Start-Up Pitch Competition

Innovators on Stage
Final Presentation:  16 February, 2025
Winner Announcement:  16 February, 2025

The Pitch Competition celebrates Indian entrepreneurship and innovation, offering founders a chance to showcase their ventures. Finalists will pitch to an esteemed panel of investors, industry leaders, and mentors, gaining invaluable exposure. This inaugural event spotlights groundbreaking ideas and fosters meaningful conversations, with upto $15,000 in cash prizes to help turn bold visions into reality.

Winner

Udith Vaidyanathan
Arun Ramakrishnan

LogicFlo Al is building the Al Agent Workforce for Life Sciences organizations. We build agents that enable knowledge workers in life sciences to maximize their cognitive, decision-making work while automating iterative, routine execution work.

Runner Up

Aditya Agrawal
Gaurav Garg
Kirti Goel

P-TAL revives traditional Indian metals like brass and copper in modern homes and kitchens across through functional and aesthetic products handcrafted by India’s only UNESCO recognised artisans.

Announcing the Top-7 Finalists

For the first ever Start-up Pitch Competition at the India Conference at Harvard!

These companies are redefining industries and bringing bold ideas to life. Join us at the India Conference at Harvard 2025 and watch them pitch their ventures live on stage, on Feb 16th, at the Harvard Business School!

Aditya Agrawal
Gaurav Garg
Kirti Goel
PTAL

P-TAL revives traditional Indian metals like brass and copper in modern homes and kitchens across through functional and aesthetic products handcrafted by India’s only UNESCO recognised artisans.

Anuj Srivastava
Priyesh Srivastava
OnFinance AI

OnFinanceAI’s flagship product, ComplianceOS AI Agent, is an AI agent specifically designed for compliance officers and department heads to streamline complex regulatory workflows.

Udith Vaidyanathan
Arun Ramakrishnan
LogicFlo AI

LogicFlo Al is building the Al Agent Workforce for Life Sciences organizations. We build agents that enable knowledge workers in life sciences to maximize their cognitive, decision-making work while automating iterative, routine execution work.

Ayna Arora
Andrew Spielberg

Automating the invention, design, and deployment of new machines and robots.

Kalyan Gautham
Pallavi Bansal
Gregory Schweickert
xPub

xPub trains and deploys local language models for sales teams in enterprises to automate sales documentation (starting with RFP responses).

Deepesh Kumar
Shrestha Pratik
Spike AI

Spike Al is the self-driving intelligence layer for marketing, orchestrating every channel on autopilot-starting with your website. It's a true Marketing AGI that transforms your marketing into an unstoppable growth engine.

Nitya Dintakurti
Balaji Teegala
Prashant Jha
Unpause

Unpause is building transformative smart technologies for menopausal women

Meet Our Jury

Abhinav Shashank
Founder & CEO, Innovaccer
Akriti Dokania
Partner, Ridge Ventures
Ritesh Malik
Founder, Innov8 and Chairman of the National Expert Committee on Start Up Entrepreneurship & Innovation