When Sahil Chopra lost a close friend to suicide after years of bullying due to a speech disorder, the grief stayed with him for years . Years later, his wife Prachi Sood—a senior speech therapist with over a decade of experience at Max Hospital, Fortis, and Mom’s Belief—began sharing stories of children waiting months for screenings and parents unaware that help was even needed . These converging experiences led the couple to found Gabify in 2024.

In a candid LinkedIn post that resonated across India’s startup community, Arvind Venugopal Nair, co-founder and CEO of Bengaluru-based NeuroPixel.AI, announced the closure of his venture after nearly six years of building generative AI solutions for the fashion e-commerce sector . The startup, backed by Flipkart Ventures and other prominent investors, had raised approximately $1.2 million and built proprietary technology across computer vision and image processing, securing patents in areas such as synthetic human generation and apparel rendering .