The document provides an overview of the consumer digital startup landscape in India. It discusses various sectors such as travel, retail, transportation, finance, food, real estate, and education. Within each sector it lists notable Indian startups and provides funding amounts for some companies. It also lists the most active venture capital funds investing in Indian digital startups.
2. Deal Discovery Made Easy
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3. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Tracxn tracks startups across 50+ sectors
Illustrative Sectors Tracked
ENTERPRISE
INFRASTRUCTURE
ENTERPRISE
APPLICATIONS
MOBILE
CONSUMER
TECH
FINTECH
EDUCATION
HEALTHCARE
SECURITY
STORAGE
NETWORKING
MOBILITY
IT OPS
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
API MANAGEMENT
BIGDATA INFRASTRUCTURE
SAAS
MOBILE-FIRST ENT. APPS
INTELLIGENT ENT. APPS
OPEN SOURCE
RETAIL TECH
MARKETING TECH
STEALTH MODE
VERTICAL SAAS
MOBILE COMMERCE
MOBILE PAYMENTS
MOBILE MARKETING
MOBILE DEV TOOLS
MOBILE HEALTH
MOBILE GAMING
MOBILE LEARNING
MOBILE COMMUNICATION
MARKETPLACES
SUBSCRIPTION COMM.
FOOD TECH
INTERNET FIRST BRANDS
UBER FOR X
SHARING ECONOMY
TRAVEL
GAMING
INTERNET OF THINGS
3D PRINTING
DRONES
BITCOIN
PAYMENTS
CROWDFUNDING
EDUCATION IT
SELF LEARNING
ED. MARKETPLACES
HEALTHCARE IT
DIGITAL HEALTH
MEDICAL DEVICES
7. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Travel (2/5)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
MakeMyTrip(Gurgaon, 2000)
OTA
Online travelcompany for booking flights, hotels, buses, holiday packages. Launched US IPO in 2010, fourth Indian company to do so since 1999.
IPO
(NASDAQ:MMYT,MCap: $1.2B)
Yatra
(Gurgaon, 2006)
OTA
Online travel search engine and bookings platformforflights, hotels and holiday packages. Secondlargest online travel website in India in 2006, with 30 per cent share of the market for all online travel-related transactions.
$59.5M
Norwest VP, Intel Capital, Reliance Capital, IDG Ventures, Vertex Management
Cleartrip(Mumbai, 2006)
OTA
Online travel portalfor making flights, hotels and train bookings. Launched'Cleartripfor Business' for corporate clients' travel requirements.
$55.5M
Concur Technologies, DAG Ventures, KPCB
RedBus(Bangalore, 2006)
OTA –Bus
Online bus ticketing portal. Completed 30 million ticket sales as of July 2014, with an average of 1.6 million transactions every month.Acquired by ibibogroupin 2013.
$10M
SeedFund, InventusCapital,HelionVC
TicketGoose(Chennai,2007)
OTA –Bus
Online bus ticketing portal. Partnered with 700+ bus operators and 6,000 agents to cover 3,000 destinations, through 10,000 routes and 20,000 buses. Raised series A capital through Chicago-based VC firm Indventure.
$7.5M
Indventure
Ixigo
(Gurgaon, 2000)
MetaSearch
Online and mobile travel search engine for airlines, hotels, bus bookings and deal comparison. Does not handle booking.Revenue model based on pay per click advertising, tie ups with prominent airlines and hotels in India and selling advertising space on their website. Currently the biggest vertical travel search inthe travel metasearchmodel space.
$18.5M
SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip, BAF Spectrum
TripFactory(Bangalore, 2013)
Holiday Packages
Web based search & booking engine for travel planning and to discover destinations. Claims20,000+ partners across 2,400 towns and cities of India.
$15M
Sequoia, KalaariCapital
8. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Travel (3/5)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
WeAreHolidays(Delhi,2011)
Holiday Homes
Online platform that uses artificial intelligence to recommend holidays for a traveler, allows customization and booking. Crossed $1M in revenue in Mar 2014.
$5M
MatrixPartners, BlumeVentures, Mumbai Angels, GSF
MustSeeIndia(Bangalore, 2007)
Holiday Packages - Custom
Online portal for travel information and customized travel planning. Also offers a long listing of airline bookings, hotels, trains, cabs and buses. Revenue sources comprise of ads, lead generation and package sales.
$5M
Seed
TravelTriangle(Noida, 2011)
Travel Agent Marketplace
Marketplace for traveler-agent communication for customized trip planning. Serves as a search engine with a long listing of multiple destinations in India and abroad, tour packages and holiday deals. Source of revenue is from commissions on every transaction from travel agents. Claims to have over 1 lakh unique visitors a month and over 430 agents on the platform.
$1.86M
SAIF Partners
Touristlink(Nagpur, 2011)
Travel Agent Marketplace
Social marketplace linking travellerswith local travel providers. Provides first- hand knowledge regarding local tour operators, travel agents and small hotel owners. Earns revenue by selling its own deals and marketing for travel providers for their deals.
$40K
Start-Up Chile, 88mph
TripVillas(Gurgaon, 2010)
Vacation Rentals Marketplace
Online portal for holiday home location listings and bookings. Offers real-time booking marketplace for vacation rentals and integrated with channel managers along with publishing on OTAs. Claims to have over 12,000 listings.
$1.5M
NeotenyLabs,BlumeVentures, MENA Venture Investments
RoomnHouse(Mumbai, 2012)
Vacation Rentals Marketplace
Online marketplace for travellersto find and book places rented out by home-owners, renters, and landlords. Claims to have the largest and most diverse selection of homes, private and unique accommodations around India
$166K
Euphoria Ventures
9. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Travel (4/5)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
OYO Rooms (Gurgaon, 2013)
Asset Light Hotels
Branded marketplace for budget hotel accommodation.Tied up with 20+ hotels and standardized the experience, hence operating with an asset-light model. Only in Delhi area as of now. Clocking gross bookings of over INR 1 croreper month.
$5.65M
Sequoia, Lightspeed, DSG Consumer Partners
Stayzilla(Chennai,2005)
Hotel Booking
Online booking and reservation portal for hotels. Tie ups with 13000+ stays across 1100+ towns in India. Processes 1100 daily bookings on its site.
$500K
MatrixPartners
HotelsAroundYou(Mumbai, 2013)
HotelBooking – Last Minute
Online marketplace for same-day unsold hotel rooms. Features curated hotels offering the best price and value to customers around them.
Venture Nursery
Padhaaro(Bangalore,2012)
Local Guides Marketplace
Online marketplace that connects local tour guides and experts with foreign tourists and travelers.Network of 200+ greeters/local experts in 18 cities.
$13K
Morpheus Venture Partners
SeekSherpa(Delhi, 2014)
Local Guides
Marketplace
Mobile marketplace for local travel information and tour guides. Set to launch as a mobile app on Android soon. Already has about 500 Sherpasfrom eight cities and 100 experiences. Foundersex-Google, AT Kearney.
Venture Nursery
AudioCompass(Mumbai, 2011)
Audio City Guides
Audio-guide based travel and tourism app (AudiocompassGuide) for India for cultural and historical points of interest. Available on Android and iOSplatform.
$400K
BlumeVentures
TripHobo
(Pune, 2011)
Planning
Online portal for personalized itinerary planning. Currently offers 25000+ user generated itineraries and curated content for ~200 top tourist cities worldwide. 1.5M+ monthly visitors with 70% traffic coming from US and UK.
$3.9M
KalaariCapital
10. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Travel (5/5)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
MyGola(Bangalore, 2009)
Planning
Onlineportal for booking customized travel itineraries. Travelerscan tweak curated itineraries and book them. The platform covers more than 20,000 destinations worldwide. Founders ex-Google. Stanford GSB, IIT Bombay.
$2.66M
Blumberg Capital, HelionVC, 500 Startups
JoGuru
(Pune, 2011)
Planning
Online travel network for personalized itinerary planning.Provides info on availability of parking, prohibited photography, ticket prize, nearest eat outs and public transport for an effective itinerary plan
$200K
Angel
TripTern(Gurgaon, 2012)
Planning
Online platform offering trip itinerary planner. A mobile application for the service and a online hotel booking feature are planned to be added soon.
GSF
Tripoto
(Delhi, 2013)
Planning
Trip planning community portal with collectionof crowdsourceditineraries. ISB- IIT Delhi founding team. Claims around 300,000 monthly unique visitors (Nov 2014). Raised seed round in Nov 2014 from Outbox Ventures, PalaashVentures and angels.
$400K
Outbox Ventures, PalaashVentures
HolidayIQ(Bangalore, 2004)
Content
Online portal for travel and holiday package listings along with reviews.Offers listings based on destinations, budget, holiday activity preference etc.
$5M
Accel, Tiger Global
12. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Events & Activities (2/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
BookMyShow(Bangalore, 1999)
Ticketing
Online ticketing portal for movies and events, run by Big Tree Entertainment. The company has also expanded to global markets like Malaysia and New Zealand.
$43M
SAIFPartners, Accel, Network18
MeraEvents
(Hyderabad, 2009)
Ticketing
Online platform for events listing, ticketing and promotion. Powered 10,000+ events during 2013-14 and targets 25,000 events for 2014-15. Sells more than one crorerupees worth of tickets every month and has tied up with more than 13000 event organizers across the country.
$1M
OMICS Group
Explara(Bangalore, 2009)
Ticketing
Online event ticketing & registration platform. Claims to handle a total of 7500 events a year. Launched a marketplace for organisersin Dec 2013.
BlumeVentures, SrijanCapital
IndianStage(Bangalore, 2007)
Ticketing
Online event ticketing platform which focuses on the performing arts segment.
BlumeVentures
Nearify
(Gurgaon, 2012)
Events Discovery
Location-based event discovery and listings.Listings include music shows, dance festivals, educational workshops, concerts, etc. Plans to introduce ticketing facility for paid events.
$340K
Seed Fund, India Quotient
Eventifier(Bangalore, 2012)
Events – Content Aggregation
Online platform to aggregate and create archives of social media content from conferences. Claims to have archived more than 2,000 events around the world. Counts NASA, Twitter, and Pearson in its client list.
$500K
KaeCapital
Accel
Gigstart
(Delhi, 2013)
Artists marketplace
Online marketplace to book entertainment performers for events. Connects entertainers and party planners where all the artists are verified and reviewed.
$45K
GSF
TakeZero(Mumbai, 2014)
Artists marketplace
Online marketplace which connects creative and performing artists like models and actors with talent agencies
Tlabs
13. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Events & Activities (3/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Thrillophilia(Bangalore, 2009)
Activities Listing
Online platform for adventure travel activity listings.Conductsa variety of tours, experiences, adventure activities and things to do in the Indian subcontinent
$290K
NavlokVentures, Hyderabad Angels
Tushky
(Mumbai,2011)
ActivitiesMarketplace
Online marketplace for Leisure Activities. Has 1300 bookable activities on their platform.
$340K
GSF, 500 Startups
PoshVine(Bangalore, 2011)
Activities Marketplace
Online social marketplace to discover and book travel & leisure activities. Earns revenue by charging commission on restaurant table booking via its portal, the ‘experiences’ it offers and through its proprietary software called Electronic Reservation Book which acts like a distribution point for a restaurant’s digital storefront.
$41k
MyFirstCheque
iExperience(Noida, 2012)
Activities Marketplace
Online platform to discover and book vacation travel packages and adventure activities. Part of Tlabs3rd batch.
$16.6K
Tlabs
15. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Transport (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Olacabs(Mumbai, 2010)
Cabs
Aggregator of point-to-point and long distance cab rental services in 20 Indian cities. Receives 50% of its bookings from mobile. 33,000+ cabsregistered.
$276M
SoftBank, Matrix Partners, Tiger Global, Sequoia, SteadviewCapital
TaxiForSure(Bangalore,2011)
Cabs
Aggregator of car rentals and taxis in India for point-to-point pick up and drop, airport transfer, local and outstation packages. Currentlypresent in 6 Indian cities.
$44M
HelionVC, Bessemer VP, Accel, BlumeVentures
Savaari(Bangalore, 2006)
Cabs
Online chauffeur driven car rental company. Grown to a network of over 130 operators across 60 cities.
$28M
Intel Capital, InventusCapital
Bookmycab(Mumbai, 2012)
Cabs
Cab booking service in Mumbai with options to rent metered city taxis as well as from their own fleet of 3000 cabs. IIT-B Founding Team.
$6.5M
ElaraCapital, YourNestAngel Fund
ZoomCar(Bangalore,2012)
Car Rental
Membership-based self-drive car rental service. Based on a hyper-local distribution model that locates vehicles in close proximity to where people live or work. One of six companies that are part of Microsoft's Accelerator Plus program in Bangalore. Operational in Bangalore and Pune with a fleet size of over 250 cars at about 40 locations (Oct 2014).
$10.9M
Sequoia, FundersClub, Empire Angels
Ridingo(Bangalore, 2012)
RideSharing
Mobile/web based platform offering ride-sharing services. Named one of 'The Hottest Global Start-ups of 2013' by Forbes. Part of Nasscom's10000 Startups.
$25K
GSF
mGaadi(Bangalore, 2013)
Auto- Rickshaws
Mobile App for Booking Auto Rickshaw in Bangalore. Has 4000+ drivers in its network as of June 2014.
$100K
UnitusSeed Fund
17. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Automobile (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
CarWale(Mumbai, 2005)
Classifieds
Online platform for research, pricing and marketplace information on cars. As consumers research and make purchase decisions, CarWaleconnects them with automotive manufacturers, finance and insurance companies
Acquired (Axel Springer, Nov 2010)
CarTrade(Mumbai, 2006)
Classifieds
Auto portal that provides information on 30,000+ used cars in India. Holds auctions for used cars that takes place across 80 cities. Tied up with over 1000 dealers. Claims 3.8 million monthly visitors as of Jan 2014. Founders ex-Mahindra First Choice Wheels, eBay Motors.
$43M
Canaan Partners,Tiger Global, Epiphany Ventures, Warburg Pincus
CarDekho(Jaipur,2008)
Classifieds
Online auto portal for car research and buying/selling deals. 1.7 lakh used car sales till date.
$15M
Sequoia
Motorpaneer(Delhi, 2012)
Content
Data-driven recommendation engine for car buyers. Claims to have partnered with more than 40 auto dealers in Delhi-NCR region.
$50K
Start-Up Chile, The Morpheus
19. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Real Estate (2/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
CommonFloor(Bangalore, 2007)
Classifieds
Real estate portalprovidingmap-based search engine for finding properties for sale and rent. Currently has over 750k listings, with 50L+ homes. Present in 18 cities in India, added over 25,000 communities in first half of 2014.
$47.9M
Accel, Tiger Global.
Housing (Mumbai, 2012)
Classifieds
Listing platform for real estate properties like apartment sales, rentals, land buying, PGs, hostels. Connects brokers/owners to seekers. Takes a fee from brokers to list their properties. Map-based UI. Adding over 2,000 houses daily. Present in 25 cities including a dozen tier-2 cities. IIT-Bfounding team. In talks to raise a $40M round of funding from Falcon Edge Capital and Yuri Milner.
$21.5M
HelionVC, Nexus VP, Qualcomm
Grabhouse(Mumbai, 2013)
Classifieds
Online broker-free accommodation listings platform. As of July 2014, lists 53,338 broker free houses on the platform, and is adding 350 plus houses everyday. Currently offering its services in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore & Pune.
$500K
India Quotient
IndiaHomes(Delhi,2008)
Online Broker
Real estate advisory space for homebuyers. Offers more than 5,000 property options spread across the country
$40.9M
Foundation Capital, HelionVC, New Enterprise Associates
PropTiger
(Noida, 2011)
Online Broker
Online Broker for Apartments. Has presence in eight cities.Has300 agents and over 30,000 properties listed on their website. Sold properties worth over Rs7,600 croreas of Sep 2014. Founding team has grads from IIT, ISB and HBS.
$7M
Accel, SAIF Partners, Softbank, Horizon Ventures
Favista(Gurgaon, 2011)
Online Broker
Real estate brokerage services. Started by IIT-IIM/INSEAD graduates having technology and consulting domain experience.
$2M
VeddisVentures
20. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Real Estate (3/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
IndiaProperty(Chennai, 2012)
Property Marketing
Property marketing site serving builders, real estate agents and home owners to sell or rent their properties. Features 3D Virtual Property Tour. Part of ConsimInfo Pvt. Ltd, a Red Herring’s Global 100 Winner which majors in other verticals like Matrimony, Jobs and Classifieds.
$19M
Bertelsmann, Mayfield Fund, Canaan Partners
Groffr
(Mumbai,2010)
Group Buying
Online platform for group buying in real estate. IIM-K Founding Team. Acquired Mobstreet.in, a group-buying business model company.
$1M
Indian Angel Network
22. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (2/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Flipkart(Bangalore, 2007)
Horizontal
Online shopping portal with a wide catalog and variety of products. Setting up marketplace with 3000 sellers on its platform. Has over 18M registered users, and enables 5 million shipments every month. Acquired Myntra, LetsBuy, Chakpak, etc. Has launched 3 private label lines. Founders ex-Amazon,IIT-D.
$1.75B
Tiger Global, Naspers, Accel, IconiqCapital, Vulcan, Morgan Stanley, Sofina, GIC
Snapdeal
(Delhi, 2010)
Marketplace
India's largest ecommerce marketplace. Has over 20 million members, 500+ product categories and 30000+ sellers. Team of 1000+. 4 acquisitions. Launched Capital Assist in August 2014, a platform to enable easier availability of capital to its sellers. Raised undisclosed amount from RatanTata in his personal capacity in Aug 2014.
$1B
Bessemer VP, Nexus VP, eBay, Intel Capital, SaamaCapital,KalaariCapital, Temasek, BlackRock, SoftBankCapital
ShopClues(Gurgaon, 2011)
Marketplace
Horizontal e-commerce managed marketplace.Has over 21,500 merchants registered on ShopClues.com, selling more than 2.8 million products across 1,475 listing categories. Core team has more than 75 years of combined experience in Internet, technology and retail primarily in Silicon Valley
$16.3M
HelionVC, Nexus VP
NGPay(Bangalore, 2004)
Mobile Marketplace
NGPayis a mobile app for consumers to buy from listed merchant services. Users can buy travel tickets, recharge their phones, pay bills from basic phones and shop on the go. Has a network of over 3.8M users and 100+ Merchant Services. Partnership with IRCTC. Announced a strategic investment by Flipkartin Sep 2014 for mobile payments
$2.2M
HelionVC,Flipkart
HomeShop18 (Noida, 2008)
TV Shopping
Online and on-air retail marketing and distribution venture. Launched as India’s first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel. Claims a customer base of 7.5 million and has a portfolio of more than 12 million SKUs across multiple product categories and a logistics reach of over 3,000 locations across India.
$65M
GS HomeShopping, Network18, SAIF Partners
23. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (3/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Naaptol
(Mumbai, 2008)
TV Shopping
Online comparison based social shopping portal. Sells products from multiple categories, including consumer electronics, apparel and jewelry, through different media channels such as print, television, and the internet.
$37.5M
CanaanPartners, New Enterprise Associates, Silicon Valley Bank,SaamaCapital
Myntra(Bangalore, 2007)
Fashion
Online retail store for fashion and lifestyle products. Acquired Exclusively.in in Nov 2012. IIT Kanpur founding team. Acquired by Flipkartin May 2014.
Acquired (Flipkart, May 2014)
Jabong(Gurgaon, 2012)
Fashion
Online retail platform for both fashion products and home furnishing products. Has raised $100M funding in Feb 2014 out of which $27.5M is from British development finance institution CDC while the other investors remain undisclosed. Operated & backed by Rocket Internet.
$100M
CDC Group
Fashionara(Bangalore, 2012)
Fashion
Online retail store offering fashion and lifestyle merchandise. Key brands include Adidas, Reebok, Benetton, Sisley, Nautica, Guess, Lee. Founded by the former CEO of Reliance Trends.
$8M
HelionVC, Lightspeed
LimeRoad(Gurgaon, 2012)
Fashion - Social
Online retail portal for women fashion products.80% of the site's traffic comes from Facebook. The traffic & vendors (600+) have gone 10x as of August 2014 since April 2013 with mobile accounting for 60% transactions.
$20M
Lightspeed, Matrix Partners, Tiger Global
Zivame(Bangalore, 2011)
Lingerie
Online lingerie store for women. Claims to offer over 3,000 lingerie styles from 42 national and international brands such as Enamor, WonderBra, Triumph, Ultimo, Jockey etc.
$9M
KalaariCapital, IDG Ventures India, UnilazerVentures
FirstCry(Pune, 2010)
BabyCare
Online retail for baby products. Claims to have more than 70,000 products from more than 400 Indian and International brands like Mattel, Ben10, Pigeon, Funskooletc. Founders ex-IIM-A,IIM-L.
$33M
IDG Ventures India, SAIF Partners
24. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (4/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Babyoye(Bangalore, 2010)
BabyCare
Online portal for baby products and pregnancy infant care and mother-care products & services. In process of tying up with pregnancy service providers
$14.5M
Accel, Tiger Global, HelionVC
Nykaa
(Mumbai, 2012)
Beauty Products
Online retail platform for beauty and wellness products. The company is planning to launch its mobile application soon along with an offline retail store at Delhi International Airport. Raised funding from private investors including HNIs and NRIs.
$3.4M
Angel
GreenDust
(Delhi, 2009)
Refurbished Products
Online reverse logistics retail for sale of factory second products. In addition to 15 value added centers, it has about 100 franchisees and 1,000 dealers and has partnered with multiple big brands in the market. Also has physical retail stores (250+ franchise stores).
$40M
KPCB, Vertex Management, SherpaloVentures, LightboxVentures
Pepperfry(Mumbai, 2011)
Furniture
Online marketplace for furniture, kitchen & dining, appliances, decor and furnishings. Manages the entire e-commerce process for the merchant which includes item descriptions, completing photo shoots as well as packaging and shipping of the ordered items.
$28M
Norwest VP, Bertelsmann
Zansaar(Bangalore, 2012)
Furniture
Online retail store for home decor and home appliance products. Founders earlier worked on 20North.
$6M
Accel
Zovi
(Bangalore,2010)
PrivateLabel Fashion
Manufacturer of lifestyle apparel and accessory products with an online retail platform. Acquired Inkfruitin 2013. Tripling its in-house design team and looking to sell internationally.
$25.5M
SAIF Partners, Tiger Global
Freecultr(Haryana,2011)
Private Label Fashion
Online shopping for lifestyle apparel and accessories. Currently attracts more than 1 million visitors a month to the site with continuing strong double digit growth.
$13M
Sequoia, ru-Net
25. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (5/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
DoneByNone(Gurgaon, 2011)
Private LabelFashion
Online retail store for women products like clothing, handbags and accessories. Clocking around Rs1 crorein gross merchandise value per month, with 250 orders a day and an average order value of Rs1,400. IITD Founders.
$2M
SeedFund
PrettySecrets(Mumbai,2012)
Private Label Lingerie
Online-exclusive lingerie brand. Also sells other lingerie brands on its portal. Has a catalog size of over 900 brands. Founder comes from a family in the business of manufacturing apparel. CEO claims growth of 20x in 2012-14 and 4x in the 2014 1st Half.
$2M
OriosVenture Partners, India Quotient,Indian Angel Network
Urban Ladder (Bangalore, 2012)
Private Label Furniture
Private Label Furniture & Home Décorbrand. Has over 1000 products and operates in 11 cities. Has own logistics service for safe delivery. Founders with IIT and IIM backgrounds.
$26M
KalaariCapital, SAIF Partners, SteadviewCapital
CaratLane(Chennai, 2008)
Private LabelJewellery
Online jewelleryretail store. Sells loose diamonds and diamond jewellerysuch as rings, pendants, earrings among others.
$21M
Tiger Global
BlueStone(Bangalore, 2011)
Private Label Jewellery
Online jewellerystore that sells high quality jewelleryand accessories. Used to source the merchandise from third-party manufacturers, has now started manufacturing on its own. Raised an undisclosed amount from RatanTata in Sep 2014.
$15M
KalaariCapital, Accel, SaamaCapital
LensKart
(Delhi, 2010)
Private Label Eyewear
Lenskartis an online brand of ValyooTechnologies selling eyewear along with prescription lenses. Users can try on eyeglass frames virtually on the website and then buy. Has partnered with around 20 offline optometrists to provide eye checkup services. Processes around 1000 orders a day (as in March 2014).
$14M
IDG Ventures India, UnilazerVentures
26. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (6/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Fashion & You (Gurgaon, 2009)
FashionFlash Sales
Online portal for fashion retail is a private invitation only shopping club featuring collections by top designers for men, women and children for high offer retail prices. Offers 15 new daily sales for fashion and luxury brands at attractive prices. Doing 5,500-6,000 orders on a daily basis, averaging $4M per month (Sep 2014).
$58M
Sequoia, Norwest VP, Intel Capital, NokiaGrowth Partners
Hopscotch (Mumbai, 2012)
BabyCareFlash Sales
Flash sales site for baby and maternity products in India. Looking to clock revenue of INR 25 crore in FY 2013-14. backed by a range of venture investors.
$2M
LionRockCapital
Healthkart(Gurgaon,2011)
Health Products
Online store for consumer health products. Launched as a site/smartphone app, functioning as a generic drug search portal, has become a marketplace that enables customers to search and purchase prescribed drugs. Acquired its competitor, Madeinhealthin 2012.
$22.5M
Intel Capital, Sequoia, OmidyarNetwork, KaeCapital
Saffronart(Mumbai, 2001)
Art
Online auction platform for modern and contemporary Indian art and private sales of art, jewellery, collectibles and real estate. Claims to have set the global record for highest value for a single piece of artwork auctioned on the Web —a $2.2 million canvas in 2010, and one of the highest auction bids placed via a mobile app ($1 million in 2011)
$12M
Sequoia,Baer Capital Partners
Zopper
(Noida, 2010)
Price Comparison
Mobile based product search and price comparison engine. Allows users to compare prices of products from more than 600+ online stores, read user reviews, see nearby retail shops and even search for products by name. The app contains information about over 10 million products and 400 product categories
$5M
Tiger Global, BlumeVentures, NirvanaVentures
27. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Retail (7/7)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
PriceBag(Gurgaon, 2014)
Price Comparison
Products review and price comparison portal. Currently focusing on electronic items with plans to add new categories soon. Received $2M funding from undisclosed angel investors (HNIs from Delhi).
$2M
Angel
MySmartPrice(Hyderabad, 2011)
Price Comparison
Online price comparison and product discovery.Integrated its services with WhatsAppin Sep 2014. Founders ex-Oracle, Infosys, IIM-B.
$1M
Accel, HelionVC
Craftsvilla(Mumbai, 2011)
Handicrafts Marketplace
Online marketplace for handmade, handcrafted, organic and gift products. Reduced employee headcount to 10 employees (Dec 2013) from 80 (Sep 2012), by automating all seller processes. Claims to have hit profitability in 2013.
$1.5M
Nexus VP, Lightspeed
Cbazaar(Chennai, 1998)
Cross Border- Ethnic
Delivers ethnic wear from India globally. Has three unique in-house brands: RaiR, Bollywood Vogue, and Modni. More than 95% of its revenue comes from abroad.
$3.5M
InventusCapital, OjasVP
Teabox(Darjeeling, 2012)
CrossBorder -Tea
Producer-to-Consumer Tea Supply Chain. Has shipped over 10,000 kgsof tea across 65 countries. Top markets include Russia, US, Australia, Canada. Has offices in Bangalore and Darjeeling.
$1M
Accel
Jaypore
(Delhi, 2012)
Cross Border -Handicrafts
eCommerceportal to showcase products from Indian designers, artisans and independent producers. Tied up with 100 sellers in Jan 2013. Has offices in Delhi, Mumbai and SFO. Backed by DeapUbhiand HareshChawla.
$375K
Seed
Collectabilllia(Bangalore, 2010)
FanMerchandise
Online auction platform selling sports and celebrity merchandise. Product categories include Football, Cricket, Tennis, Hollywood and few other celebrities. Also includes apparel, sports equipment, office supplies, posters and other accessories.
$5M
Accel
29. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Food (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Zomato(Gurgaon, 2008)
Discovery
Online and mobile restaurant discovery service, listing over 180,000 restaurants in 35 cities across 11 countries. Started by IIT Delhi alumni. Acquired restaurant guides Menumania(New Zealand, Jul 2014), Lunchtime.cz (Czech Republic, Aug 2014), Obedovat.sk (Slovakia, Aug 2014) and Gastronauci(Poland, Sep 2014) as part of its international expansion plans.
$53.8M
Info Edge India Ltd, Sequoia
TastyKhana(Pune, 2007)
Ordering
Online platform to order restaurant food for home delivery. claims to have partnered with 3000+ restaurants across India and serves 7 cities.
$5M
Delivery Hero
JustEat(Bangalore, 2006)
Ordering
Online platform food ordering and table reservations. Currently present in 10 cities and has partnered with 2500+ restaurants.
$16.6K
Axon Partners, Forum Synergies India
TinyOwl(Mumbai, 2014)
Ordering - Mobile
Smartphone application for food ordering. Started with Powai& Andheri, looking to cover all of Mumbai. Founding team from IIT Bombay.
$3M
Sequoia,Nexus VP
Frsh
(Delhi, 2014)
Delivery Only Restaurants
Online portal to order for breakfast and snacks. Currently serving to the corporate offices in Gurgaon, and soon to schools, colleges, metro stations, health centers, and apartment complexes.
India Quotient
GourmetItUp(Mumbai, 2012)
Table Booking
Online platform to book fine dining experiences at restaurants. Claims to have partnered with 75+ stand-alone and hotel restaurants across the city,withabout 15000+ membershipson the platform.
$300K
Angel
31. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Groceries (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
BigBasket(Bangalore, 2009)
Retailer
Online retail store for grocery shopping. Has 10,000 products across several categories. Currently in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Clocks 5,000 orders per day, as of Sep 2014.
$42.8M
Ascent Capital, HelionVC, ZodiusCapital, LionRockCapital
ZopNow(Bangalore, 2011)
Retailer
Online retail store for groceries in Bangalore. Have their own warehouse where the items are stocked from the supplier. Founderex-Amazon, Senior VP at MakeMyTrip. MIT, IIT Kanpur.
Accel, Qualcomm
LocalBanya(Mumbai, 2012)
Retailer
Online grocery retail portalfor customers in Mumbai. Claims to currently reaches over 10,000 homes a month and delivers 500-plus orders a day. Currently services only Mumbai. Looking to raise Series B funding.
$5M
KarmvirAvant Group
Ekstop
(Mumbai,2011)
Retailer
Online retail platform and phone-commercebased companyfor ordering groceries and other household products. Partnered with over 500 brands to offer more than 8,000 products and has its own in-house logistics and warehousing capabilities. Currently operational only in Mumbai
UnilazerVentures, Jungle Ventures
Jiffstore(Bangalore, 2013)
Marketplace
mCommerceplatform that helps small supermarkets and kiranastores to sell grocery online. Stores can also manage customer loyalty, discounts, campaigns and get customer analytics. Incubated at Times Internet.
$16K
TLabs,UnitusSeed Fund
33. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Education (2/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
SimpliLearn(Bangalore, 2009)
Professional Certification
Online portal for professional certification programs. Offers online training, blended classroom training and exam practice tests in over 80 courses across 11 major categories, including IT service management, IT security management, finance management, quality management etc.
$10M
HelionVC, KalaariCapital
Embibe
(Mumbai, 2012)
Test Preparation
Online test preparation platform for Indian competitive exams :JEE, BITSAT, AIPMT, CET and AIIMS. Offers material in the form of text and videos, test series of varying difficulty, performance analytics. Has 15000+ students on board
$4M
KalaariCapital, LightboxVentures
Toppr
(Mumbai, 2013)
Test Preparation
Online onlinetest and practice content for IIT-JEE mains.IIT Bombay founders. Had 8000 registered users as of May 2014.
$2M
SAIF Partners, HelionVC
Testbook(Mumbai,2013)
Test Preparation
Online material and practice tests for GATE and CAT. Claims 55,000 registered users in Oct 2014.
$240K
Ah! Ventures
TutorVista(Bangalore, 2005)
Marketplace –Online Tutoring
Online Tutoring for Schools and Colleges. Has tutor base of 2000+ teachers spanning India, United States, UK, Australia, China and SEA. Acquired by Pearson Education.
Acquired (Pearson Education, Feb2013)
FlipClass(Bangalore, 2013)
Marketplace- Offline Tutoring
Web-based marketplace for offline home tutoring. Claims to have more than 1,500 tutors, 500 students & 5000 hours of tutoring. Founder previously founded CareerMantrawhich got acquired by TutorVistaand had also headed Edurite.com. Intalks to raise $4-5 M in Series A.
$250K
Angel
Vriti
(Noida, 2006)
Marketplace
Online education marketplace in India which brings together content providers and students to create/sell and find/buy courses for various competitive exams in India at different education levels. Partners with content providers like Arihant, Pearson, TMH, Future Vista among others.
$7.5M
Intel Capital, JAFCO Asia
34. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Education (3/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
MeritNation(Delhi, 2008)
K-12
Online Learning Resources for Studentsfor classes I -XII for CBSE, ICSE and leading state boards. Resources range from study material & tests to proficiency tests & olympiadpacks.
$11.2M
InfoEdge India Ltd
CultureAlley(Jaipur, 2012)
Language Learning
Interactive & adaptive language learningusing self-paced audio-visual lessons & personalized widgets on a cloud-based platform. 500k signups from 220 countries till date. Founder ex-BCG. Kellogg MBA, IIT Bombay.
$345K
KaeCapital, 500 Startups
FunctionSpace(Pune, 2013)
Learning Network
Social learning network for science with complete ecosystem providing articles, video lectures, problem solving, discussions, and networking for participants from academia to corporate research. Claims users from over 190 countries, including students, professors and researchers from MIT, Stanford, University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses, IITs,IISc,etc.
Seed
Nexus VP
36. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Recruitment (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Naukri
(Noida,1997)
Job Board
Established in 1997 by InfoEdgeIndia as a careers listing and search portal. Serves as a platform for employers, placement agencies, and job seekers to exchange information on the Internet.
IPO
(NSE:NAUKRI,MCap: $1.8B)
MeraJob
(Delhi, 2012)
Job Board – Blue Collar
Online employment marketplace for entry level white-collar jobs and skilled blue-collar jobs. Specializes in mass recruitment rolessuch as hospitality, BPOs, customer service and delivery roles.
$3M
Seed
Babajob(Bangalore, 2007)
Job Board – Blue Collar
Online portals for employers to reach out to blue collar job seekers. Babajobposts jobs in 23 categories and has listed 2.2 million jobs across India since its inception in 2007. Founder co-founded Microsoft Research India.
$1.16M
Accel, Ventureast, Qualcomm
MyNoticePeriod(Bangalore, 2014)
Marketplace
Marketplace for recruiters and job seekers serving their notice period. Claims to have signed up more than 6,000 job seekers and 400 recruiters. Incubated at Nasscom'sStartup Warehouse in Bangalore.
$330K
IDG Ventures India
TalentPad
(Delhi, 2014)
Marketplace
Online marketplace for recruitment connecting employers and job seekers. Charges 10% of gross compensation from company for every successful hire. Used by over 150 companies like BookMyShow, Zomato, InMobi, Capillary, GoIbibo, Snapdeal, MakeMyTrip. Founders ex-Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Deloitte, Accenture, IIM-A, IIT-D, IIT-B, IIT-BHU.
Seed
HelionVC
HackerRank(Bangalore, 2009)
Assessment
HackerRank(formerly Interviewstreet) providesaplatform to administer coding challenges, candidate assessment and tech interviews. Key Customers-Yahoo, Facebook, VM Ware, Evernote.
$12.4M
KhoslaVentures, Battery Ventures, YCombinator
Aspiring Minds (Gurgaon, 2008)
Assessment
Conducts employability tests for corporate companies to hire students in the IT sector. Aspiring Minds' flagship product AMCAT provides standardized employability benchmarks to studentsfor effective job placement. Founded by IIT and MIT graduates.
OmidyarNetwork
38. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: HealthCare (2/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Practo(Bangalore,2008)
Appointment Booking
PractoSearch enables patients to browse through more than 50,000 detailed doctor profiles online and book confirmed appointments. Based in Singapore with an office in Bangalore. Looking to raise $20M second round of funding from Sequoia and a new investor.
$4.6M
Sequoia
Ziffi
(Mumbai, 2009)
AppointmentBooking
Online booking system for beauty salons, doctors and health tests. Has a network of over 15,000 doctors, 5,000 hospitals, clinics and labs. Has received over 2.5 lakh appointments and has a registered user base of over 1.2 million users across Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
$3.2M
OriosVenture Partners
HelpingDoc(Delhi, 2011)
ApointmentBooking
Online gateway for healthcare providers to connect with patients. Received Series A funding from Senior Marketing Systems, Singapore with plans to grow into major cities of the country like Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Chennai by end 2015. Also aims to scale up by 4-5 times and enroll over 20,000 doctors by Aug 2016.
$1.8M
Senior Marketing Systems
Lybrate
(Delhi, 2012)
AppointmentBooking
Online & mobile based platform to find doctors and book appointments. Currently available in over 20 cities, including Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Hyderabad, among others. The service is available online and also on iPhone & Android devices.
$1.23M
Nexus VP
Medypal(Bangalore, 2013)
AppointmentBooking
Healthcare marketplace to browse & compare medical treatment facilities and book appointments. Its services are offered through web, mobile and toll-free assistance.
$400K
UnitusSeed Fund
eVaidya(Hyderabad, 2013)
Telemedicine
Virtual doctor consultation to patients and free personal health record storage. has developed medical kiosks and is in talks with corporates to setup them
$560K
Seed
39. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: HealthCare (3/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Portea(Bangalore, 2013)
Home Services
Marketplace for in-home healthcare services. Works with five Tier-I corporate hospitals and has a network of over 200 referring physicians in Delhi and Bangalore currently. Services will focus on geriatric , post-operative , chronic diseases and primary care treatments.
$8M
Accel, Ventureast, Qualcomm
Invention Labs(Chennai, 2010)
Consumer Digital Health
Developers of mobile applications for users with speech disorders. Helps people with cerebral palsy to communicate through pictures replacing words using the tablet. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as the Innovation of the Year 2011.
$550K
InventusCapital, Mumbai Angels
Diabeto
(Mumbai,2012)
Medical Devices
Diabetois a bluetoothhardware device which enables the transfer of glucose readings from a Glucometer into application on a mobile device.
$40K
Start-UpChile
Homeveda(Mumbai, 2011)
Content
On-demand instructional video content platform for health recommendations. Natural home remedies and other useful information including the symptoms, causes and prevention tips for all ailments are presented in short 2-3 min videos.
BlumeVentures
ObiNo
(Delhi, 2012)
Fitness
Mobile app guide for weight-loss advice. Android app has 9,000+ downloads. Raised seed round from healthcare incubator, HealthStartin Oct 2014.
HealthStart
41. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Finance (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
PolicyBazaar(Gurgaon, 2008)
InsuranceComparison
Online insurance aggregator specialized in comparative analysis of insurance products. Features content in various forms such as top five features of a product, best sellers and conversion rates. Founders ex-Bain, Mahindra& Mahindra, GE Capital, IIM-A, IIM-C, IIT KGP.
$29.6M
Intel Capital, Info EdgeIndia Ltd, Inventus Capital, Tiger Global
BankBazaar(Chennai, 2008)
Loan Comparison
Online marketplace providing customized rate quotes on loans and insurance products. Has partnerships with India’s leading financial institutions and insurance firms.
$19M
Sequoia
ApnaPaisa(Mumbai, 2007)
Loan Comparison
Online marketplace for loans and investment products. Enables consumers to compare online quotes & features of loan products –Home loans, LAP, Car loans, Education loans, Gold loans and credit cards.
$20.2M
ChrysCapital, Intel Capital, Sequoia, JAFCO Asia
MakeMyReturns(Mumbai, 2011)
Income TaxFiling
Online Tax Advisory and Filing Service. Also offers tax advice to its customers through its panel of tax experts and financial advisers. Founded by experienced Chartered Accountants. Processed 8,000 tax filing in 2013, and expects to hit 20,000 in 2014. Looking to raise $300k funding via London- based crowdfunding platform CrowdBank.
$200K
Seed
Cleartax
(Delhi, 2010)
Income TaxFiling
Free Income Tax preparation and e-filing portal. Charges the users for "CA assisted e-Filing" through which they can avail the services of experts to e-file their returns. Started offering bitcoinsfor referrals in July 2014.
$120K
Y Combinator
TaxSpanner(Delhi, 2007)
Income Tax Filing
Tax e-filing services with no cross-selling of information.
Indian Angel Network
IndianMoney(Bangalore, 2008)
Content
Web based platform for financial advice/education. People can compare and choose all kinds of insurance, mutual funds and banking products offered by different companies. Provides unbiased financial advice/education from financial experts. Claims to work with 6000+ independent agents and intermediaries who deal with multiple financial products.
Hyderabad Angels, VertexpertsConsulting LLP
43. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Matrimony & Dating (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Matrimony (Chennai, 1997)
Matrimony- Listings
Internet classifieds portal for matrimonial listings. Managesbrands such as BharatMatrimony.com and CommunityMatrimony.com
$20.4M
Yahoo!, Canaan Partners, Mayfield Fund
Myshaadi
(Delhi, 2010)
Matrimony
Online platform to create wedding website and find bridal wear & wedding photographers. Enables couples to plan wedding events, share invitations, share photographs, with features like budget calculator, shopping list, etc.
Indian Angel Network
ShaadiSaga(Delhi, 2013)
Matrimony– Vendor Listings
Provides wedding website and apps for couples, and enables them to send paperless invites to their friends & family. Also has a listing platform that lists over 4,000 wedding vendors across photographers, makeup artists, honeymoon packages.
Outbox Ventures
Vee
(Noida, 2014)
Dating
Smartphone application that enables users to connect with users looking for mutual relationships in their area and have the same tastes. Has over 50,000 downloads on both iOSand Android.
$1M
Lightspeed
45. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Local Businesses/Services (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Just Dial (Mumbai, 1997)
Classifieds
Online search engine for local services along with phonecall, and SMS enquiries. Becoming marketplace for some services. Went public in May 2013. Raised an undisclosed amount of funding from SAIF Partners and Tiger Global before its Series C funding in 2009.
IPO
(NSE:JUSTDIAL,MCap: $1.7B)
Timesaverz(Mumbai, 2012)
Household Services Marketplace
Online marketplace platform that allows home owners to post their household service requirements and get several quotes to choose from providers offering that service.Has a network of 500+ service providers (Oct 2014). Currently offering services in Mumbai.
GSF
Jack On Block (Bangalore, 2012)
HouseholdServices
Web platform to book for household services. Has a team of professionally trained and verifieduniform stafffor household services such as painting, cleaning, pest control among others.
UnitusSeed Fund, Mumbai Angels
EZMove
(Pune, 2013)
Relocation
Online aggregator for pre-screened relocation services. signed up more than 50 packers and movers and plans to sign up 200-250 more packers by mid- 2016. Currently lists packers and movers from 11 cities. Has facilitated over 1,000 moves as of Aug 2014. Raised angel funding from industrialist Hemant Bharatramand Chicago-based PurviCapital co-founder Ravi Srivastava who have invested in their personal capacity.
$165K
Angel
Little1
(Kolkata, 2012)
Babycare
Online platform for kids'sservices search, secure photo sharing and baby record books. Won Microsoft BizSparkStartup Challenge 2013 from Kolkata. Raised a funding of $100k from the co-founder of Malik Radix Healthcare, a Delhi based private nursing firm. Earlier it had raised $80,000 from an angel investor.
$180K
Seed
47. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Photography (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
ZoomIn
(Mumbai, 2007)
eCommerce
Online platform enabling to store, share, personalize and print digital photos. The platform allows users to order photo prints or personalize gifts with their favorite photos with themes/messages and the company currently ships to India, US, UK and Canada. Claims to make around 1,000 deliveries every day.
$21.5M
SiliconValley Bank, SherpaloVentures, First Round Capital, LightboxVC
Canvera(Bangalore, 2007)
eCommerce
Canverais an online photography company providing mass customized printed products and e-commerce solutions to professional photographers.
$12M
DFJ, Info Edge India Ltd
Flatpebble(Hyderabad, 2012)
Photographer Martketplace
Online marketplace to hire wedding photographers. Claims to have grown to over 500 + portfolios across 80+ Indian cities and 5+ countries till date.
$160K
Angel
49. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Gaming (2/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Bash Gaming (Bangalore, 2010)
Casino
Bash Gaming (formerly BitRhymes) is a gaming studio developing casino games for web and mobile platforms. Work across all the platforms such as Facebook, iOS& Android. Its first game Bingo Bash currently has 2M+ daily active users across all platforms.
Acquired (GSN, Mar 2014)
RummyCircle(Mumbai, 2006)
Casino
Operates India's largest online rummy website, www.rummycircle.com (formerly branded as Games24x7.com), with more than 1.7 million rummy players.
Tiger Global
HashCube(Bangalore, 2008)
Social
Creator of casualgames for Facebook and mobile. As of April 2014, has a monthly active user base of 175,000, with 10% growth month on month.
$680K
BlumeVentures, AH Ventures
Games2Win (Mumbai, 2005)
Multi- Platform
Online portal offering casual games. Owns and operates its own game development studio and entertains over 20 million unique users each month via its 600+ flash games available across the web and mobile devices.
$13M
ClearstoneVP, Silicon Valley Bank, SaamaCapital,Nexus VP
Gamiana(Mumbai, 2008)
Multi- Platform
Develops casual games for mobile platforms, Facebook and web gaming. Has games like Slam Six, Guess the Football Star/Bollywood Flick for mobile platforms.
$1M
Indian Angel Network
Octro
(Noida,2006)
Mobile Gaming– Casino
Develops real-time multiplayer social games for mobile platforms. Its games portfolio include Teen Patti, Indian Rummy and Tambola. Teen Patti and Rummy are among the top 5 games in multiple categories on Google Play Store. As of March 2014, had 2 million DAU. Founded by Stanford grad, SaurabhAggarwal.
$15M
Sequoia
50. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Gaming (3/3)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Nazara
(Mumbai, 2000)
Mobile Gaming
Mobile games developer and publisher in India. Owns Playcaso–an iOSdeveloper/publisher brand, nzLabs–a work-for-hire apps studio & gCity–a social gaming platform. Excusive distributor for game developer, Electronic Arts(EA) in Africa. Offices in India, Dubai, London and Germany. Has an Android portfolio of over 25 games.
$9.3M
WestbridgeCapital Partners
RoloculeGames (Pune, 2010)
Mobile Gaming
Creates realistic, casual and social video games for tablets and smartphones. Its Flick Tennis game for Android has 100k+ installs as per Play Store stats. Also has Badminton, Motion Tennis and Dance Party games in its portfolio for iOSand Android.
BlumeVentures, Mumbai Angels
Crispy Games (Mumbai,2011)
MobileGaming
Developer of mobile gaming apps for users on iOSfor genres like casino, multiplayer, social. Launched 10 games on iPhone in the first year of launch, 2 on Facebook and have had over 2 million downloads. Air Hockey, Roulette Live and Poker are few of its released popular titles.
Start-Up Chile
MechMocha Game Studios (Ahmedabad, 2011)
Mobile Gaming
Mobile game studio focussingon developing character-led casual games. Selected for Indie Prize Showcase at Casual Connect Europe, Amsterdam. Incubated in iAccelerator.
CIIE
52. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Content/News (2/2)
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
NewsHunt(Bangalore,2010)
News
Mobile news aggregator in regional languages in India. It aggregates news from 100+ publications in 11 languages. App available on J2ME, Symbian, Blackberry, Android, iOSand Windows platform. Has over 55M downloads across all platforms, 1.5B monthly pageviews.
$18M
MatrixPartners, OmidyarNetwork, Darby Technology Ventures, Sequoia
News in Shorts (Delhi, 2013)
News
Smartphone app which aggregates delivers crisp news within 60 words containing only the essential facts. 10K+ downloads in first three months. TLabsgraduate. Funded by Flipkartfounders.
$18K
TimesInternet, TLabs
Magzter(Chennai,2011)
Magazines
Digital news-stand/magazine store. Available on tablet and smartphones. Serves 11M+ users from 150+ countries with 2000+ magazines. Planning to expand into books and comics. Works with top globalpublishers. Offices in India, US and Singapore.
$13M
KalaariCapital, Singapore Press Holdings
Culture Machine (Mumbai,2013)
YouTubeMCN
Culture Machine is an Asia-focussedvideo multi-channel network. Helps digital video creators, brands and media companies develop video content across digital video platforms.Claims 40M+ monthly views with over 80M minutes of content consumed, as of Sep 2014.
$4M
ZodiusCapital
ScoopWhoop(Delhi, 2013)
Social
Curated entertainment content specific to Indian stories. Revenue model comprises of native advertising and sponsored stories. Clients include includePepsi, Godrej, HUL, Budweiser, MakeMyTripamong others. Currently among the top 150 sites on Alexa as of Sep 2014.
$1.6M
BSB, Gravy Partners
POPxo
(London, 2013)
Lifestyle
Content platform for lifestyle/fashion, beauty & health topics,targeting Indian/South Asian women. Publishes 8-10 stories a day, are mobile optimisedand fill the non-news, non-gossip content vacuum. Claims 1 million engaged readers every month.
$500K
Seed
Glamrs
(Mumbai, 2012)
Lifestyle
Online platform for curated content on beauty, women lifestyle & health. Received a response of three million page views in the first month after launch and 500k+ unique users. Crossed 480k likes on Facebook as of Oct 2014. Founder earlier co-founded Cleartrip.
BlumeVentures
53. Deal Discovery Made Easy
Deep-Dive: Others
Company
Model
Description
Funding
KeyInvestors
Quikr
(Mumbai, 2008)
Second Hand Listings
Online classifieds portal to search, buy/sell/rent items and services including household goods, cars and bikes, services, real estate, jobs, and matrimonial. Former subsidiary of eBay Inc. Claims to facilitate over 750,000 monthly transactions with gross merchandise value of over $2.5 billion, usage by 500,000+ merchants and 30M+ consumers with compound annual growth rate of 527 per cent (Oct 2014).
$200M
Norwest VP, Nokia Growth Partners, eBay, Warburg Pincus, Matrix Partners, Kinnevik, OmidyarNetwork, Tiger Global
Hike
(Delhi, 2012)
Messaging
Free messaging app for youth by Bharti Softbank for sending SMS and text messages. 20M+ users in first 18 months post-launch, with 80% users' age less than 25 years. In July 2014, Hike became the Top Free App across India on iOSApp Store, Play Store and Windows Store. Crossed 35M+ users in Aug 2014 with its $65M funding raise.
$86M
BSB, Tiger Global
FreeCharge(Mumbai, 2010)
Mobile Recharge
Web and mobile platform to recharge mobile/data cards and receive awards. Acquired Wishbergin July 2014 (for the founding team) and Preburnin Aug 2014 (Offline app store).
$37M
Sequoia, Ru-Net, Sofina
AppsDailyWorld (Mumbai, 2009)
Offline App Store
Offline Distribution of Mobile Apps through retail outlets. Creates its own apps as well as acts as distributor for other app developers. Already sold 1.5M apps. Aims to have 15K outlets in 150 cities and expanding abroad.
$9.6M
IndoUSVenture Partners, Qualcomm, ru-Net, Mumbai Angels
Akosha
(Delhi, 2013)
Consumer Complaints
Online portal to resolve consumer complaints with brands or services. As of June 2014, it received over 790,000 customer service issues across sectors
$5.2M
Sequoia,The Morpheus
Dexetra(Bangalore, 2010)
App Development Studio
Develops consumer apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Added around 300,000 users within 60 days of launch. Acquired by Quixey, an US-based app discovery engine, in Nov 2014 for under $300M
$1.2M
One97 Communications, Sequoia, Qualcomm
62. Deal Discovery Made Easy
India Quotient
Seedfund
LightboxVentures
Fund-wise Portfolios
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•GreenDust
•ZoomIn
Team
Sandeep Murthy
•Embibe
16
•RedBus
•CarWale
Team
BharatiJacob
•Nearify
17
•PrettySecrets
•Grabhouse
Team
AnandLunia
•Nearify
•Frsh
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