New Delhi: Google is celebrating the incredible momentum of AI adoption and leadership by the Indian startups and developers. It’s been deeply encouraging to see that many have chosen their Gemini, Gemma and GenMedia models to power their AI journeys. These Indian startups and developer ecosystems have used capabilities available through the Google AI Studio, Cloud and Vertex AI for India’s scale and diversity, building faster, smarter, and efficiently. There are eight startups that showcased applications built with Google’s powerful AI models, facilitating real-world impact across sectors from education and governance to commerce and media.
Eight Startups
Sarvam
Sarvam is working to help build a sovereign AI ecosystem for India that caters to the country’s wide-ranging culture and diversity. Sarvam has been selected for the IndiaAI Mission to contribute to India’s Sovereign AI. Sarvam has used Gemma 3 to build its recently released translation model, Sarvam Translate, an open source model delivering accurate, context-rich translations for long form across all 22 officially recognized Indian languages. Gemma 3’s efficiency and industry-leading native multilingual understanding enabled Sarvam to lower the costs of training and inferencing for Indian languages, supporting Sarvam Translate in providing high-quality, culturally nuanced translations.
As this translation API, the model has been serving over 100,00 weekly translation requests. This API is also a key component of Samvaad, the organization’s conversational AI agent platform, which has handled over 10 million conversation turns across Indian languages.
CoRover
CoRover supports businesses in building customizable multilingual customer chatbots that are powered by Gemini. Gemini supports chatbots’ communication in over 100 languages with a near 99% accuracy. CoRover’s solutions, including BharatGPT that supports organizations with flexible AI models, have supported over 1 billion users, over 25,000 enterprises and developers, and over 20 billion interactions. The development of Gemini as part of Google Cloud AI Stack has supported the organization in improving operational efficiency by up to 70%, increasing its speed in implementing solutions by 10x, while also maintaining and growing customer satisfaction.
Glance
Glance is an AI native platform that merges deep commerce intelligence with hyper-real visual shopping. Powered by Gemini and Imagen through Vertex AI, Glance delivers a personalized experience that turns everyday surfaces into dynamic hubs for discovery and commerce. On mobile, users can upload a selfie to generate photo-realistic, fashion-forward looks styled on themselves. Each look is tailored to personal taste and instantly shoppable. On Connected TVs, Glance transforms ambient screens into inspiration-led discovery surfaces by blending entertainment, personalization, and real-time interactivity. It brings aspirational AI-powered content into the living room, turning passive viewing into an active, commerce-enabled experience.
Entri
Entri has deeply integrated Gemini into its AI Teacher Assistant and Interview Coach, transforming the exam and job preparation of over 15 million Indian language learners with real-time support in their native languages. With an adoption rate of over 54% for the Teacher Assistant, where 60% of users rely on AI-generated summaries over full videos, and approximately 91% adopt and over 75% repeatedly use the Interview Coach, these Gemini-supported features are helping to reshape vernacular edtech, making personalized education accessible and effective at scale.
Invideo AI
Invideo AI is changing the way videos are created; now, anyone can turn any idea into full-length videos using just text prompts. Invideo leverages several Gemini models, such as Imagen 4 and Veo 3, to create videos ranging from ads and explainers to stories and films. Using the Google AI Stack enables Invideo to take care of all the technical complexities, giving users the freedom to focus on their creative vision. Invideo allows everyone, from marketers to business leaders to storytellers, to bring bold ideas to life, effortlessly and with confidence.
Nykaa
Nykaa has integrated visual product discovery on its fashion site using Gemini through Chrome’s multimodal API. Users can snap a photo of the desired item, and Gemini generates a description to find matching products from Nykaa’s catalogue. It also suggests complementary items, acting as a personal stylist. All processing happens on the device, ensuring speed and privacy. The result is a seamless, engaging, and intuitive shopping experience.
Dashverse
Dashverse has leveraged Veo 3, Lyria 2 on Vertex AI and Gemini to build Dashtoon Studio and Frameo, its AI-native platforms for creating comics and cinematic videos from simple prompts. These two platforms are at the core of Dashverse’s consumer applications, Dashtoon and Dashreels, which now reach over 2 million users.
Dashverse has also produced an AI-generated 90-minute Indian mythology epic drama using Veo 3, and is leveraging Google’s Lyria 2 on Vertex AI to support users in crafting dynamic and emotionally responsive soundtracks that seamlessly adapt to the narrative and pacing of their content for platforms like Dashreels.
Toonsutra
Toonsutra is reimagining digital storytelling by creating Indian language webcomics using Lyria 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in Vertex AI, which enables dynamic background music and realistic character speech. The images in the comics are also brought to life using Google’s latest image-to-video feature in Veo 3. This integration aims to enrich the multimodal webcomic experience, enhancing the narrative and creating more immersive and interactive reading journeys. By blending cutting-edge AI with culturally rooted narratives, this Toonsutra is pioneering a new frontier in vernacular entertainment.
The leadership of India’s technology journey by this Indian startup and developer ecosystem continues to be a source of inspiration, as the country transitions from a digital-led transformation to an AI-powered ambition. Over the last decade, the Google for Startups Accelerator family has supported over 230 startups in India. This year, they are expanding their partnership with the MeitY Startup Hub to bring advanced AI to thousands of early-stage companies, including through events such as Agentic AI Roadshows, Masterclass and GenAI Startup Buildathon with partners like Nasscom.
