Nasscom Emerge 50
Top selected deeptech company. Recognition track for Indian deeptech studios building category-defining products.
Nasscom Emerge 50 · India deeptech studio · 2011→
We don’t just build software.
We engineer your growth cycle.
From product development and process automation to digital presence and strategic scaling — SFHL Innovations is the studio that turns ambitious Indian businesses into the kind of operations that compound. Your innovation partner for end-to-end business growth.
Recognised Nasscom Emerge 50 Brands ThinkMPI · SecureMe Devices Operations Connaught Place · Pune
Selected clients
- Reliance Industries Limited Vision AI · construction earthwork · in production
- Manipal Technologies Limited Manipal Group engagements
The four pillars
The growth cycle is one loop.
We engineer all four turns.
Most studios specialise in one stage. We build across the loop because growth is the loop — concept becomes prototype, prototype becomes operations, operations becomes customer reach, customer reach becomes the data that drives the next concept.
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01 · Hardware + firmware
Product Development
From raw concept to market-ready hardware. We build IoT devices and prototypes that work.
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02 · Indoor IoT + workflows
Process Automation
Eliminate inefficiencies. We deploy internal positioning and logic flows to automate your operations.
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03 · Web + mobile + commerce
Digital Presence
Customer-facing platforms that engage. High-performance web portals and mobile apps.
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04 · AI + analytics + GTM
Strategic Growth
Data-driven scaling. We use AI and analytics to unlock new revenue streams.
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Selected work
Three engagements.
Three categories of compound.
Real clients, named. The work below is closed-PO, in production, and the clients are referenceable directly. We name where we can; we anonymise only where the client has explicitly asked us to.
- 01
SFHL own SaaS · Nasscom-recognised deeptech · in active development
InfraOS — digitising the land lifecycle
InfraOS is SFHL's own deeptech SaaS — a GIS-based platform for the land-parcel lifecycle in Indian land-management contexts. Multi-stakeholder workflow, parcel-level audit trail, regulatory-compliance architecture. Selected by Nasscom for the Emerge 50 deeptech recognition track. Currently in active development.
- GIS mapping
- Multi-stakeholder workflow
- Compliance-ready data model
- Python · FastAPI
- PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB
- Docker
Outcome Nasscom Emerge 50 selection · platform under active development
Read the case study - 02
Indian wellness FMCG group · two-product engagement · client name held until next launch
Smart connected product engagements
Two parallel product programmes for a leading Indian wellness FMCG group. Programme #1: an affordable category-killer connected product, designed to undercut on price while matching feature parity — currently in market. Programme #2: a smart plug-in product, currently in active development. Same client, same engineering team across both — full-stack delivery from concept to manufacturing readiness.
- Industrial design
- Hardware engineering
- Embedded systems
- Mobile + cloud
Outcome Programme #1 in market · Programme #2 engineered to manufacturing readiness
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Reliance Industries Limited (RIL · METL)
Vision AI for Reliance construction earthwork
Drone + Vision AI pipeline for construction-site analytics at Reliance's METL operations — validating progress against engineering plans, replacing manual survey workflows with automated reporting. Paid engagement, in production.
- Vision AI
- Drone integration
- ML pipelines
- Python · cloud
Outcome Vision AI pipeline in production at Reliance
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Stack
The technical surface, in plain English.
We pick stack on the basis of what compounds — Python for its scientific ecosystem, Docker for delivery hygiene, TimescaleDB for time-series IoT, Ollama for offline-capable LLM inference at the site edge. No fashion choices.
- Vision AI
- GIS mapping
- Indoor BLE positioning
- Active RFID
- Python · FastAPI
- React · Next.js
- Docker
- Raspberry Pi
- PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB
- Ollama · DeepSeek (local LLM)
Standing
Recognised, structured, present.
Brands operating under SFHL
ThinkMPI · SecureMe Devices. The studio's commercial brands across services, IoT hardware, and consumer-safety platforms.
Two-city operations
Connaught Place, New Delhi (HQ) · Pune (engineering). India-resident, India-led, India-scaled.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're trying to build.
The first conversation is 30 minutes, on us, with the founder. We come in with one question — what's the highest-leverage problem you'd hand to a deeptech studio if you trusted one. Bring the constraint, not the brief.
Direct line
contact@sfhl.spaceFounder
ashish@sfhl.space