GNANI INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

Business Overview

• Gnani Innovations Pvt Ltd operates as Gnani.ai, also branded gnani.ai, a Bengaluru-based "frontier Voice AI" company founded 2016 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj.
• It builds proprietary speech/language models, Gnani Prisma - STT, Gnani Timbre - TTS, Gnani Warp - speech-to-speech, Gnani Aion/Evon - LLMs, trained on 14M+ hours of real telephonic audio across 40+ languages, and sells enterprise products built on them: Voice Agents, Speech Analytics, Agent Assist, and Voice Biometrics.
• Serves 200+ enterprises, BFSI, insurance, healthcare, government, BPO, claims 30M+ daily voice interactions, SOC 2 / ISO 27001 certified, GDPR/HIPAA/PCI-DSS compliant, and deploys on cloud, private cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments. [Source: gnani.ai official site, fetched live]

Sector & Classification

IT/Software services — NIC group J (Information & Communication) / J8 "Other information & communication service activities" per The Company Check; Tofler describes it as "Other IT support services n.e.c." / "Other professional, scientific and technical activities". Business: application development & software solutions (voice AI).

Directors & Key Management

Current directors (per The Company Check, updated 21 May 2026 — most recent snapshot): - Ananth Nagaraj — Whole-Time Director, appointed 19 Jul 2016, DIN 07551861 [DIN per Tofler] - Ganesh Gopalan — Director (co-founder), appointed 19 Jul 2016, DIN 02737376 [DIN per Tofler] - Shilpa Maheshwari — Nominee Director, appointed 22 Apr 2026 (Managing Director, Aavishkaar Capital — the Series B lead investor); DIN not obtained Former director: Snehal Deshpande (DIN 08408959 per Tofler) — appears as a director in older snapshots (Tofler, Zauba, Filesure, corporatedir.com, EdgeInsights, all pre-dating the 2026 update) but is absent from The Company Check's current board list, which instead shows a new nominee seat tied to the Series B close — implying she resigned in 2026; exact resignation date not obtained. She also co-directs Flickstree Productions Pvt Ltd (Mumbai) per common-directorship data. Total: 3 current + 1 former per The Company Check.

GST Registrations

Primary GSTIN: 29AAGCG4822P1Z1 (Karnataka), regular taxpayer, registration date 01 July 2017 — confirmed by 4 independent sources (knowyourgst.com, mastersindia.co, piceapp.com, fnshiftsolutions.com). PAN AAGCG4822P (matches GSTIN prefix). Home state: Karnataka. Only 1 GSTIN registration found — no multi-state footprint identified (consistent with a single Bangalore HQ/office).

Financials

• FY2025, year ended 31 Mar 2025, standalone, as filed with RoC: Revenue ₹56.95 Cr, up ~145–151% YoY [The Company Check and Inc42 agree on the figure, differ slightly on growth %, 145.00% vs 151.34%,].
• EBITDA, PAT, net worth and borrowings figures are paywalled/locked on all sources checked ("not obtained").
• Auditor: Singhvi Dev & Unni LLP, FY2024, per The Company Check — premium tier needed for appointment/cessation dates.
• No charges, secured borrowings, registered with RoC — company is unlevered per available records.
• Employees: ~79 per EPFO data, Oct 2025; The Company Check, though Inc42 separately cites 263 employees, +11.44% in 90 days, — figures conflict, not reconciled
• Both cited as-is.

Funding History

• Total raised: reported as ~$14M across 3 rounds, Inc42 aggregate; round-by-round names not confirmed for the earlier two rounds.
• 2019: Samsung Venture Investment Corp invested $8.5M jointly across 4 Indian startups including Gnani.ai — the portion specifically allocated to Gnani is not disclosed (partial). [ElectronicsB2B, Inc42, 10 Jul 2019]
• Info Edge Ventures is cited as an "existing backer" prior to the 2026 round, round/date not independently confirmed here.
• Series B, closed ~30 Mar 2026, led by Aavishkaar Capital, with follow-on from Info Edge Ventures. Reported amount conflicts across otherwise reliable outlets: Entrackr/Economic Times/AnalyticsInsight/VCCircle cite $10M (~₹94 Cr)
• Entrackr's own follow-up and several other outlets, TheAIWorld, CircleOfNews, WorkNation, cite ₹68 crore (~$7.17M).
• Mechanism: board approved allotment of 1,647 compulsory convertible preference shares (CCPS) at ₹4,12,291.79 each.
• A LinkedIn post, unverified, informal source, pegs post-money valuation at ~₹818 Cr (~$97M) — flagged as low-confidence/unconfirmed.
• Aavishkaar Capital's nominee, Shilpa Maheshwari, MD, Aavishkaar Capital, joined the Gnani board as Nominee Director on 22 Apr 2026, consistent with the round closing.

Shareholding

• Detailed shareholding % / cap table is paywalled on The Company Check, "premium access required", — not obtained. Qualitatively: founders Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj hold promoter stakes
• Institutional investors include Aavishkaar Capital, new, Series B lead, holds CCPS, Info Edge Ventures, existing investor, and Samsung Ventures, 2019 investor, stake unclear/possibly diluted or exited — not confirmed. No parent company identified
• Gnani Innovations Pvt Ltd appears to be the standalone operating/holding entity for the Gnani.ai brand.

Related Parties

• No formal group structure / subsidiaries disclosed, locked/premium on The Company Check — not obtained.
• Common-directorship links, not necessarily corporate-group relationships: Snehal Deshpande, former Gnani director, also directs Flickstree Productions Private Limited, Mumbai, Active, media/entertainment — unrelated line of business
• Ganesh Gopalan also directed Idiotbox Media Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore, Strike Off/defunct, media.
• Caution: The Company Check separately lists "associated brands" BabbleJoy, a mom-and-baby subscription retailer, and Voice Biometrics alongside Gnani.ai under this CIN — BabbleJoy appears to be an entity-confusion/data-linking artefact, unrelated consumer-retail business, no evidence of common ownership found elsewhere, and should not be treated as a verified related party
• Voice Biometrics is plausible as it matches Gnani's own "Biometrics" product line, but is unconfirmed as a separate legal entity.

Legal & Compliance

• None found. IndianKanoon search for "Gnani Innovations Private Limited" returned no matching case
• The Company Check's litigation section is premium-gated but the free summary states no flagged regulatory alerts in the visible teaser.

Competitive Landscape

• The Company Check's auto-generated "competitors" list, iProov, Nymi, Alcatraz AI, Asseco, Keyless, Kairos, BIO-key, plus baby-product retailers TheBabyBo/Enchantico/MommySutra, is contaminated by the BabbleJoy entity-confusion noted above and only reflects the narrow "voice biometrics" sub-vertical
• It is not used here.
• Based on Gnani's actual positioning, enterprise conversational/voice AI for BFSI, telecom, healthcare — voice agents, speech analytics, agent assist, biometrics, the relevant Indian/global peer set is: Yellow.ai, Bengaluru, larger scale, broader enterprise conversational-AI/GenAI platform, well-funded unicorn, Skit.ai / formerly Vernacular.ai, Bengaluru, close direct peer, voice AI for BFSI/collections, similarly early-growth-stage, Uniphore, Chennai-origin, global scale, much larger funding/valuation, conversational-AI + voice biometrics, Observe.AI, US/India, contact-center voice analytics & QA, larger scale, Verloop.io, Bengaluru, conversational AI/chat+voice, comparable early-stage scale, Haptik, Mumbai, Reliance Jio-owned, conversational AI, larger backed scale.
• These are supplied from general market knowledge, not from a registry source, and rough scale tags are approximate.

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