{"id":1002256,"date":"2026-04-10T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002256"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:24:15","slug":"ola-alumnis-manav-robotics-in-talks-to-raise-15-20-million-from-blume-qualcomm-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/ola-alumnis-manav-robotics-in-talks-to-raise-15-20-million-from-blume-qualcomm-ventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ola alumni\u2019s Manav Robotics in talks to raise $15-20 million from Blume, Qualcomm Ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manav Robotics, a startup founded by former senior Ola executives Suvonil Chatterjee and Slokarth Dash, is in discussions with early-stage investor Blume Ventures and US-based Qualcomm Ventures to raise its maiden funding of around $15-20 million, people close to the talks said. <\/p>\n<p>The funding round could also see participation from a clutch of Indian founders, one of the persons said, adding that these conversations are early and the startup is yet to finalise the round structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manav Robotics, a startup founded by former senior Ola executives Suvonil Chatterjee and Slokarth Dash, is in discussions with early-stage investor Blume Ventures and US-based Qualcomm Ventures to raise its maiden funding of around $15-20 million, people close to the talks said. The funding round could also see participation from a clutch of Indian founders, one of the persons said, adding that these conversations are early and the startup is yet to finalise the round structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}