HOT STARTUPS 2020
Nvidia acquired synthetic-data startup Gretel in 2025 for more than its $320 million valuation; who were its founders?
It was founded in 2019 by Alex Watson, John Myers and Ali Golshan. Gretel had raised more than $67 million in venture capital funding before the acquisition. The original idea behind the startup was to make it easier for developers to use data that companies could not freely share due to privacy concerns or compliance rules.
ET Startup Awards 2026: Theranautilus’ nanorobots will be ready for human trials by year-end
Theranautilus won the Top Innovator category at The Economic Times Startup Awards 2026 for its unique nanorobot technology, which is built on fundamental research and backed by peer-reviewed work. Past winners of the award include Qure.ai, BrainSight AI, String Bio, and Eyestem.
ET Startup Awards 2026 | Startup of the Year: Street-smart Groww outruns regulatory odds to claim top prize
With the win, Groww joins the likes of Urban Company, Lenskart, OfBusiness, Razorpay, Zomato, Zerodha, Delhivery, Swiggy, Oyo, Freshworks and Ola, all of which won the biggest honour over the 11-year history of the awards.
How this startup is using pen and paper to transform India’s healthcare industry
Doxper, a healthtech startup, is helping doctors to digitise their case sheets using digital pen and encoded papers.
For Krimanshi Technologies, 1.3 billion tonnes of global food waste offers great business opportunity
Nikhil Bohra led agritech Krimanshi aims to revolutionise the innovation-stagnant Indian feed sector by creating a new value chain around unconventional feed resources by utilizing the food waste being generated to produce natural high nutrition feeds.
How Semly Pro helps in preventing irrelevant ads from appearing on your search results
It is common to find unnecessary ads on your Google search results most likely triggered by related but irrelevant phrases and words used. Negative keywords rule out the possibility of these ads popping up and Semly Pro has now automated this process.
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Primary healthcare is failing 80 crore Indians. An app may be the antidote
Rural India suffers from the paucity of primary healthcare centres. By taking doctor consultations online through an app and providing safe record keeping of patients, MedCords wants to address one of the key issues for patients in rural India.
Understanding how you sleep can help fight the health epidemic of the 21st century
Dozee is a contactless non-wearable health-monitoring solution. It comes in the form of a thin sensor sheet that goes under the mattress. It uses sleep patterns, resting heart rate, resting respiration rate, heart rate variability, body movements and snoring instances to monitor your health.
Charged up: Gegadyne's carbon-powered batteries can break China's monopoly on electric vehicles
Gegadyne uses non-lithium based battery technology that can charge EVs from 0-100% in less than 15 min.
Instoried predicts success rate of content, invokes right set of emotions in customers
The world today is driven by content be it in the form of blogs, mails, newsletters, or digital media. Instoried’s AI-based platform predicts the success rate of content marketing even before the content gets published by analyzing the emotional quotient of what has been written.
Searching for “petrol pumps near me?" Get fuel delivered at your doorstep instead
An acute lack of demand and supply gap in diesel delivery in the country made IIT grads Ashish Gupta and Nabin Roy conjure up a solution to make refuelling smarter and more accessible. Backed by Y Combinator, MyPetrolPump is doing brisk business.
Signzy’s computer vision engine can process 3.5 million documents a day. Banks are impressed
Fintech is still evolving in India and so is regulatory technology or RegTech. The space for RegTech players is still getting defined and players in the market are helping the BFSI sector by providing access to simpler regulations through SaaS.
This app detects tuberculosis by listening to the sound of your cough
A machine learning algorithm was fed data of nearly 7000 infected TB cough. The result- a mobile app that can detect TB with over 85% accuracy. For India, which has the highest number of patients suffering from TB in the world, this can be path-breaking.
From Shell to Flipkart, what does it take to upskill frontline blue-collar workers?
Traditional learning methods of on-site training & online courses are grossly ineffective for today's needs.
GenElek’s robotic exoskeleton allows paralyzed, old aged people to walk
Focused on providing affordable exoskeletons in India, GenElek Technologies provide externally worn robotic support system that enhances a human's limbic capabilities. The technology will help people suffering from paralysis, stroke, spinal cord injury (SCI) and other neurological conditions.
Period unhappy & PMS blues? Wellness startup &Me has some answers for you
Be it cramps, bloating, hormonal imbalance or the common mood swings that come by as an offshoot of PMS, PCOS or other ailments -- food and beverage startup &Me’s line up of products claim to be a first mover in catering to the integral aspects of women’s health in the country.
Fighting fakes: A 5MP-smartphone is all you need to distinguish counterfeit from the original
India is one of the biggest markets of counterfeit consumer goods. A group of IIT-Kanpur alumni is developing unclonable 3D tags which can be attached to original goods and can be scanned by a low-cost mobile app to verify its authenticity.
Providing simple business solutions, this 42-people company is a Unicorn
Instabase provides everyday useful apps such as data extraction, NLP search, income verification which comes handy for many traditional businesses such as banking and insurance in simplifying their work.
Failing to lose weight? Understanding your genes may help you get fit
Mapping your entire genetic structure the startup’s GenomeKundli, gives customers an insight on predisposition to more than 100 plus genetic health conditions’ claims founder, Neeraj Gupta.
Maithri Aquatech’s water generators just need air to produce freshwater
This Hyderabad-based startup has developed an atmospheric water generator that can be the panacea to our water scarcity woes.
Smart helmets let you listen to music, navigate and attend calls riding a motorcycle
It has always been a hassle to communicate via phone or enjoy music during a two-wheeler ride. Putting an end to untangling earphones or adjusting smartphones inside the helmets, Revsmart’s smart communication device helps you navigate, communicate and listen to music without blocking your ears.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed Janitri is preventing newborn deaths in rural India
In an era where technology has made healthcare easier, faster, and cheaper, maternal healthcare is still expensive and riddled with issues. Arun Agarwal’s low-cost portable device which measures fetal heart rate and uterine contractions is the need of the hour.
There’s money you can make selling your DNA. Shivom will help monetise it
Genetic testing centres are selling your DNA to pharma majors to conduct drug development research without your knowledge and the latter is making big bucks. Shivom is working to change that narrative by granting you complete access to your DNA and helping you monetise it.
A jacket to shield women from assault, harassment
The smart jacket by Nyokas called ZEAL, has an automated solution unlike other SOS items. The sensors detect any assault or unusual force applied on the body of the wearer and automatically gives a shock to the attacker and buys the wearer some time.
For Indian Army soldiers in Siachen, having a bath without water is now possible
Clensta’s gel-based formulation is free of alcohol, Sodium lauryl sulfate and any other harmful ingredients. Moreover, unlike traditional products, it can be directly applied to hair and body, massaged and then can be dried off using a towel.
Now, anyone can create AR/VR content, with zero coding knowledge
Founded in 2017, AR/VR startup Scapic positions itself as a company which can help businesses with all that is needed to market, sell and manage their products using tech enabled experiences. All this without knowing any coding.
These 22-year-old space tech enthusiasts have their eyes on the moon
Starting off in May 2018, Pixxel claims to be building a constellation of earth-imaging small satellites that will be able to offer a unique dataset. This constellation of satellites will provide global coverage every 24 hours helping organisations across the world predict global phenomena in near real time.
Can carrot be paired with onion extract? A machine has the answer
Spoonshot uses food science, machine learning and a repository of vast data on food to predict food combinations for FMCG companies. By combining food science and machine learning to predict flavor combination trends, it aims to give companies an early-stage innovation product.
This Amazon-backed startup makes digital payment possible without Internet
ToneTag’s technology involves transmitting data from one device to another using sound waves and nearly 52 million customers have been benefited from this.
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