By Ishan Patra
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Rocket, a platform that uses AI to simplify application development, has closed a $15 million seed funding round led by Salesforce Ventures and Accel, with additional participation from Together Fund.
The startup will use the proceeds to advance research and development, accelerate product rollouts, and expand the company’s international operations, including a new North American office in Palo Alto, California.
Founded by Rahul Shingala, Vishal Virani, and Deepak Dhanak and headquartered in Surat, Rocket has established a presence in Palo Alto to support its global user base. It currently employs 60 staff across its two offices and plans to double its engineering and product teams in India over the next 12 to 15 months.
According to COO Dhanak, the Palo Alto location will provide a gateway to Silicon Valley’s enterprise ecosystem, where demand for scalable AI-driven application solutions is high.
Rocket addresses the growing complexity of building applications in the age of AI, allowing users to move from idea to fully functional, multi-page, production-ready applications quickly. The platform supports dashboards, internal tools, and consumer apps that can be launched, scaled, and integrated.
“They (Rocket) have shifted the focus from writing code faster to seamlessly translating ideas into complete, production-grade solutions. This is democratising software creation and fundamentally changing the economics of building a business,” said Kartik Gupta, Investor at Salesforce Ventures.
Since its launch four months ago, Rocket claims to have recorded over 400,000 users across 180 countries, with the US leading adoption. More than 500,000 production-ready applications have been created, covering use cases from small businesses in Brazil to agencies in Dubai and Fortune 100 teams.
“Rocket is building AI tools that enterprise teams can adopt and deploy quickly, without friction,” said Prayank Swaroop, Partner at Accel. “Their focus on solving complex, large-scale problems while keeping developer experience simple is what sets them apart.”
(Edited by Suman Singh)
