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After successfully concluding the second edition of StartupPulse in Delhi and Mumbai, we are back in India’s Silicon Valley and the most sort after startup destination, Bangalore, with our second edition of StartupPulse.
After going through more than 400 applications we shortlisted 10 startups.
Here is the list of final 10 startups who made it to the second edition of StartupPulse Bangalore:
Founders: Ish Jindal and Vinit Agrawal
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
TARS is an artificial intelligence agent that helps in service discovery and query resolution of its consumers. It helps in getting daily chores done like finding a plumber or help filing tax returns or making an online purchase.The startup enables on to fill form on mobile chat. and then the rest of the description
Founders: Vishvajit Sonagara
Founded In: March 2015
Funding: N/A
Quicko helps individuals and businesses, plan, prepare and file their Income Tax Returns without any professional help. Quicko defines itself as the TurboTax of India. The startup has an industry leading UI/UX, completely built using Google’s new material design principles.
Founders: Vivek Kejriwal and Devang Sanghvi –
Founded In: October 2014
Funding: N/A
Vadodara-based startup, OneWay, aims to provide one way inter-city travel with no human intervention by integrating last mile connectivity.
Founders: Srinath Reddy, Nrupul, Uday Kumarreddy and Manoj Pothireddy
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
Notyces is a mobile application platform to connect organizations and stakeholders by providing three main features communication (instant information updates through push notifications), Listen (Feedbacks/surveys) & Explore (organization/products info & directory)
Founders: Alok Arora
Founded In: June 2014
Funding: N/A
LingosMio is an online platform that offers language learning through fun and interactive courses. The platform does not merely focus on studying grammar and stereotypical vocabulary based on small phrases. It offers a comprehensive learning experience through understanding the thought process of language learning. LingosMio offers courses for english speakers to learn Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin and courses for Urdu Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi speakers to learn English.
Founders: Vinay Anand and Siddharth Goliya
Founded In: October 2014
Funding: N/A
Pipes is a news aggregator that customizes news based on consumption patterns of an individual’s personal interest. If the app is used for just two hours it will start personalizing the news for the user. With deep learning & NLP integrated at the root of Pipes, it truly is as artificially intelligent as a human.
Founders: Parag Aggrawal, Sumit Sharma and Naitik Baghla
Founded In: July 2015
Funding: N/A
GoBOLT is a tech logistics company operating in Long Haul & Short Hauls which aims at creating value for its customers through disintermediation, increased asset utilization and extensive use of technology in the transportation industry.
Founders: Deepak Dhanotiya, Sumit Ghorawat and Tanutejas Saraswat
Founded In: December 2014
Funding: N/A
Shopkirana empowers Indian retailers through its M-distribution app, which helps connect the retailers directly with the suppliers. It also aims to launch great retailer focused innovative products to empower them with technology.
Founder: Girish Nayak and Shubhajit Saha
Founded In: January 2015
Funding:N/A
Rime is an online hub to share, discover and search all stuff that’s most relevant to you.” In simple form Rime is a next-gen platform which holds all your scattered stuffs on the web to one place. It’s a platform to share Photos, Videos, Blogs, PDFs, Text files and various other supported formats and presents shared content in timelined fashion.
Founder: Naveen Bagrecha, Puneeth B, Pankaj Sisodia, Darpan Jain
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
Sendit.in is envisioned to be a ecosystem which can leverage technology to effectively optimise various parameters involved in a logistics transactionis. It online logistics marketplace. It provides solutions for intracity movement of goods.
These startups will go through one-on-one mentoring from mentors of varied domains, which include:
- BK Birla, CTO at Asklaila
- Rohith Veerajappa, Co-founder, Wowlabz
- Divyam Khurana, Interaction Designer at Netbramha Studios
- Manoj Mohan, UX Lead at Wow Labz
- Satanik Chaudhuri, Co-Founder & Vice President – Marketing at PropGod
- Yadunandan, Sales Manager, Enterprise – Talent Solutions at LinkedIn
- Tanpreet, City Sales Head from Bangalore
- Sujoy Golan, Global Head of Digital Marketing at InMobi
- Anant Vidur Puri, VC Investment Professional, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Naresh Deevi, Partner, Husys
- Supriya Goswami, Director Marketing, India and South East Asia at InMobi
- Shubendu Panigrahi, Founder, Ventursity
Based on mentor feedback we will shortlist top 5 startups who will get a chance to pitch to investors tomorrow at Matrix Partners office.
Stay tuned to know the final 5 startups!
[We would like to thank all our sponsors Amazon Web Services, Lookup, 10,000 Startups, Loginext Solutions, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Atom Technologies, Embibe, Paytm, growX ventures, Guerrilla Ventures, eshiksa, Outbox who helped us put together this amazing event and made it a success.]
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