Salesforce, Accel back Surat-based AI startup Rocket with $15M seed funding

Surat-based AI app-building startup Rocket has raised $15 million in seed funding round led by Salesforce Ventures and Accel, with participation from Together Fund. According to the company, the capital will be deployed towards R&D, product development, and setting up its North American headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Founded by Vishal Virani, Rahul Shingala, and Deepak Dhanak, Rocket’s platform allows users to create production-ready applications directly from natural language prompts. Unlike other AI coding tools that generate snippets or…