At SmashUp, founders get a shot at the people who write the cheques. Behind the event is a nonprofit network teaching entrepreneurs how to make that meeting count.
At a university outside Jaipur, AIC-JKLU connects founders with labs, mentors and industrial partners. Its biomaterials accelerator shows what happens when the startup brief begins with a paper mill.
From a Jaipur basement to enterprise cloud projects, Cyntexa has built its business around a stubborn problem: expensive software still needs someone to make it work together.
Elip AI is a Y Combinator (W25) startup building an AI job agent that lives inside WhatsApp. It reads through millions of job postings overnight, filters out ghost and duplicate listings, and sends each user a short list of ranked, personalized matches by morning - plus tailored, ATS-ready resumes. It is free for job seekers; employers pay when they hire. Founded by Gaurav Luhariwala, the company is based in San Francisco with an Indian entity in Jaipur.