AI services startup Aivar has raised $4.6 million in a seed funding round led by Sorin Investments, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners. The funding will be used to expand Aivar’s presence in India, the United States and the Middle East, while continuing to invest in its AI accelerators, senior talent and global delivery capabilities, the company said in a press release. Founded in 2024 by Kousik Rajendran, Praveen Jayakumar, Ashwin Ram Ravichandran and Aadharsh Ayappan, Aivar is an AI-focused technology services company. It works with startups, technology-intensive enterprises, and enterprises on AI projects, and has AWS validation and first product accelerators for voice, data, and AI/ML workloads. In less than a year of operation, Aivar claims to have reached more than 80 clients, working with startups and enterprises to move AI initiatives from experimentation to production. The company operates as an end-to-end AI studio, offering strategy consulting, custom AI solution development, and managed AI operations. It has developed proprietary accelerators including Convogent AI for multilingual conversational and voice applications, Velogent AI for agentic process automation in regulated workflows, and Kubogent AI for Kubernetes-based infrastructure to host AI workloads. Aivar works to fill gaps in enterprise AI adoption through custom AI engineering and in-house accelerators. One example includes a SaaS logistics company using its Velogent accelerator to automate contract and invoice workflows, with initial deployment completed in 6-8 weeks.