AI startups in Bengaluru

Naveen Tewari, Mohit Saxena, Amit Gupta, Abhay Singhal

Founded 2007; one of India's first unicorns (2011) and a global mobile-advertising/marketing-tech platform. A foundational consumer-tech company whose alumni seeded ventures like Yulu.

Vivek Raghavan & Pratyush Kumar

Founded Aug 2023 by two AI4Bharat veterans; building 'sovereign' generative-AI models tuned to Indian languages. Selected under India's national AI mission to build a foundational model.

Raghu Ravinutala, Jaya Kishore Reddy, Rashid Khan

Founded 2016 (originally Yellow Messenger); a conversational-AI and customer-experience automation platform serving enterprises across Asia and beyond.

Krish Ramineni, Sam Udotong

Founded 2016 (US-incorporated, large BLR team). AI meeting notetaker/assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls. Became a unicorn in 2025.

Naveen Tewari, Piyush Shah, Abhay Singhal

Founded 2019 (InMobi spinout). AI-powered lock-screen content and commerce platform (Glance, Roposo). Unicorn valued ~$2B.

Dhiraj Rajaram

Founded 2004. Decision-sciences and big-data analytics services firm; one of India's earliest analytics unicorns (~$1.5B). Bootstrapped/profitable.

Avneesh Agrawal, David Julian

Founded 2015 (US+BLR R&D). AI-powered fleet safety and video telematics (Driveri). Became a unicorn in 2025.

Rohan Nayak, Prateek Dixit, Nishanth Srinivasagowda, Dana Ram Meghwal

Founded 2018. Audio-series / audio-entertainment platform scaling fast in India and the US (~$250M ARR). Soonicorn; raised ~$197M total.

Vaibhavi Gangwar & Akshay Deo

Founded 2023 (Google–Postman duo). GenAI evaluation and observability platform spanning the AI dev lifecycle from design to production. Raised $3M seed led by Elevation Capital (angels incl. founders of Post...

Deeptech building a full-stack AI cloud / GPU-infrastructure platform. Rebranded from Kluisz; raised $22M Series A in 2026 led by Greenoaks with RTP Global and Unicorn India Ventures.

Dr Nagendra Nagaraja

Founded 2019. Deeptech building AI + quantum together — 'intelligence compute'. July 2025 raised $32M Series A (co-led by the Indian government's National Quantum Mission and Avataar Ventures) at ~$162M valu...

Amit Sharma

Founded 2020. AI-powered customer-service / helpdesk SaaS for ecommerce brands (2,000+ brands). Sequoia/Peak XV-backed.

Rohit Kumar Pandey, Tathagato Dastidar, Apurv Anand & Bharath Cheluvaraju

Founded 2015; AI + robotics for microscopy-based diagnostics. Its AI100 (Shonit/Shonit+) platform robotically scans and digitises blood smears and urine, classifying cell types and flagging anomalies. The AI...

Amritanshu Jain & Devansh Ghatak

Founded 2022 by ex-Google/Oracle engineers. Inference / MLOps infrastructure layer to deploy, optimize and manage generative AI models fast. Reportedly raising ~$20M led by Nvidia (2026), valuing it ~$100M.

Divyaanshu Makkar

B2B commerce SaaS for wholesale distributors/manufacturers to sell online, with CRM and AI sales tooling. Targets US wholesale market; venture-funded.

Jo Aggarwal & Ramakant Vempati

Founded 2016 (Touchkin eServices); AI mental-health chatbot delivering CBT/DBT-based emotional support, now a clinically validated 'phygital' platform used by employers, insurers and the UK NHS. India's most...

AI startup; raised ~$2M seed with Speciale Invest and 3one4 Capital participating. Early-stage applied-AI play out of Bengaluru.