Bolo Indya Adds Marketplace Twist To Cash In On India’s Short Video Mania
Indian users are hungry for more short video apps after TikTok’s exit. The rocket growth seen by the likes of Mitron, Chingari, Bolo Indya, Trell and others is a testament to the huge engagement that...
View ArticleIndia’s Kaagaz Scanner Banks On AI Document Manager To Take CamScanner’s Place
India’s ban on 59 Chinese apps has opened up the Indian market for many native startups, who have the potential to replace these banned apps. With CamScanner, one of the most prominent productivity...
View ArticleSuperhumans Looks To Solve Employee Wellbeing But Cracking India Market Is...
The Indian tech industry and startups have been championed as the biggest crutch in the current economic goal of $5 Tn GDP. But the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that while job creation may be a...
View ArticleHow NIRA Cut Back On Small-Ticket Loans To Boost Recovery Amid The Pandemic
In India’s fintech revolution and the multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity, the lending market equations are fast changing. While the credit demand in India is projected to be worth $1.41 Tn by...
View ArticleCan B:Live Revive Domestic Tourism With its Focus On Electric Mobility,...
Travel and hospitality has been the hardest-hit sector in the Covid-19 pandemic. Last month, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its financial outlook for the global aviation...
View ArticleFrom Discovery To Recovery, WonDRx Looks To Fix India’s Fragmented Healthcare...
India’s healthcare ecosystem is deeply fragmented and this has compounded the problems that come with major calamities. While India has dealt with past incidents through spirited efforts, that’s simply...
View ArticleThe Secret Behind Pratilipi Gaining 20 Mn MAUs In Five Months
“It took us about 5 years to get to 10 Mn monthly active users (MAUs) and then about 5 months to get to 20 Mn. Slowly, slowly then all at once,” Pratilipi cofounder and CEO Ranjeet Pratap Singh wrote...
View ArticleChingari Bets On Cloning TikTok And India’s Nationalist Sentiment To Drive...
“Given the choice between two apps which are exactly the same, but one is made in China and the other one is made in India — which one will you choose?” — Chingari cofounder Sumit Ghosh. The growing...
View ArticleHow FreshWorld Is Disrupting The Farm-To-Home Supply Chain By Digitising The...
“The FnV (fruit and vegetable) industry largely runs on touch-and-feel and pick-and-choose of the produce. In spite of the benefits supermarkets provide, pushcart vendors continue to thrive, but these...
View ArticleIn A Sea Of India-Centric Short Video Apps, Plop Looks To Go Global With...
Reading a good book allows one’s imagination to take flight, escape reality and forget about day-to-day troubles and that’s doubly true when it’s a great novel or work of fiction. But in these times of...
View ArticleHempStreet Bets High On India’s Medical Cannabis Potential With Eye On...
It’s hard to believe that just over three decades ago, Indians could legally consume marijuana and all its derivative products. But how the world has changed since then that not only has cannabis been...
View ArticleCan This Eight Roads-Backed Omnichannel Eyewear Brand Challenge Lenskart...
“It is not in my DNA to burn money, and our stores were profitable and ecommerce appeared to be just another channel to burn cash. But then Covid-19 happened,” says Specsmakers cofounder and CEO Pratik...
View ArticleWith 18X Growth In US, Skillmatics Is Taking ‘Made In India’ Edtech Kits Global
“In one of the sessions with Surge, Shailendra [Singh, Sequoia Capital MD] told us that several startups think they have to choose between scale and profits, but it doesn’t have to be ‘either-or’ but...
View ArticleBacked By Lightspeed & Matrix, This Startup Aims To Become The Canva For...
The coronavirus pandemic has forced people around the world to give up their daily lives and limit themselves to their homes. Such a drastic change in behaviour has obviously had an impact on...
View ArticleCan This Startup Become India’s Edtech Super App?
As schools and colleges are forced to go digital amid the pandemic and the lockdown, technology has become an essential for students and educators. While edtech platforms have tried to simplify the...
View ArticleWith Just $130K In Funding, India’s Nimo Planet Is Looking To Challenge Tech...
Last week, Mukesh Ambani and Reliance introduced JioGlass to much hype and catapulted India into the smart eyewear craze. While the unveiling of JioGlass brought about umpteen discussions and debates...
View ArticleHow Video KYC Startup inVOID Cashed In On India’s Remote Onboarding Opportunity
With the massive uptick in fintech adoption over the past few years, India is well and truly on its way to a digital banking and cashless payments future. But despite the massive opportunity, one of...
View ArticleEdtech App AugLi Banks On Critical Thinking Superpowers To Take Indian Kids...
We are living in a fast-changing world. One week, we are talking about Jeff Bezos’s Indian tour and the next week international travel is banned around the world. Even before the coronavirus pandemic...
View ArticleWittyFeed Looks To Deepen Its Bharat Roots With OTT Pivot
“All the three of us (STAGE cofounders) have been born and brought up in very small villages and towns of India. Even when we were serving American users, our story was always about building a startup...
View ArticleDSG-Backed D2C Startup Aims To Crack The ‘Bharat’ Formula For Pregnancy Care...
In the country with 73,787 births per day, baby care and pregnancy care products, of course, have naturally high demand. But the challenge for new-age direct-to-consumer brands is reaching the...
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