Tapchief has been announced as the winner of the Mind batteries, Chase Your Dreams- Ideathon’ Contest. The winning team takes away $150K funding from Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Bangalore-based Tapchief offers a cohesive platform to discover and schedule calls with experts to get advice across domains. It was founded in 2016 by Shashank Murali.
The startup offers a cohesive platform to discover and schedule calls with experts to get advice across domains. They leverage technology to make the process of discovery seamless and provide end to end service in terms of scheduling and executing the phone calls.
Out of the 1200 entries for the contest, 20 startups were shortlisted to present a business pitch to Paytm CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma, today. These top five pitches included Tapchief and the following:
Partiko
Delhi-based Partiko App is a last minute events discovery and booking marketplace for the spontaneous buying users in the metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore etc. Partiko was founded in 2014 by Amanjot Malhotra.
ProElp
The startup’s mission is to bring the healthcare sector online by creating a user friendly and intelligent mobile platform. They have built an easy-to-use app that allows users to : 1. Ask queries to over 50+ doctors covering 10 specialities. ProElp was founded in 2015 by Varun Jindal, Saumya Sharma and Raghubansh Mani.
GramOphone
GramOphone is aimed at sourcing raw material from players in inputs and chemical industry and would sell them via its toll free number.
CivilsDaily
The startup wants to make dynamic & connected news pages with contextual layers, behavioural profiling to enhance reader engagement. Delhi-based edtech startup Civilsdaily was founded in 2015 by Shikhar Sachan and Rohit Pande.
It aggregates and curates news items that are relevant for test preparation, from authenticated news sources. The platform is an online education venture by Apeirogon and is also available on Android.