Sarvam AI
Sarvam AI is building a sovereign, full-stack AI platform for India, focusing on Indian languages, voice-first interfaces, and population-scale impact.
Founding Story
Founded in August 2023 by Dr. Vivek Raghavan and Dr. Pratyush Kumar, who previously collaborated on AI4Bharat. The vision was to create a 'sovereign AI stack' for India that overcomes the high cost and poor performance of global models for Indian languages.
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Leadership
Founders
Dr. Vivek Raghavan
Co-founder. Previously Chief Product Manager and Biometric Architect at UIDAI (Aadhaar). Core member of the Aadhaar project. B.Tech from IIT Delhi, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio State University.
Dr. Pratyush Kumar
Co-founder and CEO. Former Researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM Research. Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras. Co-founder of AI4Bharat and One Fourth Labs. PhD from ETH Zurich.
Executive Team
Dr. Pratyush Kumar
Co-founder and CEO
Former researcher at Microsoft and IBM; co-founder of AI4Bharat.
Dr. Vivek Raghavan
Co-founder
Former biometric architect at UIDAI; key architect of Aadhaar infrastructure.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage (token-based), Subscription plans, and Enterprise on-prem/VPC licenses.
Pricing Tiers
No minimum, transparent token-based pricing.
Includes ₹1,000 bonus credits and higher rate limits.
For enterprise-grade applications with custom support.
Target Markets
- Enterprise (BFSI, Healthcare)
- Government of India
- Startups building for Bharat
- Conversational AI for finance/healthcare
- Automated dubbing and translation
- Sovereign government AI applications
- Document understanding (OCR)
- IndiaAI Mission
- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
- Early-stage AI startups via Sarvam Startup Program
History & Milestones
Announced 'Indus' and 'Sarvam Akshar' models at the India AI Impact Summit.
Open-sourced Sarvam 30B and 105B parameter models.
Launched Sarvam 2B, a small language model optimized for Indian languages.
Sarvam AI is founded in Bangalore, India.
Raised $41 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
