Rocket, a Surat-based AI-powered app development platform, has secured $15 million in seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and Accel, with additional backing from Together Fund.
Founded by Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala, and Deepak Dhanak, the startup enables users to build production-ready applications directly from natural language prompts. Additionally, it simplifies the app development process for users with little to no coding experience.
Moreover, the newly raised capital will be directed toward scaling R&D efforts, accelerating product development, and expanding global operations. In particular, the company plans to establish a North American headquarters in Palo Alto.
Rocket aims to make it easier and faster to transform ideas into fully functional software. Just four months after launch, 400,000 users across 180 countries have collectively built more than 500,000 production-ready applications on the platform, the company said.
Currently, the startup employs 60 people across Surat and Palo Alto, and looking ahead, it plans to double its India team within the next year.
“At Rocket, it’s not about coding faster. It’s about solving smarter. Our belief is simple—building applications should be as natural as thinking. Rocket turns imagination into production-ready apps and websites that launch and scale from day one,” said cofounder and CEO Vishal Virani in a statement.
