India's AI Startup Ecosystem

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

Founder: Bhavish Aggarwal · Est. 2023

Builds sovereign Indian-language foundation models and voice-first interfaces, backed as part of the IndiaAI Mission's model-building track.

Founder: Vivek Raghavan, Pratyush Kumar · Est. 2023

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

One of India's largest AI and analytics consultancies, building decision-intelligence and applied-AI products for global enterprises.

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

Healthcare data and AI platform that unifies patient records for predictive care — used by large US and Indian health systems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full-stack agri platform combining AI-driven advisory with input supply and produce marketplace access for Indian farmers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversational engagement platform powering WhatsApp Business and chatbot automation for enterprises across India and emerging markets.

AI platform for contact-centre quality monitoring and agent coaching, with a large engineering base built out of India.

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

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

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

Cradlewise has raised $12 million to expand its AI-powered cribs, as questions remain over its finances, child data collection and compliance with India’s DPDP framework.

Amazon has launched Alexa+ in India with support for English, Hindi and Hinglish. The generative AI-powered assistant is initially available for free through Early Access.