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Can you think of the names of five start-up ventures that have
become successful in India?
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InMobi – Adtech
Indian Startu - InMobi
Naveen Tewari founded InMobi in 2006, but it pivoted to become a mobile advertising and content discovery platform at a later stage. InMobi supports businesses in launching captivating ad campaigns on mobile devices through app partners, and in making smart marketing decisions on where to spend their money. Tewari led a number of acquisitions at InMobi, growing the company so phenomenally that it became India’s first unicorn.
Swiggy – Consumer Services
Foodtech Startup - Swiggy
Swiggy started its operations in Bengaluru’s venerable Koramangala neighbourhood in 2014, covering just one neighbourhood with six delivery executives and 25 partner restaurants. It provides a complete food ordering and delivery solution from a wide range of restaurants to the urban foodie. Today, it has over 2.1 lakh active delivery partners and processes nearly 1.4 Mn food orders daily across India, compared with about 700K orders per day last year.
Flipkart – Ecommerce
Ecommerce Startup - Flipkart
Flipkart was founded by Sachin and Binny Bansal in 2008 with a sum of $6,000 (INR 4 Lakh). It went on to become one of the largest ecommerce startups in India and is now valued at a whopping $20 Bn. Flipkart has had many a milestone in its decade-long journey, one of the biggest being the $16Bn investment by Walmart making it the largest ecommerce deal in the world, and since then it has also burgeoned its payments business with a sharper focus on PhonePe, which has grown into a unicorn by itself.
BYJU’S – Edtech
Edtech Startup - ByJu's
What started out as a simple e-learning platform has grown into one of the world’s largest edtech brands. BYJU’S today offers various online secondary and senior secondary courses suited to the Indian schooling system along with online study material for competitive examinations such as IAS, CAT, GRE, study material from Class IV to Class X for both CBSE/ICSE students and learning modules for pre-school children.
Freshworks – Enterprise Tech
Enterprise Tech Startup - Freshworks
Girish Mathrubootham, the founder of SaaS startup Freshworks (formerly Freshdesk), is hailed as the thalaiva (boss in Tamil) of the Indian SaaS industry. Mathrubootham has taken Freshworks from strength to strength since he founded it in 2010. Today, the startup is a member of the burgeoning unicorn club of India and is valued at $1.5 Bn.
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