All Bharat Artificial Intelligence Association
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All Bharat Artificial Intelligence Association

India’s AI ecosystem, assembled.

ABAIA is a national, non-profit association where India’s AI founders, professionals, enterprises and investors work as one ecosystem — and an industry voice in how the country’s AI policy gets made.

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The record

№ 01 Atul Mehra № 02 Atul Khandar № 03 Rahul Jain № 04 Preetinder Sehgal № 05 Nipun Sikri № 06 Yogeshwar Tanwar № 07 Prasanna Walimbe № 08 Kiran Kadekoppa № 09 Krishnkant C Chandak № 10 Samir Chabukswar № 11 Jaykishan Garach № 12 Nihar Shrotri № 13 Vaibhav Netke № 14 Rahul Godbole № 15 Prakash Nikam
Mission
One ecosystem’s voice, not one company’s advantage.
Marketplace
Newest first. Nothing ranked, nothing for sale.
Sessions
Dated, with guests named. Nothing back-filled.

Read from the published files at build ·

  • Register № 02 Atul Khandar
  • Register № 14 Rahul Godbole
  • Marketplace Nova AI listed
  • Register № 15 Prakash Nikam
  • Register № 12 Nihar Shrotri
  • Register № 13 Vaibhav Netke
  • Register № 04 Preetinder Sehgal
  • Session India’s original AI global narrative: innovating in a changing landscape

What ABAIA is for

Four pillars, one ecosystem.

The association was founded on four commitments. Everything it runs — sessions, connects, the angel network, its research initiative — serves one of them.

  1. 01

    Public understanding

    Webinars, events and workshops that make AI legible — to the people building with it and the public living with it.

  2. 02

    Collaboration

    A working network of AI startups and professionals who share problems, introductions and what actually worked.

  3. 03

    Enterprise adoption

    Concrete use cases for AI tools inside enterprise workflows — connecting the companies that need them to the builders who make them.

  4. 04

    Startup funding

    Backing promising AI startups with capital from an angel network of operators, and with strategic partners who become customers.

Flagship initiative

iidalabs.org

IIDA: research, run like a product

ABAIA’s deepest bet is IIDA — the Innovators & Industry Deeptech AI Alliance, a Focused Research Organization turning deeptech and applied AI research into IP, products and exports, built for India’s SMEs and global markets.

It runs in the open: five research tracks, a public scoreboard where zeros are dated rather than hidden, and a member register shared with this association.

Visit IIDA All initiatives

How it works

How the record gets made

  1. 01 / 03 · The gap

    Plenty of talent. Not enough connective tissue.

    India’s AI economy has plenty of ambition, and not nearly enough connection between the people who build, the enterprises that buy, the investors who back and the policymakers who regulate.

    BuildBuyBackRegulate
    Schematic, not data. Four groups, no lines between them.

  2. 02 / 03 · Apply

    One application. A person reads it.

    Whichever seat you take — professional, founder, enterprise or investor — it is the same short form, read by someone on the core team. There is no automated filter.

    Apply to join

    Name
    Required
    Email
    To reply to you. Never published unless you later choose to.
    Joining as
    Professional · startup founder · enterprise · investor
    Organisation & role
    Optional
    City
    Optional
    One paragraph
    What you build, buy, back or study, in one paragraph.
    The fields of the real form.

  3. 03 / 03 · Connect

    Then the work, on the record.

    Sessions are logged with dates, enterprise connects start from use cases, the Angels criteria are published, and the marketplace is a shelf where nothing can be bought.

    Current state, read at build.

Scale

The name says All Bharat. The map says Pune.

One dot for each member who names a city, drawn to scale. The gap between the name and the map is the work.

  • Plotted at the city the entry names.
  • No city given: on the register, not placed on the map.
  • Outside India (Charlotte, North Carolina, USA): noted here, not plotted.

The Pune dots are packed in a spiral so they can be told apart; at this scale they occupy a single point. Where an entry names a second place (London, UK), it is plotted at the first.

Outline: Natural Earth, public domain, India perspective, simplified. Scale bar at 22°N.

70°E75°E80°E85°E90°E95°E 10°N15°N20°N25°N30°N35°N Pune Nagpur 500 km
One dot for each member who names a city. As of the latest entry, 29 Sept 2026.

Who it is for

Four readers, one ask.

Scroll sideways →

01 · For

AI founders and startups

Show me the criteria, and the people.

The Angels criteria, published in full. The register of the people you would be joining, named and dated. One short form, answered by a person.

The criteria →The register →

02 · For

Enterprises, and the AI firms that sell to them

Show me real firms, and how they got there.

Every firm on the marketplace is there because it asked and a person checked. Newest first, no ranking, no fee, no cut. Firms see the request form and the withdrawal path before they apply.

The marketplace →List your firm →

03 · For

AI professionals

Show me who is already in the room.

Register entries with their own statements, and the sessions log: dated, guests named, nothing back-filled.

The register →The sessions log →

04 · For

Investors

Show me what founders are held to.

The criteria every applicant is held to, and the size of the network labelled for what it is: the association’s own figure, not audited here.

ABAIA Angels →

The ask

Take a seat.

One application, whichever seat you take. A person reads it. Building, buying, backing or researching AI in India, there is a place on the record with your name on it.

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Questions

Asked often, limits left in.

Where an answer has a limit, it says “Limit:”. Nothing is softened for the page.

  1. What is ABAIA, and how does it relate to IIDA?

    ABAIA is the All Bharat Artificial Intelligence Association: a national, non-profit association of India’s AI founders, professionals, enterprises and investors, registered as ABAIA Industry & Innovation Foundation, a Section 8 non-profit company, and non-political. IIDA is its Focused Research Organization, with its own site at iidalabs.org. The two share one member register, so a member updates an entry once and both sites change.

  2. What does it cost?

    No page on this site asks for money. Listing a firm is free and stays free, ABAIA takes no cut of any engagement, and no fee can buy a position. People are asked to join, apply or list, and a person answers each one.

  3. Who reads my application, and how long does it take?

    A person on the core team reads it; there is no automated filter. The site’s stated targets are a few days for membership and usually within two weeks for a marketplace listing. Those are targets, not measurements: too few firms have been listed so far to measure anything. Limit: the membership and Angels forms are not yet stored or emailed; they are logged for the team. If you have heard nothing in a week, write to info@abaia.org with the address you used.

  4. What does “listed” mean?

    Listed, not endorsed. A person checks that the firm and its website are real, and the marketplace claims nothing more than that. A firm asked to be there; ABAIA did not go looking for it. An “ABAIA member” badge is a disclosure of the relationship, never a mark of quality.

  5. Does membership buy a better position?

    No. Newest first is the only ordering the marketplace has; nothing is ranked, featured or promoted. A firm’s membership is shown as a disclosure on its listing and changes nothing about where it appears.

  6. What is published about me, and can I take it down?

    On the register, only the fields a member chose to publish. An email address is never published unless the member later chooses to. Photographs are each member’s own upload. Limit: some register entries were added from public professional profiles rather than written by their owner; each is flagged on the page and its owner can take it over at any time. A marketplace listing can be withdrawn with one link and one confirmation. The database row goes at once; the public page goes at the next site update, which is a manual step today.

  7. Who can apply to ABAIA Angels?

    ABAIA Angels is an informal network of startup founders and seasoned startup investors backing early-stage AI companies. The criteria are published: Enterprise AI solutions with a large addressable market; Building from India is a competitive advantage, not an accident; A strong founding team with real capability or a track record in enterprise applications; Product prototype built and close to MVP — early stage, but past the idea; Customer acceptance in the form of a paid POC or recurring contracts (which can be conditional on a successful POC); Founders who have owned a P&L or held CXO roles are preferred; solo founders are avoided. Send the deck as a link, not an attachment. Limit: the size of the network is the association’s own headcount. The site publishes no cheques written and no companies funded.

  8. Why is it called All Bharat if most members are in Pune?

    Because that is the aim, not yet the fact. Most of the register names Pune; a few name Nagpur or a city outside India, and some give no city. The map on this page draws exactly that, to scale, as of the latest entry.

Appear on the register

Every founding entry, exactly as published.

One register, two windows: ABAIA and IIDA share a single member register, published on both sites, showing only the fields each member chose to publish — update an entry once and both sites change. Nothing here is filtered or curated: most entries were written by the member, some added from public professional profiles and flagged as such; an owner can take a flagged entry over at any time.

The full register

Join

Take a seat in the assembly.

Founder, professional, enterprise or investor. One application, read by a person.

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