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Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India
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Government of Kerala
Digital University Kerala
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Applications Closed: First Cohort 2026

First Cohort · 2026

CAIK First Cohort

Building Sovereign and Applied AI Capabilities for India and Keralam

Pre-Incubation · Incubation · Acceleration

One application, evaluated by the Centre against the programme that fits best.

Explore The Cohort

15

startups
selected

The cohort

15 startups. One ecosystem.

The CAIK First Cohort 2026 brings together a selected group of startups working on AI-driven solutions across different domains. Together, the cohort reflects the programme's focus on building sovereign and applied AI capabilities for India and Keralam.

The startups

Meet the First Cohort

15 selected startups

Plenti

Surplus food marketplace

Pulse by Plenti: The sub-₹2,000 Edge-AI probe delivering 10-second FSSAI freshness verification to unlock India's commercial food surplus.

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Lejit AI

Legal Tech

Lejit is an AI-native legal platform that helps enterprises and financial institutions automate legal compliance, audits, due diligence, and litigation management.

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VitalView AI

Healthcare / MedTech

Helping hospitals get emergency CT/MRI/PET first-reads in under 2 minutes, instead of waiting hours for radiologist availability.

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Keynos

FinTech / Enterprise Finance

Autonomous accounting intelligence, with humans on the loop where judgment and audit matter.

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Court Click

Legaltech

Case management simplified for lawyers and litigants in India.

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Audio Realities

Information and Media

A deep-tech startup developing advanced speech and language technologies for the professional audio industry, building a dedicated speech-processing ecosystem for cinema and broadcast.

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Metanoa Labs Pvt.Ltd

Mental Health Care

An AI-powered practice management and early intervention software platform designed for therapy centers, schools, and professionals supporting children with developmental disorders.

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Katidhan

Climate / AgriTech / Wildlife

Katidhan is working towards digitizing the world's perimeter while securing the future economy through its technological products and solutions.

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Doculu

Enterprise / Document AI

Document management with private AI for governments and enterprises. Ask questions across confidential files and get cited answers, without your data ever leaving your servers.

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Trackt

Healthcare / HealthTech

Trackt is a GLP-1 companion designed with clinical expertise for people on a weight-loss journey that simplifies daily tracking and side-effect awareness, detects early behavioral drift, and helps users return to safer, more sustainable routines.

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Tranzmeo

Industrial AI / Critical Infrastructure

Tranzmeo is world's first company to build OEM independent AI software platform for fiber-sensing applications.

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Pixolish

Pixolish — India's Intelligent Vision & Embedded AI Platform, integrating Camera Perception to AI Deployment for Next-Generation ADAS & Robotics Solutions.

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Resfeber

Practice management software for healthcare providers.

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VibraSync

AI Engineering

Real-time Computer Vision & Signal Processing Solutions.

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Open Healthcare Network

The open operating system for healthcare.

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CAIK supports

Advancing ideas that create real-world impact.

Advancing AI-Native Startups, Applied Research, Public-Sector AI, Datasets, Compute Infrastructure and Talent

AI-Native Startups

Founders, products and deployment

Applied Research

Research, data and technical capability

Public-Sector AI

Responsible AI for public systems

Datasets

Data assets for training and evaluation

Compute Infrastructure

GPU and training capacity

Talent

Skilling and practitioner pipelines