Jidoka Technologies closed out the Google for Startups Accelerator: India 2026 Class with co-founder and CTO Krishna Iyengar presenting the company's progress and roadmap at the program's Demo Day — the capstone event for 20 startups selected from a pool of over 2,500 applicants.
Demo Day marked the end of the three-month accelerator, where Krishna took the stage in front of roughly 150 founders, investors, and industry leaders in the room, plus more than 4,000 people watching the livestream.
In his presentation, Krishna described Jidoka's evolution from a quality-control and visual-inspection startup into what he called "the eyes of manufacturing" — a platform that connects design intent to shop-floor evidence in real time.
"We started our journey doing quality control and visual inspection. But now the journey is evolving to becoming the eyes of manufacturing. We want to connect what we call the intent to evidence," Krishna told the Demo Day audience.
A few highlights from the presentation:
Scale across customers. Jidoka's two core products — KOMPASS for product inspection and NAGARE for process inspection — are deployed across automotive and FMCG customers including Maruti Suzuki, 3M, Diageo, and Britannia. At Britannia, KOMPASS inspects roughly 12,000 parts a minute; at Diageo, around 300 parts a minute — the same underlying system adapting to very different line speeds and product variety. Jidoka runs in 20–25 locations for some of these customers.
A new layer of intelligence. Beyond 2D camera-based inspection, Jidoka is layering in 3D point cloud data to build a more complete view of products on the line — part of what Krishna described as a shift from fast, deterministic edge computing to a slower, smarter intelligence layer that can reason about defects, process steps, and new product setups.
Built with Gemini. Through the accelerator, Jidoka integrated Google's Gemini models into both KOMPASS and NAGARE. On KOMPASS, this enables zero-shot defect detection without the need for model training, along with synthetic defect generation for faster deployment. On NAGARE, Gemini powers setup checks and compliance audits directly from video and CCTV data.
As part of the Google for Startups Accelerator alumni network, Jidoka continues to have access to Google's mentorship, technical resources, and partner ecosystem.
Watch Krishna's full Demo Day presentation: https://www.youtube.com/live/PRdgn2Muq5U?t=13414s
