30 Startups To Watch: Startups That Caught Our Eye In June 2026

June was quite an eventful month for the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem. One of the most talked-about moments last month was CRED founder Kunal Shah stepping away from the fintech unicorn to take charge of global operations at Meta’s WhatsApp.

His exit was followed by big tech Meta picking up a 20% stake in CRED for a massive $900 Mn. The deal gave a strong lift to monthly funding numbers, but it was far from the only big-ticket fundraise in the startup ecosystem last month.

AI juggernaut Sarvam also raised $234 Mn from HCLTech at a billion-dollar valuation, making it the country’s second AI unicorn. Soon after, proptech player Square Yards also raised $95 Mn at a unicorn valuation, becoming India’s 131st unicorn.

Overall, Indian startups raised $5.2 Bn in H1 2026, down 9% from $5.7 Bn raised a year ago. However, the deal count rose 7% YoY to 501 during the first half of the ongoing calendar year.

While deal activity remained strong, VC firms also took advantage of improving public market conditions to rake in big gains by trimming exposure in some of their long-held bets. Investors such as Sofina, Alpha Wave Ventures, Actis, Peak XV and Elevation Capital offloaded sizable stakes in new-age tech companies such as Pine Labs, Delhivery and Honasa Consumer.

The public markets, meanwhile, remained relatively quiet, with Turtlemint’s IPO concluding on a muted note. Nevertheless, the sentiment appears to be turning as a large pipeline of IPOs is beginning to formalise.

India’s biggest telecom player Reliance’s Jio Infocomm filed its draft IPO papers after a year of preparation, while unicorns such as Zepto and OYO-parent PRISM are also lining up mega public offerings for the second half of the year.

Against this buzzing backdrop, Inc42 is back with its flagship “30 Startups To Watch” series, where we track budding early stage startups.

Powered by Peak XV, the 72nd edition features emerging players across sectors such as AI, defence tech, D2C and beyond that are pushing India’s startup ecosystem in new directions.

So, without further ado, here are the new-age tech companies that made the cut last month.

Editor’s Note: The list below is not a ranking of any kind. We have listed the startups alphabetically.

Aigenc.ai | Building The AI Martech Stack

Five years after selling their business to Honasa Consumer, Momspresso cofounders Vishal Gupta and Prashant Sinha have returned with a new bet: AI-powered martech startup Aigenc.

Founded in June 2026, the startup enables brands to understand their digital ad funnel performance. The platform uses AI to analyse what works, generate new creative directions and forecast how a campaign is likely to perform before it goes live.

Its AI tools are trained on a company’s ad history, allowing the system to combine inputs from each campaign brief and estimate the performance a brand can expect from future launches. 

Here’s how the platform operates:

• Analysis: It breaks down ad creatives into hooks, real-time bidding, formats and creator types, each element linked directly to campaign performance
• Ad Generation: Based on the analysis, the platform generates new concepts, scripts, storyboards and statics using the brand’s proven winning patterns
• Performance Prediction: The ideas are scored before launch, with the predictive layer flagging weak concepts early
• Deployment: Teams across strategy, creative, growth and influencer marketing refine the AI output with human judgment and take it live end-to-end.

Although early in its journey, Aigenc is tapping into the growing appetite among brands for AI-led marketing tools. This comes as AI-generated ads are becoming increasingly common across digital feeds, and the market opportunity is expanding quickly. At the heart of all this is the global AI-in-marketing market, estimated to become an $82 Bn opportunity by 2030. 

AnduraX | Making Return From Space As Routine As Aviation 

India’s spacetech sector is expanding fast, but one of its biggest gaps remains the lack of reusable re-entry capability. Without reliable return systems, space experiments and payload recovery stay expensive and difficult to scale. AnduraX is trying to plug this gap with its novel solution.

Founded in 2023 by ex-Abyom Spacetech executive Sree Supranayi Kanamarlapudi, AnduraX is building a reusable re-entry space vehicle, ARES. The reusable spaceplane will be designed to carry payloads to low Earth orbit and return them via low-G re-entry descent and runway landings.

In May 2026, the startup claimed that its test vehicle, ADM-01 (ARES Drop Mission 1), was lifted to an altitude of 250 km by a high-altitude balloon before being released under near-stratospheric conditions. The mission generated crucial flight data to strengthen AnduraX’s guidance, navigation and control architecture as well as its return capability.

AnduraX is eyeing a piece of the growing global reusable launch vehicle and re-entry capability market, projected to become a $32 Bn opportunity by 2034.

The startup is looking to undertake its first re-entry mission by 2028. Once deployed in space, the startup plans to utilise its platform for in-space manufacturing, microgravity research and human spaceflight logistics. With this, it aims to make space research and rapid payload return commercially viable for industries worldwide. 

Arta AI Commerce | Infrastructure For Modern Brand Builders

Launching and scaling a D2C brand is a heavily fragmented process, with founders juggling sourcing, marketing, inventory, content creation and fulfilment across multiple vendors. Arta is trying to solve this problem by building a one-stop solution for consumer brands in a market projected to cross $450 Bn by 2031.  

Founded in 2025 by ex-Roposo executive Ritesh Shah, Arta AI Commerce combines AI-led commerce tools with deep supply chain infrastructure to make D2C execution faster and less cumbersome.

Arta claims that its platform can help clients enter the D2C space within a week.

Instead of approaching separate vendors for each function, D2C operators can tap into Arta to source products, generate AI-powered marketing creatives, manage inventory, run operations and fulfil orders through a single platform.

This integrated model is the company’s business model. Arta charges brands for access to its infrastructure and services, positioning itself as both a software platform and an operating partner. The startup claims that this approach has already helped it generate multi-crore revenue within five months of launch.

Astrobase Space | Building Operational Backbone For Space Access

India is looking to build its own space station by 2035. However, a major bottleneck is hampering this vision: the limited capacity of its indigenous heavy-lift rocket and the slow commercial launch ramp-up. 

While the launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3) is highly capable, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) manages only a production rate of roughly three vehicles every two years, critically capping the nation’s capacity for heavy commercial and scientific payloads.

To solve this, CoinDCX cofounder Neeraj Khandelwal partnered with ISRO scientist Devakumar Thammisetty to launch Astrobase in 2024. From a 46,000 sq ft assembly factory in Bengaluru, the startup is building a launch vehicle for both domestic and global needs. 

At the heart of the effort is a high-thrust rocket engine built around full-flow staged combustion (FFSC), a configuration that uses liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas or methane for cleaner combustion and greater reusability.

The startup is also leaning heavily on large-scale additive manufacturing to produce engines faster and at higher volumes.

After cold-flow testing its key engine subsystems in 2025, Astrobase completed a full-scale combustion test of its FFSC engine earlier this year.

Last month, the startup also secured funding support from IN-SPACe to develop its indigenous 80-tonne rocket engine. Now, the startup is targeting an inaugural launch of its rocket engine to contribute to India’s ambition of building a $44 Bn space economy by 2034.

Beijan | Digitising Legacy Military Hardware

While much of the country’s existing hardware was built for a manual battlefield, drones, software and autonomous systems increasingly shape today’s threats. 

Beijan is solving this by retrofitting legacy and new-age defence with software that grants them autonomy. Founded in 2025 by BITS Pilani students Naman Kasliwal and Shiv Patil, Beijan’s solutions enable defence equipment to digitise their environment, analyse data and act with precision. From artillery guns to drones to ground stations, the startup claims its hardware-software modules are designed to slot into them and upgrade their capabilities.

Its hardware module, BANM, is a plug-and-play circuit board that attaches to any drone, providing edge compute and GPS-denied navigation capabilities. 

It has also built an autonomous artillery positioning system (AAPS) that combines ballistics, RTK/IMU (real-time kinematic/inertial measurement unit) positioning and motor-actuated gun-laying into a single closed-loop setup. In effect, it turns traditional artillery into a more software-driven system, reducing dependence on manual processes.

Beijan’s autonomous artillery targeting system goes a step further, offering full-stack fire control that replaces dial sights, hand-cranking and legacy firing tables. The startup claims that its goal is to bring operational precision across different classes of defence hardware, from artillery guns and drones to ground stations.

As autonomy becomes a critical component of the military in the AI era, the Indian defence tech market is expected to become a $19 Bn opportunity by 2030.

Bucketlistt | Travel Platform For Spontaneous Experiences

For many corporate professionals, the annual holiday is a way to escape the pressures of work. For ex-PwC employee Shubham Makhecha, the pressure of extreme working hours broke the proverbial camel’s back, and he decided to go on a backpacking trip with whatever savings he had. 

During the trip, he found it difficult to plan spontaneous experiences. This became the inspiration behind Bucketlistt. Founded in 2025 by Makhecha, Nitant Desai and Divyam Shah, Bucketlistt operates a platform that connects users with curated adventure and cultural experiences across the country. 

From skydiving in Delhi to dining experiences in Rajwada or front-row access to the Ganga aarti in Rishikesh, the platform focuses on discovery and booking of unique activities.

For users, Bucketlistt handles pricing, availability, payments and confirmations, simplifying the overall experience. On the supply side, the startup provides operators with a proprietary B2B ERP system that digitises their operations end-to-end. This includes inventory and slot management, booking systems, agent ledger settlements, digital waivers, GST-compliant invoicing and real-time business analytics. 

The startup claims to have already crossed ₹10 Cr in gross merchandise value (GMV) in May, serving over 22,000 customers who spent over ₹1.7 Cr.

Operating in the broader $56 Bn Indian OTA market, the startup is targeting ₹500 Cr in GMV and profitability at scale by next year. 

CeraTattva Innotech | Making Advanced Ceramic Materials In India

During their stints as professors at IIT Madras, Ganesh Babu T and Abha Bharti realised that India’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem was still heavily dependent on imported high-performance materials. 

Drawing on their academic research, the duo founded CeraTattva in 2022 to develop advanced ceramic materials that had previously been confined to labs. 

Operating in the global advanced ceramics market, which is projected to become a $17.2 Bn opportunity by 2030, the startup’s core focus centres on developing polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) and pre-ceramic polymers that can withstand extreme temperatures and harsh operating environments. 

The startup’s portfolio includes pre-ceramic precursors and polymers, ceramic coatings, high-temperature adhesives, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), electrically conductive ceramic materials and materials modelling services. 

It has also developed customised ceramic solutions tailored to specific industrial requirements across sectors such as aerospace, defence, automotive, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

Beyond strategic sectors, CeraTattva also works with clients in steel, foundry, and refractories to improve manufacturing efficiency and product performance.

Control One | Embedding Brains In Forklifts

The term Physical AI is being widely discussed across the globe. But the real-world adoption in India remains limited, with very few companies actively building solutions to bring this tech to industrial environments. 

Control One is trying to bridge this gap by focusing on building embodied intelligence systems for factories and warehouses that move, see and decide on their own. 

Founded in 2023 by SP Robotic Works cofounder Pranavan, Control One is looking to empower the next phase of industrialisation by automating warehouses, manufacturing facilities and logistics operations. 

Instead of building robots from scratch, the startup focuses on retrofitting conventional material-handling equipment with its proprietary Vision AI and robotics software. This enables forklifts, pallet trucks and reach trucks to navigate and execute tasks autonomously. 

Its One AI platform is a unified operating system for all physical AI agents, integrating vision foundation models, edge cognition and federated learning across every robot.

Backed by CRED’s Kunal Shah, Control One is positioning itself within the broader push toward Industry 4.0 in India, an ecosystem that is projected to become a $17.8 Bn opportunity by 2034. 

Dreamspan | Precision Sleep Tracking For Extended Health Span 

Improper sleep is a growing crisis in India. Many national surveys indicate that three out of five Indian adults get less than six hours of uninterrupted sleep per night. Dreamspan is building a platform to help the affluent gain the “ultimate sleeping experience”.

Founded in 2024 by former Ultrahuman executive Abhishek Sahu, Dreamspan offers an AI-powered sleep and recovery system that combines multiple aspects of efficient sleep into a single platform. 

Its flagship offering, Lucid Pro, is an intelligent sleep system that combines embedded biometric sensors (within the cushion) with AI to monitor sleep in real time. The platform tracks metrics such as sleep stages, heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), respiratory rate, snoring, and recovery without requiring users to wear a separate fitness tracker.

Beyond the smart bed, Dreamspan offers a companion mobile app that provides sleep insights, sleep scores, long-term trend analysis, and smart wake-up features. 

The startup positions itself as a preventive health and longevity platform with a broader vision to extend human health span by integrating consumer hardware, software and health intelligence into a unified sleep ecosystem. 

Buoyed by a growing demand for preventive healthcare solutions and AI-powered offerings, India’s healthtech market is expected to become a $37 Bn opportunity by 2030.

Eazzy | Verified Service Professionals On Fingertips

India is one of the world’s largest markets for electronics and home appliances, but homeowners still struggle to find reliable and verified service professionals. 

Aksh Chauhan and Saurabh Luthra, too, identified this white space after spending decades in after-sales service and supply chain at companies like Reliance ResQ, Flipkart and Cashify.

To address this bottleneck, the duo launched their home services startup, Eazzy, earlier this year. The startup is a one-stop-shop platform for servicing, maintenance and appliance buyback or resale. 

Eazzy’s edge lies in its focus on an integrated circular economy, or recommerce loop, and a personalisation layer that makes recommendations relevant to each home. Eazzy follows a multi-layered revenue model comprising commission on home services, service fulfilment revenue, recommerce and buyback margins, value-added protection plans and memberships, and B2B partnerships with brands, OEMs, and residential communities. 

Taking on giants such as Urban Company, Pronto and Snabbit, Eazzy is eyeing a share of the Indian home services market, projected to breach the $100 Bn mark by FY30.

Eternz | Online Marketplace For Jewellery

Founded in 2023 by Arthi Ramalingam, Eternz is an online marketplace for jewellery and watches that brings together premium brands and craftsmanship under one roof. The platform offers curated discovery of unique pieces across gold, silver, brass and lab-grown diamonds. 

Eternz helps users identify their next piece of jewellery with features like virtual try-on. The marketplace also features “Tinder for Jewellery”, helping users discover their perfect match by swiping right or left on pieces they like. 

This personalisation engine refines recommendations for users, enhancing how they connect with a piece and making jewellery shopping seamless, smooth, and intuitive. 

The platform currently hosts over 200 brands, including GIVA, Palmonas, Salty, Totapari, Carlton London, et al.

Looking ahead, Eternz aims to scale its revenue 6X in the coming year.

The platform aims to achieve this growth by doubling its brand portfolio to 500, including onboarding 50 global brands such as Swarovski and Fossil.

At the heart of all this is the homegrown D2C jewellery market, which is expected to become a $10 Bn opportunity by 2030. 

FermBox Bio | Engineering Bio-Based Alternatives

Global industrial supply chains still rely heavily on raw materials derived from plants, animals and petrochemicals. These inputs are often volatile, resource-intensive and environmentally taxing. 

FermBox Bio is working to reduce this dependence by building bio-based alternatives via synthetic biology, a homegrown ecosystem expected to reach $2.8 Bn by 2033. 

Founded in 2022 by Subramani Ramachandrappa, Ramanan Thirumoorthy and Preeti Dharmagoudar, the startup focuses on precision fermentation and strain engineering to develop sustainable substitutes for conventional industrial materials.

Its work centres on replacing traditional inputs with engineered biological alternatives that can be produced more efficiently and with lower environmental impact.

Using microbial engineering, FermBox designs and manufactures enzymes, proteins, flavours, fragrances, dyes, lipids and other biomaterials. These are targeted at industries such as biofuels, health and wellness, textiles and cosmeceuticals, where demand for sustainable inputs is rising steadily.

The company’s approach spans the full value chain, from strain engineering and product development to manufacturing and commercialisation. FermBox also collaborates with enterprises through a “lab-to-launch” model to co-develop and manufacture bio-based ingredients.

By combining research and manufacturing capabilities, the startup is positioning itself as an end-to-end partner for companies looking to transition away from traditional industrial inputs toward more sustainable alternatives.

Gigacatalyst | Helping B2B Saas Teams Build Custom Tools 

B2B SaaS companies often lose customers not because their core product is weak, but because it cannot keep up with highly specific, evolving user needs. Gigacatalyst is trying to address this by letting enterprises build the missing features themselves.

Founded in 2025 by Namanyay Goel, the startup offers an embedded AI customisation layer that runs across a SaaS company’s APIs, enabling sales teams and support staff to create custom features and workflows without needing to write code or wait for engineers.

Customers can adapt and deploy custom features and share them across teams through Gigacatalyst’s built-in app store. This shifts the dynamic from static software to adaptable systems. By enabling bespoke implementations, the platform aims to drive higher product usage, improve retention and accelerate expansion, as customers are no longer constrained by out-of-the-box functionality.

Gigacatalyst says it is already working with several Series B-stage companies, reporting a 90% repeat usage rate and noticeable gains in usage, retention and expansion in 2026. 

Backed by Y Combinator, the startup claims its platform can help customers unlock up to $1 Mn in additional sales within six weeks by speeding up adoption and value creation.

At the heart of all this is India’s enterprise AI market, which is projected to grow from $11 Bn in 2025 to $71 Bn by 2030.

Gimi Michi | Bringing Authentic Ramen To Your Plate

Although there is a growing popularity for all things Korean, no brand seems to be catering to the masses when it comes to ramen. 

To address this, the trio of Akhil Kumar, Bodhi Rathor and Nishank Goyal founded Gimi Michi in 2024, a Korean food brand focused on bringing authentic Korean flavours to Indian consumers.

The startup partners with trusted manufacturers to source and develop Korean food products, particularly ramen. 

The brand currently offers a portfolio of five Korean instant ramen flavours, including Crazy Cheesy, Korean Kimchi, Hot Chicken, Curry Chicken and Korean Spicy. It also sells curated experience boxes that come with a bowl, stickers and a pair of chopsticks.

Primary revenue comes from sales via its website, as well as from quick commerce platforms such as Zepto and Flipkart Minutes.

It claims to have clocked a revenue run rate of ₹16.8 Cr in FY26, while witnessing a month-on-month revenue growth rate of 60%.

Gudlyf Mobility | Advancing Indian Capabilities In Hydrogen Storage

India currently has very limited domestic manufacturing capacity for high-pressure composite storage vessels that are used to transport and store gas. As a result, companies rely heavily on imports, leading to higher procurement costs, longer delivery timelines and higher logistics expenses. 

Founded in 2022 by Ajeet Babu, PK and KC Vora, Gudlyf Mobility is developing indigenous type IV and type V high-pressure composite cylinders for 700-bar hydrogen and CNG storage applications to address this shortage.

These cylinders are engineered for clean energy use cases, with specialised filament-wound liner designs built for heavy-duty operations, along with patented structural and boss configurations.

Gudlyf’s solutions are aimed at a wide range of applications, including hydrogen storage for aerospace, mobility and stationary systems, UAVs and CBG storage. Backed by the Department of Science and Technology, the startup is positioning itself within India’s broader cleantech market, which is projected to scale to a $41 Bn opportunity by 2040. 

IINDEPRO Dynamics | Powering Indigenous Drones

Founded in 2023 by Parag Jobanputra and Jaydeep Viramgama, IINDEPRO Dynamics has carved out a niche in India’s growing dronetech market by focusing on the components that go into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), rather than manufacturing complete drones.

For many years, the emphasis within the homegrown drone ecosystem was on producing the end product, not the parts that power it. As a result, India currently imports over 90% of the UAV propulsion systems.

To solve this, Rajkot-based IINDEPRO is building high-performance BLDC motors and propulsion systems for UAV applications. It is also developing proprietary axial-flux motor systems designed for enhanced efficiency, durability, and extended flight capabilities.

It claims that its motors power a wide range of aerial platforms, including FPV drones, surveillance systems, VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft, fixed-wing UAVs, agricultural drones and other defence-grade solutions.

The startup sells five motor series via its website. The motors can cost between ₹3,000 and ₹25,000.

Besides, it also manufactures electronic speed controllers. With 18 SKUs under its belt, it claims to have close to 400 products to date. 

Driven by expanding defence modernisation and widespread commercial adoption in agriculture and logistics, the Indian drone tech market is expected to become a $3.2 Bn opportunity by 2030. 

Khageshvara Aviation | Building India’s High-Payload eVTOL Ecosystem

Founded by Ritvik Yadav in 2023, Khageshvara is developing indigenous electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for defence, logistics and industrial applications.

It is addressing a gap in India’s advanced air mobility ecosystem, where high-payload, runway-independent aerial systems remain largely unavailable despite growing demand from defence, disaster response, and critical cargo operators.

The Jaipur-based startup is building a portfolio of eVTOL platforms capable of carrying payloads ranging from 5 kg to 400 kg. Its aircraft combine the vertical take-off capability of multirotor drones with the range and efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft using proprietary tilt-rotor technology.

Alongside its aerial platforms, the startup has developed a ground control system and autonomy software featuring AI-based tracking, mission planning, object detection, and GPS-denied navigation capabilities.

Its current under-development portfolio includes the K-Vaayu platform for defence logistics and medical deliveries, the K-Rudra platform for industrial and tactical cargo, and the K-Ospera heavy cargo eVTOL. 

Beyond selling these platforms, Khageshvara also generates revenue through custom UAV development and the sale of software and subsystem technologies. Looking ahead, it plans to introduce an eVTOL-as-a-Service model as commercial deployments scale.

Kroslo | Cast Iron Cookware For Indian Kitchens

Founded in 2024 by Pranav Singh Aggarwal and Aastha Arora, Kroslo is a D2C cookware startup that builds lightweight cast-iron cookware. The startup aims to address common drawbacks of traditional cast iron cookware such as excessive weight, rusting and frequent seasoning.

Through its proprietary TriForge technology and Titanium-Enamel Superlayer, the startup manufactures and sells cookware that is lighter, rust-resistant, and naturally non-stick with use.

This makes these pans suitable for high-heat Indian cooking.

Positioning itself around healthy, chemical-free cooking, durability and ease of maintenance, the startup is targeting households looking for an alternative to conventional non-stick and traditional cast-iron cookware. 

Its product portfolio includes tawas, kadhais, fry pans, woks, and other cookware, sold primarily through its own website, and it offers a five-year warranty on its products. Kroslo operates in the Indian cookware market, which is estimated to grow to $2.85 Bn by 2031.

LiLLBUD | Safe Early Learning For Young Ones

Founded in 2025 by Abhishek Sharma and Ayush Bansal, LiLLBUD is addressing a big gap in India’s early childhood products market by offering BIS-certified, science-backed toys and learning products for children aged 0-3 years. 

The startup is targeting a category where parents have limited access to developmental products, despite the first three years being very important for a child’s cognitive, sensory, and motor development.

LiLLBUD designs Montessori-inspired toys and learning aids rooted in child development research, with guidance from early childhood education expert Azeez Gupta. The startup positions safety as its key differentiator, with its entire catalogue BIS-certified.

Its portfolio spans more than 200 SKUs across developmental categories, sold through its own website as well as Amazon, Flipkart and Blinkit.

Going forward, the startup plans to launch 100 additional products for children aged between 18 and 36 months, while expanding its quick commerce footprint and strengthening its supply chain.

Since launching in May 2025, LiLLBUD claims to have crossed an annualised revenue run rate of ₹3.5 Cr. It is eyeing a share of the ongoing growth wave among local manufacturers, which are expected to push this market beyond the $5 Bn mark by 2034

Omli | Building Voice AI For Children

Most AI speech systems are trained on adult voices. As a result, most existing voice chatbots and learning apps struggle to accurately recognise children’s speech, thereby limiting their effectiveness in early learning.

To solve this, Shivam Munshi and Siddhant Garg banded together to conceptualise Omli in 2025. The startup is building voice AI products for children aged between three and eight years. 

The startup has developed Omli Kids, a voice-first learning platform that enables children to practise English speaking, vocabulary, comprehension and conversational skills through AI-led interactions. 

Omli’s flagship product is its proprietary tech stack, which comprises speech recognition, voice activity detection, conversational intelligence and personalisation systems designed specifically for children’s voices.

Omli currently operates on a B2C subscription model and plans to expand into schools and speech-development institutions through B2B and B2B2C offerings. 

It claims to have crossed 12,000 paying users and has achieved ₹1.8 Cr in ARR, with monthly recurring revenue growing threefold from ₹5 Lakh in April to ₹15 Lakh in May. 

Pehle Jaisa | Decentralising Organic Fertiliser Production

Founded in 2022 by Pankaj Pandey and Ehtesham Farooqui, Pehle Jaisa is building a decentralised model for manufacturing organic fertilisers by enabling production closer to farms. The startup is targeting India’s growing demand for sustainable agricultural inputs, while reducing dependence on conventional chemical fertilisers.

Pehle Jaisa currently manufactures soil conditioners, bio-stimulants and organic fertilisers, with plans to expand into crop- and region-specific formulations tailored to local soil conditions. 

Its long-term vision is to create village-level circular ecosystems where agricultural waste is converted into value-added products, including fertilisers and other bio-based inputs.

Pehle Jaisa has demonstrated early commercial traction, selling more than 500 metric tonnes (MT) of fertilisers in FY24 within eight months of launch.

In FY25, it scaled sales to over 1,500 MT, generating more than ₹2.5 Cr in revenue.

It operates in the fast-growing organic fertilisers segment, which is expected to nearly double from $1 Bn by 2032. As demand shifts towards bio-based agricultural inputs, the startup is expanding its product portfolio and manufacturing footprint to cross ₹100 Cr in annual revenue.

ProactAI | Building India’s Surveillance Layer

India’s critical surveillance infrastructure is increasingly being powered by AI systems that still rely heavily on foreign-built computer vision technologies, raising concerns around dependency and data sovereignty. 

ProactAI is looking to address this gap by building indigenous AI infrastructure for critical use cases. Founded in 2024 by Adarsh Jain, Piyush Shandilya and Tushar Gupta, the startup is developing what it describes as India’s first vertical vision foundational model focused on person re-identification, object tracking and real-time intelligence.

Its flagship platform, Bhaskara, is designed to transform existing CCTV networks into AI-powered surveillance systems without requiring new hardware. The platform enables organisations to identify persons of interest, track movement across multiple camera feeds and generate real-time operational insights.

ProactAI claims Bhaskara achieves over 98% accuracy in person re-identification, making it suitable for deployment across airports, smart cities, industrial facilities and other large-scale infrastructure environments.

The startup operates within the global computer vision market, which is projected to exceed $53 Bn by 2030, driven by rising investments in smart infrastructure, public safety and AI-enabled surveillance.

Rovia | Simplifying Cross-Border Wealth Management

Founded by Shivang Badaya and Arnav Grover in 2025, Rovia is building a wealth management platform for international professionals whose compensation is largely tied to instruments such as restricted stock units (RSUs) and employee stock option plans. 

The startup is targeting a growing segment of employees at US-listed technology companies that often face high foreign exchange costs, tax complexities, delayed settlements and limited access to global investment products while monetising their equity.

The Bengaluru-based startup enables users to transfer, manage, diversify and reinvest equity compensation through a unified platform. It has also secured registration as an SEC-registered investment adviser in the US, allowing it to provide regulated investment advisory services.

Rovia currently claims to track more than $60 Mn in equity compensation assets for employees at over 300 companies.

The startup claims that its assets under management have been growing at 100% month-on-month.

The startup operates in the broader Indian wealth management segment, projected to cross $436 Bn by 2034, driven by an expanding high-net-worth and NRI population and growing demand to diversify assets amid geopolitical shifts.

With equity compensation becoming an increasingly important component of tech professionals’ remuneration, Rovia aims to build a global wealth operating system that helps users seamlessly manage and diversify their cross-border financial assets.

Speedioo | Organising India’s Used Two-Wheeler Market

Founded by former CredR and Rentomojo executives Sagar Potphode and Ajit Deshmukh in 2024, Speedioo is building a full-stack, omnichannel platform for buying and selling used two-wheelers. 

The startup is targeting India’s highly fragmented second-hand two-wheeler market, where more than 95% of transactions still take place through unorganised channels with limited transparency and standardisation.

The Pune-based startup manages the entire value chain, spanning vehicle sourcing, inspection, refurbishment, pricing, financing and retail distribution. It is also developing an AI-native technology stack to automate procurement, vehicle assessment, price discovery and inventory management, while expanding its dealer network and OEM partnerships.

Speedioo has recorded over ₹30 Cr in GMV, sold more than 4,000 vehicles, and grown its top line 5X over the past year while remaining EBITDA- and cash-flow-positive. It currently works with more than 200 dealer partners across Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune, and plans to expand into four additional cities while scaling its franchise-led retail network.

The startup operates in India’s $28.8 Bn used two-wheeler market.

With organised players accounting for only a small share of the market, Speedioo aims to cross ₹100 Cr in ARR over the next 12-18 months.

The Sweet Change | Building Natural Sugar Alternatives

Founded by clinical nutritionist Manvi Agnihotri and Sheen Hitaishi in 2024, The Sweet Change is building a portfolio of sugar substitutes. The startup is targeting consumers seeking clean-label sweeteners amid rising cases of diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders.

Its flagship product is a gut-friendly sweetener made using monk fruit, allulose and prebiotic guar fibre. Unlike many products in the category, which rely on erythritol as the primary ingredient. The Sweet Change claims to have formulated its sweeteners without erythritol, artificial ingredients or fillers. 

The startup claims that its products are designed to replicate the taste of sugar without the bitter aftertaste associated with many sugar substitutes.

It claims to have generated over ₹1.7 Cr in revenue within a year of launch, fulfilled more than 15,000 orders, and recorded 84% MoM compounded revenue growth over the past three months following the launch of its sweetener drops.

It currently ranks among the top sweetener brands on Amazon India.

The Sweet Change operates in India’s $650 Mn sugar substitutes market, which is expanding as consumers increasingly adopt preventive healthcare and clean-label food products. 

Tringbox | Bringing AI To Commercial Background Music

Founded by Amandeep Singh Chawla in 2025, Tringbox is building an AI-powered background music platform for commercial spaces such as restaurants, cafés, retail stores, gyms, salons and clinics. 

The startup is addressing the limitations of traditional playlist-based music systems by dynamically adapting music to factors such as customer footfall, time of day, weather conditions and venue ambience.

At the core of the platform is Tringbox’s proprietary Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Music Engine, which analyses tempo, rhythm, loudness and energy to generate royalty-free music tailored to the environment. 

The platform also allows businesses with multiple outlets to centrally manage music across locations, monitor playback in real time and receive alerts when systems go offline.

The Mumbai-based startup is currently deployed across 30 commercial locations in India and plans to use its recent seed funding to scale deployments across premium hospitality and retail venues. 

Tringbox operates in the commercial background music and in-store audio solutions market, which is benefiting from the rapid expansion of organised retail, food services and experiential commerce. 

Ubiqedge | AIoT System For Monitoring Industries

Founded in 2024 by Visat Patel, Archit Khandelwal, Akhilesh Thorat and Hetvi Shah, Ubiqedge is building a full-stack artificial internet of things (AIoT) platform for monitoring and managing industrial infrastructure. 

The startup is targeting industries that continue to rely on fragmented systems and manual operations, resulting in inefficiencies, delayed decision-making and compliance challenges.

The Mumbai-based startup combines its proprietary hardware platform, KLEON, with an AI-powered cloud software layer, SAMASTH, to enable real-time monitoring, predictive analytics and automated control of critical infrastructure. 

Its solutions are deployed across water management, solar energy, air quality monitoring, construction and industrial operations, helping enterprises improve operational efficiency while meeting regulatory requirements.

Ubiqedge claims to have digitised more than 23,000 borewells across India and to have reduced issue-resolution timelines by over 80% through its AI-driven monitoring platform. 

Going forward, the startup plans to strengthen its AI capabilities, expand deployments across new industrial sectors, and grow its network of OEM and system integration partners.

Ubiqedge operates in the rapidly growing industrial IoT market, which is projected to exceed $500 Bn globally by 2030, driven by increasing investments in industrial automation, predictive maintenance and smart infrastructure. 

VoltSeal | Building Battery Storage Systems For Solar Energy

As solar power additions outpace storage capacity, industries continue to rely on expensive grid electricity and diesel generators despite abundant low-cost daytime solar.

Founded by Mudit Narain and Abhijeet Pandey in 2025, VoltSeal is developing battery energy storage systems (BESS) for commercial and industrial customers to address the challenge of storing surplus renewable energy during peak demand. 

The startup deploys modular lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery systems, integrated with an energy management software platform, to enable customers to store rooftop solar or low-cost daytime power and discharge it during periods of higher electricity tariffs. 

Its systems are designed to reduce diesel consumption, lower energy costs, and improve energy reliability for industrial facilities.

Beyond individual deployments, VoltSeal plans to aggregate distributed battery systems into virtual power plants, enabling customers to participate in electricity markets and provide grid-balancing services.

VoltSeal operates in India’s rapidly expanding battery energy storage market, which is expected to grow to over $32 Bn by 2030, driven by record renewable energy additions and falling battery prices. 

Xtovia | Science-Backed Haircare For Indians

Founded by Navneet Misra and Tunga Madhu Babu in 2025, Xtovia is developing premium haircare products based on proprietary formulations for India’s haircare market, which is estimated to become a $5.2 Bn opportunity by 2032.

Its products are powered by TriLayerX Hair Tech, an in-house technology designed to repair structural hair damage by strengthening the hair core, restoring damaged cuticles and rebuilding the hair’s protective lipid layer. 

The technology has been developed through more than 1,500 formulation iterations, 35+ in vitro and clinical studies, 500+ consumer validations, and is backed by four global patent applications. 

The startup claims its formulations deliver up to 20% higher efficacy than leading international bond-repair haircare brands. Xtovia currently sells through its D2C website and plans to expand into online marketplaces and strengthen its intellectual property portfolio.

The startup operates in India’s premium haircare market, a niche within the $4.1 Bn hair care products market, which is benefiting from rising consumer spending on personal care and demand for science-backed beauty products. 

ZeroDrag | Building India’s UAV Avionics Stack

Founded by Vishal Mehta and Sammer Pall Toor in 2024, ZeroDrag is developing indigenous electronics and avionics systems for drones. Rather than manufacturing drones, the startup focuses on the core hardware that powers them, enabling drone manufacturers to reduce dependence on imports while improving reliability and security.

The IIT Delhi-incubated startup designs and manufactures flight controllers, electronic speed controllers (ESCs), GPS modules, ELRS receivers, video transmitters (VTXs) and complete FPV avionics stacks compatible with industry-standard firmware such as ArduPilot, Betaflight, Pixhawk and iNav.

Its modular, plug-and-play architecture enables faster integration across defence, industrial, autonomous and FPV drone applications while providing local manufacturing, technical support and shorter delivery timelines.

ZeroDrag operates in India’s rapidly expanding drone components market, which is a crucial part of the broader drone tech ecosystem, projected to become a $3.2 Bn opportunity by 2030.

Going forward, the startup plans to scale R&D, increase manufacturing capacity, strengthen testing and quality systems, improve supply chain and accelerate the development of new advanced UAV avionics for global markets.

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Edited by Shishir Parasher

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