Village preschoolers in pink and purple uniforms holding hands in a circle game on open rock, their teacher standing among them, with tiled-roof houses and hills behind
A social-impact R&D venture studio

Building for the 90% where technology is needed most

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Research becomes deployment Education Child development Inclusivity & accessibility Maternal care Built with national institutes Research becomes deployment Education Child development Inclusivity & accessibility Maternal care Built with national institutes
An Indian venture & R&D studio

Most technology is built for the 10% who already have access. Daira is a social-impact R&D studio for the rest — turning field research into ventures that run inside India's public systems.

The sectors we build in
Education
& learning
Child
development
Maternal
care
Public systems
& policy
Inclusivity
& accessibility
Where the work stands today Across Karnataka & Odisha, under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
Reach
0+Families reached
0+Children screened
Depth
0+Clinical records held
0Indian languages
Footprint
0Institute centres
0District deployments
Inside the work

What each phase actually looks like

Research, build, deploy, policy — the same four phases every venture moves through, in the places they actually happen.

A researcher presenting to seated villagers during a community meeting Hands typing on a laptop running the Jiveesha platform Anganwadi teachers leading a line of toddlers through an activity A framed district project map on the office wall in Harichandanpur

It starts as a field question

Months in villages, schools and clinics before anything is built — with the communities, experts and officials who know the problem best.

Children seated on a mat beneath a bird chart at an anganwadi centre, one child standing
The only metric

The research, the prizes, the models — none of it counts until it reaches a child

Our ventures
The method

Four phases, one spine

01

Understand & Research

Months 1–3

Every venture starts in the field, with communities and frontline workers. If the problem turns out to be something else, it stops right there.

Out: a defined problem, not a product idea
02

Build & Validate

Months 3–6

Instruments are developed and reviewed with clinical partners like NIEPID, calibrated to Indian-population norms.

Out: something a clinician will stand behind
03

Pilot & Scale

Months 6–12

Pilots run inside programmes like Samagra Shiksha, carried by the teachers and workers we train — not by our field team.

Out: a district running it without us
04

Policy & Ecosystem

Ongoing, by design

What works in one district becomes how the system works — reporting that fits government processes, and training that makes adoption durable.

Out: infrastructure that outlives us
Why a studio

Every venture starts higher than the last

A studio is only worth more than separate companies if something accumulates between them. Three layers do — and each new venture stands on all of them from its first day.

Ventures
Jiveesha Kokh.AI Anganwadi ECD NEEV The next one
The spine they stand on
03
Relationships that carry

Government and institutional partnerships take years to earn and are the hardest part to repeat. Once established, they carry across the whole portfolio.

Apex national institute
Two state governments
02
Norms built for India

Instruments calibrated for Indian populations rather than imported wholesale. The norms built for one venture become the ground the next one stands on.

Validated with NIEPID
24 Indian languages
01
One research & data spine

Every deployment adds field and clinical data to a single research base, so each venture starts where the last one finished rather than from zero.

51,000+ clinical records
Two years of field data
Recognition

Recognised for work already running

The Daira and NIEPID teams on stage holding the signed MoU folders at the International Conference on Building Bridges for Inclusivity
MoU · Government of India
A public MoU signed with NIEPID — the apex national institute — covering the Jiveesha school portal launch, co-development of the clinical portal, and early childhood development work.
NIEPID, SecunderabadDepartment of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities · Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment
The Daira founders receiving the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge cheque on stage from the Union Minister
Winner · 2025
Selected in the first cohort of the IndiaAI Innovation Challenge under the application development initiative — judged on a deployment already running in districts, not on a pitch.
IndiaAI Innovation Challenge 2025IndiaAI Mission · Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
The Jiveesha Schools implementation process presented on stage at the International Conference on Building Bridges for Inclusivity
Launch · 2026
The Jiveesha Schools implementation model presented in full — teacher training through to structured reports and intervention cards, built on the NIEPID GLAIS framework.
International Conference on Building Bridges for InclusivityNIEPID Secunderabad & KiiT International School · May 2026
The Daira team receiving the Startup MahaRathi Challenge trophy on stage at Startup Mahakumbh, Bharat Mandapam
Winner · twice
Winners of the Startup MahaRathi Challenge in both 2024 and 2025 — recognised for social impact delivered through technology while running as a profitable company.
Startup MahaRathi · Startup MahakumbhBharat Mandapam, New Delhi · 2024 & 2025
Three Daira team members at the Jiveesha booth in front of the NIMHR banner at International Purple Fest, Goa
Exhibited · 2025
Representing the NIMHR–Jiveesha partnership at International Purple Fest, Goa — showing multilingual AI screening to delegates, clinicians and families across the disability-inclusion sector.
International Purple Fest, Goa 2025With NIMHR Sehore · National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation
Four Daira team members beside the Hyderabad Entrepreneurship Summit 2025 signage
Summit · 2025
Daira represented as a social-impact venture studio at one of India's largest founder gatherings — the studio model and its government deployments put in front of the wider startup ecosystem.
Hyderabad Entrepreneurship Summit 2025TiE Hyderabad
Working with
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology NIEPID — National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation India AI Mission Digital India NIPUN Bharat Samagra Shiksha Bhashini Atmashakti Trust Young Tinker Foundation
FAQ

Straight answers about the studio

The questions partners, funders and institutions ask us most. Something else on your mind? Talk to us.

A social-impact R&D venture studio. We take a hard field question in education, child development, maternal care or inclusion and accessibility, research it with communities, clinical experts and government, build a venture around what the research says, and deploy it through public systems. Jiveesha, Kokh.AI and the Anganwadi programme all came off that one path.

A startup bets everything on one product. A studio compounds: every deployment adds to one research and data spine, instruments normed for Indian populations carry to the next venture, and the government relationships earned by one deployment open the door for the next. The portfolio is worth more than the sum of its ventures.

Government bodies deploying at district, state or national scale; CSR funders who need outcomes they can verify in districts they can name; institutions — schools, hospitals, anganwadi networks, NGOs — who want to run a pilot; and clinical anchors like NIEPID who hold our instruments to their standards.

With a question, never a product idea. The first months of every venture are pure research — in the field, with the people closest to the problem — and produce no product at all. If the research says the problem is something else, the venture stops there. That discipline is the method.

Write to director@dairaedtech.in, or call +91 94376 27506 — every enquiry reaches a founder directly. Government and Samagra Shiksha deployments, CSR programmes and institutional pilots are each structured on their own terms.

Across Dharwad in Karnataka and Keonjhar in Odisha under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, six national institute centres, and multilingual coverage in 24 Indian languages through Bhashini — with 30,000+ families reached, 18,000+ children screened and 51,000+ clinical records held. Each venture's page carries its own numbers.