The top Indian AI startups for video and image AI in 2026 are invideo (prompt-to-video and AI editing), Dashverse (Dashtoon comics, Frameo.AI video and DashReels microdramas), NeuralGarage with VisualDub (AI lip-sync for dubbed films), Spyne (AI car photography and video for dealers) and Phenomenal AI (a text-to-video creative studio). Sarvam AI supplies the Indic voice layer many video projects need, and two India-linked products round out the list: Fractal's Kalaido.ai for Indian-language text-to-image and Gan.ai for personalised video. Each solves a different problem, so the right pick depends on whether you make content, localise it or sell with it.
Every company below was checked against its official site or reputable press coverage in October 2026. We only included companies whose Indian base or roots, product and funding we could confirm, and we left out claims we could not verify.
Indian AI startups for video and image AI at a glance
| Company | Base | Core product | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| invideo | India (founded 2017) | invideo AI: prompt-to-video, AI editing agents, avatars, voice | YouTubers and marketers who want finished videos |
| Dashverse | Bengaluru and San Francisco | Dashtoon, Frameo.AI, DashReels | Comic creators and microdrama storytellers |
| NeuralGarage (VisualDub) | Bengaluru (founded 2021) | Visual dubbing and AI lip-sync | Studios, OTT platforms and ad agencies localising video |
| Spyne | Gurugram | Virtual car photography, 360 tours, video tours | Car dealerships and automotive marketplaces |
| Phenomenal AI | New Delhi (founded late 2023) | Agentic text-to-video creative studio | Brands making reels, product videos and ads |
| Sarvam AI | Bengaluru | Bulbul text-to-speech, speech-to-text, translation | Adding natural Indic-language voice to video |
| Kalaido.ai (by Fractal) | India-built model | Text-to-image in English and 17 Indian languages | Creators prompting in their own language |
| Gan.ai | US and India (founded 2021) | Personalised human video at scale | Brands sending one-to-one video campaigns |
How we chose these companies
- Indian roots you can verify. Founded, headquartered or operating teams in India, confirmed by the company or reputable press.
- Image or video generation at the core, or a capability video creators directly depend on, such as Indic voice.
- A live product. Each company has a working site or app, not just an announcement.
- No unverifiable claims. Where we cite funding, it comes from the coverage linked in each section.
The startups, one by one
1. invideo: prompt-to-video and AI editing
What it is: One of India's best-known creative software companies. Forbes India reports that invideo was founded in 2017 by Sanket Shah, Harsh Vakharia, Anshul Khandelwal and Pankit Chheda, began as a browser-based, template-driven video editor and pivoted to generative AI in 2022. Its backers include Peak XV, Tiger Global and RTP Global.
What it offers today: invideo lists text-to-video, an AI video generator, AI avatars, voice cloning, text to speech, an AI music generator and agents for roles such as scriptwriter, cinematographer and colorist, with access to models including Veo 3.1, Sora 2, Kling and Seedance.
Best for: YouTube explainers, faceless channels, social ads and anyone who wants an edited video rather than single clips.
Limits: Less granular control over individual frames than a dedicated image or video generator.
2. Dashverse: AI comics, video and microdramas
What it is: An AI entertainment company founded in 2023 by Sanidhya Narain, Lalith Gudipati and Soumyadeep Mukherjee. Its investor Z47 lists it in Bengaluru and San Francisco and reports a $13 million Series A in August 2025, led by Peak XV Partners with Stellaris Venture Partners and Z47.
What it offers: Dashtoon Studio for creating comics, manga and manhwa with AI, plus a reader app; Frameo.AI, a generative video studio; and DashReels, an app for short episodic dramas.
Best for: Storytellers who want to turn scripts into illustrated episodes or vertical microdramas.
Limits: Built around serialised entertainment, not general marketing assets.
3. NeuralGarage (VisualDub): AI lip-sync for dubbed video
What it is: A Bengaluru generative AI company founded in 2021. According to Wikipedia's profile, its VisualDub technology has been used on Indian films and series including Kesari Chapter 2, Special Ops and War 2, it raised a $1.45 million seed round led by Exfinity Venture Partners, and it won the entertainment and media category at the 2025 SXSW Pitch competition.
What it offers: VisualDub syncs lip and facial movement to dubbed audio, with solutions for dialogue replacement, localisation, visual dubbing, censorship edits and hyper-personalised ads, across more than 50 languages.
Best for: Studios, OTT platforms and advertisers releasing one piece of video in many languages.
Limits: An enterprise tool you request access to, not a self-serve app for casual creators.
4. Spyne: AI car photography and video
What it is: A Gurugram company that applies image AI to automotive retail. Inc42 reports that Spyne, founded by Sanjay Varnwal and Deepti Prasad, raised a $16 million Series A in February 2025 led by Vertex Ventures, with Accel, Storm Ventures and Alteria Capital participating.
What it offers: Spyne lists Image Studio for virtual car photography, 360-degree Car Tour, Video Tour and Vini AI for conversational customer engagement.
Best for: Dealerships and marketplaces that need consistent, studio-style listings from phone photos.
Limits: Purpose-built for vehicles; not a general creative tool.
5. Phenomenal AI: a text-to-video creative studio
What it is: A New Delhi startup founded in late 2023 by Sanjay Rodrigues, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Firoz F Merchant and Vyom Mahamunkar. Entrepreneur India covered its July 2024 launch of a text-to-video platform, then in beta, aimed at social media, e-commerce, marketing and education.
What it offers now: Phenomenal AI describes itself as an agentic AI creative studio that takes ideas to production, with image generation, text-to-video and music in one interface, for commercials, reels, product videos, brand films and music videos.
Best for: Small brands and agencies that want one place to go from brief to finished video.
Limits: A younger company with a smaller public track record than the others here.
6. Sarvam AI: the Indic voice layer
What it is: A Bengaluru AI company (its site lists an Indiranagar address) building language and voice models for India.
What it offers: Sarvam lists text to speech in 11 Indic languages, speech to text in 12 and translation across 23. Its Bulbul documentation describes Bulbul v3 with 30+ speaker voices across Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia and English, with pace control and up to 2,500 characters per request.
Best for: Developers and studios adding natural regional-language narration or voice agents to video products.
Limits: Voice and language rather than image or video generation, so pair it with a visual tool.
Also worth knowing: India-linked products
Kalaido.ai by Fractal
Inc42 reported that Fractal built Kalaido.ai as a text-to-image model that accepts prompts in English and 17 Indian languages, including Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil, trained on a public dataset of 70 million images. Fractal is a large AI company rather than a startup, but Kalaido stands out as one of the few image generators designed for Indian-language prompting. Its site now offers a smart editor, poster design, greeting cards, T-shirt design, a selfie generator and a character creator.
Gan.ai
Entrepreneur India reported that Gan.ai, founded in March 2021 by Suvrat Bhooshan, raised a $5.25 million seed round led by Surge and Sequoia Capital India, and operates across the US and India. Brands record a video once, mark dynamic words in the script, and Gan.ai generates personalised versions for each customer.
What makes India's creative-AI scene different
A few patterns stand out when you put these companies side by side:
- Language first. Kalaido.ai, Sarvam and VisualDub all start from the fact that India has many languages and scripts. Localisation is a core feature, not an add-on.
- Industry-specific products. Spyne focuses on cars and Gan.ai on personalised marketing, rather than trying to be a general generator.
- Mobile-native storytelling. Dashverse builds for phone-first comics and microdramas, a format with a large audience in India.
- Model aggregation. invideo and Phenomenal AI bring several global models into one workflow instead of competing only on a single model.
How to choose the right tool
| If you need to... | Look at |
|---|---|
| Turn a script into a finished YouTube or social video | invideo, Phenomenal AI |
| Create comics or microdrama episodes | Dashverse (Dashtoon, Frameo.AI, DashReels) |
| Release a film or ad in many languages with matching lip movement | NeuralGarage VisualDub |
| Produce studio-style vehicle listings | Spyne |
| Add Hindi, Tamil or other Indic narration | Sarvam AI |
| Prompt images in an Indian language | Kalaido.ai |
| Send personalised videos to thousands of customers | Gan.ai |
Where Kenerate AI fits
If you want a general-purpose studio to pair with any of these, Kenerate AI puts image, video, music, voice, avatars, 3D and upscaling under one account. You can generate festive product visuals in the Image Studio, animate them with Ken 1 or Veo 3.1 in the Video Studio, and narrate in Hindi with ElevenLabs multilingual voices or Qwen3 TTS in the Voice Studio. For localisation, the AI video translator and dubbing page and Hindi text to speech cover the common cases. You get 25 free credits on sign-up, and credits never expire.
Two prompts to try for Indian festive and regional content:
AI Prompt RecipeFlux.1 Pro16:9“Festive product photo of a brass diya and a box of handmade sweets on a marigold-strewn wooden table, warm candle glow, soft bokeh of string lights, rich saffron and deep maroon palette, premium e-commerce look, 4:5”
AI Prompt RecipeFlux.1 Pro16:9“Warm Hindi narration, friendly and unhurried, for a 20-second festive product video: "इस दिवाली, अपने घर को रोशनी और मिठास से भर दीजिए। हाथ से बने, प्यार से सजाए।"”
Bottom line
India's video and image AI startups are strongest where local needs are sharpest: languages, dubbing, mobile storytelling and industry-specific imagery. invideo and Phenomenal AI suit creators who want finished videos, Dashverse suits storytellers, NeuralGarage suits studios localising content, Spyne suits automotive sellers, and Sarvam AI supplies the Indic voice layer. Pick the one that matches your main job, and pair it with a general studio when you need formats it does not cover. For a wider view of the global tools, see our 12 best AI image, video and audio generators.
