SUMMARY
Like Surge 03, Surge 04 will run entirely online through to mid-March 2021
Surge 04 startups collectively raised $45.35 Mn in their round from both Surge as well as other co-investors
Shortlisted startups span a wide range of sectors, including edtech, fintech, SME tech, devtools, consumer, health tech and B2B marketplaces
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, on Wednesday (November 25), announced the names of the 17 startups shortlisted for the fourth cohort of the Surge programme which kicked off online on November 19.
Like Surge 03, Surge 04 will run entirely online through to mid-March 2021.
Surge 04 startups collectively raised $45.35 Mn in their round from both Surge as well as other co-investors, including Blume Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Kunal Shah, Girish Mathrubootham, and others.
Shortlisted startups span a wide range of sectors, including edtech, fintech, SME tech, devtools, consumer, health tech and B2B marketplaces.
Rajan Anandan, managing director, Sequoia Capital India LLP, said, “Surge 04 has an incredibly talented and determined group of founders we’re proud to partner with. These are founders who have shown the courage to start-up and persevere through an extremely challenging year. This cohort is a reflection of how the region’s startup ecosystem will look and think for the next few years – possibly impacting entire economies.”
Meet The Indian Startups Who Made It To Surge 04
Founders: Paul Meinshausen, Sami Abboud, Schaun Wheeler, and stealth founder
Headquarters: Singapore
Founded In: 2020
Aampe turns customer communication into a retention growth engine. It acts as an automated testing tool that allows messaging to be personalised for the individual customer.
Founders: Quang Tran and Hang Pham
Headquarters: Vietnam and Singapore
Founded In: 2019
Epsilo is a SaaS company that helps ecommerce marketers and category managers deliver advertising operations across the online retail platforms in Southeast Asia.
Founders: Sandeep Panda and Syed Fazle Rahman
Headquarters: Europe, India and Africa
Founded In: 2020
Hashnode is a blogging platform that helps developers and teams start blogs and share them with the broader developer community.
Founders: Bhavik Rathod and Tripti Ahuja
Headquarters: India and Singapore
Founded In: 2020
Kyt is an online-first global academy focussing on extracurricular learning for children.
Founders: Asad Khan and Jay Singh
Headquarters: San Francisco
Founded In: 2019
LambdaTest is a testing infrastructure company which allows users and developers to run both manual and automated tests on their websites and web apps on over 2,000 different browsers, browser versions and operating system environments.
Founders: Nitesh Agrawal and Om Prakash Shanmugam
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2020
Let’s Dive is on a mission to build togetherness online. The SaaS platform provides a social space for remote teams to build their culture through fostering better human connections.
Founders: Scott Reismanis and Patrick Sotiriou
Headquarters: Australia
Founded In: 2019
mod.io is a service that helps game developers launch in-game, platform-agnostic user-generated content (UGC) communities.
Founders: Martin Reyhan Suryohusodo, Joseph Alexander Ananto and Benny Sutedjo
Headquarters: Jakarta
Founded In: 2019
Otoklix is digitising Indonesia’s automotive aftermarket sector by providing online to offline solutions for car services.
Founders: Adarsh Kumar, Arya Adarsha Gautam and Rupesh Kumar Mishra
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2019
PagarBook is a mobile-first payroll and workforce management app that aims to digitise human capital management for SMEs in India.
Founders: Abhishek Poddar and Saurabh Arora
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2020
Plum is an employee insurance provider on a mission to make group health insurance more seamless and affordable for India’s small businesses and middle class.
Founders: Amit RG and GDJ Dorai
Headquarters: India and US
Founded In: 2019
Richpanel is a customer service platform, purpose-built for e-commerce merchants to deliver a buying experience better than leading online retail sites.
Founders: Dhruv Agrawal and Soham Chokshi
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2015
Shipsy is an enterprise SaaS company that helps its customers manage their end-to-end logistics across multiple modes like ocean, air and road transportation.
Studyroom
Founders: Ashish Ranjan and Suhail Abidi
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2020
Studyroom is an edtech platform that helps students learn better by empowering educators to create customised learning experiences for them.
Founders: Arul Kumaravel, Rahul Shinghal and Saroj Mishra
Headquarters: India
Founded In: 2020
Tazapay is a cloud-based trade management platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce safely.
