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Udyogwardhini teaches the business behind the business
In Nashik, an entrepreneurship academy puts dehydrators, export paperwork and warehouse visits on the syllabus. Its proposition is practical: learn how the business works before you spend money starting it.
Tapia Brothers sells dinner before the kitchen opens
A family produce route became a regional restaurant supplier by taking on more of the work behind a meal: sourcing, refrigerated delivery and the prep before the prep.
The $106 Million Bet on a Membrane That Refuses to Stay Dirty
Industrial membranes often fail first where the water gets interesting. ZwitterCo built its business around that ugly moment - and is turning cleanability into an operating advantage for factories, dairies and wastewater plants.
The Startup Dragging Farm Payroll Out of the 1980s
Farm HR still runs on paper packets and cash-back-of-the-check math. Ganaz built a phone-first onboarding, messaging and payroll stack for the 175,000+ workers who feed the rest of us.
Sekilo
Sekilo is a Jakarta-based B2B company building an AI-powered halal protein supply chain for Indonesia's foodservice industry, starting with poultry. Formerly the quick-commerce grocery startup Dropezy (YC W22), it pivoted in 2023 to process and distribute chicken to caterers, restaurant chains, industrial buyers, and processed-meat factories. Sekilo unifies procurement, processing, cold chain, and delivery into a single asset-light operating layer, handling custom orders from 25kg for small caterers up to 10-20 tons for large buyers.
Oxipital AI
Oxipital AI is a Bedford, Massachusetts company building AI-enabled machine vision systems for food processing, agriculture and consumer-goods manufacturing. Emerging in 2024 from the rebrand of Soft Robotics after that company sold its gripper hardware line to Schmalz, Oxipital AI now centers on its V-CORTX vision platform and VX2 hardware, which use synthetic data and computer vision to handle quality inspection, foreign-object detection, yield optimization and vision-guided robotic picking in high-variability production lines.
RIOS Intelligent Machines
RIOS Intelligent Machines was a Menlo Park robotics company building AI-powered dexterous robots for factories, warehouses, and supply chains. Founded in 2018 by former Xerox PARC engineers, RIOS pioneered haptic intelligence and tactile sensing for industrial robots, deploying systems across e-commerce, manufacturing, food processing, and wood products before archiving the company in 2026.