<h1>Mumbai-San Francisco AI startup raises over $1M pre-seed and GPU credits to build domain-aligned, reliable generative AI for legal and finance</h1> A Mumbai-San Francisco AI research startup raised a pre-seed round led by a global VC program providing over $1 million in capital and GPU credits to accelerate development of Domain-Aligned AI technology aimed at making generative models reliable for high-stakes business workflows. The funding will support interpretability research, architecture-level reliability features to reduce post-training and prompt engineering, go-to-market expansion, and global recruitment of research talent. The startup targets regulated and trust-sensitive sectors such as legal and corporate finance and positions its technology as infrastructure to enable safer, enterprise-grade AI deployment.