Digizene Pre‑Seed Funding Announcement
On 1 July 2026, Digizene, an AI infrastructure platform founded by Rinki Singh, disclosed the closing of a pre‑seed funding round. The round includes an investment from Odisha‑born British entrepreneur Arun Kar, whose net worth is reported at approximately US$145 million. While the exact amount invested was not disclosed, Kar has also been appointed as a co‑founder, providing strategic guidance, global business experience and expertise in international expansion.
Digizene’s flagship offering, DigiVerification, aggregates more than 200 verification APIs together with artificial intelligence, workflow automation and a conversational AI assistant. The platform’s proprietary AI Verification Bot enables enterprises to request verification of customers, companies, GST registrations, bank accounts, legal documents, properties or vendors through natural‑language conversations. An extensive Property Verification Stack allows financial institutions, legal organisations and property businesses to automatically verify ownership records, encumbrances, registry data, land records, mutation records, property taxes and conduct legal due‑diligence within a single workflow.
The solution is currently deployed across a wide range of sectors, including banking, NBFCs, fintech, insurance, healthcare, HR technology, manufacturing, logistics, automotive, education, telecom, retail, travel, real‑estate, enterprise SaaS and digital marketplaces. It supports use cases such as onboarding, KYC, KYB, merchant onboarding, vendor due‑diligence, employee verification, fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, loan origination, claims processing and enterprise risk management. As part of its broader technology strategy, Digizene’s embedded‑finance platform BharatEarns will operate within the Digizene ecosystem, combining embedded finance, AI‑driven verification and workflow automation to enable organisations to verify, onboard, lend and automate customer journeys through a single intelligent infrastructure.
Industry analysts estimate that the combined markets for identity verification, digital identity, KYC, KYB, AML, fraud prevention and TrustTech could exceed US$100 billion within the next decade, driven by accelerating digital transformation, heightened regulation and enterprise AI adoption. Digizene’s leadership asserts that AI‑native trust infrastructure will become a foundational technology layer for global businesses.
Founder and CEO Rinki Singh said, “Verification is an essential element of every digital transaction. However, enterprises still need to handle fragmented solutions and multiple integrations. Our goal is to create a globally scalable AI‑powered trust infrastructure in which businesses would be able to verify almost everything by simply communicating with an AI assistant.”
Arun Kar added, “Artificial intelligence is revolutionising enterprise software. Trust infrastructure will become one of the most important layers of technology of the next decade. Digizene has created a cutting‑edge AI‑first platform that has enormous potential to succeed globally. I am pleased to join Digizene as an investor and a Co‑founder as we embark upon building a world‑class TrustTech company with global ambitions.”
Following the pre‑seed closure, Digizene plans to launch its operations in the United Kingdom as its first international market, with subsequent expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, offering localized identity, business and compliance verification solutions. The company is also preparing a substantially larger institutional seed funding round to accelerate AI research, broaden its enterprise product portfolio and support its international growth.
Former bureaucrat and corporate strategist Bhartendu Shandilya, an early investor and strategic mentor, has been instrumental in shaping Digizene’s vision, emphasizing the significant global opportunity that AI‑powered trust infrastructure presents for Indian technology firms.
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