Startup

Farmer Ashok Gade from Maharashtra's Jalgaon has innovated and patented his banana biscuits, employing 50 other farmers and earning triple the profit.

Built by four IIT-Delhi graduates, Aroleap X is a patented, smart, wall-mounted home gym equipment.

Co-founded by Prithvi Kini and Jashid Hameed in Bengaluru, Nuvedo offers DIY mushroom kits for easy chemical-free mushroom cultivation at home, along with other value-based products.

Founded by Manu Chopra, Vivek Seshadri and Safiya Husain, Karya is a Bengaluru-based startup that is using AI to help rural Indians come out of poverty.

Adil Qadri started his eponymous brand in 2019 selling premium attar and perfumes. With no formal education, he skilled himself in digital marketing, getting over 80,000 orders per month.

Varun Chawla, Alakshi Tomar and Abhimanyu Rathi based in Goa founded build3 to help incubate social impact startups and help them navigate entrepreneurship.

E P Jeevan from Chennai runs Absolute Sugarcane, a venture that puts modern spins on tradition refreshers such as coconut water, sugarcane juice, and ice apple drinks, earning lakhs per month.

Founder of IIT Kanpur-incubated startup Kinoko Biotech, Chaitanya Dubey has developed a biodegradable thermocol that also serves as a fertiliser.

Simarpreet Singh's Hartek Solar develops and distributes customised rooftop solar kits to homes to help them generate their own electricity.

Nitya and Jayalakshmi Ganapathy, residents of Mumbai, launched Nei Native, a venture that aims to bring back the traditional bilona method of ghee making.