Meet The Startups Carving India’s Niche In The AI Space

When artificial intelligence (AI) became mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the headlines were filled with fears of machines taking over human jobs. A few years later, the narrative has shifted. AI is no longer a futuristic concept — it is embedded in how we work, shop, build and even govern.

With the global AI market now standing at a valuation of $346 Bn, India is pushing the paddle hard on building the infrastructure needed to develop and scale homegrown AI.

Recent policy moves by the Central Government stand witness to this. Investments in semiconductors, chip manufacturing, quantum computing and secure data centres are laying the groundwork for long-term AI growth. The policy focus, too, has evolved — from simply encouraging AI adoption to building domestic capabilities.

To support this ambition, the government has announced incentives such as a tax holiday until 2047 for companies building data-centre infrastructure in India to serve global markets. At the same time, global technology players are expanding their footprint in the country through partnerships with Indian conglomerates. Groups such as Reliance Industries, Tata Group and Larsen & Toubro have tied up with companies like OpenAI and NVIDIA to boost India’s compute strength.

The momentum is visible in the startup ecosystem as well. 

According to Google and Inc42’s Bharat AI Startups Report 2026, India’s AI market could become a $126 Bn opportunity by 2030, with a potential GDP impact of $1.7 Tn by 2035. Enterprise AI is expected to lead this growth, while consumer AI will scale rapidly on the back of strong adoption.

Investor confidence is rising. The Centre is confident that the sector could attract over $200 Bn in capital over the next two years. Funding momentum is already building. 

With major elements like policy clarity, capital inflows and investor confidence brewing together, Indian AI startups are now building in India for the world.

With that said, here are the Indian startups putting India on the global AI map.

(Note: The startups below have been listed in the order of the amount of funding raised since their incorporation. This is not an exhaustive list, we will be updating it periodically. If you would like to refer a GenAI startup to be featured in this list, write to us at [email protected]. View our methodology and disclaimer here.)

Meet The AI Startups Putting India On The Global AI Map

1. Observe AI

Founded in 2017 by Sharath Keshava Narayana and Swapnil Jain, Observe AI is a conversational intelligence platform for contact centres. The startup claims to have trained its proprietary AI model on 40 Bn parameters. 

Its conversational AI platform helps companies automate customer service calls and inbound queries. Voice AI agents of the US-based startup also provide real-time and post-interaction insights to sellers and telecallers to improve their chat with customers.

In March 2025, the startup acquired text-to-speech AI startup Dubdub.ai to double down on its conversational AI playbook.

Observe.AI has raised a total of $214 Mn in funding over 6 rounds. It bagged $125 Mn in its last funding round in 2022. 

The platform is supported by marquee investors such as Zoom, Bossanova Investimentos, Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, and Nexus Venture Partners. It competes with the likes of companies like Noogata, TUNGEE, Osense Technology, Slang Labs, among others.

2. Pixis

Founded in 2020 by Harikrishna Valiyath, Shubham A Mishra, Vrushali Prasade, Pixis provides a codeless AI infrastructure platform for brands to monitor and orchestrate their marketing campaigns.

Since its inception, the startup has raised $209 Mn in capital. It raised $85 Mn in its last funding round in 2023.

Pixis is backed by startups like Grupo Carso, General Atlantic, Celesta Capital and Chiratae Ventures. It competes with the likes of Utilidata, HeadSpin and Navikenz.

3. Ola Krutrim 

Founded in 2022 by Ola and Ola Electric founder Bhavish Aggarwal, Krutrim is experimenting with GenAI to develop an India-specific LLM. The startup’s family of LLMs is said to be capable of working with 10 Indian languages.

The AI unicorn plans to develop India’s first homegrown family of chips for AI, general compute and Edge. The startup has also joined forces with Lenovo to build a supercomputer.

So far, it has secured $74 Mn in funding, becoming one of the most well-funded AI startups in the country, from backers such as Z47.

The startup competes with the likes of SarvamAI, Mistral AI, and DeepMind.

4. InVideo

Founded in 2019 by Sanket Shah, and later joined by Anshul Khandelwal, InVideo initially operated a web-based video editing platform that allowed users to convert existing pieces of static content into videos.

However, it has come a long way since then. Currently, the startup operates a full-fledged AI-powered video editing platform that leverages GenAI to create videos with just text prompts. Users just have to input the topic and the platform generates a script, adds scenes and voiceovers, among other things.

The startup has raised capital to the tune of $52.5 Mn to date and is backed by marquee names such as Peak XV Partners, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, RTP Global and Base. It competes with the likes of Kapwing, Synthesia, Veed, and Rephrase.ai, among others.

5. SarvamAI

Founded in 2023 by AI4Bharat creators Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, SarvamAI aims to develop custom-made LLMs, specifically designed for India-centric use cases.

The Bengaluru-based AI startup’s full-stack GenAI platform comprises multiple products — Sarvam Agents (AI agent), Sarvam 2B (small language model), Shuka 1.0 (voice language model), Sarvam Models, and A1 (AI agents for lawyers). The AI major also rolled out its LLM in 2024, built specifically for 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and Telugu, besides English.

Backed by names such as Peak XV Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, the Bengaluru-based AI startup has raised  $41 Mn till date. 

In April 2025, the central government picked Sarvam AI to build India’s first homegrown sovereign LLM under the IndiaAI Mission. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, the AI startup unveiled two LLMs  Sarvam-30B and Sarvam-105B. 

6. QpiAI

Founded in 2019 by Dr Nagendra Nagaraja, QpiAI is a Bengaluru-based deeptech startup working in the areas of both AI and quantum computing. The startup’s key product, QpiAI Pro, helps deploy AI solutions at the production stage.

The startup also manufactures hardware solutions for quantum computers, including compute architecture, quantum processors and cryogenic controllers, and also offers quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) software. 

With subsidiaries in the US and Finland, QpiAI has so far raised over $65 Mn in funding to date and is backed by the likes of We Founder Circle, YourNest Venture Capital and HEM Angels.

It recently partnered with Alliance University to set up a quantum computing centre in Bengaluru.

7. Avaamo

Founded in 2014 by Ram Menon and Sriram Chakravarthy, Avaamo operates a conversational AI platform for enterprises. Its flagship product is a low-code/no-code platform that allows businesses to build, deploy, and manage AI assistants without extensive technical expertise. 

Avaamo has also built domain-specific AI assistants catering to sectors such as banking, healthcare and HR. These chatbots support interactions across multiple channels, including voice, text, and messaging apps, and have strong multilingual capabilities.

Avaamo is also building fundamental AI technology across a broad area of neural networks, speech synthesis and deep learning to make conversational computing for businesses a reality.

Over the years, Avaamo has raised more than $27.5 Mn from the likes of Wipro Ventures, LIQUiDITY Group, Intel Capital, Alchemist Accelerator. It raised $7 Mn in its last funding round in 2021.

Avaamo counts PolyAI, Zira, Odeza, and wrnchAI as its competitors.

8. Spyne

Founded in 2018 by Deepti Prasad and Sanjay Kumar, Spyne is helping businesses and marketplaces create and upgrade high-quality product images and videos at scale with AI.

The growth stage company has so far raised $23.6 Mn from Vertex Ventures, Accel Partners, Storm Ventures, and other investors. In its last funding round, it raised $16 Mn to develop a GenAI suite for automotive developers.

The Gurugram-based startup competes with companies like zapero.ai, Dresma, Ayna, Blend, and Orbo AI.

9. Murf AI

Founded in 2020 by IIT-Kharagpur graduates Sneha Roy, Ankur Edkie, and Divyanshu Pandey, Murf AI leverages AI to enable its customers to create high-quality voiceovers without recording equipment in minutes.

The growth-stage startup has raised a total funding of $11.5 Mn. In its last funding round, it raised $10 Mn in 2022.

It is backed by investors like Z47 and Elevation Capital. It counts Imaginario AI, VideoDubber, and Rephrase AI as its competitors

10. DhiWise

Founded in 2021 by Vishal Virani, DhiWise is an AI-enabled programming platform where developers can convert their designs into developer-friendly code for mobile and web apps.

It automates the application development lifecycle and instantly generates readable, modular, and reusable code.

The Accel Atoms-incubated startup has raised a total of $9.5 Mn since its inception. It raised $7 Mn in 2022. DhiWise is supported by marquee investors like Accel, India Quotient and Together Fund. It competes with the likes of Observe AI, Pixis, QpiAI, and Kombai.

11. Wokelo

Founded in 2022 by Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda, Wokelo leverages OpenAI’s GPT and open source models such as LLaMA to produce detailed due-diligence reports for enterprises in a matter of minutes from publicly available data.

Its proprietary “cognitive engine” sifts through the tonnes of data to build concise and customised reports and presentations without hallucinations.

Backed by investors such as KPMG Ventures, Untapped Capital, Pack Ventures, SeaChange, Array Ventures, Upsparks and Geek Ventures, the Seattle-based startup has raised $5.5 Mn in funding since inception.

Its solutions cater to clients in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, and management consulting. It counts names such as Tata Group, Deloitte, Seven Seven Six, among others as its customers

12. LimeChat

Founded in 2020 by Aniket Bajpai and Nikhil Gupta, LimeChat leverages AI to enable enterprises to instantly respond to its customer queries throughout the buying journey across mediums such as WhatsApp, Meta Messenger and Instagram.

When it comes to WhatsApp commerce, it claims to be working with 300+ brands like HUL, ITC, Mamaearth, Wow Skin Science, Neemans Shoes, and Snitch.

Backed by investors like Stellaris Venture Partners, Google, IFC, and Pi Ventures, the Faridabad-based company has raised a total funding of $4.9 Mn to date.

The seed stage startup competes with Noogata, TUNGEE, Osense Technology, Slang Labs, among others

13. Kombai

Founded in 2022 by Dipanjan Dey and Abhijit Bhole, Kombai has built an AI agent for frontend development. The Ai platform can transform designs from platforms like Figma, or even simple text prompts and images, into clean, production-ready code.

Unlike generic AI models, Kombai’s models are purpose-built to understand design nuances like a human developer. It automatically handles logical structures, uses human-like naming conventions for classes and components, and ensures code is production-ready.

It has so far raised a total of $4.5 Mn from Foundation Capital and Stellaris Venture Partners, and competes with the likes of Locofy.ai, Adobe XD and Relume

14. Maieutic Semiconductor

In an era where digital chip design is highly automated, the creation of analog chips remains a slow, manual process. This lack of automation drives up costs and delays innovation. To solve this, Maieutic Semiconductor was founded by Gireesh Rajendran, Ashish Lachhwani, Rakesh Kumar, and Krishna Sankar in 2025. 

The company is building a GenAI-powered copilot to automate the early stages of analog IC design. The startup streamlines the process of architecture selection, anomaly detection, and design simulations to reduce the chip design cycle from 15–24 months to a fraction of that.

The platform is built on a customised AI model trained on the know-how of the semiconductor design process. The model is trained on data sets which can aid designers to make their work more efficient.

The Bengaluru-based startup has raised $4.2 Mn till date and counts the likes of Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners as its investors.

15. Gnani AI

Founded in 2017 by Ganesh Gopalan and Ananth Nagaraj, Gnani.ai offers a unified voice-first agentic AI platform that helps businesses automate and enhance customer support across all digital and conventional communication channels.

It also caters to the fraud detection market with its voice biometrics product, which is largely centred on its clients in the BFSI sector. 

The B2B platform claims to have a customer base of over 100 companies including multiple Indian lending companies such as TVS Credit, Muthoot Finance, and Fibe (formerly Early Salary). 

The startup is also involved in developing India’s indigenous AI model under the IndiaAI mission. It launched Vachana STT in December 2025, a speech-to-text model built for Indian languages.

The Bengaluru-based startup has raised $4 Mn in funding till date and counts the likes of names such as Info Edge and Samsung Ventures.

16. Phot.AI

Founded in 2022 by Venus Dhuria, Akshit Raja and Aneesh Rayancha, Phot.AI is a full-visual design platform that leverages GenAI to enable users and brands to generate images from just text.

Catering to both B2B and B2C users, Phot.AI allows customers to generate photos, create design concepts and visualise them with GenAI. It also leverages this technology to help users enhance their images and turn their “PDF” documents into any format.

It caters to businesses operating in areas such as ecommerce, packaging and branding, advertising and marketing, media, and BFSI, among others.Its clients include names such as Shiprocket, Fashinza, and Dukaan, among others. 

The startup has raised $3.7 Mn since its inception and is backed by the likes of Info Edge Ventures and AWS.

17. Highperformr.ai

Founded in 2023 by former Freshworks executives Ramesh Ravishankar and Srivatsan Venkatesan, Highperformr.ai is a martech startup that leverages AI to enhance the efforts of marketing and sales teams. 

It scans intent signals from a large database and then automates and orchestrates go-to-market (GTM) workflows. Its offerings also help enterprises engage with prospects on social media, enrich their CRM data, and track competitive activities.

Its flagship offering, Highperformr for Teams, helps B2B companies streamline their social media workflows, manage social publishing at scale, enable team collaboration, drive social selling, and monitor performance with social AI-driven analytics and insights.

The martech SaaS startup has raised $3.5 Mn since its inception and is backed by Venture Highway, The Neon Fund, Matrix Partners-anchored DeVC and others. It competes with the likes of Hootsuit, Buffer and Sprout Social.

18. Nexstem

Founded in 2020 by BITS Pilani graduates Siddhant Dangi and Deepansh Goyal, Nexstem is an AI-powered neurotech startup building a full-stack brain-computer interface (BCI) platform to decode and digitise neural activity for real-world applications.

Its flagship product, Instinct, is an EEG-based headset embedded with AI and edge computing capabilities. Paired with proprietary software, SDKs, and APIs, it enables real-time brain signal processing for use cases such as adaptive gaming, emotion detection, and mental health diagnostics.

The Bengaluru-based startup is backed by Info Edge, Gruhas, Zupee, and Smile Group and has raised $3.5 Mn to date. The startup claims to have generated $850K in CY24 revenue.

With plans to launch EXG sensors and integrate tACS stimulation soon, Nexstem aims to standardise cognitive signal capture at scale. Its long-term goal is to embed its AI-driven BCI infrastructure into chips, positioning itself as an AI-native neurotech stack for researchers, developers, and enterprise innovators.

19. Scalenut

A brainchild of Mayank Jain, Gaurav Goyal, and Saurabh Wadhawan, Scalenut was founded in 2020. The startup is an AI-powered generative engine optimisation and content marketing platform.

Its AI co-pilot handholds businesses through the entire content lifecycle, from keyword planning and content creation to SEO optimisation and competitive analysis.

The California-based startup has raised $3.5 Mn in funding till date and is backed by the likes of names such as Titan Capital, First Principles VC, AngelList, among others.

It claims to have so far catered to more than 200 businesses including homegrown startups such as PharmEasy and LeapScholar.

20. Blend

Founded in 2021 by Vaibhav Prakash, Vishwanath Kollapudi and Jamsheed Kamardeen, Blend is a GenAI-powered design tool that helps ecommerce sellers create social media graphics, product photos and SEO-optimised content.

Incubated by Peak XV Surge and Google For Startups, the Bengaluru-based SaaS platform has raised $3.14 Mn in funding till date. Catering largely to ecommerce sellers, Blend is backed by names such as 3one4 Capital, Blume Ventures, PointOne Capital, among others.

The startup boasts of 15 proprietary AI models that have been trained on more than 80 Mn visuals and keywords.

21. Zocket

Founded in 2021 by serial  entrepreneurs – Karthik Venkateswaran, Nandha Kumar Ravi, Sundar Natesan, and Mukund Srivathsan — Zocket, with Gen AI, helps businesses launch their digital ads in less than 30 seconds.

The startup was part of the maiden cohort of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Global Generative AI Accelerator programme in September 2024. Prior to that in December 2023, the company was also one among the 20 AI-first startups chosen for the eighth batch of Google’s startup accelerator initiative in India.

It has secured $3 Mn in its overall funding with support from investors like Kalaari Capital, PointOne Capital, Kettleborough VC, among others.

It competes with the likes of Hexo, Metabrix, Predis.ai, and PostifyAI in the digital ads space.

22. KOGO AI

KOGO began in 2018 as an AI stack developer catering specifically to the travel tech industry. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, founders Raj K Gopalakrishnan and Praveer Kochhar pivoted to developing their in-house AI operating system, KOGO OS.

Built on large action models (LAMs), KOGO OS enables companies across industries, including travel, mobility, retail, and manufacturing, to create their own AI agents. Clients can customise and integrate KOGO OS with their existing CRM systems and workflow applications. 

In November 2023, the Bengaluru-based startup launched its AI Store, providing developers, SMEs, and large system integrators with advanced AI agents, tools, and plugins to build, deploy, and manage their own AI solutions. 

In 2022, MapmyIndia invested INR 10 Cr in KOGO for a 26.37% stake. The startup has also secured backing from angel investors, raising $2.7 Mn since its inception.

In February 2026, KOGO partnered with Arinox AI to launch a sovereign AI device called CommandCore that is intended to aid enterprises in keeping their data secure by providing offline and on-prem capabilities.

23. NeuralZome Cybernetics

Founded in 2023 by Mohan Kumar Paramasivam and Aditya Shriwastava, NeuralZome Cybernetics has built a no-code, teachable AI agent to power autonomous robots. 

The company’s core AI system, NeuralPilot, is capable of driving a 335 kg autonomous vehicle at speeds of up to 10 kmph, making it suitable for a range of applications from precision agriculture to logistics. NeuralZome has also built an autonomous off-road ATV that runs on its proprietary platform, NeuralBox.

The startup has raised $2.7 Mn till date and counts 8X Ventures, SIDBI, IIM Ahmedabad, Turbostart and Avinya Ventures as its investors.

24. Orbo AI

Orbo leverages AI and augmented reality (AR) to help consumers virtually try-on products in real-time without stepping foot outside their homes.

Catering to the ecommerce and retail sectors, the startup’s flagship product, BeautyGPT, offers immersive solutions such as makeup try-ons, deep skin analysis, embedded hairstyle, hair colour augmentation, among others.

Founded in 2015 by Manoj Shinde, Abhit Sinha and Danish Jamil, Orbo AI also featured on the third season of the popular TV show Shark Tank India and went home with an INR 1 Cr deal from SUGAR Cosmetics cofounder Vineeta Singh.

The startup has raised more than $2.6 Mn since its inception and counts names such as AWS, Venture Catalysts, YourNest Venture Capital and GenNext Ventures as investors.

25. NeuralGarage (VisualDub)

Founded in 2021 as NeuralGarage, VisualDub is the brainchild of IIT Kanpur alumni Mandar Natekar, Subhabrata Debnath, Anjan Banerjee and Subhashish Saha. The GenAI startup has developed a proprietary tool that can sync recorded voiceovers with lip movement and visual cues.

It claims to provide visual lip-sync delivered at 2K to 4K resolution with zero artefacts. VisualDub claims to transform the face under the eyes, including jaws, mouth, chin, smile lines and micro muscles in the cheeks and upper neck to offer a glitch-free video.

Apart from lip synchronisation, the product also offers voice cloning technology where the voice of the dubbing artist can be matched with the original actor maintaining its distinct tone, timbre, and style. It claims to support more than 30 global languages including Hindi, English, Korean, Turkish, Japanese, among others. 

VisualDub claims to cater big-ticket clients such as Amazon, Coca-Cola, Britannia, Microsoft, GSK, and Ultratech Cement. Backed by Exfinity Venture Partners, AWS and Google, it has raised $2.5 Mn in funding to date.

26. Alltius

Founded in 2022 by Vibhanshu Abhishek and Siddhant Mishra, Alltius offers an agentic AI platform specifically designed for the financial services industry. The startup’s AI agents can handle a wide range of tasks such as customer support, sales and lead generation through both voice and chat.

Its AI agents can also perform complex tasks such as processing loan requests, handling insurance claims, create pitches and even automating compliance and document reviews.

The Bengaluru-based horizontal AI startup has raised $2.4 Mn to date and is backed by the likes of names such as Stellaris Venture Partner, Blume Ventures, Gemba Capital, peercheque, among others.

27. Beatoven.AI

Founded In 2021 by Mansoor Rahimat Khan and Siddharth Bhardwaj, Beatoven.ai’s genesis lay in the vast demand for original, royalty-free music suitable for commercial use.

Beatoven.AI addressed this issue by simply leveraging GenAI to create background music for video, podcast, and game creators. Riding on the AI wave, the startup now boasts close to 1 Mn registered users worldwide, majority of them outside India.

Backed by the likes of Entrepreneurs First, Redstart Labs, Google and JioGenNext, the Bengaluru-based startup has raised more than $2.4 Mn in funding to date.

28. Vodex

Founded in 2022 by Anshul Shrivastava and Kumar Saurav, Vodex enables companies to deploy AI-powered sales agents, which can engage in human-like conversations and automate sales processes.

The company claims to eliminate the need for traditional call centres and allows businesses to streamline operations and improve efficiency while interacting with end customers.

The startup has raised $2.3 Mn in funding to date and is backed by 100X.VC. It competes with names such as Drift, SquadStack and Homebot among others.

29. Slang Labs

Founded in 2017 by Satish Chandra Gupta, Giridhar Murthy, and Kumar Rangarajan, Slang Labs allows brands to easily integrate AI assistants into their mobile and web apps without the need for specialised data science or machine learning teams. 

Its flagship platform (CONVA.ai) allows businesses to enable multilingual, voice-based interactions on their respective platforms. It can understand user queries in a number of languages, including Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Backed by the likes of Google, Endiya Partner, 100X Entrepreneur, the startup has raised $2.2 Mn in funding till date. It competes with the likes of major players such as Observe.AI, Senseforth.ai, Yellow.ai, and ConveGenius.

30. GoodMeetings

A brainchild of Srinivasan Narayan and Abhijeet Sahoo, GoodMeetings is a remote sales platform that leverages video, AI and analytics to help teams sell effectively.

The startup’s proprietary platform helps users automate sales processes, generate human-level summaries and derive insights and actionable pointers from a real-time video. It also nudges the sales person about what to say and when during the video call itself.

Founded in 2020, GoodMeetings has raised $1.7 Mn in funding till date. It is backed by marquee names such as Chiratae Ventures, FortyTwo.VC, First Check, Adept Ventures, 100X Entrepreneurs, among others.

31. Floworks

Founded in 2022 by Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava, Floworks offers an end-to-end sales automation for enterprises. Its AI assistants can research potential clients and build prospect lists to write personalised emails, handle objections, and book sales calls, without human intervention.

It also helps sales teams manage their schedules, emails and meeting logistics through simple, natural language commands while also automating tasks like post-call note-taking and maintaining an updated CRM database.

Incubated by Y Combinator, the startup raised $1.5 Mn in seed funding in August 2023. The US-based GenAI startup also counts names such as Sense AI, Gaingels, Entrepreneur First and ThinKuvate as investors.

32. Unscript.ai

Founded in 2021 by Ritwika Chowdhury and Apurv Jain, Unscript.ai’s AI-powered platform allows businesses to create personalised marketing videos at scale without expensive equipment or time-consuming editing.

The platform claims to remove technical barriers and streamline the video creation process for its clients. Its flagship offering also includes creating AI presenters and automating dubbing and translation to create videos in more than 140 languages.

The startup claims to have so far worked with more than 10,000 companies including the likes of Mahindra, Kapiva, Unilever, CEAT, Max Life Insurance, among others.

The startup is backed by VC firms such as Exfinity Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs First and other angel investors such as Mamaearth cofounder Ghazal Alagh, among others. Unscript.ai has raised nearly $1.25 Mn in funding to date.

33. Expertia AI

Founded in 2020 by Akshay Gugnani and Kanishk Shukla, Expertia AI is an AI-powered HR tech platform that offers end-to-end hiring solutions for companies, , from finding talent to making the final decision.

Going beyond a simple resume, the platform’s AI tool analyses a candidate’s skills, personality, and background to generate an “Expertia score”. Not just this, it also identifies skill gaps in an applicant and actively engages with candidates on various fronts and makes them offer-ready.

It claims to cater to companies such as Cognizant, Decathlon, Tech Mahindra, Reliance Jio, Justdial, among others.

Incubated by Google For Startups, Expertia AI is backed by Chiratae Ventures and Endiya Partners. It has raised more than $1.2 Mn in funding till date.

34. OnFinance AI

Founded in 2022 by BITS Pilani alumnus Anuj Srivastava, OnFinance is a GenAI SaaS startup that has built vertical AI copilots for financial institutions. 

The Bengaluru-based startup’s proprietary LLM, NeoGPT, is designed to handle tasks in sales, wealth management, and client servicing. It is deployed as an on-premise solution, ensuring privacy, speed, and relevance for its clients.

NeoGPT is trained using open-source LLMs like Llama and is customised for financial workflows. Its copilots reduce turnaround time and boost employee productivity by up to 7.5X, according to the company.

OnFinance currently serves clients like EY, Oister Global, LetsVenture, and Motilal Oswal. To date, it has raised over $5 Mn in funding, most recently raising $4.2 Mn in a pre-series A round led by Peak XV’s Surge. Other backers inlcude Silver Needle Ventures, Indian Angel Network, Swadharma Source Ventures, LetsVenture, and CRED’s Kunal Shah.

35. Hypergro.ai

Founded in 2022 by Rituraj Biswas, Neha Soman, Abhijeet Kumar and Arijit Mukhopadhyay, Hypergro.ai leverages AI to help brands conceptualise and create compelling video ads

The startup’s proprietary AI platform helps its clients understand market trends and behaviour of their target customers, thereby optimising campaign performance. The platform then connects brands with creators who can craft videos that resonate with their target audience.

The SaaS startup’s platform also offers its clients visibility into the entire video creation process and to monitor campaign results.

Backed by the likes of Silverneedle Ventures, Huddle, TDV Partners, HME Ventures, Dholakia Ventures, among others, the martech startup has raised more than ₹7 Cr in funding since its inception.

36. Dubpro.ai

There’s a massive demand for vernacular content in the country. Studios dub their films in multiple languages for higher reach, while marketers and internet content creators also aim to reach a wider audience with multi-language content.

While big film studios have the resources and capital, most local content creators lack the capital to dub their videos in multiple Indian languages. To solve this, Ishan Sharma and Rishikesh founded Dubpro.ai in 2020.

The AI-powered startup helps content creators dub their videos in multiple languages such as Hindi, English and Tamil. To ensure quality, the startup’s human experts also then verify the quality of the output, thereby ensuring accurate and in-sync audio dubbing.

The startup is backed by the likes of Venture Catalysts, Anicut Angel Fund, First Cheque and has raised $800K since inception.

37. Dubverse.ai

Founded in 2021 by Varshul Gupta and Anuja Dhawan, Dubverse.ai harnesses the power of GenAI to help brands and video producers dub their video content. The platform helps its clients convert text into “natural-sounding” voiceovers in multiple languages and generate subtitles.

It currently claims to offer the functionality in 60 Indian and other global languages. Dubverse.ai’s text-to-speech engine also offers a broad range of AI voices as per the tone and style needs of its customers.

The SaaS platform claims to have so far worked with brands like Mahindra FInance, Zupee, Netflix, BluSmart, Ola Electric, among others.

The startup has raised $800K till date and counts Kalaari Capital and JioGenNext as its investors.

38. Quash

In today’s dynamic world, backend maintenance and customisation has become a necessity for product-based SaaS platforms. From building a product to rolling it out for clients requires thorough testing. Manual testing takes time and often becomes a tedious task for quality assurance teams.

To quicken this process, Ayush Shrivastava, Ameer Hamza, and Prakhar Shakya founded agentic AI Quash in 2023 to streamline the quality testing process for mobile apps.

With its AI-powered tech stack, the startup helps testers detect bugs, which cause malfunctions in SaaS products. The company uses a blend of proprietary and industry-standard AI and ML models for code analysis, test generation, and bug detection.

Backed by Arali Ventures, Java Capital, PeerCheque, DeVC by Matrix Partners, among others, the Bengaluru-based startup has raised $650K since its inception.

39. Vitra.ai

A brainchild of Satvik Jagannath and Akash Nidhi PS, Vitra is a SaaS startup that helps creators and businesses leverage GenAI to instantly translate, dub and add subtitles to videos in 75+ languages in just one click.

The site also allows enterprises to create optimised videos, from scripts and voiceovers to effects, for various social media platforms from scratch with a simple input. 

Founded in 2020, Vitra.ai was incubated by Google India and was part of the tech major’s seventh cohort of Google for Startups Accelerator. The startup claims that it can be integrated with 250+ apps and services, including Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Shopify, HubSpot, and Google Drive, among others, to offer a seamless experience to the end users.

The startup has raised more than $537K in funding to date and is backed by the likes of 100X.VC, IIFL Fintech Fund and Inflexor Ventures.

40. Passprt Trips

Recognising that most travel agents offer rigid, pre-packaged trips, Ujjwal Garg and Manoj Rai founded Passprt Trips in 2023 to cater to customers who want personalisation, spontaneity and social media-worthy moments.

The platform acts as a personal travel advisor, helping users craft their own flexible journeys. Passprt Trips handles every step of the process, from discovering new destinations to seamless booking and on-trip support. 

The platform also gives its customers complete control over their itineraries, ensuring flexibility in everything from accommodations to activities.

Backed by Aroa Venture Partners, the Delhi NCR-based startup has raised about $500K in funding to date.

41. Intellemo

Founded in 2018 by Saurabh Gupta, Tusha Agrawal and Shivam Gupta, Intellemo is a martech platform that leverages AI agents to automate the manual workflow of creative, marketing and sales teams.

Its AI-powered products enable businesses to launch marketing campaigns on the fly, generate product images and publish the campaign on multiple online advertising platforms. Additionally, brands can also gather insights and seek recommendations from its AI Agent to fine-tune their media campaigns.

The company claims to have so far worked with names such as Urban Company, Virohan, Neetprep, and Footprints, among others.

Backed by the likes of Inflection Point Ventures, CRED founder Kunal Shah, among others, Intellemo has raised more than $350K in funding till date.

42. Eubrics

Managing and retaining talent can be a tricky task for enterprises. It is fraught with issues such as aligning performance with company values, ensuring best practices, identifying skill gaps within teams, and flagging attrition risks before they become a major issue.

Realising that there is a big whitespace in the segment, Nikita Jain and Maxim Dsouza founded Eubrics in 2021. The SaaS platform claims to leverage AI and behavioural science to help companies drive employee performance through action nudges and GenAI-powered coaching.

Its proprietary platform helps businesses derive actionable analytics, build tailored assessment profiles of their workforce, and spur engagement levels. From streamlining onboarding for new hires to enhancing workforce competence, Eubrics caters to employees at all levels.

The startup also offers AI-powered sales tools such as customer bots to help teams build sales skills and improve call quality. Eubrics can also be integrated with existing CRM and cloud telephony platforms to analyse calls, streamline call tracking and lead analysis.

The startup last raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in March 2023. Eubrics claims to cater to the likes of Royal Enfield, Gulf, Airtel, ITC, Jindal Steel Limited, among others.

43. AuraML

Acquiring and labelling high-quality training datasets for machine learning tasks can be a cumbersome task. However, this issue becomes even more time consuming, costly and complicated when it comes to sourcing data for self-driving cars and robotics.

Realising that manual efforts to collect and label thousands of images require extensive fieldwork and laborious processing, Ayush Sharma and Arjun Gupta founded AuraML in 2023 to solve this problem.

The startup’s flagship platform, AuraSIM, creates realistic, physics-accurate 3D environments from text prompts. This allows developers to virtually test and train robots in a wide range of real-world scenarios to ensure they can handle unexpected situations.

AuraML monetises its platform via a monthly subscription plan and supports diverse use cases in areas such as warehouse automation, drone inspection, agritech, manufacturing and autonomous vehicles.

AuraML has raised more than $1.2 Mn in funding to date and is backed by startups such as Turbostart, DeVC, GSF Accelerator, Indian Angel Network and others.

44. Boltzmann

Harnessing the power of GenAI, Boltzmann is revolutionising drug discovery and improving the success rates of clinical trials. Founded in 2019 by Sarath Kolli, the Bengaluru-based company uses a blend of proprietary and open-source models to design novel drugs and optimise R&D processes for Indian pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Boltzmann’s technology suite includes four distinct platforms that support a wide range of applications, from aiding in clinical trials and disease diagnosis to the design and discovery of new vaccines and antibodies.

Backed by AngeList India, the startup has raised $100K in funding since inception. Boltzmann currently competes with global companies such as Insilico Medicine, Recursion AI, and Exscientia

45. Kroop AI

Founded in early 2021 by Jyoti Joshi, Kroop offers a suite of AI tools that enable users to detect whether an image, video, or voice is real, AI-fabricated, or AI-generated. The startup’s proprietary platform is trained on high-quality synthetic data with a diverse set of identities to help decipher what content is fake.

Kroop also operates a platform to enable users to generate videos in various languages simply by inputting text. The video generation platform supports over 25 languages, including English, French, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam.

So far, it caters to clients in the ecommerce and pharma industries as well as the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector. Backed by the likes of 100X.VC and LetsVenture, the startup has raised $34K since its inception.

46. Babblebots

Recruiting top talent is a constant struggle for businesses, and for Roli Gupta, it was a problem worth solving. In 2022, she launched Babblebots, an AI-powered platform designed to make hiring less time-consuming and easier.

Babblebots acts as an all-in-one hiring assistant, automating tasks like scheduling interviews, screening resumes, and even collecting feedback. The platform also offers an AI co-pilot that helps recruiters conduct interviews and assessments more effectively.

The B2B SaaS startup counts more than 100 clients on its rolls, including Alkem Laboratories, Welspun Enterprises, MJ Biopharm, Ajmera Realty, IPS Staffing Indus Towers, and IIT Bombay’s Development and Relations Foundation (DRF), among others.

Based in Mumbai, Babblebots is backed by investors like Anchorage Capital Partners and Ahead VC and is making its mark in the competitive HR tech space, where it goes up against players like Keka and Darwinbox.

47. JarvisLabs.ai

Founded in 2019 by Vishnu Subramanian, JarvisLabs is a Coimbatore-based AI infrastructure startup that offers GPU compute solutions to data scientists, businesses and researchers.

It offers GPUs on rent for training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models. JarvisLabs says it keeps costs under control by avoiding expensive GPUs such as NVIDIA H100, and instead offering alternative hardware that delivers comparable performance.

As per its website, it uses GPUs such as Nvidia’s RTX5000, A5000, RTX6000 Ada, among others, to offer competitive rates to small startups looking to fine-tune their AI models.

48. Superjoin.ai

Founded in 2023 by Vinayak Jhunjhunwala and Abhinav Das, Superjoin.ai is a codeless SaaS platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to help users import live data into spreadsheets and perform actions on top of this data.

Users can create complex formulas and generate charts with simple text commands on the platform to accelerate data analysis. This enables enterprises to automate workflows, streamline forecasting, and build complex reports within the familiar environment of spreadsheets.

Additionally, Superjoin offers scheduling capabilities to automatically update Google Sheets with the latest data from various sources, eliminating the need for cumbersome CSV exports.

Backed by Better Capital, the Bengaluru-based startup counts names such as Chargebee, Truecaller, CallHippo among others as its clients.

49. Arrowhead

Founded in 2022 by Devyani Gupta and Vengadanathan Srinivasan, Arrowhead is an AI startup that builds and deploys voice AI agents to aid sales functions for banks, NBFCs and fintech companies.

These AI agents handle end-to-end sales and service calls, often running for up to 20 minutes, without customers realising they are speaking to an AI bot.

It currently claims to work with over 50 BFSI clients, including Bank of Baroda, Aditya Birla Capital, Paytm, Turtlemint, Kissht, InsuranceDekho and others. Beyond India, Arrowhead operates in Southeast Asia and has active deployments with a large bank and a collections firm in Malaysia.

The Bengaluru-based startup is backed by investors like Stellaris Venture Partners, CRED’s founder Kunal Shah, M2P Fintech’s cofounder Madhusudanan R, along with senior executives from fintech firms like Turtlemint and Kissht, who contributed to its $3 Mn seed round in January 2026. 

50. OrbitShift

Founded in 2022 by Saurabh Mishra and Swapnil Saykar, OrbitShift is an AI-based SaaS startup that helps businesses improve their sales processes. 

It provides a variety of tools that provide sales teams with account insights, actionable recommendations, account planning, and targeted pitch content generation, thereby driving coordinated GTM motion.

The startup claims to cut down the time companies spend on research and sales planning by 40-50% and increase sales productivity by 20-30%. For this, it speeds up tasks like client outreach and creating high-quality responses. 

OrbitShift has raised $8.5 Mn to date, with the latest being a $7 Mn seed round announced in June 2024 led by PeakXV and Stellaris Ventures, which was also a part of its $1.5 Mn pre-seed round in 2023. 

Updated on: February 20, 2026

[This is not an exhaustive list, we will be updating it periodically. If you would like to refer a GenAI startup to be featured in this list, write to us @ [email protected]]

[Edited by Shishir Parasher]