On the demand side, friction-heavy moments within India’s digital payments ecosystem are creating high-volume entry points for voice automation. For instance, 19.63 billion UPI transactions in September 2025 generated millions of PIN resets, refund requests…

2025 has been a pivotal year for AI, with technology finally moving from hype to actual deployment and models becoming more capable. However, a few AI startups couldn’t keep up with the race and had to shut shop due to lack of investor interest, poor product…

India’s edtech sector is entering its second act, one marked by an aggressive shift offline. After years of digital disruption, leading players are investing in physical centres to rebuild trust, improve outcomes, and achieve sustainable unit economics. PhysicsWallah…

It has been more than a year since the IndiaAI Mission was announced, yet the country awaits its homegrown LLM. While there have been efforts across compute, datasets and research collaborations, the Mission’s progress remains far behind global labs that…

Indian SaaS companies once grew by identifying sharp vertical problems and solving them at speed. That model involving point solutions focused on a single issue no longer aligns with enterprise expectations. Globally, organisations now demand platforms that…

In early 2024, as the world cautiously emerged from COVID’s long shadow, two engineers began asking a simple question: Why is the healthcare system built for systems, not for people? For Dhruv Mehra, cofounder and CEO of Pype AI and a former Meta engineer…

Over the last two decades, India’s startup narrative leaned on a familiar axis: engineering institutes produced technologists, technologists started companies, and the labs and dorm rooms in those institutes fed the country’s innovation pipeline.  Management…

After more than a year of building independently, smallest.ai raised $8 million in its seed round in October, led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from several other veteran investors in the industry.  The voice AI-focused startup, founded by CEO Sudharshan…

In a digital world dominated by text-based search and countless suggestions, our ability to visually comprehend information still lags behind. People can point their cameras at anything, yet rarely receive deeper meaning or cultural context in return.  Chance…

When the Ministry of Defence wanted to build India’s first indigenous, air-gapped language models, both large and small, for the Indian Army, it entrusted Neuralix AI with the responsibility. The company had secured the iDEX grant in 2024 after its no-cost…