India, Jan. 30 -- India's AI startup ecosystem is in front of an open window of opportunity right now. Between 2026 and 2027, multiple forces that usually arrive in different cycles are converging at once: enterprise demand is moving from pilots to production, consumer adoption is already at scale, public compute and data rails are lowering the cost of experimentation, and regulatory clarity is beginning to replace uncertainty.

While this is not the beginning of India's AI story, the ecosystem has reached a point where AI stops being an experiment and starts becoming infrastructure.

According to Inc42's Bharat AI Startups Report, India's AI market is projected to reach $126 Bn by 2030, with a potential $1.7 Tn contribution to GDP by 203...