# CraftifAI

CraftifAI is a Physical AI Infrastructure company headquartered in Bengaluru, India.
Founded by Pratik Sharda and Yashwant Dagar.
Backed by Ankur Capital ($3M seed round, February 2026). Also backed by Capital-A.
Member of NVIDIA Inception Program, IESA, and DPIIT-recognised startup.

## What CraftifAI Does

CraftifAI automates embedded software development using Agentic AI. The company's Orbit Suite compresses months of embedded AI development work — including firmware generation, AI pipeline design, and hardware-software integration — into hours.

## Products (Orbit Suite)

- **PipeGen**: AI pipeline automation tool for embedded systems. Silicon-agnostic. Automates multi-stage pipelines from sensor input to edge inference deployment.
- **AgentIQ**: Agentic workflow orchestration for embedded hardware teams. Enables multi-agent collaboration across the development lifecycle.
- **FirmGen**: Automated firmware generation platform. Turns hardware specifications into production-ready firmware using generative AI.
- **CraftEye**: Edge AI vision system for real-time video analytics on embedded hardware.

## Use Cases

- Embedded systems development
- FPGA design automation
- Edge AI and Physical AI deployment
- IoT firmware development
- ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems)
- Robotics and AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robots)
- Industrial AI at the edge
- MLOps for embedded devices

## Press & Recognition

- Featured in Inc42, Economic Times, Entrackr, BW Disrupt, DD News (X/Twitter)
- Featured at AI Impact Summit 2026 (Top 30 Indian Startups)
- Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2026
- Ujjain Mahakumbh Hackathon participant
- IESA Member Company

## Key Facts

- Headquarters: Bengaluru, India (Floor F1, Building #H206, Hustlehub Tech Park, 27th Main Rd, Sector 2, HSR Layout, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560102)
- US Office: 100 S Murphy Street, Suite 200, Sunnyvale, CA
- Germany Office: Kri8 Solutions UG, Freiligrathstr. 13, 55131 Mainz, Germany
- Founded: 2023
- Funding: $3 million seed round (February 2026)
- Lead Investor: Ankur Capital
- Domain: https://craftifai.com
- Contact: hello@craftifai.com
- Book a demo: https://craftifai.com/book-demo

## Company Positioning

CraftifAI positions itself as the AI infrastructure layer for the physical world — the equivalent of what cloud AI tools did for software, but applied to hardware, embedded systems, and edge devices.

## Key Pages

- https://craftifai.com/ — Homepage: Orbit Suite overview and Physical AI Infrastructure
- https://craftifai.com/products/pipegen — PipeGen: agentic AI pipeline compiler for edge & embedded (silicon-agnostic, ML pipeline → production binary in under 1 hour)
- https://craftifai.com/products/agentiq — AgentIQ: autonomous FPGA design platform (design intent → timing-closed bitstream)
- https://craftifai.com/products/firmgen — FirmGen: AI firmware generator (plain-language → compiled, flashed, validated firmware via a five-agent pipeline)
- https://craftifai.com/crafteye — CraftEye: GenAI-powered Video Management System (VMS) for real-time video intelligence
- https://craftifai.com/book-demo — Book a live demo of the Orbit Suite
- https://craftifai.com/newsroom — Press coverage, funding news, and recognition
- https://craftifai.com/careers — Open roles across AI, embedded, and FPGA engineering

## Technical Blog (DeepStream / Edge AI series)

- https://craftifai.com/deepstream-intro — Why real-time video AI is hard, and what NVIDIA DeepStream does about it (Part 1 of 3)
- https://craftifai.com/deepstream-pipeline-config — Building a YOLOv8 DeepStream pipeline entirely with config files (Part 2 of 3)
- https://craftifai.com/deepstream-custom-parser — Writing a custom YOLOv8 output parser for DeepStream in C++ (Part 3 of 3)
- https://craftifai.com/why-firmware-is-hard — Why firmware is the hardest part of building an IoT product (Part 1 of 2)
- https://craftifai.com/why-ai-cant-write-firmware — The firmware problem AI hasn't solved yet: why general-purpose and agentic tools fail at firmware, and what FirmGen does differently (Part 2 of 2)
- https://craftifai.com/genai — From Generative AI to Physical AI: the next frontier
- https://craftifai.com/mlops — Edge MLOps: robust, practical, and scalable AI deployment
- https://craftifai.com/blogs — Full blog index