria Capital, Genesia Ventures and angel investors.

Founded by former Livspace executives Saurabh Jain and Lalit Mittal, Gravity is building a technology and operating platform for specialist businesses working in India’s premium interiors market.

The company is initially focused on areas including kitchens and wardrobes.

Rather than operating simply as another consumer-facing interior marketplace, Gravity is attempting to create a common backbone covering technology, distribution, key-account management and operations for specialist businesses.

The company said it began with a multi-hundred-crore revenue base and positive EBITDA from the outset.

Gravity plans to expand beyond kitchens and wardrobes

The fresh capital will be used to strengthen Gravity’s technology and distribution infrastructure, develop key-account capabilities, expand its product categories and support working-capital requirements.

The company plans to move into categories including:

• Doors and windows
• Lighting
• Wall surfaces
• Home automation
• Other interior systems

Jain previously served as CEO India at Livspace, where he helped scale the business to an annualised revenue run rate of around ₹1,500 crore, according to the supplied company background.

Mittal was previously Livspace’s chief business officer for India and led expansion across 30 cities.

Arivihan secures $10 million Series A for AI-led learning

Education technology company Arivihan has raised $10 million in a Series A round co-led by existing investors Accel and Prosus Ventures.

Its existing GSF angel investors contributed an additional $200,000.

The latest round takes Arivihan’s total funding to more than $15 million, following a $4.17 million pre-Series A round in July 2025.

Founded in 2022 by Ritesh Singh Chandel, Sonu Kumar and mathematics educator Rushabh Kothari, Arivihan operates an AI-powered learning platform offering interactive video lessons, instant doubt resolution and personalised study plans.

The company has focused particularly on students outside India’s largest urban centres.

Arivihan said around 80% of its subscribers come from tier-II and tier-III cities and rural areas.

Arivihan targets more states and CBSE students

The startup plans to use its new funding to expand geographically, strengthen AI research and vernacular-language capabilities, and increase its digital and offline distribution.

Arivihan currently supports students preparing for state-board examinations, CBSE and NEET, with a particular focus on Class XII learners.

The company plans to deepen its presence in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar, while entering additional states and launching more examination-focused crash courses.

The expansion reflects a broader trend in Indian edtech: moving beyond the largest metros and developing products around students who may have fewer access points to high-quality preparation.

EDT raises $2.4 million as it expands its consumer hardware portfolio

Consumer design and technology company EDT has raised $2.4 million in a pre-Series A round led by existing investor Sauce.

Existing angel investors also participated, while new backers include Alteria Capital, Raul Rai of Nicobar, Shibam Das and Arindam Paul of Atomberg, Ajith Pai of Delhivery and Anushree Tainwala of Samsonite.

Founded in 2025 by entrepreneur Naiyya Saggi and industrial designer Vyasateja Rao, EDT currently sells kitchen appliances.

Its portfolio includes LUMA, described as a PureGlass air fryer oven, and FLOW, a kettle designed around hydration and beverages.

The company said its Amazon business grew by nearly seven times between March and July 2026.

EDT is moving into beauty technology

The new funding will support inventory ahead of the festive season, new product launches and expansion of the company’s growth, supply-chain, brand and product teams.

EDT is also moving into beauty technology with SUKI, a hair dryer built around its patent-pending CareDry Algorithm and AirSense sensors.

The move broadens EDT’s positioning from kitchen appliances into a wider consumer-design platform.

Vytalyou raises ₹9 crore for longevity and preventive healthcare

Mumbai-based Vytalyou, a doctor-led longevity and preventive healthcare startup, has raised ₹9 crore in a pre-Series A round.

The investment came from Chetan Jain of Pharma Dose and Ratan Jain of Venus Industries, at a reported valuation of approximately ₹33 crore.

Founded in 2025 by molecular oncologist Dr Chirantan Bose and radiologist Dr Preetesh Bhandari, Vytalyou operates clinics focused on preventive and longevity-oriented care.

Its model combines predictive diagnostics with personalised preventive and regenerative therapies.

The company currently operates one centre in Powai, Mumbai.

Vytalyou plans a wider clinic network

Vytalyou plans to use the fresh funding to expand its physical network and is targeting 10 locations across India over the coming years.

The company said it has served close to 1,000 clients since opening its first centre, with approximately half arriving through walk-ins and the remainder through word-of-mouth referrals.

Those figures are company-reported and should be treated as such.

Prodoc AI raises seed funding for hospital-focused AI

Bengaluru-based Prodoc AI has raised an undisclosed seed round led by the Dr A Velumani Family Office, with participation from Kunal Shet and Parth D Bhasin, both existing users of the platform.

The startup was founded by Asit Kumar Vidyarthi and Raghuvamshi Thakur.

Prodoc AI is developing what it describes as a patient journey operating system, designed to connect hospital systems such as billing, telephony and diagnostic services.

The platform adds an intelligence layer across areas including:

• Patient acquisition
• Appointment conversion
• OPD management
• Care coordination
• Follow-ups
• Referral management
• Hospital operations

Prodoc AI plans to develop agentic AI for hospitals

The new capital will be directed toward expanding the company’s agentic AI capabilities, increasing integrations with hospital systems and developing AI agents for workflows involving patient engagement, care coordination, operations and revenue processes.

The broader opportunity reflects the growing use of AI in healthcare administration, where hospitals deal with large volumes of fragmented data and repetitive operational tasks.

Ordo secures ₹25 lakh investment commitment for physical AI

Physical AI startup Ordo has secured an investment commitment of ₹25 lakh from DraperU India and Rathnakar Samavedam of Hyderabad Angels.

The commitment was announced at DraperU India’s latest Demo Day in Hyderabad.

Ordo was one of 13 startups to present to more than 150 investors, venture capitalists and ecosystem participants following a 12-day DraperU Founders Program.

The startup is part of an emerging group of companies combining artificial intelligence with physical machines and industrial applications.

WearSynapse receives ₹25 lakh investment commitment

WearSynapse, a physical AI and healthtech startup, also secured a ₹25 lakh investment commitment from DraperU India and Rathnakar Samavedam of Hyderabad Angels at the same Demo Day.

Like Ordo, WearSynapse was among the 13 companies that pitched to the investor audience after completing the DraperU founders programme.

The funding adds to growing interest in startups working at the intersection of AI, hardware and healthcare.

OpenMetal acquires Economize

While startups raised capital, cloud infrastructure company OpenMetal announced a strategic acquisition.

OpenMetal has acquired Economize, a cloud-cost management company serving engineering, finance and FinOps teams.

The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.

The deal combines Economize’s software for tracking and optimising cloud expenditure with OpenMetal’s private cloud, bare-metal and GPU infrastructure.

What the OpenMetal-Economize deal adds

Economize provides capabilities such as cost visibility, anomaly detection and optimisation recommendations.

OpenMetal, meanwhile, provides infrastructure designed for workloads that can benefit from private environments, including certain AI and GPU-intensive applications.

Bringing the two businesses together could allow customers to manage both infrastructure and spending through a single provider.

That is particularly relevant as organisations increase their use of GPUs and AI workloads, which can create significantly different infrastructure-cost profiles from conventional cloud applications.

What the latest deals say about startup funding

The latest group of transactions covers businesses at very different stages.

Gravity is scaling a specialised operating platform in the interiors market. Arivihan is expanding AI-powered education into smaller Indian cities. EDT is building a consumer-products portfolio. Vytalyou is scaling physical healthcare locations, while Prodoc AI is developing software for hospital operations.

Ordo and WearSynapse represent a newer wave of physical AI and healthtech companies.

The common thread is that investors are backing startups addressing specific operational or consumer problems, rather than concentrating on one broad technology category.

AI remains a common layer across multiple sectors

Artificial intelligence appears in several of the latest deals, but the applications vary considerably.

Arivihan is applying AI to personalised learning.

Prodoc AI is building AI systems for healthcare operations.

EDT is incorporating software and sensors into consumer hardware.

Ordo and WearSynapse are working in physical AI and healthtech.

The pattern suggests that AI investment is increasingly moving beyond standalone chatbot or model companies into businesses where AI is embedded directly into a product or workflow.

Why specialised startups are attracting capital

The funding announcements also highlight an important feature of the current startup ecosystem: specialisation can itself be an investment thesis.

Gravity is not trying to become a general e-commerce company. It is concentrating on premium interiors.

Arivihan has built a model around students in underserved geographies.

Prodoc AI is focusing specifically on hospital workflows.

Economize built a product around cloud-cost management rather than infrastructure itself.

These companies are targeting defined problems and building technology around them.

That can give startups a narrower initial market, but also a clearer customer problem to solve.

A mixed funding environment

The latest deals do not indicate that capital is flowing equally to every startup category.

Instead, the transactions show a mixed environment in which investors continue to fund companies that demonstrate a specific market opportunity, strong technical positioning or a credible path to expansion.

Larger rounds are going to startups with ambitions to scale across major markets, while emerging physical-AI companies are raising smaller amounts to advance early-stage products.

At the same time, acquisitions such as OpenMetal’s purchase of Economize show another route for startups and technology companies to scale: combining complementary products rather than building every capability internally.

The bigger picture

From home interiors and education to healthcare, consumer hardware, robotics and cloud infrastructure, the latest transactions illustrate the breadth of India’s and the wider startup ecosystem.

Some of these businesses are addressing everyday consumer needs. Others are developing infrastructure for an increasingly AI-driven economy.

The funding itself is only the beginning.

For Gravity, the test will be whether it can turn its initial revenue base into a much larger interiors platform.

For Arivihan, the challenge is expanding beyond its current markets while maintaining learning outcomes.

EDT must turn rapid early marketplace growth into a sustainable consumer brand.

Healthcare startups such as Vytalyou and Prodoc AI face the additional complexity of operating in a highly regulated and trust-sensitive sector.

Meanwhile, physical AI startups must prove that advanced technology can translate into commercially viable products.

Together, the latest funding and M&A activity shows that investors are continuing to back focused startups across a wide range of industries, while AI, specialised technology and operational efficiency remain recurring themes in the market.