AI Launches: Fintech, SaaS, customer service, EdTech, hospitality, cleantech, consulting, graphics & skilling

The Tech Panda takes a look at recent launches in the superfast field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Fintech: Industry-First Agentic AI Digital Lending Solution

Biz2X, a global SaaS digital-lending platform and subsidiary of Biz2Credit, has collaborated with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to launch an industry-first Agentic AI digital lending solution with multilingual capabilities. Built on Amazon Bedrock, the Agentic AI solution is purpose-built for banks, NBFCs, and fintech lenders. It is designed to help financial institutions deliver smarter, faster, and more inclusive credit decisions, potentially enabling them to disburse over INR 8,500 crore in loans over the next two years through Biz2X’s technology.

Rohit Arora, CEO and Co-Founder, Biz2X and Biz2Credit, said: “Our collaboration with AWS represents a leap forward in digital lending. The Agentic AI Digital Lending Solution gives financial institutions a powerful way to cut approval times, improve transparency, and expand access to credit. By leveraging our technology with AWS’s cloud and AI capabilities, lenders can reach businesses of all sizes and geographies with unprecedented efficiency.”

Features

• Conversational AI capabilities will empower lenders to increase lending volumes by up to 30% and reduce loan approval times by up to 50%
• Built on Amazon Bedrock, the Agentic AI capabilities will help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by streamlining the loan origination process and servicing
• Through its technology, Biz2X will enable financial institutions to disburse an additional INR 8,500 crore of loans in the next two years

SaaS: India’s First GenAI-Powered GTM Platform, Built in India for Global Scale

Clodura.AI, an Indian GenAI SaaS company, has launched what it calls the country’s first GenAI-powered Go-to-Market (GTM) platform. Built in India and designed for global markets, the platform brings together enrichment, verification, buyer intelligence, intent signals, AI-led outreach, and calling into a single interface, aimed at reducing complexity and costs for sales teams.

“Fragmented GTM stacks slow growth, increase costs, and frustrate teams,” said Kapil Khangaonkar, Founder & CEO of Clodura.AI. “We solve this by uniting data, verification, intelligence, engagement, and closure in one Indian-built platform engineered for global scale. Clodura empowers teams to work smarter, faster, and with predictable outcomes.”

Features

• The platform seeks to address challenges by offering an integrated system that connects with 50+ email and 20+ phone providers in real time, ensuring verified and accurate contacts.
• AI agents built into the platform automate routine tasks such as drafting emails, sequencing campaigns, and follow-ups, freeing up sales representatives to focus on conversations that move deals forward.
• Large enterprises and multinationals like Wipro, Reliance, PhonePe, ITC, Bosch, EY, Naukri, and Times Group have consolidated their GTM stacks with Clodura.AI, reporting stronger contact accuracy, improved call connect rates, speedier campaigns, and lower GTM costs.

Customer service: India’s First AI Call Assistant that Answers All Your Unknown Phone Calls

Hyderabad-based tech start-up Equal launched Equal AI, India’s first AI call assistant, which will roll out on October 2 with an early access program for the first 10,000 Android users in Delhi NCR. The assistant seamlessly answers unknown calls, speaks realistically to identify the caller and purpose, and either connects the call, takes a message, or filters it out. Designed to reduce the frustration of unwanted interruptions, Equal AI goes beyond being a caller ID or screener to deliver proactive call management, giving users the freedom to focus, enjoy their day, and step in only when it truly matters.

“India’s near billion smartphone users face one of the most common and frustrating problems of modern life, unwanted calls by telemarketing, delivery agents and scamsters,” said Keshav Reddy, Founder of Equal AI. “Equal AI is designed to solve this at scale. Equal AI takes the call for you. It listens, speaks, transcribes, and shares what’s happening live—so you decide if it’s worth your time. It’s like having your own personal secretary – giving back what matters to you most: time!”

Features

• Talks to delivery agents: no more repeating your address or directions
• Peek before you speak: read a live transcript before joining the call
• Join call anytime: step into the call instantly if you want to take over
• Understands Indian needs: trained on local languages, patterns, names and companies
• Assistant call handling: engages telemarketers and captures key information

EdTech: AI-powered toolkit for teachers, Cuts classroom preparation time from hours to minutes

Excelsoft Technologies Limited (Excelsoft), a vertical SaaS player specialising in learning and assessment solutions, launched an AI toolkit designed to support teachers in classroom preparation, lesson planning, and student assessment. Built in collaboration with teachers and aligned with CBSE/NCERT standards, the toolkit addresses one of the biggest gaps in India’s classrooms: the disproportionate time teachers spend on preparation versus direct student engagement.

“Education at its core is about preparing children for life, and that mission begins with empowering teachers. Many digital tools unintentionally reduce teacher involvement with students, compromising student learning outcomes. That’s why we built the AI Toolkit with teachers as the lynchpin of the design process. These tools are meant to free teachers from routine prep and administrative load, while enabling richer student–teacher interaction, and strengthening the quality and delivery of classroom teaching.” said Adarsh Sudhindra, Vice President, Excelsoft Technologies Limited.

Features

• Developed with teachers and aligned with CBSE/NCERT syllabus
• Pilot shows teachers saving significant time across lesson planning, quizzes, and mock exam preparation, enabling greater focus on mentoring and student engagement
• Phased roll out of the product across schools in India

Hospitality: AI-powered hotel management system, Hotel Superhero, as a SaaS offering for independent hotels

Treebo Hospitality Ventures (THV), Indian hotel company in the affordable segment, launched its revolutionary AI-powered, voice-and-chat based hotel management system, Hotel Superhero, as a SaaS offering for independent hotels. Over the last ten years, THV has used cutting-edge technology to successfully launch and scale hotel brands like Treebo and Medalio in the economy and mid-market segments, which have historically been seen as unviable by other industry players. The Company is now making the same technology, which powers more than 750 of its hotels, accessible to the broader industry in the form of a comprehensive, cloud-based, all-in-one hotel management system.

Commenting on the launch, Sidharth Gupta, Co-founder & CEO of THV, said, “Independent hoteliers have always been the underdogs of the industry managing multiple challenges  with limited resources. With Hotel Superhero, we are giving them a partner they can truly rely on.  This platform has been designed to boost profits, delight guests, and simplify operations, everything a hotelier needs to turn their independent hotels into a big business, and compete effectively with bigger chains. This is the same technology that powers all the brands in our own portfolio – including Treebo, Park Inn & Suites by Radisson, Mercure, and Ibis. For THV, this is a way to become relevant to a much larger part of the industry. We may not be able to work with all hotels under one of our brands. But we can certainly work with everyone through this revolutionary technology”.

Features

• Starting at just Rs 49/room/month with a 3-month free trial, the move can truly democratise access to powerful technology for the hotel industry.
• SuperBot, an AI chat agent that allows hotel staff to perform complex operational tasks by simply giving voice instructions.
• Check ins, check outs, recording payments, searching bookings and many more day-to-day tasks in a hotel, which typically require 10-15 minutes each and handling of complex screens by the front office staff, can be done in seconds on SuperBot through simple, natural language instructions.
• SuperBot is multi-lingual and can seamlessly switch across languages depending on the user’s preference.
• With comprehensive modules for all aspects of hotel operations – including Property Management System, Revenue Management System, Channel Manager, Point of Sale (POS), Guest Communication Tools, Dashboards & Reporting, and a lot more – Hotel Superhero gives hoteliers a much-needed solution which is simple, powerful, and affordable.

Cleantech: AI Tool to Help Indian Exporters Meet European Union’s Deforestation Norms

TraceX Technologies, an AgriFood and ClimateTech startup, launched an Agentic AI Tool to automate and simplify end-to-end compliance with EU’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) that comes into effect from December 2025.

Srivatsa Sreenivasarao, Founder and CEO, TraceX, said, “While some of this functionality existed in our legacy platform, we have further added more capabilities to it by integrating advanced AI technologies to make the experience more seamless and efficient for non-EU exporters and EU Importers. The EU Deforestation Regulation presents significant economic implications for Indian exporters due to complex compliance requirements that currently need manual intervention.  Managing this across fragmented, smallholder-heavy supply chains often results in data silos, manual bottlenecks, inconsistent assessments, and missed regulatory updates. Our Agentic AI Tool automates all the processes, cuts down on turnaround time, improves accuracy and reduces compliance costs”.

Features

The existing process for the submission of the Due Diligence Statement (DDS) is done through manual procedures that require field agents, spreadsheet entries and time-intensive workflows that are prone to errors. TraceX’s agentic AI tool automates these processes through interventions such as auto-parsing of supplier emails and documents for KYC, AI-validated geolocation, risk assessment via global earth observation data sets flagging high-risk suppliers or non-compliant plots before shipment, integration with the existing legacy applications, auto-generated Due Diligence Statements (DDS) that match EU TRACES formats, and Real time EU regulatory and technical updates. It cuts down DDS preparation time by up to 80%.

Customer service: Deployment-ready Developer-focused AgentStream

Further strengthening its leadership in AI-powered customer engagement and experience solutions, Exotel launched programmable voice infrastructure for AI agents designed to deliver significant power to plug-’n’-play AI bots. Launched as Exotel AgentStream, this new offering is a real-time voice streaming platform that seamlessly connects AI voice bots to users over PSTN, WhatsApp, in-app channels, and WebRTC. With this, developers will be able to impact a wide spectrum of essential enterprise workflows spanning sales, support, collections, and service.

Sachin Bhatia, Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer at Exotel, said, “Voice agents are on the rise, and most bot providers need robust voice infrastructure to operate seamlessly. In fact, the majority of voice bot–powered companies in India already rely on Exotel for our compliant, reliable, and seamless voice streaming. With sub-20ms latency versus the 150ms industry standard; we deliver the fastest streaming available, enabling bots to respond with human-like speed and fluidity. This is why Exotel is the infrastructure of choice for enterprises building next-generation, AI-powered voice experiences.”

Features

• Exotel AgentStream is a real?time voice streaming API that enables AI?driven conversations with sub?20ms latency and telco?grade reliability.
• By streaming live voice data during calls, it allows AI models, analytics, and supervisors to act on conversations instantly.
• Backed by Exotel’s pan?India UL?VNO presence across 11 telecom circles, AgentStream ensures secure, compliant, and scalable customer engagement.

Consulting: AI UniVerse to empower the AI journey for organizations globally

Uniqus Consultech, a tech-enabled global platform that offers consulting solutions in the accounting & reporting, finance operations, governance, risk, ESG, and technology domains, launched its AI consulting practice – AI UniVerse. AI UniVerse is a purpose-built, holistic ecosystem that combines Uniqus’ deep functional knowledge in finance, risk, and sustainability with technical expertise in AI.

Jamil Khatri, Co-Founder & CEO of Uniqus, commented, “With AI UniVerse, we are bridging the gap between AI’s promise and practical outcomes. This gap is particularly wide in the finance and risk functions. Our goal is to help organizations transition from experiments and pilots to deeply embedded AI-powered workflows within the finance, risk, and sustainability functions. By combining our domain expertise, advanced AI engineering talent, and partner ecosystems, we are seeking to enable companies solve real business problems.”

Features

• Will help organizations solve common challenges using purpose-built AI solutions that can adapt to the nuances and architecture of every organization.
• Seeks to ensure appropriate governance and security considerations around AI deployment.
• Supported by a strong partner ecosystem, including alliances with AI-native companies such as Lyzr, Cognida.ai, Anecdotes, Numeric, Cranium, and Portal26, it offers a comprehensive framework that lays the foundation for enterprise-grade AI deployment, enabling organizations to achieve real business impact while managing AI risks.

Graphics: Bharat’s First Hindi-Trained AI Model for Cards, Banners & Regional Design

Appy Pie launched PixelYatra, Bharat’s first-of-its-kind AI model trained specifically in the Hindi language for generating cards, banners, posters, and social creatives. Built on Appy Pie’s flagship model, PixelForge, PixelYatra brings vernacular intelligence to generative AI—empowering users across Bharat to design compelling visuals using simple Hindi prompts.

“PixelYatra is built for Bharat,” said Abhinav Girdhar, CEO of Appy Pie. “It understands the language, the emotion, and the cultural nuance behind every prompt. Whether it’s a wedding invite, a Diwali card, or a local shop banner, PixelYatra enables anyone to create beautiful visuals in Hindi—instantly and effortlessly.”

Features

• Built for Bharat’s cultural and visual identity, PixelYatra has been trained on a diverse and inclusive dataset comprising Devanagari script input, context-rich Hindi phrases, templates inspired by festivals, traditions, and regional use cases such as religious banners, political posters, and local business creatives
• With PixelYatra, users can effortlessly generate festival greetings: Diwali, Holi, Eid, Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami.

Skilling: Groundbreaking Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA) Certification

AI literacy tops the list of the 15 fastest-growing skills professionals need to stay competitive in today’s environment, according to a new LinkedIn report. Designed to meet the needs of audit professionals who are facing an evolving tech and compliance landscape with AI at the forefront, ISACA has introduced the ISACA Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA) certification—the first advanced audit-specific artificial intelligence certification designed for experienced auditors.

 “ISACA is proud to have served the global audit community for more than 55 years through our audit and assurance standards, frameworks and certifications, and we are continuing to help the community evolve and thrive with the certifications and training they need in this new era of audits involving AI,” says Shannon Donahue, ISACA Chief Content and Publishing Officer. “Through AAIA, auditors can demonstrate their expertise and trusted advisory skills in navigating AI-driven challenges while upholding the highest industry standards.”

Features

• The certification showcases IT audit professionals who can navigate the complexities of AI, demonstrating they have the skills to respond to risks, identify opportunities, and ensure compliance while safeguarding organizational integrity.
• Built on ISACA’s trusted expertise in IT audit and the rigorous standards behind renowned credentials like Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) from ISACA, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) from Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), this certification validates expertise in conducting AI-focused audits, addressing AI integration challenges, and enhancing audit processes through AI-driven insights.
• In addition to being able to audit systems that utilize AI, IT audit professionals can leverage AI tools and techniques to streamline audits, reduce manual effort, and boost operational efficiency for faster, more accurate decision-making, while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy, compliance and innovation.