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I want to use this opportunity to thank every one of you for helping me as much as I hope i'm helping you. Thanks to the support and well-wishes you've sent to me.
Everybody knows the billion or
million dollar companies which are popular but only some of them know the
founders of those companies. So ladies and gentleman boys and girls i'm here to give you some information about the Top-20 Indian startup companies and their founders.
While my beloved foreign readers who are curious about Indian startups will be getting much useful information. So guys just stick to the page n let's dive in to the world.
1.FLIPKART
Flipkart, a company which started with a small investment of Rs. 4, 00,000 to develop its website has undoubtedly grown up to be one of the biggest e-commerce players in the Indian shopping market.Now valued at over US$17 billion, Flipkart is amongst the top 10 e-commerce companies in the world. Flipkart now employs more than 33,000 people
FOUNDER-Mr.Sachin Bansal and Biinny Bansal
Sachin Bansal started Flipkart in 2007 from a one-room apartment in Bangalore along with his schoolmate Binny Bansal. The store started by selling books online and later expanded to categories such as apparel and electronics.
The first product they sold was the book Leaving Microsoft To Change The World to a customer from Hyderabad. Both are alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in October 2007.
Snapdeal.com was started in february 2010 - India's largest online marketplace, with the widest assortment of 12 million+ products across 500+ diverse categories from thousands of regional, national, and international brands and retailers.With millions of users and 150,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 5000+ cities and towns in India.
With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, A leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become one of the largest mCommerce company in the country along with Flipkart and amazon.
With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, A leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become one of the largest mCommerce company in the country along with Flipkart and amazon.
FOUNDER- Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal
Kunal bahl was the former employee of Microsoft. Along with his schoolmate Rohit Bansal, Kunal experimented with various businesses over the course of four years before setting up Snapdeal as a discount coupons and daily deals site. Rohit bansal is an alumnus of IIT Delhi.
3.paytm
With its mobile-based marketplace Paytm, One97 Communication’s incubated startup has reportedly become the country’s largest digital company. Going by the volume, the Noida- based startup processes close to 300,000 transactions on a daily basis.
PAYTM is on track to becoming one of India’s most prevalent homegrown consumer technology companies.
FOUNDER- Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Born in a small town near Delhi, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was the first amongst his immediate family to graduate from a tech school and then travel overseas for a job.
Vijay launched One97 as a telecoms software company in the early 2000s and later pivoted it to Paytm, an online marketplace in 2009.
4.Ola
India seems to be going through a ‘Taxi’ revolution. Every other day, there is a new start up offering efficient cab service to the citizens operating urban and rural lifestyles. You can avail an Ola Cab extremely easily and their trusted drivers will get you to your destination hassle free. Valued at over US$5 billion now, Ola has about 250,000 cabs and auto rickshaws in its app and it operates in about 100 cities.
FOUNDER-Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati
First of all to people who dont know, Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, the founders of Olacabs are two IIT Bombay graduates.
Bhavish worked for Microsoft after college for two years and then left Microsoft and started an online company to sell short duration tours and holidays online. While running that business for a couple of months, he took a car rental from Bangalore to Bandipur and had a very bad experience. So he decided to start a taxi company with the help of his friend Ankit Bhati.
His parents didn’t agree with his idea in the beginning of course, like all Indian Parents won’t but now ola is the one of the leading company in online cabs. The word OLA means Hello in Spanish.
5.quikr
Quikr is an Indian classified advertising platform. Quikr is India’s no.1 online classifieds
platform, it is a place where people can connect with each other to buy or sell goods
and services.
Quikr is Launched in 2008 with the vision for buyers and sellers to “meet
online, transact offline”, today Quikr have over 4.2 million listings and have
generated over 150 million replies. Quikr,have created an online community which is simple and secure.
FOUNDER- Pranay Chulet
Pranay Chulet is an alumnus of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.In 2007, Pranay started his first
entrepreneurial venture, Excellere. In 2008, he founded Kijiji India, which was
later rebranded as Quikr.
Quikr was the only classifieds platform to be
featured in the list of top ten ‘Best E-commerce Brands in India Amongst
Youth’.
6.zomato
Zomato, founded in 2008,
is India’s largest restaurant guide listing over 42,000 restaurants across 12
cities in the country – Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune,
Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Indore. The
service began as "Foodiebay" and later named as zomato.
The website soon listed 1,200 restaurants in New
Delhi – and the team hasn’t looked back since. It has expanded to over 22
countries and still counting.
FOUNDER- Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah
Deepinder graduated with a Mathematics and
Computing degree from IIT Delhi in 2005 and hails from Muktsar in Punjab.However, as typical Indian parents, Deepinder’s
parents advised him to shut it down and go back to a proper job. He did not
listen. The company is now valued at close to US$1 billion.
7.Inmobi
Inmobi is mobile advertising and discovering platform. the company was founded in 2007 in India. InMobi enables consumers to discover amazing
products through mobile advertising. Through Miip, a revolutionary discovery
platform, developers, merchants & brands can engage mobile consumers
globally.
InMobi enables over 100 billion discovery
sessions on mobile across a billion users every month, becoming the largest
discovery platform in the world. Now they have 1000+ employees.
FOUNDER- Naveen Tewari and Mohit saxena
It was in 2007 that Mohit met Naveen Tewari, Amit Gupta and Abhay Singhal. They decided to come together and start a venture in the mobile market.
The company started as mKhoj and later pivoted to serve
ads as they saw the app market ripening.
8.Oyo rooms
OYO
Rooms promises to provide the same amenities and the same awesome experience
across all its rooms. Affordable OYO offers rooms at prices that no other
player in the budget segment offers today. Online
platforms for budget hotels in India have been in the news. Oyo Rooms
is the ‘oldest startup’ in the space.
Oyo Rooms is an Indian virtual hospitality
brand. It aggregates budget hotels and guesthouses, making inventory
discoverable and bookable online. Its branding provides a franchise-like
consistency of product. It’s a managed marketplace of properties.
FOUNDER- Ritesh Aggarwal
At 21 years of age, Ritesh
Aggarwal is India’s youngest millionaire entrepreneur, having created budget
hotel startup OyoRooms.
Ironically, Ritesh was thrown
out of rented place in New Delhi when he couldn’t pay the rent. He slept the
night in the stairway. Then he started bed and breakfast chain later named as oyo rooms
Ritesh had come to Delhi to study in college.
But after just three days he realized that formal education is not something he
wants to waste his time on.When his parents got to know their son had
dropped out, they became angry. His mother said who will give a daughter to my
son for marriage now.
9.redbus
Redbus is India’s number 1 bus ticketing
platform, was founded in 2005 and is a part of ibiboGroup. They books bus ticket fare with zero booking charges. You can now choose from
1500+ bus operators and 80,000 routes in India.
Started modestly in August 2006 with a few seats
from one bus operator, redBus today is one of the most successful online bus
ticket booking agencies. Today, it has 700 bus operators, 10,000 buses listed
on it, works in 15 states and sells around 5,000 tickets every day.
FOUNDER- Phanindra Sama
During Diwali in 2005, Bangalore-based Phanindra
Sama wanted to travel to his hometown in Hyderabad but couldn’t find any
available seats. He decided to solve this problem by co-founding Redbus, an
online bus ticketing startup, which is the largest such portal in India.
In fact, redBus.in was founded by three
engineers -- Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju and Sudhakar Pasupunuri -- who
studied together at the BITS, Pilani, and later worked in various companies in
Bengaluru.
10.grofers
Grofers is an Indian on-demand online
grocery delivery service. It
was founded in December 2013 and is based in Gurgaon.As of
2016, the company has raised about $165.5 million from investors.
Grofers is a hyperlocal shopping startup. Which is doing a good number of deliveries and is on
the verge of breaking even at the current stage in terms of revenues.
FOUNDER- Albinder Dhindsa.
A former early employee at Zomato, Albinder
Dhindsa started Grofers in 2013 with co-founder Saurabh Kumar.Albinder worked in Silicon Valley before coming
back to India to work at Zomato, which was founded by his childhood friend
Deepinder Goyal.
so friends these was the top-10 Indian startups. How was it? if you have any suggestions then please let me know. If you guys have any doubts comment below or mail me at tushargodbole2@gmail.com Thank you for visiting guys. Have a great time.. ;) keep missing me...!! :) see you soon. B byyeeeee....
Top-10 Indian Startup Companies And Their Founders.
How are you all doing? i am not at leisure these days so unable to post frequently. I'm sorry for it, but i'm back now with this wonderful post top-20 Indian startups and their founders. i would like to thank all my readers from India, USA, UAE, Spain, Ukraine, Ireland for huge response for my last posts, i'm incredibly humbled....!!
I want to use this opportunity to thank every one of you for helping me as much as I hope i'm helping you. Thanks to the support and well-wishes you've sent to me.
Everybody knows the billion or
million dollar companies which are popular but only some of them know the
founders of those companies. So ladies and gentleman boys and girls i'm here to give you some information about the Top-20 Indian startup companies and their founders.
While my beloved foreign readers who are curious about Indian startups will be getting much useful information. So guys just stick to the page n let's dive in to the world.
1.FLIPKART
Flipkart, a company which started with a small investment of Rs. 4, 00,000 to develop its website has undoubtedly grown up to be one of the biggest e-commerce players in the Indian shopping market.Now valued at over US$17 billion, Flipkart is amongst the top 10 e-commerce companies in the world. Flipkart now employs more than 33,000 people
FOUNDER-Mr.Sachin Bansal and Biinny Bansal
Sachin Bansal started Flipkart in 2007 from a one-room apartment in Bangalore along with his schoolmate Binny Bansal. The store started by selling books online and later expanded to categories such as apparel and electronics.
The first product they sold was the book Leaving Microsoft To Change The World to a customer from Hyderabad. Both are alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in October 2007.
Snapdeal.com was started in february 2010 - India's largest online marketplace, with the widest assortment of 12 million+ products across 500+ diverse categories from thousands of regional, national, and international brands and retailers.With millions of users and 150,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 5000+ cities and towns in India.
With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, A leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become one of the largest mCommerce company in the country along with Flipkart and amazon.
With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, A leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become one of the largest mCommerce company in the country along with Flipkart and amazon.
FOUNDER- Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal
Kunal bahl was the former employee of Microsoft. Along with his schoolmate Rohit Bansal, Kunal experimented with various businesses over the course of four years before setting up Snapdeal as a discount coupons and daily deals site. Rohit bansal is an alumnus of IIT Delhi.
3.paytm
With its mobile-based marketplace Paytm, One97 Communication’s incubated startup has reportedly become the country’s largest digital company. Going by the volume, the Noida- based startup processes close to 300,000 transactions on a daily basis.
PAYTM is on track to becoming one of India’s most prevalent homegrown consumer technology companies.
FOUNDER- Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
Born in a small town near Delhi, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was the first amongst his immediate family to graduate from a tech school and then travel overseas for a job.
Vijay launched One97 as a telecoms software company in the early 2000s and later pivoted it to Paytm, an online marketplace in 2009.
4.Ola
India seems to be going through a ‘Taxi’ revolution. Every other day, there is a new start up offering efficient cab service to the citizens operating urban and rural lifestyles. You can avail an Ola Cab extremely easily and their trusted drivers will get you to your destination hassle free. Valued at over US$5 billion now, Ola has about 250,000 cabs and auto rickshaws in its app and it operates in about 100 cities.
FOUNDER-Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati
First of all to people who dont know, Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, the founders of Olacabs are two IIT Bombay graduates.
Bhavish worked for Microsoft after college for two years and then left Microsoft and started an online company to sell short duration tours and holidays online. While running that business for a couple of months, he took a car rental from Bangalore to Bandipur and had a very bad experience. So he decided to start a taxi company with the help of his friend Ankit Bhati.
His parents didn’t agree with his idea in the beginning of course, like all Indian Parents won’t but now ola is the one of the leading company in online cabs. The word OLA means Hello in Spanish.
5.quikr
Quikr is an Indian classified advertising platform. Quikr is India’s no.1 online classifieds
platform, it is a place where people can connect with each other to buy or sell goods
and services.
Quikr is Launched in 2008 with the vision for buyers and sellers to “meet
online, transact offline”, today Quikr have over 4.2 million listings and have
generated over 150 million replies. Quikr,have created an online community which is simple and secure.
FOUNDER- Pranay Chulet
Pranay Chulet is an alumnus of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.In 2007, Pranay started his first
entrepreneurial venture, Excellere. In 2008, he founded Kijiji India, which was
later rebranded as Quikr.
Quikr was the only classifieds platform to be
featured in the list of top ten ‘Best E-commerce Brands in India Amongst
Youth’.
6.zomato
Zomato, founded in 2008,
is India’s largest restaurant guide listing over 42,000 restaurants across 12
cities in the country – Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune,
Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Indore. The
service began as "Foodiebay" and later named as zomato.
The website soon listed 1,200 restaurants in New
Delhi – and the team hasn’t looked back since. It has expanded to over 22
countries and still counting.
FOUNDER- Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah
Deepinder graduated with a Mathematics and
Computing degree from IIT Delhi in 2005 and hails from Muktsar in Punjab.However, as typical Indian parents, Deepinder’s
parents advised him to shut it down and go back to a proper job. He did not
listen. The company is now valued at close to US$1 billion.
7.Inmobi
Inmobi is mobile advertising and discovering platform. the company was founded in 2007 in India. InMobi enables consumers to discover amazing
products through mobile advertising. Through Miip, a revolutionary discovery
platform, developers, merchants & brands can engage mobile consumers
globally.
InMobi enables over 100 billion discovery
sessions on mobile across a billion users every month, becoming the largest
discovery platform in the world. Now they have 1000+ employees.
FOUNDER- Naveen Tewari and Mohit saxena
It was in 2007 that Mohit met Naveen Tewari, Amit Gupta and Abhay Singhal. They decided to come together and start a venture in the mobile market.
The company started as mKhoj and later pivoted to serve
ads as they saw the app market ripening.
8.Oyo rooms
OYO
Rooms promises to provide the same amenities and the same awesome experience
across all its rooms. Affordable OYO offers rooms at prices that no other
player in the budget segment offers today. Online
platforms for budget hotels in India have been in the news. Oyo Rooms
is the ‘oldest startup’ in the space.
Oyo Rooms is an Indian virtual hospitality
brand. It aggregates budget hotels and guesthouses, making inventory
discoverable and bookable online. Its branding provides a franchise-like
consistency of product. It’s a managed marketplace of properties.
FOUNDER- Ritesh Aggarwal
At 21 years of age, Ritesh
Aggarwal is India’s youngest millionaire entrepreneur, having created budget
hotel startup OyoRooms.
Ironically, Ritesh was thrown
out of rented place in New Delhi when he couldn’t pay the rent. He slept the
night in the stairway. Then he started bed and breakfast chain later named as oyo rooms
Ritesh had come to Delhi to study in college.
But after just three days he realized that formal education is not something he
wants to waste his time on.When his parents got to know their son had
dropped out, they became angry. His mother said who will give a daughter to my
son for marriage now.
9.redbus
Redbus is India’s number 1 bus ticketing
platform, was founded in 2005 and is a part of ibiboGroup. They books bus ticket fare with zero booking charges. You can now choose from
1500+ bus operators and 80,000 routes in India.
Started modestly in August 2006 with a few seats
from one bus operator, redBus today is one of the most successful online bus
ticket booking agencies. Today, it has 700 bus operators, 10,000 buses listed
on it, works in 15 states and sells around 5,000 tickets every day.
FOUNDER- Phanindra Sama
During Diwali in 2005, Bangalore-based Phanindra
Sama wanted to travel to his hometown in Hyderabad but couldn’t find any
available seats. He decided to solve this problem by co-founding Redbus, an
online bus ticketing startup, which is the largest such portal in India.
In fact, redBus.in was founded by three
engineers -- Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju and Sudhakar Pasupunuri -- who
studied together at the BITS, Pilani, and later worked in various companies in
Bengaluru.
10.grofers
Grofers is an Indian on-demand online
grocery delivery service. It
was founded in December 2013 and is based in Gurgaon.As of
2016, the company has raised about $165.5 million from investors.
Grofers is a hyperlocal shopping startup. Which is doing a good number of deliveries and is on
the verge of breaking even at the current stage in terms of revenues.
FOUNDER- Albinder Dhindsa.
A former early employee at Zomato, Albinder
Dhindsa started Grofers in 2013 with co-founder Saurabh Kumar.Albinder worked in Silicon Valley before coming
back to India to work at Zomato, which was founded by his childhood friend
Deepinder Goyal.
so friends these was the top-10 Indian startups. How was it? if you have any suggestions then please let me know. If you guys have any doubts comment below or mail me at tushargodbole2@gmail.com Thank you for visiting guys. Have a great time.. ;) keep missing me...!! :) see you soon. B byyeeeee....































