Among The Selected Startups, 17 Are Deep Tech Startups
NASSCOM is set to host the next edition of Nasscom Innotrek 2018 for the fifth consecutive year. Innotrek is an invite-only delegation for the Indian startups who visit Silicon Valley to learn, connect, and get inspired by stalwarts in the technology space.
India’s select 40 startups have left for Silicon Valley to meet the biggies in the tech space. The week-long programme starting from April 30 will include conference and networking sessions, as well as, investor connect and accelerator visit.
This year’s agenda of the cohort includes conference and networking, investor connect and accelerator visit, campus visit to tech giants, enterprise connect, according to its website. In its 4th edition, the startups had a chance to visit Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, IBM and Target campuses and also showcased their innovations to various stakeholders.
Commenting on this year’s cohort, NASSCOM Vice President (Industry Initiative) KS Viswanathan – who would be leading the delegation along with Member Executive Council Ravi Gururaj – said, “Over the years, India’s startup ecosystem has evolved into a fertile ground of promising ideas and InnoTrek has remained focussed on equipping the best budding innovators at home with the right global exposure, opportunities and mentoring.”
Out of select 40 startups, 17 are working in Deep Tech domain while 10 are from country’s Tier II and III cities of Kochi, Pune, Kozhikode and Visakhapatnam. The industry had received 370 applications, out of which 170 were shortlisted for the final 40, according to a NASSCOM’s media statement.
India has witnessed a rapid rise in the B2B tech startup landscape, working on sectors like machine learning algorithms and IP-based technologies. In 2017, it added over 1,000 tech startups, taking the total number of tech startups to 5,000-5,200, growing at a CAGR of 30%.
Here Is The List Of Selected Startups For InnoTrek 2018
Medikoe
Founder: Raman Shukla
Founded In: 2015
Bengaluru-based Medikoe is an online-medtech hyperlocal healthcare services discovery provider present across India. The startup has raised $154.08K in a rights issue by the Bay Enterprises LLP.
Asimov Robotics
Founder: Thrivikraman Nair Jayakrishnan
Founded In: 2012
This Cochin-based startup on robotics is focused on building humanoid service robots.
Monsoon Credit Tech Pvt Ltd
Founder: Pillutla Ashwini Anand
Founded In: 2015
Gurugram-based fintech company Monsoon Credit Tech assists lenders while making profitable loans. The startup comprises a team of data scientists who have worked for top-notch organisations like Merrill Lynch, The World Bank, American Express, etc.
OpExWorks Solutions Pvt Ltd
Founder: Burhade Pradip Digamber
Founded In: 2013
Pune-based OpExWorks is an enterprise cloud solution provider in the manufacturing domain.
Mozilor Technologies Pvt Ltd
Founder: Anvar Tharammal Kodappana
Founded In: 2017
Calicut-based Mozilor colloaborates with popular e-commerce platforms to provide solutions that help improve the efficiency of online stores. Its tools and frameworks are designed to help organisations visualize business data and help them take smart decisions.
JINY
Founder: Kushagra Sinha
Founded In: 2017
Bengaluru-based JINY is a B2B SaaS app developed to assist mobile products on audio-video UI. Through the app, users can add task flows, stages and customise audio-visuals.
Intangles Lab Pvt Ltd
Founder: Anup Vishwas Patil
Founded In: 2014
Bengaluru-based Intangles is an IoT-based healthtech startup with expertise in Advanced Telemetry and Operations Automations. It provides predictive health analysis of vehicles, which would help in preventing breakdowns of vehicles.
EXPRESSbase Systems P Ltd
Founder: Suresh Balasubramanian
Founded In: 2016
Kochi-based EXPRESSbase is an enterprise-grade ‘High Productivity’ rapid application development (RAD) platform or hpaPaaS on the cloud, specifically targeting Small & Mid-sized Businesses (SMB or SME).
RepUp
Founder: Pranjal Prashar
Founded In: 2014
Gurugram-based RepUp is a SaaS platform helping hotels improving their online rating and reviews.
Intello Labs
Founder: Milan Sharma
Founded In: 2016
Delhi-based Intello Labs is an Agritech company working on quality grading of commodities, pest/disease detection in crops, yield estimation, etc. through most advanced analytics tools and techniques like Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Vision, Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data.
IncRevenue
Founder: Prafful Gupta
Founded In: 2016
Delhi-based IncRevenue is a Full Site monetisation suite helping publishers navigate through Ad-Tech.
Maxsimos Techsoft Pvt Ltd
Founder: Vinay Vishwanath Peshwa
Founded In: 2012
Delhi-based Maxsimos is a fintech company focused on creating nextgen financial products distribution platform and solutions.
Emart Solutions India Pvt Ltd
Founder: Aditya Bhamidipaty
Founded In: 2009
Bengaluru-based Emart Solutions is a data platform that builds unique customer identities by aggregating from customer interaction and customer transactions. It enables brands to drive sales and marketing objectives through its patent pending SaaS platform, FirstHive.
TotalCloud Inc
Founder: Pradeep Kumar Mysore, Javare Gowda
Founded In: 2016
Bengaluru-based TotalCloud specialised in solving cloud management and operations by making rich cloud visibility and interactions by utilising 3D engines and proprietary cloud graph.
Sensibol Audio Technologies Pvt Ltd
Founder: Dr. Vishweshwar Mohan Rao
Founded In: 2011
Mumbai-based Sensibol focus has been to license mobile solutions that integrate its potential singing evaluation technology. The startup has won the ‘Best Startup award’ under the Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) scheme.
Fleetx Technologies Private Limited
Founder: Vineet Kumar Sharma
Founded In: 2017
Gurgaon-based Fleetx is an intelligent data platform leveraging AI, machine learning, sensors and predictive analytics to help fleet owners to improve efficiency, safety and make smarter decisions in a cost-effective and flexible way.
Assess Hub (Five Elements Business Solutions Pvt Ltd)
Founders: Twinkle Shah, Amit Desai
Founded In: 2012
Mumbai-based Assess Hub is a talent assessment and predictive analytics platform for companies to scientifically evaluate talent for job-relevant skills.
Appnomic Systems
Founder: Padmanabhan Desikachari
Founded In: 2008
Bengaluru-based Appnomic Systems is in the business of providing Application Performance Management and Cognitive Automation Solutions for digital enterprises.
IKARUS
Founder: Rohit Agarwal
Founded In: 2016
Gurgaon-based IKARUS is an AI-based startup working in the domain of enterprise process automation.
Bizlem
Founder: Geetanjali
Founded In: 2017
Mumbai-based Bizlem is an artificial intelligence platform used to solve real life business problems.The founder has been working in the areas of AI and deep learning for over six years now.
DataCultr
Founders: Neel Juriasingani, Sujoy Ghosh
Founded In: 2014
Delhi-based DataCultr is an AI platform for mobile operating system and analyses data usage. It is one of three products built by Boxer Internet – the parent company and the very first venture that the duo began.
DronaMaps Pvt Ltd
Founder: Utkarsh Singh
Founded In: 2016
Vizag-based DronaMaps provides drone-based solutions across various industries using 3D models as a baseline.
Synapptra Technologies
Founders: Anil Bhatnagar, Archana Bhatnagar
Founded In: 2017
Bengaluru-based fintech startup Synapptra’s vision is to help customers achieve long-term energy efficiency while saving money, improving the user experience and reducing environmental impact.
Slang Labs
Founder: Giridhar Sreenivasa Murthy
Founded In: 2017
Bengaluru-based Slang Labs is a voice to action mobile SDK (software development kit) that enables app developers to easily add a natural voice interface to control their apps.
Abda Digital Pvt Ltd.
Founder: Sravankumar Narasipuram
Founded In: 2015
Hyderabad-based Abda is a digital marketing platform for creating and distributing animated, interactive micro-ads.
CoRover Pvt Ltd
Founder: Ankush Sabharwal
Founded In: 2016
Bengaluru-based CoRover was launched in an attempt to make journeys more exciting for the passengers travelling together in a bus, train or flight to communicate and connect with each other.
AlphaiCs India Pvt Limited
Founders: Nagendra Nagaraja,
Founded In: 2016
Bengaluru-based AlphaiCs develops artificial intelligence system. Alphaics offers SoCs and FPGA boards.
Invento Robotics – ‘Mitra’
Founder: Balaji Viswanathan
Founded In: 2017
Bengaluru-based Invento Robotics has built 5-feet tall humanoid called ‘Mitra’ is capable of face detection, face recognition, speech recognition, contextual support and autonomous navigation. The humanoid robot was launched by PM Narendra Modi and Ivanka Trump, advisor to the President of the United States in November 2017 at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2017 conference held at Hyderabad.
Appiyo Technologies
Founder: Parameswaran Ashok Anand
Founded In: 2011
Chennai-based Appiyo is a private social and computing platform on cloud and mobile for actionable big data, IOT, and tasks on mobility devices.
ShopR360
Founder: Rajul Tandon
Founded In: 2016
Delhi-NCR-based ShopR360 is an O2O platform, a video analytics solution that provides insights around store pattens, helping brick and mortar stores achieve efficiencies
Pentation Analytics
Founder: Kamal Kishore Das
Founded In: 2015
Mumbai-based Pentation Analytics is a fintech startup which develops analytics-based applications for the Banking, Financial services, Capital Markets, Insurance and Payments sectors.
Redsky Technologies
Founder: Ankit Karamchandani
Founded In: 2016
Mumbai-based Redsky is a cloud marketing research service powered by Big Data and IoT, specialising in Retail and CPG.
MetaMorphoSys Technologies
Founder: Naik Amit Krishnakumar
Founded In: 2016
Pune-based MetaMorphoSys is an InsurTech company that focused on building innovative B2B/B2C software products to address the challenges of global insurance industry.
geniSIGHTS Inc
Founder: Rajesh Kumar
Founded In: 2017
Chennai-based geniSIGHTS helps customers in equipping analytical capabilities to serve them their end-customers.
Streamingo Solutions Pvt Ltd
Founder: Vinay Tirumakudlu Somasekhar
Founded In: 2015
Bengaluru-based Streamingo’s product FizzStream uses speech recognition, image processing, machine learning, NLP concepts, Neutral Networks, and GPU computing innovative integrated ways to provide a FizzD video viewing experience.
Digital Agents Interactive Pvt Ltd
Founder: Mohit Ramani
Founded In: 2013
Delhi-based Digital Agents provides overall training, sales, repair and maintenance processes interactive, engaging and receptive with the help of technologies like 3D, Augmented & Virtual Reality.
Update 1: April 30, 2018, 13:54
Earlier, the story mentioned the event as a three-day programme starting from April 29, 2018. The story hs now been updated in reference to an email communication received by Inc42.
Note: The data above has been collected from startup websites, LinkedIn company pages as well as other public sources. The list of startups does not portray any kind of ranking.