icogz Secures $1.4M Pre-Seed to Expand AI-Powered Business Intelligence Across MENA and Asia 

UAE-based AI-native business intelligence platform icogz has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed funding, marking a critical inflection point in its journey to reshape how businesses make data-driven decisions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Founded by Amit Tripathi and Vrutika Dawda, icogz leverages a proprietary AI engine — Aryabot — to unify, interpret, and act on complex business data. The funding round was backed by angel investors and syndicates from both the UAE and India, and will support product development, go-to-market acceleration, and regional hiring. “Our goal is simple — make business intelligence real-time, intuitive, and universally accessible,” said Amit Tripathi, Founder and CEO of icogz. “With Aryabot, we are empowering users to converse with their data, get answers on the fly, and generate impact across every business function.”

Turning Complex Data Into Instant Intelligence

Built on a library of 200+ proprietary algorithms, Aryabot acts as an intelligent layer between raw business data and actionable insight. Whether the data comes from marketing, finance, operations, or HR, Aryabot enables natural language queries and delivers real-time diagnostics and automated workflows — without requiring technical expertise.

The platform serves as a modular stack of AI agents that enterprises can scale across different departments. From predictive analytics to workflow automation and market intelligence, icogz is designed to reduce decision lag, surface patterns, and align teams around shared goals.

Fueling Growth Across MENA and Southeast Asia

The fresh funding will power:

• Continued product innovation and new feature rollouts

• Expansion of the Aryabot AI ecosystem

• Strategic hiring across product, data science, and customer success

• Market entry initiatives in GCC markets and Southeast Asia, including India, Singapore, and Indonesia

The company is also laying the groundwork for a Series A raise, as it builds a scalable, agent-driven platform for enterprise-grade analytics and decision support. “This is a region where millions of businesses are generating data but struggling to extract meaning from it,” Tripathi added. “We want to be the bridge — combining AI-native infrastructure with business context to deliver better outcomes, faster.”