2026
Award
Aegis Graham Bell Award 2026
Aegis School of Business — for Shakti Models
Recognized for the Shakti family of small language models — six models from 100M to 4B parameters, open-weight on HuggingFace, designed for edge deployment.
// RECOGNITION
Outside validation.
The work speaks first.
Awards, government programs, partner selections, and deep-reporting features. We chose what to include carefully — only third-party recognitions from jurors, editorial teams, and industry bodies. No co-branded lists, no paid features.
Total recognitions
9
Government & national
5
Partner programs
2
Press features
2
// THE ARC
7years of compounding
Seven years of compounding validation — from a national microprocessor challenge in 2019 to deep-reporting features in 2026.
2019 · MPC → 2023 · NSA + C2S + Aegis → 2024 · Qualcomm + Maruti → 2026 · Aegis + The Ken + AIM
The shape of the curve matters more than the count. Jury recognition (2019, 2023), government program selection (2023), industry-partner validation (2024), and finally unsolicited deep-reporting features (2026) — each tier built on the one before it.
// GOVERNMENT & NATIONAL
National recognition. Government validated.
DPIIT, MeitY, and national jury-backed awards. These selections carry real procurement weight in Indian enterprise and public-sector deals — third-party validation that the company is operating at the level of India's most credible deep-tech startups.
2023
Award
Selected into MeitY C2S Program
Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India — 1 of 13 selected · June 2023
Chips to Startup (C2S) is MeitY's flagship semiconductor program. SandLogic was selected among 13 companies in June 2023 — placing us in the cohort of India's most credible silicon startups.
2023
Award
National Startup Award 2023
Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT)
India's flagship deep-tech recognition. DPIIT's National Startup Award honors startups demonstrating exceptional capability for innovation and impact.
2023
Award
Aegis Graham Bell Award 2023
Aegis School of Business — for Chip
Recognized for the AI chip program — the ExSLerate IP family and the Krsna SoC architecture co-designed for on-device large-model inference.
2019
Award
India's Microprocessor Challenge — Final 30, Ranked #1
MeitY — for ExSLerate V1
Selected into the Final 30 and ranked #1 with ExSLerate V1 — a MeitY-backed national challenge to design and demonstrate indigenous microprocessor IP. The foundational recognition that seeded the silicon program.
// PARTNER PROGRAMS
Industry partners. Selected from many.
Mentorship and incubation programs run by industry leaders — selections made on technical merit by people who know the space.
2024
Program
Qualcomm QSMP — 1 of 2 selected
Qualcomm Startup Mentorship Program
Selected as one of only two companies into the 2024 cohort of Qualcomm's Startup Mentorship Program — industry-partner validation from the chip leader Shakti now runs on.
2024
Program
Maruti Suzuki Incubation Cohort 2024 — 1st Runners-up
Maruti Suzuki India
Earned 1st Runners-up position in Maruti Suzuki's incubation cohort — automotive-OEM validation that complements the Aisin Tier-1 customer story.
// PRESS & MEDIA
What journalists said about us.
Editorial features by publications that chose to write about us — not paid placements, not press-release re-prints. The narrative that emerges, written independently: an Indian challenger building from silicon up against NVIDIA's stack.
AIM — Front Page
May 2026 · Long-form interview
India Built Its Own CUDA — A Bengaluru Startup Is Taking on Nvidia's Biggest Moat
Analytics India Magazine's flagship long-form series. A deep-dive on SandLogic's compiler-runtime stack as an Indian answer to CUDA — and the multi-layer co-design strategy behind it.
Read
The Ken
Apr 2026 · Feature story
The AI founder with an NVIDIA-shaped dream and just $4 million in the bank
Subscription investigative journalism. The Ken's long-form feature on SandLogic's full-stack thesis and the founder's bet against NVIDIA's moat.
Read
The Ken is a subscription publication — opening the link requires a Ken subscription. AIM Front Page is freely available on YouTube.
// EDITORIAL NOTE
What's not on this page.
We deliberately left off co-branded "list placements" — programs where a media partner publishes a list assembled by a third-party cohort organizer. Those recognitions sit on a different rung of the credibility ladder than DPIIT, MeitY, Qualcomm, or editorial features in The Ken.
The point of this page is to show the recognitions a sophisticated buyer would independently verify and find legitimate — not to inflate the count. The work, on /research, /customers, and /platform, speaks first.