FirstCry
Founder: Supam Maheshwari
Year Founded: 2010
Industry: Baby Products
Firstcry is Asia's largest online store for baby and kids products. They cater to the needs of their buyers especially parents buying for their kids or before the kid is born up to his/her early teens. Firstcry, a venture started by Mahindra. offers the best deal for the products that their customers want to buy for their children. Their endeavour is to ensure that their customer gets the widest choice of top rated brands and products at the best price in India. They do timely delivery of the products and provide good service.
Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of the company. FirstCry has most of it’s customer base in Pune and has made a huge mark in the city. They are rapidly expanding their business in other Metro cities too.
Letsintern
Founders: Rishabh Gupta, Mayank Batheja & Pranay Swarup
Year Founded: 2010
Industry: Recruitment
Very few people know that Letsintern is a Pune Startup. Letsintern is a platform for students to get their favourite internships. Over 12,000 organisations have engaged with the company to hire interns and employees. The platform claims to get more than 280,000 visits on their site and mobile app, per month.
Letsintern was founded by Rishabh Gupta, Mayank Batheja and Pranay Swarup in 2010. In 2015, Aspiring minds, a job finding platform, acquired Letsintern. After the acquisition, the company’s headquarter was shifted to Gurgaon.
InTouchApp
Founders: Sarang Lakare
Year Founded: 2012
Industry: Mobile App
InTouchApp is a simple yet useful app which helps you manage your contacts. It is made keeping businessman and entrepreneurs in mind. We can easily save other contacts from their business cards. Along with that, it auto update the contacts and helps you manage your personal contacts and business contacts. The app is free of cost on all the platforms. As of now, it has over 1 million downloads and manages billions of contacts.
The app was founded by Sarang Lakare. Sarang has 12 years' experience of application development. He did his masters and Ph. D in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.
Faasos
Founders: Jaydeep Barman & Kallol Banerjee
Year Founded: 2011
Industry: Food Delivery
Faasos is a “Food on demand” service. You can order any kind of food you like on their app or website. Faasos operates in more than 15 cities of India and 200+ locations. The company promises to provide full refund up to Rs. 200 in case of late delivery. It shows how promising they are towards their service.
The startup was founded by Jaydeep Barman and Kallol Banerjee in 2011. This Pune based startup has raised a total of $60 million funding. Faasos' brand is rapidly growing in India with the help of Social Media Influencers.
Helpshift
Founders: Abinash Tripathy and Bishampayan Ghose
Year Founded: 2011
Industry: Business Solutions
Helpshift is a business service provider company. They provide smart solutions to the businesses to interact with their customers. With the help of Helpshift's AI chatbots and other personlised products, businesses can automate their customer service and focus on what matters the most for them. The startup also provides other related services
Helpshift was founded by Abinash Tripathy and Bishampayan Ghose. It has received a total of $38.5 million in funding from different ventures in Silicon Valley.
EarlySalary
Founders: Akshay Mehrotra and Ashish Goyal
Year Founded: 2015
Industry: Fintech
EarlySalary is a fintech startup which provide short term loans to salaried people. With the help of EarlySalary app or website, people can apply for loans upto INR 1,00,000 hassle-free and instantly. There are no pre-payment fees applies on the loan.
EarlySalary was founded by Akshay Mehrotra and Ashish Goyal. Akshay is now the CEO of the company whereas Ashish is CFO. The startup has raised $23.2 million from different ventures.
MindTickle
Founders: Mohit Garg, Krishna Depura, Nishant Mungali & Deepak Diwakar
Year Founded: 2011
Industry: Business Solutions
MindTickle aims at sales enablement solution that uses data-driven analytics to show how sales readiness programs are impacting revenue growth. It is a readiness platform that creates an excellent sales culture which makes the product sell faster and better with efficacy. It combines an award-winning platform and best practice methodologies to improve the sales performance and knowledge resulting in improved customer engagement, higher win rates, and bigger deal sizes.
MindTickle was launched in 2011 by Mohit Garg, Krishna Depura, Nishant Mungali and Deepak Diwakar. It has e raised INR 174 crores in Series B funding. Some of the prominent investors include Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Canaan Partners and Qualcomm Ventures.
Elocals
Co-Founders: Avkash, Amit & Kuldeep
Year Founded: 2017
Industry: eCommerce
Elocals is a hyperlocal ecommerce startup based in Pune. It was founded by a team of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Kozhikode alumnus, Avkash, Amit & Kuldeep in 2017. The team is building a digital bridge between the local merchants and the local customers. They are empowering the local merchants and resolving the issues of both online and offline shopping. With Elocals, the Small and Medium size enterprises which are getting affected by the ecommerce giants, will be able to compete & grow against their online peers. As a result the customers also enjoys fast deliveries with good services at lower prices. Currently Elocals is operating in Pune but they are planning to soon provide their services in other cities too.
Data Torrent
Founders: Milind Mukund Barve, George Michael Kelakos
Year Founded: 2012
Industry: Computer Software
Data Torrent captures real-time data and combine with existing data and give insights. Data Torrent is useful in companies where millions of events need to be monitored on a per-second basis. It is a YARN based application. It is open-sourced as Apache Project Apex. This startup software company in Pune has received USD 24M funds from Morado Ventures, August Capital, AME Cloud Ventures.
Happy Roots
Founder: Reema Sathe
Year Founded: 2016
Industry: Food
Happy Roots started as a vision of Reema Sathe which was to create a business model around healthy product. Happy Roots directly connects with local farmers and make delicious products like cookies, crackers, and other kinds of snacks.
The founder of Happy Roots, Reema Sathe has received many awards including Business Today’s Most Powerful Woman (2017), Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017, etc.
Also read: List of Food Startups in India
Markets and Markets
Founder: Sandeep Sugla and Aman Gupta
Year Founded: 2001
Industry: B2B Research
MarketsandMarkets provides quantified B2B research and consulting. It provides data related to technology, new product offerings, market performance. Currently, MarketsandMarkets is servicing 7500 customers worldwide. It includes 80% of global Fortune 1000 companies as clients. MarketsandMarkets provides high level analysis of major market segments and identification of opportunities.
It offers service to multiple industries like as aerospace, defense, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, mining, construction, healthcare, agricultural, automotive and other industries. MarketsandMarkets provides reports which include information related to market segmentation, patent analysis, forecasting solutions, market dynamics, and technology information. MarketsandMarkets has received a total of $56M funding from FTV Capital, Zodius Capital, Mantra Ventures.
Plobal Apps
Founder: Atul Poharkar
Year Founded: 2015
Industry: Software Development
Plobal Apps is an online commercial venture for both Android and iOS users. It aims at using Shopify and has a number of features such as Apply Pay, promotional coupons, push notifications, etc. The aim of the app is to increase sales and
Plobal Apps was launched in 2015 by Atul Poharkar. Atul, a graduate from Fergusson College who later went on to do his engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology. The company has arounfd 50 team members.
Docplexus
Founder: Phanish Chandra
Year Founded: 2013
Industry: Healthtech
Docplexus is an online community for doctors across the country. It has more than 1 lac doctors registered from more than 1500 cities with 89 specialties. It is the largest community of doctors online aims at spreading further.
Phanish Chandra is the CEO and a social entrepreneur who aims at helping patients and the healthcare system in the country with this app. He has skills in software development and has worked earlier in technology helping him with the app development.
Also read: List of the top Healthtech Startups in India
Tork Motors
Founder: Kapil Shelke
Year Founded: 2009
Industry: Automobiles
Tork Motors is India's first electric motorcycle company. Kapil Shelke is the founder and CEO of Tork Motors. Tork Motors was founded in 2009 with a dream to work on a zero emissions vehicle that could perform on par with petrol machines.
The key to the success of Tork Motors is the engineering of the motorcycle which reduces the cost of the vehicle making it more affordable for middle-class Indians.
Repos Energy
Founder: Aditi Bhosale Walunj & Chetan Walunj
Year Founded: 2017
Industry: Fuel Delivery
Repos Energy is a compartively new startup in Pune. It gives doorstep delivery of fuel for industries to minimize diesel loss. It works on cloud based technology and IoT device. Customer orders diesel on the Repos App, Repos petrol pump operator reaches the customer location and completes the diesel delivery. Repos Energy uses smart Fuel Dispensers to make transactions fast and easy. Repos Energy is currently giving door-to-door delivery of diesel in around 65 Indian cities. Ratan Tata has invested undisclosed amount in this startup.
ShoppinPal
Founder: Pulkit Singhal & Sriram Subramanian
Year Founded: 2012
Industry: Business Solutions
ShoppinPal provides software products which help the businesses to better understand their sales and management. Some of its product are Stockup, Prosxdata, POS-ERP Sync, eCommerce Sync, etc. They also provide the suite of these products.
Pulkit Singhal and Sriram Subramanian founded ShoppinPal in 2012.
Hotfut Sports
Founder: Pavit Singh & Nikhil
Year Founded: 2012
Industry: Sports
HotFut is a sports development company which aims at providing world-class sports facility to the people in the country. It gives youngsters an integrated sporting experience which will help build sports in India at the grassroots level. The company also organizes tournaments for sports lovers and corporate events. They have their own academy where people come to play outdoor games.
Hotfut sports was launched in 2012 by Pavit Singh and Nikhil. Currently, Hotfut is operational in Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
Also read: List of top Sports Startups
111 Start-ups
111Startups is a not-for-profit organisation. It connects with more than 300 startups across the country and helps them get funding. The startup aims at encouraging entrepreneurship, promote risk-taking which is well calculated. The startup help mainly IT professionals, engineers, students and startups that are at their early stages.
It is an initiative to help tech startups by empowering them through validation, mentoring, co-working and funding. It is a joint effort of Mobisoft Infotech and Pesh Group. The company was founded in 2015 and headquarters at Pune.
Dark Reflections
Pune based Dark Reflections Studio is a venture of Siddhi Shah, who is a designer . Originally from Chennai, Siddhi settled herself in Pune. The Studio sells dream catchers with the lowest price of a dream catcher being Rs. 300. It sells dream catchers for different occasions and of different sizes as well as colours. Dream catchers are used for décor usually and come in different sizes, the price hence is determined accordingly.
