Alphabet-owned Google has picked 20 homegrown startups for the 2026 cohort of its “Google for Startups Accelerator: India 2026” programme.
These startups are selected out of the 2,500 applications received, these AI-first startups completed their in-person bootcamp at Google’s Bengaluru campus. Moving forth, the tech giant said that it will work closely with the selected startups to refine their products, optimise their architecture, and prepare for scaled deployment.
“By equipping these pioneering founders with Google’s full AI stack and deep technical mentorship, we are not only accelerating their path to global enterprise scale but also cementing the sovereign capabilities required to advance the India AI Mission and build a resilient, inclusive digital economy,” Google India vice president and country manager Preeti Lobana said.
Google launched the startup accelerator in April 2024. Its previous 2025 cohort featured names like Apptile, Knit, MyWonder, Phot.AI and SparkyAI, among others.
Here’s the new set of 20 Indian AI startups picked for the Google for Startups Accelerator: India 2026
Adalat AI
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Utkarsh Saxena, Arghya Bhattacharya
- Headquarters: Delhi NCR
Incubated at MIT, Adalat AI is a legal tech startup specialises in AI-based legal solutions that address pressing issues lawyers face on a day-to-day basis. These include addressing case backlogs via speech transcription, courtroom dictation, and workflow automation.
aikenist
- Founded In: 2019
- Founders: Amarapuram Chandramouly Ashwin, Venkatesh Kempapura Sharma
- Headquarters: Bengaluru
Aikenist is engaged in building AI-powered radiology solutions for hospitals and diagnostic centres. Its products include AI-accelerated MRI, QuickScan and disease detection platform QuickDiag.
Aurassure
- Founded In: 2022
- Founders: Akanksha Priyadarshini, Vamsi Krishna, Raviteja Cherukuri, Omprakash Patra
- Headquarters: Bhubaneswar
Backed by Rainmatter and Unicorn India VenturesAurassure is an AI-powered climate tech startup that combines IoT sensors and analytics to provide hyperlocal monitoring of air quality, water levels, among other environmental parameters.
Aina
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Aastha Rajpal, Yash Bansal
- Headquarters : Bengaluru
AI-powered SaaS startup Ayna helps fashion and ecommerce brands create studio-quality product images, virtual models and AI-generated photoshoots without traditional photography methods. Ayna previously raised $1.5 Mn from Inflexor Ventures and Faad Network.
Binocs
- Founded In: 2022
- Founders: Tonmoy Shingal, Pankaj Garg
- Headquarters: Bengaluru
Binocs offers enterprises AI-powered due diligence and financial intelligence that automates commercial due diligence, financial analysis, deal sourcing, portfolio monitoring, and investment research for enterprises. Besides Google, its cap table features investors like BEENEXT, Arkam Ventures, Accel, Blume Ventures and Better Capital.
CraftifAI
- Founded In: 2024
- Founders: Pratik Sharda, Yashwant Dagar
- Headquarters: Bengaluru
CraftifAI is an AI infrastructure startup that is developing an agentic platform which automates embedded software development, firmware generation, and AI deployment for edge, IoT, robotics, automotive, and industrial devices. It has raised $3 Mn from investors like Ankur Capital, IvyCap Ventures, Capital A and Antler.
Dodo Payments
- Founded In: 2024
- Founders: Rishabh Goel, Ayush Agarwal
- Headquarters : Bengaluru
Backed by Antler, 100Unicorns and Venture Catalysts, Dodo Payments is building a merchant of record (MoR) platform that enables SaaS, AI, and digital businesses to accept global payments while automating billing, subscriptions, tax compliance, fraud management, and cross-border payments across 150+ countries.
FlexifyMe
- Founded In: 2021
- Founders: Amit Bhayani, Manjeet Singh
- Headquarters: Pune
Healthtech startup FlexifyMe is offering an AI-powered digital platform targeting chronic pain relief through therapy programs like physiotherapy, yoga therapy, and personalised care to help patients manage chronic musculoskeletal pain without surgery.
Fitsol
- Founded In: 2022
- Founders: Anand Pathak, Akshay Tandon, Manoj Sharma, Vikas Kalra, Sunil Bansal
- Headquarters: Delhi NCR
Fitsol is building an AI-powered decarbonisation-as-a-service (DaaS) platform that helps to measure, manage and reduce Scope 1, 2, and especially Scope 3 carbon emissions, serving enterprise customers across sectors such as automotive and industrial manufacturing.
H2Loop AI
- Founded In: 2024
- Founders: Sairanjan Mishra and Pulkit Agrawal
- Headquarters: Bengaluru
Backed by Speciale Invest and 3one4 CapitalH2Loop AI is engaged in developing domain-specific AI models and coding tools that automate embedded software and system software development for hardware systems across semiconductors, robotics, automotive, telecom, aerospace, and defence.
Jidoka
- Founded In: 2018
- Founders: Sekar Udayamurthy, Krishna Iyengar, Vinodh Venkatesan
- Headquarters: Chennai
Jidoka is building computer vision and industrial AI solutions which automates visual quality inspection, defect detection and process optimisation, serving manufacturing and logistics customers globally.
CreateOS by NodeOps
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Naman Kabra, Pratik Balar
- Headquarters : Bengaluru
NodeOps’ AI-powered decentralised cloud platform CreateOS helps developers to deploy, manage, and monetise blockchain nodes, AI workloads, and decentralised apps with one-click orchestration. NodeOps has raised $5 Mn from investors like L1D, Blockchain Founders Fund, Finality Capital and Oak Grove Ventures, among others.
OnFinanceAI
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Anuj Srivastava, Priyesh Srivastava
- Headquarters: Bengalur
OnFinanceAI is building NeoGPT and agentic AI platforms that automate compliance, risk management, audit, research, and regulatory workflows for financial service providers including banks, insurers and asset managers. It has raised over $5 Mn from Peak XV Partners, Silverneedle Ventures, IAN Group, Stargazer Fund, MarsShot VC, and several other investors.
Pipeshift
- Founded In: 2024
- Founders: Arko Chattopadhyay, Enrique Ferrao, Pranav Reddy
- Headquarters: San Francisco and Bengaluru
Launched as part of Y Combinator Summer 2024, Pipeshift is an AI infrastructure startup building a platform for deploying, orchestrating and scaling open-source AI models with ultra-low-latency inference across cloud and on-premise environments.
PotpieAI
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Aditi Kothari, Dhiren Mathur
- Headquarters: San Francisco
potty builds an AI-powered context layer, where it creates a knowledge graph of large codebases by connecting source code, documentation, tickets, logs, APIs, databases, and system dependencies, enabling AI agents to understand complex software systems, helping enterprises to automate tasks.
Proxgy
- Founded In: 2020
- Founders: Pulkit Ahuja, Harish Verma
- Headquarters: Delhi NCR
Having raised more than $7.7 Mn from investors like Nikhil Kamath, Suneil Shetty, LetsVenture, and a few others, Proxgy develops AI and IoT-powered smart wearables and industrial solutions with products like SmartHat, Sleefe, Lockator, and AudioPod, which improves safety, connectivity, and productivity of frontline workers.
Soundverse AI
- Founded In: 2023
- Founders: Sourabh Pateriya, Riley Williams
- Headquarters: New York
Featured in Shark Tank India Season 5, Soundverse AI is a GenAI music platform that enables users to create, edit, and customise studio-quality music using natural language prompts, offering features such as AI music generation, lyric writing, stem separation, voice assistance, intelligent editing, and collaboration tools.
SuperBryn
- Founded In: 2025
- Founders: Nikkitha Shanker, Neethu Mariam Joy
- Headquarters: Bengaluru
SuperBryn is building a reliability infrastructure for enterprise Voice AI agents, helping enterprises to test, monitor, and continuously improve voice agents via its AI-powered evaluation, where it identifies accent recognition issues and noisy environments before they impact production, enabling enterprises to deploy reliable voice AI at scale.
TartanHQ
- Founded In: 2021
- Founders: Pramey Jain, Meet Semlani
- Headquarters: Delhi NCR
TartanHQ’s platform is used by enterprises to reduce manual processes, accelerate onboarding, and build customer-facing integrations, with the help of its products like HyperSync, HyperVerify, and HyperApps. It offers real-time data synchronisation, employment and income verification, identity verification, onboarding, compliance, and workflow automation through AI-powered APIs and integrations.
zero
- Founded In: 2020
- Founders: Sanket Sarkar, Snehanjan Chatterjee, Swarnali Singha, Santosh Jha
- Headquarters: Mumbai
Backed by 100X.VC, Varanium Capital, Raise Financial Services and others, Zeron helps enterprises quantify, prioritise, and manage cyber risk from a single control plane. Its platform unifies data from security tools to provide continuous attack surface management, cyber risk quantification, compliance automation, third-party risk management, and AI-driven remediation.
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