Mumbai: LabelBlind® Solutions Pvt Ltd, India’s pioneering AI-led digital food labelling SaaS solution, announced today that it has successfully raised USD 500,000 in seed funding. This significant milestone marks a validation of the company’s innovative approach to transforming food regulatory labelling compliance from a manual burden into a competitive advantage for food companies across India and globally.
Founded in 2023, LabelBlind® has rapidly established itself as the industry leader in digitizing food labelling solutions for domestic and global markets. The company’s flagship SaaS solution, FoLSol®, serves as a comprehensive regulatory intelligence platform that streamlines labelling workflows – from label generation to artwork validation – for packed food, fresh food, e-commerce, and export companies.
With this investment, LabelBlind® is accelerating the development of its proprietary platform FoLSol® and expanding its capabilities to meet global regulatory labelling standards. The company is working on advanced AI models that can read, interpret, and validate food labels in minutes, reducing compliance validation time from the usual 8-10 hours of work to just 30 minutes. This breakthrough will eliminate manual data entry, label compliance checks, reducing human error, and accelerating market readiness for both domestic and export operations.
Furthermore, FoLSol® will generate 100% regulation-compliant food labels for the USA, Canada, EU, UK, Australia-New Zealand, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, Southeast Asia, and other emerging markets, all from a single unified platform with country-specific regulations, multilingual support, and ready-to-print label capabilities. LabelBlind® also has plans to expand its footprint through advanced-stage discussions with India’s largest food companies to digitise end-to-end labelling workflows and build AI-enabled compliance intelligence.
Commenting on the development, Dr. Rashida Vapiwala, Founder-CEO and Lead (Nutrition Tech Solutions), LabelBlind®, said, “At LabelBlind®, we believe that food labelling compliance shouldn’t be a regulatory burden. Our technology enables companies to reduce manual processes, eliminate human oversight risks, and accelerate time-to-market, all while ensuring 100% regulatory compliance. This seed funding is more than a mere financial investment; it is a validation of our vision to make India the most trusted and transparent food-exporting nation in the world.”
Food companies currently struggle with managing complex, ever-evolving regulatory requirements across multiple global markets. LabelBlind® solves six critical challenges: keeping up with ongoing regulatory updates, creating and validating labels for different markets, conducting regulatory labelling compliance audits, interpreting regulations, mapping cross-border regulatory linkages, and identifying regulatory and consumer risk exposures.
LabelBlind® powers labelling compliance operations for India’s leading food brands, including Bikanervala (Bikano), Everest Masale, Goldiee Group, Theobroma, ITC Hotels, Tata Starbucks, Tim Hortons, Mother’s Recipe, amongst others. The company’s proprietary global ingredient database, AI/ML-powered algorithms, and SAP/ERP-ready interfaces position it as arguably the most comprehensive food labelling digitisation model to emerge from India.
