Google used its India blog to spotlight eight Indian AI startups building with its latest AI stack, Gemini, Gemma, Veo and more saying the cohort reflects how India’s developer ecosystem is turning AI ambition into shipped products across language, commerce, media and education. The post, published July 23, 2025, ties the showcases to Google I/O Connect India 2025 and the company’s broader push to seed advanced AI into early-stage firms.
Google India showcases eight Indian AI startups.
Sarvam: sovereign-language AI at scale. Sarvam is positioning itself inside India’s sovereign AI agenda, using Gemma 3 to build “Sarvam-Translate,” an open-source model for long-form, context-rich translations across all 22 scheduled Indian languages. The team reports lower training and inference costs thanks to Gemma’s native multilingual capabilities; its hosted API serves 100,000+ weekly translation requests and powers “Samvaad,” a conversational agent that has handled 10 million+ turns in Indian languages, Google’s India blog notes.
CoRover: a multilingual chatbot factory. CoRover says it supports enterprises with customizable, Gemini-powered customer chatbots in 100+ languages with near-99% accuracy, and claims scale of 1 billion+ users, 25,000+ enterprises/developers, and 20 billion+ interactions. Deployed via Google Cloud’s AI stack, the company credits operational efficiency gains (up to 70%) and a 10x implementation speed-up figures cited in Google’s India blog.
Glance: turning screens into shoppable discovery. Glance describes an AI-native platform that blends “deep commerce intelligence” with hyper-real visual shopping: on mobile, users upload a selfie to generate photoreal fashion looks tailored to taste and instantly shoppable; on connected TVs, Glance converts ambient screens into interactive, commerce-enabled discovery. The company builds with Gemini and Imagen via Vertex AI, per Google’s blog coverage.
Entri: vernacular edtech with AI coaches. Kerala-born Entri has wired Gemini into an AI Teacher Assistant and an Interview Coach for 15 million+ Indian-language learners. Google’s India blog cites a 53%+ adoption rate for Teacher Assistant (with 60% of users preferring AI summaries over full videos) and ~91% adoption with 75% repeat use for Interview Coach, pointing to scaled, native-language support for exam prep and job readiness.
Invideo AI: from prompt to full-length video. Invideo pitches end-to-end video creation from text prompts, using multiple Gemini family models, Imagen 4 and Veo 3 among them, so creators can skip technical plumbing and focus on narrative. As credited in Google’s blog, the platform targets everyone from marketers to filmmakers looking to prototype ads, explainers and long-form stories.
Nykaa: snap-to-shop on-device. Nykaa has integrated visual product discovery using Gemini via Chrome’s multimodal API: snap a photo of a desired item, get a description, and surface catalog matches with stylist-like suggestions. Crucially, processing happens on-device for speed and privacy, Google’s India blog reports.
Dashverse: comics, cinematic reels and a 90-minute AI epic. Leveraging Veo 3, Lyria 2 on Vertex AI, and Gemini, Dashverse built Dashtoon Studio and Frameo for creating comics and cinematic videos from simple prompts. Its consumer apps Dashtoon and Dashreels now reach 2 million+ users; the team even produced a 90-minute Indian-mythology AI film and uses Lyria 2 to generate adaptive soundtracks—details credited to Google’s India blog post.
Toonsutra: sound-on, speech-ready webcomics. Toonsutra is reimagining Indian-language webcomics with Lyria 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in Vertex AI for dynamic background music and lifelike character speech, while Veo 3 animates panels via image-to-video. The aim is richer, interactive storytelling rooted in local narratives, according to Google’s India blog.
The Bigger Bet: programs, partnerships, and pipelines.
Beyond the eight showcases, Google says its for-Startups Accelerator has supported 230+ Indian startups over the past decade. In 2025, it’s expanding with MeitY Startup Hub on Agentic AI Roadshows & Masterclass and a GenAI Startup Buildathon with Nasscom, and is welcoming a second cohort of its Accelerator: Apps program (20 startups) to kick off “tomorrow”, a signal that the pipeline for AI-native products is being actively cultivated, per the company’s blog post.
Why This Matters:
Taken together, the eight vignettes sketch a pragmatic India playbook: multilingual access (Sarvam, Entri, CoRover), AI-assisted shopping (Glance, Nykaa), and creator-centric media tooling (Invideo, Dashverse, Toonsutra).
In Google’s telling, these aren’t demos but live products serving millions evidence that India’s AI moment is tilting from pilots to production.
Credit: Google India blog, “Eight Indian Startups Building Boldly with AI.”
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