Workflow, AI, health: test your business creativity with Edition 257 of our weekly quiz!
Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 257th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys.
What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did. Would you do things differently?
Check out YourStory’s Book Review section as well, with takeaways from over 355 titles on creativity and entrepreneurship, and our weekend PhotoSparks section on creativity in the arts.
Breaking barriers in 2025: Women’s progress at work and what the road ahead demandsQ1: Healthcare
The healthcare system is generally built to treat illness, not to find it early. Where are the entrepreneurial opportunities in preventive care at scale?
Q2: Elder care
Senior citizens today are unwilling to let age define how they live, and are looking for more quality of lifestyle. Where is the business opportunity here?
Year in Review: Top 10 celebrity-backed ventures of 2025Q3: Recycling
Efficient recycling of components in used objects can be complex in terms of determining what is inside, how much material can be recovered, and what it will cost to process. How can efficiency be improved here?
Q4: Social insights
Social media is a key discovery and evaluation channel for consumers, but brands don’t leverage these insights well. What can be done to deepen and apply business signals here?
Q5: Construction
Cost overruns, project delays, and disconnected processes remain major challenges in the construction industry. How can technology help here?
Answers!
Congratulations on having come this far! But there’s more to come – answers to these five questions (below), as well as links to articles with more details on the entrepreneurs’ solutions. Happy reading, happy learning – and happy creating!
A1: Healthcare
Founded by Shashank ND, Arpit Garg, and Anshul Khandelwal, healthtech startup Cent is building a vertically integrated preventive health platform. It combines customised hardware, AI-driven radiology, and bioinformatics.
It has reportedly completed 10,000 preventive whole-body scans in three cities since launch, and is targeting 10 million scans by 2035. Read more here about its disease detection capabilities, and its recent fundraise from Blume Ventures and South Park Commons.
A2: Elder care
Founded by Sharad Gadsing, Cradle Of Life focuses on offering seniors four fundamental human aspirations: freedom, purpose, health, and happiness. It enables seniors to learn, contribute and pursue what matters personally.
In terms of design, the residential facilities include a central balcony that extends to every room, layouts with more usable area, and safety through age-friendly furniture. Read more here about its other offerings in healthcare, emergency response, wellness, and community engagement.
Year in review: startups that raised big from VCs in 2025A3: Recycling
Attero is an e-waste and battery recycling company that uses AI to speed up decisions across thousands of appliances, suppliers and locations. It processes 200,000 metric tonnes of e-waste and 10,000 metric tonnes of lithium-ion batteries annually, according to Ayush Agarwal, Head of Product.
Its pricing engine combines material intelligence with market intelligence to calculate what the material should cost in a particular market. Read more here about its AI-powered compliance engine that checks documents, reconciles information across records, and flags exceptions.
A4: Social insights
“Brands today are drowning in signals and starved of action,” explains J Venkat, Co-founder of Live2.ai. It monitors conversations across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, X, and review websites.
It integrates trend analysis, influencer-content audits, campaign publishing, and performance measurement for ecommerce. Read more here about how it serves more than 200 brands across the US, Europe and Southeast Asia.
How IIT Madras Incubation Cell is powering India’s next-gen deeptech startupsA5: Construction
Founded by Saurav Bhaik and Ankit Sinha, Tagbin has developed an AI-powered product that integrates architectural drawings, mechanical systems, and project costing. The integrated workflow can be controlled through natural-language prompts.
The platform generates building models, incorporates applicable regulations, and creates construction schedules. Read more here about how it also takes soil-bearing strength and the water table into account while generating foundations and excavation plans.
YourStory has also published the pocketbook ‘Proverbs and Quotes for Entrepreneurs: A World of Inspiration for Startups’ as a creative and motivational guide for innovators.
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