Together Fund leads $2.6-million round in AI research startup Gibran

Gibran, an AI research startup, has secured $2.6 million seed funding from venture capital firm Together Fund, set up by Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham and Eka Software founder Manav Garg.

The startup will focus on training models with small datasets, particularly for applications such as drug discovery, where the number of affected patients is limited.

The founding team includes Govind Balakrishan and Srikant Chakravanti, who previously ran Curio, an AI-powered news companion that operated for eight years before closing this January. The…