• UAE-based icogz, a business intelligence platform, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding from angel investors in the UAE and India.
• Founded in 2018 by Amit Tripathi and Vrutika Dawda, icogz is a business intelligence platform that mines intelligence from a brand's data and delivers insights using algorithms and technology.
• Funds will support product development, expand the Aryabot AI engine, and boost go-to-market efforts in MENA and Southeast Asia.

Press release:

icogz, a UAE-based provider of AI-native business intelligence and analytics solutions, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate innovation and regional expansion.

The round was backed by angel investors and syndicates from the UAE and India. The funds will be used to further enhance product development, expand the Aryabot ecosystem, and drive go-to-market initiatives across the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Founded by CEO Amit Tripathi, icogz is the creator of Aryabot, a proprietary AI engine built on a library of 200+ algorithms. Aryabot enables businesses to unify complex data from disparate sources, detect patterns, automate workflows, and generate instant diagnostics. Users can interact with data using natural language queries, making analytics more intuitive and accessible for decision-makers.

Looking ahead, icogz is preparing for a Series A round, with a focus on strategic hiring and scaling its modular agent stack across enterprise functions—ranging from marketing intelligence to predictive operations.

“We believe that data-driven decisions should be real-time, intuitive, and accessible to all business users. With Aryabot, we are building the infrastructure to achieve just that,” said Amit Tripathi, Founder and CEO of icogz.