Agentic AI Startups See Big Demand From Smaller Biz

STARTUPS OFFERING AGENTIC AI solutions are now seeing increased demand from small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups across growth stages.

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So far, the demand was emanating mostly from large tech companies that were actively adopting agentic AI. Now, most B2B startups that offer agentic AI solutions are receiving over 20-30% of the demand from startups compared to less than 5% at the beginning of the year.

Notably, agentic AI is simply an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can perform complex tasks with minimal or no human supervision.

Ganesh Gopalan, co-founder and CEO, Gnani AI, observed that traditionally, AI agents and workflow automation have been seen as capital-intensive and out of reach for smaller players.

"However, this mindset is fast changing," he told FE, adding that smaller businesses are beginning to recognize the tangible ROI of intelligent automation.