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21921. Vocal for local: This tech startup wants to help build a community of local ecommerce networks
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- To bring the benefits of digital solutions to local communities in the most easy manner, where local ecommerce can flourish and build networks of their own, Anup Pai started eSamudaay in July this year along with Ravinder Mahori and Ravi Haldipur.
- The technology platform is similar to a plug-and-play system to foster entrepreneurship and create an ecommerce network between sellers and buyers in smaller towns without the top down approach of a large company.
- The Bengaluru-based startup is now operational in the temple of town of Udupi in Karnataka with about 50 sellers on board, and claims to be adding about 10 sellers every week.
21922. Thane Startup’s Wheat/Rice Edible Straws Will Last for 20 Minutes in Your Hot Tea
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- ‘Nom’, a Thane-based startup has launched biscuit-like straws that are made from plant-based ingredients.
- We all know plastic is bad for the environment and it has far-reaching repercussions on marine life as 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into the ocean every year. Of this, 0.025% are plastic straws and while this may seem like a conservative figure its sheer number varies between 437 million and 8.3 billion plastic straws globally.
- Initially, the duo worked out a solution to make these straws from a kind of seaweed but it was all in vain. The raw materials had to be imported and the cost of production was high. In their second attempt, they decided to make the same using simple kitchen ingredients in different proportions.
21923. [Startup Bharat] This Jaipur-based ecommerce platform is celebrating Rajasthan’s local artisans
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- Deepak Jha started the eCommerce platform Deeps Shop in August this year to promote local artisans and make India self-reliant.
- The Jaipur-based digital marketer already claims to be making profit and garnering nearly 500 orders a month.
- “Jaipur is famous for its home furnishing and decor products, and I decided to popularise it more with my project,” says Deepak.
21924. How biotech startup Seragen is reworking infertility treatments with regenerative therapies
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- Bengaluru-based biotech startup Seragen is developing therapies to treat infertility in India holistically. It claims to deliver safer and better results than conventional fertility therapies.
- Fertility treatments are expensive - around Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.25 lakh, per cycle, according to price ranges outlined online by leading IVF treatment centres, have low success rates, and, more importantly, are not covered by insurance. Only a percent of the 30 million infertile couples in India seek IVF treatments, and most of them target very specific problems with synthetic solutions, instead of restoring the patient’s health, holistically.
- “Regenerative medicines hold promise for the future. Not just do they treat symptoms but repair and restore the body's natural balance,” says Vasanthi, who, along with her serial entrepreneur friend Srinivas, founded Seragen Biotherapeutics.
21925. [Startup Bharat] These entrepreneurs from Ranchi started up to digitise non-tech businesses
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- Aayush Agrawal, Shaurya Poddar, Shreyansh Jain, and Udit Poddar realised the stark difference between how technology companies manage their operations and data versus how traditional verticals like mining, manufacturing, infrastructure development, and others manage these operations.
- in 2017 to solve the data management challenge in these traditional verticals with the aim to increase information discovery.
- Registered under the name Pragyaam Data Technologies, it eventually evolved into a B2B SaaS company named Grid in 2019. “Grid was founded to solve the problems of scalability, long timelines, unreasonable costs, and user acceptance issues that businesses faced with the customised software/tailor-made market, and on the other hand the rigidity of readily available domain specific ones,” says Udit, who is also the CEO of the company..
21926. This startup is ensuring a self-drive EV for last mile jockeying
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- Nikhil started inGo Electric in 2017 to enable people to ride their last mile on electric vehicles (EV) with light, futuristic, and carbon-emission free two-wheelers.
- It’s product inGo Tron is going to hit the roads next month, a smart and sustainable commuting device which is also energy efficient and enables travel up to 20 km on a single charge or battery swap.
- The electric vehicle market is likely to be a Rs 50,000-crore opportunity in India by 2025, with two and three-wheelers expected to drive higher electrification of the vehicles in the medium term in the wake of COVID-19, according to a report by Avendus Capital, the investment banking arm of financial services provider Avendus Group.
21927. How Bengaluru-based femtech startup Ava aims to be every woman’s wellness buddy
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- Founded in December 2019 by Evelyn Immanuel, the platform aims to be every woman's wellness buddy by promoting a disciplined and holistic approach to ensure a better quality of life and avert future complications.
- The Bengaluru-headquartered femtech startup offers curated programmes and personalised plans to help women deal with chronic health conditions such as PCOS, thyroid, insulin resistance etc.
- “We’re solving for chronic conditions that affect about 68 percent of all women. Chronic conditions require disciplined management and continued monitoring. At Ava, we picked polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as our first beachhead. One in every five women in India suffers PCOS, a condition with varied symptoms such as irregular periods, hirsutism, acne, and weight gain,” Evelyn says.
21928. This woman went from being a Reliance employee to an entrepreneur funded by it
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- Aditi Pany is the Founder and CEO of Qalara, a Bengaluru-based startup that offers a wholesale ecommerce marketplace for small businesses to export across the world.
- The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) backs the startup.
- She reminisces, “We were enabling education in rural areas in the middle of Orcha, Chambal Valley, in fact, and then went on to work with Ashoka, which is the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs.
21929. This startup enables weavers and artisans to directly connect and sell their products to customers
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- Hyderabad-based Pickmycloth lets weavers and artisans decide the price and sell their products directly to customers without the interference of middlemen.
- Dinesh Suram, M Ram Kalyan, and PV Abhishek tarted Pickmycloth, an ecommerce platform for weavers/artisans, to sell handloom and handicraft products directly to the customers across the globe.
- The startup began its journey with the handloom clusters of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
21930. This startup is making online transactions easy and secure without OTPs
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- Mumbai-based SAWO Labs is a SaaS-powered one-tap authentication service for apps and websites that claims to bring down the cost of authentication for companies.
- Today, most online transactions are secured with one time passwords (OTP) to provide an additional level of security. However, many times, people complain of never receiving OTPs, which makes them repeat the whole login process again.
- To solve this problem, 23-three-year-old Prabhat Sahu founded SAWO Labs early this year.