About
An association that treats the ecosystem as the product.
The All Bharat Artificial Intelligence Association is a national industry body, registered as a Section 8 non-profit company — ABAIA Industry & Innovation Foundation. It exists because India’s AI economy has plenty of talent and plenty of ambition, and not nearly enough connective tissue between the people who build, the enterprises that buy, the investors who back and the policymakers who regulate.
Vision
Where this goes
India as a maker of AI, not a market for it
The vision is an India that is a global hub for artificial intelligence — exporting products, research and standards rather than importing all three. That takes an ecosystem where innovation is encouraged, adoption is responsible, talent is nurtured and the gains reach industry and society alike.
Mission
The four pillars
Founded on four commitments
Public understanding
Webinars, events and workshops that make AI legible — to the people building with it and the public living with it.
Collaboration
A working network of AI startups and professionals who share problems, introductions and what actually worked.
Enterprise adoption
Concrete use cases for AI tools inside enterprise workflows — connecting the companies that need them to the builders who make them.
Startup funding
Backing promising AI startups with capital from an angel network of operators, and with strategic partners who become customers.
What that looks like in practice
The work, concretely
Convening
Sessions, talk shows and workshops with operators who have done the thing being discussed — logged publicly on the sessions page.
Enterprise connects
Matching enterprises that need AI in their workflows with members who have shipped the pattern — use cases first, slideware never.
Startup capital
ABAIA Angels, an informal network of 25+ operator-investors backing early-stage enterprise AI startups.
Research
IIDA, the association’s Focused Research Organization, turning deeptech research into IP, products and exports.
Policy voice
Practitioner input into government policy on artificial intelligence — recommendations grounded in what builders actually face.
Talent
Industry-driven skilling: workshops, executive programs and courses run with and through the association’s initiatives.
Where this record stops
Stated, not buried
What the record does not show
- It is small, and it is local. The register is 15 entries, and 11 of them name Pune. The name says All Bharat; the map on the home page shows the distance between the two.
- Not every entry was written by its owner. 4 entries were added from public professional profiles. Each is flagged, and its owner can take it over at any time.
- Listed is not endorsed. The marketplace review checks that a firm and its website are real. It says nothing about quality, and “ABAIA member” is a disclosure, not a mark.
- The Angels figure is a headcount. 25+ is the association’s own number. No cheques written and no companies funded are published here.
- The sessions log is short. 4 sessions, the latest on 29 November 2024.
- Publication is a manual step. An approval or a withdrawal reaches the public pages at the next site update, not instantly.
The people
Run by operators
A six-person core team, each with a named remit — community, enterprise, investments, fundraising, GTM, education — and a shared member register with every listed member public.
ABAIA is a Section 8 non-profit and non-political. Its initiatives publish what they are doing — including the parts that are not finished — because an association asking an ecosystem to trust it should be inspectable. Reach it at info@abaia.org.