Building the Future STPI Global Partnerships & Startup Felicitation 2026

Good afternoon, everyone. On behalf of Software Technology Parks of India, I extend a very warm welcome to all the dignitaries on Dias and the entire audience to today’s session on Scaling Innovation, Building a Robust AI Startup Ecosystem. I am Shelly Sharma, Deputy Director, STPI, and it is my privilege to host this session.

Good afternoon, everyone. I am Vani Kapoor, Manager, STPI, your co -host for the session. May I now begin by respectfully welcoming our guests. Our distinguished dignitaries on the Dias. Our chief guest for today, Ms. Neerja Shekhar, IAS Director General, National Productivity Council. Sri Arvind Kumar sir, Director General, STPI Sri Rakesh Dubey sir, Director, Startup and Innovation, STPI Sri Bala MS, CEO, Strat Infinity and Ms. Geetika Dayal, Director General, Thai Delhi NCR and all other senior officials, ecosystem partners, startup founders and delegates present here today. We are truly honored by your presence. Today’s session brings together government, industry and the startup ecosystem to deliberate on building a future -ready AI innovation landscape while also celebrating startups that have demonstrated measurable impact across revenue, employment and business.

Government, innovation and inclusion. without further ado may I now invite Sri Rakesh Dubia sir director startup and innovation to kindly deliver the opening address sir please

incubators, accelerators, even state governments, academia, everyone can come to this platform and find the resources that they need here. This platform also serves as a repository of various government policies that come from time to time. It also serves as a platform where contests of not just STPI, but any incubator anywhere in India or even the world can host their contest, get their application invited, get the results published after screening and evaluation, and further handhold that startup’s entire life cycle online. This portal is, I think, one of its kind portal, not just in India, but across the world. It is a very valuable thing, and we are adding more and more features to it as time go.

For example, we have added features like a product marketplace as well as a hiring hub on it, using which a startup wanting a niche management, can post its requirement and individuals can apply against it. An individual wanting to look for a niche job can post his resume here and probably a startup can pick it up. It also has a feature called product marketplace in which any startup can post its product for anyone to see. And if any viewer finds interest in it, the two can interact together via this platform. That being said, the STPI is always looking for doing more and more things to support the innovation and startups across India as well as the world.

And we will be welcome to hear any thoughts from you. And there are many experts lined up. I am sure you will hear many more learnings from them also. With that, I thank you everyone and hope to see you. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much, sir, for setting the context so beautifully and highlighting STPI’s growing national impact. now may I request the technical team to play the short audio video presentation titled STPI Startup Ecosystem Drive Impact STPI Startup Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, team. That gives us a powerful snapshot of how innovation is translating into real outcome across the country. Now to share insights from the industry and global capability center perspective, may I now invite Shree Bala, MSCO, Strat Infinity. Please come.

Very good afternoon. Namaste. Dr. DG, DIG, LPC, DG, hi. Good friend here, Rakesh. And everyone, very good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity. Scaling innovation, building a robust AI, the perspective from GCC is going to… be phenomenal. We are not just living through the AI wave. We are rather living in the AI restructuring of global economy. If you look at the overall, if you look at the AI contribution, about 15 .7 trillion dollars by 2030 globally, whereas close to about 5 trillion dollars are going to be in productivity. That is an enormous opportunity. If you look at India by 2030, almost there is going to be 3 ,500 plus GCC, which is about 1 ,900 today now, and going to contribute about close to 150 billion dollar of software exports, and it is going to be 3 .5 million employees dedicatedly working for global capability center.

That is the very high level statistics for 2030. These are not just employment statistics, my dear friend, but this more like enterprise grade innovation, innovation, infrastructure at a national scale. Right. That said, if you look at AI leadership globally, most conversation comes on three things. Right. First thing is the model that we are building. Second thing comes the power, the compute power. The third thing may come under the funding perspective. Nothing wrong about it. All these three things are important. But in my experience working with a global organization, the scale is not determined by the AI you build. The scale is determined by the way how your AI gets integrated to the global organization. That’s where today the fundamental gap is all about.

And if you look at the real competitive advantage, in fact, the experimentation is really abundant today. But institutionalization is really limited. So that is where the real challenge and gap comes from. And the GCC component steps in this point. This is an inflection point in my view. If you look at the transformation. GCC has about from 1900 plus GCC are there in the country today and it was those days it was more looked at as a cost center or a labor arbitrage center but today it is more for the engineering centers, R &D centers if you look at more than 50 % of the or 40 % of the India’s GCC is more on R &D today the emerging technologies like AI, cyber security product development lot of new things have been developed out of the global organization now India is considered to be a digital talent center for the global organization which is not tactical but it’s truly very very strategical my dear friends.

If you look at the startup ecosystem that’s where the main thing comes from the venture capital, the investors STPI and lot of government organizations played a phenomenal role in making sure the grants are given which is very good very very important that accelerates the AI innovation, lot of fundings have come but capital alone cannot solve this friction that’s very very important one capital cannot solve the friction in fact when you look at global surveys in the recent AI study report that shows majority of the enterprises are piloting AI but only minority have scaled across the business units and the gap is not the technology problem it’s not a technology gap it is an operational readiness it is an organizational readiness that’s the biggest gap it’s not the technological capability so having said that if you look at any AI tools when you get into any organization the startups comes from across India you need to pass on through the risk you need to pass on through the compliance security the fitment the global workflow design lot of challenges that you come across again that is where the GCC component comes in because working with a global organization the enterprise organizations are totally different you can’t even think of one said we say India has lot of startups and we are phenomenally doing well at the same time the market access to the global organizations are really big question mark that’s where the GCC component comes in why the GCC matters for the startup it matters a lot here is the thing right so today what is needed for AI startup companies right you need a real data set you need a real infrastructure capability you need to have the enterprise validation so who is going to give that who is going to trust your model and put it in their system that’s the biggest question mark again that is where the GCC comes in where it is going to be the bridge between the startup ecosystem and the enterprise organization because you are going to work within the ecosystem within the infrastructure capabilities of the GCC that gives the confidence the enterprises to try you test you work with you and this is something important right today sorry yeah so this is something very important co -creation model so there were days where the startups were looked as vendors or suppliers but today the co -creation model is very very powerful in fact my personal experience from stat infinity for as you see 24 plus COEs are then STP we’ve been working with the fin blue we’ve been working with the ICOE where the global capability centers work with us through the STPI.

They’re able to identify a phenomenal startup and startup scaling for the global organization. So the co -creation model is the only model in our context how the startups, AI startups can get into the global capability centers because they provide the control sandbox, they provide a domain expertise, they provide a production grade environment gateways, pathways which basically helps to reduce the pilot to production cycle which globally remains, which is the basic bottleneck of any AI startup is that pilot to production. That can be solved by the co -creation model my dear friends. And coming back to that global why India is unique today, right? The economic multiplier effect. See, anything that comes into the GCC, the ecosystem grows, the value chain grows, the skill development happens, right?

And it generates a lot of revenue. Of course, the software exports increases. So a lot of possibilities, not just having one employee that indirectly helps many people to grow that. So that is where India is unique and the GCC ecosystem is going to make a phenomenal impact. And institutionalization the model. What must happen next is if you look at the global comparison again India plays a phenomenal role in terms of the GCC density the talent and also the local ecosystem connect even with the things like STPI working on the GCC policy so lot of such ecosystem connects truly helps the global capability centers to adapt the AI ecosystem and make it. Why the strategic partnership is very important.

What must happen next is something very important. The co -creation platforms have to be formed. So especially the organizations like STPI are the real right organizations to build this co -creation platform and build an enterprise sandbox which is already there in the COEs but it has to be nurtured for the GCC perspective. one of the large US multinational banks have done the FinBlue in Chennai COE which has gained the phenomenal success making sure the FinTech COE under the SCPI have factored to the global ecosystem global large multinational bank has benefited out of that that’s where and joint IP framework that’s another important thing which is still under discussion but definitely it’s getting into a better space with that said I just wanted to submit upon one aspect which is the broader reflection right today startups create innovation velocity whereas enterprise creates scale and between these two the global capability centers are the pathways for building between the innovation velocity and the enterprise scale because that helps you to get the pathway to navigate the challenges that you get in the global enterprise ecosystem and be working in the GCC’s that helps to get your product or take your service, use it locally in the environment of global ecosystem, get the acceptance even if it doesn’t work, it fails fast, nothing is going to harm the GCC or the global organization.

That’s where the opportunity through the GCCs are truly evolving to work for your AI products to the larger ecosystem. Thank you so much. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.

Thank you, sir, for your valuable industry perspective and for highlighting the role of GCCs in nurturing startups. Next, may I invite Ms. Geetika Dayal, DG Thai Delhi NCR, to address the audience on the entrepreneurial and startup ecosystem.

My warm greetings to the dignitaries on the dial. Thank you so much, Arvindji, for this opportunity. And to you and to your entire team for, I know, countless hours of effort that have gone into this massive exercise of putting this program together from which all of us are benefiting. A very good afternoon, friends. We are gathered at probably one of the most important AI policy and innovation programs or platforms that our country has seen. And this summit truly represents the national ambition at its strongest and very best. But it is the dialogue and this session that we are doing here today that will help realize this ambition, help execute this ambition. All the discussions that have gone on for the last few days around AI policy, national strategy, global competitiveness, etc.

They must translate into real support for startup founders who are building AI products. And that translation only happens through the kind of ecosystems that we build together. I think India’s landscape is expanding very rapidly, making it among the top three global AI ecosystems. But it’s not numbers that actually build scale. It will be these kind of programs and innovation ecosystems that come together to make that happen. At Thai Delhi NCR, we’ve been at the forefront of mentoring and accelerating, working closely with startup founders. And over the last few years, we’ve worked with many of them to help them bridge the gap from innovation to market readiness. What we learned is that some of the areas where startups struggle are areas around business capability, around market access, around access to patient capital.

And therefore, our approach focuses on primarily these levers. which provides deep mentorship from entrepreneurs who’ve already scaled globally, market access with enterprises and GCCs, as you just heard, investor access through various funding stages, and structured capability building for our founder. STPI, of course, over the last, you know, more than two decades, 25 years and more, has done such remarkable work and played a great role in actually creating infrastructure and incubation support, a strong policy alignment, a massive pan -India presence and regulatory and institutional strength. And therefore, together, we really create the complete support stack for founders. And this has been demonstrated by the success of some of our key initiatives around Deep Ahead or Samark, etc., which really helped us to create a strong policy alignment.

And it really shows, it proves that collaboration does multiply outcomes as we work together on it. also I think there are certain strengths that India has which are raw ingredients for what we are all working towards now some of that is world class technical talent that comes from our premier institutions, cost effective innovation which is probably around 30 -40 % lower than operational costs in Silicon Valley strong public digital infrastructure as well as policy momentum to India AI mission and what we are seeing now so we must use all of that and bridge the gap around access to data, compute, infrastructure etc. but the collaboration that we are really excited about is the one with STPI which demonstrates how complementary skills when they come together can create real impact.

I think what we feel is that there are five structural pillars that are needed for scaling innovation. This is around knowledge and capability building, resource access market validation, funding access as well as well as of course ethical and responsible AI which our Prime Minister has been talking about and I think these kind of ecosystem collaborations and organizations they act as trust bridges which reduces the friction between government, startups, corporates and investors so I think as we move ahead we are very keen to work and to see how we can move out of the format of isolated programs and come together to create coordinated strategy there are certain immediate priorities that we can definitely work on this would be around expanding joint accelerators scaling up Samarth which has been going on so beautifully many more corporate challenge programs export readiness and perhaps AI benchmarking reports etc.

What we’d love to see is how AI startup ecosystems thrive, not by competition, but by collaboration. And as you’ve seen over here, to build a robust ecosystem when STPI, TI, GCCs, government, corporates, etc., come together with a shared vision, scale becomes inevitable. And that is what we are all here for, scaling innovation. Today, when we sign an MOU with STPI, it amplifies the impact and relevance, and it is a great pleasure and a great matter of privilege and pride for TI to work with STPI as a key enabler and a partner. So our very best wishes to all of you. As Rakeshji mentioned, these are times of great change, probably something that our generation has been very fortunate to see where we were and what we are heading towards.

And for all of us, to play a small role in what the years ahead will bring is really a humbling experience. It’s a great opportunity to be here. And my congratulations to all of you and my thank you for having all of us together here. Thank you so much.

Thank you, ma ‘am, for sharing Ty’s remarkable journey and continued commitment to entrepreneurs. May I now invite Ms. Nija Shekhar, Director General, National Productivity Council, for her special address. Ma

‘am, please. Good afternoon to you all. It’s a delight to be here at the AI Impact Summit. And specifically in this session, being hosted by the Software Technology Program, Park of India, where they have invited the National Productivity Council, who I represent, Ty, and other partners together, the GCC partners together. we are all talking about scaling AI innovation through the startup system. My warm greetings to everyone, to our ecosystem partners, industrial leaders, GCCs, mentors, investors and the startup founders who are also here as we work together on our next growth journey of innovation and AI impact. Anchored in the seven chakras of human capital, I am talking about the event that is anchored in the seven chakras of human capital, inclusion for social empowerment, safe and trusted AI, science, resilience, innovation and efficiency, democratizing AI resources and AI for economics.

Economic development and social growth. and the Three Sutras of People, Planet and Progress. This summit is focusing very effectively on a development -oriented framework for artificial intelligence. Today’s special session, where we are discussing the national imperative of scaling AI innovation, we will exchange a memorandum of understanding with STPI, NPC, and STPI have planned and pledged to work together for scaling this AI innovation, support the AI startup ecosystem in the country, and also to bring together innovation and collaboration. Because we know this is… This is not the era of competition. It’s an era of collaboration, where we have to put our energies together. and focus on areas that impact the population for good. This diffusion at scale across sectors, value chains, MSMEs, clusters, and public services.

This is what we are looking at. NPC, the National Productivity Council, works for productivity in the entire economic sector in the country. So we work on the total factor productivity, labor, land, infrastructure, capital. We support these areas and bring every player, make every player a part of the larger growth in the Indian economy. And manufacturing is a major focus area. Services, of course, but manufacturing. Because we know that that is where the employment is. And that is where. And the maximum exports also are growing. going to grow in the future. And of course, it is also going to maximize the GDP in the country. We’ve seen in this Expo area, we’ve seen many small AI applications, many of which are from the startups, working on areas of agriculture, health, some very, very interesting innovations on health and education, which is something very, very dear to all of us.

In areas like textiles, pharmaceuticals, etc. The question now is, how do we reliably move from ideas to impact and be meaningful to the society under the overall theme of welfare of all and happiness of all? Let me offer a crisp three -part framework for startups and ecosystem builders, which is trust, testbeds, and and traction. Trust is the entry ticket. If customers can’t trust our AI, they will not adopt it, on a scale not at least. So trust brings privacy and cyber security by design, transparency, accountability. It also means operational reliability and responsible governance. Testbeds. This will bridge the promise and proof. Startups need real world sandboxes. Labs, testing environments, applications, reference architectures, etc. And traction is what turns pilots into scale.

Not just a demo, but actual implementation. So we feel that the STPI will bring the ecosystem together and play a pivotal national role by bringing the industry a connected innovation landscape through their entire setup of innovation hubs, platforms, structured programs, centers of excellence across the country and their digital enablement frameworks. They have very successfully over a period of time connected mentors, labs, startups and resolved the challenges facing the startups leading them to larger markets. So their ecosystem of shifting from incubation to scalable infrastructure has seen very good days and we are going to see much much more success in the future. NPC’s role is to strengthen infrastructure. In the adoption spine of this ecosystem. productivity, quality, capability and industry alignment.

In the AI era, productivity is not just efficiency in land, labour and capital, but also reliability, repeatability, safety, security and responsible performance. Everything at scale. Startups scale faster when they can demonstrate measurable outcomes. Better output, better quality, fewer defects, faster service delivery, better customer experience, end -to -end experience and success. NPC supports this outcomes -driven pathway through benchmarking. We are very good at creating models, frameworks, assessment assessments and assessments, evaluations and providing a platform for the industries, MSMAs or the sector wise platforms are very well developed by NPC. This is an area many of you would have maybe if you are not associated with NPC you would know many people who worked with NPC, moved out in the economy, in the consultancy sector, in the evaluation sector and worked through benchmarking, capacity building and spreading of the productivity culture.

That’s why the partnership that we are looking at with STPI, between STPI and NPC is very timely, very strategic and we feel it will accelerate responsible digital transformation. And EA adoption. especially for MSMEs, clusters, industry ecosystems and RAI startups. We are really looking forward to a partnership where we can bring in more productivity into the ecosystem and today’s summit is a context that provides us and asks us and exhorts us to reorient our energies towards a more productive AI system that is scalable, that supports the AI startups and also has a very productive

Thank you, ma ‘am, for your inspiring words and for reinforcing the importance of productivity and capability development. Now, I would sincerely request our DG sir, Sri Arvind Kumarji, to kindly enlighten the audience with the keynote address.

Hello, namaskar. Good afternoon. I think this, when such session happens with Expo, it’s very difficult to have the attendance. Since morning, I am fighting for this only, who is speaking, kindly ensure that attendance is there. But here, there is no problem with attendance. So, organizer, thank you very much. I think you did a wonderful job. The Expo is going on. still we have the full attendance, people are standing also there. Neerja ma ‘am, other dignities on the dais. I think there are a lot of other business pending, some felicitations and all right. So just those who are not familiar with STPI, two minutes about STPI, two minutes about the subject and then I will end.

So STPI has 70 centers across the country where we provide incubation to all small IT companies. These centers are generally in tier 2, tier 3 cities. So we have 62 centers in tier 2, tier 3 cities. Apart from the 70 centers, we have 24 centers of entrepreneurship which are domain specific wherein we provide at least 60 degree support to start -up. We nurture them. We provide some seed fund to them. we provide global reach to them, we provide market access to them and of course incubation to them. So this is what the STPI is doing when it comes to startup and all. Other things we are also doing like BAPT, network security, data centers, cloud services in PPP partners.

So lot of things are doing just for that STPI domain. Now as far as this topic is scaling innovation is concerned, so I mean there is a big change when there is no concept of startup in the country. We used to call it MSMEs and those MSMEs are generally meant for supporting the big companies, especially PSUs. They create something, then merge with either PSUs or they provide some product which is a product for something as input to PSUs or the big organization. Now this change of the startup and with support by the government to the startup has changed the whole landscape. Now startup can themselves scale their product. This is the change which you can see in last 5 to 6 years.

And if you really want to scale up your innovation, then what is actually required for the startup, that is that product or that innovation should be safe and trusted. Unless it is not trusted, nobody is going to use it and it is not going to scale up. Now how to make this trusted and safe, especially in the AI era? That means you have to make your product which is responsible and the product which also ethical. You have to make sure that the product is safe and trusted. only then people will have trust in it only then it can be scaled. Now people are generally confused between two words responsible and ethical. Though these two words are interconnected but different.

When I say responsible or when I say ethical, though it is part of all five big parameters like we say it should be accountable, it should be secure, there has to be privacy, it has to be fairness. These are five words we use. But difference just by examples, when you say something ethical, that means like as a CEO of the company because you are owner of the startup, whether you are taking care of environment or not, when you are producing your product. that is a part of ethical or when you are going to product whether you are taking care of the jobs creation or not this is a larger part this is your ethical attitude what I am going to do with the product when it comes to responsible responsible means fairness which means whether it is a not biased towards anything whether it’s not biased towards country whether it’s biased towards male female gender caste religion then it is a fair product and when I say responsibility it also means somebody should be accountable accountability is the very important part of the responsibility which means that suppose there is a car hit somebody in the road and the car is a driverless car now who is accountable for that accident whether the person who has purchased the car that is a person who has created that car name of the company or somebody who develops algorithm or the this is even the large language model which has been used by that very rappers.

So this is accountability. So unless you are not able to make something which is responsible ethical and therefore safe and trusted, it can’t be skilled. So all startups are there. They must ensure that whatever they are going to create today everybody is using UPI because they have able to create the trust among us. Lot of things came in this country. But now today biometric attendance or biometric identity has become scalable because they were able to create that this product is trusted, this product is safe. So any product which you are going to create whether the product is related to anything if you really want to innovate which is a very good thing and if this country has that opportunity, scale up anything we have population of 1 .4 billion and here scalability is very important.

and therefore if you really want to scale your product, you really want to scale your innovation, that must be safe and trusted. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you so much, sir, for always encouraging, enlightening and guiding us throughout the journey. Now we begin with the MOU exchange ceremony. The first MOU between STPI and National Productivity Council May I request Sri Ashok Gupta, Sir, Director, STPI Gurugram to please come on the dais and Sri Nikhil Panchabai, Director, NPC to please come on the dais and exchange the MOU. I would also request DG Sir and DG Ma ‘am to grace the audience. Sanjay Sir, please come and grace the dais, please, Sir. Can we have a round of applause for Shri Sanjay Gupta sir, our Senior Director, STPI Thank you so much Sir, please be on the stage sir Shri Ashok Gupta sir, if you would like to The next demo you exchange is between STPI and Thai Delhi NCR For that may I request Shri Sanjay Gupta sir, Senior Director, STPI and Ms. Geetika Dayal to please come forward and exchange the MOUs please Thank you Thank you.

Thank you.

So we now come to one of the most awaited segments, the startup felicitation ceremony. Today, we recognize startups supported under STPI ecosystem for excellence across revenue, funding, employment, women participation, innovation, and AI -led impact. I would like to request our Honor Dignitaries, DG Sir STPI and Nirja Shekhar Ma ‘am, Director General, National Productivity Council to kindly come forward to present the certificate and trophy to our startups. I request these startups to kindly come on the stage as per the name announced. So the first name is, may I invite Phoenix Marine Exports and Solutions Private Limited to come on the stage. They are being recognized under the category highest revenue up to 25 CR revenue and highest impact based on revenue tier 2 and tier 3 reason.

May I request DG STPI and DG NPC to please present the certificate and trophy. Once again, a big round of applause for their outstanding contribution. Now, may I invite Vimeo Consulting Private Limited to please come on the stage. They are being recognized for highest funding raised up to 25 CR revenue category. Heartiest congratulations on your fundraising success. A big round of applause. A louder round of applause, please. Now, may I invite Swada Agri Private Limited to the stage. Thank you, Judy. They are being felicitated for highest employment generation up to 25 CR revenue category. Congratulations for generating valuable employment. A big round of applause. Thank you. invite Strangify Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to please come on the stage.

They are being recognized for highest number of women employment up to 25 CR revenue category. Well done for empowering women in the workforce. A big round of applause. A louder round of applause for women participation. Now, our next startup is Suhora Technologies Pvt. Ltd. May I invite Suhora Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to the stage. They are being recognized for highest revenue up to 50 CR revenue category. Congratulations on your outstanding business performance. A big round of applause. Suhora Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Now I invite Puvation Technology Solutions Private Limited. They are being felicitated for highest funding raised up to 50 CR revenue category. Applause for your impressive funding milestone. A big round of applause. Now I invite our next startup, Sequera Tech IT Solutions Private Limited to come on the stage.

They are being recognized under multiple categories. so the categories are highest employment up to 50 CR revenue category highest women employment up to 50 CR revenue category highest AI based impact based on revenue a special recognition for excellence across multiple dimensions a big round of applause now I invite our next startup Atmik Bharat Industries Pvt. Ltd. to the stage they are being recognized for highest impact based on beneficiaries congratulations for touching countless lives a big round of applause May I invite Mobile Pay E -Commerce Private Limited. They are being validated for highest impact based on beneficiaries as a second position. Well done for your meaningful outreach. A big round of applause. Now I invite the another startup Devnagri AI Private Limited to please come on the stage.

They are being recognized for highest AI based impact based on revenue as a second position. Congratulations on leveraging AI for impact. A big round of applause. Thank you. Thank you so much, sir, DG, sir, for attending us. Now I invite our next startup, Dactrosel Healthcare and Research Private Limited. They are being recognized for most innovative startup. Applause for Breakthrough Healthcare Innovation. A big round of applause. Now I invite our next startup, EZO5 Solutions Private Limited. Please come on the stage. They are being felicitated as most promising innovation. Please, please A big round of applause Thank you Now I invite our next startup Connector Foods Private Limited. Please come on the stage for a beautiful couple.

They are being recognized as most innovative startup as a second position. Well done for creative excellence. A big round of applause. Finally, our last startup, may I invite Fuse Ledge Innovations Private Limited. They are being recognized as most promising innovation, second position. Congratulations on your forward -looking journey. A big round of applause. A big round of applause for all our felicitated startups. Your innovation, resilience and contribution to India’s digital economy truly inspire us all. May I request our dignitaries to kindly resume their seats on the dais. We will now invite our selected startups to briefly share their journey with us. So may I invite Fuselage Innovations, Private Limited, to kindly come on the

Hi everyone, my name is Devika Chandrasekaran. I’m the co -founder of Useless Innovations. It’s truly an honor to stand on a stage today being felicitated by STPI. This moment feels very special because we started our journey with STPI in our early days. Back in 2021, we participated in a program called Scout 2021. At that time, we were building our prototype. The support we received through the program was not just a funding, it’s a validation. That recognition gave us the confidence to push forward. We’re going to do it. Today, Fuselage Innovations manufactures drones in agriculture, defence, disaster management applications We are working with more than 10 ,000 farmers across India helping them to improve productivity, efficiency through drone technology We are also contributing to defence, disaster management and maritime operations serving critical national needs Last month, we were deeply honoured to receive National Startup Award and we got the opportunity to present our journey in front of our Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi Sir I would like to sincerely thank STBI and everyone involved in the journey to believe a startup like us The ecosystem, the encouragement and the early trust that make a huge difference in our journey Thank you so much

Thank you for sharing inspiring story. Now may I invite Dr. Rosals to kindly come on the stage and share your startup journey with us. Dr.

Good evening, everyone. My name is Dr. Soumya, and I’m really glad to be a part of this prolific platform today. Just very quickly, I’d like to walk you through what we build. So at TectoCell, we build AI -powered diagnostic solutions at the intersection of radiology and artificial intelligence. And DNA sequencing, while addressing the huge havoc of drug resistance and robust clinical trials panning across India, facilitated by the software technology parks of India. We’ve been able to sort of exceptionally benchmark our accuracy, clinical accuracy, that sort of amplifies the reliability of our products. And the continued commitment of Software Technology Parks of India to sort of help us navigate through our regulatory compliances, get global collaborations, and also sort of get data acquisition, which is sort of machine readable, is extremely noteworthy.

And this unique foundation sort of puts us in a very good position, in a very strengthful position to now sort of scale this globally, building from India for the world. So I’m very grateful for this. Thank you.

Thank you. Lots of applause. Thank you so much for sharing your story and journey with us. Now I invite Sequeira Tech IT Solutions Private Limited to come on the stage and share your startup journey with us.

Hi everyone. Good evening to everyone. So my name is Arita Dalal. I’m heading this region for North with SecureTech. I have been in this organization from the last 11 years. But during this journey, we have a lot of interaction with STPI as an organization. They are one of the nurturing body which has done a lot of collaboration in the industries as well. They are one of the bodies which has given us an opportunity to talk to the investors as well. And there are various industry connect as well that is being established by the organization. And we are very sincerely thankful to the entire organization and the team of STPI as well. Just to give you a brief about.

SecureTech is a cyber security organization in VR. Our mantra is to simplify security. We are touching, we are securing the security for the large enterprise organization, with size organization across the industry, whether it is pharma, banking finance organizations, or even the small organizations which are currently establishing the digital landscape in the country, while they are being regulated by large RBI and CBI. So, in nutshell, we are providing them all the frameworks, security parameters, and the solutions as well, so that they can be powered, they can be enabled, and they can secure their infrastructure platforms and the data that they are processing for the countries or for the users that they are providing services. So, whether it is a startup organization or even a large infrastructure organization, we are securing.

We are providing them end -to -end. Thank you. Thanks, everyone.

Thank you. Now, I invite… Caneboard Solutions Private Limited to come on the stage and share your journey with us.

helping us sharpen our positioning as a deep tech company. Most importantly, STPI’s recognition has strengthened our credibility with customers, investors, and government stakeholders. We are very happy and very honored to be here today, and we thank you so much to STPI and everybody who is present here today.

Thank you so very much. May I invite now EZO5 to kindly come on the stage and share your startup journey with us.

Hi, everyone. Good afternoon. I’m Noor Fatma, co -founder of EZO5 Solutions.

Hi, I’m Meenal Gupta, founder of EZO5 Solutions.

at EZO5 we have built an AI powered platform Imagix AI that does precision treatment planning for oncology cases and so in the in the startup journey there was a time for us when we one and a half years back when we had just two months of cash flow with us we were thinking a lot what to do and that is when STPI came to our rescue and it helped us raise money and there has been no looking back since then so in the past three years where we have been incorporated we have processed around one million scans we have in the last three months we have scanned around 50 ,000 chest XAs where we have flagged around 4 ,000 cases of TB cut the transmission by short we have flagged six cases of lung cancer where the intervention was still possible so We have prepared 1000 radiotherapy plants in the last three months and we have cut short the treatment planning and start from around one month to a week.

So that is the impact we are making to the support of the whole ecosystem and STPI.

And proudly I say that the impact that we have brought, even our Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi was interested and he invited us to discuss our solution in IMC. And just day before yesterday, we have gone global because Bill Gates showed interest in our solution and he invited us in Microsoft to show our solution and he was discussing how he can help us. Thank you.

So now we are going from local to global serving the whole world. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. Thank you to all the founders for sharing such inspiring stories. So, we now proceed with presentations of mementos to our esteemed dignitaries. To begin with, may I request Shri Ashok Gupta, Sir, Director, STPI, Gurugram to kindly come on the stage. Sir will present the memento to Nirja Shekhar ma ‘am, Director General, NPC. A big round of applause. Thank you so much, Sir. And thank you so much, ma ‘am. Next, may I request Shri Atul Kumar Singh Sir, Additional Director, STPI to kindly come on the stage and present the memento to Shri Bala M.S. A big round of applause. May I now request Shri Praveen Kumar Sir, Joint Director, STPI to kindly come on the stage and present the memento to Geetika Dayal Ma ‘am.

A big round of applause. May I also request Shri Atul Kumar Singh Sir, Additional Director, STPI to kindly come on the stage and present the memento to Geetika Dayal Ma ‘am. Shri Praveen Kumar sir, Joint Director, STPI to kindly present the memento to Shri Rakesh Dubey sir, Director, Startups and Innovation, STPI. Thank you sir. A big round of applause. Now, I would like to request Shri Praveen Kumar sir, Joint Director, STPI to present

the formal vote of thanks. Expected dignitaries, speakers, startup founders, innovators and ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Software Technology Parks of India, it is our true privilege to thank each one of you for making this session focused, meaningful and definitely forward. looking. Nirja Sekhar ma ‘am, thank you for your thoughtful reflections on productivity and growth. Your perspective adds depth and direction both to our collective mission ma ‘am. We are truly encouraged to have your presence. Thank you so much. We are grateful for it. Sri Rakesh Dube sir, thank you for your profound support which has been both guiding and grounding sir. Your constant encouragement and hands -on involvement in shaping the entire session together has helped us immensely sir.

My sincere appreciation to Geetika Dayal ma ‘am from Thai Daily NCR for your continued partnership and reinforcing the importance of collaborative startup ecosystem building ma ‘am. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bala, for bringing up a sharp industry lens and pragmatic approach that startups can directly relate to as they scale. So your thoughts on the GCC is definitely going to help them all. To the startups, all the startups who were felicitated today, congratulations. Your achievements demonstrate that innovation from India, including Tier 1 and Tier 2, is both scalable and globally relevant. To all the founders who shared their journey, thank you for your candor and inspiration. Your stories remind us why platforms like STPI matter. And before I conclude, I sincerely appreciate.

My organizing team and every colleague who worked diligently. behind the scene to ensure the session came seamlessly. With that, I once again thank all of you and the dignitaries and I request dignitaries and startups to come forward and have a group chat. Thank you. Thank you again.

I request to all the felicitated startups to kindly come on the stage and have the group photograph with all the dignitaries on the dais. Thank you. Thank you. I also request the other directors as well to please come on stage and join us for the group photographs. Yes, Kavita ma ‘am, please come on the stage. I also request Kishori ma ‘am to please join us for the group photograph. Thank you. Thank you. Once again, thank