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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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