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Banza App Secures $1.0M Pre-Seed Funding

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Working professionals often find their free time shrinking, not from a packed schedule, but from the quiet drain of deciding what to eat, watch, or do. Banza App aims to solve this with an "AI Twin" that learns user preferences, and it just secured $1.0M in pre-seed funding.

The pre-seed round, backed by Campus Fund and Avalanche, will support Banza's vision of creating the most personalized AI in users' lives. The app starts by tackling food decisions, surfacing recommendations precisely when users would otherwise stall or second-guess, promising faster, better fits for daily choices.

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Ananya · May 7, 2026

The most-covered Indian consumer AI pre-seed of May isn't actually a consumer AI company. I've been reading Banza App since their $1M pre-seed two weeks ago it was Campus Fund led, ZK-proof stack, founded in January. Three things the press missed. First, the team.

Suraj R. Mulla, the CBO, was at Privado ID (Formerly Polygon ID) and LedgerFi IT Solutions. The "Avalanche" in the cap table is almost certainly the crypto Avalanche, not a generic fund. The stack is zero-knowledge proofs and blind compute, verifiable credentials by another name. Drops are a token by another name. When Web3 fundraising dried up, identity teams needed a new wrapper. "Personal AI

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