Indian Startups To Look For In 2018

India is the fourth largest country when it comes to innovation and technology. With the startup industry booming in India, listed below are the companies that are definitely worth a look in 2018!

Byju’s

Starting off with the education technology startup Byju’s, this company joined the unicorn club with a valuation of Rs. 6,505 crores, currently. The company was founded in 2011 in Bengaluru. The Byju’s learning app was launched in the year 2015 by Byju Raveendran, the brainchild of the edtech startup. Byju’s offers a variety of learning products for students. The aim of these products is to make education and learning interesting. The learning app is used by 15 million users with 900,000 paid annual subscriptions with an annual renewal rate of 90%. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s investment firm, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) also invested in Byju’s. It was their first investment in the Indian startup ecosystem. Byju’s would soon be entering the global market including the US, the UK and South Africa.

It is currently India’s best funded edutech startup!

BigBasket

Businesses are investing billions of dollars to make shopping experiences faster and easier. From Amazon to Flipkart, everyone is focusing on scaling up the online grocery category. BigBasket is the very first online grocery store that is also headquartered in Bengaluru, India. The country’s largest supermarket was founded by Vipul Parekh, Abhinay Choudhari, Hari Menon, V.S. Sudhakar and V.S. Ramesh in 2011. The company now commands a valuation of around $ 950 million. BigBasket raised $300 million funded by the Chinese e tailer Alibaba and other investors including The Abraaj Group, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Sands Capital Ventures.BigBasket’s brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan has also extended his contract for third year. BigBasket is currently in 30 cities and is looking forward to expand its business across the country.

OYO

The Gurugram based hotel aggregator, Oravel which is now OYO Rooms is currently valued at Rs. 8,000 crores. OYO Rooms was founded by Ritesh Agarwal at the age of 19. Since its launch in 2011, the company has grown tremendously. The startup raised nearly $ 450 million so far. It lets you book affordable hotel rooms, airport hotels and even luxury hotels in just few seconds with over 70,000 rooms in 230+ cities in India, Malaysia and Nepal. Today OYO Rooms has reached five million app downloads. OYO attracted global investors including the Softbank Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and DSG Consumer Partners. China Lodging also, made an investment of $10 million in OYO recently.

In January, the company also launched OYO Bazaar, a marketplace for hotel supplies in Delhi and Gurgaon. The company is only just getting started with its exponential growth!

Delhivery

This elogistics startup has grown enormously every year and investors have been queuing up. Delhivery is an e commerce logistics service company based out of Gurgaon. The company was brought to light by a bunch of engineers including Bhavesh Manglani, Kapil Bharati, Mohit Tandon, Sahil Barua and Suraj Saharan in the year 2011. Delhivery offers services such as last mile delivery, third party transit warehousing and more. The company was formerly known as SSN Logistics Private Limited and changed its name to Delhivery Private Limited in December 2015. As of now Delhivery raised $ 100 million from The Carlyle Group and its existing investor Tiger Global Management. The firm is valued at $ 114.5 M currently. Delhivery has operations in 800 cities and also delivers 3.2 lakhs products a day. Delhivery has done exceeding well till date.

Each of the successful startups mentioned has a unique story and characteristics that differentiates them from the others!  Do let us know your thoughts about these and other up and coming you think we should consider.