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Global HealthX wants your startup to survive the hospital
A surgeon’s venture studio is tackling the awkward stretch between a promising healthcare product and a hospital that will actually use it. Its India market programme even makes room for a useful answer: no.
RED EAGLE and the work before the pitch
The Hyderabad mentorship consultancy puts product-market fit, revenue models and launch strategy on the same agenda as fundraising. Its proposition starts with the business an investor will be asked to believe in.
IncNut turned beauty advice into a ₹321 crore deal
The company behind SkinKraft and Vedix learned to sell by listening to readers. Now Emami owns 60%, and the next test is turning personalized beauty into renewed growth.
Sajin Nair Is Building a Career on One Uncomfortable Idea: The Funnel Is Tired
After two decades inside B2B sales and marketing, Saicon CMO Sajin Nair has begun questioning the machinery he once helped run. His next act joins an executive mandate with a public experiment in clearer, less theatrical growth.
Sahil Dhar Hakim Built a Career in the Spaces Between Departments
From car strategy and field sales to fintech SaaS and streaming economics, Evergent's Chief Business Officer has made a specialty of translating between products, markets and the people who must make them work.
Sanjay Mandava Is Turning India’s Property Paper Chase Into a Search Box
A family land dispute sent a former hedge-fund analyst into India’s registries. Two Y Combinator companies later, he is building the property intelligence layer he once needed himself.
Intense Technologies
A quiet Hyderabad software house has spent three decades building the plumbing behind your phone bill, your bank statement and your insurance onboarding - and selling it back to some of the world's largest companies.
Swipe
Swipe is a Hyderabad-based billing and accounting app that lets India's small and medium businesses create GST-compliant invoices in seconds, share them over WhatsApp with instant payment links, and manage inventory, purchases and tax filing from one place. Backed by Y Combinator (S21), it targets the roughly 75 million SMEs that still run on paper ledgers and spreadsheets.
Karun Tadepalli
Karun Tadepalli is the co-founder and CEO of byteXL, a Hyderabad-based edtech company that partners directly with engineering colleges across India to close the gap between what students learn and what the tech industry needs. After roughly two decades in the US working for companies like Accenture, Health Management Systems and AT&T, he left a corporate career to build a B2B skilling platform now used by more than 100,000 students. Under his leadership byteXL has partnered with dozens of institutions and, in 2024, teamed with Microsoft to launch AI and machine learning B.Tech specializations at universities across the country.
Innominds
Innominds is an AI-first, platform-led digital transformation and full-cycle product engineering services company founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It helps global enterprises, software product companies (ISVs) and device makers design, build, test and modernize digital products across embedded devices, applications, data and AI, quality engineering, and cloud and DevOps - combining engineering services with in-house accelerators such as iFusion, Harmony and the connected-worker subsidiary Nymi.
Haren Chelle
Haren Chelle is the co-founder and CEO of Pulse (PulseGen Technologies), an AI-native feedback intelligence platform that turns scattered customer signals - support tickets, sales calls, app-store reviews, social chatter - into prioritized product decisions for B2B SaaS teams. An IIT Patna alumnus who spent his earlier career scaling conversational-AI businesses across Asia Pacific at Yellow.ai, he started Pulse in 2024 with two old friends and raised a $1.4M seed round led by Endiya Partners. Pulse was selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First 2025 cohort, and Chelle has been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list.
Good Health Company (Mars by GHC)
Good Health Company, known by its flagship brand Mars by GHC, is a Hyderabad-based direct-to-consumer men's health and wellness platform founded in 2021 by Samarth Sindhi. It pairs free online doctor consultations with science-backed products across hair, beard, skin, sexual health, weight, and general wellness, then ships personalized treatment courses to customers' doors. A women's vertical, Saturn by GHC, extends the same full-stack model to female personal care.
Voyager Partners Consultancy Inc.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.
Samarth Sindhi
Samarth Sindhi is the founder and CEO of Good Health Company (GHC), the Hyderabad-based direct-to-consumer wellness platform behind Mars by GHC (for men) and Saturn by GHC (for women). A Brown University mechanical engineer and Y Combinator S19 alum, he first built Digi-Prex, a subscription pharmacy for chronic care, before launching GHC in January 2021 to tackle topics men rarely talk about out loud. GHC has raised about $15.2 million, including a $10 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital in October 2022, and Sindhi has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.
Shekhar Natarajan
Shekhar Natarajan is the Founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI and the inventor of Angelic Intelligence, a framework that embeds ethics directly into AI architecture rather than bolting it on as an afterthought. He grew up in a one-room home in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, arrived in the US with $34, and spent 25+ years scaling supply chains at Walmart, Disney, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Target, and American Eagle before founding Orchestro.AI in 2023. He holds 207+ patents, raised $15M in seed funding, and in May 2026 received Oxford's Bodleian Medal for his contributions to AI in the public interest.