Achievement
Daksh Selected for Sarvam AI's Startup Program
Indian-language speech and text APIs, going toward Itiner
September 2026 Selection
Daksh Bathla, founder of Navital Labs, was selected for Sarvam AI's Startup Program in September 2026.
What the Sarvam AI Startup Program provides
Sarvam AI builds speech, text, and translation models for 22 Indian languages and English. Its Startup Program gives accepted companies six to twelve months of API credits, production access to its speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language models, and priority support from Sarvam's engineering team.
Why it matters here
Itiner is built for travel agencies, not for their English-speaking clients alone. A boutique operator in Jaipur or a DMC in Kochi works with clients and vendors in Hindi, Tamil, or a dozen other languages, and an itinerary tool that only speaks English is asking them to translate their own business back to itself.
The credits go into exploring what that looks like in Itiner: trip briefs an agent can dictate in their own language, and client portals that read naturally to the client on the other end, not just to whoever built the pipeline.
About Daksh
Daksh is an 18-year-old computer applications student from Delhi and the founder of Navital Labs, an independent product studio building AI-powered software. He designs, builds, and operates every product end to end, with no handoff between the person who understands the problem and the person who writes the fix.