Three Ventures in India Earn Places in Annual ASME ISHOW Cohort
Three Ventures in India Earn Places in Annual ASME ISHOW Cohort with Innovative Solutions to Agricultural, Energy, and Healthcare Challenges
NEW YORK (May 5, 2025) – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced the regional cohort ventures joining the 2025 ASME Innovation Showcase (ISHOW), the prestigious international accelerator of hardware-led social innovation. Seven social ventures from throughout India pitched their innovative solutions and participated in an extensive design and engineering review with expert judges on April 24 and 25 at T-Hub, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Three ventures were selected to join the 2025 ISHOW cohort and receive a share of $30,000 in grant awards and technical support to help bring their impactful innovations to market.
These 2025 ASME ISHOW India ventures’ innovations provide affordable, sustainable hardware technology solutions to agricultural, energy, and healthcare challenges. They are:
- FastSense Innovations (Pune, Maharashtra, India) for its “Sep-Scan” tool – an AI-powered diagnostic solution designed for rapid, precise, and comprehensive early sepsis detection and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) screening, accessible even in resource-limited settings, ultimately reducing diagnostic delays, and helping to lower mortality rates, shorten hospital stays, and cut treatment costs
- Kisan Rover (Jhalawar, Rajasthan, India) for its Solar-Powered Agricultural Robotic Bull – a solar-powered and electric hybrid multitasking agricultural machine that can enhance productivity, reduce costs, and improve the livelihoods of farmers with less than five acres of land
- Newrup Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India) for its “Chuliv” innovation – a clean cooking solution that seamlessly upgrades conventional mud stoves into advanced cooking appliances, cutting harmful smoke emissions by up to 50%, decreasing indoor air pollution and its negative impact on the health and mortality of women and children.
The 2025 ISHOW cohort will be invited to participate in the annual ISHOW Bootcamp in the winter to receive an extensive and customized design and engineering review by experts curated to guide them as they scale to market. They will also receive design services to support their product development. They become part of the ISHOW alumni network, an international community of hardware innovators and stakeholders with exclusive access to experts and resources.
See below for captioned photos from the 2025 ASME ISHOW India awards ceremony.
The ASME ISHOW Africa virtual event will be held June 10-12. Applications are due May 15 for social entrepreneurs in the Americas seeking consideration for ISHOW Americas, a virtual event scheduled for July 29-31. Three ventures selected at each event will join the ISHOW 2025 cohort.
ASME is grateful to its implementation partners around the globe, including The Lemelson Foundation for its continued support of the ISHOW and a multi-year strategic investment in ASME to support the hardware impact innovation system. Learn more about ISHOW’s global impact in this dynamic dashboard.
