Hyderabad, (Telangana) [India] 03 April, 2026: Skill Metaverse India Private Limited, an AI-first technology company building an AI-native marketplace for influencer and performance marketing, has secured a strategic seed investment of INR 5 crore from Innopark Ventures in December 2025.
The influencer marketing industry is growing fast but remains fragmented, manual, and inefficient. To address this issue, Skill Metaverse offers an end-to-end operating system powered by agentic AI, automating influencer discovery, campaign creation, content governance, fraud detection, real-time analytics, price benchmarking, and brand/product lifecycle management.
Built from the ground up with AI-native architecture and not a traditional Web2 overlay, Skill Metaverse provides enterprise-grade capabilities at a fraction of traditional agency costs.
The company also already serves leading D2C, e-commerce, and SaaS brands across India with a reported range of 3–5x ROI improvements.
Commenting on the investment, Sreeram Reddy Vanga, the Founder of Innopark Ventures, states, “Skill Metaverse represents exactly the kind of transformative AI-native technology platform we look for at Innopark Ventures. The influencer and performance marketing space has long been plagued by inefficiency, opacity, and fragmentation, and Skill Metaverse is tackling these challenges head-on with a truly ground-up AI architecture, not just a retrofitted layer on legacy systems. What impressed us most is the team’s ability to deliver enterprise-grade outcomes at accessible price points, already demonstrating 3–5x ROI improvements for their brand partners. We believe agentic AI will fundamentally reshape how marketing is planned, executed, and measured, and Skill Metaverse is positioned to lead that shift in India and across global markets. This investment reflects our conviction in both the platform’s technical depth and the team’s ability to execute at scale.”
Manoj Patel, Founder and CEO of Skill Metaverse, said, “This investment validates our vision of becoming the operating system for the modern marketing industry, and it gives us the fuel to accelerate everything we’ve been building toward. From day one, we made a deliberate choice to architect Skill Metaverse as an AI-native platform, one where intelligence is embedded into every workflow. The influencer marketing ecosystem deserves better than spreadsheets, manual outreach, and guesswork, and we’re here to change that at a fundamental level. With Innopark’s backing, we will aggressively expand our presence across India while also making our first moves into international markets. We’re building for the next decade of marketing, and this is a defining moment for our team and the brands that trust us to deliver results.”
This funding will be used to accelerate Skill Metaverse’s expansion across India and into international markets, fueling product development, go-to-market efforts, and team growth.
About Skill Metaverse
Skill Metaverse is an AI-first technology company building intelligent platforms for the influencer and performance marketing ecosystem. Its platform-first architecture leverages proprietary foundational models trained on six years of real campaign data, combined with continuous learning systems that evolve with every transaction. With a team of AI researchers, systems architects, and product engineers, Skill Metaverse develops adaptive AI solutions that help organizations across ad-tech, media, and digital infrastructure harness artificial intelligence at scale.
For media information, connect with Mr. Manoj Patel at connect@skillmetaverse.com