Wealth platform Rovia has raised $1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Antler India, with participation from CDM Capital, AC Ventures, Operators Studio, and angel investors across the US and India. The fresh capital will be used to expand the engineering and product teams, deepen brokerage and financial infrastructure integrations, and strengthen regulatory and compliance capabilities, Rovia said in a press release. Co-founded in 2025 by Shivang Badaya and Arnav Grover, Rovia is a global wealth platform built for employees with equity compensation, starting with RSUs and stock plans. The company enables international tech professionals to transfer, manage, diversify, and reinvest their equity compensation through a unified platform, reducing friction and costs across borders. The Bengaluru-based startup aims to address challenges such as cross-border friction, high foreign exchange and remittance costs, tax complexities across jurisdictions, limited access to US brokerage infrastructure, delayed settlements, and concentrated exposure to a single employer. Its platform allows users to transfer, diversify, and reinvest their equity compensation through a unified interface with significantly reduced friction. Since launching its beta version, Rovia claims to have grown assets under management by 100% month-on-month. The company is currently tracking over $60 million in RSUs and equity compensation assets across its user base, sourced from employees at more than 300 companies. Rovia has also secured registration as an SEC-registered investment adviser in the United States. It aims to build the most trusted global wealth operating system for professionals whose financial lives are shaped by equity compensation. Bareback Media has recently raised funding from a group of investors. Some of the investors may directly or indirectly be involved in a competing business or might be associated with other companies we might write about. This shall, however, not influence our reporting or coverage in any manner whatsoever. You may find a list of our investorshere.
