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A platform to help farmers in India to manage their crops and sell directly to consumers over the internet. In the short time since launch, it has sold $1.6 million worth of produce.
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A startup that sells products in India
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A startup that’s helping Indian tech startups source cheap and reliable engineering talent.
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A tool that connects education with job opportunities in the US and India, by matching employers with vacant jobs.
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A tool for online booking of flight, train and bus tickets in India, with a free mobile app.
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An e-commerce platform for the Indian market. The startup connects small and medium-sized businesses to suppliers and distributors, and also helps them hire employees.
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A startup for female entrepreneurs in India to connect and share business plans.
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The company’s software allows businesses to easily accept payments online in India.
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A startup that wants to bring personalized tutoring to the world’s most remote regions, including rural India.
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Social media that caters to Indian users with an emphasis on comedians and other entertainers.
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List of startups created by or for Indian Americans
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A platform for selling, buying and selling and buying used cars in India.
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A digital health and fitness platform for Indian families.
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2 years ago
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A company that makes solar panels in India for cheaper than what the US can make them.
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4 years ago
A digital platform for automated room service ordering in hotels. Users can order from a menu of the hotel’s dishes, and the order is sent to the kitchen directly. The startup is working with a dozen hotels in India.
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2 years ago
A digital wallet for cash-strapped Indians.
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4 years ago
A community of investors and entrepreneurs in India, seeking to create an online community of investors and entrepreneurs who can help each other.
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Mobile payments startup that is trying to bring an Indian flavor to the US market.
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4 years ago
This company is building a pipeline connecting the cities that are most in need of food. The company says that it’s selling a food and water delivery system that is working in 12 US cities, and is now looking to expand to China and the Indian Subcontinent.
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• "India's 10 Most Promising Startups" (India edition), Rediff, January 20, 2014
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An India-focused, browser-based online marketplace for real estate.
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A company that facilitates the sale of cars in the US. The startup is in the process of expanding to India as well.
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A software company that makes its product in India, and sells it globally.
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A startup that uses affordable technology to help farmers in India learn to use technology to make better decisions
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Indian startup that focuses on the HR space.
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A seed round was raised in 2015 to fund development of the company. The company is now looking to expand into India.
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A credit card that has no annual fee and no foreign transaction fees. The company is in India.
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A mobile payments startup that is focused on India, offering a personal loan service to people without bank accounts.
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4 years ago
SaaS business that helps small companies in India create paper-free operating procedures.
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5 years ago
This startup is building a platform for American farmers to sell their goods to consumers worldwide. The startup aims to use a mix of digital store fronts and technology to deliver to consumers in countries like India and China, where the rural population has been growing.
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Online business directory and community for India
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A payment processing company that provides services to businesses in India.
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A company that used to provide computer science education in English before shifting to the Indian market and focusing on autodidactic AI education.
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A startup which helps producers of consumer goods in India get their products from a supplier to a store.
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A messaging app for urbanites in India, where the government has banned SMS and WhatsApp, and SMS is often unreliable.
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5 years ago
Shopify's Indian subsidiary is helping build an "online-only" (so no offline sales) marketplace that will sell goods made by small artisans and craftsman. While a combination of Alibaba and Amazon, the market size is expected to be between $500 million to $1 billion in 2023.
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A platform for food and retail delivery in India. The startup wants to help the 1,100 billion rupee (US$14.8 billion) food and retail sector in India optimize its supply chain and distribution.
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4 years ago
A startup that wants to help companies find the best talent in the US and India, and help them hire more effectively.
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5 years ago
A way to make videos that is geared toward the Indian market.
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4 years ago
A mobile app that helps people build a virtual reality experience while they walk around a city. Currently focusing on VR adoption in India.
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4 years ago
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The “Uber for Taxi” ridesharing service has a million drivers in India. UberGo gives them a way to turn their cars into cabs.
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5 years ago
Does marketing automation for Indian startups with product-market fit, using a data-driven approach to help them optimize their marketing.
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A computer science startup that builds simple, cheap, and fast hardware for India’s unconnected. One product, called the Laptop Bridge, is a $35 device meant to plug into an electrical socket and convert it into a computer-like device that can run basic programs and connect to the internet, so that farmers, students, or anyone else can use it.
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4 years ago
A startup for women to track their periods and plan for it, launched in India in partnership with a doctor.
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5 years ago
A startup that helps brands develop an online presence in the Indian market by connecting them with the right media partners to place ads, run sponsored posts, and more.
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A platform that lets you send money to friends in the Philippines, India, or China, in real time.
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3 years ago
A restaurant discovery app that caters to the Indian market by listing only Indian restaurants.
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A solution for poorly performing government-run schools in India, with plans to expand to other countries in the future.
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5 years ago
The India-based company wants to remove the middleman from B2B commerce by allowing businesses to create individual shopping carts and price all their goods without an agency setting charges.
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2 years ago
Helping small businesses in India to integrate and automate their accounting software using CRM-like software.
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4 years ago
They’re building an app for crowdfunding microloans to SMEs in India.
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4 years ago
This startup wants to bring the benefits of paperless medical records to India. They’re currently looking to partner with hospitals in India to make it easier to transfer medical records.
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A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.
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With this product, customers in India and China can pay for food and groceries from their phones.
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In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.
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The startup is building a platform for house-hunting in India. It’s a service like Zumper or Realtor.com but for a country where 40% of houses are bought and sold on a daily basis.
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A company that helps retailers in India make money on data they collect on customer behaviors. Currently, they’re using the company’s software to manage their cash desks in stores.
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An online platform for peer-to-peer lending in India. The startup serves community microlenders in India that are looking to lend out smaller amounts of money to people in need.
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A mobile payment system for mobile commerce, which supports pay-as-you-go mobile wallets, cash on delivery, and mobile carriers. The startup has partnerships with mobile carriers in India, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
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Another startup that wants to simplify life for the average Indian.
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A software platform that aims to facilitate the development of a “predictive model” for the Indian auto industry.
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A medical tourism company that helps patients in India and Southeast Asia find pain management clinics and other doctors.
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A startup that aims to help remove the friction between resource-poor hospitals in India and those with more resources.
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A startup that aims to make it easier for companies to hire talent in India’s burgeoning startup ecosystem.
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Builds and delivers smart meters for solar farms in India. The startup claims that it’s the lowest cost alternative to utility-scale solar.
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A news aggregator for the Indian community, with a focus on the LGBTQ community.
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A crowdsourced employee handbook for startups in India.
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A startup that helps businesses in India, for instance, sort out GST numbers, and upload databases in an easier way than using an Excel spreadsheet
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AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.
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This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.
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A startup that helps people in remote locations connect with their doctors. The startup is working with a number of remote care providers, starting with those in India.
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A company that produces smart meters in India.
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A startup that helps customers book restaurant tables, with a check-in and payment feature. It’s the first startup in India working on a restaurant booking app.
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A startup that helps people in India and Southeast Asia build and manage projects, helping them collaborate on all aspects of the project.
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a social network for people who want to learn about the world. The startup has over 100,000 users, and now has clients in the US, Europe, China, and India.
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A startup that aims to build a “digital bank vault” for mobile consumers in India. The startup plans to allow mobile users to store funds in their phones in the form of mobile wallets, with secure storage in escrow.
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A startup that helps traditional Indian wedding traditions be modernized.
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A million doctors in India still use paper medical records. Farmako aims
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A tool to help people in India manage their bank accounts.
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A digital bank account for Indian startups and SMBs looking to get a loan from non-banks.
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A digital payments app for merchants in India. It aims to connect merchants with their customers via a mobile-first and friction-free interface.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a tool that helps auto repair shops like the ones in Indianapolis monitor their cars and figure out the best course of action.
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A chatbot that helps with customer support for small businesses in India. In the US, the company works with small businesses that need live support, but in India, it works with small-to-midsized businesses that need a better CRM tool.
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A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.
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A shipping and payment service that wants to help Indian companies ship and receive packages faster.
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A platform that helps small business owners in India use their app to accept payments, and enables customers to pay with a couple of taps.
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The second-largest e-commerce marketplace in India wants to be the Amazon of India.
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This startup is building a comprehensive online marketplace for the sale of assets like real estate and cars. The startup is focused on rural markets like India, where the costs of buying and selling homes and commodities is often prohibitively high.
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Digital payments are taking off in India, and this startup is building a mobile wallet with a “floating exchange rate” based on data from other players.
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The company is building a startup for car-sharing and ride hailing in India. The product is a fleet of tiny electric vehicles that are part of a shared ride service.
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Pinterest’s India team is looking to pivot from a product team into a data science team. They’ve hired two data scientists, who are looking for more.
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Ponzi-like investment scheme for the bitcoin community. They are a bitcoin company that offers a service which allows people to invest or lend bitcoins without having to exchange them for other currencies. The startup is currently only operating in India, with plans to expand to other countries.
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A startup that helps people to easily invest in cryptocurrency, with a focus on the Indian market. It’s part of a larger trend of startups that want to bring cryptocurrencies to the masses.
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Notable startups from the Indian market:
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A provider of microfinance loans to rural communities in the US. The startup is entering markets in India, Pakistan and Ghana to expand the profitability of its loans.
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A company helping small businesses in India, mainly restaurants and food trucks, find more customers through SMS.
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A startup that helps farmers in developing markets like India and Kenya sell their crops.
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An Indian startup aiming to build a “cloud-based project management system” for construction projects. The company says it is unique in that it allows people to manage all aspects of a project from a single interface.
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A startup that partners with Indian restaurants to automate their ordering processes. This can help restaurants better manage inventory and deliveries, save money, and increase customer satisfaction.
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An AI-driven platform that comes with a team of data scientists, software engineers, and designers, and which wants to help companies find talent in India.
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1794: A British East India Company trading vessel, the "Phoenix"
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A “social news site,” built for Indian readers.
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A shopping app in India that helps users buy online and has a loyalty program. The startup has a reported 4 million users.
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A platform that helps make your business portable. The startup helps connect businesses with offshore locations that are close to you. For example, with the platform you could have a call center in India, but still be able to talk to the customer in the US.
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A micro lending platform that helps small businesses in India access credit. It doesn’t charge interest, but charges a fee for the loans.
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A shopping platform that’s a hybrid between Amazon and Alibaba. The company is looking to expand, with a particular focus on India, South America, and Asia.
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A way to track and pay for university teaching gigs in India. The company says they already have payment processing partnerships in place in India and are looking to expand to other countries. SENSEI is one of the only companies that offer this kind of service in India.
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As of 2016, accelerator programs are across the world, from Silicon Valley to London, with India, China, Singapore and Israel also hosting their own.
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A mobile payments startup, focused on helping the unbanked in India, that’s created by a team of MIT grads that previously worked at a mobile payments company.
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A company that helps businesses sell and market their products on Amazon and their own website. It has 12,000 customers in India, and a team of 30 on the ground in a new office in Mumbai.
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This is a startup that’s building an app and platform to help people in countries like India save money on their utility bills by installing solar panels on their homes, which are already building excess energy into the grid.
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The company’s founders have been called "the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the Indian startup scene" by a reporter in Quartz.
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This startup is building a digital bank account in India. The founders say it’s a simpler, cheaper alternative to the physical ATM cards found in most cities.
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A startup that aims to build a platform for women in India to document and share their experiences with domestic violence in order to help them find resources and get help.
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A digital bank account for India, with a focus on rural areas.
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An online platform to help small businesses in India, the Middle East, and Africa get their products onto Amazon’s website.
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A startup that wants to give people the same ability to browse and shop for food that they have in the US. It’s designed specifically for Indian consumers who don’t have a bank account.
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Food delivery and home services in India with no delivery fees. The startup is looking to deliver a wide range of goods, from food to cleaning products, from thousands of businesses that have been vetted by the company.
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A debt-recovery app for India. It claims to have 1 million users and $20 million in assets. The startup started by focusing on debt recovery, but has recently expanded to include asset recovery.
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A startup that helps hospitals create secure software for their staff to access the medical records of patients. The startup has already partnered with hospitals in the U.S. and India.
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A VC-backed startup that is looking to bring financial services to the unbanked in India. The company has started piloting its technology in Chennai and Hyderabad.
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a mobile payments system for India. The startup is pitching itself as a cheaper alternative to the likes of Google Wallet and Paytm.
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A startup focused on building tech for homes in India. The startup wants to enable a system through which families can track their energy consumption, water usage, and air quality.
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A digital insurance company for the Indian SME market, with a focus on the auto insurance sector.
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A chatbot that asks users to type in their health concerns and then asks them questions about those concerns and provides recommended solutions. The startup has users in the UK, India, and the US.
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A startup that helps small businesses in India build their websites, they were bootstrapped with seed funding from Y Combinator.
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A business platform for Indian SMBs to better manage their finances. Over the last 12 months, the number of SMBs on the platform has grown 50%, with an average monthly transaction size of $3,500.
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A startup that wants to help businesses do their bookkeeping in India, a country where the rule of thumb is that you can’t be a good accountant if you don’t know how to do your own bookkeeping.
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A grocery delivery service aimed at the Indian market.
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This startup is building a mobile payment solution in India that’s optimized for lower-income users. It provides a way for merchants to accept the main payment methods in the country.
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A company that helps people in the US adopt its Indian-based VPN service, which is blocked in the US, to circumvent digital border control.
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DesiChat is a messaging app for long-distance friends in India and Pakistan. After setting up a user account, users can message one another via a phone number, email address, or a Facebook account.
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The company’s target market is the 50 million people in India who have mobile phones but do not have bank accounts. The app uses SMS and a mobile number to allow the user to transfer money into their account.
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A startup in India that helps manage the relationships between home builders and contractors.
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A platform for Indian startups to build, market, and sell their products globally, with a half dozen companies already signed up.
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This startup wants to help Indian hospitals comply with the government’s new healthcare laws. It’s built a web-based platform for doctors and hospitals to manage patient records and procedures.
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This startup is building a platform to help Indian businesses dismiss their employees. Instead of sending a letter, you pay to have a letter that says you’re firing someone sent by email.
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A hardware company that creates paper-thin fingerprint sensors that can be used to unlock computers, phones, and other devices. A pilot program with the Indian government to use the sensors to improve its census program.
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A startup that aims to build an e-book ecosystem for Indian readers.
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The company behind the traditional online ticketing service is building a mobile ticketing app for the youth in India.
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A tool for filing income tax in India.
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A digital platform that provides accounts and payment solutions to service providers, retailers and manufacturers. It claims to have an 85% market share in India.
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A way to enable workers at companies and in remote locations to tap into high-quality medical care. The startup has offices in the US and India, and has already reached over 2,000 patients in India and the US.
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A startup that makes it easier to obtain pension funds for small businesses in India.
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In India, there are millions of small businesses that don’t have a bank account. ManageBharat is a mobile app that helps these businesses manage transactions, pay taxes, and keep their books straight.
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A startup in India that helps homebuyers navigate the confusing and tedious process of buying an apartment
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A platform for medical tourism in India. The startup wants to help people stay healthy abroad.
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A microfinance company that provides small loans to farmers in India to help them hedge against the possibility that their crops might fail.
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A social network for Indian Americans. It’s not clear how the company plans to operate in the US given the very different social norms here.
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A tool for planning events with a group of people in mind, similar to a calendar but for smaller groups. The startup is looking to partner with Indian companies that organize team events.
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A consumer-focused bill payment service for businesses. The company is based in Bangalore, India.
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Hammer is currently available in the United States, Canada, India, United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, France, Indonesia, and Japan.
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Indiagames is a venture backed company that is building technology to help Indian game developers and publishers grow their market.
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A project that connects doctors in the US with patients in India who need urgent medical attention.
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The company says it will be the first to offer a business development platform with the ability to serve the two different markets in India, B2B and B2C.
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Based in India, this startup is building software for managing a family farm. They use a combination of traditional tools and tech for their operations, featuring an irrigation system that can predict which fields need water, a digital record-keeping suite, and a series of IoT devices for farm management.
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A smart phone app that makes it easier to find the cheapest airfare for travel on Facebook. The startup has already seen success with the app, and says they’ve seen a 150% increase in the number of people in India who use it on a daily basis.
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Micro-loans to small businesses in India, offering a simple way to borrow $50 to $5,000. The company has already helped over 2,000 businesses, with plans to expand to the US by the end of 2020
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This company wants to help people buy and sell their cars through an online marketplace. The company plans to launch in India in 2020 and then expand to other markets.
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A text-messaging-based business platform for leading Indian retail chains.
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Idea: Building a digital platform for real estate brokers to close business deals. The startup is currently working with a group of Indian business-to-business startups to make their onboarding easier.
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A software company that hopes to make it easy for Indian businesses to accept online payments.
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A restaurant management system for Indian restaurants that helps them grow
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This startup wants to create a real-time marketplace for the Indian farmer market. It will use a mobile app to help farmers connect with buyers on their mobile phones. The company wants to help farmers sell their products faster and easier.
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A mobile app for the economically underprivileged in India that will help them apply for micro loans. The startup has already provided over $400,000 worth of loans.
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A digital assistant that helps users book doctors' appointments and communicate with doctors. The startup launched in May in the US, with plans to expand to the UK, India, and Mexico.
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A company that helps companies in developing countries get banking services. They’re currently in talks with several banks in India.
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This startup is building a mobile app for users to discover and book their preferred doctors and hospitals in India.
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A consumer card that can be used at many places where plastic credit cards are accepted. It’s meant for the Indian market to replace a plethora of different forms of payment.
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The founder of this startup grew up in a remote village in India and remembers a time when he was able to get a computer for the family and a year later they were able to get the internet. The founder realized the internet had brought a lot of connectivity to the country, but the next step was to bring connectivity to the millions of people who still didn’t have it. That’s what led him to start Jana, a startup that aims to give 1.5 billion people in India access to the internet.
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A platform that provides an online store for small retailers or artisans, selling products they created themselves. The startup is based in India and is looking to expand to other South Asian countries.
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A startup that advertises itself as “the Airbnb of villages.” The company is building a marketplace for rural villages in India, where villagers can rent out their rooms for short-term stays.
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A banking app for the unbanked in India
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A platform that curates and tracks news and events relevant to a company or industry, with a focus on India.
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A startup working to democratize credit in the developing world, creating a new financial product that would give people access to credit in a way they haven’t had before. The company, which was founded in India, wants to make it more affordable for people in the developing world to use and maintain credit.
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A company that helps Indian startups with low-cost capital
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A tool that helps small businesses in India to import and export goods to their local markets.
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A startup based in India that helps fast food restaurants to manage online ordering and payment.
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A financial services system for the unbanked, intended to be much cheaper and less complex than existing options. The startup is building the product for users in India and Nigeria.
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A micro-entrepreneur in India that wants to relieve the stress of small businesses by providing them with a platform for managing all their accounting needs.
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This startup wants to improve the way farmers in India grow food by using drones and artificial intelligence to identify and treat diseases.
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In India, startups are still mostly in the B2B space, with a few exceptions. India’s largest startup is Flipkart, which is the world’s largest online retailer. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal.
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One of the biggest challenges of small businesses in India is that they don’t have a good way to manage their finances.
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DesiRad is a college group for Indian students in the US that makes it easier to find events and connect with others in the local community.
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A startup that plans to build software for organ donation for the Indian market.
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A platform for renting out beds in various places in India, with a goal of bringing the rental market online. Currently, the startup has partnered with over 500 hotels and is expanding to over 100 more in the next few weeks.
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A technology company that creates “smart” thermostats for home and business use, allowing homeowners to control their thermostats via their smartphone. The company is led by CEO and founder Rajat Pahuja, who previously built a business in India called Shubh Loans that went “very profitable,” according to Pahuja.
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A messaging app for farmers in India to share information and coordinate with other farmers.
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A self-serve meal delivery program in Bangalore, India
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A doctor in India uses WhatsApp to send prescriptions directly to patients’ homes
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A media company focusing on the needs of the Indian market.
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A startup that helps with internet in-app purchases and the creation of digital products in the Indian market.
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A startup that aims to help Indian startups build their own apps on the cloud.
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A full-stack SMS API for India. The startup says it can process 10 million messages per hour.
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https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/7-indian-startup-companies-to-watch-this-year-117028000731_1.html
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A chatbot that helps users find a nearby doctor. The startup has users in the UK, India, and the US.
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“[A]s one of the largest and most comprehensive digital marketing agencies in India, we’re all about solving problems for businesses and brands,” the company wrote on their website. “We approach each engagement in an equally hands-on and consultative manner, bringing in a unique blend of experience and expertise. We’re building on a solid foundation built by our founding team and have a great culture, which is what sets us apart from our peers in the industry.”
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A social network for Indian language users. The app is focused on users in India, but the founders say it could be used in other regions with large populations of people who use other languages.
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A commerce platform for the Indian market, where many consumers have previously had to go through multiple vendors to make a purchase.
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A startup that sells to the Indian market, which has a huge, under-served market for low-cost long-distance plans, where monthly plans are cheaper than mobile data in the US.
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The startup is working on a tool to help companies find candidates in India and the US.
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A startup that aims to bring online learning to underserved populations in India.
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An offering that gives e-commerce businesses a way to track orders, which is particularly useful for online retailers in China and India.
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One of the startup’s cofounders, Sumeet Singh, was born in India, raised in New Jersey, and still regularly wears a turban. Harsh and Singh met as PhD students at MIT.
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A company that helps recruiters, called “instaCandidate,” compete with LinkedIn by posting candidates in a more fun and unique way. InstaCandidate has a branch in India, and is looking to expand to the United States.
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A startup for building companies in emerging markets, which focuses on the Indian market.
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An in-app mobile payments solution in India. The company is in talks with mobile carriers to make mobile payments simple in India.
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A computer science degree designed for people in the large, growing Indian market for “robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision”, with a built-in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
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A startup in India that makes it easier for users to access their bank account information or make payments.
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A startup that wants to help customers in India manage their money in a single app. The startup’s goal is to create an Indian version of a Venmo-like app, but specifically for Indian users.
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A startup that’s building a text-based payments platform for the people of the developing world. The company offers an alternative to Venmo for users in countries like Kenya, Nigeria, and India.
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A startup to help people sell their used clothing and get a fair price. The company has a partnership with a charity that helps needy people in India.
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A startup with a library of over 2,500 Indian-subsaharan African writers and translators, it aims to create a platform for them to reach a wider global audience.
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A Kickstarter for water filters that uses UV light to kill bacteria in the water. It’s working with the water company in India that supplies the filters.
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A fraud detection platform for the Indian insurance industry.
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E-commerce platform for the Indian population, which is currently being built.
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A tool to help India’s startups connect with people they’d have to travel to meet in person.
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This startup is building a digital marketing platform for the Indian market. It offers lower-cost advertising options and analytics tools.
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This platform, like the others on this list, is focused on the Indian market.
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A startup that helps bring startup culture to India. They want to help India’s startups grow by providing a hub for community and events. They’re planning to have a physical location in India.
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A program that brings e-commerce to mom and pop businesses in India. The startup only has one client so far, a mom and pop store in Gujarat, but says it’ll expand to more cities soon.
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A growing startup in India that’s working to build a version of Google Docs for businesses, focusing on text documents and contracts.
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A platform for businesses looking to build and scale operations in India, for instance for construction and logistics.
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A mobile shopping app for Indian shoppers. It allows users to order food and pick it up from an assortment of stores in their neighborhood.
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A company that makes the navigation of an Indian apartment complex easier
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A startup that helps tech companies hire engineers from India, the US and elsewhere.
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A startup in the social sector, Canvas is applying artificial intelligence to the cause of ending global poverty. The startup already has a pilot in the Indian state of Bihar, and is hoping to expand to other countries.
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This is a personal assistant chatbot platform for enterprise customers in India.
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India’s first all-in-one, cloud-based, enterprise-grade workforce management platform for SMBs.
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A startup-based insurance product aimed at the Indian market.
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A startup looking to help Indian businesses raise capital from US investors and US investors from India. It provides legal, financial advisory and consulting services.
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Idea: Online education platform for traditional Indian crafts and art
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Built a mobile app that allows people in India to send money to family across state lines.
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A language learning app. The founders say that the app is built for the Indian market and not for international markets.
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Web developers in India have traditionally worked with the Firefox browser. The startup wants to bring the Chrome browser to that market, as well as help companies use it at scale for their websites.
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A startup that targets Indian users with a service that helps them find a doctor, a nurse, or a therapist quickly. The service takes a variety of inputs like location and symptoms, which it then uses to match the user with a doctor and sends them a call.
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A startup that makes a credit card for Indian customers that allows users to transfer money from a bank account to a mobile wallet.
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A “virtual concierge service” for hotels. They started in India with a network of over 200 hotels and now have a presence in the US.
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A B2B platform for online food ordering in India
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This startup is building a tool to help Indian companies connect to US investors. The goal is to help US investors better understand the Indian economy and the Indian market.
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A startup that builds apps for markets with different business models from the US, such as the Indian market, where companies can’t sell a product for cash.
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Helping the Indian Railways communicate with customers online in order to get the right ticket for them.
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A software company that makes it easy for Indian businesses to accept payments and track customer information via a mobile app.
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A startup that is building a marketplace for real estate agents in India. The startup wants to prove that since agents can create more leads for potential sellers, they should be able to charge more for their services.
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A consumer-facing SaaS platform for the Indian market. The startup is focused on maximizing the efficiency of the home shopping experience, and is currently focused on a small segment of the online market.
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A company that helps companies pay contractors in India in cash, rather than via cheques or bank transfers
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The startup works with the government of India’s Ministry of Defence to help small businesses in India get their hands on Defense Ministry-related contracts. The startup’s founder, Sumit Goel, is a former officer in the Indian Navy.
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An automatic way to send money out of India using a credit or debit card. The startup wants to scale their business to get the equivalent of $1 billion out of India each year.
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A receipt service for businesses based in India.
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This startup is building a tool for doing on-demand e-learning for businesses. They’re looking to introduce training to countries that don’t have it, like Nepal, and then supply it to people in India.
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A digital currency for underbanked Singaporeans. The startup builds a platform that enables individuals to join the mainstream financial system. Right now, it’s restricted to Singaporeans, and the founders are working on getting it to the wider Southeast Asian and Indian markets.
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A startup that wants to be a One-Stop shop for Indian retail customers looking to buy the latest fashion trends. The platform is set to launch in June 2020.
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A company that aims to make affordable internet for the poor in India, from a base in Delhi. They plan to provide a complete bundle for under $20 per month.
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A company in India that’s working on a new way to bridge the rural-urban divide by using a product called “the farming app”. The app helps farmers manage their crops, including automatic seeding, crop rotation, watering, and planting.
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A startup that’s building a platform to connect users with affordable health insurance products in India.
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Idea: This startup is building an alternative to Paypal for international money transfers, with a focus on Mark Zuckerberg’s favorite country, India.
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A digital payments platform aimed at the developing market in India.
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Recode – What are the most exciting tech startups in India
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A startup for insurance providers that wants to make the insurance buying process more transparent and accessible. The company claims to have over 3,000 companies as clients, including the government of India and the Department of Defense.
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A payments startup for small businesses in India, which wants to make it easier for SMBs to accept payments from major banks.
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A startup that helps people in India establish a bank account. The service aims to be user-friendly for people who don’t have a bank account. The team also says that it’s working with the government to digitize all government records to make banking easier.
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A digital assistant for your phone in India, to help you pay bills, book cabs, and get real-time info on fares.
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A startup in India that aims to help people sell and buy things online, with the promise that their software and services will only have a small fee.
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A startup that’s building an app to help companies recruit people in India. It’s a more effective version of traditional job-posting sites and is primarily focused on getting high-quality candidates to apply.
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A startup that helps people find their perfect wedding band. The team has hired several wedding consultants over the past year, and has partnered with a jeweler in India to help find one.
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A company building a virtual assistant specifically for the Indian market, combining different natural language processing technologies.
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Idea: A startup that wants to be like a “mini-LinkedIn” for Indian startups, with a focus on helping founders build their brands
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One-on-one tutoring for Indian school kids for standardized tests. The startup has a $3,000 monthly price point for up to five students, and it plans to expand to other markets in the next year.
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This startup is building a new way to build apps for mobile devices, with an emphasis on India. The company is building a mobile-first app development platform to make it easier for Indian developers to get going.
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A “zero-emission” electric-car sharing service in India
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The startup connects doctors in India to patients who want to get tests done through text message.
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The startup wants to help companies like Y Combinator and startups in India and China manage their offices more effectively. Its app is currently in closed beta.
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Launched in May, the company’s mission is to bring the benefits of public transportation to the Indian market in a way that’s affordable and fun.
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Shopify recently opened up a marketplace in India. It allows sellers and buyers to connect online or over the phone.
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This startup is building a platform for the SME (small and medium businesses) market in India, aiming to help them grow through a messaging platform.
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A mobile payments startup that helps small businesses in India get paid by credit card and electronic check through the bank's mobile app.
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A digital magazine and website platform for the Indian market. The company is backed by Sequoia India, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Matrix Partners.
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A business-to-business loan platform that aims to replace banks by offering smaller loans to businesses in countries where there aren’t enough banks. The startup has been in the works for over a year and has already signed up 5,000 businesses in India.
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A peer-to-peer marketplace to help people find loans from each other. The company is looking to partner with local banks in India to help bring the startup to market.
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A domain registration and hosting service for startups and entrepreneurs in India and the Middle East. The company is in the midst of a $1 million seed round.
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The founders of this startup say they can produce a beer with only water that tastes as good as Budweiser. The company’s first product is a line of craft beers it describes as “India Pale Ales.”
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Collects and analyzes the data around service delivery in India. The startup wants to integrate with government services for better service delivery.
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A simple way to send money to family and friends in India
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A startup that wants to create an API for doctors to capture, store, and share patient data. The app would let doctors send patients’ data to specialists and insurance companies, and keep track of bills, insurance claims, and other documents. The company says it’s already been used by doctors in the US and India and has revenue of $300,000 a month.
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A startup that helps people track their usage of wireless spectrum. The startup says they’ve collected data from over 2 million devices and is partnering with 5 other startups to launch in India and the US.
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A startup for small businesses in India that helps them grow by connecting them with suppliers and growing awareness of their business
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is a group of Indian business owners that help one another improve their operations, as well as provide education and guidance. Founded in early 2019, the company has just launched its first product, an automated program that helps owners of small businesses track and pay their employees.
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A company that wants to make it easy for people to set up and run their own ICOs. The company is currently only involved in the US for now, but they hope to hire more teams in India and the UK soon.
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A startup that’s building a digital platform for the Indian market. The startup aims to partner with financial institutions to create a digital platform for them to use.
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According to a study done by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the Indian startup scene has over 8,000 startups, with over $10 billion in funding.
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The startup wants to bring online education to developing countries. It’s currently building its first pilots in India and Nigeria, where it’s pitched as a way to bring education to places that aren’t well-off enough to attract students from elsewhere.
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A micro-finance company that provides loans to entrepreneurs in rural India.
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A company that works with local governments and nonprofit organizations to help them get free, city-wide WiFi for their residents. They have funded and built their own network in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and expanded to New Orleans, Detroit, and Indianapolis.
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A startup that helps small businesses in India build and maintain their websites, with plans to expand to other markets soon.
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A software company that provides a cloud-based platform for managing online payments for Indian businesses.
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A startup based in India that helps people in the US get better access to medical care abroad
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A software-as-a-service that helps companies locate and manage their third-party suppliers, including those in India.
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Hipsters are a big part of the e-commerce scene in India, but the startup wants to bring them into the mainstream, using a combination of data, AI, and traditional retail to help them discover the best of the best products.
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A startup that wants to help connect small businesses in the US with their suppliers in China and India. The company is focused on small and medium businesses, with a focus on purchasing and logistics.
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A startup for managing the supply chain for construction companies in India.
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An AI chatbot that helps farmers in India manage their produce. It’s meant to give farmers access to AI-generated insights on produce, including when it’s ripe and when it’s best to harvest.
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A platform that helps people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh get loans from banks and other financial institutions.
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A startup that makes a video game for teenagers in India that teaches them to read.
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Indian customers were using Invoice2Go to avoid paying taxes, but the startup is changing that by letting companies avoid paying tax on the invoices they’re sending to their customers.
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A startup that helps users send money using smartphones and email. It’s currently focused on remittance in India and Indonesia.
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A social network aimed at the Indian youth market, which will make it easier to connect and get things done.
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A startup designed to “empower” women in India to take control of their health.
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The startup is looking to help small businesses in India follow up with customers who have requested a price quote. They want to offer a program that lets companies send out quotes, track responses, and follow up with customers on their own.
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The startup helps businesses in India bring their payments into a single interface. It helps SMBs streamline their payments by helping them integrate all their different channels into one place.
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A digital tax filing and payment system for small businesses in India, providing a single platform for tax payments and receipts.
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The goal is to help small businesses in India engage with their customers, most of which are in rural areas. It aims to reduce the costs of customer acquisition and conversion, which can be huge for a startup.
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A startup that’s building a decentralized, community-based digital currency for the Indian market. The startup is looking to partner with mobile carriers to get their digital currency into users’ wallets.
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A cryptocurrency exchange for India
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The company wants to avoid the mistakes that surround the establishment of a new startup in India.
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“A startup that implements fintech software in the emerging markets of Southeast Asia, India, and China.”
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It's building a better accounting app for small businesses in India.
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A company specializing in payment for the $1 billion Indian marketplace, starting with mobile payments and following up with physical cash and digital wallets. They’re looking to help merchants get access to the country’s massive and growing middle class.
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A startup that helps people in developing countries buy products from Amazon. The app is similar to the wildly successful service from India’s Flipkart, but for those in developing countries.
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Launching in India and Brazil, this startup wants to make it easier to buy and sell second-hand goods.
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A healthcare app that helps Americans order medical supplies online in the US and have them shipped to them in India.
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Wired Magazine has a list of the top startups to watch in 2016, including three from India (Tango, Farmako, and Minimum) and two from the US (Clew and Zuddl)
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A micro loan (think Kiva) for women living in rural India
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A platform for sellers to offer items other than their own on an auction platform. The startup is working with hundreds of small vendors in the Philippines, India and the US, and is also working with some big name brands like Nordstrom to bring their products to the platform.
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A way to send money to friends and family in India, via a bank account, without official documentation.
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A way to handle invoices for companies based in India.
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A social network for women in the US and India that helps young women find the role models they want, speak to them, organize group events and share stories.
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Food delivery workers in India are some of the worst paid in the world, with daily wages of as little as $1.25. Slice aims to provide them with a way to make higher wages with improved service and convenience.
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Idea: A startup that helps restaurants in India optimize their kitchen workflow, and take advantage of technology like smart fridges and credit card processing.
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A company that recently launched in India is building a platform to help medical practices connect with patients, and is aiming to move into the US next.
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A startup that helps merchants in India streamline their database, connect with local customers, and get cash.
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One of the only two companies in India building an SMS-based payments platform for B2B, with a focus on e-commerce.
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A payment architecture for micro-businesses in India, which allows a business to instantly have a customer pay their invoice.
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Many startups on the list came from India, a country that has been a "fintech powerhouse" in recent years. The country has a large population of engineers and a growing consumer base, and the availability of capital and technology has led to a boom in the number of startups in the country.
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A startup that’s building a solution to the problem of hiring people in India, where the cost of living is high and the population is big.
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After launching in Mozambique in 2016, the startup is expanding its service to other countries that have high rates of child labor, including Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.
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IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.
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The startup is building a tool for large companies to build products for users in emerging markets. The company is currently focused on India and Brazil.
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Farmers in India are skeptical about GMOs, but Counterpoint is building a blockchain-based platform to help them track and trace their products.
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The company wants to be the first to deliver a biometric identity platform to countries in Africa and India.
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A payment company for the $2.5 trillion market in India, where cash is still the dominant way of making payments.
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India is the world’s fastest growing market in the food delivery business, and this startup is building an app that wants to take advantage of that. It’s looking to create an on-demand market for delivery drivers, who can earn $20 to $30 an hour.
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Shopify is looking to expand in India with the same model that Facebook used to build its business there, which is to make it easy for small businesses to get started.
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A platform for matching contractors to construction projects, with a focus on rural India.
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A startup that launched in India wants to help small businesses create a sales funnel, and their technology is already being used by brands like Urban Decay and Yakult.
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A platform for purchasing generic drugs online, which then enables the patient to build their own medicine. The company is based in India.
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The organizers said they received over 500 invitations from companies in India and elsewhere to submit ideas, and decided to invite a group of startups and investors to pitch their ideas at the conference.
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In 2018, YC Labs selected a total of 36 startups from the batch to continue on to the next phase of the program. The majority of the founders were based in the US, with three from Israel, two from Canada and one each from Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Hungary, India and England.
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A start-up that wants to help people in India or other third-world countries get a bank account and credit card. Instead of a bank account, they want to offer a virtual one.
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A scheme to bring enterprise-grade monitoring tools to small businesses in India. It’s a way for businesses to better track their performance, get better forecasting, and manage their growth.
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A way for doctors to order medical supplies online to make sure they’re stocked up on the medication they need. It’s currently in its seed round with 2 doctors and plans to launch in India in the second half of 2020.
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A platform for making payments, building credit, and analyzing financial performance. It’s the first platform in India to offer the ability to make payments in a smartphone app and access information about spending habits through a dashboard.
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The startup is working with a government agency in India to help people with low incomes get access to health care.
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A $10 million dollar fund that’s investing in startups that are developing and commercializing science and technology in India.
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A tool that helps healthcare workers in India send real-time updates to hospitals as they treat patients.
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Targetted against India’s $200 billion non-banking finance (NBFC) market, BorrowBox is building a platform for people to borrow money from other people in their social network.
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A startup that’s building an e-commerce platform for start-ups in India. The company’s founders say they’ve already struck partnerships with more than 1,000 merchants and have more than 400,000 registered users.
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Empowering Indian farmers to sell their produce directly to consumers via a digital platform.
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This startup wants to help employers manage their employee’s paychecks. The company wants to be the only way for companies to manage their employee’s paychecks in India, and is working with companies like DBS and Tata Communications.
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A company that helps installers set up and troubleshoot smart home devices, with a team of moonlighting technicians in America and a support desk in India.
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A startup for freelance developers that aims to pair India’s developers with international companies’ needs.
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A startup that wants to build a world-class engineering team in India.
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A startup that wants to help people open and manage multiple bank accounts from the same device. The business is focused on the unbanked and offers services in the US and India and has seen $500,000 in revenue since it launched at YC Summer.
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A “microcredit” platform that helps people earn money by selling goods, from crafts to clothes to food. The company is in pilot with the government in India.
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Online home store for India where customers can buy and sell in a peer-to-peer format.
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A software company that helps businesses in India manage their compliance with the new goods and services tax.
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This company is building a platform that enables sales reps in India to take orders via text message and then send them to back-end sales reps who are working on an individual transaction.
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A platform for hiring tech engineers, especially in emerging markets. It was built in India and is currently active in Indonesia and Mexico. The startup is looking to expand to the US.
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3 years ago
A startup based in India that offers domain name registration and domain management services to local and global businesses.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps students in India manage their finances, including paying their school fees, pay their parents back, and plan ahead for their next education.
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5 years ago
Idea: This startup wants to help India’s 600 million smartphone users take advantage of the country’s rapidly growing e-commerce market.
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3 years ago
A simple-to-use app for small retailers in India to find vendors and retailers nearby, also used as a marketplace for wholesale products.
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3 years ago
This startup wants to make it easier to deliver food to hungry people. Their service is focused on India, but they plan to expand to the US, Europe and the Middle East.
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3 years ago
Startup that focuses on the needs of people with disabilities in the developing world, especially in India. The company wants to build a digital library of books and apps for the blind, deaf and disabled in India.
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2 years ago
A public transport app for urban areas in India. It allows users to get the best schedules and buy tickets directly from their phones.
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2 years ago
A platform for booking cab rides and car services in a single app. The company says it’s already in talks with over 1,000 cab companies in India.
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3 years ago
An on-demand delivery service for grocery orders in India. The startup is looking to disrupt the supermarket model in the country by providing a delivery service for online grocery orders.
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2 years ago
a 3D-printing startup from India. The company is building 3D printers for the developing world — it has machines for $500, $800, and $1,400.
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5 years ago
Idea: Bring the ability to sell digital goods on the web in India
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Idea: A startup designed to help people in India pay their taxes online. The company charges one-time fees for setting up a company in India, and then charges users $1 per month to file their taxes.
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3 years ago
This startup wants to take the pain out of the laborious process of negotiating real estate in India by allowing direct communication between buyers and sellers. The startup also wants to make buying and selling homes more transparent and streamlined.
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3 years ago
Another startup for the India market, this one is building a telemedicine platform for consumers.
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3 years ago
This startup helps healthcare companies take better care of their employees and their families. They say they’re also working on making health insurance more accessible to the under-insured in India.
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3 years ago
A startup for consumers to find the best deals for their favorite brands at their favorite stores, including loyalty cards that save them cash. The company is based in India but intends to expand internationally.
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2 years ago
This startup is aiming to do for India the same work that Dropbox has done for the US.
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2 years ago
This startup is working with a local government in India to create a more effective tax system.
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5 years ago
An insurance comparison site for India.
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3 years ago
A company that wants to bring health insurance to the world’s poorest. The startup is already in talks with the government of the Philippines about expanding the product, and is sending representatives to India to talk about it too.
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3 years ago
This startup is working on a device to measure air pollution and alert people to unhealthy levels. It’s currently only available in India.
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2 years ago
This startup wants to help tech companies get started in India by providing them with customized training to learn the language, culture, and laws, and helping them with any legal issues they might face.
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2 years ago
A tech startup that wants to help technology workers in India get more tech jobs in the US.
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2 years ago
i-Kee is a startup in India that wants to provide a platform on which consumers can sell things directly to other consumers. It also provides an Android app that lets users search for items they want to sell, and then use i-Kee as a marketplace for transactions.
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3 years ago
A social network for women in India that uses a mix of online and offline to connect women in an anonymous way.
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2 years ago
This startup wants to help farmers in India get better prices for their produce. It’s trying to build a food-ordering app that also gives farmers a platform to sell their crops.
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2 years ago
A company that helps users negotiate financial transactions with businesses in the Philippines, India, and Indonesia.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that wants to bring online tutoring to India It’s working with teachers and tutors, and aims to provide a marketplace where teachers can list their services
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2 years ago
Sellers in the US can use this tool to create an online store with a drag-and-drop interface and zero setup. The startup is bringing its tool to India, as well.
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2 years ago
In India’s most populous state, where the app is aimed, roughly 20,000 people die due to traffic accidents every year. It uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human intervention to monitor traffic conditions and send alerts to cars of bad driving, as well as send out a text that includes the name of the driver and a link to a video recorded by a camera attached to the car’s dashboard.
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2 years ago
A payments platform that lets anyone make payments with cash, cash equivalents, or cryptocurrency. It’s available in India, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines.
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2 years ago
A banking app for the underbanked in India. It’s like a money transfer app plus a savings account.
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2 years ago
A tool that helps people in India import and extract data from WhatsApp, Instagram, or Facebook accounts, and then anonymize it.
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2 years ago
A personalized newsfeed for investors and traders. They’re hoping to get adoption of their app in India, where financial markets are still small.
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2 years ago
Recoon, a next-gen business that wants to help small business owners grow by providing them with data, analytics, and guidance. They are looking to expand across the US and other countries, especially in Latin America and India.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that aims to help companies in the Middle East and India use technology to hire engineers and maintain online reputations.
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3 years ago
Tapping into a market of over 60 million people in India, which has no bank accounts. The startup wants to automate the process of opening a bank account so people don’t have to waste time or money on the process.
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2 years ago
This startup is building a system to help developers build apps for India’s huge population of “shoppers” that live on the fringes of the economy.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that helps agencies and consultants close deals with more confidence. The startup was founded in India, and is already seeing traction in that country.
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2 years ago
A startup looking to help Indian logistics companies get more competitive with their pricing and delivery times.
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2 years ago
In 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that the number of Americans living in poverty had fallen from 15.2 million in 2007 to 12.5 million in 2013, but it remains at 20% of the population. In contrast, the poverty rate for China is around 3%, and for India it is roughly 20%.
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2 years ago
An online platform that enables customers to compare prices on local goods, then order them directly from their phone. The startup is launching in India and the UK.
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2 years ago
A startup that wants to help freelance designers in India get a fair day rate from clients.
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2 years ago
A startup that enables users to add a relative in India with an iPhone. It’s built for people in India who don’t have access to the internet, but also for Indian families who are looking to send money abroad.
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2 years ago
A company that builds software for small businesses to manage their operations. It’s currently in the process of moving to the US from India.
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2 years ago
E-commerce for the developing world. ShopJuhu is building an online marketplace specifically for consumers in India, which they say is currently underserved.
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2 years ago
A Wi-Fi router company, selling to all major carriers in the US, UK, Canada, and India.
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2 years ago
A platform that helps startups launch in places like India, Brazil, and the Philippines, and serves as a resource for them to grow and scale.
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2 years ago
A virtual assistant that helps you manage all the tasks on your schedule. The startup claims it’s the largest virtual assistant in India.
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2 years ago
A B2B company which has developed a service platform for managing Indian mobile operator licenses and ensuring the correct number of mobile phone connections/SIM cards are appropriately procured.
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2 years ago
A startup with a vision for India’s rural health care system that connects patients, doctors, and hospitals via video.
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2 years ago
A cloud-based service that makes it easy to start a small business in India. It’s a stock market marketplace that gives small businesses a chance to grow and compete with their bigger counterparts.
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A company that helps companies bring their products to market in India, with a focus on fintech, healthcare, and education.
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2 years ago
A B2C app that helps senders of flowers in India arrange for delivery and tracking of their gifts.
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Search engine for mobile phones in India
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2 years ago
This startup is building a tool for people to manage their finances through a mobile app. The B2C business is focused on “banking the unbanked” and specific Indian markets.
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A software company that develops enterprise software for the financial services industry, like banks, insurance companies and brokerage firms. They have a small team in India and plan to launch in three different geographies by 2020.
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A startup out of a Y Combinator batch that wants to solve the problem of Indian startups not having access to VC funding.
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2 years ago
A youth-oriented startup focused on sharing live video and photos with users in India.
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Founded in 2018, this company is already gaining traction in India with the government’s rural healthcare program. The company uses AI and telemedicine to help remote rural areas connect with a doctor.
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A micro-finance and loan startup in India. The company is currently testing its product and has received approval from India’s central bank to offer loans to entrepreneurs.
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A one-stop resource for startups building products in India.
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A podcast-style radio show that focuses on the people and businesses of Bangalore (India).
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2 years ago
SaaS platform that helps farmers receive insurance for their crops, through health insurance or crop insurance. The startup is in the process of securing a 30-year contract with the Government of Kerala, India.
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ThirstyMeds is building a smart pharmacy solution for India that helps compare drug prices, and track inventory in real-time.
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A platform turning idle parking spaces in urban India into pop-up markets for street vendors, with integrated payments and inventory tracking.
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A platform that turns WhatsApp group chats into monetizable newsletters for Indian creators, with built-in payment links and subscriber analytics.
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