12 most promising startups to look forward from Jaipur

There is more to Jaipur than mesmerising architecture, castles/palaces, vibrant culture, and colourful art scene in the pink city. It is the home to some of the most promising entrepreneurial pursuits in the country in 2016. A variety of factors, like low cost of living, availability of talent etc. Contribute to the evolving eco-system for Jaipur Startups. Amidst growing government interest in encouraging start-ups in India, and with its plans to develop Jaipur as one of the first 20 ‘smart cities’ of India, the year 2016 seems to be a stellar year for Jaipur startups. Here is a list of 10 such promising start-ups, based in Jaipur to watch in 2016:

SRJNA

Founders-  Sharad Bansal, Om Prakash, Kapil Arya & Vivek Pathak

Founded in 2014

Industry: Education

Achievements so far :

Selected among top 20 startups mentored by CIIE-IIMA & UC-Berkely at a Pune based accelerator program, Selected among the top 10 early stage education startups in StartEdu 1A by unitus, Won Rs. 1,00,000 Seed Money Competition by Venture Lab – Thapar, Ranked 2nd in ‘Top 6 innovator award’ (Trending Startups) by IIT Delhi Alumni Association.

What it has to offer:

A brand of Elation Edtech Pvt Ltd, Initiated by 4 alumni of IITs and XLRI is now a team of 15 enthusiasts who want to make a disruptive change in school education.

In order to ensure that students from Classes I to X retain their creativity, Srjna has created over 200 economical, feasible, innovative and portable subject-learning models for schools. The models are all based on an experiential learning approach. They have empowered more than 25000 students, 500 teachers and 80 schools in Delhi NCR, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana & Gujrat. According to their site, they believe in “True learning comes when it’s being experienced”

Website – https://www.srjna.com

 

MYLY App

Founders – Madhup Bansal, Gaurav Mundra

Founded in 2014

Industry: Education

Achievements so far:

Raised $100K (about INR 67 lakh) in a seed round funding from Newbie Promoter Private Limited.

Best Technology Enabled Learning Platform at World Education Summit 2016, Dubai.

What it has to offer:

EduCommerce Technologies owned Myly  app provides mobile app solution for schools, colleges and coaching institutes. They aim at providing secure and scalable cloud based Communication & Transaction platform for Institutions.

The company looks to bridge the digital divide between the institution and parents by bringing convenience in exchanging information, communicating and transacting in a secure environment.

Website – www.mylyapp.com

Hippocabs

Founders – Sagar Agrawal & Sahil Agrawal

Founded in 2015

Industry – Transportation

Achievements so far-

The start-up is bootstrapped till date and they have already reached the breakeven point. They got their first 1000 users in just 18 days of their inception. Hippocabs has been widely covered by media channels like yourstory, economic times, Dainik Bhaskar and more. The company has more than 4,000 registered users and it is growing at more than 30% a month.

What it has to offer –

Initially Hippocabs was providing intercity cab sharing service but now they have changed their model. They provide intercity cab service by charging fare for just one side and soon they are going to turn their portal into a marketplace for travel companies where they can park their taxis for booking by charging just one side fare from the travellers.

Website – http://www.hippocabs.com

Indibni

Founders-  Nitin Jain, Ankit Jain, Khushbu Mathur

Founded in 2013

Industry – Gifting products

Achievements:

Indibni have designed gifts for 3M India, Owens Corning, NBC, JIFF, and many more. They have also done some exclusive souvenirs for the Bachchan family, Mr. Marc Bachet (Filmmaker and Oscar Winner), Late Shri Varghese Kurian (Father of the White Revolution), Shri Anna Hazare (Social Activist) and many others. They have their customer base across the world.

What it has to offer:

Indibni is actually a very interesting word. It is an ambigram (mirror image) of the word ‘indi’. The Founders of Indibni, however, have wrapped an India story around it. The three ‘i’s stand for India, Innovation and Individuality. The mission of the company is tethered to the idea of Design for Life.

Indibni is a gifting solution provider which embraces themes and ideas pertaining to Indian culture. They believe that gifting is not about price, utility, shape or size; it is all about the experience it gives to a buyer, and feeling it evokes in the receiver.

They specialise in gifting products and branding services. Indian culture and ethos are the motivations behind Indibni.

Website – www.indibni.com

LinkYou

Founders – Anuj Agrawal, Rishab Garg & Aayush Sharma

Founded in 2015

Industry – Mobile App

Achievements so far –

LinkYou was the only startup to be selected for showcasing at Rodinhood Open House held at Gurgaon in year 2015. The idea of LinkYou has been very well appreciated by people like Alok Kejriwal, Rahul Narvekar, Rajan Anandan and more. They also got selected at SURGE conference and Techsparks Jaipur edition.

What it has to offer –

LinkYou let’s you explore events and people based on your location and interests, so that you can expand your network with more like minded individuals.

To know more about LinkYou, You can watch their video – https://youtu.be/qvE86om65xM

Website – www.linkyouapp.com

Awakey

Founders – Ankit Jain & Animesh Tanwar

Founded in 2015

Industry – Security/Tech Product

Achievements so far:

Awakey was selected among 15 startups by catapooolt to pitch at crowdfunding event held at Gurgaon. They also got featured at Rajasthan Startup Fest, Pitch City by Headstart. Renowned lock company Jainson is supporting the team with infrastructure and research facility to take this idea ahead.

What it has to offer –

AwakeY is a lock accessory that attaches to most of the existing door handle locks. This attaches to the lock from inside of home/office,and it becomes your automatic key. The accessory works on Bluetooth, and is controlled through your smart phone. It lets you lock and unlock the door, without any requirement of manual insertion and turning of key.

You can also check their video – https://youtu.be/x-eWKIvNo30

Website – www.awakey.in

Wooden Street

Founders – Lokendra Ranawat, Dinesh Pratap Singh, Virendra Ranawat & Vikas Baheti

Founded in 2015

Industry – Home Furnishing

Achievements so far-

They were selected for Yourstory Techsparks edition and are widely covered by different online as well as offline media channels.

What it has to offer –

WoodenStreet claims to offer the first custom to order services wherein each consumer also gets an opportunity to share his/her furniture idea and our design experts collaborate to convert each design to a workable 3D for further confirmation. Each consumer is in search for a unique furniture piece additionally gets an opportunity to add a touch of feel to his desired unit and that is what WoodenStreet does differently.

Website – http://www.woodenstreet.com/

Urbandhobi

Founders – Satyam Mishra, Prakhar Pagaria, Tushar Thettayil and Saransh Sidhu

Founded in 2015

Industry – Laundry

Achievements

Urbandhobi raised an unclosed round of funding from Delhi-based serial investors – Vinod Bansal and Sanjeev Singhal. Also, the company is looking to raise pre-Series A funding by April end. They have been widely covered by different media channels.

What it has to offer

UrbanDhobi is an on demand laundry startup currently operational in Jaipur. They are trying to create benchmarks in terms of quality of washing in India . They pick up clothes on the preffered time slot of a user and deliver back in just 24 hours.

Website – www.urbandhobi.in

Curious Cobo

Founders – Prateek Jain & Sonali Jain

Founded in 2015

Industry: Kids learning and education

What it has to offer –

They describe themselves as a team of Toy designers, Pedagogy experts, Doctors and Engineers from IIT who have taken a pledge to give tools for creative learning to 4-8 year old kids, which will make their formative years as fun filled and mind stimulating as possible. They provide a monthly educational Box for 4-8 year old kids which is designed by experts & tested by kids,and delivered right at your door step.

Website – www.curiouscobo.com

Zero Waste

Founders – Prateek Goel & Dixit Singhvi

Founded in 2014

Industry: Waste Management

Achievements so far:

Boasts of over 1,400 customer orders so far. The company made a revenue of Rs. 2 crore in 9 months in 2015.

What it has to offer

According to them,“Transcending short-term conveniences, we are determined to make every effort to establish an environmentally sound nation”.

ZeroWaste is a reverse commerce platform for customers to sell their old (used, un-used and overused) electronics for cash. It is a unique and simple way for people to dispose their electric & electronic waste. With series of Collection Centers set up at various places in Rajasthan, they ensure the E- Waste is disposed responsibly.

Website – http://www.zerowaste.co.in/

Blue Box Media

Founders – Pawas Jain & Deepanshu Khandelwal

Founded in 2014

Industry – Media

Achievements so far –

Funded by Rajasthan Angel Investors Network (RAIN)

Partnered with Jarvis Accelerator Program for their initiative

What it has to offer

Blue Box Media Pvt. Ltd is a basket full on India’s some of the hottest online media properties like thetechportal.in, jaipur.digital, springtide.in, gadgetcenter.in and more. The team has been a media partner to some of the most prominent events of the country like The INK Conference, Jaipur Literature Festival, BioAsia and more. They have also started their video channel for the latest startup news. Pitch off is one of their key properties where they invite startups and investors on one platform.

website – www.blueboxmedia.co

KhanaGadi

Founders – Amit Deep Kumar, Naman Goswami and Sunil Awasthi

Founded in 2015

Industry – Food

What it has to offer

KhanaGaDi.com offers simple, prudent and specific food delivery solutions across India for Train Passengers looking for Quality and Hygienic food during their train journey , right at their seat using robust operating procedures and technology framework working at Six Sigma , It offers wide variety and assortment of Pre-portioned Meals and Ala-Carte menu to its consumers at around 105 Stations and in 6000+ Trains.The main frame of KhanaGaDi’s Operations is entirely focused upon the Delivery & Logistics procedures where it uses a Six Sigma certified process to achieve 99% delivery strike rate right at passenger’s seat in mobile Trains.

KhanaGaDi aims to serve 1000+ meals per day in 300+ stations in 2016 and also contemplating certain food delivery models in urban areas on which detailed R&D is in progress.

website – www.khanagadi.com

We might be missing some Jaipur startups in this list. You can add them in our comment box and we will feature them soon in our story. Stay tuned with us! 🙂

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