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Sarvam AI

India's full-stack sovereign AI company building foundation models for Indian languages.
Bengaluru-based full-stack sovereign AI startup building foundation models and voice AI for Indian languages. Became India's newest AI unicorn in June 2026 with a $234M first close of its $300M Series B led by HCLTech ($150M), at a $1.5B post-money valuation.
AI 📍 Bengaluru, India Founded 2023
Current Valuation
$1.5B
as of 2026-Q2
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QL Price

$1.5B
0% vs last round
QuantLogix's current estimate for Sarvam AI, published 2026-08-30 — in line with the last disclosed round of $1.5B (2026-Q2).
Confidence
low
Basis
round anchored
What backs this price
Last disclosed round $1.5B 2026-Q2 weight 0.89
How this price has held up
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IPO Outlookprivate

Is Sarvam AI going public?
No. Sarvam AI is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Sarvam AI's valuation in 2026?
Sarvam AI is valued at $1.5B as of 2026-Q2, set by its Series B (first close) ($234M, Jun 2026). That is the last confirmed mark, not a live price — private shares do not trade continuously.
Has Sarvam AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Sarvam AI.
Who are Sarvam AI's investors?
Sarvam AI's investors include HCLTech, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, Khosla Ventures.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.

Company Profile

CEO
Vivek Raghavan
Founded
2023
HQ
Bengaluru, India
Total Raised
$275M
Last Round
Series B (first close) — $234M (Jun 2026) · Lead: HCLTech
IPO Status
private

Fundraising Status

Series B (first close) · $234M · 2 mo ago
privateTotal raised $275M1 disclosed rounds

Series B (first close) Impact

Round Size
$234M
Primary financing announced
Post-Money Valuation
$1.5B
Company-announced mark
Round / Post-Money
15.6%
New capital ÷ post-money
Disclosed Funding
$275M
Cumulative disclosed rounds
Step-up compares disclosed post-money valuations. Round / post-money is a financing-size ratio, not an ownership or dilution estimate.

Funding History

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B (first close)$234MJun 2026HCLTech$1.5B

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

Open models
14
Downloads (30d)
73,951
across all models
Followers
1,616
Top model
sarvam-translate
22,700 downloads / 30d
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "Sarvam AI" as of 2026-08-27. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
62
via ashby
Product-build share
63%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
product-led hiring — 63% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month62Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering21Sales & GTM9Marketing8Product6Other5Data & ML5Research4Security2Design1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Backend Engineer, ChanakyaData Scientist - Evaluations, ChanakyaEmbedded Data Scientist, ChanakyaEmbedded Infrastructure Engineer, ChanakyaMachine Learning Engineer, VisionProduct Manager (Models)
Counted from Sarvam AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

Founders & Key People

Vivek RaghavanPratyush Kumar

Investors

HCLTech · Lightspeed Venture Partners · Peak XV Partners · Khosla Ventures
AIIndiaUnicornRecently Funded
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2026-Q2. Refreshed quarterly.