Seven Entrepreneurs in India Selected for Premier Social Innovation Accelerator, Set for April 24-25 in Hyderabad

NEW YORK (April 15, 2025) – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the regional ventures for the 2025 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), the prestigious international accelerator of hardware-led social innovation. Seven social ventures from throughout India will pitch their innovative solutions and participate in an extensive design and engineering review with judges beginning Thursday, April 24, at T-Hub, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. These seven ventures will vie for three spots in the 2025 ISHOW cohort offering a share of $30,000 in grant awards and technical support to help bring their impactful innovations to market. All ventures will display their product prototypes at a showcase on Friday, April 25, at 5 p.m. local time and the three ventures advancing to the cohort will be announced at an awards ceremony beginning at 6 p.m local time. Register at https://konfhub.com/ishowindiaawards2025. 

The ISHOW India ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions to agricultural, energy, healthcare, and transportation challenges. They are: 

• Caruna Mobility (Puducherry, India) for its “Complete Mobility Solution” – a wheelchair and vehicle swivel seat mechanism that assists with vehicle and home transfers for persons with limited mobility issues, from those with simple fractures to quadriplegic patients 
• DARTML (Kerala, India) for its “DARTML” morphable quadcopter – a drone with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) mobility modes, AI-powered navigation, real-time camera and radar-based person detection to enhance search and rescue applications 
• FastSense Innovations (Pune, Maharashtra, India) for its “Sep-Scan” tool – an AI-powered diagnostic solution designed for rapid, precise, and comprehensive early sepsis detection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) screening, accessible even in resource-limited settings, ultimately reducing diagnostic delays, and helping to lower mortality rates, shorten hospital stays, and cut treatment costs 
• Kisan Rover (Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India) for its Solar-Powered Agricultural Robotic Bull – a solar-powered and electric hybrid multitasking agricultural machine that can enhance productivity, reduce costs, and improve the livelihoods of farmers with less than five acres of land 
• Neenva Innovations Pvt. Ltd. (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India) for its “ViiSar” venture – assistive technology delivering STEM education for visually impaired individuals by combining tactile hardware with interactive software, enabling inclusive and accessible learning, bridging the educational gap in math and science 
• Newrup Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) for its “Chuliv” innovation – a clean cooking solution that seamlessly upgrades conventional mud stoves into advanced cooking appliances, cutting harmful smoke emissions by up to 50%, decreasing indoor air pollution and its negative impact on the health and mortality of women and children 
• RE4BILLION.AI Pvt. Ltd. (Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) for its “Smart Remote Monitoring System” – an advanced IoT-based solution designed to track solar power generation, grid consumption, and battery health in off-grid or unreliable grid locations including rural sites, micro-enterprises, schools, and health centers, delivering user alerts and insights through a web platform. 

The 2025 ISHOW cohort will be invited to participate in the annual ISHOW Bootcamp in the winter to receive an extensive and customized design and engineering review by experts curated to guide them as they scale to market. They will also receive design services to support their product development. They become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources. 

The ASME ISHOW Africa virtual event will be held June 10-12. Applications are due May 15 for social entrepreneurs in the Americas seeking consideration for ISHOW Americas, a virtual event scheduled for July 29-31. Three ventures selected at each event will join the ISHOW 2025 cohort. 

ASME is grateful to its implementation partners around the globe, including The Lemelson Foundation for its continued support of the ISHOW and a multi-year strategic investment in ASME to support the hardware impact innovation system. Learn more about ISHOW’s global impact in this dynamic dashboard. 

Perspectives on ASME ISHOW India: 

“Through the vision and creativity of these talented entrepreneurs and the guidance of expert mentors, ASME ISHOW is transforming groundbreaking ideas into market-ready products that improve lives. This program is a key component of ASME’s support for the future of energy and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.” 
- Tom Costabile
ASME Executive Director/CEO
 

“Hard-tech innovators addressing urgent social and environmental challenges must be better equipped to overcome significant obstacles. We are dedicated to building on a decade of experience to ensure that social ventures realize their vision for a better world, for everyone.” 
- Iana Aranda
ASME Managing Director of Sustainability

“Telangana, known as the startup state of India, is at the forefront of creating and executing policies that promote innovation for the benefit of the people. Telangana has three specific and unique policies aimed at promoting innovation, social innovation and grassroots innovation. 

The visions of the Telangana state and the ASME ISHOW align perfectly. 

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)’s mission is to advance innovation for the benefit of humanity, and the ASME ISHOW is a global accelerator of hardware-led social innovation. ISHOW supports entrepreneurs and ventures that have a positive social and environmental impact. 

The ASME Foundation India’s work is grounded in grassroots innovation. The ASME Foundation India works to promote and create awareness about core engineering fields as well as to implement engineering innovations to improve the quality of life in rural India.” 
- Sri Jayesh Ranjan, IAS
Special Chief Secretary
Department of Information Technology, Electronics & Communications (ITE&C) and Department of Industries & Commerce Telangana Government 

About ASME ISHOW 
The prestigious ASME ISHOW hardware accelerator is open to individuals and organizations taking physical products to market that will have a positive social and environmental impact and that improve the quality of life around the world. ASME annually matches up to 30 carefully selected innovators/ventures with appropriate engineering experts to ensure that the proposed hardware solutions are technologically, environmentally, culturally, and financially sustainable. To date, ASME has provided support to over 250 startups from more than 35 countries to solve critical quality-of-life challenges for vulnerable populations worldwide. ISHOW alumni have developed affordable devices to address key issues related to clean combustion, crop threshing, fetal health, food waste prevention, health diagnostics, safe drinking water, and many more that advance the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. 

ASME ISHOW judges and facilitators include experts in research, sustainability, mechanical engineering and product design, manufacturing, startup financing, supply chain, and business strategy, representing industry, nonprofit organizations, and academia. These subject matter experts provide technical and strategic guidance based on ISHOW’s five key pillars: customer/user knowledge, hardware validation, manufacturing optimization, implementation strategy, and impact. For more information, visit https://www.asmeishow.org. 

Follow the journeys of ISHOW alumni including GenH, PlenOptika, Himalayan Rocket Stove, SAYeTECH and others here. 

About ASME
ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real world challenges. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society. ASME codes and standards, publications, conferences, continuing education, and professional development programs provide a foundation for advancing technical knowledge and a safer world. In 2020, ASME formed the International Society of Interdisciplinary Engineers (ISIE) II & III LLC, a new for-profit subsidiary to house business ventures that will bring new and innovative products, services, and technologies to the engineering community. For more information, visit www.asme.org. 

About the ASME Foundation
The ASME Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, supporting an array of programs in three core pillars: engineering education, career engagement, and global development. With the goal of empowering tomorrow's technical workforce, the ASME Foundation advances equitable access both to professional opportunities and to engineering innovations that improve quality of life. For more information, visit www.asmefoundation.org. 

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