At your local service

Mar 01, 2015

Backed by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital, Grofers addresses the hyper-local delivery needs of merchants in each city. Its recent mobile app allows merchants to extend their products to a wider customer base and aids customers seeking delivery of

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Discovering discounts

Mar 01, 2015

Backed by SAIF Partners, Niffler aggregates in-store deals from retailers and offers it to customers on the mobile platform

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Scaling up through bootstrapping

Mar 01, 2015

Since starting up in 2004, RateGain scaled as a bootstrapped company and raised its first round of funding in 2015 from TA Associates. Today, the company offers SaaS-based price comparison tools to over 10,000 global hospitality and travel

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Taking ecommerce to the B2B space

Mar 01, 2015

SAIF Partners-backed Industrybuying.com is building a B2B ecommerce platform for dealers and buyers to transact in industrial products. With a product catalogue of over one-lakh items, its goal is to build a one stop, buying model for

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Serving SMEs

Mar 01, 2015

Accel, Kalaari and Inventus-backed Power2SME is an online-enabled platform that buys raw material in bulk from suppliers like BASF and Beyer, and sells to SMEs at a low (comparatively) price, thus directly contributing to enhance profit margins

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Backdoor into the Internet

Mar 01, 2015

Omidyar Network & Matrix Partners India-backed U2opia Mobiles has found a solution for 28 million users in emerging markets to access social media and Internet with no data connection, and just USSD gateways

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A peek into six exciting tech startups

Mar 01, 2015

Madhumita Prabhakar If I were to say there is a technology startup boom in the country, that’d be an understatement. What we’ve been witnessing over the last two years is…  

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