Top 15 Business to Build in 2026 | Business | Sarthak Ahuja

Millions of dollars are ready to be given to anyone who decides to build 1 out of these 15 businesses in the next one year...

YCombinator has just released a list of 15 startups that they want founders to work on in the summer of 2026...

This is where they think maximum action is required, and anyone who can show some credibility and viability on how they will build it, can get funded by investors in Silicon Valley this year...

Here are the top 3 areas from the list for Indian founders...

1/ Low Pesticide Agriculture - using images to train AI models on how farmers identify where a pesticide is required, and then using drones and simple machinery fitted with sprays to only spray pesticide where symptoms appear rather than spraying it all over the fields...

This would help keep the quality of the soil for longer, and also make the agri produce safer for consumption.

2/ Personalised Medicine - where one collects health data from three sources - wearables like Whoop and FitBit, a person’s bloodwork and genetic test, and then third data of which supplements are best recommended to deal with what kind of situation...

This would help build an app that recommends personalised medicine and supplements using AI to the patient and helps them improve their health.

3/ Company Brain - which is an AI tool that looks at and captures all the information from every employee’s mailbox, Slack, laptop folders to create a centralised Skills file, which works as both a knowledge repository as well as a tracker of how each task was done, so that AI agents can execute repetitive company tasks with better judgement

Building these apps is easy today using tools like Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI Codex... the real moat is in collecting specific data to do these tasks, and then show how well they perform because of the specific data collected from the ground.

Here’s the list of the other ideas for you to keep and evaluate.

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A Chartered Accountant with about 10 years of experience in areas of Tax Advisory, Startup Consulting, Fundraising, Audits, Deal Advisory, Business Modelling and contract CFO services.
Winner of the ISB Young Leader Award 2017 and the Best All Rounder, PGP Class of '17, Sarthak has also been published about in the leading financial newspapers such as The Financial Express as possibly the youngest Indian to have completed the courses of CA, CS and CMA along with a graduate degree in Financial & Investment Analysis from University of Delhi, all by the age of 23 years