Generative AI startups in Bengaluru

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.

Bhavish Aggarwal

Launched 2024 by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal; became India's first AI unicorn ($1B) in its $50M Jan-2024 round — fastest Indian unicorn. Built BharatGPT-style LLMs, acquired Bengaluru chip startup Bodhi Com...

Shubham A Mishra, Vrushali Prasade & Harikrishna Valiyath

Founded 2018/2020. Codeless AI infrastructure for brands to plan, create and orchestrate marketing campaigns (now agentic AI for marketing). Raised ~$209M from General Atlantic, Celesta, Chiratae, Grupo Cars...

Sanidhya Narain, Lalith Gudipati & Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Founded 2023. AI-native entertainment ecosystem — proved its model with Dashtoon (AI comics), then Frameo.AI (video) and DashReels (mobile micro-dramas, 5M+ downloads in a month); 20M+ users. Raised $13M Ser...

Rohit Agarwal & Ayush Garg

Founded 2023 (founders ex-Pepper Content). Production stack / AI gateway for GenAI builders — unified LLM routing, observability, load balancing, prompt management and LLMOps. Raised ~$3M+ seed; widely adopt...

Abhishek Upperwal

Founded 2019. Open-source frontier-AI lab; one of the first startups backed under the Rs 10,037 Cr IndiaAI Mission (with Sarvam, Gnani, Gan). Building Project EKA — a 120B-parameter open Indic LLM (with IIT ...

Ishaan Bhola & Mukunda NS

Founded 2021 (formerly Contlo). Rebranded July 2025 into a full-stack agentic AI platform automating marketing, sales and support; early open-source autonomous-agent framework had strong GitHub traction. Rai...