DheeYantra has raised an undisclosed sum from investors including Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to build out its NLP software for native Indian vernaculars.

India-based vernacular chatbot platform developer DheeYantra has secured an undisclosed sum in a seed round backed by Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), an incubation and investment arm of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, according to VCCircle.

The round also featured angel investors Gopal Krishna and Vijay Kedia. DheeYantra has not previously disclosed equity funding.

Founded in 2017, DheeYantra has created natural language processing software for enterprise clients that can interpret text or voice input in nine different Indian languages.

The software, named Dhee.ai, uses technologies including artificial intelligence, computer vision and deep learning to handle queries, automate processes and integrate with external internet of things devices.

The capital will be used to expand DheeYantra’s sales and marketing operations while also funding the development of additional product features, including support for more Indian and foreign languages.

In addition to Dhee.ai, DheeYantra has created technology that reads written documents in Indian languages, as well as a transliteration engine for printing the closest corresponding characters between different Indian languages.