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21651. Starting with just two clients, B2B SaaS startup Whatfix recorded 300 pc revenue growth in 1 year
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- Sequoia Capital India backed SaaS startup Whatfix works as an interactive guidance platform, helping Fortune 500 companies increase employee productivity.
- Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar quit Huawei Telecom in 2011 to build a product that would help SMBs enhance their marketing capabilities. The product SearchEnabler would crawl across interwebs for data points, analyse them, and identify marketing recommendations.
- B2B SaaS startup Whatfix provides in-app overlays and guidance for implemented software. It provides services, including product adoption, user onboarding, employee training, self-service support, and performance support using enterprise web applications.
21652. Startup Bharat] How Goa-based Nao Spirits & Beverages is putting India on world gin map
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- Nao Spirits & Beverages has two gin brands under its umbrella: Greater Than and Hapusa. The startup has recorded 400 percent rise in sales in one year.
- Making the most of this trend, Anand Virmani and his wife Aparajita Ninan started Nao Spirits & Beverages in 2016. Nao Spirits claims to be India’s first craft gin company, and also one of the country’s first craft spirit startups.
- The startup was initially founded in Delhi, although its distillery was set up in Goa. Over time, Nao Spirits shifted its base to Goa and it turned out to be rather an advantage.
21653. [The Turning Point] Personal pain points led this entrepreneur to launch business communication startup Telebu
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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 Telebu, a Hyderabad-based UCaaS company that offers a plug-and-play solution to startups, SMEs, and enterprises.
- It may have started as an SMS company, but over the years Telebu kept evolving and adding new products to its portfolio, across voice, chat, video, APIs, and SDKs. Most products were based on a pain point Telebu faced as an organisation or a pain point its customers faced.
- Telebu has also developed an AI-powered chatbox, Telebu Pop, which is aimed at automating responses for its website customers and helping the Telebu team understand intent, user behaviour, and actions, and help qualify prospects into leads.
21654. This bootstrapped startup is helping companies invest in social capital to see success
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- Orglens has created a platform to help organisations analyse and visualise the informal networks, which will help with strategy, engagement, execution challenges, collaboration, etc.
- Orglens uses its technology platform to visualise and analyse the informal networks in organisations and helps make decisions and insights on strategy, engagement, execution challenges, innovation potential culture, inclusion, collaboration, and high potential employees.
- “Orglens helps understand the energy flow and acupressure points in organisations, particularly those with many degrees of complexity. Till now, other than the organisation structure and chart, we had no tool to visualise the complex adaptive organisation,” says Santhosh.
21655. With B2B clients like Cars24 and Zoomcar, this on-demand driver service startup is targeting Rs 204 Cr revenue in 3 years
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- Computer science engineers Rajarshi Nag (22) and Paramarthe Saha (23) gave up on their campus placements to take the entrepreneurial plunge and solve the problem of on-demand professional driver service. Drivers4Me was incorporated to address the need for reliable, professional and standard on-demand drivers.
- Drivers4Me offers both B2B and B2C solutions. Individuals or businesses that own a car, can request for the services of a driver either through the startup’s mobile app or website. Once the booking is raised, the closest and most suitable drivers are matched with the trip, and the user is notified of the allotmen
- Drivers4Me has a pool of more than 900 full-time and part-time drivers. “All the drivers go through rigorous background verifications before being listed on the platform,” Rajarshi says.
21656. [Funding alert] Gourmet Garden raises pre-series A from Incubate Fund India, Whiteboard Capital
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- Bootstrapped edtech startup NotJustLex offers live learning sessions and certificate courses in corporate law to students and fresh recruits at law firms.
- NotJustLex, a DPIIT-recognised startup, wants to bridge the gap between theoretical law and practical application, and make quality legal learning accessible to not only legal students but also fresh law graduates looking to upskill.
- At present, NotJustLex offers certificate courses in ‘Private Equity Investments in India’, ‘Commercial Contracts in India’, ‘Sports Law in India’, and ‘Finance for Legal Professionals’.
21657. Ultrasound in your pocket: Sandeep Akkaraju's quest to democratise healthcare with his startup Exo
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- According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 75 percent of the world does not have access to medical imaging, and the WHO goes on to add that a portable ultrasound imager can change the world. The point-of-care ultrasound technology is touted as the future of medical device technology.
- Redwood City-based Exo will be taking on legacy ultrasound machines that are not portable and expensive.
- Exo's ultrasound platform uses nano materials and signal processing to enable image fidelity, penetration depth, and 3D imaging capabilities on a silicon-based chip that can be used in high-fidelity imaging to HIFU-based therapeutics.
21658. Sound of success: Consumer tech startup boAT powers ahead as India goes vocal for local
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- Founded in 2016, boAT clocked a revenue of Rs 500 crore in FY 2020, a 108.8 percent growth from FY 2019. Now, the co-founders are setting their sights on building a global audio business out of India.
- Today, boAt is present in 5,000 retail stores, supported by 20 distributors. The startup claims to be clocking sales of over 10,000 units a day, and four million units per year, and says it has served 20 million Indians so far.
- Behind boAt’s growth is a consumer-first approach, which has made the startup one of the most sought-after youth brands in India. Almost 80 percent of its sales coming from ecommerce channels such as Amazon and Flipkart.
21659. How this tech startup tailored its business to see growth during the pandemic
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- Mirrorsize’s patent-pending technology uses a combination of AI, image processing, and data analytics to find precise body measurements and create bespoke outfits for customers.
- Mirrorsize, an AI company that offers a 3D body measurement tool with a laptop or smartphone camera, is making the most of the present situation.
- “COVID has turned out to be an opportunity for Mirrorsize, which has fast forwarded digital implementation among various customers,” says Arup Chakraborty, CEO and Founder, Mirrorsize.
21660. Backed by Apollo Group, this edtech startup aims to bridge skills gap in the healthcare space
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- Hyderabad-based healthcare-focused edtech startup Medvarsity offers 140 courses in clinical and management areas for doctors, nurses, and general management personnel. It claims to have trained over three lakh medical professionals till now.
- The gaps in healthcare education led to the birth of Hyderabad-based Medvarsity, which was established and promoted by Apollo Group in 2000 with one vision: impacting healthcare through education.
- Launched as Apollo Medvarsity, the company was rebranded as Medvarsity Online in 2016 with the launch of a new website. Gerald Jaideep took over as CEO and the online varsity has over the years evolved into Asia’s largest healthcare edtech company.