AI data infrastructure startup Clairva raises $500K from Venture Catalysts

Through its angel network, Venture Catalysts facilitated a $500K pre-seed fundraising round for AI data infrastructure firm Clairva.

According to a news release from Clairva, the firm will use the additional funding to increase commercial interaction with international AI clients, improve data enrichment and validation capabilities, grow connections with content owners and universities, and fortify its network of licensed data suppliers.

Clairva was founded in 2025 by Sunil Nair, Sabari Raju, Dushyant Verma, and Amit Parashar. It creates licensed, provenance-backed datasets for robotics, autonomous systems, embodied AI, and AI foundation models.

Finding data with distinct usage rights, provenance, and cultural context is still difficult as AI models depend more and more on high-quality datasets. Clairva sources, licenses, and organizes real-world data for AI training in collaboration with content owners, production companies, studios, archives, organizations, and contributor networks.

Since languages, surroundings, behaviors, gestures, workflows, and objects are still underrepresented in AI training datasets, the company’s initial focus is on India, Southeast Asia, and other Global South regions.

Clairva claims that it is also creating proprietary technology throughout the data pipeline, such as the ingestion of licensed datasets, the tracking of rights and provenance, automated enrichment, the creation of metadata, the tagging of actions and objects, temporal segmentation, quality assessment, and dataset packaging.