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21621. Digital wellness startup HealthifyMe sees growth amid pandemic; eyes Rs 150 Cr ARR by January 2021
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- HealthifyMe’s AI platform has enabled the digital wellness startup to garner a greater number of paying subscribers with cost-effective plans, which has resulted in stronger revenue growth.
- The coronavirus pandemic has made people more health conscious than before. With COVID-19 being increasingly associated with comorbidities and social distancing becoming the new norm, people have turned to digital wellness platforms to keep fit and stay healthy. In this scenario, digital wellness startup HealthifyMe, which offers coaching and AI-based nutrition plans to customers, has reported a rise in revenues and paying customers in the past few months.
- The startup is now looking to cross an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $20 million (Rs 148 crore approximately) by January 2021. It already crossed $15 million (Rs 111 crore approximately) in August this year.
21622. [Startup Bharat] This 24-year-old entrepreneur from Kochi offers premium handcrafted jewellery at affordable prices
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- Kochi-based startup Stardom Accessories sells handmade jewellery including chains, earrings and rings across the country.
- Realising the increase in demand for artificial jewellery, especially among the youth, many entrepreneurs have started a business in manufacturing, crafting and selling artificial jewellery. One such entrepreneur is Kochi-based Neeta Vijay Kumar who believes that handcrafted jewellery in India is often downplayed. Her startup Stardom Accessories promotes and sells handcrafted or handmade jewellery procured directly from the craftsmen in Jaipur and Delhi.
- “People usually buy jewellery without realising the value or the effort that goes behind making it. I believe that this aspect of people should change. One should know the value and story behind the jewellery before buying it. My brand talks about the jewellery culture of India through the unique designs that we provide,” the 24-year-old entrepreneur tells
21623. Bootstrapped startup LokalPe matches blue-collar workers with hyperlocal skill-based jobs
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- Bengaluru-based startup LokalPe is a jobs search platform for blue-collar workers who lost their gigs and returned to their villages after the coronavirus lockdown.
- Enter LokalPe, a job search platform that matches blue-collar workers with hyperlocal skill-based jobs at their base locations. LokalPe went live in June, and claims to have helped fill up over 2,000 vacancies in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh — states that recorded the highest rates of returning migrant labour.
- The Bengaluru-based startup caters to skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled workers, and generates micro-employment to build strong local communities. Job seekers can look for gigs in their areas, upload 15-second video resumes showcasing their skills, and choose from over 5,000 real-time vacancies. They can also filter their search based on age, gender, state, districts, and skill level. Job listings on LokalPe span across 45 categories, including cook, plumber, poultry farmer, security guard, driver, welder, tailor, florist, carpenter, shop helper, lift operator, factory worker, restaurant staff, and more.
21624. This SaaS startup is gearing up to solve transport woes for logistics businesses
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- Rourkela-based TransportSimple helps logistics businesses manage day-to-day operations such as trip and inventory tracking, maintenance summary, GST compliant accounting modules, and live performance monitoring among others
- To provide fleet management services to logistics businesses, Father-son duo Hardeep Singh and Jasdeep Singh launched TransportSimple in 2018.
- The SaaS startup helps logistics businesses manage daily operations such as trip, inventory tracking, maintenance and employee summary, GST compliant, and driver performance monitoring among others.
21625. Make in India to get Rs 22,000 crore boost from city gas expansion
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- The rapid expansion in city gas networks undertaken by the Modi government will open a Rs 22,600 crore ‘Make in India’ market It is for ancillary equipment needed for piping natural gas to households and refuelling CNG vehicles, say a clutch of government notes. According to the notes, prepared for an oil ministry event on Thursday to showcase India’s CGD (city gas distribution) programme.
- The expansion of CNG and PNG services will also create nearly four lakh direct employment opportunities by 2027. Only 34 GAs (geographical areas, akin to licence areas across districts in a state) in the country had city gas distribution networks till 2014.
- The programme has an estimated investment potential of Rs 90,000 crore. The number of households with PNG connections will rise to over 4 crore from 55 lakh, while the number of CNG stations will go up from 1,838 to 10,000 by 2024. Such a scale of network expansion will need huge quantities of pipes, mechanical and smart meters, PNG regulators, compressors and boosters pumps etc, which will open up opportunities for domestic manufacturing. Similarly, the notes say there will be demand for 3.75 lakh skilled, semiskilled and unskilled manpower to run and maintain the networks.
21626. [Startup Bharat] How this school dropout is building a Made in India alternative to Adobe Photoshop
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- Rajkot-based Made in India company InsideLogic Software has built AI-based image editing and album designing software. It is targeting Rs 2 crore revenue by 2022.
- In Gujarat’s garba capital Rajkot, Aslam Solanki is doing what most Indian entrepreneurs aim to do: thinking local and building global. With a vision to solve issues faced by digital designers, be it photographers, album designers, and graphic designers, Aslam has built automated design solutions.
- “We are indirect competitors to Adobe Photoshop. But we are faster, better, and cheaper,” Aslam claims.
21627. Steel Minister seeks Japanese investment in fast-growing Indian steel market
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- Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged Japanese investors to invest in India's steel sector.
- Dharmendra Pradhan was speaking at a 'Workshop on Enabling Procedures for Increase of Steel Usage for the Growth of Economy' event organised by jointly
- Highways, roadways and bridges are another key focus area of the government where steel will be required in huge quantity”. "All these areas will require different grades of steel and Japan which is a master in technology can explore business opportunities in our steel sector,"
21628. How Mumbai-based wellness startup Olena helps people stay fit with plant-based protein products
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- Mumbai-based wellness startup Olena is a D2C plant-based nutrition brand that produces and sells vegan supplements and protein products across India.
- Akash Zaveri launched Olena in 2018 to help Indians live a healthy life by consuming plant-based diets after he realised the benefits of adopting a completely vegan diet in 2015 while he was working in California.
- “Olena is a plant-based nutrition brand founded with a vision to awaken the world to the potential of plant-based nutrition. With modern lifestyles and industrialised farming methods, eating high quality, bioavailable foods has become increasingly difficult. Also, finding good products that pack in the benefits of nature has become a challenge in developing countries such as India. We believe that elevating mind, body, and planet are key to living a healthy, happy life and plant-based nutrition is key to achieving this,” Akash told
21629. Swiss firm plans steel plant in Kadapa district
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- Swiss major IMR Metallurgical Resources-AG has proposed to set up a steel plant in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh at an investment of over Rs 12,000 crore and an annual production capacity of 10 million tonnes. This would be the second steel plant that has been proposed in Kadapa district in the Rayalaseema region of the state.
- The state government also entered into an agreement with National Mineral Development Corporation for supply of iron ore for the proposed steel plant, with a capacity of three million tonnes.
- IMR officials said their activities in iron ore, coal and gold mining extended to Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico, Columbia, Italy, Ukraine, besides India. The company was into power and steel production as well.
21630. कहानी एक मां की:उषाशी रथ ने पायलट बेटे को खोने का गम भुलाने के लिए काउंसिलिंग सेंटर खोलें, अपने स्टार्ट अप 'उत्कला' के जरिये कोरोना काल में बनीं कारीगरों का सहारा
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- 2009 में उन्हें नवी मुंबई में 'बेस्ट वुमन इंटरप्रेन्योर' के अवार्ड से सम्मानित किया गया | बेटे के न रहने पर ऐसा लगा जैसे सबकुछ खत्म हो गया है। वे डिप्रेशन में थी। उन्हीं दिनों उन्होंने अपने दोनों स्कूल बंद कर दिए
- उषाशी का संबंध एक ऐसे परिवार से हैं जहां अधिकांश लोग शिक्षक हैं। उन्होंने बचपन से अपने घर में पढ़ाई-लिखाई का माहौल देखा। वे 1986 में शादी के बाद अपने पति के साथ मुंबई आ गईं। वे घर में रहने के बजाय कुछ करना चाहती थीं।
- इसलिए मॉन्टेसरी ट्रेनिंग ली और एक प्री स्कूल में टीचर बन गईं। उसके बाद 2001 में नवी मुंबई क्षेत्र में खुद का प्री स्कूल शुरू किया जिसका नाम 'स्टेपिंग स्टोंस' रखा।