BENGALURU — Local founder Pivot Prakash has raised ₹8.4 crore in seed funding for Grocery.ai, approximately eleven minutes after adding the words “powered by AI” to a shopping list that previously contained milk, coriander and one packet of Good Day biscuits.
The round was led by Perpetual Motion Ventures, with participation from three angel investors who admitted they had not seen the product but were impressed by the size of the letters “AI” in the pitch deck.
Prakash described Grocery.ai as a coriander-first, agentic household-procurement platform designed to solve the ancient Indian problem of arriving home without the one item specifically requested.
“We are not buying vegetables. We are reimagining the interface between hunger and produce.”
According to the company’s 74-slide presentation, users will eventually be able to type “buy tomatoes.” A proprietary large vegetable model will then spend forty seconds explaining tomatoes before recommending a subscription.
The startup currently has no app, no employees and no confirmed relationship with any vegetable. It does, however, have a waitlist of 18,000 people, seventeen thousand of whom are other founders monitoring the funding announcement.
Asked how Grocery.ai differs from writing a list on paper, Prakash said paper lacked personalisation, predictive analytics and the ability to raise a pre-Series A.
The company plans to monetise through premium reminders, sponsored onions and an enterprise tier for families whose WhatsApp groups contain more than four conflicting dinner instructions.
Prakash’s mother remains the startup’s most active beta tester. She reported a critical bug after the platform ordered six avocados but forgot dhaniya.
At press time, Grocery.ai had pivoted into a B2B infrastructure company for AI-native kitchens. The vegetables had still not been purchased.
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