Funding · AI & Deep Tech

Clairva raises $500,000 pre-seed round

By Startup Enthusiast · 29 June 2026

What they do

Clairva builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models and robotics

It raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding led by Venture Catalysts angel network

The company focuses on underrepresented Global South markets like India and Southeast Asia

Clairva raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding.
The round was led by Venture Catalysts angel network.
The company builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems.
It works with content owners, production houses, studios, archives, institutions, and contributor networks to source and license real-world data.
Its initial focus is on India, Southeast Asia, and other Global South markets.
Clairva is developing proprietary technology for data ingestion, rights tracking, enrichment, metadata generation, and quality validation.
The funds will be used to strengthen its licensed data supply network and expand partnerships.

AI companies are moving beyond text and image data toward systems that need understanding of physical environments, human behaviour, and real-world movement.
High-quality data with clear rights and provenance is critical but hard to source for foundation models and robotics.
India, Southeast Asia, and Global South markets are underrepresented in large AI training datasets.

Clairva builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems.
It sources and licenses real-world data from content owners, production houses, studios, archives, institutions, and contributor networks.
Its initial focus is on India, Southeast Asia, and other Global South markets.
The company develops proprietary technology across the data pipeline: ingestion, rights tracking, enrichment, metadata generation, action/object tagging, temporal segmentation, quality validation, and dataset packaging.
Clairva was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Clairva plans to raise a $5 million seed round in H2 2026 from strategic or institutional investors focused on AI infrastructure, data supply, model training, and emerging market tech.
Seed proceeds will go toward product development, AI tooling, data operations, commercial expansion, and global customer acquisition.

Product: Licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics, and autonomous systems with clear usage rights
Customers: Global AI companies and research organizations building foundation models, embodied AI systems, and autonomous technologies
How it makes money: Data licensing and provisioning services for AI model training
What sets it apart: Focuses on datasets with clear usage rights and cultural context; works with content owners, production houses, studios, and archives; Global South focus with India, Southeast Asia emphasis
Operations: Sources, licenses, and structures real-world data for AI training across multiple content verticals