Bengaluru's Live2.ai raises Rs 130 crore for AI social media platform

Live2.ai, a Bengaluru start-up that sells artificial intelligence software to help brands monitor and run their social media and influencer marketing, has raised Rs 130 crore (about 14 million US dollars) in a pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, the company announced on Tuesday, 27 October 2026. The round combines fresh money for the company with a secondary sale, in which some early shareholders sold part of their stake to the new investors.

Brands now spend heavily on social media and influencer marketing, but tracking what millions of people say about them online, and making sure paid influencers follow advertising rules, is hard to do by hand. Live2.ai is one of a growing group of start-ups that use AI to automate this work. "Agentic AI", a term the company uses for its platform, means AI software that can carry out a series of tasks on its own, such as finding a trend, drafting a post and scheduling it, rather than only answering a question.

The round is large for a company founded only two years ago, and it comes at a time when investors are putting much of their start-up money into AI. Pre-Series B usually means a company has proven its product with paying customers and is raising money to grow before a bigger Series B round. The secondary portion is also notable: it lets early backers or employees turn part of their shares into cash without waiting for a sale or stock-market listing, which is becoming more common in Indian start-up deals.

Compliance checking is a practical selling point in India. Influencer advertising is governed by disclosure guidelines, and brands can face complaints if paid posts are not clearly labelled. Software that checks influencer content before it goes out can help companies avoid such problems, although the final responsibility stays with the brand and the creator.

The plan to build cloud infrastructure abroad shows the company is aiming at global customers, a path many Indian software-as-a-service firms have taken because overseas clients pay more for business software.

Short-term: Live2.ai plans to spend the money on product development, on deploying its software at large companies and on hiring, with new cloud capacity in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Long-term: If it succeeds, the company could become one of the Indian AI software firms selling marketing tools worldwide, in a field where large global players already compete. Its growth will also be watched as a test of how quickly young AI start-ups can turn large rounds into lasting revenue.

Who is affected: Brands and marketing agencies that run social media and influencer campaigns, influencers whose content is checked, Live2.ai's employees and early shareholders, and other Indian marketing-technology start-ups seeking funds.

Questions and Answers