In the age of conversational commerce and customer-first businesses, Uniphore stands as a pioneer redefining how enterprises communicate with customers. Founded in 2008 by Umesh Sachdev and Ravi Saraogi, this Chennai-born startup has grown into a global leader in conversational AI, with operations spanning the U.S., India, Japan, and Singapore. What started as a college …
In a significant boost to India’s deep tech and drone ecosystem, EndureAir Systems, a Bengaluru-based startup specializing in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has raised ₹25 crore in fresh funding from undisclosed venture capital investors. The funding round will fuel product innovation, manufacturing scale, and AI integration for agricultural and surveillance applications — sectors that increasingly …
When Aakrit Vaish and Swapan Rajdev founded Haptik in 2013, artificial intelligence was still an emerging concept in India. Their vision was simple yet transformative — use conversational AI to make interactions between people and businesses more seamless, intelligent, and efficient. What started as a personal assistant chatbot app soon evolved into one of the …
India’s deep tech ecosystem is surging, with over 3,600 startups leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI, quantum computing, and biotechnology to address global challenges. As of 2025, these ventures, often rooted in intellectual property (IP) creation, have raised $10 billion over the past five years, cementing India as the sixth-largest deep tech hub globally. Yet, despite …
India’s startup ecosystem, the third-largest globally, is a vibrant hub of innovation, with over 1.57 lakh startups and 100+ unicorns as of December 2024. Fueled by a young, tech-savvy population, government initiatives like Startup India, and $141 billion in funding from 2014 to mid-2023, the ecosystem is poised for exponential growth. However, challenges like regulatory …