Mumbai, Zivy, a cutting-edge AI tool that helps prioritize workplace messages and tasks, has secured $1.2 million in a pre-seed funding round co-led by prominent venture capital firms, including Blume Ventures, Paradigm Shift Capital, iSeed, Everywhere Ventures, Indian Silicon Valley, and Marsshot Ventures. Angel investors, such as Ashwin Bhatnagar, Anand Balaji, and Razorpay co-founders Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, also joined the round.
The freshly-minted funds will be allocated towards further enhancing the company’s product development and expanding its research and development team, as per Zivy’s announcement. The platform, founded in 2023 by Prashanth YV and Vivek Karna, aims to help managers and leads by providing a personalized “copilot” to stay organized and manage their work more effectively.
The Challenge of Workplace Productivity
The prevalence of constant notifications and barrage of messages has become a significant drain on workplace productivity. Zivy’s platform seeks to weed out this inefficiency by prioritizing messages and tasks based on urgency and relevance. By doing so, it ensures that only the most critical information rises to the top, allowing managers to stay focused and productive.
Key Features and Future Plans
In its initial release, Zivy integrates directly with Slack, analyzing the context of conversations and tasks to categorize and prioritize messages. This feature enables managers to:
- Stay on top of urgent and relevant information
- Focus on high-priority tasks and conversations
- Improve productivity and efficiency in managing work
With the successful closing of its pre-seed funding round, Zivy is poised to continue its mission of making managers more productive and equipped to build high-performing teams.