{"id":1003868,"date":"2026-04-20T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003868"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T03:51:18","slug":"glade-brook-in-talks-to-join-sarvams-funding-ai-startup-may-hit-1-5-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/glade-brook-in-talks-to-join-sarvams-funding-ai-startup-may-hit-1-5-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Glade Brook in talks to join Sarvam\u2019s funding; AI startup may hit $1.5 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based growth equity firm Glade Brook Capital, which has backed the likes of xAI and Perplexity, is in discussions to join artificial intelligence startup Sarvam AI\u2019s latest funding round of $320-350 million at a post-money valuation of about $1.5 billion, people aware of the development told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The latest funding round for the Bengaluru-based foundational model startup will see strategic investors Nvidia, Amazon and HCLTech participate, along with venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Prosperity 7 Ventures. Existing investors Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures are also expected to participate in the round, said one of the persons cited above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based growth equity firm Glade Brook Capital, which has backed the likes of xAI and Perplexity, is in discussions to join artificial intelligence startup Sarvam AI\u2019s latest funding round of $320-350 million at a post-money valuation of about $1.5 billion, people aware of the development told ET. The latest funding round for the Bengaluru-based foundational model startup will see strategic investors Nvidia, Amazon and HCLTech participate, along with venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners and Prosperity 7 Ventures. Existing investors Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures are also expected to participate in the round, said one of [&hellip;]<\/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-1003868","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\/1003868","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=1003868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}