
This Bengaluru Startup Is Building AI Agents for Hardware Design
The startup integrates AI into existing hardware design tools to automate circuit design, validation and debugging while keeping engineers in control of key decisions.
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This Bengaluru startup is betting that AI can test mobile apps by seeing and using them like a person. Its benchmark shows results depend heavily on the task and setup, and that reliably navigating real apps remains difficult.
Ridhika Basnet · Oct 24, 2026

Brahma AI combines audiovisual search and content generation for enterprises. The company reported $74 million in revenue in 2025 and is tracking more than $130 million in 2026.
Kileuna Haralu · Oct 14, 2026

The debt financing platform expects to support 150–170 D2Cr brands with an average financing ticket of ₹3 crore, targeting inventory purchases and expansion.
Ridhika Basnet · Oct 14, 2026

DPDzero started by selling loan collections software. It soon found the bigger opportunity in running the collections process itself, combining AI, data, and human agents.
Ridhika Basnet · Oct 12, 2026


Antithesis came out of stealth in 2024. In just two years, the company’s revenue shot up by 12x.

For India’s AI ambitions to translate into something more than technological self-sufficiency, AI models, sovereign or otherwise, must win adoption in the real world, across both consumer and enterprise applications.

Yotta, Emergent, Sarvam, and Freehand accounted for 90% of disclosed funding in the third quarter of 2026, as capital moves toward AI infrastructure, foundation models, and enterprise AI.

NPrep combines its AI-powered Nursing Brain, learner data, and a recommendation engine to personalise exam preparation for nursing students.
RayMach is betting that the next aviation software opportunity is not another standalone system, but an AI layer that can connect the fragmented data already sitting across airlines.
Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini sold their first AI startup to Manupatra within four months. Now, their second venture, ByteAsk, is building specialised coding agents for C and C++ developers.
StockGro began developing its AI platform after finding that general-purpose AI models struggled to answer time-sensitive financial questions effectively.
As enterprises embrace AI agents, Proshort is betting the bigger opportunity lies in augmenting sales teams with real-time intelligence, helping representatives close deals faster.
Maya 2 supports 11 languages, each with a voice native to that language. The first-party API is 8x cheaper than Sarvam’s latest Bulbul v3 model.

Mythic's Vanguard claims to offer up to 12x less CAPEX, 25x lower power, and 50–675x higher throughput than NVIDIA GPU racks, among other wild numbers.

KAS and Vigyanlabs are betting that sovereign, energy-efficient AI infrastructure can bring high-performance compute closer to organisations.

Investors are broadly bullish on India’s ability to produce global cybersecurity companies, but say distribution and trust remain major challenges

Research shows that crystallising Merck’s blockbuster cancer drug, Keytruda, in microgravity could help move it from an intravenous formulation towards a subcutaneous one.

Vanix is building upgradeable EV chargers using AMD-powered FPGA architecture to tackle India’s grid variability and evolving charging standards.

Backed by Nikhil Kamath and Ajinkya Rahane, Proxgy is digitising factory floors and the blue-collar workforce with IoT devices.
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