Seven Indian social ventures made their pitches at T-Hub in Hyderabad and three have been selected to join the 2025 cohort of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ISHOW accelerator. The three will receive a share of $30,000 in grant awards and technical support to bring their innovations to market.
These 2025 ASME ISHOW India ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions to agricultural, energy, and healthcare challenges. They are:
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
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.
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.
See below for captioned photos from the 2025 ASME ISHOW India awards ceremony.
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.
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 experts and facilitators include domain 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 thisishardware.org.
Follow the journeys of ISHOW alumni including GenH, PlenOptika, Himalayan Rocket Stove, SAYeTECH and others here.
This article is based on a press release by ASME ISHOW.
