Day 35 of 100 · Conversational AI

Uniphore

Two students wanted farmers who could not read to still use technology. They chose voice.

Started atIIT Madras
Founded2008
FoundersUmesh Sachdev & Ravi Saraogi
CountryIndia

How it started

Incubated at IIT Madras, Uniphore built speech AI long before voice was fashionable.

The lesson for your campus Design for the person who is excluded. The market is bigger than you think.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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Ask the Founder

Pick a question — or write your own — and get a grounded answer about how Uniphore was actually built.

Opens ChatGPT in a new tab with your question ready. Answers are generated by AI from publicly reported information — they are not statements by the founders. Always check anything important against an original source.

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The next one comes from your campus

Innovation should not be an annual event. It should be a permanent room where students are allowed to build. Bring an Innovation-Hub to your institution.

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