Raebareli, Raipur teams among four winners of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026

Four teams of young innovators, from Raebareli, Raipur, New Delhi and Hyderabad, have won the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026 national competition and will share Rs 2 crore in incubation grants, Samsung India announced after the grand finale in New Delhi on October 14 and 15, 2026. The winners are QuantHunt from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh, morphism from Raipur in Chhattisgarh, InnoBotix from New Delhi, and Somatrace from Hyderabad in Telangana. They will also receive mentoring and incubation support at the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) at IIT Delhi to turn their prototypes into market-ready products.

The results show that serious technology ideas are coming from well beyond India's big metros. QuantHunt, from Raebareli, won the AI theme with a cybersecurity tool that uses AI to find weaknesses in encryption and help organisations prepare their systems for the risks that quantum computers could pose. Morphism, from Raipur, won Health and Education with an AI system that helps autistic people read emotions from facial expressions and other behavioural cues.

The other two winners address problems many Indians will recognise. InnoBotix built Sentinel, a solar-powered device that uses cameras, radar and ground-vibration sensing to detect wild animals approaching villages and send early warnings, a response to human-wildlife conflict. Somatrace, from Hyderabad, designed a wearable training device that tracks spinal angles and load, so athletes and coaches can judge the risk of injury.

For young people with an idea, the competition is one of a growing number of routes from a school or college project to a real start-up. The grant money matters, but so does the incubation: time at an established incubator gives teams access to mentors, testing facilities and investors that most first-time founders cannot reach on their own. Programmes run by companies, governments and universities now offer students a chance to build and test products before they need venture capital.

Short-term: The four teams move into incubation at FITT, IIT Delhi, with grant money to build their prototypes further.

Long-term: If the products reach the market, they could address real needs, from cybersecurity to wildlife alerts for villages, and show that student founders from smaller cities can build deep-technology businesses.

Who is affected: The winning teams, students and young innovators planning to enter future editions, incubators that support student start-ups, and communities that could use the products.

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