Redrob, an AI research startup operating across five global hubs, including San Francisco, New York, New Delhi, Mumbai, and Seoul, has secured a $10 million Series A round led by Korea Investment Partners with participation from KB Investment, Kiwoom Investment, Korea Development Bank Capital, Daekyo Investment, and DS & Partners. This new round brings Redrob’s total funding to $14 million, following its earlier $4 million seed round completed in 2023.
With a team of 100 employees and early traction across both enterprise and emerging markets, Redrob aims to position itself as the Android equivalent of ChatGPT’s iPhone by offering advanced AI capabilities at dramatically lower cost. The company has also expanded its advisory bench with several undisclosed former senior partners from well-known Silicon Valley venture capital firms.
The startup’s technology platform is built to deliver flagship-level performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional solutions, serving enterprises seeking efficiency and scalability while expanding access to students and consumers in markets where premium AI subscriptions are cost-prohibitive. The company’s approach leverages techniques such as the Mixture of Experts architecture, aggressive distillation, and quantization to reduce infrastructure costs at scale. This model enables a twentyfold cost reduction compared to premium AI service offerings currently available to consumers and organizations.
Redrob’s model is already gaining ground. The company reports 3 million users across 500 universities in India and an annual recurring revenue of $7 million. Part of the company’s strategy centers on converting free student users into enterprise advocates as they graduate into the workforce, particularly within India’s expanding tech ecosystem. As former student users bring the platform into their workplaces, the company sees natural momentum for enterprise adoption.
The new funding will support Redrob’s goals in several areas, including expanding enterprise sales in the United States, scaling its global platform infrastructure, and continuing to provide free services to students in emerging markets. Redrob targets becoming the world’s third-largest LLM platform by monthly active users by 2028, behind only ChatGPT and Gemini, while also building out enterprise applications across HR, sales, and productivity.
Redrob’s long-term strategy centers on providing AI infrastructure that supports wide-ranging economic and geographic segments. The company intends to serve both students in major Indian cities and corporate teams in markets such as Silicon Valley and Seoul, using a full-stack approach spanning foundation models to end-user applications.
