Angel Investments


My engagement with Start-Ups started a couple of years ago, and I have been an active angel investor since the last few years. Here is a list of the investments that I have made so far, will keep on updating the list as I invest in these start-ups.

Blu Smart
Blu Smart

Name of the company – Gensol Mobility Private Limited – Blu Smart™
Website Blu Smart™

Founder
Anmol Singh Jaggi LinkedIn
Puneet Singh Jaggi LinkedIn
Punit K Goyal LinkedIn

Blu Smart has raised an angel round [from leading VC funds and leading angel investors] of $2.2mln.

Business Purpose
Blu Smart is reinventing mobility by bringing together and aggregating the world’s most innovative mobility concepts under a single mobility platform [under one roof] – RideSharing, CarSharing and SharedCharging. Blu Smart is a 100% electric vehicles powered smart mobility and smart charging platform. Blu Smart is a sharing economy solution for modern urbanites who want access to flexible and affordable mobility. We are building an ecosystem for multi-modal zero emission smart mobility and smart charging solutions. With Blu Smart App [iOS and Android] – the customer always gets the most affordable and the most convenient way to get to their destination.

Brief Profile
The demand for shared mobility will continue to grow driven by three mega trends – urbanization, sustainability and sharing economy. Blu Smart offers flexible RideSharing, CarSharing and SharedCharging solutions for a city – faster searches, easy trip planning, shared charging, quicker and seamless online payments – all in one app.

Blu Smart™ Shofr is a RideSharing service aiming to simplify intracity and intercity smart urban commute. Blu Smart has 100 electric cars on its ridesharing platform in Delhi NCR and will scale to 1500 electric cars across Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Pune in 2019. Just tap on your smartphone wherever you are and your ride will arrive whenever you want want. RideSmarter with Blu Smart Ride – no surge pricing, comfortable, safer, premium and affordable rides.

• Drivers are supplied through Driver Partner agencies and are on contract. Drivers are not direct employees. We are creating a universal basic income model for drivers.
• Revenue Model – Revenue from ridehailing and ridehsharing. Currentlu Blu Smart’s fleet is generating revenue of INR 2,200 per car per day.

Blu Smart™ Drive is a premium free-floating CarSharing service – the most advanced electric cars in the world, no hassles of car ownership, no stress and no fixed costs [insurance, maintenance]. Customer pays only for the duration of the journey per minute. Blu Smart will offer premium electric cars from Nissan, Hyundai, Kia, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes.

Blu Smart™ Charge is building the share charging platform and aggregation of smart charging stations [airbnb of charging]. Blu Smart has partnered with BSES and others and has built 15 smart charging stations are premier locations [free of rentals, free parking]. Blu Smart Charge will build 65+ charging stations in Delhi NCR and will aggregate 10000+ charging stations in the coming months across Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Pune. One Network – One App for all technologies – Bharat Charge, CCS and CHAdeMO.

Style Dot Me
Style Dot Me

Name of the company – StyleDotMe fashion and lifestyle Pvt. Ltd.
Website styledotme.com

Founder
Meghna Saraogi LinkedIn
Akhil Tolani LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
We have built our company with the motive of making life and shopping easier for each individual associated with the jewellery industry. People’s experience and convenience is what drives us to push our boundaries and create such ground breaking innovations. Our purpose is to create the world’s best user experience for jewellery shopping. We are focused on being the one stop solution for each and every jeweller across the globe.

Brief Profile:
We are a group of people on a mission to make jewellery shopping the most undemanding experience in the history of shopping. mirrAR by StyleDotMe is the world’s first Augmented Reality tech platform that lets shoppers virtually try on jewellery without actually wearing it. Our endeavour is to achieve a solution to negate the tedious and challenging process of physically trying multiple jewellery designs. Our aim is to make this world a better place for jewellery shoppers and lovers.

Josh Talks
Style Dot Me


Website – joshtalks.com

Founder
Supriya Paul LinkedIn
Shobhit Banga LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Unlock Human Potential

Brief Profile:
Josh Talks was co-founded by Shobhit Banga & Supriya Paul in January 2015 with the goal of raising the aspirations of Young India.
What started as a simple conference back then is now a robust media platform that covers a wide array of subjects with speakers from every conceivable background, including entrepreneurship, public policy, sports, entertainment and social initiatives. With multiple regional languages in their ambit, their stories and speakers echo one desire: to inspire action. Josh Talks is proactively building an all-inclusive, passionate community of young individuals from rural and urban areas, with a special focus on tier II and tier III cities. Josh Talks passionately believes that a well-told story has the power to reshape attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world.

Chqbook
Chqbook

Name of the company – Chqbook
Website – chqbook.com

Founder
Vipul Sharma LinkedIn
Sachin Arora LinkedIn
Rajat Kumar LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Chqbook.com is creating India’s largest marketplace bank.

Brief Profile:
Chqbook.com offer’s massive choice, covers the joining fees for customers and provides delightful customer experience by taking care of the entire financial fulfillment process. Founders bring deep domain expertise in portfolio management, building highly scalable technology and running large operational teams across India and at brands like Amazon, Myntra, HDFC Bank, SCB, Citibank, and others.

Advantage Club
Advantage Club

Name of the company – Advantage Club
Website – advantageclub.in

Founder
Sourabh Deorah LinkedIn
Smiti Bhatt Deorah LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Employee and Customer Engagement, HR Tech.

Brief Profile:
Advantage Club is India’s largest platform for employee perks, rewards and recognition. They have partnered with more than 9000 brands, including the likes of Samsung, Lifestyle, PVR, Cafe Coffee Day, which provide exclusive perks and point redemption options to employees of more than 200 partner corporates like Concentrix, DXC, EY, Maruti and more. Organizations can utilize the platform for delighting their employees and premium customers, and brands can promote themselves among premium audiences through the app and web based portals. Started in 2014, the company is profitable today.

OckyPocky
OckyPocky

Name of the company – OckyPocky
Website – ockypocky.com

Founder
Amit Agrawal LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To democratize English learning education of 160+ million vernacular Indian preschool kids.

Brief Profile:
80% of Grade 2 kids in India can’t read which consequently reflects on only 7% of India’s graduates being employable. OckyPocky app tackles this with high interactivity, instant feedback and real-time progress of the child with Voice, Video, and Vernacular. The platform is a personalized AI/NLP based English learning app building critical early year’s vocabulary foundation. OckyPocky’s mission of evangelizing early childhood English education to millions of little kids will help build a more employable India.
A stronger start will build a stronger future!

Jalongi
Jalongi

Name of the company – Jalongi Retail Private Limited
Website – jalongi.com

Founder
Dippankar S Halder LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Build the best Fish & Seafood company in Asia

Brief Profile:
Jalongi.com (2018) is a Gurgaon headquartered online category killer, delivering wide range of top quality fresh fish, cleaned and pan-ready : ready to cook and does not need wash.

Getting a range of quality fish in one place is difficult. Wet markets have a terrible experience. Fish cleaning and washing at home is an uncomfortable chore. Jalongi.com takes care of all the above plus saves time for time-starved Indian urban consumers. They have the Widest Range, Freshness Guarantee & Pan-Ready delivery.

Currently in Kolkata, Howrah and all of NCR Delhi, will soon be in other metros.

Ramp
Ramp

Name of the company- – Shanrohi Technologies private Limited
Website – rampwms.com

Founder
Amit Kumar LinkedIn
Rakesh Biswal LinkedIn
Praveen Yalla LinkedIn

Business Purpose: “To be a Global leader in Automotive post sales Life-cycle management through an Integrated digital ecosystem”.

Brief Profile:
Shanrohi Technologies Private Limited is a company focused upon software development in the ERP space for Automobile aftermarket since its incorporation in Aug’2016. With the growth of aftermarket opportunities, the automotive industry has been observing major transformations in the manner it operates aligning itself to the evolution of cloud, analytics, big data, and mobility; thus, introducing a new set of solutions to address the business and operational gaps through technological means. These changes in business dynamics in the industry brings up a platform for the company to showcase ‘RAMP’ to address the needs of the business.

Currently, the focus areas of the company concentrate on providing products, solutions, and services to multi-brand car workshops, fleet owners, private vehicle owners, insurance companies and spares dealers & suppliers.

Playtoome
Playtoome

Name of the company – PTM Digital Connect Private Limited
Website – playtoome.com

Founder
Keerthivasan Subramanian LinkedIn

Business Purpose: With its unique platform proposition, Playtoome intends to “Decentralize”, “Democratize” and “Dematerialize” –live performance, entertainment and engagement by enabling affordable, anytime and anywhere access for any audience through its unique virtual and interactive venue platform.

Brief Profile:
Playtoome is a content-driven, context-specific and culture-appropriate, technology enabled live performance, entertainment and an intelligent consumer engagement platform that will help create and nurture interest-based communities that can connect, communicate and collaborate.

It aspires to become the most preferred online platform globally for consumer seeking to experience live performance of any form or kind. This versatile platform is quite dynamic and extendible and will also help hone and promote new talent in the area of performing arts – music, dramatics, stand-up performance etc.

Tripeur
Tripeur

Name of the company- Shorebird Technologies Private Limited
Brand – Tripeur (brand by which we are known)
Website – tripeur.com

Founders
Thiagarajan Rajagopalan LinkedIn
Sajit Chacko LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To transform corporate travel from service orientation to technology orientation.

Brief Profile:
Tripeur is transforming the corporate travel space with its advanced technology and brings significant savings to the travel budget for corporates. These savings are made possible by the following:

• Real-time analytics that provide 360-degree view of all travel activities
• Granular control over policies, approval processes and provider deals
• AI/ML based Behavior Shaping to align travelers to corporate objectives
• Flexible booking engine that fulfils all travel requests instantaneously

All this – with ZERO adoption challenges by the users, thanks to the NLP-based Tripeur Travel Bot!

Usually, software systems try to optimize for the organization’s goals or for the user experience. In the case of Tripeur, the potent combination of intuitive, natural and personalized interface over email, coupled with complete control for the enterprise to optimize their travel expenses makes it a friend for the traveler and the CFO alike.

Ketofy
Ketofy

Name of the company- Ketofy (Wellversed Health)

Website – ketofy.in

Founders
Aanan Khurma LinkedIn
Aditya Seth LinkedIn
Ripunjay Chachan LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To enable people to live happier and healthier lives.

Brief Profile:
Ketofy is a complete pantry of healthy ultra low carb food products that help to fix the root causes of the modern lifestyle health conditions like weight issues, obesity, sugar regulation, pre-diabetes & diabetes, insulin resistance, thyroid and metabolic syndrome.

Ketofy is the largest low carb, low glycemic food product brand in India to an extent that the word Ketofy has become synonymous with a healthy how carb diet. It’s ideal for people who want to be healthy from inside and fit from outside.

The Ketofy Approach does not require people to change their existing dietary patterns and desires in order to conform to the low carb regime. The complete product offering allows people to keep eating what they enjoy the most and still reap numerous health benefits of a natural low carb paradigm.

All Ketofy Products are crafted using specialised proprietary processes without the use of any refined sugar or harmful ingredients like gluten (wheat protein), sucralose, maltitol, or any other kind of additives/preservatives.

Blowhorn
Blowhorn

Name of the company- Blowhorn

Website – blowhorn.com

Founder
Mithun Srivatsa LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Building Earth’s best intra city Logistics company

Brief Profile:
India’s leading full-stack, asset light Intra City logistics company. Moving goods from 1g to 1T.

eBikeGo
eBikeGo

Name of the company- eBikeGo

Website – ebikego.in

Founder
T IRFAN LinkedIn
KEDAR SOMAN LinkedIn
Hari Kiran LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To change the way people are commuting and to make it economical and eco friendly.

Brief Profile:
eBikeGo, a two wheeler mobility platform working actively with major delivery companies to convert their two wheelers to electric by providing the end to end solution. We are now active in 6 cities in India and now expanding to 4 more cities. We are now working with major companies like zomato, Delhivery, myntra and many other companies.

Sanfe
Sanfe

Name of the company- Redroom Technology Pvt Ltd

Website – www.sanfe.in

Founder
Archit Aggarwal LinkedIn
Harry Sehrawat LinkedIn

Business Purpose: We have built our company with the motive to empower women by providing personal care products. Our purpose is to provide innovative and affordable solutions to all personal care needs of women. With global expansion taking place, our focus is to lead the race among FMCG companies in feminine hygiene space.

Brief Profile:
Sanfe was founded by two undergraduates of IIT Delhi – Archit Agarwal and Harry Sehrawat and was established in May 2018 as a private limited company when the research and development for feminine hygiene solution started. IIT Delhi was officially signed as the R&D partner. Sanfe’s first product, Stand and Pee was launched in November 2019 on ‘The World Toilet Day’. Since then, the company has continuously launched a series of feminine hygiene solutions like FemCramp Relief Roll On, Banana Fibre Reusable Pads, Menstrual Cup, Intimate Wash and so on.

Plop Stories
Plop Stories

Name of the company- Plop Stories

Website – www.plopnow.com

Founder
Vineet Shetty LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To reinvent entertainment for the digitally conscious – Gen Y & Gen Z

Brief Profile:
Plop a global interactive fiction entertainment platform to entertain & educate Gen Y, GenZ in a language they understand – immersive, interactive bite-sized fiction.

Plop is a mobile-first company that creates immersive, interactive fiction in a unique, new fast-paced format for the ones born in the third millennium. The format takes the written word and infuses multiple multimedia elements like video, audio and role-playing mobile-based simulations to bring a very real, life-like experience to a smart-phone obsessed generation.

Expertrons
Expertrons

Name of the company- Expertrons Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Website – expertrons.com

Founder
Vivek Gupta LinkedIn
Jatin Solanki LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Expertrons has been established with the aim of providing a unique career building platform to 1.87 billion professionals across the globe and 30 million college students across India. The platform is equipped with a powerful videobot technology to improvise professional lives.

Brief Profile:
Due to the lack of a professional platform for personalized career guidance, most professionals and college students are struggling to set their career on the right track. To cater to this demand, Expertrons has emerged as a first-of-its-kind platform, incorporating videobot technology for personalized career guidance. Armed with an AI-based recommendation engine, it matches aspirants’ profile with specific experts who have tracked a similar career trajectory. The experts from mighty multinational companies, top B-schools, and universities across the globe share their personal interview experiences and working environment for professional success.

Aspirants learn from the interview experiences of experts and can book consultation calls with them for one-on-one sessions to get career advice, resume review or mock interview practice along with an opportunity of referral placement. The professionals become a part of an elite panel of career experts helping aspirants and earn money through consultations along with referral bonuses.

Truly Madly
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Name of the company- Truly Madly

Website – trulymadly.com

Founder
Amit Gupta LinkedIn
Snehil Khanor LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Find your forever

Brief Profile:
TrulyMadly helps in easing the journey to find a compatible life partner by curating a community of trustworthy singles with similar intention of finding something serious and equipping them with relevant tools to find a compatible life partner. TrulyMadly wants to become the go-to platform for millennials to find a compatible life partner for themselves by themselves.TM’s Compatibility assessment tool is developed in collaboration with some of India’s best psychologists, psychometricians and family therapists and assesses compatibility on the following 6 dimensions :Family Values, Intention, Trust, Intimacy, Personal Identity & Choices.

Language Curry
Language Curry

Name of the company- Language Curry

Website – languagecurry.com

Founder
Aneesha Jyoti LinkedIn
Vatsala Sharma LinkedIn
Puneet Singh LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Making language and culture accessible, immersive and relevant.

Brief Profile:
Language Curry mobile app was launched in 2019. Language Curry equips users with conversational skills in Indian vernacular languages and is the only app that combines language and culture on one platform. Language Curry’s users love the bite sized capsules that provide an insight into people and their culture. The most interesting stories at Language Curry are those of bringing people closer. South Indians are learning Hindi in a big way and North Indians are learning Kannada. The platform currently has five languages (Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati & Kannada) and plans to add more languages in a phased manner. Other verticals at Language Curry are translations and Live sessions.

STAGE
Stage.in

Name of the company- Catchup Technologies Private Limited

Website – Stage.in

Founder
Vinay Singhal LinkedIn
Shashank Vaishnav LinkedIn
Parveen Singhal LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To build a Premium and Sensible content company for Bharat.

Brief Profile:
STAGE is a dialect based, hyperlocal short-form (~10mins) entertainment platform (OTT) for the next billion users (Bharat) in art forms such as Comedy, Folk, Poetry & Storytelling. STAGE’s primary audience belongs to Bharat. The company defines Bharat as everyone in India using the internet minus the top 10% users which implies an addressable market of ~450 million consumers. The company is also looking to tap into existing behaviours of ‘tipping’ in Bharat around artist-led entertainment. Micro-payments / virtual currency enabled tipping will be a new form of revenue stream for any OTT in the world. In future, the same will evolve into a marketplace where users can book an artist for a virtual private performance on the platform itself for a small fee.

STACK
Stage.in

Name of the company- Stack Finance (Invacia Labs Private Limited)

Website – stackfinance.co

Founder
Smriti Tomar LinkedIn
Vidit Varshney LinkedIn
Tushar Vyas LinkedIn
Yashwardhan Pauranik LinkedIn

Business Purpose: To make financial planning accessible and affordable for India’s 440 million millennials.

Brief Profile:
Stack solves the biggest problem of a millennial- managing money. Stack is India’s first Neo-Banking platform for 440Mn millennials to enable healthier financial lifestyle by automating investments, expenses and borrowing under a single platform along with friends and family, with an AI powered intelligent and personalized manager in the pocket. Stack enables to save, meet bills, end the overspending cycle and develop financial IQ, right at your fingertips.

Supported by leading VC funds and angel investors from India and US, and awarded by NASSCOM and HKSTP, Stack is leading the data aggregation and automation revolution in India with the most advanced technology and stellar partners, to democratize and humanize financial services for all.

Financepeer
Financepeer

Name of the company- Financepeer

Website – financepeer.com

Founder
Rojit Gajbhiye LinkedIn
Naveesh Reddy LinkedIn
Sunit Gajbhiye LinkedIn
Debi Prasad Baral LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Profit-impact solution company focussed to make quality education available to all.

Brief Profile:
Financepeer is a Google Launchpad incubated, Forbes acclaimed company that helps ease school fee financing with a major focus in K-12 education. Founded in 2017 by IIT, IIM entrepreneurs, Rohit Gajbhiye, Sunit Gajbhiye, Naveesh Reddy and Debi Prasad Baral, Financepeer provides education fee loans at zero percent interest rates and the applicant gets insurance protection for child’s lifetime education fees in case of any adverse incident. It pays the entire year’s fee upfront to the Institute enabling them to manage their funds efficiently and collect fees from parents in 3 to 12 monthly installments at Zero interest & Zero cost focussed to make quality education available to all. Education fintech company Financepeer focuses not only on financing education fees but also providing other education technologies.

Prescinto
Prescinto

Name of the company- Prescinto Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Website – prescinto.com

Founder
Puneet Singh Jaggi LinkedIn
Sanjay Bhasin LinkedIn
Ram Menon LinkedIn
Business Purpose: Unlock True Value for Clean Energy Assets.

Brief Profile:
Prescinto is a Clean Energy SaaS platform operating in the Digitisation of Clean Energy Space a – $7bn annual Market. Prescinto costs 0.1% of annual revenue and increases generation of Solar Power Plants by as much as 7%. Prescinto’s AI-powered SaaS platform collects plant data, applies data science models to identify causes for underperformance and suggests work orders to plant crew to increase generation.

Prescinto is already used in 14 countries by 5,000+ MW (~10% of Indian capacity) of Solar Plants and processes 450 mn data points a day.

TEAMONK
TEAMONK

Name of the company- TEAMONK GLOBAL INVESTMENTS PVT. LTD.

Website – teamonk.com

Founder
Ashok Mittal LinkedIn
Amit Dutta LinkedIn
Nalin Sood LinkedIn
Business Purpose: Create a Global Tea Brand targeting affluent consumers with our proposition of ‘looking good and feeling good’ by offering a range of the finest “natural” hand picked teas, fresh from the best high grown tea plantations.

Brief Profile:
Teamonk was founded in 2016 by group of professionals with rich experience in Unilever Tea business. Within a short span of 3 years from launch, we have been able to build a successful business model with excellent customer feedback, superior repeat purchase rates and a strong brand identity. We believe that the values and imagery associated with our brand helps in building a strong emotional connect with customers. With e-commerce as our primary distribution model, we are delivering to customers in India and over 20 international markets including US, Europe, Middle East and Japan.

The New Shop

Name of the company- The New Shop (Accelerate Productx Ventures Pvt. Ltd.)

Website – thenewshop.in

Founder
Aastha Almast LinkedIn
Charak Almast LinkedIn
Mani Dev Gyawali LinkedIn

Business Purpose: The New Shop is a chain of 24*7 convenience retail stores with omni-channel presence to serve all your convenience needs products – snacks and beverages, personal care, pet care, hygiene needs, ready to eat food, and grocery staples.

Brief Profile:
Founded in March 2019, The New Shop is a fast growing chain of technology and data driven 24*7 hours open convenience retail stores at high traffic locations such as Transit points (railway stations, bus stations, petrol pumps, highways, tourist spots, metros and airports), neighborhoods, office complexes, and educational institutions that also double up as online stores for selling need and intent focused products targeted to the customer profile. With known customer profile for each store, our data driven product selection maximizes sales through both offline & online channels. We are a retail technology company, building an asset light version of Seven Eleven for India on an end-to-end retail automation. TNS is democratizing retail and promote Make in India, Startup India and MSME India, working closely with the Indian Government to make these products available across all our touch points. Our vision is to own and operate 10,000 retail stores in the next 7 years, thereby increasing modern retail penetration which currently stands at a 9% in India. TNS is disrupting the unorganised $1.3T Indian retail opportunity with a vision to become India’s largest retail chain on a model which is highly scalable and profitable from the get go. The New Shop is the first Indian startup to be backed by a Shark – Kevin Harrington.

ALMO

Name of the company- Almo Wear Pvt. Ltd.

Website – almowear.com

Founder
Abhishek Shah LinkedIn
Muskaan Jain LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Redefining men’s premium essential wear in India.

Brief Profile:
Almo was founded by Muskaan Jain, a third-generation entrepreneur from the legacy TT group which has over 70 years of experience in the apparel manufacturing space and Subir Ghosh who is a seasoned e-commerce entrepreneur in November 2019. As a premium men’s essential wear brand, we believe in proffering unmatched comfort along with style and class with every garment that feels as snug as second skin. Garments are created with utmost care using fabric, machines & processes of international standard, ensuring that each piece is stitched to perfection. We want to let you follow your heart and mind unshackled from any discomfort, all the while, carrying the confidence of our rich fabrics and classy fashion offerings encompassed in a single piece of essential wear.

SpeedLabs

Name of the company- Teevra Edutech Pvt. Ltd.

Website – speedlabs.in

Founder
Vivek Varshney LinkedIn

Business Purpose: Profit-impact solution company focused on adaptive learning and delivering personalized education as bridge between dreams and realities.

Brief Profile:
SpeedLabs is an IIT/IIM alumni founded company with focus on delivering personalized education to students in classes 6 – 12 (across boards) and Test prep through an adaptive online education & learning platform using AI enabled technology. SpeedLabs is achieving this by partnering with and transforming offline tutorials to the Hybrid Learning model (Teacher + Technology) since 2016. Recently, SpeedLabs has also entered Direct customer & Schools segment with customized comprehensive offering.

Big Bang Boom Solutions

Name of the company- Big Bang Boom Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Website – bigbangboom.com

Founder
Praveen Dwarakanath LinkedIn
Shivaraman Ramaswamy LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
To deliver bottom up research oriented defence solutions; whose intellectual property resides within the country that commissions it.

Brief Profile:
Big Bang Boom Solutions is a defence solutions provider. It is the winner of two prestigious iDex grants from the Ministry of Defence and another grant from BIRAC. It brings in an asset light business model towards developing defence related IP that can be efficiently scaled. It works in the areas of image processing, material science, artificial intelligence and electronic jamming.

StoryMirror

Name of the company- StoryMirror

Website – StoryMirror.in

Founder
Bibhu Datta Rout LinkedIn
Hitesh Jain LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
To build the biggest repository of human stories under one platform and across languages.

Brief Profile:
India’s #1 literature platform continues to grow with the power of readers and writers. Consistent innovation and brand collaboration are the keys to growth metrics and the company is committed to excel in customer satisfaction. In less than 4 years the company has established itself as a brand among the creative minds of language passionate people and trying to impact and influence their lives. Driven by ex-investment bankers, IITians, Algo-trading professional, serial entrepreneurs, design school graduates, technical superstars, the company is voyaged towards a breakout zone.

Jobsgaar

Name of the company- Jobsgaar

Website – Jobsgaar.com

Founder
Atul Pratap Singh LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
The workforce in India move outside their district of birth or residence for work opportunities—be it for semi-formal or formal jobs. The migration starts from villages to the large city centers, surpassing their own birth districts, driven by necessity. On the other hand, the businesses/small enterprises/MSMEs & millions of unorganized players struggle to find ‘local workforce’ and rely heavily upon word of mouth & classified ads. At Jobsgaar, we believe that the ‘void’ between the local employer & workforce needs to be filled by digitally enabling them to connect. We envision creating an ‘impact on the slow migration’

Brief Profile:
Jobsgaar is World’s first district-level hyperlocal job or workforce discovery bot integrated into WhatsApp that helps employers find local talent without filtering profiles & empowers job seekers to find hyperlocal jobs without searching or browsing.

F5

Name of the company- F5

Website – f5refreshment.com

Founder
Raghav Arora LinkedIn
Lalit Kumar Aggarwal LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
F5 is organizing the daily workplace needs of Bharat

Brief Profile:
F5 is building D2C brand servicing the daily workplace needs of the consumer. This market is uncharted with a $34Bn market size. It started with providing basic refreshments(tea/coffee) at workplaces (initially focussed on shops/showrooms/retail chains and other general market establishments) across three formats: Subscription, On-Demand, and Walk-In. Products are priced at market rate (eg 8-10/cup) with the assurance of good quality, hygiene and service. It has so far sold 70 Lacs cups of refreshments, delivered 1 Million+ orders and currently sells 10,000 cups per day.

Kredily

Name of the company- Kredily

Website – kredily.com

Founder
Devendra Khandegar LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Kredily is India’s fastest growing HR and Payroll platform for SMEs. In India still 90% SMEs manage their HR and Payroll process manually, Kredily automates that through its DIY and easy to use platform that can be configured in less than 10 minutes.

Brief Profile:
Kredily operates through a Freemium model, which helps SMEs adopt Kredily without any pricing commitment. Currently, Kredily is serving over 6000+ SMEs with 250000+ employees. Kredily also offers added benefits for empanelled employees, such as salary advance, insurance & other financial access, making Kredily a winning proposition. The team boasts of significant experience across venture capital, banking, HR Management building & scaling tech and engineering growth at brands like GVFL, Axis Bank, Unilever, Deloitte, Zivame and others.

kWh Motors
Kwh

Name of the company – kWh Motors
Website kwhbikes.com

Founder
Kartik Gupta LinkedIn
Siddharth Janghu LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
kWh Motors is creating India’s first fully integrated EV delivery ecosystem comprising electric vehicles, swappable batteries, and a layer of software services on the top.

Brief Profile:
kWh Motors is developing robust, high performance, connected, and affordable E2Ws customised for B2B, which will enable savings of Rs 50k per annum. In India, $3M is spent every day ($1B every year) on petrol expenses, for deliveries via 2 wheelers. This spending can be reduced by 90% if fleets move from petrol to electric 2 wheelers (E2Ws). kWh Motors intends to develop an entire ecosystem that is conducive to the adoption of EVs for B2B purposes such as delivery. Currently the company is working on a highly customised E2W for B2B purposes and also building differentiated and customised components such as the VCU, Batteries and Motor Controllers.

AyuRythm

Name of the company- AyuRythm

Website – ayurythm.com

Founders
Abhilesh Gupta LinkedIn
Sandeep Acharya LinkedIn
Ramanath Padmanabhan LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
AyuRythm’s vision is that Ayurveda needs to evolve with times and deliver new experiences tuned towards modern sensitivities. AyuRythm’s mission is to strengthen glorious tradition of Ayurvedic by bringing the age old wisdom of Ayurvedic assessment and recommendations to mobile devices making it easy for consumers to access and consume Ayurveda.

Brief Profile:
AyuRythm is a digital platform for personalized holistic wellness based on Ayurvedic assessment principles. Based on simple, repeated 30 second pulse diagnostic test and answers to few questions (1 time), the platform is able to give personalized recommendations on yoga, meditation, breathing exercise and food. Monetization is done via subscriptions and commissions from product, service, and content marketplace.

Xpresslane

Name of the company- Xpresslane

Website xpresslane.in

Founders
Ashwin Koorakula LinkedIn
Madhukar Reddimasi LinkedIn
Business Purpose:
Provide hassle free customer experience for online shopping

Brief Profile:
Xpresslane is built by IIT, IIM and BITS Pilani alumni. The team at Xpresslane is passionate about product and technology and the way they can transform daily life. Xpresslane is tailor made for the ever growing D2C space and hopes to reimagine online shopping experience. The company provides single wallet for user’s information that can be used on multiple websites thereby providing a hassle free online shopping experience. This cuts down the buying time and improves checkout conversion rates for the website. Started in 2019, the company now works with more than 70 websites currently.

OTO Capital

Name of the company- OTO Capital

Website – otocapital.in

Founder
Sumit Chhazed LinkedIn
Harsh Saruparia LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
OTO Capital aims to provide a 10X simpler, faster and more convenient way for 20Mn Indians to buy and finance their 2-wheelers every year

Brief Profile:
OTO Capital has created a dramatically simpler leasing-like financing model for 2-wheeler purchases where buyers pay a similar upfront payment like any other loan, pay up to 30% lower EMIs and have the option to own the 2-wheeler at the tenure end OR sell it back to OTO. Around this core of “10X better” financing model & experience, OTO has added an app-based layer to help 2-wheeler buyers to find all the top options in one place, schedule a home test drive at their convenience and then choose to finance with OTO and continue to manage it – all in one place. With its 300+ dealer partners, OTO Capital has financed more than five thousand two-wheeler vehicles.

Sutradhar

Name of the company- Sampatra Technologies Pvt Ltd – Sutradhar

Website – mysutradhar.com

Founder
Gaurav Tiwari LinkedIn
Satish Meena LinkedIn
Shaunak Samvatsar LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Sutradhar is building a mobile first content-community-commerce platform focussed towards devotional and festive needs to tap the $30 billion festive market

Brief Profile:
Sutradhar is a mobile-first content-community-commerce platform focused on devotional content which allows users to discover, watch and share daily short video storytelling content in regional languages. The company is working on creating professionally generated affordable, bite sized, multilingual and habit forming video content based on Indian mythology and history.

Devnagri

Name of the company- Devnagri AI Private Limited – Devnagri ™

Website – devnagri.com

Founder
Nakul Kundra LinkedIn
Himanshu Sharma LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Devnagri is created to enable Indian languages internet users to harness the power of the Internet in their native languages.The concept of devnagri is created to meet high end challenges in Indian Internet Eco-System which includes: 1. 100 Cr Indians to join Internet by 2025 2. Only 10% Indians can converse in English 3. 99.99% of the content on Internet is available in English 4. 9 out of every 10 new Internet users will be Indian language user Devnagri wants to enable Indians to use the Internet in their language and take the benefits of technology for their betterment.

Brief Profile:
Devnagri is changing the way the Indian translation industry works, using its technology. An AI powered translation platform, delivering the translation to B2B segment at scale, enabling them to reach direct customers from Tier 2 and Tier 3 Cities. The platform combines Neural Machine Translation with machine learning and a community to power translations. Its AI-human combination can help businesses scale their operations anytime, in any language with up to 50% reduced cost, real-time delivery tracking with 80% reduction in translation time and 5x faster than professional translation. With core concentration on the Ed-tech sector, the company is solving some major use cases which includes and not limited to Localization of Documents, Course Content, Video Lectures, Audio / Podcasts, Websites / Mobile Apps, Digital Content & Chatbots. With Machine Translation at its BEST, company holds a capacity to deliver upto 1 million words a day with 99.9% accuracy, which made them the fastest contextual engine in Indian market.

SupplyNote

Name of the company- Adcount Technologies Private Limited – SupplyNote

Website – supplynote.in

Founder
Kushang LinkedIn
Abishek Verma LinkedIn
Harshit Mittal LinkedIn
Nitin Prakash LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
SupplyNote is a SaaS based B2B Supply Chain Management Platform for F&B businesses; digitising and automating the process of purchase for F&B businesses to cut down operational costs and increase its efficiency.

Brief Profile:
SupplyNote provides a technology-stack for businesses in the HoReCa industry to automate and manage their supply chain processes. Currently, the industry relies on manual management of these processes which results in increased hassle of management and is prone to errors and discrepancies. SupplyNote replaces that layer with a technology stack to save man hours while automating the processes to save management time and hassle. These processes include the management of inventory, purchase and procurements, supplier management, warehousing and logistics and more.

goSTOPS

Name of the company- Gostops Hospitality Private Limited – goSTOPS

Website – gostops.com

Founder
Pallavi Agarwal LinkedIn
Pankaj Parwanda LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
goSTOPS is India’s fastest growing backpacker hostel brand. Their aim is to focus on the cultural revolution catering to the Gen-Z and create an accommodation brand they can call their own. They aspire to be a brand that is infused with youthfulness, innovation, practicality combined with reliability – values that are core to their target audience.

Brief Profile:
goSTOPS is a full-stack operator brand that leases and transforms budget hotels and operates them as backpacker hostels. The community and design-led hotel transformation enables the company to harness the efficiencies of shared economy and make high-quality youth-focused stays accessible within Gen-Z friendly budget of INR 500/- per night. The company today has a geographical footprint in some of the major tourist destinations in the country and is rapidly expanding its presence across India and further onto South and South-East Asia. goSTOPS has hosted more than 500,000 travellers across the 30 destinations its currently serves.

BatX Energies

Name of the company- BatX Energies Private Limited

Website – batx.in

Founder
Utkarsh Singh LinkedIn
Vikrant Singh LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
BatX Energies exists to develop green tech solutions which empower the global clean energy transition creating a circular economy and sustainability ethos.

Brief Profile:
BatX has conducted pioneering work in developing a proprietary “Zero waste – Zero Emission” Lithium Battery recycling technology which is efficient and environment-friendly with an innovative hub and spoke business model.
As a recycler, the company’s core focus is on:
• Collection of Li-Battery scrap from the market in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
• To produce Blackmass at multiple state-of-the-art “spoke” mini facilities closer to the source of the scrap.
• Safe and easy transport of the blackmass for chemical processes at their main facility in Delhi NCR where all the materials (Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel, Graphite and Manganese) are extracted.
The company aims to become a global leader in the critical battery materials supply chain with their closed loop recycling technology, thereby making the world a greener place.

TABLT Pharmacy

Name of the company- TABLT Pharmacy (Inyt Technologies Private Limited)

Website – tablt.com

Founder
Anish Agarwal LinkedIn
Anant Jain LinkedIn
Vivek Goenka LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Phygital Healthcare for Bharat

Brief Profile:
TABLT is a phygital pharmacy catering to the Bharat Market (T2-T6). It addresses the issues of accessibility, availability, affordability and authenticity faced by the consumers due to the fragmented supply chain in the Bharat market. TABLT offers omnichannel vernacular ordering platform to its customers in the form of App, website, franchise and 24*7 contact center. TABLT has its own in-house mid mile logistics and an extensive 450 + franchise network who acts as the last mile delivery partner. Due to its unique and efficient supply chain, TABLT offers 1 day delivery of affordable medicines at the doorstep of customers in the Bharat market.

jumpingMinds

Name of the company- jumpingMinds AI Labs Private Limited

Website – jumpingminds.ai

Founder
Ariba Khan LinkedIn
Piyush Gupta LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Build India’s largest mental health community

Brief Profile:
jumpingMinds is your go-to safe space for any and every mood you are in. It is a Deep Tech enabled platform making Mental health easy and accessible for all. It is an anonymous, safe, and effortless go-to feel better space that smartly connects people to the right peers to talk to & feel better. Users can unburden themselves without any fear of judgment and take the first step towards a healthier mind. jumpingMinds, is on a mission to spread over 1 billion smiles and has adopted a user-first approach to make wellness easy, accessible, and fun. The platform has already created a tremendous positive impact by spreading millions of smiles with its 60M+ social reach, 6Mn+ mins of peer conversations, 200k+ Community members and 80%+ Feel Better rate.

EsportsXO

Name of the company- EsportsXO (Techno XO Pvt. Ltd.)

Website – esportsxo.gg

Founder
Vikas Goel LinkedIn
Utsav Umang LinkedIn
Rohit Raj LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
EsportsXO wants to benchmark performance for every gamer in the world and create opportunities for them to earn.

Brief Profile:
EsportsXO is home to competitive gamers, game content creators and professional gamers. EsportsXO isa tournament discovery platform for over 700M+ passionate competitive gaming enthusiasts across the globe, helping them improve their gameplay and find more opportunities in play-to-earn models. The company offers tournament management module to tournament organisers and brands to create tournaments in minutes and engage with millions of gamers within minutes.

Clean Electric

Name of the company- Clean Electric Private Limited

Website – cleanelectric.in

Founder
Akash Gupta LinkedIn
Abhinav Roy LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Clean Electric is building advanced energy storage solutions for electric vehicles and stationary energy storage applications to accelerate the earth’s transition to clean & sustainable sources of energy.

Brief Profile:
Clean Electric is engaged in the business of design, development, supply and after-sales support of battery packs & other electric vehicle components for electric vehicle OEMs & utility-scale energy storage solutions for grid applications. The company’s proprietary battery technology based on “novel immersion STM technology” enables rapid charging & long battery life simultaneously & fool proof mechanism to ensure zero mishaps/ EV fires, solving major technological roadblocks to enable the electrification of the remaining 98% of the automotive sales. Clean Electric is working with India’s leading e-2W, e-3W, e-LCV & e-car EV OEMs to supply custom-engineered mass-produced battery packs to enable Tesla-like battery performance for their electric vehicles. Clean Electric had launched world-first Liquid Cooled battery packs last year for e-2W and are leader in swappable/ removable liquid-cooled battery packs for superior unit economics because of 50% more battery life & 3x faster charging.

Yatrikart

Name of the company- YK Retails Private Limited

Website – yatrikart.com

Founder
Gaurav Rana LinkedIn
Shivangee Sharma LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
To build a tech enabled transit retail chain for Bharat

Brief Profile:
Yatrikart is fulfilling traveler aspirations by creating a network of tech enabled smart carts & stores inside moving trains & transit stations by empowering hawkers & retailers thereby creating a new retail format – Retailing on the Go.

Redesyn

Name of the company- Redesyn

Website – redesyn.com

Founder
Smriti Dubey LinkedIn
Shikhar Vaidya LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Enabling anybody to design

Brief Profile:
ReDesyn is a PaaS (platform as a service) that lets creators, communities and apps launch custom merchandise for fans at no minimum under their white labeled storefronts. ReDesyn is a tech platform where Any Body Can Design (ABCD) and buy, sell OR share the merchandise in minutes. ReDesyn’s full stack tech platform provides its content creators with a mobile-first design tool to create products in minutes, a dedicated storefront, end to end order fulfilment including logistics, analytics dashboard, marketing tools & NFT capabilities. ReDesyn has helped its top creators to grow their monthly earnings 7x in a year. With its micro trend/moment marketing monetization; Re-Desyn wants to enable 100k individuals to become creators on its platform.

Plutos One

Name of the company- Plutos One Technology Private Limited

Website – plutos.one

Founder
Rohit Mahajan LinkedIn
Rajjat Gulati LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Taking Fintech to the next 200 Million Indians

Brief Profile:
After working with Banks and Credit Cards for over 10 years, the founders realized that they were in a unique position to help banks engage their customers digitally. Thus was born plutos ONE – a curated platform that rewards users for every digital financial transaction that they make. plutos ONE creates co-branded digital platforms for all banks, irrespective of size or technology, and delivers fintech services to the next 200 Million Indians.

Newmi Care

Name of the company- Newmi Care

Website – www.newmi.in

Founder
Sanchit Agarwal LinkedIn
AditiMittal LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
Prioritize Health of 100M+ Indian Women

Brief Profile:
Newmi is a Digital Health & Commerce platform, and India’s first and largest products & services ecosystem focused on all health & wellness needs of a woman. Newmi is trying to solve for broken women health journey, highly fragmented ecosystem, lack of preventive and self-care, and lack of care programs for women at work. Newmi delivers journey-based care across 7Ps of women health: Puberty & Period Care, PCOS, Pre-Conception (Fertility), Pregnancy & Postpartum, Perimenopause and Preventive ‘Her’ Cancers (Breast, Cervical & Uterus). Newmi is focused on preventive and proactive care with a mission to drive disruptive innovation in women health in India.

we360.ai

Name of the company- Zenstack Private Limited

Website – www.we360.ai

Founder
Arnav Gupta LinkedIn
Swapnil Tripathi LinkedIn
Sandeep Panda LinkedIn
Siddharth Gupta LinkedIn

Business Purpose:
We360.ai aims to enhance global productivity by using technology & become the default global productivity software for businesses.

Brief Profile:
We360.ai is a Bhopal headquartered workforce analytics software company, helping businesses and individuals to monitor their team’s productivity & engagement using real time analytics. We360.ai’s product enables CXOs to manage engagement & productivity of their employees in all working environments. The product gathers data based on employees’ work activity/behaviour with their laptops/desktops, generates reports for admins, makes available a comprehensive view of the organization’s performance, deep behavioural pattern on productivity & real-time status of the organization’s efficiency to the leadership. We360.ai has more than 600 active paying companies with more than 17000 active paid users. The company is trusted by Patanjali, Tata AIA, IRCTC, Holcim Group, L&T Infotech, GOQii & 600+ Active Paid Companies.

Investments through Angel Funds