Bengaluru enterprise AI startup QwikBuild has raised $2.3 million, or about Rs 22 crore, in a pre-seed round led by Japan-listed technology company Globalway. Blume Ventures, DeVC and Marsshot joined the round, alongside angel investors Lalit Keshre, the founder of Groww, and Ankit Nagori, the chief executive of Curefoods.
The company will use the money mainly to build its go-to-market engine. That includes setting up a team in the United States and expanding operations across Southeast Asia, where it already serves customers alongside India and Dubai.
Alongside the funding, QwikBuild has formed a joint venture with Globalway to enter Japan’s enterprise software market. The venture is expected to start operating by the end of 2026 and will take the 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. Through the establishment of this joint venture, we hope to deliver ‘QwikBuild’ to Japanese companies and together pioneer a new era where business departments take the lead in creating systems.
Pradeep Ayyagari, founder and chief executive of QwikBuild
Decisions first, tasks second
QwikBuild’s pitch is not simply faster coding. It focuses on codifying the business decisions behind a workflow, rather than automating one task in isolation. A financial services team, for example, must first decide which customers to contact, which filters to apply and which scripts to use for each segment.
Only after those decisions are set does execution follow, through voice agents or other tools supplied by QwikBuild or another provider. That distinction matters because many AI tools automate the call itself while leaving the harder question of who should be called untouched.
The platform meets companies where they already are. It can replace a legacy system entirely, add a custom layer on top of tools such as SAP and Salesforce, or build an application from scratch. Business teams can then build and test changes without handing every change back to engineers.
A founder who watched adoption fail from inside
Founder and chief executive Pradeep Ayyagari previously worked at Flipkart, Swiggy and slice. That background shapes the product. He argues that technology was rarely the blocker in those companies, while getting teams to actually adopt it was the hardest problem he saw.
He puts the opportunity in stark terms, saying “Hardly 1% of enterprises have adopted AI.”
In one customer meeting he describes, a business team discussed a change and the agent understood the context and built the feature within five minutes. The claim is small, but it captures the product’s promise of parallel work between business and technology.
From WhatsApp builder to enterprise AgentQ
QwikBuild began with a simpler idea. It first launched on WhatsApp, letting people describe a website or app and receive a live version in minutes. That version drew more than 15,000 creators, and the company now says more than 20,000 apps have been built on its platform.
The enterprise product is called AgentQ. AI agents design the database and interfaces, a code auditor reviews every line, and real developers step in for complex integrations and architecture reviews. The code belongs to the customer, with no lock-in, according to the company.
Its site lists native connectors for SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks, alongside identity tools such as Okta and Microsoft Entra. Pricing starts at $200 a month for small teams, with a $500 managed tier and custom enterprise pricing, which places AgentQ between cheap AI builders and full agency projects.
Why a Japanese partner changes the maths
Globalway was founded in 2004 and is listed in Tokyo, where it provides IT consulting and Salesforce implementation services. Its chief executive is Masato Kakamu. For QwikBuild, that profile offers something a cheque alone cannot, which is a ready enterprise sales channel in Japan.
Kakamu points to a familiar Japanese enterprise problem, which is system development that takes a long time and a large workforce. He believes QwikBuild can change how systems are built there, a view that explains why Globalway is both investor and joint venture partner rather than only an investor.
The test ahead
QwikBuild says it serves more than 100 enterprises across India, Southeast Asia, the United States and Dubai. About 10 to 12 percent are large enterprises, while about 30 percent are smaller businesses that deploy software without dedicated technology teams.
One unnamed client, described as Asia’s largest electronics component exporter, now runs shipments and supply chain on its software. That example is unverified in detail, since the client is not named, but it shows the kind of operational workload QwikBuild wants to own.
The round lands in a busy quarter for Indian enterprise AI. RapidCanvas raised $29 million the previous week, and Indian AI startups drew $438 million in the third quarter of 2026, up 265 percent from a year earlier.
KeeVurds also covered AuxoAI’s $20.7 million Series A for enterprise AI teams, a sign of how crowded this lane has become.
The cheque itself is modest for an enterprise platform with global ambitions. The joint venture is the part to watch, because it will test whether a Bengaluru-built agent platform can sell through a Japanese partner into famously careful buyers. If it opens by year end as planned, that answer will come quickly.
