Taking the entrepreneurial plunge yet again, BellaVita cofounder Aakash Anand has announced the launch of his latest venture - Unikon.ai, an artificial intelligence (Al)-powered social media platform

The startup has also raised INR 16 Cr (about $2 Mn) in its seed funding round from multiple entrepreneurs and influencers.

The funding round saw participation from Zerodha cofounder Nikhil Kamath, Peyush Bansal of Lenskart, Shiprocket's Vishesh Khurana, Dholakia Ventures, OfBusiness' Nitin Jain and Vasant Sridhar and Gaurav Khatri of Noise.

Among other participants in the round were influencers such as Tanmay Bhat, Raj Shamani, Arjun Vaidya, Sharan Hegde, Ganeshprasad of Thinkschool, Shlok Shrivastava, and Rahul Malodia, Unikon.ai said in a statement.

Founded by Anand, along with ex-Zecpe (acquired by Cashree) CTO Sumit Jha and Palash Arneja, Unikon.ai is a social media and networking platform that leverages Al to offer 1:1 conversations to its users on diverse topics, and a personalised content feed.