India Digest: AI model developer Kombai bags seed funding; Epic Angels backs SpaceBasicStellaris Venture Partners and Foundation Capital led Kombai’s …

AI startup Kombai has raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round, while SpaceBasic, a SaaS platform digitising student life on campus, raised funding led by Epic Angels.

Kombai raises $4.5m seed funding

Kombai, an India-based AI startup that converts UI designs to code, has raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round.

Stellaris Venture Partners, an early-stage, tech-focused VC firm; and Silicon Valley-based VC firm Foundation Capital led the funding round, while 20 angel investors, including CEOs and CTOs of SaaS firms and a few late-stage investors, participated, according to TechCrunch.

The firm plans to use the new capital for recruiting talent, R&D, and improving its base models and compatibility with libraries and frameworks used by developers, added the report.

Founded in 2022, Kombai is building a developer tool for web app developers, which takes away their mundane automatable tasks like writing and maintaining code.

TurboStart, SucSEED invest in SpaceBasic

SpaceBasic, a SaaS platform digitising student life on campus, raised funding led by female-only investment firm Epic Angels.

India-based sector-agnostic accelerator TurboStart and early-stage, deeptech-focused VC firm SucSEED participated in the funding round along with angel investors.

Founded in 2017, SpaceBasic provides colleges and universities a connected campus experience, including services digitising campus housing, integrated payments, access control, and digital cafeteria.

Epic Angels is a female-only investment collective investing in APAC, supporting early-stage, female-led
startups in the region. The network counts over 200 female angel investors and has invested in 17 companies till date across industries.

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