National, January 21, 2026: StartupInvestors.ai today announced the launch of its dedicated investor discovery infrastructure, specifically designed to support the “Bharat” startup surge. As entrepreneurship rapidly moves beyond metros, with nearly 50% of India’s 200,000 recognized startups now coming from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, this platform serves as a vital bridge, ensuring that a founder’s location never limits their ability to raise money.
For years, founders in cities like Jaipur, Indore, Kochi, and Lucknow have faced a “network gap.” While they have brilliant ideas, they often lack direct access to the investment circles of Mumbai or Bengaluru. StartupInvestors.ai changes this reality by using sixteen specialized “AI assistants” that help these founders find, prepare for, and connect with the right investors regardless of where they are based.
How StartupInvestors.ai Benefits the Regional Ecosystem
Instead of just offering a database, the platform focuses on the success of the founder. It simplifies the complicated steps of fundraising into a smooth, guided journey:
- Opens Doors for Every City:The platform’s Synthetic Thesis Generator acts as a matchmaker that doesn’t care about geography. It identifies investors whose interests perfectly align with a startups industry and stage. This means a founder in a small town can now identify the exact high-intent investors who are looking for their specific type of business, levelling the playing field with metro-based founders.
- Polishes the Narrative for Success:Many brilliant regional founders struggle to “speak the language” of big VCs. The platform provides Smart Pitch Analytics that review a founder’s materials and suggest improvements. This ensures that when a founder finally gets a meeting, their story is presented with the same professional polish as a top-tier global startup.
- Automates the Heavy Lifting of Outreach:Cold-calling and generic emails rarely work. The Agentic Outreach Engine writes highly personalized messages that mention recent news or shared interests. By automating this “first handshake,” the platform helps founders get 7x more responses, allowing them to focus on running their business instead of managing endless email threads.
- Builds Trust with Verified Data:Investors are often cautious when exploring unfamiliar markets. The Cognitive Data Cleansing assistant ensures that all information on the platform is verified and up-to-date. This builds immediate trust between the investor and the regional founder, speeding up the time it takes to close a deal.
A Vision for a “Viksit Bharat”
“We believe that the next big Indian success story could come from any corner of the country,” said Inderjit Makkar, Founder of Factacy AI, the technology partner powering the platform. “By providing the sixteen smart AI engines that handle the technical side of fundraising, we are empowering every Indian entrepreneur. We are aligning our goals with the government’s vision for a ‘Viksit Bharat,’ where technology helps create jobs and wealth in every district of India”.
Supporting National Goals
The platform is built to support the goals of the DPIIT and the Startup India initiative, which seek to democratize entrepreneurship. By providing professional-grade tools to grassroots innovators, StartupInvestors.ai is helping to ensure that India’s growth is truly inclusive and reaches every part of the nation.
Founders can start their journey toward growth by visiting www.startupinvestors.ai/startups.
About StartupInvestors.ai
StartupInvestors.ai is a modern Investor Discovery platform dedicated to helping Indian startups grow. Powered by the advanced AI engines developed by Factacy AI, the platform provides the infrastructure needed to bridge the gap between brilliant founders and smart capital.
About Factacy.ai-
Factacy ‘s mission is to democratize data. In Factacy’s world, each one of us has a right to factual knowledge backed by reliable data. In that world, data is not a privilege, data intelligence is not scarce, and knowledge is not dependent on a technical skill. With a touch of a button, a school teacher can add value to their teaching be providing real-time, customised data to their lessons; a journalist, panellist, reporter or an anchor can share insightful stats and comparisons instantly; a content creator can share interesting facts and figures to their subscribers without the need to learn core data analytics. Factacy does the collection, sorting, linking and representing for you. All you need to do is select what indicators you want, pick some variables you need, and our data engines provide you the intelligence you need from the data. Conceptualised in 2020, Factacy is set on a path to provide its users custom analytics on social, political, macroeconomic, and demographic data from sovereign and authentic sources. Factacy believes that knowledge is a product of intelligence and intelligence comes from data. With most of the data going online and stored in digital silos, which can only be accessed with knowledge of adequate data mining and analytical tools. Factacy provides value in form of making this data accessible to all in a format comfortable to all.
