Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Tech Startups: Top Holographic Displays Startups by Tracxn


Tracxn: Globally there are 39 Holographic Displays companies, and here is the list of the 10 most interesting ones:

5. Akonia Holographics
6. Ostendo
7. Vontana

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Top Holographic Displays Startups

Last Updated: January 17, 2020 Business models evolve with time, sometimes due to changes in the market and sometimes due to advent of technology, resulting in emergence of new exciting trends. We at Tracxn closely track the startup ecosystem from across the world and we have come across a whole lot of interesting new themes which are gaining popularity, one of them being Holographic Displays.

Startup Technology - The Startup, Ceres Holographics, Trying to Revive Holography


Armed with a digital mastering technology, Ceres Holographics, claims that its Holographic Optical Elements (HOE) hold the key to enable car OEMs and Tier Ones to design a Head Up Display(HUD) dreamed of since the 1980s. The automotive industry has been itching for a transparent display that can display navigation information on the windshield, sparing the driver the distraction of looking away from the road.

Ceres is confident that its holographic technology can overlay bright, wide field-of-view information onto a curved windshield, using a significantly smaller projector package than anyone has previously been able to develop.

Ceres is rolling out its HOE technology in two phases applied to two separate products. First will come a “Transparent Display” (TD) based on a simpler projector. The second will be an “Augmented Reality-HUD” (AR-HUD) with a fancier projector. For both products, Travers told EE Times that Ceres has OEMs and Tier Ones already testing the technology, with some in final testing. Travers envisions the production of cars with TD to start in 2022 or 2023, with cars with AR-HUD to follow a year later.

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The Startup Trying to Revive Holography - EE Times India

Article By : Junko Yoshida ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Armed with a digital mastering technology, Ceres Holographics, claims that its Holographic Optical Elements (HOE) hold the key to enable car OEMs and Tier Ones to design a HUD dreamed of since the 1980s.

Monday, 22 June 2020

Startup India: Indian desi Social App Chingari Records 500000 Downloads In Just 72 Hours


Indian social app chingari, the desi alternative to TikTok, has witnessed a massive surge in its subscribers and has garnered nearly 500,000 users in just 72 hours and this number is steadily increasing.

It has been trending at the number one spot on the Google Play Apps & Games Store. chingari’s popularity has already surpassed that of the MitronTV app, a TikTok clone platform.

Biswatma Nayak, Co-founder of the chingari App said, “The response of our customers has been overwhelming. Since the word spread that Indians now have a homegrown and more entertaining alternative to TikTok, they have been recording traffic beyond expectations on our app. ...”

The custom-designed audio and video-based free social platform was developed in 2019 by two Bengaluru-based programmers Biswatma Nayak and Siddharth Gautam in their part-time.

chingari allows a user to download and upload videos, chat with friends, interact with new people, share content, and browse through the feed and the app is available in multiple languages including English, Hindi, Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.

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Social App Chingari Records 500 000 Downloads In Just 72 Hours

The demand of the app has been such that it has been trending at the number one spot on the Google Play Store. In what ought to be a record in the tech world, Indian social app Chingari, the desi alternative to TikTok, has witnessed a massive surge in its subscribers within a very limited time period.

Startup Ideas: The biggest problem of late payments faced by Indian MSMEs can be turned into an opportunity


Payment delays have for long been a huge problem for India Inc. An EY report in 2018 estimated that Rs 1.8 lakh crore was trapped as receivables. But it is the medium, small and micro enterprises (MSMEs) who feel the pinch the most. Media reports estimate that large corporations owe Rs 40,000 crore and PSUs Rs 48, 000 crore to MSMEs.

According to a recent report by Zinnov, India has over 75 million small and medium businesses that contribute 40% to the gross domestic product, employ 180 million people and contribute 52% of India’s $535 billion exports. Yet, with limited financial means, MSMEs often swing between life and death. Due to corona virus effect, many MSMEs may shut down shops and others either may become bankrupt or continue to work at a lower capacity than that in pre-covid times.

“The whole concept of slow payments is a huge global issue,” Previse co-founder and CEO Paul Christensen tells Forbes in an interview. “It is a huge global opportunity that no-one has cracked yet. Given the problem is so big, why has no-one cracked it yet? Everyone has tried to solve the problem using process, and changing process at large organisations is really hard.”

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Choked by dues: What efforts are being taken to ease the biggest problem faced by Indian MSMEs?

Haggling is an art. Bengaluru-based Amarpreet Kalkat, 41, cofounder of Frrole - a social intelligence startup - is trying to master it these days. The six-year-old startup has 40-plus customers, mostly mid-to-large firms in media and consumer businesses. Recently, one of them refused to pay his subscription dues of six months.