Kapture CX serves more than 1,000 enterprises across 18 countries and crossed ₹52 crore in revenue in FY25 — on total outside funding of just $18 million (about ₹172.8 crore) raised across its entire history. In an Indian software market where customer-support startups have burned far larger sums chasing the same enterprise logos, that ratio is the story: a company that reached profitability and a four-figure client list on less capital than many peers spend in a single year.
There is a second contradiction underneath the first. The company that now sells “customer experience” software was not founded to do it. Its legal entity, Adjetter Media Network Private Limited, was incorporated in Bengaluru in 2011 to automate offline marketing. The CRM screen buried inside that first product drew the interest, the founders rebuilt the company around it, and Kapture launched as a standalone product in 2014 — the year most write-ups call its “founding.” The business that exists today is the by-product of a pivot away from the one its founders first tried to build.
Quick facts
| Company | Kapture CX (legal entity: Adjetter Media Network Private Limited, CIN U74900KA2011PTC057050) |
| Founded | Adjetter Media Network incorporated 2011; Kapture launched as a standalone product in 2014; later rebranded from Kapture CRM to Kapture CX |
| Founder(s) | Sheshgiri Kamath (Co-founder and CEO), Vikas Garg (Co-founder), Pearl Tewari (Co-founder) |
| Businesses | SaaS customer-experience and customer-support automation platform (AI agents, ticketing, omnichannel support, self-serve, voice and chat bots) for enterprises |
| Latest FY revenue | ₹52.1 crore in FY25, up 24.4% (Inc42, citing regulatory filings) |
| Latest FY profit/loss | Company states it is profitable (2026); a specific FY25 profit figure is not publicly disclosed. Last filed profit: ₹13.43 lakh in FY23 |
| Listed | Private; SaaS partner in the SAP ecosystem |
| Market value / last valuation | Reported at about $51.28 million (roughly ₹492 crore) as of 20 December 2023 (Tracxn); not company-confirmed |
| Key shareholders / investors | Cactus Venture Partners, India Alternatives, Bajaj Finserv Ventures; founders retain control |
What they do
Kapture CX sells enterprise software that runs a company’s customer support — the ticketing, routing, automation and analytics that sit behind a support line, a help centre and an in-app chat. It is sold to large businesses that field high volumes of customer contacts across channels, and it competes with the customer-service tier of platforms such as Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud and Freshworks. The pitch, as the company frames it in 2026, is an “agentic” support stack: AI agents that resolve or triage tickets, alongside human-agent tools, self-service, and voice and chat bots.
- What it sells: omnichannel support desk software spanning voice, email, chat, social media and in-app channels, with automation, self-serve and analytics layered on top (Entrackr, July 2023; company site, 2026).
- Who buys it: large enterprises in BFSI, retail and e-commerce, travel, energy and consumer durables — named customers include Nykaa, Meesho, BigBasket, Tata 1MG, Unilever, ITC, and businesses within the Tata and Reliance groups, plus Bajaj Finance (Entrackr, July 2023 and June 2026).
- Scale of use: more than 1,000 enterprise clients across 18 countries as of mid-2026, up from on-ground operations in five countries — USA, UAE, Indonesia, the Philippines and India — reported in 2023 (Entrackr, June 2026; Entrackr, December 2023).
The origin
Sheshgiri Kamath, Vikas Garg and Pearl Tewari came together in 2011 and incorporated Adjetter Media Network Private Limited in Bengaluru. The first product was not a support tool at all — it was a platform for offline marketing automation, aimed at helping companies manage field and on-ground marketing activity. Inside that product sat a CRM interface, and that piece, rather than the marketing engine around it, was what customers responded to. The founders paid attention to the feedback, ran their own market research, and made the decision that defines the company: they stopped building the thing they had started with and rebuilt around the part that worked. Kapture launched as a standalone CRM platform in 2014, which is why almost every later profile dates the “founding” to that year even though the corporate entity is three years older. The early positioning was sales-and-service CRM for mid-to-large companies across e-commerce, real estate, travel, hospitality and pharmaceuticals; over the following decade the product narrowed and deepened into customer support specifically, and the brand moved from Kapture CRM to Kapture CX to signal it. The founding insight was less a grand thesis than a willingness to follow the usage: build the software enterprises actually reached for, even if it meant abandoning the original plan.
The struggle years
Kapture’s hard years do not read like a near-death crisis; they read like the slow, unglamorous grind of building enterprise software in India without much capital. The first and largest struggle was the pivot itself — walking away from the offline-marketing product the company was incorporated to build, in 2011, and betting the business on a feature that had drawn interest but had no standalone track record. That reset cost time: the standalone product did not arrive until 2014, three years after incorporation. The second struggle is visible in the filings. This was a company that grew revenue steadily but stayed small and thinly profitable for years — revenue of ₹11.5 crore in FY21 produced a profit of just ₹5.3 lakh, and even as revenue crossed ₹30 crore in FY23 the profit actually fell to ₹13.43 lakh, down from ₹1.06 crore the year before, as the company spent to grow (Entrackr, December 2023). For most of its life Kapture ran on its own revenue rather than outside money: it did not raise its first disclosed institutional round until July 2023, roughly nine years after the product launched and twelve after the entity was formed. Selling support software to large enterprises — long procurement cycles, security reviews, incumbents such as Zendesk and Salesforce already installed — is a slow way to grow, and the numbers show a company that took the slow way for a long time before capital arrived.
The turning point
The clearest inflection point is 2023, the year Kapture finally took outside money — twice. In July 2023 it raised a $4 million Series A led by Cactus Venture Partners; in December 2023 it raised another $4 million, led by India Alternatives, in what was reported as an extension of that round. Before mid-2023 the company had no disclosed institutional funding on record; after December 2023 it had raised $8 million and carried a reported valuation of about $51.28 million (roughly ₹492 crore). What the capital bought was reach: the company that had on-ground operations in five countries in 2023 was serving customers across 18 countries by 2026, and the client base that press coverage described in the hundreds had passed 1,000 enterprises. By the company’s own account at its next raise, Kapture had “grown 4x and achieved profitability” since the 2023 Series A — turning the thin, sub-₹15-lakh profits of the struggle years into a business it could describe as durably profitable. The 2023 rounds are the hinge between the fifteen-year bootstrap and the funded, multi-country company that exists now.
The money behind it
Kapture’s cap table is short, recent and unusually light for the scale it has reached. Total disclosed funding is $18 million (about ₹172.8 crore) across three rounds, all since mid-2023.
- Series A — $4 million (about ₹38.4 crore), July 2023: led by Cactus Venture Partners (CVP). This was Kapture’s first disclosed institutional round, roughly nine years after the product launched (Entrackr, July 2023).
- Series A extension — $4 million (about ₹38.4 crore), December 2023: led by India Alternatives, a private equity fund, reported as an extension of the Series A (Entrackr, December 2023).
- Pre-Series B — $10 million (about ₹96 crore), June 2026: led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures, with existing backers Cactus Venture Partners and India Alternatives participating. The firm described this as its first investment in the AI landscape; proceeds are earmarked for expansion into more global markets and continued R&D and product development (Entrackr, June 2026; PR Newswire / Morningstar, July 2026).
- What each backer changed: Cactus provided the first outside validation and led the initial round; India Alternatives roughly doubled the 2023 war chest via the extension; Bajaj Finserv Ventures brought both growth capital and a strategic customer relationship, given Bajaj Finance is a named Kapture client (Entrackr, June 2026).
- Valuation: reported at about $51.28 million (roughly ₹492 crore) as of 20 December 2023 by Tracxn; the 2026 round’s valuation was not publicly disclosed, and the 2023 figure is a database estimate rather than a company-confirmed number (Tracxn, 2026).
How it makes money
Kapture earns the way most enterprise SaaS businesses do — recurring subscription fees for software delivered over the cloud — with the specifics shaped by selling to large accounts.
- Subscription revenue: enterprises pay recurring licence fees to use the platform, typically priced by agents/seats and modules; the reported operating revenue (₹52.1 crore in FY25) is overwhelmingly this software income (Inc42, 2026).
- Land-and-expand within large accounts: the customer list is weighted toward big enterprises and groups — Tata Group and Reliance Group companies, Bajaj Finance, Nykaa, Meesho, BigBasket — where a single logo can host multiple business units and expand seat counts over time (Entrackr, June 2026).
- AI and add-on modules: the 2026 positioning around an “agentic enterprise stack,” GenAI voice bots, Auto QA, sentiment analysis and NPS modules points to upsell layers on top of the base support desk (company press release, May 2025; PR Newswire, July 2026).
- Where the margin sits: like all SaaS, the model’s leverage is that software written once is sold many times; the cost base is engineering, cloud infrastructure and — critically for enterprise sales — a sales, implementation and support organisation. Adjetter reported about 325 employees as of August 2025, so people cost is a large share of spend (The Company Check, 2025).
- The part people get wrong: Kapture is easy to read as a low-margin services shop because its revenue is still in the tens of crores, not hundreds. It is a product company — the small revenue reflects a young, capital-light enterprise-SaaS business early in its scaling, not a services business, which is why it could describe itself as profitable while still under ₹55 crore in revenue.
The numbers
Adjetter Media Network files annual accounts with India’s Registrar of Companies, and the operating-revenue trajectory is consistent across independent trackers. The earlier profit figures below are from filings reported by Entrackr; FY24 and FY25 profit figures were not available from a primary source at the time of writing and have been left blank rather than estimated.
| Financial year | Operating revenue (₹ crore) | Profit/Loss | Source |
| FY21 (ended 31 Mar 2021) | 11.5 | Profit ₹5.3 lakh | Entrackr, July 2023 |
| FY22 (ended 31 Mar 2022) | 20.79 (up ~81% YoY) | Profit ₹1.06 crore | Entrackr, July 2023 / December 2023 |
| FY23 (ended 31 Mar 2023) | 30.30 (up ~44% YoY) | Profit ₹13.43 lakh | Entrackr, December 2023 |
| FY24 (ended 31 Mar 2024) | ~41.9 (up ~33.6% YoY) | Not disclosed | Inc42, 2026 |
| FY25 (ended 31 Mar 2025) | 52.1 (up 24.4% YoY) | Not disclosed; company states it is profitable | Inc42, 2026; PR Newswire, July 2026 |
Two things stand out. First, revenue has grown every single year for at least five years, but the growth rate is decelerating — from about 81% in FY22 to 24.4% in FY25 — the natural shape of a company scaling off a larger base. Second, the profit line has been thin and volatile: a company can be profitable, as Kapture says it is, and still have earned only ₹13.43 lakh in a year it did ₹30 crore of revenue, because enterprise SaaS routinely trades near-term profit for growth investment.
Where the money comes from
- By customer type: revenue is concentrated in large enterprises rather than SMBs — the disclosed logos are national and multinational brands, and the 2026 raise emphasised group relationships (Tata, Reliance, Bajaj) that tend to expand over time (Entrackr, June 2026).
- By vertical: the company names BFSI, retail, travel, energy and consumer durables as core demand sectors, with a chief revenue officer citing a “surge in demand” across them in 2025 (company press release, May 2025).
- By geography: from on-ground operations in five countries (India, USA, UAE, Indonesia, the Philippines) in 2023 to customers in 18 countries by 2026, with fresh capital explicitly aimed at more global markets — so the geographic mix is shifting outward from India (Entrackr, December 2023 and June 2026).
- The surprise: despite a client roster full of household names, total revenue was only ₹52.1 crore in FY25. The gap between brand-name reach and modest revenue reflects how young the enterprise book still is — a small number of large accounts, early in their expansion, rather than a mature base billing at full scale. That is also the bull case: room to expand inside existing logos.
The risks
- Entrenched, better-capitalised competition: Kapture sells against Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud and India’s own Freshworks — incumbents with far larger revenue, sales forces and R&D budgets. On $18 million of total funding, Kapture must win enterprise deals where the buyer often already runs a competitor’s product, and where switching costs favour the incumbent. A pricing or feature war started by a larger rival is one it cannot outspend (Entrackr, July 2023).
- The AI arms race and platform risk: the 2026 pitch is built on “agentic” AI support. That is also where every competitor and every foundation-model provider is now investing, and where the underlying model economics can shift quickly. If large language model vendors or the incumbents commoditise AI support agents, Kapture’s differentiation — and the premium it can charge for AI modules — could erode faster than a small company can re-tool (PR Newswire, July 2026).
- Customer concentration and thin profits: a young enterprise book weighted toward a handful of large groups means the loss of one or two marquee accounts could dent revenue materially, while the historically thin profit line (₹13.43 lakh in FY23) leaves little cushion to absorb a shock or a sales miss while still funding growth (Entrackr, December 2023).
The takeaway
Kapture’s most useful lesson is about capital, not product. It reached more than 1,000 enterprise customers, 18 countries and profitability on $18 million of total outside funding — a fraction of what many SaaS peers raise before their Series B — because it grew for nearly a decade on its own revenue before taking a rupee from investors. That forced discipline: a company that has to fund growth from what customers pay cannot chase vanity metrics, and it learns early which product people will actually buy. The origin makes the same point in miniature — the founders killed their first product and rebuilt around the feature customers wanted, rather than defending the plan they started with. Capital, taken later and used narrowly, becomes an accelerant on a business that already works, instead of a substitute for one that does not. The trade-off is that the slow road is genuinely slow, and it leaves you smaller and more exposed to better-funded rivals when the market finally moves — which, in AI-era customer support, it now has.
Frequently asked questions
Who founded Kapture CX and when?
Kapture was founded by Sheshgiri Kamath (Co-founder and CEO), Vikas Garg and Pearl Tewari. The trio incorporated the parent entity, Adjetter Media Network Private Limited, in Bengaluru in 2011 as an offline-marketing platform, then pivoted and launched Kapture as a standalone product in 2014, which is the year most profiles cite as its founding.
What does Kapture CX do?
Kapture CX is a SaaS customer-experience and customer-support automation platform. It gives large enterprises the ticketing, routing, automation, analytics and AI agents to run customer support across voice, email, chat, social and in-app channels, competing with platforms such as Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud and Freshworks.
How much funding has Kapture CX raised?
Kapture has raised $18 million in total (about ₹172.8 crore) across three rounds: a $4 million Series A led by Cactus Venture Partners in July 2023, a $4 million extension led by India Alternatives in December 2023, and a $10 million pre-Series B led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures in June 2026.
Is Kapture CX profitable, and what is its revenue?
The company states it is profitable as of 2026. Its operating revenue was ₹52.1 crore in FY25 (up 24.4%), following about ₹41.9 crore in FY24 and ₹30.30 crore in FY23. Its last publicly reported profit figure was ₹13.43 lakh in FY23; specific FY24 and FY25 profit figures were not publicly disclosed at the time of writing.
How many customers does Kapture CX have?
As of mid-2026 the company reported more than 1,000 enterprise clients across 18 countries, including Nykaa, Meesho, BigBasket, Tata 1MG, Unilever, ITC, Bajaj Finance and companies within the Tata and Reliance groups.
Sources
Figures are as of September 2026. Currency converted at $1 ≈ ₹96.0 as of 18 September 2026 (Trading Economics).
- Entrackr, “Cactus Venture leads $4 Mn round in SaaS platform Kapture CX,” July 2023
- Entrackr, “India Alternatives leads $4 Mn round in Kapture CX,” December 2023
- Entrackr, “Bajaj Finserv Ventures leads $10 Mn pre-Series B round in Kapture CX,” June 2026
- PR Newswire / Morningstar, “Kapture CX Secures $10 Mn Pre-Series B Funding Led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures to Scale Agentic Enterprise Stack,” July 2026
- Inc42, “Kapture CX — Funding, Revenue & Investors,” 2026
- Tracxn, “Kapture — 2026 Company Profile, Funding & Financials,” 2026
- Tracxn, “Adjetter Media Network Private Limited — 2026 Company Profile, Financials & Shareholding” (legal-entity record), 2026
- The Company Check, “Adjetter Media Network Private Limited — FY 2025 Insights,” 2025
- Kapture CX, “Kapture CX gears up for exponential growth, targets 100% revenue increase in FY25” (press release), May 2025
- YourStory, “Kapture CRM — Company Profile,” accessed September 2026
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