Bengaluru-based enterprise AI startup QwikBuild has raised US$2.3 million (about ₹22 crore) in a pre-seed round led by Globalway, the Japan-listed technology company. Blume Ventures, DeVC and Marsshot also took part, along with angel investors Lalit Keshre, founder of Groww, and Ankit Nagori, CEO of Curefoods.

Alongside the investment, QwikBuild and Globalway are setting up a joint venture to take the startup’s platform into Japan’s enterprise software market. The JV is expected to start operations by the end of 2026 and will offer QwikBuild to Globalway’s current and prospective enterprise clients in Japan.

Where the money goes

The company said most of the fresh capital will go into go-to-market expansion. That includes building a team in the United States and widening its operations across Southeast Asia, in addition to the Japan push through the new joint venture.

Codifying decisions, not just automating tasks

Founded in 2025 by Pradeep Ayyagari, a former executive at fintech firm slice who has also worked at Flipkart and Swiggy, QwikBuild combines custom software development with AI-driven workflow automation. Businesses can use the platform to build applications from scratch, replace legacy systems, or add custom layers on top of large enterprise suites such as SAP and Salesforce.

Ayyagari describes the company’s focus as encoding the business decisions behind a workflow rather than automating single tasks. In a lending or financial services setting, for example, a point solution might automate outbound calls; QwikBuild aims to codify the rules that decide which customers should be called, which filters apply and which scripts suit each segment. Those workflows can then be executed by voice agents or other tools, either through QwikBuild or third-party providers.

The pitch is that business teams can build, test and change applications as requirements shift, without waiting in an engineering queue. Ayyagari has pointed to adoption, rather than technology, as the hardest problem enterprises face, and says only a small fraction of enterprises have meaningfully adopted AI so far.

Early traction

QwikBuild says it already serves more than 100 enterprises across India, Southeast Asia, the US and Dubai. Roughly 10–12% of its clients are large enterprises, while about 30% are smaller businesses that use the platform to run software without building dedicated technology teams.

Why it matters

The round adds to a steady flow of capital into Indian enterprise AI and agentic automation startups this year. For CIOs, platforms of this kind point to a shift from isolated AI pilots towards systems where business logic, integrations and AI agents sit in one layer that non-engineering teams can shape directly. The Globalway partnership also gives an India-built enterprise AI product a structured route into Japan, one of Asia’s most demanding enterprise software markets.

With fresh funding, an international expansion plan and a Japan joint venture in the works, QwikBuild is betting that the next wave of enterprise software will be built around AI agents that carry out decisions, not just tasks.

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