Monetizing India’s love affair with Gold
An intelligent phonebook
An onmi-channel platform providing curative solutions to mental health in India
Making buses a cooler way to move.
Re-imagining India’s food supply chain
The fastest way to understand yourself and the world.
A one of a kind bespoke brand changing the face of the men's fashion industry by making custom shirts sustainably
Anything you want, anytime, anywhere within a city. Dunzo's got it.
Founded by three young dads, Flinto is revolutionising preschool education by changing the way children learn and play. Flintobox delivers high quality, design-led products to 400,000 thousand customers across 700 cities and towns in India, growing fastest in cities and towns like Chandigarh and Nagpur. Flintoclass powers preschools with fun early learning proagrammes.
At home, in pre-school and online, Flinto makes a world class early childhood education possible and affordable in tier 1 & 2 cities across India.
A healthcare company with a new message: you’re in charge of your health
Droom is a marketplace for used and new automobiles.The company facilitates online transactions by creating tools that help create trust between buyers and sellers. Best-selling tools include Orange Book Value, an algorithmic pricing engine that suggests a fair value for a used vehicle and Droom History, India’s largest repository and background check on an automobiles' history. Droom has offices in Gurgaon and Silicon Valley.
While leading brands skirt the topic of menstruation, Nua took it head on and built an online community where women feel safe to ask questions and share their experiences during that time of the month. After listening to hundreds of women, founder Ravi Ramachandran created a solution that is configured to a woman's individual cycle, delivered directly to her home, every month.
Melorra is an online jewellery brand creating affordable products inspired by fashion trends. Made by women, for women.
The kitchen that has something for everyone, it has transformed how we discover, order and enjoy food by identifying emerging needs and elevating the cuisine category experience. A collection of five online food brands delivered via a network of 140 local kitchens in 12 cities. Faasos makes modern Indian food; Behrouz makes biryani; Olive Trails does new world cuisines; Oven Story for specialty pizza; and Mandarin Oak for Chinese.
A furniture subscription brand operating in six cities across India. To quote TechCrunch "it's a love child of Ikea & Jonny Ive with enough Airbnb spunk to disrupt the Indian furniture market high up in the food chain." Furniture is designed for longevity using solid wood that can be refurbished. Delivered in 72 hours, it creates the home to come home to for young professionals having a fun evening with friends, couples having a night in or new families with little ones.
Built by technologists and educators and bullet-proofed by students, Embibe is a AI platform that facilitates test taking and improves performance in competitive exams – by 60% in just 10 tests. Underlying it is a data engine that provides personalised feedback enabling a far greater impact in the effort to transform an outdated education system. Every student can use it for free, and pay only for advanced learning recommendations.
PayMate helps businesses to make simpler and faster payments. As the economy transitions from slow, costly forms of payment like cash and checks to real-time and digital, Paymate automates and manages payments, invoicing and cash flow – including access to working capital at competitive rates.
Magic Bus is a non-profit organization that uses sport based activities to help underpriveledged kids learn life skills. In a radical shift from how other non-profits work, it uses a community based approach that puts activity at the centre. Operating like a startup rather than a charity, it has made its mark in the NGO world, winning awards for its unique business model and its ingenuity in fundraising.
Greendust refurbishes factory seconds to sell to customers at heavily discounted prices. Aside from the environmental benefits, value conscious customers get the chance to buy aspirational brands at amazing bargains and simultaneously, manufacturers have an alternate route to upcycle "damaged" product that would otherwise be discarded. As ecommerce in India grows, Greendust takes a thought provoking stance.
A different kind of print service for design-minded photo takers. Through its proprietary print infrastructure and world-class online and mobile products, Parabo makes everyday moments into art. For the Instagram generation, it offers a personalized approach to home decor and a budget-friendly way of expressing themselves through every day photography.
Kotak Solar is a pioneer in solar technology in India. It began operations in 1997. The company designs, finances and installs industrial and commercial rooftop solar panels. In 2014, it started offering solar-on-demand, enabling access to solar power without big upfront costs, increasing the pace and scale of the solar revolution in the country.
The largest independent mobile advertising network in the world. It has challenged Apple & Google in innovation on mobile-first advertising platforms. It was listed as one of MIT Technology Review's 50 most disruptive companies in 2013, number 15 on Fast Company's list of The World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2016, and ranked No.1 in the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in India.
Cleartrip makes travel booking simple by offering its customers the single most comprehensive travel experience through its award winning Mobile and Desktop solutions. Its intuitive products coupled with the largest selection of flights and hotels keep customers at the center of everything it creates.
MapmyIndia provides advanced digital map data including navigation, tracking & LBS products and GPS & GIS based systems integration services.
Info Edge is India’s biggest online classifieds company. In its portfolio are brands that created the building blocks of the internet in India: Naukri.com, Shiksha.com, Jeevansathi.com, and 99acres.com. Today it also has a stake in Zomato, Policybazaar India and Meritnation. Info Edge is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India.
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