India's AI Startup Ecosystem

A curated snapshot of 21 notable AI companies building for India and the world across healthcare, agriculture, fintech, edtech, language AI, and enterprise software.

This is a hand-picked reference list, not a complete market map.

21+
AI Companies
11
Sectors
1
AI Unicorn

How to use this page

Use this as a market-reading page, not a league table

This startup page is a curated snapshot of the India AI ecosystem. It should help you understand where activity is clustering and which companies matter in specific sectors before you visit their sites.

  • Read the description for sector context first; do not treat inclusion as endorsement or completeness.
  • Use the sector groupings to understand where Indian AI is showing practical traction.
  • Pair this page with Signals and Gov Resources when startup movement is tied to policy or infrastructure shifts.

Foundation Models

1 company

Krutrim

India's first AI unicorn
Foundation ModelsUnicorn Bangalore

India's first AI unicorn. Builds large language models for Indian languages. Offers Krutrim Cloud inference platform.

Founder: Bhavish Aggarwal · Est. 2023

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Healthcare AI

4 companies

Niramai

WHO-recognised
Healthcare AISeries A Bangalore

AI-powered breast cancer screening using thermal imaging. Works in rural India without specialist radiologists. WHO-recognised innovation.

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Qure.ai

Healthcare AISeries C Mumbai

Radiology AI for chest X-ray, CT scan, and MRI analysis. Deployed in 70+ countries, including Indian government hospitals.

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SigTuple

Healthcare AISeries B Bangalore

AI-powered microscopy — automated blood cell count, urine analysis, and malaria detection for Indian pathology labs.

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Tricog

Healthcare AISeries B Bangalore

Real-time ECG analysis AI for early cardiac event detection. Deployed in rural India where cardiologists are unavailable.

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Agri AI

3 companies

Fasal

Agri AISeries B Bangalore

IoT + AI for precision farming — crop disease prediction, irrigation scheduling, and yield optimisation for Indian farmers.

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CropIn

Agri AISeries C Bangalore

AI-powered agri intelligence platform serving 60+ countries. Tracks farm data, predicts yield, and enables traceability for Indian agri exports.

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AgroStar

Agri AISeries D Ahmedabad

AI-driven agri advisory and marketplace for 4+ million Indian farmers. Pest identification, crop advisory via app.

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Fintech AI

3 companies

Perfios

Fintech AISeries D Bangalore

AI platform for financial data aggregation, credit decisioning, and fraud detection. Used by 900+ FIs in India.

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Signzy

Fintech AISeries C Bangalore

AI-powered digital onboarding and KYC for banks and NBFCs. Video KYC, document verification, and fraud detection.

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Credgenics

Fintech AISeries B Noida

AI debt collection platform — NLP for communication, ML for propensity scoring. Helps banks and NBFCs recover INR 50,000 Cr+ annually.

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Edtech AI

2 companies

Doubtnut

30M+ users
Edtech AISeries B Gurgaon

AI that solves math problems from photos. 30M+ students, 10 Indian languages. Acquired by Allen Career Institute.

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ConveGenius

Edtech AISeries A Gurgaon

WhatsApp-based conversational AI for rural India K-12 education. Personalised learning in local languages via simple feature phones.

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Conversational AI

3 companies

Haptik (Jio)

Conversational AIAcquired Mumbai

India's leading conversational AI platform — chatbots, voicebots, and IVR for enterprises. Acquired by Reliance Jio in 2019.

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Yellow.ai

Conversational AISeries D Bangalore

Enterprise-grade conversational AI for customer service, HR, and IT operations. 1000+ enterprise clients globally.

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Uniphore

Conversational AISeries E Bangalore

AI + automation for customer service — real-time agent coaching, NLP for Indian languages, post-call analytics.

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Retail AI

1 company

Mad Street Den (Vue.ai)

Retail AISeries C Chennai

AI platform for retail — product tagging, visual search, personalisation for fashion e-commerce. Clients: Myntra, Jabong.

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Legaltech AI

1 company

Legodesk

Legaltech AISeed Bangalore

AI for Indian lawyers — contract analysis, legal research, and document automation. Reduces research time by 70%.

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HR AI

1 company

Darwinbox

HR AISeries D Hyderabad

AI-powered HCM platform used by 850+ enterprises including Hindustan Unilever, Kotak. ML-driven performance management.

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Enterprise AI

1 company

E42.ai

Enterprise AISeries A Gurgaon

Cognitive process automation — AI workers that automate back-office tasks for enterprises. Finance, HR, procurement.

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Language AI

1 company

Reverie Language Technologies

Powers Aarogya Setu
Language AISeries B Bangalore

Indic language AI — transliteration, translation, and localisation APIs for 11 Indian languages. Powers Aarogya Setu and Umang.

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