Inc42 has curated a list of 30 early-stage startups that have shown the most promise in the past few months
The selected startups were founded after 2018 and have achieved product differentiation even as businesses across the world are trying to clock pre-Covid revenue levels
Enterprise tech seems to be flavour of the season, with around 10 out of the 30 startups functioning in the sector in this month’s list. Around 26% startups operate in edtech and deeptech
Businesses the world over are gearing up for a reboot. They are rethinking recovery strategies, marketing or sales funnel, strengths and opportunities and are moving towards gaining back some of the lost ground, all this while ensuring employees are safe and their jobs are secure. For some startups in India, the pandemic has also unleashed the opportunity to come up with innovative solutions and also help businesses scale faster.In our list for September 2020, 10 out of 30 startups are operating in enterprise tech. Investor sentiments are also leaning towards startups in deeptech, edtech and ecommerce in the past few months, with agritech, known often as the least-disrupted sector, also gaining more attention.“Our vision is to use AI and digital solutions to build solutions for climate change and adaptability. We have started in the renewable energy sphere as solar has become the default choice for power generation around the world and our goal is to make these solar energy projects reliable and operationally efficient,” said cofounder Aditya Bhat.“The economics of using EVs in commercial and fleet applications are starting to make sense but there exist operational challenges around using them mainly due to limitations around charging and a lack of an after-sales ecosystem. We want to enable the adoption of EVs in fleet applications by helping fleet operators and drivers address the operational challenges,” said Shankar.“Personalisation is now the key strategy for B2B marketing. CustomFit.ai transforms the website into a growth engine or one salesperson by precisely personalizing it for each visitor, thereby making the buying process a lot easier,” cofounder and CEO Ashwin Kumar said.“We are taking a goal-driven approach to uncover hidden patterns, correlations, and anomalies across customer interactions and help marketers spend lesser time analysing data and more time implementing data-driven decisions,” the company said.“Gobuzzr will not only put an end to the choking of thousands of innocent bees in the process, but also reduce transportation cost and cut down manual labour cost. Most importantly, this will show the health condition of the bees and beehives, remotely and in real-time, thereby increasing the productivity of honey and agri-farming,” said Kapildev G, cofounder, Gobuzzr.“We were one of the nine startups selected for Class 02 of 100X.VC recently and since the demo day on September 18, 2020, we have received a lot of investor, business and student interest. We are launching the product early next month but have already seen a few hundred installs on both App Store & Play Store,” said cofounder Shivam Malhotra.“Collection of dues is a global problem. We experienced problems with collections in our businesses and have seen others encountering similar problems. We found that many MSME and large organizations are spending an inordinate amount of time and resources in collecting payments. Thus, we want to bring accountability among businesses and individuals to pay dues on-time,” said Recordent cofounder Harish Mamtani.“Cricket has always been called a gentleman’s sport. Decision making and the role of the thinking captain is as critical as the role of a century scorer. SuperCric reinforces this role and gives users a taste of the challenges faced by the decision-makers of the sport,” said Suhail Chandhok, cofounder and CBO, SuperCric.“A lack of qualitative teacher education system has led to underdeveloped skills in teachers. The age-old B.Ed. curriculum has failed to prepare teachers for the 21st century and has made the teachers dependent on on-the-job learning. Suraasa has identified all the layers of the problem and offers a complete online solution to teachers. Our edech services are focussed on making teacher education accessible and providing life-cycle management to teachers,” said Rishabh Khanna, founder, Suraasa.It is said that the future will belong to those who can not only think and ideate but also build — and we don’t just mean software products, given that technology is in pretty much all real-world systems and infrastructure.“As schools were closed, we began working to reach directly to our customers. Although Tinker Coders was supposed to be launched a few months later, we grabbed the opportunity and initiated the operations in one week itself,” said Anoop Gautam, CEO, Tinker Coders.
This month, our list of 30 Startups revolves around companies with interesting product propositions with plenty of B2B products in the fray. All these early-stage startups are leveraging the latest technology and tapping into the newer needs of consumers and businesses. With venture capital funding also recovering in Q3 2020, the Indian market could be on the comeback road.