Sol Foundry Inc. | $4M (Seed)

Founders: Anish Karan (CEO), Prateek Srivastava, Ranjith Nair

Founded: August 2025

Sector: Agentic AI / Email Automation

What they do

→ Proactive AI assistant that spots commitments buried in email threads and starts the work automatically

→ Handles research, document creation, slide-building, meeting scheduling, and reply drafting

→ Runs in its own computer environment with browser access, drawing on 100+ specialist skills

→ Nothing gets sent, scheduled, or shared without explicit user approval

→ Runs on Google Workspace, built for founders, execs, and sales/consulting/recruiting professionals

The Funding

→ Raised $4M, led by General Catalyst and Nexus Venture Partners

→ Participation from Z47's DeVC, peercheque, and Cred founder Kunal Shah

→ All three founders are former Cred executives

Why it matters

→ Flips the usual AI-in-inbox model acts on commitments you've already made instead of waiting for a prompt

→ Comes as Indian agentic AI startups raised ~$60M in the first 4.5 months of 2026, against $144M for all of 2025

→ Joins a growing agentic AI cohort in India, alongside Composio ($24M Series A) and Kapture ($10M pre-Series B)

→ Real test: whether "proactive AI" becomes its own category, or just gets absorbed as a feature into Gmail and Outlook

Would you trust an AI to act on your email promises before you even ask it to?