Indian Startup Homefoodi on-boards more than 250 Home Chefs

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Homefoodi , incepted in October 2019, is a Mobile Application for Home Food made by Home Chefs that empowers and connects the society. This Indian startup comes with the aim of making Home-cooked meals accessible to every individual. The company offers a wide range of regional and global cuisines to facilitate eating healthy home-cooked meals. Since the very beginning, there has been a significant increase in the number of Home chefs associated with Homefoodi , it has now touched the 250+ mark.

Homefoodi , co-founded by Narendra Singh Dahiya and Mona Dahiya, is very different from cloud kitchens as their supply ecosystem is 'Home Kitchens' and not 'Commercial Kitchens'. The home-cloud kitchen brand has been very selective and responsible in selecting home chefs. As a practice, the team has visited every home chef to check for food quality, hygiene and cleanliness of their kitchen as well as the packaging standards. All Home Chefs are 100 per cent FSSAI registered.

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Indian Startup Homefoodi on-boards more than 250 Home Chefs

The Made in India Start-Up aims to create self-employment opportunity for one lakh Home Chefs. Homefoodi, incepted in October 2019, is a Mobile Application for Home Food made by Home Chefs that empowers and connects the society. This Indian startup comes with the aim of making Home-cooked meals accessible to every individual.

Untapped Capital Starvation in Indian MSME Sector a Great Boon for FinTech Startups

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With my more than 20 years experience in dealing with thousands of MSME businesses, the reason I have seen for their failure is not lack of talent, market, labour or technology, but starvation due to lack of access to timely and adequate capital.

So FinTech startups in India have huge unimaginable potential and also can do immense yeoman service to our country just by channelising savings and providing timely and adequate finance to MSME sector.

All the best!

Startup Funding Alert: Last mile distribution startup Frontier Markets raises $2.25M in Pre-Series A

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Jaipur-based last mile rural distribution startup, Frontier Markets, on Monday announced that it has raised $2.25 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies, The Rise Fund, and The Singh Family Trusts (advised by Artha Impact), along with Teja Ventures and affiliates of Beyond Capital Fund.

Founded in 2011 by Ajaita S., Frontier Markets is a last mile-assisted ecommerce and distribution company that leverages its network of tech-enabled women agents to market, sell and service products and services across rural India.

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[Funding alert] Last mile distribution startup Frontier Markets raises $2.25M in Pre-Series A

Jaipur-based last mile rural distribution startup, Frontier Markets, on Monday announced that it has raised $2.25 million in a Pre-Series A funding round led by ENGIE Rassembleurs d'Energies, The Rise Fund, and The Singh Family Trusts (advised by Artha Impact), along with Teja Ventures and affiliates of Beyond Capital Fund.

Drone startup TropoGo collaborates with Avianco Technologies - CRN - India

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TropoGo, founded by Sandipan Sen, a Deep-Tech drone start-up has partnered with Avianco Technologies Pvt Ltd to offer integrated Risk & Insurance services to Avianco Customers.

Drones are Digital 4.0 technologies and the adoption has greatly increased primarily because of the perceived benefits across multiple sectors like Agriculture, Survey, Security and Healthcare to start with. Recent permission by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) & multiple State Governments to conduct Beyond Visual Line of Sight #BVLOS) drone delivery experiments has opened up new possibilities.

Understating the importance of technology, Shravan V., Founder & CEO, Avianco Technologies says, “TropoGo and Avianco will bring seamless integration and superior user experience to Indian Drone Pilots.”

He further added, with detailed access of flight path, drone health, traffic congestion and various other parameters TropoGo can Co-innovate along with their Insurance partners to come up with comprehensive Risk & Fit for purpose Insurance Products of future.

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Drone startup TropoGo collaborates with Avianco Technologies - CRN - India

Read Article TropoGo, a Deep-Tech drone start-up has partnered with Avianco Technologies to offer integrated Risk & Insurance services to Avianco Customers. Drones are Digital 4.0 technologies and the adoption has greatly increased primarily because of the perceived benefits across multiple sectors like Agriculture, Survey, Security and Healthcare to start with.

Startup Mergers & Acquisitions: Affle To Acquire 8 Stake In Indigenous App Store Indus OS For Rs 21 Cr

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Mobile advertising organization Affle on Thursday said it will procure an eight per cent stake in cell phone working framework firm Indus OS.

Indus OS works India's biggest free indigenous application store, with key speculation from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. As indicated by an administrative recording, Affle will pay $2.86 million or about Rs 21 crore, to Indus OS for the stake.

Indus OS has'Indus App Bazaar', which contains more than four lakh applications open in English and 12 Indian dialects — Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Odia, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali, Assamese and Kannada.

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Affle To Acquire 8 Stake In Indigenous App Store Indus OS For Rs 21 Cr

Mobile advertising organization Affle on Thursday said it will procure an eight per cent stake in cell phone working framework firm Indus OS. "Affle (India), through its auxiliaries, declared the consenting to of an authoritative arrangement to procure eight per cent possession in OSLabs Pte Ltd, Singapore, (Indus OS).

Vokal for Local: Meet Koo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform for vernacular speakers of India

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Aprameya Radhakrishna, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, too, has been working towards this theme since 2017 with Vokal India. Recently, the Founder and CEO of Vokal India announced a new platform called Koo, a microblogging app focussed on non-English speakers in India.

India has close to 600 million internet users. An IAMAI-Nielsen report revealed that for the first time in 2019, rural users (277 million) outnumbered urban areas (227 million) by 10 percent, thereby eliminating the digital divide that had existed earlier.

The startup’s new app Koo offers Twitter-like experience where users can express their thoughts in Indian languages with a fellow local Indian community.

Within a week of its official launch, Koo app has crossed one lakh installs on Google Play store. While it is available in Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada, the app does not support the English language.

Moving forward, the founder said that more Indian languages, including Telugu, Marathi, Odia, Malayalam, and Gujarati, among others, will be added to the app.

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Vokal for Local: Meet Koo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform for vernacular speakers of India

The recent ban of 59 Chinese apps in India has led a path for many Indian startups and entrepreneurs to build 'Made in India.' Focussing more on the Tier-II, III cities, and rural pockets of India, most of these startups are creating products that can be accessed in vernacular languages.

Indian Social App Chingari Garners Over 2.5 Million Downloads

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Living up to its name, Made In India social app 'chingari' is quickly blazing its way into becoming the most loved short video-sharing app in India. Setting new benchmarks, the free social platform has crossed more than 2.5 million downloads.

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Indian Social App Chingari Garners Over 2 5 Million Downloads

Living up to its name, Made In India social app 'Chingari' is quickly blazing its way into becoming the most loved short video-sharing app in India.

Startup News: How this serial entrepreneur started up during COVID-19 lockdown and raised funding too

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As I said earlier, most of the edtech startups looking at teachers or trainers as a commodity. But, only a few startups like BitClass are giving value to teachers and their teaching proficiency.

Bengaluru-based BitClass, co-founded by Gunjan Kejriwal and Utsav Tiwary enables independent teachers and coaches to schedule and conduct live classes in less than five minutes. Started in April this year, the platform has already delivered 35,000 minutes of live classes.

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How this serial entrepreneur started up during COVID-19 lockdown and raised funding too

Bengaluru-based BitClass enables independent teachers and coaches to schedule and conduct live classes in less than five minutes. Started in April this year, the platform has already delivered 35,000 minutes of live classes.

Help a Startup: New Microsoft programme Azure Farmbeats to empower agritech startups in India

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Microsoft launched a new programme to help agritech startups in India build industry-specific solutions, scale and grow with access to deep technology, business and marketing resources.

The programme offers support to Series C startups that can boost their businesses with Azure benefits (including free credits), unlimited technical support and help with Azure Marketplace onboarding.

Agritech startups that are looking to create digital agriculture solutions have the opportunity to co-build customized solutions with Azure FarmBeats without investing in deep data engineering resources.

Available on the Azure Marketplace, Azure FarmBeats enables aggregation of agricultural datasets across providers and generation of actionable insights by building artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models based on fused datasets.

Growing at the rate of 25 per cent year-on-year, the country currently hosts more than 450 startups in the agritech sector, according to a recent Nasscom report.

Agritech startups in the country received more than $248 million funding in the first half of 2019, a growth of 300 per cent as compared to the same period in the previous year.

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New Microsoft programme to empower agritech startups in India | The Rahnuma Daily

New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new programme to help agritech startups in India build industry-specific solutions, scale and grow with access to deep technology, business and marketing resources. The three-tier programme offers tech and business enablement resources to Series C startups that can boost their businesses with Azure benefits (including free ...

The Turning Point [YourStory Media] - Why this entrepreneur decided to launch an EV startup?

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Author: Apurva P.

The thought of providing affordable mobility for middle-class families led Harsh Vardhan Didwania to start up in the electric vehicles space. In January 2018, he launched Bhubhaneswar-based EV startup EeVe along with his father, JP Didwania.

“Since then we have already onboarded 52 dealers across the Eastern part of the country, in Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana. We have sold more than 1,300 vehicles in these cities,” the founder says.

The #EV startup now offers four products: Xeniaa, 4U, Wind, and Your. Of this, two are in the Li-ion and two is in the lead-acid battery segment, Harsh Vardhan says.

The #EV startup plans to inaugurate a fully automated production unit with the capacity to produce 2.5 lakh vehicles per year by the end of FY21. It is also planning to expand sales and service to 250 cities across India by December 2020.

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[The Turning Point] Why this entrepreneur decided to launch an EV startup

Harsh Vardhan Didwania was always concerned about rising pollution, the depletion of non-renewable resources, and increase in the prices of fuel. The thought of providing affordable mobility for middle-class families led him to start up in the electric vehicles space. In January 2018, he launched Bhubaneswar-based EV startup EeVe along with his father, JP Didwania.

Startup Ideas:- The gig economy of street vendors and hawkers throws opportunities for FinTech startups for a win-win situation

According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, there are 10 million street vendors in India, with Mumbai accounting for 250,000, Delhi has 450,000, Kolkata, more than 150,000, and Ahmedabad, 100,000. Most of them are immigrants or laid-off workers, work for an average 10–12 hours a day, and remain impoverished. In India, street vending makes up 14% of total (non-agricultural) urban informal employment.

These street vendors or hawkers require daily finance, which is now provided by nearby private money lenders at at an exorbitantly high interest rates as high as 10% daily. For example, a hawker requires Rs 1000 for the day, he gets Rs 900 in the morning after deducting that day’s interest. In the evening, he has to deposit Rs 1000 with the lender. This routine repeats everyday. There is also a rent for trolly used for business as well.

Covid times impacted these communities very hard. Govt announced a package where these small vendors will get a working capital loan of Rs 10000 with a moratorium of 1 yr.

So, there is a tremendous scope and market opportunity for startups to provide FinTech solutions to these micro retailers so that it is a win-win situation for both.

All the best!

Startup Bharat: Silguri-based Desi Laundry is disrupting the laundry market with its on-demand service

Source: YourStory Media

Author: Shreya Ganguly

Siliguri-based startup Desi Laundry was founded by Nawal Bansal, Ayush Agarwal and Ashwin Agarwal in 2019 to address the gap in the laundry services segment.

The startup currently provides services such as laundry, ironing, dry cleaning, cleaning of rugs, curtains, uniforms, weddings suits and gowns, comforters and bedding materials, among others.

Some of the other notable players in the Indian online laundry space are Pick My Laundry, Urban Dhobi, Dirk Da Dhobi, DoorMint, TOOLER, Laundry Anna, and DhobiLite, among others.

According to a report by Statista, the Indian laundry care market is anticipated to grow annually at a CAGR of 4.9 from 2020 to 2023 to reach a revenue of $4,577 million from current $3,962 million in 2020.

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[Startup Bharat] Siliguri-based Desi Laundry is disrupting the laundry market with its on-demand service

An increasing number of young people today find it difficult to manage everyday activities like cooking, cleaning, and laundry, due to hectic work schedule. However, smartphone and internet penetration has made life easier for people. Startups have also come up with innovative solutions and are bringing technology to traditional industries.