Bengaluru-based enterprise AI startup QwikBuild has raised $2.3 million (about Rs 22 crore) in a pre-seed round led by Tokyo-listed technology company Globalway, and is setting up a joint venture with its lead investor to sell its platform in Japan.
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Blume Ventures, DeVC and Marsshot also took part in the round, along with angel investors Lalit Keshre, founder of Groww, and Ankit Nagori, CEO of Curefoods.
QwikBuild said it will use most of the fresh funding for go-to-market activities, including setting up a team in the US and expanding operations across Southeast Asia.
The Japan joint venture
The joint venture with Globalway is expected to become operational by the end of 2026. It will offer QwikBuild’s platform to Globalway’s existing and prospective enterprise customers in Japan.
“We have been working together with Globalway to develop ‘QwikBuild’ into a service that meets the demands of the enterprise market, including Japan,” said Pradeep Ayyagari, founder and CEO of QwikBuild.
“Globalway’s knowledge of Japanese companies’ operations and system development has played a crucial role in the evolution of ‘QwikBuild,’” he added. Through the joint venture, he said, the company hopes to “deliver ‘QwikBuild’ to Japanese companies and together pioneer a new era where business departments take the lead in creating systems”.
Masato Kakamu, chairman and CEO of Globalway, said, “Japanese companies have long faced the challenge of system development requiring long periods of time and a large workforce, making it difficult to keep up with changes in business operations. We believe that QwikBuild is a revolution that can fundamentally change the way systems are built.”
“By combining the technology created by excellent engineers in India with the knowledge we have built together with Japanese enterprises, we will deliver QwikBuild to Japan,” Kakamu added.
What QwikBuild does
QwikBuild was founded in 2025 by Ayyagari, a former executive at fintech company slice who has also worked at Flipkart and Swiggy. The startup combines custom software development with AI-driven workflow automation.
Businesses can use the platform in three ways: to replace legacy systems entirely, to build custom software layers on top of tools from companies such as SAP and Salesforce, or to build applications from scratch. Once a system is running, they can add AI agents to automate workflows.
Its main product, AgentQ, is an AI development agent backed by human developers who handle complex integrations and code reviews. QwikBuild said customers fully own the code that is produced, and claims more than 20,000 apps have been built on its platform.
Ayyagari said the company focuses on codifying business decisions rather than only automating individual tasks. A financial services company, for example, has to decide which customers to contact, which filters to apply and which scripts to use for each customer segment.
A specialised AI startup might automate the calling itself, while QwikBuild aims to codify the decisions that determine which calls are made in the first place. Businesses can then deploy voice agents or other tools to carry out those workflows, through QwikBuild or other providers.
QwikBuild claims to serve more than 100 enterprises across India, Southeast Asia, the US and Dubai. About 10-12% of its clients are large enterprises, while about 30% are smaller businesses that use the platform to deploy software without setting up their own technology teams.
The company said Asia’s largest electronics component exporter automates its export documentation on software built by QwikBuild on top of SAP. An industrial procurement company has used the platform to automate payment processing, and a healthtech company with 3,000 employees has replaced its applicant tracking and HR systems with QwikBuild applications.
