India, Oct. 27 -- Bengaluru-based AI startup Live2.ai has raised Rs.130 Cr ($13.7 Mn) in a pre-Series B funding round led by IvyCap Ventures. The fundraise comprises both a fresh issue as well as a secondary component providing partial liquidity to undisclosed early investors. The AI-powered SaaS startup's board features backers like Sony Innovation Fund, SOSV and Duane Park.

The startup, which offers enterprises a SaaS platform that helps them monitor engagement for campaigns across channels, will use the fresh capital to build its AI platform further, strengthen its go-to-market strategy for enterprise customers and global consumer brands and expand regional cloud infrastructure.

It also plans to hire across engineering, data science ...