From the Ganga’s relentless currents to the trust a Bengal-based startup is building, one robot at a time, the deep-tech journey of Banergy shows how Indian conditions and local challenges are shaping the future of robotics and deep tech for the world. American ocean engineers test underwater robots in the Pacific Ocean, where depths of 40–50 meters bring stable, predictable water columns. But when Swarnab Banerjee brought that same technology to India's Ganga River, it failed spectacularly. "The entire water column was moving," says Swarnab Banerjee, operations lead at Banergy,...

Skydo, a cross-border payments platform backed by Elevation Capital, recently secured a GIFT City license and RBI PA-CB framework approval this week, making the Bengaluru-based Indian fintech one of the first cross-border payments platforms in India to offer MSME exporters a fully compliant solution for both collecting international payments and sending money abroad. Skydo, designed for Indian exporters, achieves results in India that no one else, including Stripe, PayPal, or Wise, can match. They have secured two crucial regulatory licenses simultaneously. First, they obtained a Payment Service Provider (PSP) license...

India's AI creator economy is no longer a distant promise, it is arriving now, one tap at a time, and Short Flixx has entered the Indian market to test this transformation through short video platforms that are handing AI-generated content tools to creators who never had them before, and finally making creator monetization feel less like a lottery and more like a livelihood. Steve Lowe, Founder & CEO of Short Flixx told IndiaTechDesk, "We are not positioning Short Flixx as “another short-video app,” but as AI-native entertainment ecosystem where creation,...

Kovon, a global talent mobility platform, is quietly rewriting the rules of overseas hiring by connecting Indian blue-collar workers with verified cross-border employers hungry for skilled labor. It was in 2025 that Swayamjeet Das and Bibartan Roy set out to build Kovon, not to make a better job board. They were trying to fix a system so broken that millions of India's most skilled workers never get a fair shot at the opportunities waiting for them overseas. The founders of the workforce mobility startup recently celebrated a significant milestone by...

As India supply chain AI matures, logistics automation and warehouse robots are advancing rapidly, yet without capturing the tacit knowledge embedded in human judgment, supply chain startups will keep building on a foundation that is faster, but fundamentally incomplete. The robots are here. The algorithms are learning. But the most critical intelligence keeping India’s $354 billion logistics machine running still lives in people’s heads, and nobody is coding that out anytime soon. Every morning, a warehouse supervisor on the outskirts of Bhiwandi, Maharashtra’s vast logistics hub, makes dozens of judgment...

When Srikanth K set out to build AIXE Labs and its flagship product Artograph AI, he wasn't following a startup playbook. He was following a question that had been quietly unsettling him for years: what happens to a person when their stories are no longer heard? The answer he arrived at became the foundation of one of India's most thoughtful entries into the AI-for-mental-health space — a platform that uses generative AI to support reminiscence therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), not by replacing clinicians, but by handling the invisible...

Enalytix, a Noida-based AI video analytics startup, is transforming CCTV surveillance into real-time retail intelligence by deploying computer vision tools that sharpen employee productivity, all without replacing a single previously installed camera. Walk into any Biba, Puma, or Nike store in India today, and the ceiling cameras are quietly counting how long you linger near a display rack, whether a staff member greeted you within thirty seconds, and whether an incoming delivery shipment matches the purchase order on file. None of this requires new hardware. The camera retailers already paid...

Every year, thousands of early-stage founders walk into incubation centres in India with raw ideas, borrowed laptops, and the quiet hope that someone in the startup support infrastructure knows how to help them build a company. Too often, the person greeting them has never built one. This is the uncomfortable truth sitting at the heart of India’s startup support infrastructure, and it is time to name it plainly. In this conversation with IndiaTechDesk, Mr. Vijay Bawra shares a grounded view of India’s fast-changing startup landscape and why incubation centres in India require a revamp, drawing on years...

India’s warehouse data is the missing foundation that the logistics industry has been quietly ignoring at a time when AI logistics platforms, fulfilment tech companies, and last-mile delivery promises are everywhere, there’s one uncomfortable truth: most of this innovation is sitting on top of data that simply doesn’t exist in a verified, reliable form. India's warehouse sector crossed 610 million square feet in 2025, growing 29 percent year-on-year and attracting $4.8 billion in fresh investment. On the surface, everything looks like it’s moving in the right direction. AI vendors are...

India's Auto PLI scheme, long crippled by eligibility thresholds that shut out fledgling EV startups, now faces its most serious political challenge yet, as a parliamentary panel demands that the government open the door to electric small Indian two-wheeler pioneers and reboot the INR 25,938 crore manufacturing experiment. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry tabled a report in the Rajya Sabha on March 11, calling for "calibrated flexibility or differentiated eligibility criteria,” a verdict that lands hard on five years of a program that has disbursed less than 10 percent...