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Gurgaon based startup accelerator, Green House Ventures (GHV), has on-boarded RoadGods, a disruptive product design & marketplace platform, and PindropMusic, a music discovery app.
With RoadGods and PindropMusic coming on board, GHV is now present across nine diverse and high-growth domains.
Vikram Upadhyaya, Chief Mentor and Evangelist, GHV Accelerator said, “Consumer lifestyle is not just restricted to services being offered to the fraternity. Over the last decade, leisure has taken a high priority in one’s life, and both these startups – PindropMusic and RoadGods – would be accompanying the consumers on their leisure forays.”
Delhi-based RoadGods was founded in 2014 by Apoorv Mangalam and Ashish Kumar. It is a product experience design startup focused on outdoor and automative gear. RoadGods has built an online marketplace of outdoor and automotive products and has over 4200 registered customers.
On the other hand, Delhi-based PindropMusic was founded in March 2015 by Prankush Roopanwal, Sumit Chakraborty and Vishu Gupta. It is a music discovery app, through which users enjoy music on the basis of various factors that affect an individual’s mood. Users are presented with a playlist based on parameters like location, weather conditions, time of the day and their activity. Users can also share their music recommendations by Pindropping their choice of music at the respective locations for others to capture. The app has over 10,000 downloads, 60% retention rate and 8000 pindrops.
Started by serial entrepreneur and Indian Angel Network member, Vikram Upadhyay, GHV Accelerator provides mentorship along with a capital of $100K. Other startups onboard GHV’s accelerator program are LazyLad, My Taxi India, Foodport, Pick My Laundry and FitMeIn, of which Lazylad and My Taxi India have already got pre-series A funding.
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