coolest startups india 2015
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Coolest Startups India 2015
• MySmartPrice• Edureka• ShopClues• Linkstreet
Learning• Culture Machine
Media
• Year Founded: 2010
• Founders: Sitakanta Ray & Sulakshan Kumar
• About: – MySmartPrice is an independent price
comparison service website headquartered in Hyderabad, India
– Categories include: Mobiles, Electronics, Computers, Fashion & Lifestyle, Home appliances & Personal Care
• Funding: Accel Partners & Helion Ventures Partners
• Cool element: 24/7 personal clever shopping assistant
• Year Founded: Mid-2011• Founders: Lovleen Bhatia & Kapil Tyagi
• About: – headquartered in Bangalore– Edureka is an interactive, online learning
platform– Offers live instructor-led courses catering
chiefly to working professionals who want to boost their skills
• Funding: Angel Investors
• Cool element: Providing talent to IT industry by giving a make over to both freshers & working professionals
• Year Founded: July 2011
• Founders: Sandeep Aggarwal, Sanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal
• About: – Online marketplace, headquartered in Gurgaon,
India, founded in California's Silicon Valley – Has over 12,000 registered merchants & retailers &
over 2,00,000 products on the platform to over 42 million visitors every year
– Joined as 35th entrant in Indian e-commerce in 2011
• Funded: Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Helion Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Tiger Global
• Cool element: Amorphous categories it deals with & the customers & merchants it targets
• Year Founded: October 2011
• Founders: Arun Muthukumar & Vikram Ramakrishnan
• About: – private company located in Bengaluru – provides complete technical backup in online
education
• Funded: Angel Investors
• Cool element: Making learning personalized easy & fun
• Year Founded: 2013
• Founders: Sameer Pitalwalla & Venkat Prasad
• About: – Digital Media Company creating entertainment
for "the Internet generation“– Wholly owned subsidiary of The Aleph Group,
Singapore– Popular channels include, Being Indian , Being
Indian Music , Being Indian Originals, Put Chutney, Put Chutney Music, Blush, Epified, What's Trending India, Whack, Old Delhi Films, & Rascalas
• Funding: Tiger Global & Zodius Capital
• Cool element: Increasing popularity among the younger generation
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