Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Indian startup Runable has raised $21 million in Series A funding as it expands beyond helping small businesses build websites and apps into helping them grow, by finding customers, running ad campaigns and managing marketing. The move reflects a broader shift in the AI startup landscape, where creation tools are becoming commoditised and companies are racing to prove value further down the business lifecycle, in a market already crowded with players such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable and Replit.
The round was co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with Together Fund and Array VC also participating, valuing the Bengaluru-based firm at $65 million post-money. Founded in 2025 by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda, Runable began as an AI browser-scraping infrastructure company before pivoting to a general-purpose agent after users started asking it to build slide decks and websites; it reached a $2 million annualised revenue run rate within three weeks of launching payments in March. The company now has around 1.7 million registered users, mainly in the US, UK and Japan, and its users consumed over 1 trillion tokens in the past 90 days, though Runable currently operates at negative gross margins due to subsidising AI usage costs.
- Runable raised $21M Series A, valued at $65M
- Shifting focus from building websites/apps to growing businesses
- Has 1.7M users but runs at negative gross margins
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Runable is a Bengaluru-based software company founded in 2025 by Umesh Kumar and Saksham Sarda. It first built technology for AI systems to gather information from websites, then shifted towards tools that let people create websites, apps and slide decks by giving instructions in ordinary language.
The company is now extending those tools to help small businesses find customers and manage advertising and marketing. That reflects a wider change in the AI industry: as more companies offer tools to create digital products, they are looking for ways to help customers run and grow their businesses too.
Runable competes in a crowded market that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Lovable and Replit. Its growth has attracted investors, but the company says it is spending more on the AI services its users consume than it earns from them, making it important to show that its newer business tools can become financially sustainable.