Meanwhile, across eChai
Sushil Sharma
Founded 2019; the accelerator/VC that anchors Jodhpur's ecosystem, focused on Tier-2/3 founders. Has backed 100-200+ early-stage ventures, ~35% women-led, present in India, Dubai & Singapore. In 2025 announc...
Surender Singh Rajpurohit
Founded 2016; D2C 'intelligent apparel' brand with patented anti-stain / anti-odour / water-resistant clothing and Red-Aloe-Vera-infused fabrics. Raised ~US$1.7M across 3 rounds (backers incl. Freshworks' Gi...
Dr. Nirmal Gehlot & Tarun Gehlot
Started 2002 as a two-room offline coaching institute for government-exam prep; grew into a bootstrapped, profitable edtech (govt exams, NEET/JEE, school). Acquired by Physics Wallah (PW) in June 2023 — one ...
Sushil Sharma, Devesh Rakhecha & Suraj Goyal
Jodhpur-based SaaS/consumer startup billed as India's #1 yearbook company (digital yearbooks, alumni & corporate memory books via app + portal); serves IITs/IIMs and global institutes. Raised ~US$443K across...
Multi-vertical Jodhpur conglomerate (automotive media, AI, robotics, digital content/creator economy, jewellery, training) reported crossing a combined ~Rs 150 crore (~US$18M) valuation across nine companies...
TISC / AIoT Innovation Hub (deeptech incubator)
The Technology Innovation & Startup Centre (TISC) and AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) Technology Park/Fab facility are IIT Jodhpur's deeptech engine — thematically unique 'AIoT' focus, targeting inc...
Bharat Paryani
AI-first engineering/consulting firm building custom SaaS platforms, AI agents and HR-tech that fit into existing enterprise workflows (ops bottlenecks, HR). Early-stage, bootstrapped; representative of Jodh...
IIT Jodhpur AIoT accelerator partner
Seed-stage acceleration entity associated with IIT Jodhpur's AIoT / Industry 4.0 support system. Early and thinly documented publicly; listed here as an example of the nascent IIT Jodhpur deeptech pipeline. ...
Founded 2005 in Jodhpur by Dr. Arun Singhvi (MD/Group CEO) and Dr. Shilpi Gang (woman co-founder); first centre opened Dec 2005. Grew from Jodhpur into one of India's largest eye-care hospital networks, back...
Jodhpur climate-tech venture cited among the city's national-leader cohort and expanding internationally; part of the IIT Jodhpur / Marwari Catalysts deeptech-adjacent wave. [FLAG: named in ecosystem coverag...
Jodhpur-based D2C solid-wood furniture brand — heirloom-grade Sheesham/acacia/mango-wood pieces made with vintage tools and traditional joinery. Planned experience stores in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru for an...
Affordable-IVF/ICSI fertility venture (Founder Dr. Renu Sharma) built under Marwari Catalysts' venture-studio model, scaling as a mother-and-child care network targeting tier 2-3 cities. Recent (2025-26) Jod...
Jodhpur-born startup accelerator + micro-VC, founded 2019 by Sushil Sharma with co-founders Richa Sharma and Devesh Rakhecha. The single biggest startup-community anchor in Jodhpur — a 500+ co-founder network, 100+ early-stage ventures a...
The investment arm of Jodhpur-based accelerator Marwari Catalysts — described as Rajasthan's SEBI-approved Alternative Investment Fund (AIF Category-1 Angel Fund) with a Rs 100 crore corpus, targeting support for ~300 startups across div...
Rajasthan's leading angel investor network, founded 2011 and based in Jaipur, investing in early-stage, scalable businesses across the state including Jodhpur founders. FLAG: RAIN is Jaipur-headquartered, not a Jodhpur body — it is inclu...
TISC is IIT Jodhpur's flagship incubator — a Section-8 company and Government-of-India-recognized Technology Business Incubator (TBI). It backs deep-tech, science- and engineering-driven startups with the campus's core theme of AIoT (Art...
IIT Jodhpur's Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), incorporated in 2020 as the Section-8 iHub Drishti Foundation under the Government of India's NM-ICPS mission on Cyber Physical Systems. In February 2022 IIT Jodhpur, the Jodhpur City Knowle...
AIIMS Jodhpur hosts an on-campus healthcare incubation centre as part of the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre — a tripartite collaboration between AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur and Business Sweden (Swedish Trade Commissioner's offi...
A joint medical-technology initiative between IIT Jodhpur and AIIMS Jodhpur that runs a Master's in Medical Technologies and a PhD program, putting engineers and doctors on a common platform. The collaboration aims to develop indigenous ...
The Jodhpur node of iStart Nest, the Government of Rajasthan's flagship incubation network run by the Department of IT & Communication. It provides free incubation to early-stage startups with mentoring, investor/accelerator connections ...
One of India's oldest government engineering colleges (est. 1951), formerly a faculty of Jai Narain Vyas University (JNVU) and made a State University in September 2021. It runs 27 PG and 10 doctoral programs and is cited as a key academ...
JIET Group of Institutions runs innovation and startup incubation centres supporting student-led ventures, with modern facilities and industry partnerships. It reported 12 student startups launched in 2024 that secured angel funding, and...
Rajasthan's best-known independent incubator, a CIIE (IIM Ahmedabad) initiative based in Jaipur. FLAG: Startup Oasis is a Jaipur institution with no Jodhpur campus; it is noted here only because Jodhpur founders in state-level accelerato...
A Jodhpur-headquartered startup accelerator and incubator founded in 2019 — one of India's fastest-growing accelerators and arguably the ecosystem's most prominent homegrown institution. It has backed 100+ early-stage ventures, created 5...
Industrial areas developed and administered by RIICO (Rajasthan State Industrial Development & Investment Corporation). Boranada Phase-I was established 1 October 1991 (pin 342012) and has since grown to multiple phases (I, III, IV); the...
A locally-owned coworking space founded in 2018 in the central Sardarpura business district, accommodating up to 90 members. It offers floating desks, dedicated desks, private cabins (4- and 6-seater) and meeting rooms, with membership f...
A modern coworking space in Shastri Nagar, Jodhpur offering high-speed Wi-Fi, meeting rooms and a community environment aimed at startups and freelancers. Part of Jodhpur's small but growing flexible-workspace market, which also includes...
DevX is a national managed-office/coworking brand with a Rajasthan presence at Mall of Jaipur (and other cities such as Rajkot). FLAG: research found NO DevX location in Jodhpur — its Rajasthan footprint is Jaipur-only. Included to corre...
YourStory x iStart confluence held Jan 19 2024 at iStart Nest, Jodhpur — sessions, practical tips and networking spanning the founder journey from ideation to investment and scaling. A concrete recent example of the ecosystem-building ev...
TiE Rajasthan is the state chapter — headquartered in Jaipur, impacting 500+ startups/students yearly via mentoring, education, funding and networking, with a focus on women and young entrepreneurs. VERIFIED: there is no separate TiE Jod...
Jodhpur's principal industry body (est. 1942), affiliated to the Rajasthan Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Represents the region's manufacturing, handicraft and export businesses and convenes trade/industry events — the bridge between Jo...
Maiden edition of EPCH's Jodhpur handicrafts export expo, Jan 23-26 2025 at the TFC Boranada — ~100 exhibitors showing furniture, home décor, leather, metal and lifestyle crafts, inaugurated by Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekh...
iStart Rajasthan's entrepreneurial ideathon (with Studybase, Tinkerly, Codevidya) igniting startup ideas among school and college students across six Rajasthan cities including Jodhpur. A grassroots feeder that surfaces first-time founde...
Jodhpur's principal trade and industry chamber, incorporated 9 June 1942 — one of the oldest business membership bodies in western Rajasthan. It represents industries and traders across the Marwar region and functions as a divisional cha...
A premier export body of Rajasthan established in 1998 and registered as a non-profit under the Rajasthan Societies Registration Act. It represents Jodhpur's globally significant handicrafts export cluster — metal and woodwork, fabric, l...
The Art Exotica
Founded The Art Exotica in Nov 2016 from her Jodhpur garage with Rs 27,000 in savings, after a career in brand/product management and investment analysis. The venture manufactures and exports Indian handicra...
Elara IVF
Founder & COO of Elara IVF, a fertility venture launched under Marwari Catalysts Group's Venture Studio Model to deliver affordable, transparent IVF/ICSI care in tier 2-3 cities. One of the few women founder...
Sarathi Healthcare (co-founder)
Co-founder of Sarathi Healthcare (founded 2020, with Amol Bagul and Lavender Singh Rathore), a funded Jodhpur healthtech giving senior citizens access to health monitoring, homecare, doctor consults and medi...
Saheli Women
Jodhpur-native social entrepreneur who founded Saheli Women in 2015 with $100 and five craftswomen in a one-room desert studio. Now an internationally-recognised, ethically-certified textile collective emplo...
The two main women-entrepreneur support networks reaching Jodhpur: FICCI FLO (Ladies' Organisation) Rajasthan chapter and WICCI (Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry) Rajasthan, both running mentors...
The 852 acre permanent campus on the Nagaur road about 24 km north east of the city, and the region's deeptech anchor. It runs TISC, a recognised technology business incubator themed on AI of Things, alongside the iHub Drishti innovation hub and the Srijan generative AI centre.
2 companies 4 coworking
Strong in Deeptech, AI
Jodhpur's principal manufacturing belt, developed by RIICO from 1991 and now spread across several phases south west of the city. It concentrates the export handicrafts, wooden and wrought iron furniture and steel and metalware units, and the Agro Food Park inside it holds guar processors. The EPCH trade facilitation centre here hosted the first Artefacts handicrafts expo in January 2025.
2 companies 1 coworking
Strong in furniture-D2C, agritech
The commercial and professional core of modern Jodhpur, holding the corporate offices, hotels and banks along with most of the city's coworking. MBM University, one of India's oldest government engineering colleges and now a state university, sits in Ratanada with its incubation cell.
2 companies 4 coworking
Strong in Edtech, Coworking
Answers about the Jodhpur startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Jodhpur look like?
Small and concentrated, sitting on top of a much larger export economy rather than replacing it. Handicrafts and furniture export is the biggest cluster in the companies list, with healthtech and AI leading the newer tech cohort and a guar gum processing belt underneath both. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
What is Jodhpur known for beyond tourism?
Two export trades. The city ships roughly US$350 million of wooden and wrought iron furniture and handicrafts a year, close to 60 per cent of Rajasthan's handicraft exports, across some 3,000 exporters and a very large artisan workforce. It is also one of the world's main guar gum processing centres, milling a desert crop that goes into food, cosmetics and oil and gas drilling.
Who are the best known startups from Jodhpur?
ASG Eye Hospital, founded in the city in 2005 and now one of India's largest eye care networks, is the most scaled. Utkarsh Classes, the government exam prep company built here from a small offline coaching institute, was acquired by Physics Wallah in 2023. Krimanshi makes livestock feed from food waste and agri residue, NPrep is an AI exam prep platform for nurses founded by AIIMS Jodhpur alumni, and TURMS is the city's best known consumer apparel brand.
Which are the top startup verticals in Jodhpur?
Handicrafts and furniture export, AI and healthtech lead, with D2C, deeptech and the guar gum and chemicals cluster close behind. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Jodhpur?
IIT Jodhpur runs TISC, a recognised technology business incubator themed on AI of Things, at its Karwar campus, and AIIMS Jodhpur hosts a health incubation centre under the India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre. iStart Nest is the Rajasthan government's Jodhpur node, and MBM University and JIET run student incubation cells. The coworking market is small and locally owned, and the spaces are listed below.
Are there investors and VCs in Jodhpur?
Marwari Catalysts' SEBI registered angel fund is the one early stage capital vehicle headquartered in the city. Beyond it, founders here reach capital through Rajasthan wide networks such as RAIN, which is based in Jaipur, and through investors in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. The investors section below lists what is active locally.
Where do founders network in Jodhpur?
Mostly around Marwari Catalysts, the accelerator and venture studio founded in the city in 2019 that has backed over 100 early stage ventures and runs a 12 week programme called Thrive, plus the iStart Nest centre and the campus groups at IIT Jodhpur and MBM University. The Marwar Chamber of Commerce and the Jodhpur Handicrafts Exporters' Association convene the export and manufacturing side. The communities section below lists them.
Does eChai run events in Jodhpur?
No. eChai ran a single programme in the city, the Jodhpur Accelerator Program in September 2016, and there has been no chapter here since. The events section shows anything upcoming, and if you would like to help start one properly, get in touch.
Want to help start eChai Jodhpur?
eChai ran one programme in Jodhpur, an accelerator programme back in September 2016, and there has been no chapter in the city since. If you are a founder or community builder who wants to convene free, open meetups here, get in touch. No membership, no fee.
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