{"id":1015621,"date":"2026-06-19T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015621"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:55:05","slug":"dunzo-founders-new-ai-venture-m-seeks-fresh-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/dunzo-founders-new-ai-venture-m-seeks-fresh-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunzo founder\u2019s new AI venture M seeks fresh funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabeer Biswas, founder of failed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, is in advanced talks to raise about $9 million for his new venture M, according to people familiar with the matter, as investors place fresh bets on an emerging category of AI-powered household assistants that has yet to prove either consumer demand or a scalable business model. <\/p>\n<p>The venture reflects a growing belief among entrepreneurs that advances in generative AI, voice interfaces and workflow automation can automate household decision-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabeer Biswas, founder of failed hyperlocal delivery startup Dunzo, is in advanced talks to raise about $9 million for his new venture M, according to people familiar with the matter, as investors place fresh bets on an emerging category of AI-powered household assistants that has yet to prove either consumer demand or a scalable business model. The venture reflects a growing belief among entrepreneurs that advances in generative AI, voice interfaces and workflow automation can automate household decision-making.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015621","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=1015621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015641,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015621\/revisions\/1015641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}