SME Curio

Inspiration

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) stocks listed on platforms like BSE SME and NSE Emerge are under-covered by mainstream financial media, even though they offer unique growth opportunities for retail and institutional investors. There is a lack of centralized, daily, data-driven news and analysis tailored for the SME segment, which leaves investors uninformed about companies before and after their IPOs

What it does

SME Insights will be a cutting-edge financial news platform focused exclusively on India’s SME markets — BSE SME and NSE Emerge — leveraging the power of generative AI (Perplexity AI) to deliver:

Daily, real-time updates on SME IPOs, regulatory filings, and market activity[
Smart curation and summarization of new facts, developments, and unique company highlights designed to spark investing ideas.
Data-driven analysis, highlighting trends, sector movements, and “hidden gems” among newly-listed and pre-IPO companies.
Interactive features to encourage investor curiosity — quizzes, fact-of-the-day, and “Did You Know?” sections tied to SME stocks.

How we built it

Perplexity AI for automated news generation, fact extraction, and content summarization.

What we learned

With a record number of SME IPOs and growing retail participation in 2024-2025, timely, AI-powered news and insights can bridge a major informational gap and foster enthusiasm and sound decision-making among India’s new generation of investors