Driving the Startup Ecosystem Forward

The India Mobile Congress has become a dynamic platform and an engine for early-stage entrepreneurs and startups, enabling them to move from the shadows into the spotlight. Around 500 startups showcased from across India, represented from the verticals of fintech, robotics, agritech, future mobility, AI applications and so on. Corporate Citizen brings you some of the next generation world-changing startup innovators

CoRover.ai—Conversational AI Platform

CoRover.ai is a conversational Agentic AI platform that enables the creation of human-centric, multi-lingual, multi-modal (video, voice, text) and multi-channel AI Agents, applications, co-pilots and assistants. It is providing 14 Indian and vernacular languages through voice, 22 Indian and vernacular languages for text modality and 100+ foreign and international languages across platforms.

Representative from CoRover, Akshay, at their IMC 2025 startup booth said, “Our platform has expertise in building domainspecific and sovereign LLMs such as BharatGPT, and is trusted by enterprises, researchers and developers across diverse sectors. CoRover delivers comprehensive, full-stack enterprise AI solutions, leveraging tailored language models and an Agentic AI platform that integrates effortlessly with existing systems.

Working for Indic languages majorly, Akshay said, “We are powering organisations like Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and partnered with companies like Nvidia and Google. Many of our clients are government organisations, who prefer companies like us that are registered with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy).”

CoRover.ai has various suites of conversational AI products widely used across banking, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, travel and eCommerce. CoRover Chatbot (Virtual Assistant), Akshay informed, can be integrated with any ERP, database, social media channels, Instant Messaging (IM), emails, calendars, service desk, any custom APIs and more, as frontend and or backend systems.

E[co]work—tackling the e-waste challenges

India is world’s 3rd largest producer of e-waste. E-waste is processed outside of government oversight and legislation in the informal sector, in unsafe working conditions. Safe and healthy e-waste recycling is the need of the hour. The E[co] work space is the bridge between legal requirements, safe work practices and informal micro entrepreneurs.

Representative from Ecowork, at their IMC 2025 startup booth said, “We are India’s only not-for-profit e-waste recycling company. Our facility is located in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, which is major e-waste hubs of the country.”

Ecowork was founded in 2021 and has been operational for last four years. Co-founder, Deepali Sinha Khetriwal, has over 14 years of international work experience, including e-waste management in India and Europe.

“Micro-entrepreneurs active in the recycling sector, who are commonly referred to as the ‘informal sector’ are seen negatively, illegal and ignored. We at Ecowork, support their right to process and create a livelihood from waste materials without health and environmental hazards. The cowork in our name stands for the co-working space we provide,” he added.

A physical facility for safe dismantling of e-waste and social inclusion, Ecowork is based on the concept of co-working spaces and the sharing economy, and adapted to the e-waste dismantling sector and local context. At an Ecowork space, micro-entrepreneurs can rent a work or storage space that is safe and in line with regulations, while they remain responsible for their own business success.

Ecowork also does studies and research about the regional context and economics of the e-waste market in and around Delhi, to gain insights through their approach and what they learned regarding needs, preferences and concerns of e-waste.

"Hynics—building India's hydrogen future"

On a mission to revolutionise hydrogen infrastructure in India, Hynics is making clean energy accessible through innovative mobile and fixed hydrogen fuel stations.

At Hynics, the core team is driven by a vision to transform India's energy landscape through hydrogen innovation.

“While hydrogen holds immense potential as a sustainable fuel, the lack of efficient distribution infrastructure remains a major challenge. Our mission is to bridge this gap and make hydrogen fuel easily accessible across industries, transportation, and commercial sectors,” says Animesh Mathur, Founder CEO, Hynics.

To bring down the cost, Animesh says, “We are creating the complete fuelling station in India. We have connected with equipment manufacturing companies in India, sourcing all the equipment and machinery.

“Our team has developed a modular and container form fuel station that enables hydrogen refilling. We design the tanks as per requirement in our workshop, do the setup at the given location. The whole setup can be relocated at a different place. In the future, we are looking forward to make a mobile refilling station,” said Animesh.

Hynics started from Delhi Technology University (DTU) Innovation and Incubation Foundation, and is into hydrogen refilling station and dispensers. They are backed by industry leaders like Mercedes-Benz R&D India and T-Hub.

“We have created an air prototype and is going through lot of testing. Our goal is to reduce hydrogen transportation costs and accelerate adoption at the grassroots level, making sustainable fuel a reality for everyone,” said Animesh.

"Lino—AI-powered fun learning in one smart buddy"

Lino isn’t just a toy—it’s a child’s best bud, a learning partner, and a playtime buddy rolled into one adorable AI-powered friend. Displayed and demonstrated at the Startup pavilion, at the IMC 2025, it is a AI-powered system getting developed and tested.

An innovation from Zipzap Toys Pvt Ltd, a IIT Ropar incubated company based out of Amritsar, Punjab, Lino is a smart learning bud, which makes learning fun with AI-powered interactive stories, quizzes and games.

Founder of Zipzap Toys, Bharat Vohra, said, “We asked ourselves - why are kids still playing with the same old toys, their parents played with? The toy industry hasn’t evolved until now, that’s why we created Lino.

What Makes Lino Special? Bharat says, “It helps kids through fun conversations and activities. Encourages empathy, problem solving and creativity, and is designed with safety in mind. We believe technology isn’t bad for children, it just needs to be used in the right way. Lino helps kids learn without screens, engage with technology safely, and develop essential life skills through play, conversations and storytelling.”

Meant for kids from 2 to 9 years of age, Lino adapts according to the kid. “If the kid is in a sad mood, the toy will cheer him by talking, singing, playing songs and rhymes, and telling stories. It has hundred plus games, which are interactive,” said Bharat. He further informed that Lino converses in English and Hindi language right now, in a years’ time it will have around 16 more regional languages from India.

"Pehchaan.me—AI mentor to get job ready"

Pehchaan.me, a GenAI-powered HR tech platform, was launched in 2024, starting with B2B, offering complete AIbased recruitment services to employers and recruiters, with a commitment of making their hiring 10x faster, 80 per cent cheaper and better quality—as an auto-sourcing process.

On what Pehchaan does, cofounder of Pehchaan.me, Subhasis Thakurta said, “If you put a job description into our portal, it automatically searches all the resumes from all the leading job portals in India. Then it does CV to CV skill matching, gives you relevant CVs, and the shortlisted candidates are invited to a subjective AI based evaluations. This subjective evaluation basically comes up with detailed scoring analysis of your functional and behavioral capabilities, with all the infographics, proctoring, high-end charts, detailed analysis, transcripts, video and audio recordings.”

While landing in their first job, the first thing the aspirants need to do, says Subhasis, is to build a profile with the help of an expertise. “AI is first helping you build a profile which is applicant tracking friendly, where you will get noticed easily and stand up as a profile. Once your job profile is built, it moves you to the next step, where your subjective evaluation is done on your competencies and checks whether there is a gap between your job profile and your actual competence. The AI tutor will basically bridge this gap, suggest curative course, till the time you are job ready and get to be a prospective partner of Pehchaan. Companies hire from Pehchaan because they see that the candidates are deeply invested into training, learning and development; continuously upskilling and getting better day by day,” he said.

The entire ecosystem of Pehchaan is built using AI, reducing 100 per cent of the manual effort, and making the recruiters and the aspirants a lot more efficient. Getting them to understand whether finally they would excel in job or they have the growth mindset to become an entrepreneur.

Pehchaan is based out of Gurgaon, and there are three cofounders, Subhasis, Kunal Gupta and Souradip Sen, and the platform was recently demonstrated at the IMC 2025 startup pavilion, in New Delhi.

"Air taxis—for intercity and intracity transportation"

This six-seater flying taxi prototype is a sub-scale model, intended to be launched by 2028. It was designed at RAD Kring Aviation, with an intention for intercity and intracity transportation.

“For example, you want to travel in a tier-1 city in India, say 20-80 kilometers within the city limits, you will face traffic. The six-seater flying taxi can be used in such a case. For regional mobility, like travelling to neighboring cities where there are no direct air flights available, this taxi can be used as a regional air transportation,” said Chaitanya Mehta, founder and CTO, RAD Kring Aviation.

The idea of designing a flying taxi for passenger transportation, came to the founder from the bad experience of the city traffic. “Besides, I am an aero guy and my keen interest was in building drones that can carry passengers. When I saw people flying drones, I thought about why we don’t build bigger drones which can carry passengers,” said Chaitanya.

The full-scale version of the flying taxi, informed Chaitanya, will be 2.1 tons, of which 600 kilograms will be reserved for passengers, which include six passengers and one pilot, and luggage. “The rest of the weight is for the vehicle and the battery. This model operates on 800 volts, and 200 amperes is what it consumes. We have future plans for building the same flying taxis for defence purposes, with higher payload capacity,” added Chaitanya.

RAD Kring Aviation is registered as a private limited company in May 2025. The company is MSME certified and registered with Startup India, and has applied for accelerator grants.

RAD Kring Aviation’s goal is to manufacture and provide services for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) crafts, in simple terms a flying taxis—the future of transportation and regional air mobility, propounded Chaitanya.

"UniKisan—AI powered smart farming app"

Unikisan AgroTech, Pvt. Ltd. is an agritech startup, based out of Nagpur, which is into empowering farmers for organic farming. A predictive AI powered smart farming app, it leverages use of soil health to give organic farming guidelines for several crops.

Cofounder and CEO of UniKisan AgroTech Pvt Ltd, Ritesh Sahay said, “The apps purpose is to encourage farmers to do organic farming. We give complete AI powered advisory and also help farmers to sell their products. The app is a onestop solution for farmers from soil to market. AI technology and farm field data analytics is also used to optimise overall fertiliser applications.”

The eventual goal of the app, says Ritesh, is to improve the soil and make organic food accessible to all. “The farmer has to scan the soil data using the app and selecting the crop, and the power of AI inside the application guides the farmer, depending on the crop which he is growing. The app directs farmers on what process to follow using all the inputs, from soil to harvesting. Once the harvesting is done, it also guides the farmers where to sell the product,” added Ritesh.

Currently, UniKisan is dealing with crops that yield nonperishable produce like cereals, pulses, millets and so on. “We also help the farmers with packaging and branding. Farmers basically sell B2B in bulk quantity, we help them get access to these B2B markets,” informed Ritesh.