According to Deloitte’s fourth wave of the State of GenAI report (India perspective), more than 80 percent of Indian organizations are exploring the development of autonomous agents. (March 2025) – This paradigm shift is powering a surge of Indian startups developing agentic AI tools that promise efficiency and scalability for businesses. From customer service and process automation to multilingual support and product management, agentic AI is being adopted across sectors like BFSI, healthcare, education, and e-commerce. As India celebrates its independence and technological progress, the rise of homegrown agentic AI startups reflects the nation’s drive toward digital sovereignty and innovation leadership on the global stage.
What Is Driving Agentic AI Growth in India?
India’s agentic AI market generated nearly ₹1,100 crore (USD 132.6 million) in 2024, and analysts forecast an aggressive 53.9% CAGR, taking the industry to USD 1.73 billion by 2030. According to Sify, the country already hosts over 100 agentic AI startups, and the number continues to climb as businesses look for intelligent automation to reduce costs and improve productivity.
This momentum is further boosted by government initiatives such as the IndiaAI Mission and growing investor confidence in AI infrastructure.
Meet India’s Emerging Agentic AI Innovators
These Indian startups are making waves in this domain, attracting global attention and funding:
- Gnani AI
Gnani AI, founded in 2016, is a leading voice-first and agentic AI platform that automates customer interactions and enhances operational efficiency. Its AI agents think, speak, and act, delivering real-time support and analytics. With strong multilingual capabilities, Gnani AI is a key player in India’s AI ecosystem. The company is led by Co-Founders Ananth Nagaraj (Co-Founder & CTO), Ganesh Gopalan (Co-Founder & CEO), and Bharath Shankar (Co-Founder & Chief Product and Engineering Officer).
It raised $4 million in a Series A round from Info Edge Ventures, following an earlier $832,000 Series A investment from Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services, Deepak Mittal, and others. Additionally, Gnani AI received an undisclosed grant from Startup Karnataka.
- Sarvam AI
Sarvam AI, founded in 2023 by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, develops agentic AI solutions tailored for India’s linguistic and cultural diversity. Its flagship model, Sarvam-1, is a 2B-parameter language model supporting 10 Indian languages, trained on a custom 4T-token corpus. Focused on sovereignty, Sarvam AI builds the entire stack, from data generation to deployment—rather than adapting Western models.
The company raised $41 million in a Series A funding round from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Peak XV Partners, and others. According to Pratyush Kumar, it is imperative that India catch up in the field of AI, and it should make a sincere, wholehearted effort to achieve this—a sentiment he shared at a recent awards ceremony.
- Kruti (Ola Krutrim)
Kruti, launched by Ola Krutrim and founded by Bhavish Aggarwal and Navendu Agarwal, is an agentic AI assistant built for India’s market. It can reason, plan, and execute multi-step tasks, supports multiple Indian languages, and is optimized for smartphones and low-bandwidth environments. Designed for cultural relevance, Kruti integrates local services and aims to expand to 22 languages.
The company raised $50 million in Series B funding from Z47, followed by $1 million in Series B funding from Sarin Family India. It also secured an additional $99,600 in angel investment from Jitendra Vaidya. Cloudera has announced a partnership with Krutrim to support large-scale analytics and data lake workloads for Ola and Krutrim Cloud, with plans to extend the Cloudera-based infrastructure to other enterprise customers.
- KOGO AI
KOGO AI, a Bengaluru-based startup founded by Raj K Gopalakrishnan, Praveer Kochhar, and Rohan Verma, offers an agentic AI platform, KOGO OS, to build, deploy, and manage AI agents at scale. Supporting both SLMs and LLMs, it provides pre-built templates and promises 40% higher productivity and 30% cost savings.
The company raised $1.08 million in Series C funding from MapmyIndia, following a $1.26 million Series C round from the same investor. Earlier, it secured $87,000 in Series C funding from United Consultancy, Namrata Bhadauria, and others. KOGO AI and Tech Mahindra have also entered into a strategic joint teaming collaboration to build and deliver next-generation enterprise AI solutions and agents designed for autonomy, scale, and compliance, combining Tech Mahindra’s enterprise transformation expertise with KOGO AI’s pioneering platform to offer Private AI frameworks tailored to operational, regulatory, and infrastructure needs.
- Floworks
Floworks, founded in 2021 in Bengaluru by Sudipta Biswas and Sarthak Shrivastava, provides agentic AI-powered solutions for sales and operations teams, enabling automation and collaboration via WhatsApp. Its cloud-based RPA platform includes AI assistants for sales, customer management, and process automation.
The company raised $1.5 million in seed funding from LetsVenture, Angel List, and others. Earlier, it had secured $54,000 in seed funding from Entrepreneur First.
Fueling India’s Intelligent Tomorrow
India is on its way to becoming a global hub for agentic AI innovation. With the combination of strong developer talent, government support, and rising enterprise adoption, agentic AI is poised to transform automation and decision-making across industries.
Agentic AI is no longer just a buzzword in India. With over 100 active startups, strong funding momentum, and projected multi-billion-dollar growth, this technology marks the next frontier in AI innovation. As the nation celebrates its 79th Independence Day, the rise of agentic AI startups reflects India’s journey toward digital self-reliance and technological leadership, strengthening its position as a global hub for intelligent automation.
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