Mumbai: CometChat has secured $6.5 million (approximately ₹60 crore) in strategic funding from existing investor Run Ventures to accelerate the growth of its next-generation AI agent platform. With this round, the company’s total funding raised to date stands at $21.1 million.
The latest infusion follows a $10 million Series A round and is positioned as a precision capital investment to fast-track CometChat’s AI roadmap while its core business progresses toward sustained profitability. The company plans to deploy the funds to expand its AI capabilities across high-transaction sectors including wellness and beauty, healthcare, financial services, hospitality, and food services.
CometChat’s AI platform is designed to enable enterprises to build and deploy conversational AI agents without requiring coding expertise. Built on six years of communication infrastructure, the platform integrates features such as proactive outbound intelligence, multi-agent orchestration, and a customer intelligence layer to deliver personalized, real-time engagement across channels like web, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice.
Commenting on the fund raise, Anuj Garg, Cofounder CEO, CometChat, says, “The current fund raise is specifically done to accelerate our AI play. Our GTM in this vertical would be to target high-transaction verticals like wellness & beauty, home services, e-comm, hospitality & food service where the combination of inbound responsiveness and proactive outreach drives measurable retention and revenue outcomes. In the last 12 months, we have surpassed 2 billion messages sent through our platform, launched CometChat AI to transition from a communication infra provider to an AI agent platform. Our existing investors see the value in adding such key services to our offerings and hence decided to back us with growth capital to accelerate our growth trajectory.”
Brandon Tidwell, Co-founder & GP, Run Ventures, adds, “We have witnessed how methodically Anuj and Anant have scaled the business to make CometChat an intelligent communication layer with several proven use cases. The company has been piloting its AI platform with encouraging early signs as enterprise customers have come onboard. This growth funding will help CometChat to further expedite its AI strategic play.”
Over the next 12 to 18 months, CometChat will focus on scaling AI deployments by transitioning pilot customers into full production, expanding enterprise go-to-market capabilities, and strengthening its presence in key verticals such as healthcare and ecommerce. The company also aims to build category leadership in AI-driven customer engagement, where proactive communication can directly impact retention and revenue.
CometChat was recently featured in Forbes’ 2026 list of the Top 500 American Startup Employers, further underscoring its growing global presence in the AI-powered communication space.
