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

It was a subdued March for the Indian startup ecosystem. The escalating tensions in West Asia continued to trigger supply chain shocks and market volatility, resulting in the bloodbath for new-age tech stocks.

Meanwhile, skyrocketing oil prices inflated operating costs for startups in logistics-intensive mobility and food delivery sectors. The ensuing LPG crisis has temporarily thrown many eateries out of work.

The impact was also visible on the investment front. As per Inc42, Indian startups cumulatively raised $2.3 Bn in Q1 2026, down 26% from $3.1 Bn in the year-ago quarter. The deal count also declined 13% YoY to 260 during the quarter.

On the IPO front, too, there was not much to look forward to in March as only one new-age tech company managed to list on the bourses (SEDEMAC). Amid the escalating geopolitical tensions, PhonePe put its listing plans on the back burner.

However, not everything was doom and gloom. Zetwerk and RentoMojo filed their DRHPs, while sectoral giants like Flipkart, Jio Platforms, and Moneyview continued their IPO journeys. Consolidation activity also remained strong, while Indian AI startups continued to see renewed investor interest.

Amid this backdrop, we are back with “30 Startups To Watch”.

The 69th edition of Inc42’s flagship series captures a brewing deeptech ecosystem in the making, while bellwether companies like ecommerce, SaaS and edtech continue to make waves.

With that said, let’s take a look at the 30 startups that caught our attention in March 2026.

Editor’s Note: The list below is not a ranking but rather a window into startups that caught our eye last month.

ABX3 PV | Next Gen Solar Tech To Empower A Sustainable World

Despite receiving nearly 300 days of sunshine each year, India’s ambitious goal of achieving 300 GW of solar power by 2030 remains a significant hurdle. For starters, land acquisition and the development of grid infrastructure pose major constraints. Then, the sector grapples with high upfront capital costs and its reliance on imported components, especially solar modules and cells from China.

To address these challenges, IISc scientists Laxman Gouda, Aditya Sadhanala, Praveen Chandrashekarapura Ramamurthy and Sushobhan Avasthi founded ABX3 PV in 2023. 

Incubated at the IISc, the startup focuses on developing high-efficiency, cost-effective perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

PSCs are next-generation photovoltaic tech that feature an ABX3 crystal structure that acts as a high-efficiency light absorber. These cells offer high power conversion efficiencies exceeding 26% and are cheaper to produce and more versatile than silicon.

ABX3 PV embeds PSCs into sheet substrates, flexible substrates, and traditional modules to build solar cells that are more compatible and cheaper to deploy. Its hybrid perovskite modules are designed for residential solar panels, commercial and industrial installations. 

Although the startup has already produced a 15 W panel, it is currently advancing towards commercial deployment of its tech. It is also said to be building a 500 kW PSC line, with a target of satellite and drone applications. ABX3 PV operates in India’s perovskite solar cell market, projected to reach $580 Mn by 2030, up from $20.9 Mn in 2024.

AllSecureX | Building Quantum-Resilient Security Infrastructure For Enterprises

In an increasingly digital economy, cyber threats are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. Between 2021 and mid-2025, India recorded more than 2.2 Mn cyber incidents, averaging over 3,000 attacks per day. Key sectors are increasingly being targeted by ransomware, digital payment fraud, and advanced persistent threats (APTs), which are emerging as major risks across industries.

Beyond current threats, the industry is also preparing for the next wave of risks posed by quantum computing, which could eventually break widely used encryption standards such as RSA and elliptic-curve cryptography that underpin today’s digital infrastructure.

Gurugram-based AllSecureX is building technology to address this emerging challenge. Founded in 2025 by Himanshu Vohra, the startup offers an AI-powered platform that combines cyber risk quantification with post-quantum cryptography readiness, enabling organisations to identify vulnerable encryption, quantify the financial impact of cyber risks, and transition to quantum-safe security frameworks.

At the core of its offering is a hyper-automated post-quantum cryptography (PQC) platform that automatically discovers cryptographic vulnerabilities across applications and infrastructure, assesses exposure to quantum threats, and deploys protection layers without requiring hardware changes or large-scale code rewrites.

The startup primarily operates in the global post-quantum cryptography (PQC) market, projected to reach $1.9 Bn by 2030, up from $302 Mn in 2024 at a CAGR of approximately 36%.  

AllSecureX targets enterprise and high-security industries, including financial services, healthcare, FMCG, retail, and critical infrastructure, where safeguarding sensitive data against both current and future cyber threats is becoming increasingly critical. 

BAAS Technologies | Developing Sub-Orbital And Orbital Launch Vehicles

Founded in 2024 by Tanmay Kanmahale, Prashant Patil, Atharva Pingale, Shriniwas Hase, and Swayam Sonar, Bharat Aerospace and Satellites Technologies (BAAS) is a Pune-based aerospace startup that develops end-to-end rocket technology.

The startup is currently building four types of recoverable rockets:

• Gallon: Orbital rocket that can carry small, micro and cubesatellites to LEO 
• Kelvin: A rocket designed to carry small satellites with multiple fairing options based on payload requirements and mission profile
• Fahrenheit: Suborbital class rocket designed to carry micro satellites and research-experimentation components.
• Celsius: Suborbital class small range rocket designed to carry nano satellites and research-experimentation components

Besides, BAAS is also developing customised solid rocket motors (SRM) that can be configured to perform a wide range of missions, from defence to commercial missions

The startup recently conducted a static fire test of its solid rocket motor at a test facility in Rajasthan. Following the test, BAAS is expecting to undergo the next round of static fire testing within the next 3-4 months.

The startup is part of India’s space launch services, projected to become a $1.59 Bn opportunity by 2033, growing from $508.4 Mn in 2024 at a CAGR of 12.56%.

betterhood | Helping You Age Gracefully 

For Indians, deterioration of health as one ages is often an accepted facet of life. Back pain, stiff joints, and declining mobility, among other issues, make ageing a scary affair. 

Observing similar issues in their households while growing up, childhood friends Vikram Kadam and Neha Zade founded betterhood in 2024 to offer a full-stack preventive pain care for the modern lifestyle.

The brand’s product stack is built around the following:

• Posture & Ergonomic Supports: Cervical pillows, lumbar supports, posture correctors, car cushions, back braces, and ergonomic workplace accessories designed to correct structural imbalances from sedentary lifestyles.
• Orthotic Supports: Knee sleeves, ankle braces, wrist supports, and joint compression products for both recovery and performance.
• Pain Relief & Recovery Topicals: A science-formulated range, including pain relief spray and roll-on, magnesium recovery body lotion (10%), and targeted pain patches for fast-acting and sustained relief. The startup also offers a “Slouch Catcher” posture assessment platform.

The brand currently operates pan-India with fulfilment capabilities across all major metros and tier 1 cities via its Shopify storefront, Amazon, and Flipkart. Quick commerce availability is live in Bengaluru and expanding to Mumbai, Delhi, and Hyderabad.

The Kairon Capital-backed startup claims to have served over 60,000 to date.

It aims to scale to an ARR of ₹100 Cr by 2028 in a rapidly growing preventive musculoskeletal (MSK) health and pain-care market. 

The orthopaedic devices and musculoskeletal care market is projected to grow to $4.5 Bn by 2033, driven by rising lifestyle-related pain conditions and increasing awareness around preventive care. 

Cent | Offering Comprehensive Scans For Early Disease Detection

Average life expectancy in India has improved significantly over the past several decades, growing from about 63 years to over 70 years. However, many still debate whether it is possible to live to 100. 

This deliberation is exactly what led Practo CEO Shashank ND, ex-Ola CMO Anshul Khandelwal and sales veteran Arpit Garg to cofound Cent in April 2025. To help people live over 100 years, Cent offers a D2C preventive healthcare intelligence platform that uses precision radiology to detect life-threatening diseases before symptoms appear. 

Its diagnostic protocol combines advanced imaging, including whole-body MRI, low-dose CT and DEXA, along with ECG, over 120 blood and urine biomarkers, and AI-powered synthesis of results to detect cancer, cardiac, neurological, and metabolic (CCNM) risk in asymptomatic people. The assessment is followed by a clinical consultation.

Cent claims to have grown 50% month-on-month since its inception, recording an ARR of $2 Mn.

It is projected to complete 5,000 scans by year-end, aided by its expansion of physical presence in Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru.

The startup is also looking to piggyback on the growing Indian preventive healthcare market, projected to reach $2.25 Bn by 2030, up from $1.2 Bn in 2024. 

Confluxe | Digital Omnichannel Bridge To India

As global brands increasingly look towards India for long-term growth, Bengaluru-based Confluxe aims to become the cross-border platform that bridges global ambition with local execution.

Founded in 2026 by ex-Ajio chief merchandising officer Rajesh Narkar and H&M India executive Louis Coucke, Confluxe operates a platform designed to help global fashion and lifestyle brands enter and scale in India.

Here’s the playbook the recently launched startup follows:

• Market Entry Strategy For Global Brands: The platform helps international fashion and lifestyle brands plan their entry into India by analysing demand, pricing, consumer preferences, and regulatory requirements.
• Digital Commerce Launch: It then launches the brand across digital channels such as D2C websites and ecommerce marketplaces, using these platforms to test demand and build early traction.
• Omnichannel Expansion: Using data-driven analytics, Confluxe optimises pricing, assortment, and inventory while expanding the brand into an integrated omnichannel model combining online and offline retail.
• Building Local Supply Chain: The platform builds local sourcing and manufacturing and manages logistics, inventory, and operations, enabling brands to scale efficiently across the Indian market.

Acting as a key infrastructural layer, Confluxe aims to help global businesses scale in the Indian apparel market, which is expected to become a $150 Bn market opportunity by 2030.

DAAKit | Reinventing Logistics Experience For D2C Brands

With the rapid expansion of quick commerce platforms, digital-native consumer brands are finding it hard to engage with traditional online retail channels. 

The caveat is that breaking into quick commerce brings several problems, including costly infrastructure, intense operations, and reliance on external parties.

So, how can D2C brands independently scale into quick commerce? Faridabad-based DAAKit is hoping to address this gap. 

Founded in 2024 by ex-ANS Commerce director Chandan Ghutiyal, DAAKit offers a quick commerce infrastructure platform that helps brands enable ultra-fast deliveries without building their own logistics stack. 

It integrates fulfilment, inventory management, and last-mile delivery to support rapid order processing and distribution. Here’s how the startup helps its clients:

• Quick Commerce Enablement: This infrastructure allows brands to offer ultra-fast delivery, enabling quick commerce operations without building the underlying logistics network themselves.
• Fulfilment & Inventory Management: The platform manages warehousing, order processing, and inventory placement to ensure products are positioned closer to high-demand areas for faster deliveries.
• Order & Logistics Orchestration: It then integrates order management systems with courier and delivery partners to streamline fulfilment workflows.
• Last-Mile Delivery Integration: The platform then connects brands with delivery networks to execute rapid last-mile fulfilment across urban markets.

Since its launch, DAAKit’s platform has been adopted by D2C brands like Gocattles, Furver Kare, Asaya, Hummel, Too Yum, Within Beauty, and Dr Vaidya’s, among others. It has expanded its presence to nine cities, including Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow, and Kolkata. It is bidding to capture the Indian quick commerce market, projected to grow to $40 Bn by 2030.

Dodge AI | AI Agents For ERP Maintenance

Large companies rely on ERP systems like SAP to run finance, supply chains and operations. But maintaining these systems requires expensive consultants and large support teams, making upgrades, troubleshooting and everyday management slow, costly and operationally inefficient.

Founded in 2025 by Rebhav Bharadwaj and Aditya Thakur, Dodge AI targets the friction-heavy world of ERP upkeep, handling the complex operational tasks that traditionally require dedicated teams, freeing enterprises from manual SAP system management.

Here’s how the startup’s platform automates the maintenance of SAP environments via autonomous AI agents: 

• System Assessment: The platform scans an organisation’s ERP environment to identify inefficiencies and recurring system bottlenecks.
• AI-Driven Analysis: It then builds contextual graphs of ERP data to detect recurring issues and operational inefficiencies before they escalate into critical incidents.
• Configuration Optimisation: Based on these insights, the platform recommends and prioritises configuration changes to streamline ERP processes and improve system performance.
• Automated Support Operations: AI agents automate L1 and L2 support tasks, resolving tickets and service requests directly through enterprise collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams.

The global ERP consulting and services ecosystem is massive but inefficient.

ERP implementation and maintenance generate hundreds of billions of dollars annually, yet fewer than half of ERP projects are considered fully successful due to complexity and high operating costs. 

As enterprises increasingly adopt AI-driven automation, startups like Dodge AI are emerging to streamline ERP management and reduce the reliance on large consulting teams. Overall, the startup operated in the ERP/enterprise automation market, projected to grow at a CAGR of 30–35% over the next 5–7 years.

Dognosis | Tapping Into Canine Cognition For Disease Detection

Imagine if your furry friend could sense and detect a life-threatening disease and alert you in advance. Well, Dognosis, a Bengaluru-based deeptech startup, is working to make this a reality. 

Founded in 2024 by Itamar Bitan and Akash Kulgod, Dognosis is a deeptech startup that uses dogs’ sense of smell in conjunction with brain-computer interfaces for disease detection.

Its core product, BreathEasy, is an at-home test that can detect the presence of multiple types of cancers from breath collected in a face mask, “with accuracies on par or higher than full-body MRI”. 

Here’s what they are doing:

• Breath Sample Collection: Patients breathe into a mask that captures chemical signatures (volatile organic compounds) present in their breath, which can change when diseases such as cancer are present.
• Canine Detection: These breath samples are presented to specially trained detection dogs in a controlled lab environment where the animals identify disease-related scent patterns.
• DogSense: A proprietary non-invasive canine BCI records brain activity from the dogs as they analyse scents, converting their neurological responses into digital data.
• Disease Prediction: Machine learning models process neural and behavioural signals from dogs to generate diagnostic predictions of potential diseases.

While the premise of combining dog scent with medical detection is relatively unheard of, the startup is addressing an emerging early cancer detection market in India. This market was estimated at $31.8 Mn in 2024 and is expected to reach $91.3 Mn by 2030.  

Enerchi | Offering Bite-Sized Caffeine Bombs

Caffeine addiction, a growing concern in India, often leads to withdrawal symptoms like headaches, irritability and fatigue upon abrupt cessation. Just like tobacco, Caffeine addiction can make people dependent, and there are not many alternatives to curb their addiction. 

Founded in 2023 by Vansh Pardeshi, Enerchi aims to fill this gap. The D2C brand offers chewable energy mints that deliver caffeine quickly and conveniently. 

Each mint contains natural caffeine combined with ingredients like L-theanine and botanical extracts to provide sustained energy and focus without the crashes associated with coffee or energy drinks.

The startup sells flavoured mint packs, offering 60 mg of natural caffeine and 100 mg of L-Theanine in each bite. Enerchi gives users clean energy, a better mood, and digestive balance. 

A pocket-sized pack of 10 sugar-free mints costs ₹99. The brand primarily sells its products online through its website and Amazon, offering single packs as well as subscription bundles for repeat consumers. 

It targets students, professionals, and fitness enthusiasts seeking focus and fast energy during work, study, or workouts.

The startup is looking to address a growing demand for functional foods and energy supplements in the Indian energy gum market, projected to reach $6.63 Mn by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 7% from $3.64 Mn in 2024.

Good Monk | Filling India’s Nutrition Gap 

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Amarpreet Singh Anand, a former executive at Mondelez and Diageo, realised his elder son was at risk of undernutrition due to a low body mass index. 

As he explored the issue, Anand discovered that micronutrient deficiencies were widespread among urban children in India, despite the availability of popular nutrition products

Founded with his wife, Sahiba Kaur, in 2022, Good Monk aims to make nutrition a seamless part of everyday meals without altering the taste or texture of food. The brand’s core offering is its science-backed sprinkle-on nutrition powders, which can be mixed into regular food such as dal, curd, or noodles, allowing families to improve nutritional intake without disrupting eating habits.

The startup has built a portfolio of research-led products, including multivitamins, probiotics, fibre supplements and specialised nutrition mixes designed for children and adults.

Its products are developed with a focus on convenience, efficacy and clean-label formulations.

Good Monk quickly gained significant traction in India’s nutritional supplements market, projected to reach $68.43 Bn by 2030, growing from $42.97 Bn in 2024. 

GoodGudi | Fast Lifestyle Retail

Founded in 2023 by former DailyNinja founders Anurag Gupta and Sagar Yarnalkar, Bengaluru-based GoodGudi is a fast-lifestyle retail chain focussed on trendy household, personal care, and utility products. 

The lifestyle retail startup specialises in aesthetic and affordable lifestyle products. It sells a diverse catalogue of design-led products spanning home decor, travel accessories, stationery, personal care items, toys, and kitchen utilities.

It operates both online and through physical stores. It currently operates five stores in Bengaluru.

The brand targets young consumers and families seeking affordable yet aesthetically pleasing lifestyle products, positioning itself between premium gifting stores and low-quality discount outlets.

Interestingly, the demand from Gen Z is driving the rapid growth of India’s value fashion & lifestyle retail market, which is expected to become a $160-180 Bn by 2030, growing from $90-100 Bn in 2024.

Helium Smart Air | Smart ACs For India’s Compact Homes  

Gurugram-based Helium Smart Air is building next-generation air-conditioning systems for modern homes. 

Founded in 2025 by Aman Munka and Ashish Sharma, the startup aims to modernise air conditioning by combining technology, design and energy efficiency to deliver smarter and more sustainable cooling solutions.

The Jaipur-based startup has roped in IIT Kanpur to bring breakthrough innovations in next-generation air conditioning. The ACs are built for everyday Indian spaces with smart cooling, lower running cost and modern app-led controls. 

Its systems aim to optimise electricity use, reducing power consumption and cooling costs for households.

Besides, the startup also emphasises design and user experience, building cooling products that integrate seamlessly with modern smart homes.

India’s cooling demand is rising rapidly due to urbanisation, rising temperatures, and increasing disposable incomes. As households adopt air conditioning at scale, startups like Helium are emerging to capture India’s smart air-conditioner market, projected to reach $ 4.2 Bn by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 18-19% from $1.5B in 2024.  

InsituMicron | Next Generation Mechanical Testing

Understanding how materials behave under stress is critical for manufacturing industries such as aerospace, electronics, and manufacturing. However, traditional testing methods often fail to capture real-time microscopic behaviour. This limits researchers’ ability to analyse failure mechanisms and design stronger materials.

Chennai-based scientific instrumentation startup InsituMicron is building advanced tools to fix this gap. Founded in 2023 by Kousik Papakollu, Lalith Kumar Bhaskar, and Mayank Mishra, InsituMicron develops compact, high-precision miniature mechanical testing equipment. 

They enable real-time material testing for tension, compression, and bending under microscopes or X-ray systems. Here’s how this works:

• In-Situ Testing: Conducts mechanical loading while simultaneously capturing images and data, allowing for real-time observation of failure mechanisms.
• Miniaturised Design: Creates portable fixtures that fit existing high-resolution analytical equipment, such as scanning electron microscopes (SEM) or optical microscopes. ‘
• Materials Characterisation: Measures properties such as tensile strength, compressive strength, and bending strength on materials.

The startup’s advanced material analysis software suite primarily serves industries such as aerospace, defence, automotive, electronics, and academic research.

Besides, it currently works with academic labs, government research institutions, and industrial R&D teams developing new materials and manufacturing processes. InsituMicron operates in the global material testing market, projected to reach a $9.4 Bn opportunity by 2034, up from $7 Bn in 2025.

Laani | High-Performance Body And Personal Care Brand

After nearly a decade in the US, former Dalberg consultant Nirja Bhatt returned to India in 2024 and noticed a gap in the country’s personal care landscape. 

While the domestic skin and hair care segments had seen considerable innovation, the body and personal care category had lagged behind, especially for women leading active, fast-paced lives.

Curious to validate the observation, Bhatt spoke with friends and engaged with over 500 women across WhatsApp groups, Instagram, and Reddit. The conversations revealed a consistent demand for high-performance body and personal care products designed specifically for Indian skin and lifestyles, underscoring a clear market gap.

To address this, she founded Laani in 2025 to reimagine body care.

The startup’s first product, the Clear Deodorant Stick, was built over 80+ iterations and multiple user trials. 

It claims to offer clinically proven odour suppression at the source for up to 24 hours. Its deodorant stick comes in two fragrances.

Within two weeks of launch, the startup claims to have registered sales of ₹7 Lakh. With two new products in the odour and sweat control category and three new product categories — Body SPF and Body Cleansing and Moisturisation — the startup is targeting a monthly revenue run rate of INR 1 Cr. It operates in India’s deodorants & body odour control segment, projected to reach $785 Mn by 2030.

Mafkin Robotics | Addressing Manual Ship Hull Cleaning Inefficiencies

VIT alum Sarthak Vaishnav conducted extensive research in maritime and deeptech ecosystems during his college years to find out the heavy reliance on manual processes. These traditional processes revealed inefficiencies and challenges in the Indian maritime maintenance ecosystem, shaping his entrepreneurial perspective. 

He founded Mafkin Robotics in 2023 to build an autonomous robotic fleet for megastructure maintenance. The fleet is designed as an integrated ecosystem that enables efficient cleaning, inspection and analysis, report generation, and minor repair operations for large assets such as ship hulls, cargo holds, and oil storage tanks. 

The startup deploys its robots through a contract-based model, allowing maintenance operators to lease or rent the systems. It aims to reduce operational downtime and labour costs by up to 60%, while significantly improving safety and resource management.

As of now, Mafkin Robotics has successfully demonstrated its product to leading industry players.

It recently demoed its vertical crawler Angad with Larsen & Toubro (Kattupalli Shipyard) and Cochin Shipyard.

Operating in the ship hull cleaning & maritime maintenance services market, projected to reach $2.6 Bn by 2030, Mafkin aims to establish a nationwide network of operational hubs across major maritime hotspots in India. 

Magical Nest | Room Solutions For Kids

India’s home interiors market, estimated to exceed $30 Bn, remains highly fragmented, with much of the process still dependent on manual workflows and limited transparency for homeowners. At the same time, Indian consumers are becoming more design-conscious and increasingly seeking specialised spaces within their homes.

One such emerging segment is children’s room interiors, where parents are seeking spaces that combine functionality, aesthetics and flexibility as children grow.

Magical Nest is looking to tap into this opportunity. Founded in 2025 by Rahul Bhatt, Ankush Dixit and Rohit Rai, the startup focuses on designing and building premium children’s room interiors. Its offerings include activity zones, modular furniture, study areas and smart storage solutions designed to evolve with a child’s needs over time.

The startup currently serves customers across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR. It is also working with families in cities such as Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Cochin, Coimbatore and Kolkata.

Depending on the level of design and customisation, projects typically cost between ₹6 Lakh and ₹9 Lakh.

The startup claims it is on track to close FY26 with a revenue of around ₹14-15 Cr.

India’s home interiors and décor market is expanding rapidly as urban consumers increasingly invest in personalised living spaces. The country’s kids’ room design solutions segment is projected to grow to $3.2 Bn by 2030 from $1.8 Bn in 2024, driven by rising disposable incomes, urbanisation and growing demand for functional yet aesthetically designed homes.

Mannlich | High-Performance Skincare For Men

India’s unisex grooming brands still derive nearly 80-85% of their revenue from women, leaving men largely underserved. To better understand the gap, Pritam Kudev, ex-product marketing head at Tally Solutions, spoke with nearly 500 men aged 18-34 and found that those actively investing in skincare were either using dermatologist-prescribed treatments or products designed for women. 

Bridging this gap, he founded Mannlich in 2024 to focus on skincare for men. Headquartered in Bengaluru, the brand develops products designed around common but often overlooked concerns such as acne, chafing, hyperpigmentation, intimate care and sun damage.

The startup currently offers 10 SKUs across men’s personal care categories, including SPF lip balm, a de-tan body wash with kojic acid, an acne-clear body wash, an anti-chafing cream, and an intimate hair removal cream. 

The brand follows a digital-first, D2C distribution model, selling through marketplaces such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, and Tira, as well as quick commerce platforms. The brand targets consumers across metros and Tier II and III cities.

Over the past year, it claims to have seen 400% YoY growth, recently crossing ₹1 Cr in monthly net revenue while remaining profitable. Mannlich aims to reach ₹24 Cr in annual recurring revenue by FY27. It operates in India’s men’s intimate care market, projected to become a $780 Mn market opportunity by 2030.

Myca | Bringing Agentic AI To Agricultural Operations

Many agribusinesses appear tech-heavy, with ERPs, CRMs, or mobile apps, but the real operational knowledge still sits with field supervisors and in WhatsApp groups. 

Founded in 2025 by Arnav Pandey, Tejas Dinkar and Seamus Tardif, Myca attempts to replace this “human middleware” with AI-driven systems that organise, validate and execute field operations.

The startup builds an AI-powered operating system for agribusinesses, designed to help companies manage large, distributed field operations, including input sales teams, crop surveys, and market intelligence, without increasing headcount.

The platform uses domain-specific AI agents to coordinate field activities, analyse operational data, and automate decision-making across agribusiness workflows. 

Myca’s system supports agribusinesses in four main areas:

• Field Team Management: AI agents help plan, monitor and optimise the work of agricultural field sales teams and supervisors.
• Market And Crop Intelligence: The platform collects and analyses ground-level  data such as crop surveys and market conditions.
• Credit Scoring And Recovery: AI models help agribusinesses evaluate farmer creditworthiness and manage loan recovery processes.
• Operational Visibility: It creates an auditable system of actions and decisions across operations, giving agribusiness leaders a clearer view of what is happening on the ground.

Myca operates in India’s agriculture software & farm management platforms market, which is projected to breach the $4 Bn mark by 2030, growing at a 19% CAGR. 

NPrep | Go-To Exam Prep Platform For Aspiring Nursing Professionals

India has one of the world’s largest nursing workforces, with about 32 Lakh registered nurses and midwives and roughly 2.5 Lakh new graduates entering the field each year. In addition, nearly 8 Lakh candidates appear annually for competitive government nursing entrance exams. 

Despite the scale of this workforce, test preparation for nursing careers remains largely traditional, dominated by offline coaching centres and passive learning formats such as PDFs and recorded lectures.

NPrep is looking to change this. Founded by AIIMS Jodhpur alumni Prince Kaushik, Utkarsh Paliwal, and Gourav Khurana in 2024, the platform offers an AI-powered learning and career-preparation platform for nurses seeking higher-paying roles in India and abroad.

It provides over 1,400 hours of exam-aligned video content, personalised study plans, curated questions based on historical exam patterns, and performance tracking tools. An AI mentor guides students through their preparation journey.

Within 10 months of launch, the platform claims to have attracted more than 1 Lakh users, with learners consuming over 6 Mn minutes of video content and answering 31 Mn questions.

NPrep aims to help nurses access high-paying roles in government hospitals, private healthcare institutions and overseas healthcare systems, where salaries can reach ₹1–5 Lakh per month, significantly higher than typical entry-level positions. It operates in India’s larger test preparation market, projected to grow to $14.3 Bn by 2030 from $8.5 Bn in 2024.

Panoculon Labs | Building AI-Powered Smart Spectacles

Founded in 2023 by IIT Madras students Rishabh Sharma and Sreeraj R, Panoculon Labs is a Chennai-based deeptech startup that builds AI-powered environmental perception systems to help humans and machines better understand the world around them. 

The startup focuses on AI hardware and software that capture real-world sensory data — vision, sound, and motion — and turn it into contextual intelligence

Inspired by Iron Man‘s E.D.I.T.H. glasses, Kingsman smartglasses, and Mission: Impossible’s Tom Cruise glasses, Panoculon has built glasses that see and hear what the wearer does, allowing them to provide personalised assistance. 

Imagine the glass as a personal assistant that remember the wearer’s day-to-day life and assist in decisions. This glass comes equipped with cameras, LiDAR, microphones and sensors to provide contextual AI assistance.

The Panoculan glasses are supported by Trinet, a lightweight egocentric data-collection device, and MoMA, an AI meeting assistant that automatically generates structured notes.

Besides, the startup also launched a B2B SaaS offering with CheckMyPCB.

This AI tool runs a deep analysis to check whether a PCB circuit is designed correctly against conventional design-rule checks.

Many AI systems still lack real-world contextual awareness because they rely on limited datasets or stationary sensors. Panoculon Labs is attempting to bridge this gap in the global smart glasses market, projected to become a $8.3 Bn market opportunity by 2030.  

QOSMIC | Optical Ground Station Infra For Satellite Laser Communications 

As thousands of satellites launch this decade, space systems are generating more data than traditional radio-frequency (RF) communication links can handle. 

With mega-constellations and Earth-observation satellites generating massive volumes of data, traditional RF systems are increasingly inadequate. Optical and quantum satellite communication technologies are therefore emerging as a critical layer of future global connectivity and secure communications infrastructure.

Founded in 2025 by Shreyaans Jain, Rohit Ramakrishnan, and Aloke Kumar, QOSMIC is a Bengaluru-based startup building optical (laser-based) communication infrastructure for satellites to enable data transfer without bottlenecks.

The startup uses laser-based free-space optical communication to transmit data between satellites and ground stations, enabling significantly higher bandwidth.

These ground stations are capable of receiving high-speed satellite data streams.

Qosmic aims to develop both hardware infrastructure and communication systems, creating a full-stack optical network for satellite operators. The startup’s platform is designed to support quantum communication and encryption, improving security for government and commercial space networks in the global optical satellite communication market, projected to grow from $2.3 Bn in 2024 to $8.1 B by 2030. 

Quarki Tech | Quantum-Inspired Solvers For Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimisation

Founded in 2025 by Rajesh Narayanan, Shashikant Singh Kunwar, and Sanyam Parashar, Quarki Tech is building a library of quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms to solve complex computational problems across industries.

The startup is working towards a unified solver stack that applies ideas from quantum computation to problems that are difficult or inefficient for classical systems to handle.

Instead of building tools for isolated use cases, Quarki is developing an algorithmic platform in which each module addresses a recurring class of challenges — such as high-dimensional data representation, constrained optimisation, and inference under limited computational resources. These types of problems appear across sectors, making the platform applicable to multiple industries.

One of the startup’s key areas of focus is quantum-inspired compression algorithms that can compress high-dimensional data while preserving accuracy and correlations across different data streams. This approach could significantly reduce memory usage and energy consumption, particularly in data-intensive environments.

Quarki plans to build a broader quantum algorithm library, expanding beyond compression to include solvers for complex mathematical problems, error correction and suppression systems, and quantum-safe cryptography for sectors such as space, defence, communications, finance, cybersecurity, and scientific research. It serves India’s quantum computing market, projected to breach the $1.2 Bn mark by 2035, growing from nearly 90 Mn in 2024.  

QuBeats | Quantum Sensing With Atomic Precision

Modern navigation relies heavily on satellite-based GPS signals, which are prone to jamming, spoofing, and often become unavailable in remote environments. While these issues with navigation might just be a minor inconvenience for a regular commute, they can have far reaching impact when it comes to defence applications.

Founded in 2023 by Rajat Sethi, Mallikarjun Karra, Shouvik Mukherjee and Madhu Trivikram Talluri, Hyderabad-based QuBeats is developing quantum sensing technologies designed to enable GPS-independent navigation and ultra-precise measurement systems.

The startup builds quantum magnetometers, atomic clocks and RF sensing platforms that detect extremely weak magnetic and electromagnetic signals. These sensors are integrated with inertial systems and AI-based fusion engines to create magnetically aided navigation systems capable of operating without satellite signals.

QuBeats’ technology has applications across defence, aerospace, geoscience, mineral exploration and biomedical imaging, where extremely precise sensing is required.

In 2025, it secured a ₹25 Cr grant from the Defence Ministry to develop an indigenous Quantum Positioning System (QPS) for the Indian Navy. 

It also signed a partnership with indigenous drone manufacturer and navigation systems developer Zuppa to co-develop quantum-assured navigation solutions for the latter’s unmanned aerial system.

The startup estimates that the market for quantum navigation and sensing technologies could exceed $10 Bn globally, driven by growing demand for resilient positioning and sensing infrastructure.

SCIKIQ | Bringing Together Everything Needed To Scale Enterprise AI

Most enterprise data platforms are designed for technical teams, requiring specialised engineers and analysts to prepare and interpret data. As a result, business leaders across finance, operations, marketing, and supply chains often rely on IT teams to generate insights, thereby slowing decision-making

Founded in 2023 by former Barclays executives Gaurav Shinh and Rohit Kumar, Gurugram-based SCIKIQ is building an enterprise platform designed to help business users interact directly with organisational data. The startup aims to simplify data management and analytics through a no-code, AI-enabled system.

Its core product, SCIKIQ Data Hub, integrates data ingestion, governance, semantic modelling and AI capabilities into a single platform. The system also offers conversational analytics, allowing executives to query business data in natural language and receive real-time insights. SCIKIQ deploys through a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) model and typically integrates with existing enterprise data infrastructure within 30-90 days.

With enterprises rapidly investing in AI, the global data analytics and AI platform market is expected to surpass $300 Bn in the coming years, creating opportunities for unified enterprise data platforms like SCIKIQ.

Terrastack | Spatial Intelligence For India

India’s land ownership system remains fragmented, opaque and heavily dependent on manual records, particularly in rural areas. This creates challenges in land verification, transactions and governance.

Founded by Aaryan Dangi and IIT Bombay professor Milind Sohoni in 2024, Terrastack is building a geospatial data platform for rural land intelligence and land transaction management. 

The startup aims to digitise and structure land-related information using modern geospatial technologies that integrate satellite imagery, mapping tools and digital land records to create accurate and accessible land intelligence systems.

Terrastack’s operating model focuses on three key layers:

• Geospatial data mapping to digitise land boundaries and ownership patterns.
• Data infrastructure tools to enable governments and enterprises to analyse land data.
• Digital platforms that simplify land transactions, verification and governance processes.

The startup targets applications in agriculture, rural governance, infrastructure development and financial services. It also enables banks and NBFCs to underwrite rural and semi-urban borrowers with confidence.

It operates in the broader Indian geospatial analytics market, which is projected to reach $3.6 Bn by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 14%.

TuTr Hyperloop | Building The Future Of High-Speed Travel

Since 2012, the concept of hyperloop has gained recognition as the proposed fifth mode of transport. However, nothing concrete has come out of it.

In India, a student team at IIT Madras began experimenting with this tech in 2017, naming it Avishkar Hyperloop. The experiments of the team of Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy, R Balaji, and Aravind Sourirajan Bharadwaj led them to found their startup, TuTr Hyperloop, in 2022. 

The IIT-incubated startup is working on the hyperloop technology, but with a twist. While global research is focused more on passenger hyperloop travel, Tutr is starting with cargo. The startup is combining three technologies — linear induction motor (LIM), magnetic levitation, and vacuum — to build an LIM corridor. One is prerequisite to another, and all three combined are called a hyperloop, which is a frictionless train in a vacuum environment.

For now, it is starting with cargo applications in various areas of India like ports and container terminals, logistic parks, by setting up LIM-based corridors, which are capable of achieving up to 200 kmph and are scalable to be upgraded to Hyperloop in future.

The TuTr Hyperloop test facility at IIT Madras features a 410-422 m vacuum tube, currently recognised as the longest in Asia. Located at the Discovery Campus in Chennai, it is undergoing further extensions of 40-50 m to become the world’s longest hyperloop test facility. =

TuTr Hyperloop has received two commercial orders to date. One is from the Deendayal Port Authority (DPA), Kandla, and the other from the Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC). It is also in the process of identifying more applications in various ministries. The startup operates in the global hyperloop technology market, projected to reach $6.6 Bn by 2030, up from $1.2 Bn in 2024.

Veera Dynamics | Creating Revolutionary Materials For Defence

Founded in 2022 by Sai Teja Peddineni, Veera Dynamics is developing advanced materials and smart protective systems for defence and industrial applications.

The startup focuses on research in advanced composites and technical materials that can withstand extreme environmental conditions while remaining lightweight. 

Veera’s product line includes coats capable of operating across extreme temperature ranges, designed for defence equipment and personnel, hazardous industries and specialised field environments.

Its offerings stack include:

• Tardigrade: Technical apparel made with an in-house developed soft composite, which protects its wearer from extreme temperatures.
• U-Safe: An apparel line designed to protect the wearer from short exposure to fire and hazardous materials.
• T-Grade Cryo Safe: Designed to protect its wearer and operate safely while handling cryogenic temperatures. The apparel can withstand temperatures as low as that of liquid nitrogen.

With growing investment in defence technologies and advanced materials, the global advanced materials market is projected to reach $55 Bn by 2030 from $35 Bn in 2024.

Vezzo | Sneakers For Long-Lasting Comfort 

As Indian consumers become increasingly exposed to global fashion and sneaker culture, most options either prioritise aesthetics over wearability or rely on generic designs with limited attention to long-term comfort.

Founded in 2025 by Sneha Chandak, Vezzo was built to address this gap by offering footwear designed for regular, everyday use, combining clean design with comfort and durability suited to long hours of wear.

The brand’s flagship product is the Terra sneaker, a minimalist silhouette that balances aesthetics with practicality. Built for extended use, the sneaker focuses on natural foot movement, lightweight construction and comfort for up to 8-10 hours of daily wear, making it suitable across work, travel and casual settings.

Vezzo operates on a D2C model, selling primarily through its own website. Rather than launching a wide catalogue, the company focuses on a small set of carefully designed products, developed in-house through multiple iterations to ensure durability and consistent fit.

In India’s sneaker market, projected to grow to $5.9 Bn by FY32, many brands rely on white-label manufacturing and derivative designs. Vezzo is positioning itself as a design-led sneaker brand focused on originality, comfort and everyday usability. 

xLogic Labs | Dark Stores Of The Future

Long gone are the days when manufacturing relied on labour-intensive fabrication processes and fragmented supply chains. The next phase of development would see robots take over manufacturing. 

This is what Coimbatore-based xLogic Labs is working towards. Founded in 2024 by robotics entrepreneur Dhanush Bakthavatchalam, xLogic Labs is building fully automated manufacturing facilities — often referred to as “dark factories” — where robots perform most fabrication tasks with minimal human intervention.

The startup designs and builds its own robotic systems for sheet, tube and plate metal fabrication, including processes such as cutting, bending, welding, coating and insertion. Its client companies can upload CAD designs online, configure components, and have robots manufacture and ship the finished parts.

xLogic operates a manufacturing-as-a-service model, where businesses access robotic factory infrastructure without investing in their own facilities. Its software platform allocates tasks across robots and performs real-time automated quality inspection.

With global manufacturing increasingly shifting toward automation, the startup aims to build a scalable network of software-driven robotic factories serving sectors such as aerospace, defence, infrastructure and automotive. For now, it operates in the global smart manufacturing market, projected to reach $658 Bn by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 19%.

Edited by Shishir Parasher
With inputs from Venu Rathore
Creative by Varshita Srivastava

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