Tech30: Meet the 30 startups powering India’s next innovation wave
From deeptech breakthroughs and AI-led innovation to climatetech and healthcare revolution, these startups are shaping India’s next decade of growth.
India’s startup story has entered its next act. After navigating funding slowdowns and global headwinds, a new generation of founders is building for resilience, sustainability, and scale. They’re not just chasing valuations; they’re solving hard problems in energy, AI, biotech, and robotics, often with homegrown technology that rivals global standards.
YourStory has played a pivotal role in highlighting and presenting these entrepreneurs across fields. And, at TechSparks, we highlight their stories as part of Tech30, a list of India’s 30 most promising startups poised to become major disruptors across fields.
Handpicked from more than 2,000 applications, the startups this year were chosen by a jury comprising veterans from the startup ecosystem, and YourStory's team of senior editorial and research staff. The Tech30 report was unveiled on Day 1 of TechSparks 2025, India’s most influential startup-tech conference.
From clean energy management and atmospheric water generation to space debris cleanup and AI-powered neurology, these 30 startups embody the spirit of purposeful innovation. Each of them is tackling sectoral gaps, rethinking old systems, and building technology that aims to make life smarter, safer, and more sustainable.
Here’s a look at the 30 companies defining India’s deeptech decade.
4Climate
4Climate automates greenhouses and indoor farms using IoT and AI to control climate, irrigation, and nutrients. Its platform uses sensors to monitor conditions and automatically adjust operations, serving commercial farms, sustainable city projects, and clients like hotels and airlines across India and the Middle East. Read more.
Abyom SpaceTech and Defence
Abyom SpaceTech and Defence is building multiple classes of reusable launch vehicles, RSR, SRLV, and MRLV, along with an open-access test facility for rocketry teams, institutions, professors, and early-stage space startups. Read more.
Aeronero Solutions
Aeronero Solutions creates clean drinking water directly from air using atmospheric water generation technology. This deeptech company combines condensation and desiccation methods to produce water efficiently, even in low-humidity areas. Its modular systems range from home units to industrial models, producing up to 50,000 litres of water per day at a cost of just Rs 4 per litre—or zero when powered by solar energy. Read more.
Articulus Surgical
Articulus Surgical is a B2B medical devices startup developing affordable surgical robotics systems for minimally invasive procedures. Its flagship product, Pulsar, allows surgeons to operate remotely with precision and at a fraction of the cost of foreign systems, targeting medical colleges and hospitals conducting procedures in gynaecology, hernia repairs, and cancer surgeries. Read more.
Bolna AI
Bolna AI builds voice automation tools that help businesses create human-like voice agents. Its platform uses speech-to-text, language, and text-to-speech models—both proprietary and external—to enable smooth, multilingual conversations for use cases such as recruitment, customer support, and logistics. Read more.
Breethr HQ
Breethr HQ has developed an all-in-one air management system that integrates heating, cooling, humidity control, ventilation, and air filtration. Using medical-grade HEPA filters with 99.9% efficiency, the system maintains a single-digit air quality index indoors while consuming far less energy than traditional multi-device setups. Read more.
Bullwork Mobility
Bullwork Mobility is empowering India’s agricultural sector through autonomous electric vehicles for agriculture, construction, and warehousing. The cleantech startup’s range includes sprayers, mini tractors, and tractors powered by AI, machine learning, and vision-based systems that enable precision farming, task automation, and data-driven insights such as crop yield prediction. Read more.
Contineu
Contineu.ai is a B2B SaaS startup that automates construction site monitoring using AI and computer vision. It employs magnet-mounted cameras and visual analytics to detect defects, track progress, and improve quality control—without manual data entry. Read more.
Cosmoserve Space
Cosmoserve Space is a deeptech startup developing autonomous robotic spacecraft to clean up space debris and make Earth’s orbit safer. It focuses on end-of-life satellite services and active debris removal using soft robotic arms capable of capturing and deorbiting defunct satellites. Read more.
Edgeble AI
Edgeble AI builds self-learning edge AI platforms that allow devices to operate and self-correct autonomously without cloud connectivity. Its technology enables factory machines, cameras, and industrial systems to maintain accuracy in real time without relying on remote servers. Read more.
eVerse AI
eVerse AI empowers smallholder dairy farmers with tech-driven solutions. Its Connected Cow product helps optimise fertility, health monitoring, and milk yield, while Green Cow works to reduce methane emissions, lowering the sector’s carbon footprint. Read more.
Genloop
Genloop delivers enterprise AI solutions that let businesses interact directly with their structured data—like SQL databases—through natural language queries. Its customised large language models (LLMs) are continuously trained for specific enterprises, ensuring deterministic, accurate business insights. Read more.
HanuAI
HanuAI is a B2B and B2G deeptech startup offering AI-powered software for road maintenance and safety management. Using AI models, GIS mapping, and IoT devices, the platform helps government bodies and private companies manage road networks, having already surveyed 1,55,000 lane kilometres across 20 Indian states. Read more.
Humn Health
Humn Health is an AI healthtech startup that turns smartphone cameras into continuous health sensors using remote photoplethysmography and computer vision. Its predictive platform monitors physiological signals to deliver personalised medical insights, initially focusing on maternal health conditions such as gestational diabetes and preeclampsia. Read more.
Medvolt AI
Medvolt AI is a pharmatech startup leveraging generative AI, graph AI, and physics-based simulations to accelerate drug discovery. Its platform, Medgraph, enables scientists and pharma companies to design, test, and optimise new drug molecules virtually. Read more.
NeuroDiscovery AI
NeuroDiscovery AI builds an AI platform for neurology that analyses data from electronic health records and medical imaging. It provides doctors with AI-generated insights during consultations and helps pharmaceutical companies access de-identified patient data for research and clinical trial enrolment. Read more.
Ofofo
Ofofo is a cybersecurity startup focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses. Its Questionnaire AI agent uses LLMs to automate cybersecurity due diligence questionnaires often required by enterprise clients or investors, offering customisation across industries. Read more.
Okulo Aerospace
Okulo Aerospace develops solar-powered, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for defence and enterprise use. The company designs both hardware and software in-house, creating drones that can fly for days or months while delivering real-time aerial data for surveillance, security, and environmental monitoring. Read more.
Pavakah Energy
Pavakah Energy has created a thin-film coating that converts any surface into a solar panel. Applied like wallpaper to rooftops, walls, or vehicles, the lightweight technology also blocks UV and IR radiation, cooling surfaces by 3–5°C while generating electricity. Read more.
Quanfluence Pvt Ltd
Quanfluence is a deeptech startup building a quantum computer using photonics in a novel way. Aiming to launch its first set of qubits, the basic unit of quantum computing, by 2029, it has already secured seven B2B clients. Read more.
Reslink Energy
Reslink Energy is a cleantech startup building intelligent energy management systems for India’s renewable sector. Combining hardware with AI-driven software, its platform monitors, analyses, and optimises solar power generation and battery performance in real time—making India’s renewable energy ecosystem smarter, more reliable, and homegrown. Read more.
Robo Bionics
Robo Bionics manufactures 3D-printed prosthetic hands for individuals with below-elbow amputations. Its flagship product, Grippy, uses muscle-generated electrical signals to control robotic motion, automatically adjusting grip shape and pressure to prevent objects from being dropped or crushed. Read more.
Sarthhak AI
Sarthhak AI builds AI-driven SaaS tools to make scientific research and manufacturing R&D more efficient. Its flagship platform, GoodScientific, helps labs and research teams digitise workflows, analyse data, and leverage AI to accelerate innovation. Read more.
SatLeo Labs
SatLeo Labs is addressing the global thermal data gap by providing high-resolution, real-time thermal imagery from space. Incubated at IN-SPACe, the spacetech startup is building a satellite constellation for multi-band thermal imaging from Low Earth Orbit. Its first experimental satellite launch is planned for February 2026. Read more.
SCIKIQ
SCIKIQ is a data and analytics startup that helps enterprises make better use of their information. Its flagship product, Data Hub, is a platform-as-a-service offering that connects and organises data from multiple sources, providing a unified, real-time view of operations. Read more.
UGX AI
UGX AI uses AI and IoT to improve manufacturing efficiency. By extracting and analysing high-quality machine and shop-floor data, the platform helps optimise production processes without requiring additional machinery or labour. Read more.
Vaani AI
Vaani AI is building a comprehensive voice infrastructure platform for enterprises. Its in-house speech recognition and text-to-speech models, powered by generative AI and reinforcement learning, enable natural, human-like voice interactions across sectors such as BFSI, mobility, and healthcare. Read more.
Vgenomics
Vgenomics is a B2B biotechnology startup that uses AI to diagnose and treat rare genetic diseases. Its platform, RgenX, analyses patient symptoms and DNA data to identify genetic mutations, supporting clinical labs, pharma companies, and research institutions. Read more.
Wizr AI
Wizr AI is an enterprise AI company creating a no-code/low-code platform that allows businesses to safely build, deploy, and manage AI agents powered by LLMs. Its drag-and-drop interface enables rapid deployment of AI tools for customer service, documentation, and IT workflows. Read more.
YoLearn AI
YoLearn AI offers deeply personalised adaptive learning. Its AI bots act as step-by-step tutors, mirroring human teaching methods rather than overwhelming students with information. The startup also provides tools for teachers to automate tasks and create AI CoTeacher Avatars to assist students with homework. Read more.
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Edited by Swetha Kannan

