Language translation engine Devnagri raises $600,000 in seed round

The platform combines Neural Machine Translation with ML to make the internet accessible to 90% of Indians and solve the problem of "lack of content in Indian languages"

B2B-focused Indian language translation engine Devnagri, has raised $600,000 from Venture Catalyst, Inflection Point Ventures and other co-investors in a seed round.

Other participants in the funding include Mitesh Shah (IPV-First Port Capital), Rohit Chanana (Sarcha Advisors), Nimesh Kampani (Trica), Sameer Karulkar (Coverpage Ventures Advisory LLP), Prashant Sharma (Facebook, Country Lead-Video), Karan Bhagi (HUL, GM-eCommerce) & Deepak Sharma (CDO, Kotak Mahindra Bank).

A brainchild of Nakul Kundra and Himanshu Sharma, Devnagri was established with a vision to make the internet accessible to 90 per cent of Indians and solve the problem of “lack of content in Indian languages” using tech.