CraftifAI

Most hardware companies budget 6-9 months for firmware development alone. By the time the product ships, the market has moved. 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗚𝗲𝗻 by CraftifAI generates production-grade firmware from a single prompt. Datasheet-aware. Silicon-agnostic. Built to work across 90%+ of embedded use cases, regardless of chip vendor. What used to cost you a team, a year, and your launch window - compressed to a prompt.

The 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 brought together some of the sharpest minds in automotive and mobility innovation. 🗓️ 26 May |📍IIM Bangalore, NSRCEL Organized by German Indian Innovation Corridor — GIIC, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore NSRCEL, with summit partners Maruti Suzuki Innovation, MathWorks, and Siemens, the event showcased how the mobility industry in India and Germany is evolving together. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁: how companies like Maruti Suzuki Innovation are actively opening doors for startups building in the automotive and mobility space. The ecosystem is maturing fast. We had the opportunity to share what we are building at 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗔𝗜 with leaders across the mobility ecosystem: 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗚𝗲𝗻 - AI-powered perception pipeline generation for autonomous systems, from ADAS to robotics. 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗚𝗲𝗻 - AI-powered firmware generation for automotive and IoT devices, silicon-agnostic and production-ready. Thank you to Rohan Chhatwal, Sharmila SM and Anshuman Awasthi for taking the time to hear our ideas, and to all the speakers and organizers who made this happen. Dr. Tapan Sahoo Anil G Manish Agarwal Upen Barve Pawan Mulukutla Vikas Bardia Deb Mukherji Ph.D. Divay Pranav Bikash Jyoti Biswas Manjunath Sekhar Shanti Raghavan Arun Vinayak Sandeep Divakaran Pratik Sharda Yashwant Dagar

Excited to be heading to Boston for Robotics Summit & Expo! If you're at Summit and building robots - let's talk. No slides, just an honest conversation about where edge AI deployment still hurts. Would love to demo our agentic platform (PipeGen) live and get into the technical weeds with you. Drop a comment or DM me to find a time. #RoboticsSummit #CraftifAI #PipeGen #EdgeAI #Robotics

We're heading to Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston this week. 27–28 May 2026 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Robotics Summit brings together the engineers, founders, and decision-makers building the next generation of autonomous systems, from warehouse robots to drones to surgical devices. We'll be showcasing 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗚𝗲𝗻 from our 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗚𝗲𝗻 - AI-powered perception pipeline generation for robots. From a plain-language prompt to a production-ready, hardware-optimized perception stack deployed on your edge device. If you're building robots that need to see, detect, track, or navigate - come find us. We're there to demo live, talk perception pipelines, and get into the technical details with you. Tough questions welcome. See you in Boston. Pratik Sharda Yashwant Dagar #RoboticsSummit #CraftifAI #PipeGen #EdgeAI #Robotics #PerceptionAI #AutonomousSystems #Boston

We were accepted into Founders, Inc. flagship 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 and now selected to exhibit at the festival. 🗓️ May 22 | 5–8 PM PDT 📍 Fort Mason, San Francisco Canopy is Founders Inc.'s flagship event - the culmination of a 5-week building sprint bringing together founders, engineers, creators, and investors to experience live products. We'll be showcasing two products from our 𝗢𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺: - 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗚𝗲𝗻 - AI-powered Perception pipelines generation for robots - 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗚𝗲𝗻 - AI-powered automated firmware generation If you work in 𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗜𝗼𝗧, 𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 - come find us at the booth. We're there to demo, collaborate, and get into the weeds with you. Candid feedback? Bring it. Technical blocker you need to work through? Let's do it. See you Friday. 👋

Hosting our first mixer in the SF office for the Physical AI community. At CraftifAI, we've been deep in the trenches building PipeGen - automating perception and Edge AI pipelines for robotics teams. And one thing kept being obvious: the people building the physical world of AI deserve a room to think bigger together So here it is. If you're building robots, AMRs, drones, or autonomous vehicles or just obsessed with the space - this night is for you. No panels. No fluff. Just builders, demos, and real conversations. We're also keeping a few spots open for live demos. If you're building something worth showing, come show it. 📅 May 25 · 7 PM 📍 435 Brannan St, San Francisco 🎟 Link in comments Tag someone who should be in the room. 👇

Indian agentic AI startups have already raised over $60M in 2026 - a strong signal that the ecosystem is rapidly moving from experimentation to deployment at scale. As AI evolves from copilots to autonomous systems capable of executing workflows and making decisions, one of the most exciting shifts is happening beyond the cloud in the physical world. At Ankur Capital, we have closely tracked this transition across manufacturing, robotics, industrial IoT, autonomous systems, and edge infrastructure. That conviction led us to back CraftifAI. We believe embedded AI development is at an inflection point. Today, building software for edge devices and industrial systems remains fragmented, time-intensive, and dependent on highly specialized engineering workflows. CraftifAI is building Orbit, an agentic AI platform that automates embedded software and Edge AI development - from architecture design and firmware generation to testing, optimization, validation, and deployment across edge hardware environments. What makes this especially compelling is the breadth of real-world applications it unlocks. In manufacturing environments, Edge AI systems powered through platforms like CraftifAI can enable: - Real-time defect detection - Predictive maintenance - Worker safety monitoring - Assembly-line optimization - Automated quality inspection all directly on device, without relying on cloud latency. In robotics and autonomous systems, the platform can support: - Autonomous navigation - Dynamic process optimization - Real-time visual inspection - Smart surveillance and safety systems - Faster deployment of AI-enabled robots and AMRs across logistics, industrial automation, and smart infrastructure use cases. What is particularly exciting is that these are not isolated AI demos; they represent the infrastructure layer enabling intelligence to operate reliably inside real-world machines, cameras, factories, and devices. As AI increasingly moves to the edge, we believe entirely new software and tooling layers will emerge to power this transition - especially for embedded systems, IoT devices, robotics, and AI-native industrial infrastructure. India is uniquely positioned for this moment: - Deep engineering talent - Large-scale operational environments - Strong embedded systems expertise - And founders building globally relevant products from day one The next generation of enduring AI companies may not just build models. They will build the infrastructure that enables intelligence to operate in the real world (Sharing the full article in the comments below). #AgenticAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepTech #IndianStartups #VentureCapital #Innovation

Excited to see our portfolio company CraftifAI featured in The Economic Times as one of India’s emerging agentic AI players. As lead times, fragmented workflows, and talent availability become growing bottlenecks in the firmware development process for OEMs, startups like CraftifAI are demonstrating how practical, workflow-driven AI can improve operational efficiency at scale. We believe this shift from AI experimentation to deployment will define the next generation of enterprise AI companies, and we’re proud to back this category early. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gV7aJgeb Capital-A | Pratik Sharda | Yashwant Dagar |