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22081. Gurugram startup Virohan is fighting COVID-19 by training healthcare workers
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- Health education startup Virohan has trained over 1,500 students to serve COVID-19 patients. The training programme was launched in April 2020 to address the lack of skilled healthcare workers.
- Gurugram-based health education startup Virohan also stepped up its game to help India fight the COVID-19 crisis. The startup was founded in 2018 by Kunaal Dudeja, Nalin Saluja, and Archit Jayaswal, with an aim to provide trained allied healthcare practitioners (AHPs) such as OT technicians, medical lab technicians, and X-ray technicians, among others.
- We developed COVID-19 training content in the form of easy to understand videos – in vernacular language – along with short quizzes. The content has been updated with the latest information from WHO and MHFW,” Kunaal tells YourStory.
22082. Hocomoco - a proptech startup offering construction tracking services
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- Founded by Sripad Nandiraj, the proptech startup is expanding to four more cities from the current two, and will be handling end-to-end home services as it scales.
- Hocomoco was founded in 2017 by Sripad when several of his friends found property renovations to be a challenge.
- Hocomoco is focused on getting some order into the construction industry by targeting a niche market. Customers often face multiple problems such as price fraud, material theft from project site, and project cost overruns, while dealing with different departments involved in a construction project. Customers also face difficulties in evaluating the quality of the structure. To solve these set of issues, Hocomoco started providing solutions like digital tracking and insured work done on the structure. It offered 100 percent transparency in the material used and presented a complete cost breakup.
22083. [Startup Bharat] Jaipur-based OLE Rooms plans to disrupt co-living with rents starting from Rs 199
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- Set up by Devendra Sharma when he was 18, Jaipur-based startup OLE Rooms allows one to rent flats, paying guest houses, and hostels for a day to over a year.
- An inability to find an accommodation as an engineering aspirant in Kota, coupled with a medical emergency, led 18-year-old Devendra Sharma to start an online marketplace for renting flats, paying guest houses, and hostels for as low as Rs 199 a day.
- “I and my father kept looking for rooms all day long,” says Devendra. “But my father, who had blood pressure and diabetes, collapsed and I had to rush him to a hospital in Kota.”
22084. This adtech startup is helping the likes of CRED, Grofers, Licious scale up their digital media campaigns
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- Founded in 2013, New Delhi-based ET Medialabs now works with 250 brands, helping them leverage digital advertising and analytics to scale up.
- Founded in 2013 by Raghav Kansal and Rajeev Garg, ET MediaLabs aims to help brands and startups scale their revenue by leveraging digital advertising and analytics to their full potential. Side note: Rajeev exited the company in 2016.
- Over the years, the startup has worked with popular internet brands, including CRED, Grofers, Licious, The Urban Company, Forest Essentials, Good Earth, and Lenskart, helping them ensure a wider reach through digital advertising.
22085. [The Turning Point] How two friends started creator monetisation startup TagMango to help influencers earn more money
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- The Turning Point is a series of short articles that focuses on the moment when an entrepreneur hit upon their winning idea. Today, we look at Kolkata-based TagMango, which is helping influencers and celebrities to scale their community.
- Divyanshu started creating content at the end of 2017. A motivational speaker, he usually speaks on personal, insightful conversations with extraordinary and interesting people. He had also been a speaker at leading platforms such as TEDx, Josh Talks, and colleges like SRCC, NM, IITs, and IIMs
- Since its launch, the startup has worked closely with more than 100,000 creators, influencers, and artists, and is now targeting the next 500 million internet users in India.
22086. This CRM startup is helping retailers like Nykaa, Taco Bell, GAP increase sales
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- Delhi-based Xeno works on a product plus consultancy model, providing CRM technology along with personal strategists to ensure maximum revenue for its 100 plus clients.
- Back in 2015, Computer Science engineers and roommates from VIT University - Pranav Ahuja and Ayushmaan Kapoor, quit their jobs to build a tablet-based loyalty programme for small and medium businesses.
- They registered the startup as Xeno. While the startup was able to generate $300,000 revenue by 2018, “We struggled to further scale it,” Pranav tells YourStory.
22087. With over 10,000 B2C and B2B clients, this on-demand storage startup promises to keep your valuables safe
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- Founded in 2015, on-demand storage provider Safe Storage offers storage management solutions ranging from household storage, document storage, and business storage, among others.
- Bengaluru-based Safe Storage is looking to solve this problem by providing storage management solutions ranging from household storage (appliances, kitchen utensils, furniture), business storage (B2B), document storage, and tape vaulting.
- The on-demand storage startup was founded in 2015 by former IBM colleagues Ramesh Babu Madisetty, Venu Madhav Maidam, and Nageswar Midam after they faced difficulties themselves when they had to travel.
22088. This India Quotient-backed startup is creating a Netflix-style hobby learning platform for kids
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- Gurugram-based startup Yellow Class wants to help millions of mothers with access to world-class hobby learning content for their kids aged 3-12.
- Serial entrepreneur Anshul Gupta has been in the startup ecosystem for more than a decade, having built and scaled three businesses, exited two of them via acquisitions, and launched his fourth venture (goFlatmates) in 2019. goFlatmates used AI and data to help people find flats and flatmates of their choice from curated listings by room providers. It was “going well” until early 2020, when COVID-19 happened and the market completely collapsed.
- “This market was born due to the pandemic. You can call it a COVID baby. Online adoption was practically zero here. Kids aged 3-12 were watching cartoons or doing something offline. But after COVID-19, there’s been a massive uptake in all kinds of online classes.”
22089. Recipe for success: How this startup got 1,200 restaurants to board its supply chain automation platform
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- SaaS-based startup SupplyNote, founded by four IIT Kanpur graduates, offers inventory and supply chain solutions, helping eateries improve their bottom line.
- Founded by IIT Kanpur graduates Abhishek Verma, Nitin Prakash, Kushang, and Harshit Mittal in 2019, SupplyNote is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup that digitises the inventory procurement processes of restaurants and automates supply chain management.
- The four founders first met at IIT in 2011 and started their entrepreneurial journey immediately after graduating in 2015. They helped brands run trackable below-the-line advertisements — promotion beyond mainstream media — on food packaging items.
22090. FPIs invest ₹28,203 cr in Aug so far; turn net investor in debt after 5 months
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- Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) remained net investors in Indian markets in the first half of August, pumping in ₹28,203 crore in debt and equities on net basis in the period, according to the depositories data. FPIs turned net investors in the debt segment in August after a gap of five months.
- Depositories data showed that a net sum of ₹26,147 crore was invested in equities and ₹2,056 crore in the debt segment by FPIs between Aug 3-14. This translated into a total net investment of ₹28,203 crore.
- FPIs have been net buyers for two consecutive months prior to this. They invested ₹3,301 crore in July and ₹24,053 crore in June on net basis.