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After Delhi, we are once again back in Aamchi Mumbai with StartupPulse’s second edition. After going through hundreds of applications we shortlisted 12 startups for this edition of StartupPulse.
Introducing you to the final 12 startups who made it to the second edition of StartupPulse Mumbai.
Founders: Sameer Sankhe, Kalika Mishra and Saswat Sethy
Founded In: June 2015
Funding: N/A
xQute is a mobile app that is built towards enhancing return on investment on every one of the $300 Bn spent on training, worldwide. It intends to aggregate demand of corporates to get their people trained. Also aggregate supply of trainers across the globe. The company is under stealth mode and will provide platform for training corporate employees one-to-one over mobile. It also aims at providing Duo-Lingo type interactive games to reinforcing learning. Its AI engine will help individuals to perform better and help corporates accelerate business results
Founders: Gautam Gokhale and Ushma Khabaria
Founded In: March 2015
Funding: N/A
TaskMitra helps people broadcast everyday errands, short-term work and offbeat projects, and seamlessly integrates them with respective service providers or even skilled people who are willing to help through an interactive interface. Users who needs help with tasks are broadcasters, while those who complete them by providing their services are called Mitras. Users can use TaskMitra to fulfill all kinds of tasks, from something as simple as decluttering their wardrobes, learning to bake, getting fitter to complex ones like getting a partnership deed registered, filing taxes or needing a content writer for a blog.
Founders: Kunal patil, Ajay Kumar, Nilesh Dungarwal and Moiz Arsiwala
Founded In: February 2015
Funding: N/A
WorkIndia is a mobile based tech venture connecting employers with employees in the Blue/Gray Collar segment.
Founders: Navneet Jain, Puneet Jain and Rajesh Sharma
Founded In: January 2015
Funding: N/A
Changing lifestyle has also changed our food habits, which has led to more dependency on medicines. Medfinder is an online medical store that allows users to order medicines and help patients with chronic illness manage their medication.
Founders: Puneet Lahoty
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
If you are looking for a commercial space for a short term popup event, then reach out to BookMyPopupShop. The startup provides a platform that provides access to offline touch points for brands to reach their target customers.
Founders: Nitin Agrawal, Parag Rane, Abhishek Agrawal and Mahim Mehta
Founded In: October 2014
Funding: N/A
Funstay help users book vacation rentals and develop tour packages around local stays. It follows a subscription-based model and a commission based revenue generation model.
Founders: Rahul Singhal, Jyoti Singhal and Anand Goel
Founded In: July 2015
Funding: N/A
A hassle free app which takes care of your mobile app related problems, Create mobile app without coding, so that you can only focus on staying connected with your users. It is like your On Demand Mobile App Partner.
Founders: Soma Halder, Rajdeep Mandal and Manan Bohra
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
Jugaado is a logistics service that helps users text and ask for whatever they need as long as it is legal. Jugaado’s service is best suited for people who are busy, lazy, old or lacking knowledge on how or where to find a product or service. One don’t need to download any application, just express yourself with the simplest medium of messages.
Founders: Snehal Dhruve and Jason Menezes
Founded In: July 2015
Funding: N/A
Go Hero Go is a anything shopping app of India. Its a single app that consolidates all ecommerce & on-demand services sites for shopping through chat. Shop from all the popular e-commerce sites, m-commerce stores and on-demand apps in India at one go. Chat, request and buy anything/anywhere in India from the huge category list of original products & services in fashion, electronics, mobiles, baby products, prescribed drugs, furniture, jewellery, organic stuff, gifts, styling, salons, food delivery, home services, on-demand cab, travel tickets, movie tickets, vacation planner, mobile recharge, bill Payments and more.
Founders: Mehul Sutariya and Vaibhav Vasa
Founded In: December 2014
Funding: N/A
TransitPedia is a startup focused on making daily commute hassle free by providing travellers the most efficient way to reach their destination. It aims to create awareness among citizens about local transport with smarter methods to transit using up-to-date timetables and real-time scheduling options. Currently, the company has a mobile app on android that caters residents of Mumbai, Pune and Delhi.
Founders: Arpit Kothari, Akash Deep Singhal, Era Dwivedi and Anurag Mundhada
Founded In: May 2015
Funding: N/A
Medd wants to be a preferred and trusted partner forall healthcare needs of patients. It is a marketplace with focus on leveraging technology and data to make healthcare delivery more efficient and provide better patient care outcomes. Unlike others, doesn’t want to stop at discover-ability and that is the direction we have started in.
Founders: Sanjay Das, Dr. Lalit Manik, Ram and Shashank Singhal
Founded In: January 2015
Funding: N/A
HelloDoctor24x7 is an online marketplace for doctors and patients. It connects patients and doctors over phone. It also operates a 24×7 human enabled call center with cloud based prescription delivery platform.
These startups will go through one-on-one mentoring from mentors from different domains, mentors include:
- Sudershan Ravi, Founder, Ripplehire
- Ankur Handa, Lead -Content Partnerships and Business Development, Yahoo
- Abhijeet Kumar, Founder, Ah! Ventures
- Annkur Aggarwal, Founder, Pricebaba
- Vijay Khubchandani, Founder, MindSparx
- Dhruvil Sanghvi, Co-Founder, LogiNext
- Pravin Jhadav, Product & Growth at FreeCharge
- Aditya Mishra, Founder & CEO, SwitchMe
- Sumit Ranka, Founder, ThinkPot
Based on mentor feedback we will be further shortlisting top 5 startups who will be pitching to group of investors tomorrow at the LightBox VC office.
Stay tuned to know the final 5 startups!
[We would like to thank all our sponsors Amazon Web Services, 10,000 Startups, Loginext Solutions, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Entrepreneurial Spark, Embibe, Paytm, growX Ventures, Guerrilla Ventures, eshiksa, Outbox, Atom Technologies who helped us put together this amazing event and made it a success.]
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