Tushar Ahluwalia raises $12 million for AI venture out of stealth

BENGALURU: Tushar Ahluwalia, who previously co-founded ecommerce aggregator Razor Group and consumer fashion platform StalkBuyLove, has raised $12 million for his new AI startup GeneralMind, just months after the company began operations, as it comes out of stealth to scale an autonomous workflow automation platform for enterprises.

Berlin-founded GeneralMind’s early-stage equity round was led by venture capital firms Lakestar, Leo Capital, Lucid Capital, Heliad and BOOOM, with participation from angel investors including Alexander Kudlich, Jens Urbaniak and Samir Sood.

Founded in 2025, GeneralMind is an autonomous layer designed to execute repetitive operational workflows that typically sit between enterprise systems of record such as ERPs and day-to-day execution teams. The platform integrates with legacy ERP systems and automates unstructured coordination across email, spreadsheets and internal tools.

“We integrate into legacy ERP systems and call different LLMs depending on what works best to automate certain workflows,” Ahluwalia told TOI. He added that the company owns the enterprise-level context layer and feeds it back into its system to enable what it describes as autopilot-grade automation, with human supervision where required.

According to the company, several NASDAQ-, MDAX- and SDAX-listed enterprises are already using GeneralMind’s technology, though it did not disclose client names.

The founding team also includes Shrestha Chowdhury as chief product officer, Dr Oliver Dlugosch as chief commercial officer, Lennart von Hardenberg as CTO for platform, Nishrit Shrivastava as CTO for deployments, and Sergiu Șoima as senior vice-president of engineering.

While GeneralMind is headquartered in Berlin, the company operates a second office in Bangalore. Leo Capital, founded by Rajul Garg, is part of the investor group, while Samir Sood, formerly of Venture Highway, is backing the company as an angel investor. Part of the founding and engineering team is based in Bangalore.

GeneralMind currently has 28 employees across Berlin and Bengaluru, with headcount evenly split between the two locations. The company said it will use the fresh capital to scale its technology and expand enterprise deployments across Europe.