Manufacturing AI startup Morsa has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Silicon Valley-based Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from the a16z Scout Fund.
Operating under its parent company, Lunar, Morsa will deploy the fresh capital to advance product development and expand its deployments across manufacturing facilities in India and the US.
Founded in June 2026 by Satvik Kapoor and Vedant Singh, Morsa is developing an autonomous AI operations platform to manage factory-floor workflows. The platform integrates with existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing execution systems (MES), along with communication channels such as WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. This allows manufacturers to use the platform without adopting additional software.
Its AI agents analyse operational data and workplace conversations to identify bottlenecks, allocate responsibilities, follow up with suppliers, update production schedules, and monitor task completion.
Morsa is currently deployed across multiple manufacturing plants, supporting 212 personnel through 75 operational group chats. Its deployments include a Tier-1 automotive supplier.
Before building the platform, the founders conducted more than 200 interviews with factory owners, plant managers, and floor supervisors to understand the operational challenges facing manufacturing facilities.
“The limit is never the machines. It’s how fast a plant can decide and act. The factories that use AI to run at a fundamentally different speed are the ones building that future, and we want to help them get there,” Kapoor said.
Singh oversees the company’s technical development and AI architecture. He said Morsa aims to build the infrastructure required for AI agents to understand factory operations, make decisions, and independently execute tasks.
“Industry 4.0 connected factories; agentic manufacturing will make them autonomous. The next breakthrough will not be about smarter AI models but about building the infrastructure that allows agents to understand the state of an entire factory, make decisions, execute them, and learn to run operations themselves,” Singh said.
He added that the company aims to move factory workers away from operating facilities through software and towards supervising AI systems that manage day-to-day operations.
