Clinical exposure therapy requires environments most Indian clinics cannot produce. A controlled trauma scene. A sensory-safe room. A post-stroke rehab space. Patients wait months to book one session. Many never start. Wundrsight builds those environments in VR, delivered through clinical-grade protocols and played like games, on headsets clinics already own.

• Backed by Social Alpha, IPV, IIT Mandi Catalyst
• Active in 5+ hospitals across Bangalore and Delhi
• $400K seed funding led by Inflection Point Ventures, September 2024

Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis live with limb loss. Imported bionic arms cost more than most families earn in a year, and take months to arrive. A child outgrows their arm before the next one ships. Bioniks engineers 3D-printed prosthetics tuned to each wearer from scans, priced for Pakistani households, delivered in days.

• 1,000+ arms fitted in Pakistan since 2021
• First Pakistani startup to win the Zero Project Award 2025, recognized at the United Nations in Vienna
• First prize, ITU Robotics for Good, February 2024

Most Indonesian hiring platforms are not screen-reader compatible. Most employers have never worked alongside a blind colleague. Most job descriptions never reach 3.7 million blind and low-vision Indonesians with the skills to fill them. Suarise runs training and placement programs built by blind engineers themselves, matching candidates to inclusive employers across the country.

• 2022 Zero Project Award, Vienna
• USD 95K+ in accessibility grants (IEEE SIGHT, APNIC ISIF Asia)
• IAAP Impact Award 2024

An estimated 1 in 10 Indian children is neurodiverse. Most are never formally assessed. Trained specialists cluster in metro cities and take months to book. Cognitii combines clinician workflows with AI-assisted screening, giving schools and clinics a shared first-line tool across autism, ADHD, and learning differences.

• Piloting with state education systems in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala
• Named a global women social entrepreneur laureate, Women’s Forum 2025
• Selected by Deloitte for One Young World Summit 2025

In Southeast Asia, most persons with disabilities remain outside the formal workforce. Most job boards never reach them. Most employers have no accessible hiring workflow. Inclus rebuilds the hiring pipeline itself, from sourcing to onboarding, so inclusive hiring becomes a default instead of a special program.

• Backed by Patamar Capital and SEEDS Capital
• 200+ persons with disabilities placed to date
• Works with Singapore banks and tech employers

Most Indonesians who need mental health support have no one to call. Trained clinicians are concentrated in Jakarta. Stigma and geography shut out the rest. Riliv puts a licensed therapist, guided sessions, and mental health tools inside the phone, in Bahasa Indonesia, reimbursed by Indonesian employers as a standard wellness benefit.

• Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, 2020
• Backed by East Ventures
• B2B contracts with Indonesian employers

India’s assistive-tech market was built for Western price points. Most smart glasses cost more than a year’s income for an Indian household, and most are tested without blind users in the room. SunBots builds SMARTON glasses with blind co-testers from first prototype, on-device AI, and pricing tuned to Indian households.

• 5,000+ blind and low-vision users impacted to date
• Aegis Graham Bell Award for Innovation
• 300 students equipped at Grand Inclusion Event, New Delhi, January 2025

India’s Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act requires digital accessibility. Most enterprise websites still fail basic WCAG checks. Most teams lack in-house expertise. SaralX audits, remediates, and certifies digital products for blind and low-vision users, combining automated scanning with manual testing by disabled accessibility specialists.

• Audit teams IAAP-certified and DHS Trusted Tester accredited
• Clients include Yatra, redBus, and Government of India ministries
• TiE Pune Best Social Impact Award; Rotary DEI Emerging Star 2025

The Indian subcontinent has over 100 million people with disabilities. Most accessible travel operators still treat them as an exception. Most venues never publish honest access information. Planet Abled designs and runs end-to-end accessible journeys, tested and verified for every traveler type, across destinations no other operator in South Asia had opened before.

• National Entrepreneurship Award, India
• Featured by BBC Travel, CNN, Lonely Planet
• Advises WTTC on accessible tourism

Most educational and workplace content is still trapped in PDFs, scans, and slide decks that screen readers cannot parse. I-Stem converts these documents into accessible, navigable text in minutes, so blind and low-vision learners stop losing days of work to documents their sighted peers open instantly.

• Co-founded by blind computer scientists from Stanford and Ashoka University
• Deployed at Indian universities and enterprises
• Schmidt Futures, Microsoft AI for Accessibility alumni

Globally, Braille literacy among blind children is falling. Schools lack trained teachers. Families have no way to practice at home. Thinkerbell’s Annie is a self-learning Braille device that teaches children to read and write independently, priced for institutions and families across India, the UK, and the US.

• UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for Literacy
• Deployed in schools across India, UK, US
• Shark Tank India alumni

A mouse and keyboard assume full use of both hands. For millions with spinal cord injuries, ALS, or muscular dystrophy, that assumption locks them out of work entirely. Voice control is often impossible. Eye-trackers cost more than a car. Dextroware’s Mouseware uses head movement and facial gestures to drive the entire computer, priced to reach Indian households.

• James Dyson Award National Winner, 2023
• Incubated at HTIC, IIT Madras Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre
• Zero Project Award 2024, United Nations Office in Vienna

Indonesia’s public spaces were not designed around blind travelers. Tactile paving stops halfway. Signage is visual. Sighted guides are expensive. PetaNetra uses AR and on-device AI to generate voice-guided indoor navigation, so blind users cross a library, university, or mall without waiting for someone to walk beside them.

• Deployed with MitraNetra and Indonesian public libraries
• Co-designed with Pertuni members
• She Trades Innovator Award, International Trade Centre (ITC), Abu Dhabi

Indonesia’s Deaf community uses BISINDO as a first language. Most workplaces, schools, and hospitals run in Bahasa Indonesia only. Most interpreter platforms were designed abroad and do not match BISINDO grammar. Silang.id is built by Deaf Indonesians for Deaf Indonesians, offering BISINDO lessons, live interpreters, and workplace accessibility training.

• Deaf-founded and Deaf-led
• 1,000+ events interpreted across 9 Indonesian provinces
• 1st Winner, Future City Hackathon 2024

In Indonesia, imported bionic arms cost more than a house. Servicing means flying parts in from Europe. Most amputees simply go without. Karla Bionics engineers prosthetic arms locally at ITB Bandung, priced and serviced for Indonesian households and reimbursable through BPJS, with fitting teams that travel across the archipelago.

• ITB Bandung spinout
• 5th place, CYBATHLON 2023 (beat Spain and USA)
• BPJS-listed provider

Most Deaf and hard-of-hearing users navigate daily life in rooms built for spoken language. Sign language interpreters are rare and expensive. Most apps still assume typing works. DeepVisionTech’s Let’sTalkSign translates sign language in real time, so Deaf users speak and listen on their own terms, without waiting for an interpreter.

• Oracle APAC Startup Idol, 2022
• Research partnership with IIT Madras for Indian Sign Language AI models
• Selected by Samsung Research India for Partners Day 2023

Most Indian cities have fewer than 10 certified speech therapists. Rural families have none. Autistic children, stuttering children, and post-stroke adults go years without care. 1SpecialPlace connects them to licensed therapists over video, with take-home exercises and parent coaching, so therapy continues between sessions and across geographies.

• 60,000+ online consultations delivered
• Serving Indian diaspora families across 50+ countries
• India’s first online speech and occupational therapy platform