YourStory has reported on the 2026 Google for Startups Accelerator: India cohort, naming Jidoka Technologies as the manufacturing automation company in the group.
The coverage reads the cohort as a signal rather than a list. YourStory's framing is that India's AI ecosystem is moving past general-purpose language models toward specialised systems built for industry-specific problems, with several companies in the cohort working on agentic AI and on multimodal systems that combine text, images, audio and other data types.
The report notes the sector spread across judicial technology, healthcare, climate, fintech, manufacturing automation, industrial wearables, cybersecurity and developer infrastructure. It also cites Preeti Lobana, Vice President and Country Manager at Google India, connecting the cohort's technical direction to the IndiaAI Mission and India's wider digital economy goals.
Full details of Jidoka's selection are in our announcement post.
Read the YourStory report: https://yourstory.com/ai-story/google-names-20-ai-first-startups-for-2026-india-accelerator
