Edgehax bets on domestically made Edge AI hardware

Edgehax, a Bengaluru-based startup, has raised ₹1.39 crore in a seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The money is earmarked to scale manufacturing, accelerate product development, and push Edgehax’s full-stack Edge AI hardware platform into global markets, including Singapore, the United States, and Europe. Think of Edgehax as attempting to stitch together compute, connectivity, and storage on a single board, all designed and manufactured in India. The goal isn’t just to ship hardware; it’s to shorten time-to-market for hardware-first products while reducing reliance on foreign supply chains.

What the investment aims to do

• Scale production: The capital will fuel manufacturing ramp-up, enabling Edgehax to meet rising demand from startups, OEMs, and larger enterprises.
• Expand product lines: The funds will fuel ongoing R&D to broaden the range of boards and modules, with an eye toward consumer electronics as well as industrial uses.
• Global go-to-market: Edgehax plans to establish a stronger foothold in international markets, leveraging IPV’s network and India’s growing export push.

IPV’s involvement underscores a broader investor confidence in India’s capability to produce globally competitive deep-tech hardware. Vikram Ramasubramanian, a partner at IPV, noted that while India is a large consumer of technology and AI, it has lacked a domestic hardware prototyping platform, which has driven startups to rely on foreign boards. The seed round is seen as a milestone in closing that gap and creating a locally rooted design and manufacturing ecosystem.

Traction and applications

Edgehax has already demonstrated tangible traction since its 2025 inception. The company has:

• Shipped over 5,000 edge gateway boards
• Built partnerships with more than 150 startups, OEMs, and large enterprises
• Deployed hardware across a spectrum of demanding use cases, including industrial gateways, humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and defense systems that use NavIC-based tracking
• Engaged with more than 100,000 students and faculty at 30 universities and IITs through development kits

This blend of real-world deployments and an active developer ecosystem is part of Edgehax’s strategy to turn a hardware platform into a go-to design and manufacturing partner for businesses seeking ready-to-use, customizable hardware. The company also plans to roll out 10,000 compute modules for consumer appliances by December 2025, signaling a push beyond prototyping into mass hardware support.

The policy backdrop and market outlook

India’s push for electronics self-reliance through Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme creates a favorable environment for domestic hardware startups. The policy landscape aims to close the cost and capability gaps with established manufacturing hubs by offering financial incentives and infrastructure support. The challenge, of course, is not trivial: incumbents and global giants benefit from massive economies of scale and tightly integrated supply chains. Edgehax’s strategy of delivering a full-stack solution—hardware, firmware (open-source), and cloud software—aims to simplify customers’ development cycles and add value beyond the board itself.

Industry projections peg the edge AI hardware market at a compound annual growth rate of around 22% through 2035, reaching about $1.25 billion in value. The mix of real-time data processing at the edge, reduced latency, improved privacy, and lower bandwidth costs is driving interest across smart cities, autonomous mobility, and industrial automation. With Edgehax’s funding and a clear product roadmap, India’s domestic edge hardware ambitions look poised to broaden, not just for local consumption but for global customers seeking reliable, affordable edge solutions.

Looking ahead

Edgehax’s leadership frames the seed round as a stepping stone toward a broader vision: to empower developers and companies around the world with India-made edge hardware that’s easy to integrate and scale. If the company can sustain production quality, meet demand, and deliver on international expansion plans, this could be a meaningful signal for India’s hardware sovereignty in a sector that has often relied on foreign boards and modules.

By 2029, Edgehax aims to empower over 100 million developers with its tools, illustrating how a modular, full-stack platform can support a diverse ecosystem of products and applications.

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