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21751. Bee venom, snail slime, caviar: this luxury Italian brand wants to change the skincare game
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- Based out of Kozhikode, Kerala, BrainsPrep is a web and mobile-based school learning app that provides live coaching, animated videos, study materials, individual tuition support, etc., for school students in their regional language.
- BrainsPrep was started in 2017 by Rajeevan N (61) as a learning app for his coaching institute named Brains, which was started in 1977, to provide study materials to its students.
- Based out of Areekkad, a small town in Kozhikode, Kerala, BrainsPrep (Formerly BrainsApp) is a web and mobile-based school learning app providing live coaching, animated videos, study materials, doubt support, and individual tuition support for school students in their regional language. The subjects offered are Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology, Hindi, English, History, and Geography.
21752. [The Turning Point] What led this couple to launch alkaline water brand Evocus H20
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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 Vadodara-based AV Organics, which manufactures and sells India’s first bottled black alkaline water.
- The company has invested in product research and set up a state-of-the-art automated manufacturing-cum-bottling plant spread across 50,000 sq ft.
- According to Aakash, the facility is equipped with the world’s leading blowing and filling machines that require zero human intervention. It has built secure pharmaceutical-grade infrastructure, with a completely germ and particle-controlled atmosphere, an HVAC air conditioning system, and a clean room of Class-100,000 air quality.
21753. Amidst COVID-19, this farm-to-table startup is helping farmers earn more with cloud farming
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- Bengaluru-based farm-to-table startup Orinko aims to make farming more sustainable, predictable, and profitable for farmers with the use of technology while keeping in mind the consumers’ needs.
- Having grown up seeing the issues besetting the agricultural landscape, Vikas Mittal and Ankit Agarwal, Co-founders of agritech startup Orinko, decided to improve farmer’s quality of living. With Orinko, the co-founders aim to revolutionise the agritech landscape and improve farmers' quality of living while building credibility for end-customers.
- Finally, in October 2019, Orinko was incorporated as a full-stack agritech fruit and vegetable (FnV) startup and became operational in February this year.
21754. This digital payments startup is digitising rural India by converting kiranas into banks
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- Ahmedabad-based startup Easy Pay has onboarded 500,000 retailers on their platform and its app Paisa Nikal has served more than 35 million people in rural India.
- n his journeys, he understood why Indians relied on the corner store owner for credit, and how these stores can help people open a bank account, deposit and withdraw. This is what Nilay wished to replicate with his Ahmedabad-based startup Easy Pay. The startup’s app Paisa Nikal connects both small stores and their consumers through banking services, thereby ushering a new way to look at the future of banking.
- "At Easy Pay, we aim to offer additional revenues to the Kiranas and help in digitising them," says Nilay Patel, Founder of Easy Pay.
21755. [RAISE 2020] How this Bengaluru-based startup is modernising agriculture through IoT and AI
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- Founded in 2019, GramworkX has built an IoT and AI-enabled smart farm resource management tool that helps farmers to monitor micro-climatic conditions of their farms, quantify irrigation and with irrigation prediction so that they can take accurate, proactive and preventive decisions.
- Tapping into the market, GramworkX was founded in 2019 to bring “predictability to farming”. This Bengaluru-based startup helps in precision farming by integrating field data, weather patterns, and crop information to drive agronomic advice to farmers.
- Founded by K A Gopalakrishnan and Supriya Ananthakrishnan, GramworkX has built an IoT and AI-enabled smart farm resource management tool that helps farmers by monitoring micro-climatic conditions of their farms, quantifying irrigation, and irrigation prediction so that they can take accurate, proactive and preventive decisions. “Our solution helps in yield improvement, providing analytical insights into water consumption patterns across fields and soil types ultimately enabling data-based decision support systems for farmer and farming organisations,” says Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder, GramworkX.
21756. RAISE 2020: This startup aims to make India’s EV sector aatmanirbhar by using AI to repurpose Li-ion batteries
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- Delhi-based startup Ziptrax Cleantech leverages AI to repurpose discarded Li-ion batteries and manufactures battery packs for electric two and three-wheeler vehicles.
- “If you talk about parameters such as waves, energy, density, or size, Li-ion batteries are much better than lead-acid ones. However, lead-acid batteries will continue to have a substantial market share because of their price,” says Rohan Singh, Co-founder of Ziptrax Cleantech — an electric cell repurposing startup.
- For this reason, Ziptrax Cleantech leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to repurpose discarded Li-ion batteries. as well as manufactures battery packs for electric two and three-wheeler vehicles.
21757. [RAISE 2020] This AI-powered startup offers accurate, contextual translations in 22 Indian languages
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- Delhi-based AI startup Devnagri is a human translation platform that combines neural machine translation and machine learning with human intervention to provide efficient and accurate services. It has more than 5,000 translators who work in 22 Indian languages.
- Inspired by the versatility and diversity of the script and the many Indian languages that use it, Himanshu Sharma and Nakul Kundra founded AI-powered startup Devnagri
- The founder claims that Devnagri is at least 10 times more efficient and accurate than other translation platforms, due to the human intervention in the translation processes. The bootstrapped startup was awarded the Best Emerging Portal For Translation & Localisation Services 2019 – INDIA by Business Mint in 2019. In 2020, Devnagri was selected in the Special Category at RAISE 2020, India’s biggest AI Solution Challenge for Indian startups, in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) category.
21758. Home Chefs Are Earning upto a Lakh a Month, Thanks to This Noida Startup
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- After Monika Chhatwal’s husband passed away earlier this year, the financial burden of running the home entirely fell on her. With two children in the house, she had to find a stable livelihood.
- So, she gave up her dream of opening a restaurant. But she still wanted to cook. So she looked for opportunities to sell food from her own kitchen in Noida.
- But how could one start collecting orders other than through social media? Like so many of us, Monika could not build an app, or spend all her time marketing herself. She could cook for sure. But needed a place to sell – digitally.
21759. How Delhi-based hardware startup Flipr aims to Make in India, for the World
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- Bengaluru Founded by two 24-year-old engineers, Delhi-based hardware startup Flipr is focusing on Make in India.
- Amidst the coronavirus, it has developed a contactless sanitiser-cum-body temperature monitor that can be deployed in offices, buildings, and public areas
- “There are not many hardware products that are built from India and shipped to the world. The logistics and procurement challenges due to COVID-19 are huge when it comes to shipping the hardware product," Rohan says.
21760. [Tech30] How 2 college friends built a startup that became profitable in under a year
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- A YourStory Tech30 startup for 2020, WhatsApp-integrated Bikayi was launched in April 2019, and turned profitable by January 2020.
- That grocery store is integral to this story because that is where the seeds of Sonakshi (26) and Ashutosh’s (25) startup Bikayi — which has managed to turn profitable and raise $2 million in funding, all in about a year’s time — were sown.
- On April 1, 2019, the duo officially launched their startup, Bikayi, which allows small businesses to quickly and simply create their online stores, powered with all the necessary tools needed to manage ecommerce on WhatsApp.