Spotlight on AI startups

Five Indian AI startups that we found very promising at the Global Fintech Fest 2025

- Tasneem Kanchwala

As the curtains closed on the sixth edition of the Global FinTech Fest (GFF), the worlds largest fintech extravaganza held from October 7-9, a cohort of innovative Indian AI startups emerged as the talk of the town.

These homegrown trailblazers, which were also exhibiting at the event, matter profoundly in India’s AI narrative, embodying the government’ aggressive push to harness artificial intelligence as a cornerstone of economic transformation.

Here’s a list of five Indian AI startups that we found promising at the Global Fintech Fest 2025.

Gnani.ai

Gnani.ai pioneers voice-first agentic Al platforms that enable enterprises to build and deploy intelligent agents across voice, chat, SMS, and WhatsApp channels, complete with analytics, guardrails, and seamless CRM integrations to automate customer experience (CX) workflows in real-time. Their solutions cater perfectly to fintech firms, e-commerce giants, and telecom providers seeking context-aware, multilingual conversational AI to enhance support and drive efficiency. Making a splash at GFF 2025, Gnani.ai unveiled their self-cloned Digital Human powered by the Human0OS platform — a breakthrough in realistic AI avatars supporting Indic languages — while their Booth T-16 demoed live real-time AI agent building, pushing the boundaries of agentic interactions in finance.

Kiya.ai