30 Startups To Watch: Startups That Caught Our Eyes In November 2025

SUMMARY

November saw five major listings, strong financial disclosures and renewed investor appetite across late and early stage deals

New Labour Laws, the DPDP Act rollout and MeitY’s updated AI governance framework set the tone for a more compliant tech ecosystem

As early stage innovations shine, we have returned with a fresh wave of startups across gaming, aerospace, manufacturing, healthtech, D2C and SaaS in the 65th edition of 30 Startups To Watch

November turned out to be one of the most action-packed months in recent memory for the Indian startup ecosystem. A record five listings, strong financial disclosures and a steady flow of private capital kept the ecosystem buzzing.

At the centre of this frenzy were late stage champions — Groww, Pine Labs, Lenskart, PhysicsWallah and Capillary Technologies — all of which closed heavily oversubscribed IPOs before making their debuts on the bourses.

The momentum didn’t stop there. Companies like InCred, Meritto and SEDEMAC also filed their draft papers with SEBI, signalling that the pipeline for 2026 is already taking shape.

Funding activity gained pace as well. Large late stage rounds returned, while early stage funding momentum continued with sectors like new-age consumer brands, SaaS startups and AI-led enablers, in focus.

Regulation, too, played a defining role. The rollout of new labour laws, the long-awaited implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, and MeitY’s updated AI governance framework together laid the groundwork for a more compliant and resilient tech landscape.

Amid this, early stage startups continued to break new ground, pushing innovation in crowded markets. To spotlight these rising innovators, we return with the latest edition of our flagship series, 30 Startups To Watch.

The 65th edition features a diverse mix of emerging companies across gaming, manufacturing, aerospace, healthtech, D2C, fintech and edtech.

So, without further ado, here are our picks for the November edition of Inc42’s 30 Startups To Watch.

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

0xPPL | Connecting Crypto Natives

Crypto participation has grown massively, but discovery is still messy and scattered. Users jump between exchanges, block explorers, Telegram groups and social platforms just to understand what’s happening on-chain. Despite huge daily transaction volumes, there is no single, trusted place to see meaningful activity or learn from credible users.

Founded in 2023 by ex-Rippling cofounder Prasanna Sankar, Chennai-based 0xPPL is building a social platform that turns on-chain actions into a shareable feed.

Instead of posts or photos, users see real-time crypto activity — token purchases, NFT mints, P&L shifts and staking rewards — across major chains like Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin.

This brings a user’s on-chain footprint and social graph together in one simple view.

With more than 580 Mn crypto users globally and on-chain activity headed towards trillions in annual volume, social-led crypto discovery is a largely untapped market. Backed by Alliance and Peak XV, 0xPPL expects to rake in a juicy chunk of this market, expected to become a $471 Bn opportunity by 2034.

Arctus Space | Building High-Altitude UAVs For Earth Observation

Sectors such as agriculture, mining, defence, infrastructure, and climate monitoring still rely on low-frequency satellite images that are often affected by weather. This makes real-time visibility difficult and forces teams to rely on incomplete data, often resulting in errors, inefficiencies and higher operational costs.

Founded in 2024 by IIT Madras alumnus Shreepoorna S Rao, Bengaluru-based Arctus Space is building medium-altitude, long-endurance UAVs designed for commercial earth observation.

These aircraft can fly at 45,000 ft for up to 24 hours, carrying up to 200 kg of payload, including as many as 10 high-resolution cameras, to deliver persistent, high-frequency imaging.

With reliable, continuous monitoring, Arctus offers industries a level of responsiveness that traditional satellites cannot match.

Its AI-powered data pipeline supports use cases such as crop-health tracking, refinery monitoring, mapping, safety audits and wider operational intelligence.

With R&D and manufacturing already set up in Bengaluru and international ambitions across North America, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, Arctus operates in the global earth observation market expected to cross the $14 Bn mark by 2030, driven by rising demand for real-time geospatial insights.

Axirium | Precision Machining For Aerospace

India’s growing aerospace manufacturing sector relies heavily on imported components due to limited domestic strength in advanced machining, materials and quality-controlled production. This raises costs for OEMs and slows down defence and space programmes that need rapid prototyping.

Founded in 2025 by former TASL executives Khurana, Neeraj Agarwal and Piyush Agarwal, Mumbai-based Axirium Aerospace is building a precision-engineering ecosystem designed specifically for aerospace and defence.

The startup produces high-precision metal parts and small assemblies used in aircraft.

Axirium claims to have already served more than 200 customers, worked with 1,000+ suppliers and delivered over 1 Mn parts annually across commercial and defence aerospace.

With India’s aerospace manufacturing opportunity projected to exceed $21 Bn by 2030, and global demand for precision components expected to cross $80 Bn, the market is ripe for rapid expansion.

Azimuth AI | Developing Highly Differentiated ASICs

Enterprises and device makers increasingly need to run complex AI workloads at the edge, but existing chips either consume too much power or lack the specialised performance needed for real-time industrial and energy applications. As a result, many edge deployments remain underpowered, battery-constrained or dependent on expensive cloud connectivity.

Founded in 2022 by Praveen Yasarapu and Sridevi Badiga, Azimuth AI builds application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) optimised for edge AI and low-power operation.

Its tailor-made silicon utilises software-defined architectures to deliver high inference performance while keeping energy consumption minimal, allowing devices to run advanced models for extended periods on battery power.

Azimuth focusses on markets that require robust on-device compute — smart utilities, energy management, industrial intelligence and battery systems.

In partnership with Cyient Semiconductors, it recently launched ARKA GKT-1, an intelligent power platform-on-a-chip.

With deep silicon expertise and a first-mover position in software-defined edge-AI chips, Azimuth operates in the global edge-AI accelerator market set to become a $38.44 Bn market opportunity by 2030. ASIC-based edge accelerators alone are expected to reach $9.28 Bn.

Beyond Renewables & Recycling | Pioneering Comprehensive Solar Recycling Solutions

With India’s clean energy push, waste from solar panels, batteries and other renewable systems is increasing like never before. And with limited formal recycling capacity, most end-of-life components land in informal scrapyards, where poor processing causes material loss, pollution and safety hazards.

As renewable deployment rises, the gap between installation and responsible recovery is becoming a serious environmental and regulatory challenge.

Founded in 2024 by Manhar Dixit and Vedant Taneja, Jaipur-based Beyond Renewables & Recycling is building a structured, tech-enabled system for managing renewable waste.

The startup collects, dismantles and processes end-of-life solar modules, EV batteries and other clean energy components through compliant recycling facilities.

Its model focuses on traceability, certified material recovery and safe disposal, enabling valuable materials such as aluminium, copper, glass and rare metals to be recovered and reused.

By formalising a largely unorganised sector, the company helps OEMs, EPC players and industrial users meet sustainability requirements and prepare for upcoming recycling mandates. With India targeting 500 GW of renewables by 2030, the circular economy and waste management opportunity is set to grow into a multi-thousand-crore market.

Chop Finance | An AI Tax Copilot

Finance and accounting teams spend most of their time on repetitive, rule-based tasks — reconciliations, compliance checks, reporting and data validation.

These workflows rely on outdated tools, involve heavy manual effort and often result in slow turnaround times and errors. Workloads keep rising, but productivity remains largely flat.

Founded in 2024 by Nayan Goswami, Dipankar Laskar, Arunav Buragohain and Ananya Goswami, Chop Finance is building an AI-native automation layer for accounting and finance operations.

Using agentic AI, the platform can execute complex, multi-step workflows through natural language instructions, automating tasks that previously required sustained human effort.

Chop Finance positions itself as ‘super intelligence for accounting’, helping tax professionals, CA firms and enterprise finance teams process structured and unstructured data, reason over documents, flag discrepancies and produce ready-to-file outputs.

With the global accounting software market expected to cross the $30 Bn mark by 2030, specialised AI tools for finance represent a fast-growing segment. Within that, the AI-driven finance and expense automation niche is projected to grow from around $2.5 Bn today to $4.9 Bn by 2030.

Exiles Interactives | Building The Future Of Immersive Social Experiences

India’s gaming industry is expanding quickly, yet most indie studios face production bottlenecks, outdated tooling and rising costs for building high-quality 3D experiences. As global standards climb, many Indian developers lack the technical infrastructure needed to compete in the premium PC and console markets.

Founded in 2023 by Anubhav Bhattacharya, Bengaluru-based Exiles Interactives is building a next-generation, tech-first game studio.

The startup focusses on high-fidelity action games for global players while developing internal AI-driven tools that speed up asset creation and live-ops management.

Its workflows use procedural generation, real-time simulation and modular pipelines to shorten development cycles and allow faster iteration.

By combining proprietary tooling with IP development, Exiles aims to operate more like a modern software company than a traditional game studio.

With India’s gaming market expected to surpass $8 Bn by 2030, alongside a growing niche in browser-based multiplayer gaming projected to grow to become a $800 Mn–$1 Bn opportunity by 2030.

Flick TV | Mobile First OTT

India’s streaming audience is growing at a rapid rate, but content discovery has become challenging. Viewers juggle several OTT apps, scroll endlessly and still struggle to find something engaging. At the same time, smaller creators are finding it harder to get noticed in an increasingly crowded and algorithm-heavy ecosystem.

Founded in 2025 by Kushal Singhal and Pratik Anand, Flick TV is building a unified, creator-first microdrama platform.

Positioned as an alternative to both OTT and social video, the Delhi-NCR based startup focuses on high-quality, episodic, mobile-first content.

It blends professional production with a curated creator marketplace, allowing creators to publish, monetise and build audiences without depending on traditional social algorithms.

Flick TV uses its own recommendation engine that factors in behavioural signals and mood-based cues to reduce discovery fatigue and deliver more personalised content streams.

With the Indian OTT market projected to hit $23.88 Bn by 2030, and the microdrama segment alone projected to grow from $400–$500 Mn today to nearly $5 Bn in five years, there is no dearth of opportunities for Flick TV ahead.

Game State Labs | Transforming How Games Are Built & Experienced

Most gaming studios rely on surface-level analytics (clicks, sessions and basic KPIs), which reveal very little about true player behaviour or intent. Without visibility into real in-game states, studios struggle to personalise experiences, optimise live-ops or improve player lifetime value.

Founded in 2025 by Aashbir Bhatia, Jagveer Gandhi and Ashwin Ramakrishnan, Bengaluru-based Game State Labs is building an AI-first infrastructure layer for analysing rich, real-time player-state data. Its platform captures millions of in-game events per second, contextualises them and converts them into AI-ready insights for studios

By combining predictive analytics with hyper-personalisation tools, Game State Labs enables dynamic gameplay that adapts instantly to each player.

Its AI can adjust difficulty, cooldowns, ad pricing and in-app purchase bundles based on behaviour and long-term player profiles.

By 2030, the global games-tech ecosystem—covering game engines, development tools and AI-in-gaming—is projected to reach between $15–20 Bn, with real-time player-intelligence and live-ops solutions emerging as fast-growing components.

GetReplies | Automating Brand-To-Brand Conversations

For brands, managing conversations across multiple platforms is becoming messy and inefficient. Support teams deal with scattered inboxes, slow response times, and rising expectations, all of which hurt conversions and retention.

Founded in 2024 by Naveen Prabhu and Arjun V Shenoy, Bengaluru-based GetReplies is building an AI-native customer engagement stack that automates up to 80% of brand-to-brand conversations.

The platform brings all communication channels into a single dashboard and uses domain-trained AI agents to drive sales in real time.

GetReplies’ platform automates design and execution across email, LinkedIn, voice calling, SMS, and WhatsApp.

It will eventually handle social media posts and digital ads to ensure a consistent message across every touchpoint. To drive these channels, the platform offers an evolving suite of over 45 purpose-built agents.

The startup is scaling in India’s fast-growing conversational-AI and automation landscape, with the market projected to reach nearly $1.9 Bn by 2030, driven by rising adoption of AI-enabled customer interactions.

Iztri | A Clothing Care Platform

Urban consumers rely heavily on neighbourhood ironing and laundry shops, but service quality varies widely. Burnt clothes, uneven finishing, unreliable turnaround times, and poor handling of delicate garments remain common. For working professionals and families, coordinating drop-offs and pick-ups only adds to the hassle.

Iztri, founded in 2024 by former Unilever executive Rohit Ramesh, offers a tech-enabled wardrobe-care service designed for consistency and convenience.

Through its app, users can schedule pick-ups for clothes, shoes, and bags. Processing happens in hyperlocal dark stores, enabling 24-hour delivery across serviced areas.

Iztri uses automated steam-press machines, along with dry cleaning, laundry, and specialised care for footwear and handbags.

So far, the startup’s home turf, Bengaluru, has shown early demand, validating the need for reliable, professional fabric care in a market expected to reach $8.7 Bn by 2033 in India.

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Khoji | Reuniting Missing Persons With Families

Every day in India, more than 2,200 people go missing, yet the search process remains fragmented and largely manual.

Families, police and NGOs struggle to track and reunite missing individuals. They have to rely heavily on methods like distributing posters of the missing person, social media appeals or word-of-mouth tips. These often are met with little success.

Founded in 2023 by Dhruv Gupta, Abhishek Gupta and Aditya Raj, Khoji is a unified, tech-led platform that helps identify and reunite missing people with their families.

Users can upload photos and details of the missing person on the platform. Khoji’s facial recognition engine is capable of handling up to 15 years of age variation and performing automated searches. Khoji operates on B2C subscriptions, B2G deployments with government departments, and soon B2B APIs for institutions.

The startup already has four granted and six pending patents. It has reunited 250+ individuals with 15,000+ registered users across Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh.

By 2027, Khoji aims to become India’s national missing-person platform, solving over 10,000 cases and creating a nationwide alert network.

Ludic | Footwear-First Lifestyle Brand For Indian Taste

India’s footwear and fashion market is flooded with legacy brands and fast-fashion labels, but few truly cater to consumers who want stylish, comfortable, everyday footwear with an Indian sensibility. Imported lifestyle brands often fail to match local tastes, while many domestic options compromise either on design or comfort.

Founded in 2023 by ex-RENEE Cosmetics sales head Ishit Jethwa, Ludic is a footwear-first lifestyle brand addressing this gap.

Starting with shoes and expanding into apparel, Ludic creates locally made collections that blend style, comfort and culture. Its “Sliders” collection combines ergonomic materials, bold colourways and accessible pricing, appealing to modern Indian consumers.

Ludic emphasises storytelling, making every product and interaction reflect authenticity and movement.

After launching online, it is expanding offline through partnerships with multi-brand retailers like Broadway in Hyderabad and FLXY in Pune.

With India’s lifestyle and athleisure market poised for double-digit growth, Ludic is entering a space with strong demand for homegrown, design-led brands.

By combining comfort-focussed design, Indian sensibility, and a growing omnichannel presence, Ludic has its eye on the growing fast fashion market in India, projected to expand from an estimated $10 Bn in FY24 to $50 Bn by FY31.

Medyseva | Your Rural Healthcare Partner

While visiting tehsil-level pharmacies and panchayat centres, founder Dr Vishesh Kasliwal repeatedly met patients who travelled 30–60 km for a basic OPD consultation.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, as he treated countless rural families over unstable video calls, the access gap became undeniable — many villages had no qualified doctors, forcing people to choose between a day’s wages and basic healthcare.

These experiences, combined with the helplessness he witnessed during the pandemic, pushed Dr Vishesh and his wife Rachita Kasliwal to incorporate Medyseva in 2022.

Medyseva operates a phygital healthcare network that blends staffed satellite clinics with teleconsultation technology. Its flagship MedyAarogya centres act as rural extensions for partner hospitals, medical colleges and specialist consortia, while MedyVend — a remotely operable medicine-dispensing machine — ensures last-mile medicine access.

Additional verticals such as MedyMate, MedyMind, MedyShe and MedyVision extend the platform to mental health, women’s health, ophthalmology and nutrition.

Medyseva has expanded clinics across Madhya Pradesh and partnered in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. With India’s rural healthcare market still facing some of the world’s deepest primary-care gaps, the startup plans to scale its satellite clinics and MedyVend units to reach millions of underserved patients.

Nia.one | Building An Ecosystem For Gig Worker Success

India’s gig and blue-collar workforce faces constant instability. Workers frequently move between jobs, lack safe and affordable accommodation, and have limited access to essential services. This lack of structure leads to high attrition, financial stress and poor long-term outcomes for both workers and employers.

Founded in 2024 by Sachin Chhabra and Lt Col Pushkar Raj, Nia.one is building a full-stack, phygital ecosystem designed to bring stability to this segment.

At the centre of its model are “Niadel” hubs — physical spaces located near major work clusters that offer verified jobs, affordable housing, meals, mobility and basic services under one roof.

The platform ties these services together through four products — Flow, a job marketplace; Studio, which covers housing and essentials; Tribe, which focusses on community and learning; and Rafiki, an AI assistant that helps workers find suitable roles, resolve queries and navigate available services.

Nia.one has onboarded more than 3,000 workers across 50+ cities and claims a retention rate of around 85%.

The startup now aims to scale its Niadel hubs, strengthen Rafiki’s AI capabilities and expand its support stack as India’s blue-collar workforce seeks greater stability, dignity and upward mobility.

Nyayanidhi | One Platform To Manage All Legal Works

India’s legal system is burdened with over 50 Mn pending cases, yet much of the litigation process remains manual, paper-based and painfully slow.

Founded in 2024 by Adithya LHS, Chakshu Masagali, and Pratik Pany, Nyayanidhi is building an AI-driven litigation operating system to dramatically speed up and improve the reliability of legal workflows.

The platform uses AI to automate legal documentation, translations and court filings — generating ready-to-file drafts that are then reviewed and verified by partner advocates.

Nyayanidhi combines this automation with a network of specialist lawyers to ensure accuracy and compliance, enabling enterprises to maintain litigation-readiness with minimal manual overhead.

The platform claims to have already piloted its offerings at various high courts and enterprises, and processed thousands of litigation cases.

As enterprises increasingly embrace digital tools, the demand for litigation-specific AI solutions is only set to rise in the Indian legal tech market, projected to become a $2.5 Bn market opportunity by 2030.

Openhouse | Fixing India’s Broken Resale Housing Market

India’s residential resale market remains opaque and slow. Homeowners often struggle with unclear pricing, long time-to-sale, hidden commissions and a lack of reliable guidance. This makes resale stressful and unpredictable.

Founded in 2024 by Ankit Khemka and Rahool Sureka, Openhouse offers a full-stack resale property platform designed to bring trust and transparency to secondary housing transactions.

The startup provides AI-based pricing, a 90-day sale guarantee, home staging, legal support and end-to-end transaction management.

It also uses “Data IQ” to analyse over 1 Lakh data points monthly and “Broker AI” to match buyers with the right properties.

As more sellers seek data-backed decisions and smoother resale journeys, a trusted, tech-led service layer is becoming essential. India’s top-city residential resale market is already valued at over $60 Bn, offering significant room for disruption through transparency and structured processes.

Optifye.ai | Rethinking Factory-Floor Productivity

Most manufacturing units operate manually, where supervisors depend on manual counts and memory to track output, quality, and performance. This leads to inefficiencies, inconsistent quality, hidden bottlenecks and poor visibility into real performance.

Founded in 2024 by Vivaan Baid and Kushal Mohta, Optifye.ai aims to digitise and optimise manual assembly-line operations through computer vision and AI-based monitoring.

The platform plugs into existing CCTVs and IP cameras on the factory floor. It then trains its AI models, in a matter of days, to recognise workstations, monitor operator activity and detect deviations from standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Once deployed, it delivers real-time visibility and automated reports showing line performance, cycle times, worker output, bottlenecks, and compliance with quality steps.

This gives managers the data they need to improve throughput and reduce scrap or errors.

Optifye.ai operates in the Indian smart manufacturing software market, projected to breach the $13.3 Bn mark by 2033.

Pixa AI | Creating A New Era For Voice AI

Voice-based AI still feels mechanical because most systems rely on a speech-to-text or text-to-speech pipeline. This creates latency, limits emotional expression, and makes interactions sound flat.

Founded in 2024 by Sparsh Agrawal, Pixa AI is addressing this limitation with Luna, a speech-to-speech foundational model built for real-time, emotion-rich voice interactions.

Designed for emotional fidelity, the model processes raw audio input and generates immediate, expressive output, unlocking use cases such as in-car entertainment, wellness companions, interactive gaming and virtual characters.

Backed by investors like Kunal Shah (CRED), Shankar Narayana and actor Kunal Kapoor, Pixa AI is betting that the next wave of AI will be emotion-first.

Praan Health | Lifestyle-First Chronic Care Platform For Elderly

India’s ageing population is facing a quiet health crisis. Chronic lifestyle diseases like diabetes, hypertension and arthritis become common after 50, yet care remains hospital-centric, reactive and poorly coordinated. Most solutions focus on medication, not long-term habit change, leaving older adults weaker, less mobile and dependent.

Founded in 2024 by Navneeth Ramprasad, Praan Health is building a lifestyle-first chronic-care platform designed specifically for people aged 50 and above.

Its approach centres on four pillars — strength training, clinical nutrition, medical supervision and continuous behavioural accountability. Through 90, 180 and 365-day programmes covering 25+ conditions, users receive doctor-led care, personalised nutrition, strength coaching and real-time progress tracking.

Backed by Rainmatter Investments and WEH Ventures, Praan is scaling its clinical teams and tech stack as India shifts from episodic hospital visits to continuous, home-based care.

With chronic illnesses rising sharply among older adults, Praan is betting big on the growing demand for structured, preventive health programmes.

Protouch | Skincare Has A New Name

India’s skincare market is huge, but truly science-backed solutions are still hard to find. Founded in 2022 by Tanisha Lakhani, Protouch builds tech-driven beauty and personal care appliances for Indian consumers.

Its product range includes LED-based skincare devices, ceramic-edge trimmers, serums and oral-care products. The startup sells its products through its D2C platform and major ecommerce marketplaces.

It has already served more than 2 Lakh customers in India and the Middle East.

Protouch is tapping into the fast-growing beauty-tech and home grooming segment. Globally, the personal care appliances market is expected to reach $32.1 Bn by 2030, and Indian demand is rising as consumers shift towards at-home, tech-enabled beauty solutions.

With 15X top-line growth in 30 months and profitability in tow, Protouch is locking horns with players like Philips, Panasonic and Havells dominating over 40% of the market.

Pype AI | Automating Every Patient Touchpoint

Hospitals across India remain swamped by routine patient communication, from appointment queries to procedure prep and follow-ups.

With most interactions still happening over voice, staff struggle to keep up, leading to long wait times, missed calls, burnout and preventable no-shows. The administrative load often ends up affecting both efficiency and care quality.

Founded in 2024 by Dhruv Mehra and Ashish Tripathy, Pype AI tackles this gap with speciality-trained voice and text AI agents built for healthcare workflows. These agents automate high-volume, omnichannel patient interactions, including scheduling, reminders, treatment preparation and post-discharge follow-ups.

Pype AI is deployed across many hospitals in India. It handles over 85% of patient queries without human intervention to help reduce no-shows and improve adherence.

With India’s healthcare AI market projected to grow at a 31% CAGR to $41.7 Bn by 2033, and voice-agent AI alone expected to expand to approximately $2 Bn by 2030, Pype AI aims to become the operational backbone for patient-facing communication.

RARA Barefoot | Bringing Footwear Revolution

Conventional footwear, despite decades of innovation, still restricts natural foot movement, weakens intrinsic muscles and reduces sensory feedback. This often alters posture and joint alignment, contributing to long-term mobility issues.

Since most shoes prioritise cushioning and aesthetics over biomechanics, there’s a clear gap between how the foot is meant to function and how modern footwear forces it to behave.

Founded in 2024 by Varun Mimani and Manas Tripathi, Rara Barefoot aims to close this gap by bringing “barefoot footwear” to the mainstream. The startup founders believe the foot is a natural engineering system, and shoes should support, and not limit its, movement.

Designed using global barefoot standards and manufactured entirely in India, Rara is gaining early traction among fitness communities, physiotherapists and mobility-conscious consumers.

As India’s sneaker market grows to a projected $5.93 Bn by FY32, the brand is positioning itself as a functional, health-first alternative to traditional footwear.

SaveSage | Track Credit Cards And Earn Rewards

As more Indians juggle multiple credit cards, many still struggle to understand the real value they gain from them. Reward expiries, hidden fees, suboptimal redemptions and poor card choices lead to significant value loss.

Founded in 2024 by Ashish Lath, SaveSage aims to fix this gap. The startup takes birth from the founder’s frustration with tracking expenses and rewards across a range of cards. When he realised friends and colleagues faced the same issues, he knew the challenge was widespread.

Today, the Gurugram-based startup offers an AI-powered platform that manages the entire credit card journey, from selecting the right card to tracking spends, monitoring rewards across 80+ loyalty programmes, flagging expiring points, recommending the best redemptions and enabling expert consultations.

Its AI assistant, Savvy, provides round-the-clock personalised guidance, while tools like MySpace and Travel on Points help users make smarter, higher-value decisions.

In just a year, SaveSage has crossed 2.5 Lakh users.

Sophrosyne Technologies | AI-Powered Healthcare

India’s semiconductor and digital health ecosystem is pushing to localise critical technologies, yet most wearables and medical-grade devices still rely on fragmented sensor modules that are costly to integrate. This leads to accuracy issues, shorter battery life and limited scalability for next-generation health wearables.

Founded in 2022 by Manish Srivastava, Sophrosyne Technologies is building multi-vital biosensing system-on-chip (SoC) platforms that merge ECG, PPG, respiration and temperature monitoring into a single, ultra-low-power chip.

Its upcoming flagship SoC is designed to deliver medical-grade precision and continuous multi-vital tracking in a compact, energy-efficient package for global wearable and digital-health OEMs.

The startup is also developing proprietary AI models for signal processing, deep learning and edge inference to convert raw physiological signals into meaningful insights.

Its trajectory fits squarely into India’s broader semiconductor push, spanning the Indian Semiconductor Mission, new indigenous chip programmes and private investments of INR 1.60 Lakh Cr, as the country eyes a $150 Bn semiconductor opportunity by 2030.

Synthio Labs | Transforming Life Sciences With Voice-AI Layer

Life sciences organisations face fragmented communication workflows, heavy compliance demands and limited physician engagement. Combined, these slow down clinical operations and create friction for clinicians and patients alike.

As therapy areas grow more complex and commercial teams feel the pressure, the sector needs clinically reliable, high-fidelity AI systems that can scale conversations without sacrificing accuracy.

Founded in 2024 by Supreet Deshpande, Sahitya Sridhar and Rajashekar Vasantha, Synthio Labs is building a clinical-grade voice-AI layer for the global life sciences industry.

Its AI operating system spans three key platforms: Jarvis, a voice-AI copilot for field teams; Ather, a multimodal engine for omnichannel engagement with physicians and patients; and Simulation Studio, which creates high-fidelity digital twins for strategy, research and medical insights.

Together, these tools automate compliance-heavy conversations and deliver clinician- and patient-grade experiences at enterprise scale.

Freshly funded, the startup plans to expand its engineering capabilities, strengthen product development and scale deployments across the US and Europe.

Thimblerr | One-Stop Solution For Fashion Brands

Fashion brands today operate in a slow, fragmented and high-risk manufacturing ecosystem that makes it hard to launch trend-led styles at the speed consumers expect. Long design-to-delivery cycles, multiple vendors, unpredictable production timelines and high minimum order quantity thresholds have become a hindrance for both new and established labels.

Founded in 2022 by Piyush Jalan and Rishav Papneja, Thimblerr is rebuilding the supply chain with a full-stack, tech-driven apparel manufacturing platform that helps brands launch new styles up to five times faster.

The platform replaces the traditional 180-day cycle with a 30 to 60-day workflow that includes AI-assisted design, instant raw material selection, rapid product development and predictable, real-time production tracking.

With an AI-led operating model, a cloud-factory network and a library of more than 6,000 fabrics and trims, Thimblerr gives brands a single transparent, low-risk path from concept to delivery.

Thimblerr claims to deliver production-ready samples in under seven days. The startup is targeting the $270 Bn global apparel manufacturing services market, while the tech-driven, agile manufacturing niche is expected to grow from $1.7–$3.5 Bn today to $4–$6 Bn by 2030.

Uprio | Rethinking After-School Learning

India’s after-school tutoring market has long been dominated by generic, one-size-fits-all programmes that often fail to address individual students’ learning gaps.

Founded by former BYJU’S India CEO Mrinal Mohit, along with Ankit Chaturvedi and Prashant B N, Uprio aims to rebuild after-school learning by working with schools rather than around them.

The platform offers AI-powered, hyper-personalised, school-aligned online tuition for classes V-IX.

Uprio’s AI identifies specific learning gaps, creates personalised learning paths and schedules timely revision ahead of school exams. Parents receive clear, data-backed progress updates, while monthly parental updates ensure continuous course correction.

Positioned as the ‘second act’ of Indian edtech, Uprio sits within a $7.5 Bn market expected to grow to $29 Bn by 2030. Within this, its school-aligned online tuition opportunity is expected to become a $1.2–$1.4 Bn market opportunity by 2030.

xPay | Helping Businesses Go Global Effortlessly

For Indian and Southeast Asian SaaS companies, scaling operations globally is often held back by a tangled web of operational and financial hurdles. High forex markups, inconsistent approval rates, fragmented billing systems, and a maze of tax rules make international payments slow, expensive, and unpredictable.

Many teams resort to stitching together multiple gateways, manual reconciliations, and makeshift billing tools, which drain engineering resources and hurt margins. But, Bengaluru-based xPay is trying to change that.

Founded in 2024 by Aniket Gupta and Rakshit Bansal, xPay tackles this problem with a unified global payments and billing platform built for SaaS and internet businesses looking to scale globally.

With 10+ global payments gateways integrated, including Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, PayU, Checkout.com and Adyen, the platform brings invoicing, subscription billing, checkout and receivables management under one platform.

Not just this, the platform also supports payments in 110+ currencies, offers zero forex markup, and automates sales-tax compliance and end-to-end reconciliation.

Operating at the intersection of subscription billing and recurring payments, xPay is now eyeing a piece of the homegrown payment gateway market, which is projected to reach $3.62 Bn by 2030.

Yuvrit Ayurveda | Reimagining Ayurveda For The Modern Age

For millions of Indians battling chronic lifestyle disorders, from gut disorders and skin conditions to joint pain and hormonal imbalances, traditional wellness solutions often fall short.

Generic offerings lack standardisation, while Ayurvedic treatments often vary wildly in quality, diagnostic rigour, and consistency. But Yuvrit Ayurveda is trying to change this by reimagining Ayurveda for the modern age.

Founded in 2024 by Puroo Soni and Rahul Jhawar, Yuvrit runs urban outpatient clinics that blend classical diagnostics and treatments, like herbal medicines and panchakarma therapies, with modern diagnostics, digital tracking, and outcome-focussed protocols.

The startup claims that its model prioritises reliability, transparency, and patient trust, every treatment starts with expert diagnosis, followed by personalised care, and supported by health coaches reachable via digital channels.