India's engine for
sovereign AI leadership
IAIRO unites world-class researchers, engineers, and industry partners to build India's frontier AI capabilities.
Anchor partners
Our Ambition
ISRO for AI
IAIRO is India’s own engine where deep research turns into real-world impact. Designed as an ecosystem from day one, we build both the talent and the technology needed for true sovereign AI.
Build capability
Develop foundational and applied AI for India's most critical sectors — Pharma, Health, Sustainability, and Education. Led by returning global faculty and world-class researchers across India.
Bridge industry
Bring researchers, industry, startups, and government into one shared workflow. We
provide data access, compute infrastructure, and talent pathways to carry ideas from lab to live systems.
Scale impact
Take prototypes to production. We co-develop AI platforms, transfer IP, and scale solutions creating India's pipeline from lab breakthroughs to national-scale and global products.
Build capability
Develop foundational and applied AI for India's most critical sectors — Pharma, Health, Sustainability, and Education. Led by returning global faculty and world-class researchers across India.
Bridge industry
Bring researchers, industry, startups, and government into one shared workflow. We provide data access, compute infrastructure, and talent pathways to carry ideas from lab to live systems.
Scale impact
Take prototypes to production. We co-develop AI platforms, transfer IP, and scale solutions creating India's pipeline from lab breakthroughs to national-scale and global products.
Breakthroughs to Breakout Companies
The IAIRO startup program
IAIRO's researchers work hands-on with your team to build deep AI technology on IAIRO’s platform. IAIRO's researchers work hands-on with your team to build deep AI technology. IP ownership and licensing are agreed for each collaboration, with a focus on helping founders build defensible companies while protecting pre-existing platform and research IP.
Access IAIRO's research bench – top global faculty, postdocs from international labs, engineers from Google, Amazon, Netflix. The team India couldn't build, until now.
Hands-on support across every function, from go-to-market and strategic positioning to fundraising, backed by access to IAIRO’s network of government stakeholders, leading VCs, industry partners, and domain experts.
WHO THIS IS FOR
AI-native startups that are deeply integrated within a specific domain.
Focused on India's priority sectors, from healthcare to enterprise AI.
Indian-registered startups. Rolling applications year-round.
You want to own IP, not license it. You think in decades, not demo days.
Two startups currently in co-development with IAIRO. Details under NDA portfolio page launching soon.
Focus Areas
AI for India's critical sectors
BY 2030
What we are building.
Three outcomes. None attempted in India at this scale. All compounding for decades.
High-End Technical
Talent
The deepest AI bench India has assembled: returning faculty, postdocs from international labs, and engineers from the world's leading AI companies. The pipeline India was never able to build.
Indian-Owned
IP
Patents, models and frameworks owned by India. Built on Indian data, for Indian problems, then exported globally. The IP that makes India a product nation.
Platform Others Build On
Platform
SAMVIT, IAIRO's enterprise-AI platform, as open infrastructure for India's broader ecosystem of startups, universities, and government agencies.
Our Ambition
Big is not better.
Small, sovereign, sector-specific.
While others build larger AI models, IAIRO develops focused, enterprise AI designed to solve India's most critical challenges.
Own the core
Build from scratch Indian IP, not a fine tuned version of someone else's foundation models. The models India owns are the ones India controls.
Models that reason
AI that explains itself. Neurosymbolic AI-Dr. Amit Sheth's globally recognised research area-combines neural learning with symbolic reasoning for verifiable, trustworthy output.
World-class network
Best minds, on call. Hands on collaborators at Google, DeepMind, IBM, Amazon, Meta, Apple and leading universities across the world aligned to India's mission.
Partner with IAIRO
Three ways to engage
Partners can engage with IAIRO through talent, technology, or ecosystem collaboration.
Talent
Our AI scientists and Advisors guide partners on model design, data strategy, and responsible deployment — bringing frontier research expertise directly to your team.
Platform & Products
Our applied AI teams co-build scalable systems, license IAIRO IP, and run innovation labs that convert research into deployable pilots ready for production.
Network
We connect innovators and entrepreneurs to aligned angels, VCs, corporates, and government programs — supporting incubation, funding, and strategic partnerships.
2030 Outcomes
Building to global top 5
India's premier focused AI research organisation measured by impact, talent, and innovation.
Trained AI innovators
AI skills developed
AI labs operational
Patents / IPs
(Pre-commercialisation)
AI Native Startups
What Leaders Say
Trusted by
India's top institutions
IAIRO has the potential to mirror ISRO's journey, showing how frugality paired with deep talent can produce extraordinary scientific brilliance.
Abhishek Singh
Former CEO, IndiaAI Mission | Director General, National Testing Agency
IAIRO will turn research into working systems, efficiently translating prototypes to global products. It's the bridge India needs between labs, startups, and the government.
Dr. Hasmukh Adhia
Former Finance & Revenue secretary of india
Our People
Founding team
Researchers from leading universities, entrepreneurs who built AI startups, and technologists from Amazon, Meta, Apple, Netflix, and Snap.
Dr. Amit Sheth
NCR Chair & Professor, USC Founding Director, AI Institute of SC Educator | Researcher | Entrepreneur
Prof. Ramesh Jain
Director, Institute for Future Health, UC Irvine Father of Multimedia Educator | Researcher | Entrepreneur
Prof. Dev Niyogi
Professor, University of Texas | UNESCO Chair for AI, Water & Cities
Prof. Sanjay Chaudhary
Professor & Associate Dean, Ahmedabad University AI in Agriculture | Collaborations | Operations
Juhi Bhatnagar
Snap Inc. | Swiggy | The Wharton School | Mu Sigma Founder, Forj Capital | Entrepreneurship | Private Partnerships
Selvam Velmurugan
Amazon | Netflix | Vulcan | Multiple Startups Engineering | Scaling Technology
Prof. Srinivasan Parthasarathy
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Prof. Vasant Honavar
Director, Center for AI Foundations and Scientific Applications, Pennsylvania State University
Vipul Kashyap
CEO, MedHive.AI | Clinical Decision Support | Semantics | Ontologies | Knowledge Representation | Decision Modeling
Aman Chadha
Google | Apple | Amazon | AI Research & Engineering Expert
Pavan Kapanipathi
AI Research Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center | Knowledge Graphs | NLP | Reasoning
Lakshmi Nidamarthi
CEO, Waymakers | Ex-Amazon | Technology & Product | EdTech | Marketplaces | Startup Ecosystems | Corporate Partnerships
Vishal Mehta
CMD, AvenuesAI & Rediff.com | Entrepreneurship | Technology Platforms | AI-led Innovation | Digital Infrastructure
Chandramouli Venkatesh
Amazon | Meta | Microsoft | Applied AI | International experience: USA, India, Japan
Ajai Chowdhry
Padma Bhushan | Co-Founder, HCL | Chair, Quantum Mission | Author, Just Aspire
Sharad Sharma
iSPIRT Foundation / ProductNation | National Startup Advisory Council
Ramesh Jain
Father of Multimedia | Institute of Future Health | Entrepreneur | Researcher | Teacher | Fellow of Six Professional Societies
Amit Sheth
Founding Director & CEO- IAIRO | Educator | Researcher | Entrepreneur | Fellow of Five Professional Societies
Prof. Rajat Moona
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar | Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
P. Bharathi
IAS (2005 Batch) | Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Gujarat (Ex Officio)
Anita Ramachandran
Leading HR Committee, Founder SOLVEXUS, Advisor Mercer
Steven Pinto
Leading Finance Committee Senior Finance Leader, Chairman Centrum
ADVISORS & ECOSYSTEM partners
Built on a PPP Model
Inaugural partners from government missions, state departments, and industry expanding subsequently.
Knowledge Partners
Industry Partners
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