After making rounds at Mumbai and Bangalore, we are once again in the capital city of the country i.e. Delhi with StartupPulse’s second edition.
Of the top 15 startups each from the three cities, 5 have raised about $160K in funding & 1 startup has been acquired.
We bring to you 14 startups that have been selected for StartupPulse’s second edition.
TruckSuvidha
Founders: Amit Punaini, Ishu Bansal
Founded In: September 2014
Funding: N/A
The startup connects transporters, truck drivers and customers. Often, truck drivers are the root cause of delays which can be baffling at times. This is where TruckSuvidha enters to rescue, it lets brokers, transporters make use of technology to make the movement of the vehicle and material efficiently. The company’s vision to put all transportation related players under one umbrella thus improving the whole network.
PickMyLaundry
Founders: Gaurav Agrawal, Ankur Jain,Samar Sisodia
Founded In: January 2015
Funding: N/A
Daily chores can be tiresome and eat away a lot of time. One such arduous chore is to do laundry. PickMyLaundry wants to give you the time usually spent doing just that by doing your laundry in a single day. The on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service picks up dirty clothes from doorstep, was and delivery them within 24 hours.
InstaCab
Founders: Abhishek Negi, Ashish Raput,Siddhant Matre
Founded In: December 2014
Funding: N/A
There has been many players in the taxi industry which offer intracity cabs but this startup offers cab to travel intercity. Intercity cabs charge a high price for their services, instacab aims to bridge this gap and provide cabs with cheaper rates. It aims to provide commuters a safe and economical journey without getting involved in the hassles of negotiations with drivers.
PropheSee
Founders: Ishaan Sethi, Harshil Gurha, Jitesh Luthra
Founded In: November 2014
Funding: N/A
The PropheSee platform aggregates various data streams into one dashboard & enables brands to get the most accurate 360° perspective on where they lie in the market. It allows brands to discover and analyze the vast amount of data at their disposal in addition to optimizing strategies by developing functional insights. Not only this, it also provides strategic support & industry expertise which helps brands leverage their digital presence & create successful strategies.
InstaBounce
Founders: Harman Singh Sawhney
Founded In:
Funding: INR 10 Lakh From Dr. Manipali
Instabounce curates all the happenings in the city and lets its users choose from a list of events and select the desired event they want to head to. The booking is just 2 taps away and its range of events include wine and food pairing event to a cocktail tasting, clubbing, live gigs, stand up comedy, karaoke and more.
Tooler
Founders: Himanshu Arora, Sukanth Srivastav, Bhaskar Singh,Vishal Gupta
Founded In: June 2015
Funding: N/A
The on-demand service startup provides easy access to nearby electricians, plumbers and laundry along with an option of tracking the handyman once he has been booked. The startup aims to be a one-stop marketplace for handymen in Delhi and Gurgaon. It is like an ‘Uber’ for home services.
AlmaConnect
Founders: Swapnil Khandelwal, Rubish Gupta
Founded In: August 2012
Funding: $300,000 From CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad, 91 SpringBoard
There has been every type of social networking from friends to family, work to gym buddies but you always had to rely on those old school techniques to keep up with your long forgotten classmates and your seniors. Almaconnect corroborates social networking with alumni network and help them build a strong alumni community by creating a social-professional ecosystem among alumni, faculty, students and management of an institution.
Xeno
Founders: Pranav Ahuja, Ayushmaan Kapoor
Founded In: March 2015
Funding: N/A
Loyalty programs and rewards they reap are the reasons why customers actually stay ‘loyal’ but taking it up a notch higher xeno creates a loyalty program from ground zero. It is a social loyalty platform that connects consumers to businesses. Businesses get insights about their customers & an integrated marketing tool to create relevant personalized communications that work.
Intelliscore
Founders: Niraj Agarwal, Rohit Bhagat, Mohit Gupta, Bhupendra Junwar
Founded In: March 2015
Funding: N/A
Intelliscore.in is a cloud based platform to organize academic data. It captures academic data of institutions, run analytics on it and provide dashboard to improve the performance of each individual student. It is free for all academic institutions, students and parents. The service creates a digital school with profiling of each student. All the variations around performance of the student will be available to the teachers. Not only this, parents can get notifications as well through the company’s app.
LaundryWala
Founders: Divya Aggarwal, Manuj Khurana, Chetan Malhotra
Founded In: October 2014
Funding: N/A
LaundryWala is a Noida based online on-demand laundry service that aims at providing quality laundry services coupled with customized experience and express delivery. It claims to use latest technology machines and internationally standardized chemicals for quality cleaning. With an added feature of online ordering and free pick-up and delivery within 24 hours, it expects to cater to every household in our vicinity”
Gamezop
Founders: Yashash Agarwal, Gaurav Agarwal, Ashish Anand
Founded In: February 2015
Funding: $50,000 from Rajesh Sawhney (GSF) & Sri Peddu (Powerhouse Ventures)
Gamezop is creating a mobile app-based social network for addictive casual games. It seeks to remove the friction of game discovery and downloads. Each user will be given a handful of new games each week, which can be played without downloading. The highlight of the app is its social layer: users will be able to share games with friends as links, whether or not they are using the app, and challenge them.
Ek
Founders: Mayank Gureja
Founded In: January 2015
Funding: N/A
‘Ek’, which means ‘one’ in Hindi is a one stop for all cabs and taxis. With increasing number of cab aggregators and competition between them, a user need not have to have the hassle of fiddling to and fro between apps. Ek serves as a simple app which lists various cab providers in the vicinity. It currently supports a number of aggregators including Uber, Ola, Meru and more.
Dronatech
Founders: Chaitanya Sai, Pradyumna Mahapatra, Bhavik Shah, Jayakarthigeyan Prabakar
Founded In: January 2015
Funding: N/A
With smart phones, came a plethora of smart tech which aimed at easing users’ lives, now, dronatech has introduced a smart helmet that provides user with all the necessary information such as Rear View, Live Stream, GPS Navigation and more, giving users a real Iron-Man like experience. Key features of the helmet include call feature which users can use to talk handsfree coupled with Voice recognition. It also boasts a feature where drona owners can communicate with each other.
These startups will be going through one on one mentoring from experts from different domains and based on the the mentor feedback we will further be shortlisting top 5 startups who will be pitching to a group of angels on Thursday i.e. 22nd July 2015.
[We would like to thank all our sponsors Amazon Web Services, 10,000 Startups, Embibe, GrowX Ventures, Guerrilla Ventures, eshiksa, Outbox, Atom Technologies,PayTm, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Entrepreneurial Spark who are supporting this Pulse42 + StartupPulse Series.]
