Top Tech Startups in Karnataka, India in 2027

We are building a connected commerce ecosystem for local businesses and their customers. Modulus Sell helps shop owners manage everything inside their business: billing, inventory, staff, CRM, daily reports and more. It gives them the control and visibility they usually only get from heavy, expensive ERP tools, but in a simple mobile-first experience. Modulus Buy is for customers: It lets them track their orders, get updates from the shops they follow and stay connected without the usual friction of calling or waiting. Together, both apps create a single platform where shops run their business smoothly and customers stay informed and engaged. This connection is the core of what we’re building: a smarter, more transparent way for local commerce to work.

We're rebuilding India's $17B MEP industry around software. Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC, Fire Safety — the physical infrastructure behind every commercial office, retail outlet, warehouse, and hospital. It's a massive market with no scaled, tech-enabled player. Work sits with line contractors at the bottom of the construction value chain, and they stay sub-scale for structural reasons: sales is informal, procurement is local and expensive, execution knowledge sits in the owner's head, and there's no documentation. Nirmaan is the first MEP contractor built around proprietary software end-to-end. Our platform — the Nirmaan Stack — runs every stage of a project's lifecycle, from the first sales call to final handover. One team runs 70+ live projects across 20 cities at once, a scale conventional line contractors simply can't reach, because growth no longer depends on how many experienced people we can hire. Clients include Decathlon, Siemens, Grant Thornton, Cushman & Wakefield, Hexaware, HomeLane, Sterlite, Table Space, Kearney, Wakefit, HCG Hospitals, D E Shaw & Co, and 30+ others. The Nirmaan Stack — live in production: • Sales CRM — account mapping, BOQ pipeline, salesperson-wise conversion tracking • AI BOQ Engine — estimation turnaround cut from days to hours • Procurement Engine — centralized RFQs against a live rate history, so every buy is benchmarked • Project Intelligence — site-wise progress, manpower and material tracking against budget • Cash Sheet — per-project live margin and receivable position • Project Record — full digital trail per project Why this matters: a traditional line contractor holds all of this in the founder's head. Because our software holds it instead, we price off data, procure centrally, and open a new city on a repeatable playbook. That's what turns a relationship business into a scalable one.

ira is building a new medium for interacting with AI. We don’t believe chatting is the final interface, or that every question should be answered with a wall of text. We’re bringing together a hand-drawn character that feels alive, a screen the AI can shape, voice, animation and music. Aira can guide you through an activity, explain something visually, keep useful information on screen and take actions on your behalf. The goal is to give you the best answer in the best way, adapted to your situation. Imagine an AI that guides you through cooking or a workout, knows when to speak and when to wait, and shows you how a step should be done. Now imagine that same care applied across the things you do every day, alongside an agent that can help make reservations and buy what you need with your confirmation. We believe AI is the biggest equaliser, but its everyday consumer experience is still being figured out. We’re building Aira to change that and make AI something people naturally use daily. We’re a small team based in HSR Layout, Bengaluru, building towards a San Francisco launch this month.

Vayrova is a brand growth and architecture studio helping ambitious businesses turn ideas into meaningful, scalable brands. We work at the intersection of strategy, creativity, and innovation to build stronger brand foundations, create distinctive identities, and unlock new growth opportunities. More than a service provider, we work as consultative partners, collaborating with businesses from the earliest stages of an idea to their next phase of growth. We believe great businesses deserve more than visibility - they deserve to create value, build connections, and stand for something meaningful.

The problem: Brands spent 20 years optimizing for Google's blue links. Now, 40% of product discovery starts in AI — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. When someone asks "what's the best CRM for small teams" or "recommend a skincare brand for sensitive skin," AI either mentions your brand or it doesn't. There's no ad slot to buy. No ranking to game. The AI either learned to recommend you, or it recommends your competitor. Most companies have zero visibility into what AI says about them. They don't know if ChatGPT recommends them, misrepresents them, or ignores them entirely. And they have no playbook to fix it. What Ninar does: Ninar AI scans 10 AI engines, scores your brand's visibility (0-100), identifies where you're missing from AI recommendations, generates content optimized for AI citation, publishes it to your CMS, and re-scans to verify the improvement landed. One platform: monitor, generate, publish, prove. We call this AI Visibility Optimization — the layer after SEO. We're not replacing search optimization, we're building the tooling for the next surface where buyers make decisions. Where we are: Bootstrapped and profitable on unit economics. NVIDIA Inception member. Live product with paying customers across SaaS, e-commerce, and fintech. Founder-led out of the US (Research Triangle Park, NC), engineering and ops running remote. Why this matters now: Every quarter, AI answers eat more of traditional search traffic. Gartner predicts 25% of search queries won't return a link by end of 2026. Brands that figure out AI visibility now compound that advantage. Brands that wait will spend 10x to catch up later. We're building the picks-and-shovels platform for that shift.

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SmartInvest is a tech-based alternate investment platform based in Bangalore, pioneering a new approach to fractional ownership. We empower everyone, regardless of budget, to participate in the high-growth potential of the Indian alternate investment market.