Metaforms, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has raised $9 million in its Series A funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India), with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and Together Fund.
The round brings Metaforms’ total funding to just over $10 million.
The funds raised will be used to grow its team, expand into new workflows like report generation and voice-based research, and deepen integrations with tools like Decipher, SPSS, and Confirmit.
Founded in 2022 by Akshat Tyagi and Arjun S, Metaforms builds AI agents that automate workflows for market research agencies, enabling them to scale operations and improve turnaround times.
Metaforms’ agentic platform automates processes such as survey programming, data processing, and vendor coordination. Its system helps agencies handle more projects and reduce turnaround times.
Metaforms has signed four of the world’s top twenty research agencies, including Strat7, one of the largest market research agencies globally.
The platform now processes over 1,000 surveys per month, and serves Fortune 500 companies.
Looking ahead, Metaforms plans to triple its team and continue expanding the breadth of its agent capabilities. Voice research, automated report generation, and expanded language support are all on the roadmap. The long-term vision is to process over 100,000 surveys per year and make professional-grade research available to every business that needs it.
Akshat Tyagi, co-founder and CEO of Metaforms, said, “Our goal is simple: help great research teams spend less time firefighting and more time doing the work that actually matters. When you automate the grunt work, you make high-quality research more accessible to more companies. When research agencies grow, better business decisions get made. We’re not here to replace the humans in the loop. We’re here to give them leverage.”
Shailendra Singh, MD, Peak XV, said, “We’re thrilled to partner with Akshat and Arjun as they reimagine what a market research agency could look like in an AI-first world. Metaforms is scaling rapidly, by enabling some of the largest research agencies globally to automate workflows such as survey programming and data processing through their suite of AI agents.”
Manav Garg, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Together Fund, said, “Metaforms is a breakout example of the India-to-global play in AI. They’re not just automating tasks — they’re rebuilding research infrastructure for the modern era. With their early traction across global agencies, Akshat and Arjun are showing what’s possible when deep customer empathy meets technical ambition.”
Jishnu Bhattacharjee and Arjun Gandhi, Nexus Venture Partners, said, “They’re solving a major pain point for the entire industry. That focus and ability to deeply understand customer needs and address that using genetic AI is the hallmark of Metaforms team. We are thrilled to back Akshat and Arjun in their journey of building a remarkable company!”
