The Week that Was: Indian Startup News Overview (14th July - 20th July)
The Indian startup ecosystem has set a new record by bagging another round of funding in a few sectors like Climate tech, Travel, Aviation Tech, Retail Apparel and Fashion, and Chemical Manufacturing & Digital Entertainment. It marks another win for the startupreneurs by raising funds and updating the growth probability and standardizing the products and services. The week went by successfully witnessing funds in every stage of funding from Pre-Seed, Pre-series, Seed, Series C, and others.
Funding News: Gibran Secures $2.6 Million to Build Nature-Inspired, Adaptive Intelligence
Startup: Gibran
Founders: Govind Balakrishnan, Srikant Chakravarti, Suzanne Sadedin, Edgar Duéñez-Guzmán
About Us: Gibran is an AI research startup merging evolutionary biology and large-language models to create adaptive, nature-inspired intelligence that enhances human creativity and decision-making prioritizing human-AI collaboration over automation.
Founded Year: 2025
Office: Bengaluru (India) & US-based operations
Sector: AI Research / Deep Tech
Funding Round: Seed
Investors: Together Fund (led by Girish Mathrubootham & Manav Garg)
Gibran has secured $2.6 million in a seed round led by Together Fund, co-founded by Freshworks’ Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software’s Manav Garg. The funds will be used to expand its research team, develop its core platform, and pursue early applications in sectors like drug discovery, creative arts, and scientific hypothesis generation.
Gibran draws inspiration from evolutionary biology and complex adaptive systems to design AI that evolves with human users. “AI shouldn't replace people; it should expand how they think, create, and decide”, said Co-founder Govind Balakrishnan.
Website:www.gibran.ai
