Built by BITSians
Tracxn's Top 50 and other prominent startups and companies founded by BITS Pilani alumni
Featuring: 🦄 Unicorns • 🚀 Soonicorns • ✨ Minicorns
Built by BITSians brings together 72 companies founded or co-founded by BITS Pilani alumni, across 8 categories. They range from consumer brands, fintech and AI to space tech, healthcare, mobility and media.
From Ideas to Startups: NVC Gets a New Launchpad
What happens when real startup ideas meet 77 mentors, five BITS campuses and a whole lot of entrepreneurial energy? NVC 2026.
After 16 years, BITS Pilani’s New Venture Creation (NVC) course has been revamped into an immersive, experience-first journey for student founders across Pilani, Dubai, Goa, Hyderabad and BITS Design School, Mumbai. From 133 applications, 32 high-potential startups made it through a rigorous screening process, spanning DeepTech, AI, Healthcare, Climate, EdTech and more.
And the momentum is already building — 184 mentoring sessions and 10,800 minutes of mentorship in just two months, with mentees rating the experience 9.7/10.
Read more about NVC 2026 →
Workshop 5A: Sales and Marketing
Live link-up across campuses
Workshop 2: Design Thinking
Student Startup Stories
NovAtom Labs: From Hostel-Room Experiments to Autonomous Semiconductor Discovery
What started as AI projects built from hostel rooms by BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus students Arnav Kulshrestha and Satyagni Bhattacharya has evolved into NovAtom Labs
— a venture building autonomous systems for semiconductor and materials research.
NovAtom has developed a platform that generates and screens thousands of candidate materials, identifying 17 novel materials from over 100,000 screened so far. Its simulation layer has reduced semiconductor device setup and convergence from 5–7 days to under 10 minutes. With a standing collaboration with SCL Mohali, pilots with BITS researchers and discussions with organisations including DRDO and DIAT, the team is working towards its vision of self-driving research labs for India. Following its runner-up finish at SEEP 4.0, NovAtom Labs is now set to incubate at BITS Hyderabad.
From PIEDS to Global Startup Stages: The SmalBlu Story
What began at PIEDS, BITS Pilani’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, has grown into SmalBlu, an AI platform helping enterprises manage and optimise the complexity and cost of cloud and AI infrastructure.
Founded by BITS Pilani students Garv Goyal and Shaurya Gupta, SmalBlu received support through the PIEDS ecosystem and went on to represent BITS Pilani on global platforms including Hult Prize London, SuperAI Singapore, TiE U Global and EO GSEA APAC.
With BITS enabling its founders to pursue the venture full-time, SmalBlu has since raised a pre-seed round and continues to take its technology and ambition to global startup stages. From a student idea nurtured at PIEDS to a startup with global ambitions SmalBlu is taking the BITS spirit of innovation beyond campus.
MailWave Technologies: Reimagining Email with AI
What started as an idea to make email smarter and more efficient has evolved into MailWave Technologies Private Limited, founded by BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus students Vinayak Verma and Harsh Khandelwal.
MailWave is building an AI-powered email client with smart summarisation, auto-categorisation, advanced search, intelligent automation, smart replies and AI-assisted composing helping professionals spend less time managing their inboxes.
The venture secured 2nd Place at Ignite 2025, a student innovation programme that brought together more than 100 student innovators. The team has also developed Crafts by MailWave, an AI-powered email template generator, and is exploring an Agentic Inbox that connects email with workplace tools. With a focus on AI and productivity, the Goa Campus founders are reimagining email as an intelligent workspace, not just an inbox.
From AI Ambition to Real-World Impact: The Deltor AI Journey
For Ansh Bandi and Shourya Tiwari, entrepreneurship started with a simple belief: real freedom comes from building something of their own, rather than trading their time for a salary.
A conventional 9-to-5 never really appealed to them. They wanted to spend their time building, solving problems and creating something they could truly call their own. That desire for independence pushed them to take the unconventional route.
The idea for Deltor AI came from a gap they saw in the UAE’s rapidly growing AI landscape. Businesses were increasingly interested in AI, but many were still unsure how to turn it into something useful for their everyday operations. Shourya and Ansh saw an opportunity to bridge that gap and decided to build the solution themselves.
Since then, the journey has been unpredictable in the best possible way. There has been no fixed roadmap, just constant pitching, building, learning and figuring things out along the way. Winning Best Business Idea and Pitch at Sadudyama and closing their first enterprise client were early moments that made the idea feel real. They showed the founders that what started as conviction could become something businesses were willing to invest in.
Doing all this while studying at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus has not been easy, but its people, mentors, workspace and ecosystem have played an important role in helping turn Deltor from an idea into a growing company.
Faculty Startup
From Lab to Startup: How BITS Pilani’s Prof. Arnab Hazra Turned a Decade of Research into Schnaiffer
Some research stays in the lab. For Prof. Arnab Hazra, it became Schnaiffer.
Co-founded by the BITS Pilani Associate Professor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, this deep-tech startup grew from over a decade of research into nanomaterials, semiconductor devices and sensing technologies. Its goal: make sensor development less complex and more accessible. Schnaiffer provides sensor platforms, sensing materials, interface electronics and testing systems, helping researchers and companies reduce fabrication challenges and move their ideas forward.
A BITS Pilani spin-off incubated at the Rakesh Kapoor Innovation Center, Schnaiffer brings faculty research into the hands of fellow innovators.
Watch Prof. Hazra share the science, the challenges and the startup story.
Alumni Startup
OGs of BITS. Then. Now.
In 2009, a team of BITS Pilani undergraduates built AcYut-II, an indigenous humanoid robot, and took it to RoboGames in San Francisco winning Gold on the global stage.
What began as a student robotics project took them across 13 countries, eventually inspiring Mr. Samay Kohli and Mr.Akash Gupta to rethink what robots could do beyond competitions. In 2011, they co-founded GreyOrange, building robots designed to solve real-world challenges in warehouse automation. Today, GreyOrange has 10,000+ robots deployed worldwide.
From AcYut to GreyOrange from BITS Pilani students to global robotics entrepreneurs. The OGs who built, evolved and went beyond.
From BITS Pilani to building what's next in AI | Ringg AI
What starts as an idea at BITS can go much further.
BITS Pilani alumnus Mr. Siddharth Tripathi, along with Mr. Kali Charan Vemuru and Mr. Utkarsh Shukla, co-founded Ringg AI in 2023 to build AI agents that turn conversations into real business outcomes.
Today, Ringg AI's voice, WhatsApp and browser agents automate customer conversations and workflows for enterprises and governments. In August 2026, the company announced an extended $15 million Series A led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Arkam Ventures and Capital 2b. Its agents are already in production at Policybazaar, CRED, Flipkart, Groww, Practo and Tabby.
From a BITS Pilani classroom to a global AI company, it's a journey that shows where curiosity and the BITS spirit can lead.
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From Climate Research to Climate Intelligence: The ClimIntell Journey
What happens when climate research moves beyond recommendations and into real-world solutions? ClimIntell, co-founded by Mr. Kunal Dhadse, a PhD researcher at BITS Pilani, and Dr. Ajit Pratap Singh, Senior Professor, Civil Engineering Department, and Dean, Admissions & Student Financial Aid (Institute-wide), BITS Pilani, is a climate-tech startup incubated at PIEDS, BITS Pilani.
The venture is developing satellite- and AI-based solutions, including StubbleFire, SolarVolt AI, groundwater and irrigation monitoring, and carbon-credit methodologies for smallholder farmers.
ClimIntell has secured grant funding from PIEDS, received Startup India recognition, and is pre-incubated in the KRITI Social Venture Challenge. The venture has also been part of Navachar Mantra and Co-Creating Code 2026, jointly hosted by the University of Cambridge and FITT, IIT Delhi. With research, mentorship, incubation and funding support, BITS Pilani is helping turn climate research into scalable solutions for real-world impact.
From a Research Idea to a Vision for Accessible Cancer Detection | Prakirbha AI Diagnostics
For Ms. Amritanjali Kiran, Researcher and Innovator at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, the idea behind Prakirbha AI Diagnostics began with a simple ambition: to build something meaningful for women. Her vision is to make breast cancer detection simpler and more accessible through a blood test. What began as research gradually evolved into a venture, with prototypes developed, two independent grants secured, intellectual property filed, and collaborations initiated with healthcare institutions.
As a PhD DRIVE Fellow at BITS Pilani, Ms. Amritanjali found the freedom to explore her idea, as well as the ecosystem and support to take it towards entrepreneurship. Prakirbha AI Diagnostics is working at the intersection of research, medical devices and cancer diagnostics, turning scientific exploration into a potential healthcare solution.
