Shillong-based Shamrock AI raises $5 million seed round led by Endiya Partners

Shamrock AI, an enterprise artificial intelligence start-up headquartered in Shillong, Meghalaya, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Endiya Partners, with Capria Ventures also investing. The round was announced on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, and is the company's first institutional fundraise. Shamrock AI builds software that tests and checks AI agents and automated systems inside large companies, starting with the testing of major business software migrations. It plans to use the money for product development, hiring in India and the United States, building its sales team, and expanding into the Middle East.

Large companies are rushing to use AI agents, software that can carry out multi-step tasks on its own. But the more work these agents do inside core systems such as finance, supply chain and payroll software, the bigger the risk if they make mistakes. Testing and monitoring these systems, sometimes called AI assurance, is becoming a business in its own right. Shamrock AI is betting that big companies will pay for tools that check their AI and their software changes before problems reach customers or accounts.

Its starting point is practical. Moving a large company's ERP system, the software that runs its accounts, purchasing and operations, to a new version is a large project in which every change has to be tested. By automating that testing with AI agents, the company aims to shorten migrations such as moves to SAP S/4HANA, and then extend the same approach to watching data quality and automating business processes.

The location is the other story. A Shillong headquarters is unusual for a start-up selling to some of the world's largest firms. With most of its staff planned for India and customers in the United States, Shamrock AI follows a familiar Indian software model, but from a city in the Northeast rather than a metro.

Short-term: The funding lets Shamrock AI grow its engineering team and build a sales presence in the US. The company's stated target is about 15 large enterprise customers by the end of next year.

Long-term: If it succeeds, Shamrock AI could become an example for founders outside India's main start-up hubs, showing that enterprise software for global clients can be built from smaller cities. It also adds to a growing group of Indian start-ups building tools to make AI agents reliable in business.

Who is affected: Software engineers and graduates in Meghalaya and the wider Northeast, who may find high-skill jobs closer to home; large companies modernising ERP systems; and investors looking at enterprise AI.

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