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Computer-vision, genomics, AI infrastructure.
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An engineer who had worked in solar in the United States came home to a country with brutal sun and almost no rooftop panels on ordinary houses. She co-founded Freyr Energy to close that gap, using local partners and an app to reach the small towns big installers ignore.
She spent more than 15 years scaling industrial biotechnology in the United States, then came home to Bengaluru to build something harder. String Bio feeds methane to microbes and turns it into animal feed and crop nutrition.
Drone batteries have a habit of swelling, overheating and, every so often, catching fire mid-flight. Kajal Shah left a career in aviation R&D to build one that doesn’t. Her company, Dreamfly Innovations, now sells non-flammable graphene cells to Tata Advanced Systems and L&T, and has raised close to $1.7 million to make more of them.
She and her classmates cleared months of garbage from a drain near her engineering college in 2016. The trash came back the next day. The TrashBot, a fully automated waste-segregation machine, is what she built in response.
A PhD computer scientist who spent two decades at TCS and HP Labs walked out at 47 to co-found a Bengaluru company combining thermal imaging and machine learning into a portable, radiation-free breast-cancer screening device.
She co-founded SocialCops in 2013, built data systems used on large public projects, and then spun the internal tooling into Atlan, a data-collaboration company now used by global enterprises.
Two decades in marketing, then a career change at 40 into India’s plastic-waste sector with no prior experience, Meha Lahiri co-founded Recity, kept it bootstrapped, and grew it to ~₹22.6 Cr in FY24 across 22+ Indian cities.
Computer-vision, genomics, AI infrastructure.
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