Delhi-based manufacturing AI startup Morsa raises $1.5M pre-seed led by JSV

Morsa, a Delhi-based manufacturing AI startup, has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Silicon Valley-based Jackson Square Ventures (JSV). The a16z Scout Fund participated.

Morsa operates under its parent Lunar Inc. It said the capital will go towards product development and scaling deployments across manufacturing plants in India and the United States.

The startup was founded in June 2026 by Satvik Kapoor, 22, who is CEO, and Vedant Singh, 19, who is CTO.

Morsa pitches itself as an “AI COO” for manufacturing plants. Its software sits on top of systems a factory already uses, including ERP and Manufacturing Execution Systems, email, and messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams and Slack.

Rather than asking workers to learn a new dashboard, the platform reads operational data and shop-floor conversations. The startup said it detects bottlenecks, assigns ownership of tasks, chases suppliers, re-plans schedules and checks whether work has actually been completed.

An early commercial deployment was at J4S, a glass manufacturing facility with 120 employees. Over four weeks, the system tracked about 900 operational commitments, and the share of tasks completed on time rose from 30% to 75%, according to the company.

Morsa said it is now active across multiple plants, supporting 212 personnel across 75 operational group chats, including at a Tier-1 automotive supplier. It did not name the supplier.

”I grew up around my family’s factories and have worked across eight of them, and the limit is never the machines. It’s how fast a plant can decide and act,” Kapoor said.