Composio’s journey from Bengaluru development center to $25M Series A led by Lightspeed proves that the next wave of AI infrastructure won’t come from model improvements, it’ll come from solving the unglamorous but critical problem of making AI agents actually work in real enterprise environments.
What is the news?
- Karan Vaidya and Soham Ganatra-led Composio raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors and notable angels including HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah and Rubrik co-founder Sohum Mazumdar, bringing total funding to $29 million.
- The San Francisco-based startup with a Bengaluru development center plans to expand from 25 to 40 team members by year-end while serving 100,000+ developers and 200+ paying enterprise customers generating $1M+ ARR.
Why is it interesting?
- While most AI startups focus on building better models, Composio addresses the critical ‘last mile’ problem, connecting AI agents to existing enterprise software like Gmail, Salesforce, and GitHub without custom integrations. Their approach of providing pre-built, production-ready connectors eliminates the need for developers to build each connection from scratch, deal with complicated logins, or write and maintain extra code, reducing deployment friction in legacy enterprise environments where security constraints and integration overhead typically slow AI adoption.
- The startup’s strategic use of Bengaluru for development while maintaining Silicon Valley presence for market access exemplifies how modern AI companies can optimize for both technical talent costs and investor/customer proximity. With Y Combinator alumni as customers and tier-1 VC backing, Composio demonstrates how Indian technical talent can build developer infrastructure that scales globally, particularly in the high-growth agentic AI space where seamless enterprise integration is becoming the key differentiator.