India builds a great deal of hardware, but rarely uses Indian parts.
The single-board computers and compute modules that act as the brains of drones, industrial gateways, electric vehicles and smart-home devices are largely imported, whether Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards or foreign compute modules, leaving Indian startups and manufacturers exposed to long lead times and overseas supply chains they cannot control.
Edgehax, founded in Bengaluru in 2025, is trying to remove that dependency by designing and building edge-AI boards in India.
Its founders had already run into the problem from the inside.
Prabhu Stavarmath, the CEO, spent more than 15 years in IoT hardware, product development and enterprise sales, and built two hardware ventures before this one, Bharat Pi and Refillbot, which between them served over 100,000 customers.
