Indian AI and gaming startups took centre stage at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, with five companies presenting artificial intelligence-driven solutions that highlighted the country’s growing momentum at the intersection of gaming, immersive media and enterprise transformation.

According to a UNI report, five Indian startups — Yesgnome, Metasports (Hitwicket), Koyozo, Youth Buzz (Ourcadium) and Evivve — demonstrated cutting-edge AI-powered technologies, underlining India’s expanding capabilities in advanced digital innovation.

Yesgnome introduced Sketly AI, an art creation platform built for game studios and creative teams. The system enables rapid generation of production-ready assets such as character designs, environments, UI elements, storyboards and animation components. Its proprietary style-training technology allows studios to maintain visual consistency across large-scale production workflows.

Metasports showcased Hitwicket, its competitive multiplayer cricket game with more than 18 million users globally. At the summit, the company demonstrated a generative AI-powered real-time commentary engine that analyses live gameplay, produces contextual narration and converts it into expressive voice output, enhancing player immersion and personalisation.

Koyozo presented its integrated handheld mobile gaming ecosystem aimed at transforming smartphones into console-grade gaming devices. Its flagship hardware, Koyozo One, features hall-effect joysticks and triggers, Type-C and Bluetooth connectivity, haptic feedback, modular accessory support and pass-through charging.

Youth Buzz, through its immersive platform Ourcadium, unveiled ‘Man vs. GPT’, an interactive showcase exploring human-AI competition. The experience features AI-powered opponents capable of learning and adapting across rounds using behavioural patterning and real-time decision-making systems, presenting complex AI concepts in an accessible format.

Evivve, a global behavioural intelligence and organisational transformation lab, introduced its Enterprise Cognitive AI Readiness Tool, built on its neuroscience-based AFERR Model. The tool assesses leadership and organisational preparedness for AI adoption. The company also presented its ‘State of Cognition: India AI Snapshot 2026’ report during the summit.

The event also featured a panel discussion titled ‘The New Gold Rush: Investing in India’s AI-Powered Gaming Future’, curated in collaboration with the Game Developers Association of India. The session brought together global investors and industry leaders to examine investment trends, AI-enabled production models, skilling initiatives and policy frameworks shaping India’s evolving AI gaming ecosystem.