Data Science Wizards DSW funding of $5 million marks the Mumbai-based startup’s pre-Series A raise, backed by angel investors, as publicly reported on 2026-07-01. Data Science Wizards (DSW) — the company behind UnifyAI OS, an enterprise AI operating system — will deploy the capital to accelerate platform growth and deepen its North American footprint. The lead investor has not been publicly disclosed.
Quick Highlights
- Founders: Pritesh Surendra Tiwari, Sandhya Oza, Sandeep Khuperkar, and Shivam Thakkar
- Participating Investors: Angel investors
- Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Announcement Date: 1 July 2026
- Total Funding to Date: $8.84 million
Funding Breakdown
Use of Funds
As publicly reported, the newly raised capital will be deployed across five key areas: accelerating product innovation on the UnifyAI OS platform; expanding DSW’s North American operations; strengthening engineering and customer success teams; deepening strategic partnerships; and scaling adoption of UnifyAI OS across enterprises and highly regulated industries such as banking, financial services, insurance (BFSI), and the public sector.
Funding Timeline
DSW was founded in 2019 and completed its first institutional raise — a pre-seed round of $450,000 — before securing $1.4 million in seed funding in October 2024 at a valuation of $16.4 million, in a round led by an angel investor. The current $5 million pre-Series A, announced on 1 July 2026, brings the company’s total disclosed funding to $8.84 million, as publicly reported.
Expansion Plans
DSW plans to establish and strengthen its operations across North America, targeting the world’s largest concentration of enterprise AI buyers. As part of this push, the company intends to grow its engineering and customer success teams to support international go-to-market efforts. On the product side, the investment will further accelerate DSW’s product roadmap and support the development of infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native enterprises, as publicly reported.
Significance
This pre-Series A raise signals DSW’s readiness to compete in the global enterprise AI infrastructure market, where businesses are rapidly moving beyond isolated AI pilots toward organisation-wide deployment. The company’s UnifyAI OS targets a critical and underserved gap: a unified operating layer that handles AI governance, interoperability, and compliance for regulated industries — a proposition that differentiates it from conventional model-development tools. For India’s AI startup ecosystem, a Mumbai-born platform pushing into North America enterprise contracts represents a meaningful step up in ambition and scale. With agentic AI demand rising sharply, a governance-first platform like UnifyAI OS is well-positioned to ride the next wave of enterprise AI transformation.
These details have been verified against multiple publicly available reports as of 2026-07-01.
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Disclaimer: This report is compiled from publicly available sources and is for informational purposes only; funding figures are as publicly reported and may be subject to change.
