The landscape of Indian AI startups is evolving rapidly, with a fresh group of ventures making waves in October. According to Inc42’s latest “AI Startups To Watch” series, five firms stand out for their innovative use of artificial-intelligence to address significant pain-points.
First, AIGnosis is focused on early autism screening via a webcam-based, AI-driven five-minute assessment. The founders aim to democratise developmental-disorder diagnosis in India for under INR 700.
Second, August AI offers a multilingual healthcare companion accessible via WhatsApp, analysing prescriptions and symptoms to deliver personalised guidance for users and doctors alike.
Third, Mple AI uses lifelike avatar-based AI role-play to train enterprise sales teams, evaluating performance on over 60 parameters so fresh recruits can ramp faster.

Fourth, Sherlocks AI targets site-reliability engineering teams, using AI to triage alerts and diagnose outages—claiming up to 70% reduction in downtime for clients.

Finally, Webenoid specialises in adaptive, multi-channel conversational AI for enterprises—moving beyond script-based chatbots to more fluid, contextual customer-interaction systems.

Together, these startups reflect three key themes: deep-domain AI (healthcare & SRE), enterprise-AI optimisation, and multilingual/localised solutions for Indian contexts. As funding and interest accelerate, these firms are worth monitoring—both for what they do now and how they scale tomorrow.