Image by 10 Indian AI Startups 2021
- By Debolina Biswas
According to AIMResearch, Indian AI startups raised $836.3 million in 2020, the largest funding outlay in the last seven years at a 9.7% year-on-year growth. The same year, Indian government increased the outlay for Digital India to $477 million to boost AI, IoT, big data, cybersecurity, machine learning and robotics. In the 2019 Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government would offer industry-relevant skill training for 10 million youth in India in technologies like AI, Big Data and robotics.
To wit, India’s AI ecosystem is seeing explosive growth with a lot of inventive startups entering the space. Analytics India Magazine comes with a list of 10 exceptional startups leading the AI race every year.
Here are the lists from previous years: 2020 | 201
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Debolina Biswas
After diving deep into the Indian startup ecosystem, Debolina is now a Technology Journalist. When not writing, she is found reading or playing with paint brushes and palette knives. She can be reached at debolina.biswas@analyticsindiamag.com
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