Top 10 Startups in India to Look Out for in 2017

Top 10 Startups in India to Look Out for in 2017

Europe’s largest technology company, SAP is all set to recruit 16 Indian startups for its accelerator programme in 2017 unlike seven last year. SAP is aimed at banking on AI (artificial intelligence), innovative ideas and Internet of things the interconnection via the Internet of computing devices embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data, to push ahead with its global transformation in cloud and digital. That being said, in this post I am offering you the list of top 10 startups in India to look out for in 2017. Do have a read!

While Fintech survived the demonetization by going cashless completely; Myntra acquired Jabong and Flipkart acquired Myntra. The India startup ecosystem is constantly setting up gravity-defying momentum, as every year we see how startups are cropping up everywhere across the nation. With every sunrise, we see a company being established. And with over 5,000 startups in India, it is not easy to distinguish the chalk from the cheese – especially when the company is in its nascent stage. While the likes of like Flipkart, Ola, Zomato, Paytm and more recently Snapdeal grab headlines, smaller startups like HappySale are doing some phenomenal job, but are yet to reach out to the masses.

 

After sipping a few mugs of coffee and hours of groundwork, I came up with this list of top Startups in India to watch out for in 2017. My endeavor was to find startups who are here to stay and not die young. There may be a few familiar names, but this list largely entails the names that are poised in an interesting stage of their business. While most of them have been around for only a year or two, some are about to launch their product. Striding across various verticals that include e-commerce, transportation, tech, IoT etc., these startups are definitely doing something interesting. This list features the startups in India that are driven by innovation and provides plenty of room for fresh ideas and applications. This is what makes them hot.

Top 10 startups in India to look out for –

1. GrabOn

 

Founder: Ashok Reddy

GrabOn is a 4-year old Hyderabad-based startup that deals with online coupons and deals venture. It has been consistently working towards the pursuit of ingenious acquisition through technology overhaul. Ashok Reddy, Founder and CEO, GrabOn had this to say,

|“Within a month’s time this new platform has had more than one lakh users getting the most exclusive coupons from GrabOn straight to their work stations and mobile phones. Genuine real-time coupons and technology innovation are the two platforms that GrabOn has introduced to this segment”.|

GrabOn claims to be the first of its kind to introduce this segment to the domestic market so as to get the end user at the best deals through the easiest means of technology. This Indian startup works on a cost-per-sale model and makes money based on the end sale.

2. 91springboard

 

 

Founders: Anand Vemuri, Deepak Sharma, Pranay Gupta, Susan Lim, Varun Chawla.

91springboard offers a plug and play office with ready-to-use facilities and timely events for co-working members. It is a vibrant community created for startups, freelancers and business owners with a startup mindset.

This is what the owner had to say,

|“We believe we act as a ‘springboard’ to enterprises propelling them further, helping them succeed. We’re also terribly proud of our country and the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian and the ‘91’ in our name is our salute to that very spirit.”|

3. AddressHealth

 

Founder: Dr. Anand Lakshman.

With the rising demand of children healthcare services, AddressHealth is a Bengaluru-based top startup that has a vision to make pediatric care easily available by providing health care services via school and clinics. Last year, AddressHealth had raised $1.5 million in Series A funding led by Gray Matters Capital with participation from existing investor, Unitus Seed Fund.

Launched in 2010 by doctors Anand Lakshman and Anoop Radhakrishnan, AddressHealth has reached more than 1 lakh children through on-site services and screening programs to identify health issues and provided early intervention to prevent them from suffering as young adults.

4. AdsNative

 

Founders: Satish Polisetti, Dhawal Mujumdar

AdsNative helps websites and apps better monetize with responsive native advertisements through their AdsNative SSP platform. Last year, the company had raised $8.5 Million Series A to take on DFP Ad Server. AdsNative’s strategy involves mobile-optimized ad server with the option to add on a yield optimizer and exchange. By solving for publisher problems capturing mobile and native ad revenue on their sites, AdsNative aims to woo publishers away from the widely used ad server, Google-owned DoubleClick for Publishers [DFP].

5. Affimity

 

Founders: Ramana Venkata, Amar Singh, Parveen Mittal

 

Affimity is a social networking platform for people with similar interests in food, family, and digital life to connect and share their interests. The name Affimity has been derived from Affinity and Amity. It is a social home for people’s passions offered through interest-specific channels. Members can join only the channels that are aligned with their interests. Each channel has dedicated content as well as the community buzz, and people you can follow or friend. It also has a feed from just your friends and following, valuable advice and recommendations from people who share that passion, and services appropriate for that channel.

6. Altizon

 

Founders: Vinay Nathan, Ranjit Nair, Yogesh Kulkarni.

Altizon Systems is a Pune-based startup and is the world’s first Industrial Internet Platform company with a flagship platform named Datonis. In 2016, Altizon closed a $4 million Series A funding round led by Wipro Ventures. Lumis Partners and current investors, The Hive and Infuse Ventures, also participated in this round.

With their flagship product, Datonis IoT Platform, Altizon aims at aiding companies build IoT products and solutions in weeks by providing device connectivity kits, a device management layer, a scalable, real-time, big-data analytics engine and alerting and monitoring services.

7. Applicate

 

Founders: Deepak Rewadi, Ranjeet Kumar

Applicate is a Bengaluru-based startup founded in 2014. It provides innovative solutions to solve complex business problems. Applicate’s flagship uni-channel product EXEED, which stands for execution, effectiveness, engagement, and data analytics is an integrated mobile and cloud-based platform. It aims to transform the sales, service, marketing and distribution functions of organizations with large teams.

8. BabyBerry

 

Founders: Bala Venkatachalam, Subhashini Subramaniam, Dev Vig

BabyBerry, founded in 2014, is an application to help parents through the journey of pregnancy to motherhood. Parenting app BabyBerry has managed to secure angel funding of USD one million, from a group of investors. As a child health and wellness platform, it has been designed to help new-age parents provide a good environment for their child’s holistic growth and development. The funds will be used towards product development and marketing initiatives.

9. Cloudcherry

 

Founders: Vinod Muthukrishnan, Vijay Lakshmanan, Nagendra CL, Prem K Viswanath

Cloudcherry, the SaaS-based customer experience management platform is a top startup based in Bangalore and Chennai. Last year, it had raised $6 million in Series-A funding and aiming to focus on global markets like the Middle East, Southeast Asia and USA.

 

10. Happy Sale

 

Source: https://happysale.in/

Founder: Sree Reddy

HappySale, founded in 2016, is a Chennai-based online discount deal company, which should be in the bookmark of every online shopping lover. One can save big using this website whenever they are shopping or availing any service online, right from clothing and food to electronics and movie tickets.

So, those were the top 10 startups in India to look out for in 2017. Today, there are countless startups in India who do not believe in making incremental changes. They have pushed the envelope and challenged convention to come up with radically different products and services. By pushing boundaries, they have been able to deliver something that is game-changing.