Frinks AI Raises $5.4M to Revolutionize Industrial Quality Control

Om Singh

| 2025-06-16 | Funding Feed

Funding Boost for AI-Driven Manufacturing Innovation

Bengaluru-headquartered Frinks AI has secured $5.4 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Prime Venture Partners. The round also included participation from existing investor Chiratae Ventures, as well as Navam Capital and Ashok Atluri, founder of Zen Technologies. With this round, Frinks AI’s total funding now stands at $6.25 million.

Purpose-Built Vision AI for Industrial Use

Frinks AI was founded by Aditya Agrawal, Dharmgya Sharma, and Subhra S. Bhattacherjee with a focus on developing Vision AI models specifically for industrial applications with a focus on automating visual inspection tasks in a manufacturing context. These are flexible models that can learn from a small set of images, and detect surface defects, assembly defects and abnormal surface variations with up to 99.99% accuracy.

Frinks AI is unique in that it defines a paradigm shift in the traditional approaches of visual systems that are often rule based, requiring manual tuning and scaling across types of products. Frinks AI’s intelligence will adapt to a range of use cases with minimal customization, delivering consistent performance at speed over an entire development lifecycle.

Wide Industry Adoption and Global Applications

The Frinks AI platform already has more than 1,000 production lines in place across multiple industries, including automotive, consumer packaged goods, medical device and building materials. The platform offers advanced capabilities to perform complex quality inspections quickly and in real time, allowing manufacturers to save on expenses, maximize throughput, and minimize returns to defects, placing the organization right in the heart of the Industry 4.0 movement which includes digital transformation and modernization jobs for manufacturers to be globally competitive.

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Expansion Strategy and Use of Funds

With its latest funding round, Frinks AI aims to:

Expand into international markets, particularly the United States, where demand for AI-driven manufacturing tools is rising
Accelerate in-house R&D, refining its foundational AI models to handle increasingly complex visual tasks
Form joint go-to-market strategies through partnerships with automation vendors and OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)

By integrating directly into factory ecosystems and working with industrial automation leaders, Frinks AI hopes to broaden its global footprint while deepening its technology stack.

Backed by Prominent Strategic Advisors

The startup enjoys the backing and mentorship of high-profile industry veterans:

S Ramadorai, former CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Dr. V Sumantran, former Executive Director at Tata Motors
Dr. Tarun Ramadorai, Professor at Imperial College London
Dr. Gopichand Katragadda, former Group CTO at Tata Sons and current CEO of Myelin Foundry

These advisors bring decades of domain expertise in technology, automotive, and enterprise systems, offering Frinks both strategic guidance and credibility as it scales.

Voices from the Startup and Investors

In a statement, Aditya Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Frinks AI, clarified the focus of the company:

“With global supply chain pressures and a renewed focus on localized manufacturing, manufacturers are seeking more efficient, autonomous quality control solutions. Frinks AI is empowering them to achieve this through robust, adaptable AI systems.”

Brij Bhushan, Partner at Prime Venture Partners, added:

“Traditional visual inspection methods have long been a bottleneck in manufacturing. Frinks AI’s approach, leveraging foundational vision models trained on minimal datasets ,marks a significant advancement in both scalability and precision.”

Pioneering the Future of Smart Manufacturing

While industrial sectors transition towards automation, resilience, and AI-driven optimization, Frinks AI is leading the charge. The Vision AI uses vision AI redacting the human factor of error, thus allowing factories to scale fast and with confidence, which further cements Frinks AI’s importance in the next evolution of smart manufacturing and intelligent quality assurance.