Top Indian startups


Top 23 Indian Start-ups | Ankush Dhawan
  1. Ixigo, an online journey, and transit booking service has filed documents with Indian regulators in order to raise $200 million through an IPO.
  2. On Thursday, the Gurgaon-based online travel company announced plans to issue almost $100 million in new shares and sell equity shares worth slightly more than $100 million to current shareholders.
  3. With over 150 million users, ixigo is an intelligent, AI-based journey app. ixigo allows Indian travellers to plan, book, and track trips from more than 120 different travel suppliers and online travel agencies (OTAs), including flights, trains, hotels, buses, and taxis. The mission of ixigo is to provide travellers with reliable and tailored travel recommendations.
2- Instamojo

Instamojo was the first in India to offer “On-Demand” payments and e-commerce over the web and mobile. Instamojo (Bangalore) was founded in 2012 and is India’s fastest-growing full-stack retail platform, pioneering the democratization of payments and e-commerce for MSME businesses. Payment linkages, a free internet store, and sachet loans are the company’s main products. Instamojo’s business model revolves around the merchant. We offer vital digital services such as payments, e-commerce enablement, cataloguing, and compliance, as well as a variety of VAS such as logistics and loans, making it accessible and inexpensive for everyone. Instamojo helps MSMEs come online by simplifying processes, establishing relationships with financial institutions, designing fresh new world-class transactional experiences, and reducing risks associated with conducting business online.

3- Nykaa.com 

Nykaa has risen to become India’s most popular beauty destination, with over a million satisfied consumers relying on us not only for their favourite brands, but also for advice, updates, and expert tips on how to look and feel beautiful at all times! Nykaa prides itself on presenting a complete variety of makeup, skincare, haircare, perfumes, bath & body, luxury, and wellness goods for women and men, with 650+ selected, well-priced, and 100 percent genuine brands and 60,000 SKUs. We go to great lengths to delight you, even if it means traveling to the farthest reaches of the country! Nykaa now supplies to over 30,000 zip codes, utilizing the services of reputable courier firms.

  1. Nykaa, a beauty e-commerce platform, has filed preliminary documents for an initial public offering (IPO), joining a lengthy list of companies planning to list on the stock exchanges. According to its draught red herring prospectus, the firm that operates Nykaa, FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd, plans to raise up to $70.6 million by selling new equity in the offering (DRHP).
  2. Its public offering will be managed by Kotak Mahindra Capital, ICICI Securities, Citibank, BofA Securities, Morgan Stanley, and JM Financial.
  3. Falguni Nayar, a former investment banker, created Nykaa in 2012. The beauty retailer is believed to be majority-owned by Nayar and her family. Nykaa has grown to become one of India’s most popular beauty product platforms since its inception. It also has its own physical storefronts. The corporation made $330 million in revenue in the fiscal year that concluded in March. It was valued at $1.2 billion at the time.
4- Unacademy

The largest free learning portal in India is Unacademy.in We empower people to design high-quality courses and make them available to students. Unacademy.in has over 100 educators who have produced courses. Become a member of our team.

  1. An online learning platform in India In a fresh round of funding, Unacademy has raised $440 million.
  2. Temasek led the Bangalore-based start-up's new funding round, which also included Mirae Asset and existing investors such as SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, as well as Zomato co-founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal and Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal, according to the startup, which did not reveal the new round’s name (which should be Series G).
  3. The online learning network, which started on YouTube and continues to leverage Google’s video platform to onboard educators, assists students in preparing for difficult examinations in order to as well as those seeking graduate-level courses, entering college.
5- ShuttlShuttl 

(shuttl.com) is India’s largest bus-aggregating platform, having launched in April 2015. Shuttl’s mission is to make daily commutes for urban intra-city travellers more convenient, and we presently serve commuters in Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, and Mumbai. Amazon US, Dentsu, Sequoia Capital, Times Internet, and Lightspeed Ventures have all contributed to our success, with a total investment of $50 million to date. Shuttl presently operates 150+ long routes through its tech-enabled network, with over 1000 buses on the platform and 100K daily ridership. We want to solve the problem of young Indians yearning for a more intelligent form of transportation by providing affordable public transportation that is powered by cutting-edge technology, resulting in less traffic and better, less congested cities.

  1. In an all-cash agreement, Chalo, an Indian business that is digitizing bus commutes and recently garnered $40 million in funding, has purchased Amazon-backed app-based office commute bus aggregator Shuttl.
  2. Shuttl was created to make the daily journey less painful. Currently, the company offers an app-based office shuttle service to ensure that everyone’s daily commute is safe, dependable, economical, and dignified. According to us, the future of mass transit will be a shared, environmentally friendly, and tech-enabled journey.
  3. According to Chalo, Shuttl’s current team, which includes a number of key executives who have been with the company since its inception, will remain in place.
6- Haptik

Haptik’s platform is based on the fact that we built it ourselves, with each AI product suite built separately for each individual use case. We create a home-grown, real-time analytics platform with a dedicated Business Intelligence team from within the company, using the benefits of a long-term collaboration with one of the world’s greatest companies. Haptik also has a platform for automated conversational testing, which allows for real-time AI advances.

7- Locus.sh

Locus is an intelligent logistics automation platform with an in-built route planning and vehicle allocation engine that enhances operational consistency and efficiency, as well as customer satisfaction and the last mile live tracking. Companies and enterprises in e-commerce, food delivery, FMCG, and other sectors can use the platform to automate and optimize their logistics. We’re a small group that thrives in an open and encouraging environment. Get in touch with us at careers@locus.sh if you wish to work for a fast-growing startup. We design high-end algorithms at Locus to replace human decision-making in logistics. A workspace made by engineers for engineers, including in-house maker space, API-controlled lights, Magic Mirrors, Ultra-wide monitors, Tier-1 Internet-scale infrastructure, continuous deployments, time to clear technical debts, and more.

8- Swiggy 

Restaurants in the palm of your hand. Swiggy allows you to order from your favourite restaurants and keep track of your orders while on the go.Is a phoenix that arose from Harsha and Nandan’s previous company, Bundle Technologies. Swiggy grew into an unstoppable force that is now altering the way India eats after a slow start. What occurred on your journey?

9- Eazy Diner

 Reservations for restaurants via the internet EazyDiner is a free service that allows you to make immediate bookings at the most popular restaurants in India. Not only that, but when you visit the restaurant, you will receive a substantial discount and a meal booster. If you want to start your own Import Export Business Startup from home then you can join our Live Face to Face Training Program. Call/ whatsApp at 9899250252 for more details.

10- Craftsvilla.com

Our customers like wearing and using everyday ethnic things, whether they are apparel, accessories, or home décor.

11- Fynd

 India’s leading offline to online (O2O) company, works with retailers to make their in-store inventory shoppable across several online and offline channels. The Fynd Apps, Fynd.com, the brand’s own website, and big marketplaces like Amazon, Myntra, TataCliq, and Google all sell these items. Fynd’s offering Fynd Store also helps retailers become genuinely omnichannel. Brand stores can sell things that aren’t physically present in the store using this product. Uniket was created by Fynd in 2019 to help small shops in T3/T4 marketplaces sell major brand goods. Workbench is a data and applied machine product package from Fynd that automates specialized data and computer vision.Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah, and Sreeraman MG founded the company in 2012. The company is headquartered in Mumbai and employs approximately 350 employees in the areas of design, engineering, data science, operations, and sales.

12- Smallcase 

We create platforms and products to help Indians invest more effectively in inequities. Smallcases are low-cost, diversified long-term investment solutions. Each smallcase is an intelligently weighted basket of stocks/ETFs that reflects a concept. Smallcases can be purchased through India’s top brokers, including Zerodha, HDFC Securities, Kotak Securities, AxisDirect, 5Paisa, and Edelweiss es.

13- DocTalk 

(YC W17) DocTalk allows you to communicate with your doctor without having to make an in-person appointment. Users may talk to their doctors, get medications, and share fresh reports with them all from the comfort of their own homes or on the road! Remember when you had to wait in line for hours at the doctor’s office just to get a 5-minute follow-up? Those days are long gone with DocTalk. You won’t need to lug around files full of paperwork and reports anymore; everything will be on your phone! Get prescriptions straight through the app by chatting with the doctor.

14- Skylark Drones

Skylark Drones arose from a desire to leverage disruptive technologies like drones to help revolutionize the way roads and highways are built, our food is produced and farmers are cared for, minerals and metals are mined, and pipelines transport precious commodities are monitored. We integrate drone solutions into scalable real-world applications that benefit businesses and the society at large, all while ensuring that authenticity, productivity, cost savings, and lives are prioritized.

15- Postman

Postman is the world’s most popular API developer collaboration platform.

Postman is the most popular API platform, with 17 million developers and 500,000 organizations using it around the world. Postman improves communication and simplifies each phase of the API lifecycle, allowing developers and teams to design better APIs faster. Postman is a multinational corporation with headquarters in San Francisco, a significant office in Bangalore (where the company was formed), and team members spread across four continents. Insight Partners, CRV, Nexus Venture Partners, Coatue, Battery Ventures, and BOND have all invested in Postman. Visit postman.com for additional information, or follow Postman on Twitter at @getpostman.

16- Testbook

We’re on a mission to change the way students prepare for competitive tests online. Users can learn new topics and take a variety of mock tests to compare their level of preparedness to that of millions of other candidates. We provide customers with pertinent information on their performance in the mock tests so that they can discover their weak preparation areas. Students can also enrol in live stream lessons to get a complete preparation for over 70 different exams.

17- Nanonets 

We’re working on a deep learning-based application that will allow businesses to automate data extraction from any type of document with just a few examples and incorporate it into their existing manual workflow.

18- LogiNext

LogiNext is one of the fastest-growing SaaS firms, specializing in logistics and field service operations management. The cloud-based Last-Mile Delivery and Route Optimization software, as well as the Field Service and Field Workforce Optimization software, are LogiNext’s main offerings. Large organizations with regular movements of shipments, vehicles, moveable assets, delivery associates, field technicians, repair staff, or even sales personnel are often served by LogiNext. Consumer goods, supermarket chains, retail, courier, transportation, repair services, and utilities are among the areas that LogiNext is now pursuing. Its customers are located all over the world, with the majority of them in North America, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia.

19- Kisan Network

Kisan Network is a $200 billion Indian agricultural ecosystem internet marketplace supported by Y-Combinator and the Thiel Fellowship. We enable small and marginal farmers to sell their produce directly to businesses using their smartphones, empowering them. We are the first and only Asia-focused start-up to be accepted into both the Y Combinator and Thiel Fellowship programs (to date). More information is available at kisannetwork.com. bit.ly/kisantc on TechCrunch bit.ly/adityaforbessocial30 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social Entrepreneurship & Youngest 30): bit.ly/adityaforbessocial30 YC bit.ly/kisanyc is a blog. 2016 Aditya Thiel Fellowship: bit.ly/adityathielpress bit.ly/kisanet The Economic Times

20- Niki

Niki’s goal is to convert India’s 500 million new Internet users into paying customers. Niki has designed Internet commerce in a way that is most natural to these users: their local agent, which allows a user to access hundreds of services by simulating chatting to a local human agent in their native language. Using machine learning and Natural Language Processing, Niki’s patented deep technology replicates and improves the offline experience.

21- HyperTrack

Businesses of all sizes utilize HyperTrack’s location-based logistics APIs to automate last-mile deliveries, field support, and gig work for their own and their clients’ fleets on every inhabited continent. With the less geographic infrastructure to create and run, businesses can focus on growth and provide better client experiences. HyperTrack is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has remote team members in the United States, India, and Ukraine.

22- MobiKwik

MobiKwik is India’s largest issuer-agnostic digital financial services platform, as well as a leading mobile wallet and payment gateway. With over 30 million direct merchants and 107 million users, the MobiKwik app is a leading mobile payment platform. The company was formed in 2009 by Bipin Preet Singh and Upasana Taku, and it has received four rounds of funding from Sequoia Capital, American Express, Tree Line Asia, MediaTek, GMO Payment Gateway, Cisco Investments Net1, and Bajaj Finance. MobiKwik has developed a series of strategic alliances with key blue-chip companies including BSNL, Bajaj Finserv Ltd, and IndusInd Bank, affecting around 260 million Indians. MobiKwik created and provided a mobile wallet for BSNL in August 2017. Customers can get credit and loans through an EMI wallet developed by the company in collaboration with Bajaj Finserv. The MobiKwik wallet from Bajaj Finserv is also India’s first credit wallet.

23- Skit (previously Vernacular.ai)

Skit (formerly Vernacular.ai) is an AI-first voice automation SaaS firm. Its voice and language products help businesses automate their contact center operations. Its product, Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant (VIVA), can currently answer in 16+ languages, encompassing over 160+ dialects and duplicating human-like conversations, thanks to over 10 million hours of training data. Skit presently serves a wide range of enterprise clients in a variety of industries, including BFSI, F&B, Hospitality, Consumer Electronics, and Travel & Tourism, with notable clients such as Axis Bank, Hathway, Porter, and Barbeque Nation. It is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community and has been listed as one of the top-notch start-ups in Cisco Launchpad’s Cohort 6. For its exceptional industry innovation, it was also named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia Start-ups 2021 list.


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