November, 2015
Happiest Minds Technologies
Nov 18, 2015
For reaching an annual run rate of us $50 million within three years of founding, and for serving over 100 global customers in disruptive technology-related services.
Urban Ladder
Nov 18, 2015
For reinventing how customers buy furniture in india; for choosing customer delight over scale in the early days.
Hector Beverages
Nov 18, 2015
For building a company that could be india’s answer to coke and pepsi. It was chosen for being a category creator in the indian ethnic beverage segment, for its ability to ramp up distribution and for its focus on nutritive drinks with low-sugar.
Hackerrank
Nov 18, 2015
For reinventing how technology companies hire programmers and for penetrating into silicon valley’s inner circle. Its community boasts of 864,000 developers and it helps over 1000 companies including the likes of evernote, quora, flipkart, cisco and zenefits with recruiting software developers.
Knowlarity Communications
Nov 18, 2015
For evolving into an important player in the cloud telephony space; for building a global company from india and for serving over 12,000+ customers including the likes of google.
Oyo Rooms
Nov 18, 2015
For becoming india’s largest branded network of budget hotels across 86 cities in no time.
Magzter
Nov 18, 2015
Magzter is a digital magazine store and newsstand which is redefining the way magazines are read globally
Freshdesk
Nov 18, 2015
One of india’s fastest growing product startups, serving 50,000+ customers around the world with its saas product for customer support. Freshdesk recently raised us $94 million and is the first indian company that raised money from google capital.
Homelane
Nov 18, 2015
For solving the problem of interior design using technology and delivering projects in 45 days
Nykaa
Nov 18, 2015
For building an online beauty products portal with 600 per cent revenue growth in 12 months
Vox Pop Clothing
Nov 18, 2015
For selling licensed merchandise through partnerships with disney, marvel, dc comics and more.
Droom
Nov 18, 2015
For gaining early traction in the used two-wheeler marketplace segment and touching rs. 4.5 Crore in sales within 100 days of launch
Furlenco
Nov 18, 2015
For building an online furniture renting business where frequently moving customers can purchase at 60% cheaper than emis
Giftxoxo
Nov 18, 2015
For touching rs. 16 Crore in revenues and growing 300 per cent y-on-y by offering individual and corporate gifting solutions
Truly Madly
Nov 18, 2015
The company aims to break the stereotype created by traditional matchmaking sites where the profiles are usually accessed and managed by the parents.
Culture Machine
Nov 18, 2015
For building a youtube focused media firm, where technology meets creativity
Healthkart
Nov 18, 2015
For serving one million customers online with health, wellness and fitness related products
Velvetcase
Nov 18, 2015
For building an online marketplace of 150+ global jewellery designers & for allowing small jewellery designers to build a brand and find customers on its platform
Hippocampus Learning Centres
Nov 18, 2015
For its business model of delivering high-quality early childhood education to poor rural communities at scale through a financially self-sustainable model.
Simplilearn
Nov 18, 2015
For scaling up revenue growth to touch over rs. 92 Crore in annual revenue by selling its collection of short-term certification courses, that has a direct impact on career growth.
Linkstreet
Nov 18, 2015
For building a technology platform to share and monetize knowledge within an enterprise/sme to aid decision making
Covacsis Technology
Nov 18, 2015
For building an iot-based real time analytics tool for manufacturers to optimize operations on the plant floor
Fintech & Financial Services Startup50
Happay
Nov 18, 2015
For solving an age-old problem of unorganized cash handling and expense claims within an enterprise.
Moveinsync
Nov 18, 2015
For solving the problem of ‘safe employee transportation’ especially in the ites and bpo sector
Hiree
Nov 18, 2015
For using technology to solve the problem of helping companies close job openings quickly
Vakilsearch
Nov 18, 2015
For infusing technology into the professional services – legal, accounting and compliance sector
Avekshaa Technologies
Nov 18, 2015
For helping enterprise clients in banking, telecom, retail and other sectors quickly upgrade critical applications and it solutions
Threadsol
Nov 18, 2015
For minimizing fabric wastage in the textile industry using its technology platform
Uniken
Nov 18, 2015
For creating a patented security software which ensures data is decipherable only within the network and only to authorized users; helps prevent data theft and fraud.
Unmetric
Nov 18, 2015
For helping some of the world’s largest brands make sense of data and take actions based on that data
Mad Street Den
Nov 18, 2015
For the founders’ bold, ambitious plan of building a computer vision and ai startup out of india. It serves enterprise customers with apis to perform the following tasks – object recognition, head and facial gestures, emotion detection and 3d facial gestures.
Mitra Biotech
Nov 18, 2015
For helping make the world a better place by offering a solution for more accurate, personalized cancer care. Its proprietary technology, canscript, enables the doctor to make an informed decision regarding the most optimal drug combination and also enables rational drug development
Mydentist
Nov 19, 2015
Founded in 2010, the company has quickly scaled up to a chain of 102 dental care centers, with 500 dentists and has served over 4 lakh patients till date.
Mapmygenome
Nov 19, 2015
For building a solution for predictive and preventive healthcare through genetic counseling
Forus Health
Nov 19, 2015
For manufacturing affordable eye care equipment (3nethra) to eradicate preventable blindness
Chai Point
Nov 19, 2015
For serving 1.2 Lakh glasses of chai everyday and growing 12% month on month. The company has also launched chai-on-call and chai@work, both witnessing good early traction
Live Sports 365 Pvt.ltd.
Nov 19, 2015
A multi-channel sports and fitness goods company that has touched rs. 14.5 Crore in revenue using snapdeal and flipkart as key channels. For riding the e-commerce boom, as an online seller and making the transition from traditional retail to online.
V Resorts
Nov 19, 2015
Operates 11 luxury properties with 5-20 rooms in and around delhi, charging rs. 5000 Per room. On the list for identifying a model wherein it takes only 60 days to get a property ready and the first 6 properties turned profitable within 1 year of operation.
Inthree Access Services
Nov 19, 2015
For building a rural distribution business generating over rs. 19 Crore in annual revenue. Counts hcl founder ajai chaudhari and arun duggal as investors. Now diversifying into rural ecommerce through an “assisted sale” model of showing customers products before they buy.
Pickme E-Solutions
Nov 19, 2015
A ‘doorstep gadget repair’ company generating rs. 12.5 Crore in revenue in fy15 and profitable. Partnerships to sell “service packages” with snapdeal, micromax and chroma.
The Beer Café
Nov 19, 2015
For generating over rs. 36 Crore in annual revenue (fy2014-15) through its chain beer-cafes and singh’s aspiration to evolve into the café coffee day for beer
Teabox
Nov 19, 2015
Based in siliguri, this company has managed to create a tea brand that sells from india to 76 countries around the world. It has a catalogue of 200 varieties of tea, all sourced from india and nepal, and its credited with enhancing the lives of tea planters in the north east
Universal Sportsbiz
Nov 19, 2015
This sachin tendulkar-funded company, partners with celebrities to create co-branded fashion brands. The portfolio of brands include wrogn, a premier fashion brand inspired by virat kohli, imara, a contemporary women’s ethnic fashion brand with shraddha kapoor and collectabillia, which e-tails rare sports merchandise.
Welcare Health Systems
Nov 19, 2015
For setting up affordable eyecare centers inside other general hospitals, diabetes centers and pediatric centers
Head Held High Services
Nov 19, 2015
For creating a model where they train rural youth, and then find them jobs in head held high services, which offers multiple services to clients through its operations in rural india
The art of innovating on the go
Nov 19, 2015
Srikanth iyer, co-founder, homelane, shares how innovative marketing helped one of his earlier ventures – edurite – reach out to its target audience
A personal journey, this entrepreneurship!
Nov 19, 2015
Ameera shah, md and ceo of metropolis healthcare, decodes for us key learnings from her entrepreneurial journey, with the benefit of hindsight
Fintech & Financial Services Startup50
Deal or no deal
Nov 20, 2015
Two investors, one entrepreneur and one banker get together to speak about what makes or breaks a deal. A few excerpts from the discussion…
Delivering on two fronts
Nov 20, 2015
Social ventures have a dual goal – to make a social impact and at the same time, be financially sound
The life of an entrepreneur before & after funding
Nov 20, 2015
Someone asked a coffee entrepreneur, a billionaire, in new york; what’s your story? And he said, somebody loaned me 50 cents, i bought a cup of coffee from a nearby stall, sold it to a customer for one dollar, invested that dollar, sold one more coffee and made two dollars. I followed the same pattern week after week. At the end of one month, i met a billionaire’s daughter and married her
The role of an entrepreneur-in-residence
Nov 20, 2015
Faasos was actually founded in 2003 and operated as a small business for a while. In 2011-2012, the company went through an organizational transition and faasos conceptualized the job title of entrepreneur-in-residence or eir, and it became a key element of its comeback strategy. At startup50, raghav joshi, one of its eirs, explains to us the role of an entrepreneur-in-residence
Intricacies of the education business
Nov 20, 2015
At startup50, we had a panel discussion with leaders from the education sector, to understand the finer nuances of running a business in this space. A few excerpts from this session…
Finding the right match
Nov 20, 2015
With its canscript model, mitra biotech, is simplifying the process of matching cancer patients with the right volume and type of medication needed
Beyond the brimming cup
Nov 20, 2015
While establishing chaipoint, amuleek singh bijral and his team, realised the vast potential of india’s favourite beverage and the strong emotions associated with drinking it
Going the distance with your customer
Nov 20, 2015
Chargebee’s krish subramanian urges entrepreneurs running subscription-based businesses to adopt customer support as their mantra to sales
“If someone makes a mistake – we find out who has made the mistake and clap.”
Nov 20, 2015
Rahul singh, founder and ceo, beer café, has a very nuanced approach to tackling failure. The key, according to him, is to prevent loss of enthusiasm
From startup to scale up
Nov 20, 2015
In his talk at startup50, avlesh singh, co-founder, webengage, spoke about the various skills a startup must pickup, as it gears up to build scale
Scaling up holistically
Nov 20, 2015
Krishnan ganesh, chairman, portea medical, urges entrepreneurs to understand the finer nuances of scaling up an organisation across multiple dimensions.
