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Sector Overview

•  Scope of Report: Indian SaaS companies catering to global markets

•  Tracking close to 200 startups across Enterprise Apps, Dev Tools & Industry Solutions

•  $650M+ invested with more than $200M invested in 2014

•  Most Active Funds: Accel Partners (Freshdesk, Hotelogix, Mobstac, Mindtickle, BlueJeans, Chargebee, Zettata, Wizrocket) Blume Ventures (Zipdial, Hotelogix, ShepHertz, Mettl, NowFloats, FrameBench, WebEngage, Mobstac) Nexus Venture Partners (Druva, Indix, Unmetric, TargetingMantra, Genwi, Helpshift) Norwest Venture Partners (BlueJeans, CRMnext, Act-On, Capillary Technolgies, Attune) Sequoia Capital (Druva, Capillary Technologies, Knowlarity, Practo)

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CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE JamCracker [$128.4M]

Druva [$67M]

SECURITY Fixnix [$325k]

ShieldSquare [$350k]

$136M MARKETING

Act-On [$74.5M] Unmetric [$8.7M]

SALES FreshDesk [$44M] HelpShift [$13.2M]

$114 M $77M HR

HackerRank [$12.4M] Mettl [$4.43M]

MindTickle [$1.8M] UniRow

$20M

ANALYTICS CrayonData [$7.34M], Ubiq

$7M

COLLABORATION

BUSINESS APPS SUITE

BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION

$5M

$98M

DEVELOPER TOOLS BrowserStack, DocsPad, Postman, Shippable [$10.05M]

$11.3M

MOBILE DEVELOPER TOOLS ShepHertz [$1.8M], BetaGlide [$1M], Plivo [$1.75M]

$5.3 M

LOCAL BUSINESSES $2M

E-COMMERCE Unbxd [$2M]

BoomerangCommerce [$8.5M] TargetingMantra [$1.1M]

$25M

TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY RateGain [$5M] Hotelogix [$3M]

$3M

RETAIL Capillary Technologies

[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M

EDUCATION Fedena [$2M]

Verificient Technologies [$2M]

$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Practo, Attune

$10.6M

FINANCE Stockopedia, Accern

$1.17M

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MARKETING Act-On [$74.5M] Unmetric [$8.7M]


$114 M $77M HR



$20M


$7M

COLLABORATION

BUSINESS APPS SUITE


$5M

$98M


$11.3M


$5.3 M




$25M


$3M


[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M



$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M


IT


Druva [$67M]



$136M $675k

Company Details: Cloud Infrastructure (1/3) Company Details Funding Investors

Jamcracker

Jamcracker [Bangalore, 1999]: Jamcracker (formerly known as VitalTone) enables organizations to manage and deliver their own cloud services as well as broker 3rd party providers. Its services include messaging, collaboration, security, online data backup, wireless and business productivity solutions. The company also provides Jamcracker Services Delivery Network, an outsourced SaaS channel-enablement platform that provides unified application and user management for various on-demand services. The company has strategic partnership with Zoho. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California with an office in Bangalore, India. In 2003 the company became part of a private holding company with 2000+ employees and $100M+ revenues.

$128.4M

Thinkflow

Druva [Pune, 2008]: Druva offers a full suite of endpoint data management solutions for enterprise laptops, PCs, smartphones, and tablets. Its flagship product, inSync, empowers an enterprise’s mobile workforce with backup, IT-managed file sharing, data loss prevention along with data de-deduplication and rich analytics. Supports deployment in public cloud, private cloud, or on-premise. Serves more than 3,000 customers as of Aug 2014. Raised Series D to expand into Asia and Europe and grow its team to 300 by the end of 2014.

$67M Sequoia Capital, Nexus, Tenaya Capital, Indian Angel Network

Thinkflow Thinkflow [Bangalore, 2010]: Available as on-cloud and on-premise solution for enterprises to build apps. Solutions include supplier relationship management, knowledge ; document management, business process management. The platform offers infrastructure to design workflows, configure business rules, create forms, capture ; digitize documents along with analytics dashboard. Headquartered in Bangalore and offers its solutions for global customers.

CloudMunch [Bangalore, 2011]: CloudMunch offers a cloud based extensible & full stack platform that enables continuous integration, delivery and infrastructure for developer app operations. Developers can use the platform tools they are familiar with and push code to CloudMunch for continuous integration test deploy and run in the cloud itself without the hassles of managing dev/test environments, CI servers. Integration with various online developer platforms, continuous deployment, social collaboration, automated testing & code quality, server monitoring are few of the features offered by the platform. It has received its Series A funding from Svapas Innovations.

$1M

Xervmon Inc

Xervmon Inc [Houston, 2012]: Xervmon is an Integrated Cloud Management Tool, which empowers organizations to plan, budget, design, deploy, manage and monitor Cloud infrastructure from a single pane of dashboards across public, private and hybrid cloud service catalogs. The latest version of its software will monitor and manage workloads across Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and Digital Ocean public clouds. HQ in Houston, Texas, and with Development Centers in India.

$75k


Minjar [Bangalore, 2012]: Minjar is a cloud solutions provider helping enterprises embrace cloud productively. Provides consulting to enterprises and startups for cloud strategy, management, implementation and Big Data applications. Has solutions for ISVs, enterprises, startups. Product offerings include Minjar HAWK (Cloud infrastructure and application monitoring) and SWARM (on-demand load testing tool for web applications and API services). Has offices in Austin, Singapore, Bangalore. Has 100+ customers (incl 5 Fortune 500 clients) in 10+ countries with over 600+ implementations with the likes of Best Buy, Ford, txtWeb, Mobstac, CCD, [24]7.

ITapp ITapp [San Jose, 2012]: ITapp delivers next generation application-centric cloud automation software. Deploy applications on multi-cloud (vSphere, OpenStack, AWS, ; converged infrastructure) with self-service per the governance rules ; policies of the organization. Peter Hsing of Merus Capital has invested.

Cloudlytics

Cloudlytics [Pune, 2013]: Cloudlytics is a big data analytics tool available as a service that enables users to get analytics reports of their Amazon Cloudfront, ELB and S3 logs and use them to drive business decisions. Available on the AWS Marketplace. Product by BlazeClan Technologies, which provides consulting ; support services to enterprises, SMEs and startups. Headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India and has offices in Belgium, Canada, Singapore and United States. Used by over 500 customers globally.

Megam [Chennai, 2013]: Megam is an open-source cloud management platform compatible with all cloud architectures, API driven and supports multiple applications frameworks including legacy Java, Ruby, php, Python as well as emerging modern frameworks like Scala, Play, Akka. Offerings include cloud management platform, on-premise 'Cloud in a Box' and an app marketplace to build, deploy &scale apps in the cloud. It also has cloud connectors to connect users with provisioned SaaS apps.

Appcito [Santa Clara, 2013]: Appcito provides a set of services for applications deployed on cloud infrastructure. Applies Web performance policies to Web pages, CSS, JavaScript, and images to improve the performance of the actions. Accelerates, secures, and optimizes cloud applications in the areas of building new applications or moving existing applications from a private data center to the cloud. Enables continuous deployment.

$7.5M


Calm

Calm [Bangalore, 2014]: Cloud Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) is a single-click application setup in the cloud that automatically deploys code, runs updates and maintenance. Offers a cloud application management dashboard and enables for cost visibility, audit, budgeting, automated expiry and self service portals for individuals and teams. Available as hosted and on premise solutions and opened its private beta in August 2014. Product of Idea Device, part of Sequoia portfolio. Headquartered in Singapore with development offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, and in USA. It was listed as ‘India’s top product start-up’ by CNBC TV18 and the ‘Next Big Company’ by The Times of India. Microsoft, VMware and IIM-B are among the company's partners.

Company Details: Security Company Details Funding Investors

FixNix [Vellore, 2012]: Fixnix provides SaaS based GRC solutions to SMBs. Its NIXAUDI is a web-based Audit Management solution that provides an aggregate view of the audit program, including planning, scheduling, risk-based prioritization, staffing, management of audit procedures, and tracking of remediation efforts. Also provides Risk Management, Security Incident Management, Policy Management and Assest Management products. Clients include Dubai Port Authority, BHEL, GMR, Ernst & Young, Mphasis etc. FixNix is a Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge 2013 Regional Winner and adjudged as Best Cloud Security Startup' at Worldwide IEEE Cloud computing Product showcase.

$325k Indian Bank

ShieldSquare [Bangalore, 2013]: Shieldsquare helps online businesses to protect against web scraping and bot attacks. The platform helps online businesses protect their content, generate more revenues, reduce their costs. Claims that ShieldSquare's Cloud API can be integrated by any website in few minutes. ShieldSquare is one of the five winners from India in the Start Tel Aviv India challenge. Part of Microsoft Ventures' 2013 winter program. Raised angel funding in Oct 2014 led by Chandu Nair, Srini Kopparapu, Sanjay Anandaram along with Phanindra Sama, Charan Padmaraju, P Sudhakar, Murugavel Janakiraman, Girish Mathrubootham, Pallav Nadhani, Samir Sood. Clients include Indiaproperty.com, Shaadi.com, Purplle.com and Weddingplz.

$350k

IT


Druva [$67M]



$136M $675k

HR HackerRank [$12.4M]

Mettl [$4.43M] MindTickle [$1.8M]

UniRow

$20M


$7M

COLLABORATION

BUSINESS APPS SUITE


$5M

$98M


$11.3M


$5.3 M




$25M


$3M


[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M



$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M


MARKETING Act-On [$74.5M] Unmetric [$8.7M]


$114 M $77M

Company Details: Marketing Suite (1/1) Company Details Funding Investors

Act-On Software

Act-On Software [Beaverton, 2008]: Act-on provides a suite of marketing automation tools for email marketing, tracking online visitors, lead management for optimizing campaigns, social media integration and integration with CRM database from Salesforce, Saleslogix, Netsuite. It also enables lead generation via SEM, SEO optimization and A/B testing for websites. Claims to have 1000+ customers and triple digit growth as of 2012.

$74.5M

Trinity Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, US Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures

Plumb5

Plumb5 [Bangalore, 2010]: Plumb5 offers a real-time marketing platform created by Decisive Analytical Solutions that enables a website to engage site visitors in real-time and personalize the website to improve conversion rate and customer retention. The product is mainly aimed at e-commerce and retail companies, in order to help them better their conversion rates, customer experience and ROI’s on campaign. Its features include visitor tracking (location, sit behaviour, activity), A/B testing for website content to identify the best conversion drives, content personalization to the user based on his activity on website etc.

Company Details: Marketing - Social Media (1/3) Company Details Funding Investors

LinksAlpha

Beevolve [Bangalore, 2008]: Cloud hosted solution providing social media listening and analysis based on visitors's sentiment, demography, influence, insights about product, brand, customers and current trends in market. Offerings include monitoring dashboards, social media post statistics, visitor retargeting, demographic data and competitive intelligence. Executives, marketers, media and PR agencies can use the analytics tool to track consumer-generated media. Has received pre-seed investment from Upstart.in. Founder has left the company and is currently working in Amazon.

LinksAlpha

LinksAlpha [Bangalore, 2009]: LinksAlpha provides social media marketing software for monitoring, publishing, and analytics of social media profiles including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. LinksAlpha also provides social sharing buttons for web-publishers. HQ in the US with the team based out of Bangalore. Claims customers like Nissan, KFC, 7-11, Mobily.

JustUnfollow [Mumbai, 2010]: JustUnfollow is a friend management application for social networks which has been started with twitter and is currently working to expand to other social networks. The company has recently launched the Instagram integration. It is available on the web, android and iPhone. The app/platform allows users to find inactive users and people who have unfollowed them, find relevant users to follow using “Copy Followers” feature, keep track of how social media updates is affecting the follower/unfollower stats.

Unmetric

Unmetric [Chennai, 2011]: Unmetric provides brands competitive intelligence about other brands by - 1. Tracking their social campaigns through hashtags, viral videos, Facebook apps etc. 2. Performing content analysis on social networks and 3. Comparing brands based on criteria like their social audience growth, customer engagement rate. Provides intelligence on 10,000+ global brands across 30 industry sectors. Clients includes brands like Subway, Campbell’s, Toyota and agencies like MRY, M Booth, Golin Harris and Zocalo Group.

$8.7M Nexus Venture Partners

SocialAppsHQ

SocialAppsHQ [Delhi, 2011]: SocialAppsHQ offers a cloud based platform that provides social media monitoring tools, Facebook apps for customer engagement and a social planner to post content on social networks from a single platform to brands and SMBs. It offers a collection of 30+ apps for feedback management, coupons, notification system and contests management to increase the customer base and retain them. Real-time reporting of user's activities on the website and a dashboard for campaign performance evaluation can be achieved. Allows brands to manage campaigns and track performance along with customer engagement on both web and mobile channels and across Facebook and Twitter networks.


Qurater

GrabInbox [Mumbai, 2011]: GrabInbox (formerly buffr) lets users manage multiple twitter, facebook, facebook fan pages and linkedin accounts from one single interface. Allows users to schedule messages, post to multiple accounts in a single click and manage all the activities through a dashboard. Has a notification system to monitor various social networks' messages along with a Chrome plugin to easily share webpages. Has been a part of Startup Chile's incubator program and received US$40,000 in seed funding. Founders have released another product named JustUnfollow.

$40k Startup Chile

Gazemetrix

Gazemetrix [Mountain View, 2012]: GazeMetrix empowers brands with insight into when and where their brand was photographed across social media in real-time. Using proprietary computer vision and machine learning algorithms, gazeMetrix accurately analyzes user-created photos on Instagram and identifies when a brand is featured. Brands discover their latest photos instantly. We automatically pick up the ‘most popular pictures’ and they can share them on their fan page/ Pinterest boards or twitter streams.

$140k 500 Startups

Qurater [Bangalore, 2012]: Technology platform for enterprises providing social media analytics. Its Qurater Business Edge (QBE) mines social platforms and any web site for feedback, queries, complaints using NLP techniques to get insights. QBE offers sales leads, customer care framework for representatives and brand insights along with feedback, real-time discovery of issues, mining of comments on news sites, tools to categorize conversations among others. Has offices in San Francisco ; Bangalore, India.

$50k

Around.io

Viraltag [New York City, 2013]: Visual marketing tool for small and medium businesses is a pinterest management tools for brands and bloggers enabling them to publish content, schedule pins and optimize images. Allows for tracking various metrics to understand their performance on Pinterest. Offers Google Analytics integration to understand metrics like clicks, visits, sales etc. Offers limited - premium packages ranging from $5-$28/month.

Around.io [Bangalore, 2013]: Around.io offers a cloud-based social media marketing tool for marketplace sellers. Currently working with Etsy sellers and intends to grow to various others in the future. The platform enables increased visibility in social media and hence increase views and sales. Users can connect their social accounts to the platform and start posting or scheduling their marketing posts. Also allows for auto-scheduling image tweets and even create product image collages.


Zozolo [Mumbai, 2010]: Cloud based social media analytics platform for brands to track their social media presence and measure ROI. Its built-in dashboard for loyalty points system increases social engagement and brand building. It provides a detailed engagement summary of the fans on various social platforms. Dell is one of their biggest clients among others like 9xm, myntra, AXN, Mumbai Indians team. Product of Gozoop.

SocialVox [Hyderabad, 2014]: Provider of cloud platform that allows businesses and brands to monitor & analyse their social media presence along with tools for engagement and management of brands. The platform's features aids by providing insights through graphing, categorisation, geolocation, demographics, metadata among other components. Also provides sentiment analysis for the brand in comparison to the competitor brands. Product of Inspire.Technology.

Company Details: Marketing - Mobile (1/1) Company Details Funding Investors

Snipp Interactive

Snipp Interactive [Washington DC, 2007]: Snipp Interactive builds mobile solutions for brands to engage and interact with their customers. Provides print publishers, advertising agencies, and consumer brands with a full suite of mobile marketing services in US and Canada. Brands can build loyalty, create engagement, create mobile sites and apps using Snipp's solutions. Also provides mobile receipt processing solution and augmented reality based campaign creation tools. Clients include Arm ; Hammer, Garnier, Minute Maid, Jim Beam etc. Headquartered in Washington DC, with a team in Mumbai.

Zipdial

Zipdial [Bangalore, 2010]: ZipDial call-to-action platform captures consumer opinions ; intent. Every zipdial from a consumer is a ping to the platform activating one of many applications in the marketing suite, from couponing to feedback surveys to friend referrals. Large brands pay $10,000-$40,000/month. Self-service packages at zipdial.com start at $20/month. Used by global consumer brands such as Procter&Gamble, Cadbury, Puma, KFC, Cafe Coffee Day, MakeMyTrip. Named #8 in FastCompany's List of World's most 50 innovative companies. Launched in Singapore in Oct 2014. Acquired by Twitter in Jan 2015.

Times Internet, 500 Startups, Jungle Ventures, Unilazer Ventures, Mumbai Angels, Blume Ventures, AngelPrime

Ceino Technologies [Menlo Park, 2011]: Ceino develops mobile products for marketing. Offers B2B reward platform for mobile-based loyalty programs, a social product catalog that brings customers and sales reps into one community and enables product based conversation and feeds and a mobile support platform equipped with multimedia features. Ceino's customers include ThermoFisher (Life Technologies) and Shalom Media. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with offices in Bangalore, Calicut and Chennai.

Notiphi [Bangalore, 2011]: Notiphi is a mobile marketing platform to target users based on location, context and behavior. Their platform uses advanced machine learning algorithms to build rich user profiles (anonymously) using location, behavior and lifestyle attributes. Developers have to include their SDK in their app before pushing it to the App Store after which Notiphi servers start receiving the locations history of users and build their profiles attaching tags. Developers can use the Notiphi dashboard to segment these users, target them using push notifications and rich media content and track campaign performance in real-time. Selected in top 50 product companies at InTech50. Product by Locus Labs, has offices in Bangalore, India and Singapore.

$300k

Scanova [Noida, 2013]: Scanova is a cloud based solution to generate, design, and manage QR Code-based promotional campaigns. Provides QR Code Management Solution for businesses and individuals across industry verticals comprising Scanova WorkBench, an online QR code management and analytics platform, and Scanova Reader, a smartphone application connecting consumers from offline to online media. Customers can create 14 different types of QR codes with Scanova including those for Webpage URLs, Twitter, Facebook, Wi-fi access, SMS, etc. Also provides tools for businesses to design and develop mobile landing pages for those without the knowledge of web designing.

Company Details: Marketing - Others (1/5) Company Details Funding Investors

SocialTwist

SocialTwist [Mountain View, 2008]: SocialTwist provides social marketing technology solutions for customer acquisition, engagement, and retention by activating existing customers. It is a customer acquisition platform that creates social referrals for brands, retailers, publishers. The platform builds and integrates social referral processes and technology into marketing programs. Platform finds its application in campaigns involving acquisition, rewards, loyalty and various other program objectives. Its 'Tell-A-Friend' feature allows the marketer’s message to spread by email, IM, blogs and through popular social media venues through a click.

Knowlarity [Gurgaon, 2009]: Knowlarity Communications offers cloud telephony services with product range that includes SuperFax, SuperReceptionist, SuperConference and SuperCaller. For larger enterprises, it provides hosted Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions integrated with its existing IT systems. Using its software SuperCaller, Knowlarity has solved tracking and monitoring issues in the Mid-day Meal Scheme (a project for provision of lunch, free of cost to school-children, below the poverty line). Claims 7,000+ clients from about 66 countries with a majority of them from India. Acquired Unicom Techlabs, a Delhi-based cloud telephony startup in Jan 2014 for their 200 clients.

$22.5M Sequoia Capital, Mayfield

Gaglers Gaglers [Bangalore, 2012]: Gaglers provides a software-as-a-service that connects people on a website via instant messaging(IM) and email. Online platforms and marketplaces use it for real-time interaction between buyers and sellers to generate quality sales leads. Backed by The Morpheus, Indian start-up accelerator program. Customers include Commonfloor, Homeshikari, iimjobs.

The Morpheus

iFlyChat iFlyChat [Noida, 2012]: iFlyChat provides real-time chat solution based on SaaS model which allows users to integrate chat plugin to their websites. Starts at $19 per month. Claims more than 6,000 customers and 500k chat messages daily. Featured clients include Coca-Cola, L'Oreal, General Electric, European Commission, MIT and Stanford.

OrangeTwig

OrangeTwig [Delhi, 2012]: Helps micro-businesses set up Facebook stores and sell their products using social commerce tools like social graphs of friends and customers. Have close to 2,500 customers using their platform after first 5 months of launch. Supports only Etsy sellers as of now. Features offered include social CRM ; messaging, endorsements capture, analytics and coupons/discounts support. Team split between San Francisco and Delhi, India.


Gainsight

Gainsight [Mountain View, 2009]: Gainsight, the native Force.com Customer Success Management solution, helps subscription-based businesses to drive their customer success initiatives, proactively manage retention, reduce churn and grow revenue by uncovering up-sell opportunities. Leverages “big data” analytics across sales data, usage logs, support ticket, surveys and other sources of customer intelligence. Key Customers- Adobe, BazaarVoice, Marketo, Influtive and Gild.

$29.1M Cultivation Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Battery Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Summit Partners

ShopSocially [Mountain View, 2009]: ShopSocially offers a suite of on-site social apps that retailers can embed in merchants websites, within their marketing campaigns or on their social network pages to support functions. The platform allows businesses to control when and how these apps are shown using rule-based targeting, search engine optimization, analytics, reporting, etc. The apps include include Ask-a-Friend, purchase sharing, fan acquisition, shopping community etc. Launched as a destination site for social shopping where users could connect with their friends for shopping advice but pivoted to the current model in April 2011. Customers include Sears, CBS, Showtime, CafePress, Ritz, Zales etc. Named as one of the most promising companies to watch by AlwaysOn. Received angel funding from TiE Angels, Ashish Gupta, Dharmesh Thakker, Raman Khanna.

$1.65M Valhalla Partners, Metamorphic Ventures, XSeed Capital

VWO [Delhi, 2010]:Visual Website Optimizer is a tool for marketing professionals to increase sales, signups, downloads and conversions by using A/B, split and multivariate testing. The tool offers features such as A/B testing, behavioral targeting, heatmaps, usability testing, etc. Developed by Wingify. Currently used by 3,700 brands in 75 countries, including Microsoft, GE, and Rackspace. Launched a new A/B testing platform in June 2014 for people without coding experience. Bootstrapped to $7M revenue in 2013. Acquired Concept Feedback (community of 27,000+ UX experts and designers for website feedback) in Sep 2014.

WebEngage [Mumbai, 2011]: WebEngage is a SaaS toolkit for collecting feedback, getting customer insights and driving conversions for online businesses. At the core of WebEngage is its "targeting engine" which can be used to identify visitor segments (like referring site, geo location, cookies etc) and throw a particular questionnaire or message to them. Have 1000+ websites in over 30 countries as customers. Clients include Flipkart, Snapdeal, eBay, Jabong, Myntra, Homeshop18, Yatra and makemytrip. Plans to build a product to help improve customer engagement in mobile apps

Indian Angel Network, GTI Capital Group, Blume Ventures

CallHub

CallHub [San Jose, 2011]: CallHub is a hosted voice broadcasting and SMS marketing software. Automates voice notifications to reach people and generates live leads for businesses. Can be used to call people about deals, updates, building closures and can be personalized with custom audio messages or used with a text to speech engine. CallHub will call a list of contacts and play a message when the person answers the phone. It can also call people to offer a simple press-1 option to be connected to businesses. Customers include CRITICAL Group, United Voice, UnionsWA etc. Investors include Jessie Paul, MD of Paul Writer and The Morpheus, a Startup Acceleration Program. Product by Gaglers Inc.


enMarkit

enMarkit [Gurgaon, 2012]: enMarkit is a cloud-based social engagement and business intelligence platform. Its integration enables businesses to increase conversion rates, and reduce cart abandonment by engaging customer through contextualized reviews and personalized content. Enables businesses to organize user communities and create target groups which would influence the sales the most. The platform offers an activity dashboard for the customers of the businesses to get recommendations based on the friends' activities and helps in increased targeted marketing. The company has been incubated under Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator.

$11.7k JFDI.Asia

LeadSquared

LeadSquared [Bangalore, 2012]: Leadsquared offers web-based tools to help startups and SMEs with lead management features and help businesses capture, engage and convert leads from online marketing. It enables businesses to create conversion optimized landing pages, capture, track and segment all the leads who can be probable buyers, send automated personalized emails to customers based on their online behavior on the platform and even provide analytics to businesses to understand user behavior and help retain customers. It easily integrates with third party software's such as cloud telephony, chat, outlook etc. and an API for developers to capture lead and activity data and build custom applications.

RankWatch

RankWatch [Gurgaon, 2012]: RankWatch is a cloud-based rank tracking and website analysis software that enables SEO companies and webmasters to see rankings of their respective companies. Allows users to track rankings for millions of keywords which was not possible before from a single IP address. Offers Google Maps ranking which is its unique differentiation from other tools. Offers white label interface and reporting tools, option to set custom alerts based on the set ranking searches and even customize the search engines selected. As of November 2012, it had 24 Paid Clients which includes clients tracking keyword between 500 to 25000 Keywords as well and around 750+ registered members. Offers plans ranging from $10/month for startups to $299/month for enterprises. Raised seed investment of INR 75 lakh from friends and family.

InfiniteWP

InfiniteWP [Chennai, 2012]: InfiniteWP is a self-hosted, freely-available multiple WordPress management platform that simplifies WordPress management tasks. It helps users monitor all the WP sites from the dashboard on the platform without the need to login to WordPress control panel. Enables for backup and restore of WordPress sites and even manage plugins and themes through the platform. Along with the mentioned features, offers various other add-ons. It is the flagship product of Revmakx. Used by Honda, TakeAway.com, IBM, Yoast.

MuHive [Bangalore, 2012]: muHive offers a cloud based platform that enables cross channel customer engagement with a controlled automation framework. Its communication dashboard brings real-time notifications and filtering of interactions across social and email channels managed from single platform. Offers contact management tool to form customer groups, create profiles based on attributes and view conversation history.Conversation management tool for managing interactions and automation tools to control engagement to improve productivity of customer relations teams. Also includes reporting and analytics features to enable data-driven better business decisions. Offers real-time notification system for multiple social channels.


VisitorEngage [Hyderabad, 2013]: VisitorEngage is a SaaS tool for online businesses to collect feedback, run surveys and push notifications on the website based on the users’ behavior. Visitor notifications can be customized by the users of the product which implements behavioral targeting, dynamic personalized notifications and triggering which are automated. Users can also access detailed reports with visual analytics, for website visitors that can also be downloaded in CSV format. Available in a freemium model for basic features and a paid subscription model for additional features and white label solutions. Paid packages range from $19 - $199 per month.

WizRocket [Mumbai, 2013]: WizRocket is a user behaviour analysis & targeting tool that helps web businesses interact with their users across offline and online mediums. It enables web businesses to do web messaging, push notifications, in-app messaging and reach out to customers via SMS or Email. WizRocket helps web businesses to target content on their own websites and mobile apps and then apply behaviour targeting to improve retention, engagement and conversion rates. Founders include ex-Burp, Network18, Infomedia18 and IIT Madras alumni. Currently in private beta and is working closely with 25 select global customers.

$1.6M Accel

ReportGarden [Hyderabad, 2013]: ReportGarden helps online ad agencies create analysis and performance reports for their clients. They do this by linking with their adwords, analytics, bing ads accounts using APIs and loading data into their reports. Their product offers deep segmentation and filtration of the data from all the ad services(Adwords, Analytics, etc). It offers this white-labeled service through various plans starting at $40 per month going up to $400 per month. Part of Startup Chile accelerator program.

InBoundio [Bangalore, 2013]: InBoundio is a simplified inbound marketing software targeted towards individuals and SMBs to help them manage marketing campaigns. Offers social media management, creation of landing pages, email marketing and other lead generation features. Has 1100+ users as of Dec 2014.

InkMonk [Chennai, 2014]: InkMonk is an online platform for creating merchandise and getting it printed and shipped. Merchandise includes apparels, wash proof stickers and personalized cards. Allows stocking merchandise in warehouses and shipping them as individual units or bulk shipping. Clients include HackerRank, HackerEarth, FreshDesk and Chargebee. Integrates with FedEx ; DHL. Currently in private beta


Vhelp [Bangalore, 2009]: Intelligent sales platform, which integrates with digital marketing and allows websites to segregate their visitors based on their intent (from behavioral cues) and communicate with each segment. Suspects or propects are intelligently engaged and based on visitor interest can be engaged by live chat or telesales. Clients include Pearson, Yatra. Product of Vimagino Solutions.

Knolseed [Bangalore, 2011]: Cloud based personalized eCommerce marketing solution offered by Knowledge Foundry in partnership with KnolSeed Technologies. Designed to be compatible with Google Analytics and a wide range of shopping cart and email marketing systems. Provides customer segment filters for customization of behavior & activities and design target campaigns accordingly. Customers include Dell, EverydayHealth, Payback among others.

SoCXO [Kochi, 2013]: SoCXO is a social media advocacy platform for enterprises to build their social media reach and engagement. Helps curate articles from all over the net, add content to it and help individuals and businesses expand their influence as brand advocates across their social networks. Businesses can review and manage content suggestions from their ambassadors along with sharing and message schedule across multiple devices. Part of Suyati Technologies.

Yattir [Kochi, 2014]: Developing an API-based content platform that equips media organizations to reach and engage their audiences across multiple digital channels and devices. Allows content creators to define content types and define their structures using the platform's interface. Also provides an analytics system to measure page views, shares and other such social analytics. Enables for integration of content workflows to external apps and platforms.

Contentivo [Bangalore, 2014]: Contentivo, a product of Zimrr Technologies, is a content marketing platform that helps marketers in creating and publishing content. Marketers can use the unified platform for content collaboration, content distribution to channels and tracking content performance. Also provides a central asset repository for users’ videos, images, documents, and audios and allows team members to leave comments, download assets, and tag assets. Companies can also create content tasks that can be assigned and hours can be logged for each task. Currently in private beta mode. Currently the team is in Estonia as a part of the 2014 Autumn batch of Startup Wise Guys.

Startup Wise Guys

Company Details: Sales - Helpdesk (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Kayako

Kayako [Jalandhar, 2001]: Kayako is a developer and vendor of help desk, CRM and live chat software. Their flagship helpdesk solution, "Kayako Fusion" enables organizations to deliver customer support over the web, email, support tickets, live chat, phone and self-service. Email management and ticketing, live customer chat support in real-time on websites, reports on performance measurement, customer satisfaction surveys and various other customer engagement and conversation tracking tools are the features offered by its helpdesk solution.

Freshdesk

Freshdesk [Chennai, 2010]: Freshdesk allows companies to support customers by offering help desk ticketing, issue tracking and insightful analytics across phone, email, web, live chat, social media and other channels. Freshdesk includes a helpdesk, a knowledge base, Self-Service portal for end users and a community platform to engage the customer community. Freshdesk customers are typically small and medium enterprises who are looking for a cloud based customer support software. Has 23,500 customers over 120 countries including Petronas, 3M, Goodreads, QuizUp.

$44M Accel Partners, Tiger Global Management, Google Capital

SupportBee

SupportBee [Bangalore, 2010]: SupportBee is a hosted and managed on the cloud helpdesk software, targeted for small and medium businesses. The software assists the user primarily in delivering email support to their customers. Email management, Email ticketing system, email importing, reports on various metrics as needed are few of the features offered.

$40k

HappyFox

HappyFox [Chennai, 2011]: HappyFox is a help desk ticketing system that is hosted on cloud, supporting multiple customer support channels like email, voice and live chat. It is being rendered in 35 languages. Also offers HappyFox app that is available on iOS and Android mobile platforms. Along with tags, advanced search and filters, integration with CRM, live-chat and accounting software, HappyFox feature list simplifies actions for support agents. Launched Helpstack, an open source mobile helpdesk for iOS developers in May 2014.

ClickDesk

ClickDesk [Hyderabad, 2011]: ClickDesk helps businesses engage their website visitors directly from their Instant Messenger (Skype/GTalk) through a Multi-channel customer engagement platform which includes a combo of live chat, browser phone (VoIP) and social toolbar, all through a single interface. Enables organizations to answer questions from their web visitors instantly with live chat from desktop or mobile, handle support tickets and offline chats better with the integrated Helpdesk, video chat for a more personal experience, improve customer relationships with the social toolbar.

Company Details: Sales - Helpdesk (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Helpshift

Helpshift [Pune, 2011]: Helpshift is a mobile help desk, providing customer service for mobile applications and enhancing customer satisfaction for mobile customers. Helpshift provides a native SDK that integrates with mobile apps to offer an “in app” customer experience. Its SaaS solution aims to be “the first embedded support desk for native apps,” allowing developers to capture device info from their users so that they can troubleshoot problems quicker and more effectively. As of June 2014, Helpshift has been installed on more than 150 million devices.

$13.2M True Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Visionnaire Ventures

Company Details: Sales (1/3) Company Details Funding Investors

Zyme Solutions

Zyme Solutions [Redwood, 2004]: Zyme Solutions is a provider of channel data integrity and channel intelligence solutions to the high-tech and consumer electronics industry. Products include ChannelView with components such as POS, Pipeline, rebates management and loyalty programs for partners based on sales performance. Also offers an analytics solution through dashboard suite with an aggregated view of technology sales and inventory through integration with the Tech Channel Index. TCI contains data on a representative basket of IT hardware, packaged software and consumer electronics from over 1500 channel partners in over 100 countries. Clients include industry leaders like Symantec, Xerox, Linksys and Sandisk among others to manage their sales channels. Has offices in USA, UK and Bangalore, India.

$11M Artiman Ventures

Jifflenow

Jifflenow [Bangalore, 2006]: Jifflenow is a provider of cloud-based enterprise meeting scheduling solutions for B2B events. It enables organizations to capture, distribute and analyze meeting data at B2B events. Few of the features include meeting response tracking, automatic personal calendar updation for meeting information, meeting schedule management, salesforce integration etc. Along with this, the platform is supported on both web and mobile and offers reporting ; real-time insights to calculate the value of meetings.

Dquip [Mumbai, 2009]: Provider of technology-enabled business software & solutions. Offerings include sales and customer management applications & web design services. With its business automation tools, clients can automate lead management, manage & drive sales performance, create, send & manage quotes online, create and manage online invoices and even get a customizable web based task management system. Has 50+ clients including HP, French Connection, Autocal, Themis Medicare among others.

Genwi

Genwi [Los Altos, 2010]: Genwi is used by marketers and publishers to distribute information, gathered from multiple sources, to mobile devices in realtime. It offers templates and tools that makes it easy for both small and enterprise publishers to customize both native and HTML5 apps, after which they can deliver their content across those devices without having to make changes to published apps. As of 2012, it was currently powering 1,500 apps, while storing and delivering 90 million+ articles, 120 million+ images and serving over 6 million+ app views per month. The customers include IBM Content Zone, Chief Content Officer and Deloitte to name a few.

$7.1M

Inventus Capital Partners, Quest Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Elevation Partners, Floodgate

Wag Mobile

Wag Mobile [Redmond, 2011]: Provider of mobile based learning and training platform offering products such as GoSalesTrain and GoLearningBus. Training platform comprises of features such as cross-device compatibility, dashboard for task management, community videos, in-built training templates with the offering available as a white-label solution. Also enables users to create apps and eBooks. Offered services for 1000+ eBooks and 2000+ apps with 5000+ downloads as of Oct 2014. Customers include Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Pearson, Verizon among others. Has offices in Redmond and Indore, India.

$555k


WittyParrot

WittyParrot [Cupertino, 2012]: WittyParrot offers a cloud-based platform enabling effective and consistent communication and content collaboration with insightful analytics among sales, marketing and customer support functions. It delivers content instantly for emails, presentations, RFPs and SOWs and makes communication effective, consistent, fast and simple. Helps for creating reusable content components and delivering them via a drag and drop widget to any device or application to improve productivity. Enables users to find, drag and drop information into e-mails, documents or presentation.

$1M

Preso.tv

Compile [Bangalore, 2012]: Compile is a cloud based platform that serves aids for lead sourcing and generation for an organization and helps businesses engage with their customers and prospects. It enables marketers & sales people to run customized marketing campaigns, sharing content that is relevant to the prospect and increase the number of leads for sales by identifying the right target prospects and avoiding cold leads. The platform helps to create an industry map along with the lead volume and regions, keyword map to identify product purchase intent and receiving lead stream in the CRM, email or dashboard.

Preso.tv

Preso.tv [Pune, 2013]: Preso.tv was created by Decos and the team is based in India and The Netherlands. The platform enables users to present powerpoint, pdf/word documents on smart devices and computers in real-time simultaneously. An app is available for Google Hangout using which users can turn their hangout call into a business presentation, online training or distance learning etc. Users can drag and drop their presentation onto the platform and users have the option to easily broadcast their presentation currently without any registration. Available for mobile on both Android and iOS.

KiCube

KiCube [Bangalore, 2013]: Cloud hosted + tablet application for sales and marketing teams to upload marketing content on the cloud and build interactive presentations. Features include real-time analytics on effectiveness of sales performance, integration with systems like dropbox, salesforce, white-labeled solutions with a customized app for the business requirements, adding customer engagement elements in the digital content presented. Primarily targeting US markets. Offices in Austin, US and Bangalore, India. Part of Endeavour Software Technologies.


CRMnext

CRMnext [Noida, 2002]: CRMnext is its flagship product of Acidaes Solutions Private Limited, offers a cloud-based customer relationship management solutions, available on a commutable cloud model i.e. both on-private cloud or on-public cloud on a single code-base which provides companies with flexibility of ownership model. CRMnext has proven track record of delivering high impact CRM solution with vertical offerings in banking, insurance, financial services, pharma, media, telecom, automobile etc. The product features covers processes across sales force automation, marketing automation, customer service management, social CRM and knowledge management on a single platform. The product comes along with a robust reporting ; analytical engine besides modules for business process automation. It runs the largest banking CRM implementation in Asia Pacific region at HDFC Bank with over 30k+ users.

$7M Norwest Venture Partners

Quotiply Quotiply [Mumbai, 2011]: Quotiply is an enterprise CRM solution. Quotiply helps companies to automatically collect, rate and assess offers from their usual providers, and identify the strongest contender for them. Has networking features such as profiles, messaging and contacts through which members are connected via an advanced suggestions system. Has a team based out of Mumbai, with the founder residing in Paris.

ClinchPad

ClinchPad [Delhi, 2013]: ClinchPad is a SaaS solution for CRM for small teams and businesses. It has a user-friendly interface with drag and drop features for tracking leads and moving them across pipeline with analytical reporting which allows teams to close deals and share information efficiently. Integrates with popular sales applications like Olark, Wufoo, Formstack, Mailchimp and others including all Google applications, and provides an iOS app for managing leads on the go.

GSF

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$114 M $77M HR



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$98M


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$3M


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$48M



$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M



$7M

Company Details: Analytics Company Details Funding Investors

Relecura [Bangalore, 2009]: Relecura, developed by INDUS TechInnovations, offers an analytics platform for technology developers, inventors, IP professionals and corporate leaders to make business decisions. Relecura’s core engine extracts relevant knowledge from large amounts of textual data, connects the knowledge to provide insights, and extends it further via predictive analytics for business and technology intelligence. Offers features like One-click Upload & Search, Assignment Data, collaboration, creation of Topic Maps, Result Clusters and a mobile app. Also offers APIs for 3rd party app development.

Ideal Analytics [Kolkata, 2010]: Offers an online SaaS platform for users to import data and produce dashboards. Features include easy data import and export, user management and data analysis. Formed as a joint venture between Ideation Technology Solutions, India and ChoYou SAS, France. Currently offers two plans - personal (free) and enterprise ($80/month). Has 20+ enterprise customers like Salesforce, Blackberry, VMware, Euler Hermes, Serco; and 3000 cloud customer accounts of which about 300-400 are paid customers.

CrayonData [Chennai, 2012]: Provides a SaaS Big Data Analytics platform with focus on hospitality, finance, retail, technology verticals. Offers two products— Simpler Choices and One Drop Analytics. Simpler Choices is a choice engine that helps consumers and businesses make better-informed and smarter decisions, while One Drop Analytics boosts B2B sales and marketing intelligence and demand generation by providing insights on companies and markets. Has 10 customers including a mid-sized hotel chain in the UK, an MNC bank in Singapore and a lifestyle & fashion retailer in India. CEO claims a run rate of $500,000 and hopes to close 2015 at $6M in revenue. Backed by Jungle Ventures, Spring Seed Capital along with some individual investors. HQ in Singapore with dev center in Chennai, India

$7.34M Jungle Ventures

Ubiq [Mumbai, 2013]: Ubiq Analytics offers web based analytics and reporting tools for MySQL data in a business. Users can query their data using drag & drop and visualize it in real time dashboards, online dashboards to track signups, sales, operations and other business information. For MySQL database on your laptop, cloud or intranet. It is a part of The Morpheus accelerator. Finds its application in eCommerce businesses to find top customers, products & categories.

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$98M


$11.3M


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$25M


$3M


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$48M



$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M



$7M



UniRow

$20M

Company Details: HR (1/4) Company Details Funding Investors

HackerRank

HackerRank [Bangalore, 2009]: A platform to administer coding challenges, candidate assessment and tech interviews. HackerRank (formerly Interviewstreet) automates the applicant code testing and interviewing to pre-qualify and screen candidates. Companies can create their own tests or choose from a library of programming challenges, MCQs, and subjective questions. Candidates are invited to take the test and HackerRank's code-checker evaluates the code, correctness and optimality. Recruiters can invite shortlisted candidates to CodePair- a collaborative tool to conduct real-time coding sessions. Pricing starts at $199 per month forstart ups. Key Customers- Yahoo, Facebook, VM Ware, Evernote.

$12.4M Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures

Synergita

Synergita [Thanjavur, 2009]: Synergita, product of Asteor Software, is an online cloud-based tool for performance management, periodic review and continuous feedback. It empowers HR and business managers through flexible and easy to administer online tools, reducing the dependency on the internal IT team or external vendors. The product features include creation ; management of employee profiles, skillset capture and search in employee database, insights such as new hire report, attrition report, continuous feedback for employees, teams, reward system for employees, setting goals and tracking for employees and performance reports for both individual employees, teams and the entire organization.

Prohance

Prohance [Bangalore, 2009]: Offers technology solutions for employee engagement and workflow process management for businesses. Offered as both on-cloud and on-premise, offers analytics and dashboard for time tracking of employees, attendance report, workload management among others. Other products include Prohance Plus for measuring productivity, Prohance Pro for project status tracking and revenue recognition and Prohance Desk for real-time measurement of asset utilization. Has 50+ active clients across US, Japan, Russia and Romania. Product of JaMocha Tech.

Recruiterbox [Bangalore, 2010]: Recruiterbox is a web-based applicant tracking software that helps companies to manage their incoming job applications. Companies can create jobs, share them on multiple platforms, structure the process, manage teams, create questionnaires and view all applications from a single dashboard. Recruiterbox is a product of Aplopio Technology, a recruitment technology company. Used by 700+ companies including Groupon, Skyscanner, Stripe, Contently, Olark and Panasonic.

$250k

Mettl

Mettl [Gurgaon, 2010]: Mettl's flagship product is an online assessment solution for testing technical, aptitude and psychometric skills of potential candidates. The solution helps companies measure, analyze and improve people skills. It is ideal for companies who want to run multi-competency assessments for their prospective hires or existing employees. The main benefits and salient features of their assessment platform are creating multi-competency assessments - i.e. measure aptitude, technical and personality skills applicable in work environment, automatic invigilation for remote testing situations and actionable analytics with reporting on candidate's performance generated real time.

$4.43M Blume Ventures, IndoUS Venture Partners


uniRow uniRow [Mumbai, 2010]: uniRow offers a cloud-based remote training and assessment platform for enterprises. Enterprises can leverage uniRow to train their remote sales teams and connect with their geographically scattered workforce, agents and distributors. uniRow’s collaboration platform with its low bandwidth footprint disrupts the virtual training industry. Clients include ICICI Bank, Glenmark, FICCI, Pearson and naukri.com.

$1.2M

HireRabbit HireRabbit [Bangalore, 2011]: HireRabbit offers SaaS platform for companies to design career- sites on Facebook and mobile. Companies can use referral recruitment, integrate with existing applicant tracking systems and see recruitment metrics. Product launched in Nov, 2012. Company has around 100 customers including Citiustech, Evidon, eclerx and Sandstone. Backed by Microsoft Accelerator program.

MindTickle MindTickle [Pune, 2011]: SaaS-based learning platform for enterprises that transforms existing content such as ppts, docs, videos etc. into engaging online training. Organizations can create, curate, deliver and track online learning for employees, customers and partners. Won “Best use of engagement techniques in Online Learning” Award at Gamification Summit, SF, USA in 2013. Clients include SAP, makemytrip.com, ebay, Yahoo!, InMobi.

$1.8M Accel Partners

MoBolt

MoBolt [Dallas, 2012]: MoBolt offers an end-to-end mobile recruiting solution. Its solutions are built on its proprietary SaaS platform that optimizes and completes job applications. Offerings include Mobile Career Site design ; job search, MoBolt Apply, a fully optimized apply process for mobile devices that works seamlessly with all ATS system worldwide in all global languages without needing any integration. It also offers social-mobile employee referral enabling users to refer ; apply to a job in less than a minute and talent capture which enables to capture candidates from career fairs/events seamlessly into recruiting company's CRM and an analytics suite that delivers detailed reports that empowers talent acquisition teams to make quality decisions. Indeed has agreed to acquire MoBolt and Indeed's pay for performance model will be extended to Mobolt solution.

PiQube

PiQube [Chennai, 2012]: Web based hiring tool for businesses. Offered products include piStat, a market intelligence tool to assist recruiters with candidate profiles across the web for their own requirements. Other product rhoStat, intelligent people-matching engine that would be available soon for beta users as of Oct 2014. Company claims of strong traction in technology sector with major pull in BFSI category and focusing on acquiring customers from Singapore in further expansion. Offers its products on a subscription based model for $250/month.


WhistleTalk [Bangalore, 2012]: Whistle Talk offers a referral hiring platform, that helps companies leverage the social influence of their employees to connect and hire potential candidates. Its free personal edition enables employees across organizations to share "hidden jobs" (job vacancies that do not reach well enough to the public through job portals) in their company and receive access to hidden jobs in other companies. The enterprise edition allows companies to partner with employees to take its jobs to a larger pool of relevant, potential candidates resulting in a more efficient & effective referral hiring process.

Sumari

Sumari [Singapore, 2012]: Web-based, mobile-enabled, live and recorded video-interviewing solution. Recruiters set a standardized interview questionnaire, candidates are invited to record responses. Hiring teams collaborate to rate, comment and shortlist candidates. Sumari’s speech analytics engine - CommAnalytics can gain insights from candidate responses and convert this data into meaningful results for hiring decisions. Sumari stores candidate responses in a cloud vault.

Zalp Zalp [Princeton, 2012]: ZALP is a SaaS based referral software designed to help organizations efficiently source the highest quality candidates from Employee Referrals. It enables organizations to automate and streamline different aspect of employee referral program, integrating it with social recruitment using social media capabilities. Features include easy job posting, Analytics, LeaderBoard and real-time tracking.

ZLemma [Mountain View, 2013]: ZLemma's flagship product ZSort analyzes professionals with backgrounds in STEM fields to help companies identify the right hires. The product is based on the proprietary metric, ZLemma Quotient (ZQ) - a candidate's suitability-score for a prospective job. ZLemma's algorithms use semantic intelligence to search beyond traditional keyword search and study a range of factors such as difficulty of the major at the candidate's university, the highest degree they earned, the pedigree of their work experience. It also models the specific requirements of teams at client companies, the backgrounds they seek and the skills they desire. Founded by former Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Sun Microsystems executives. Currently in limited release to select partners. The company is head quartered in San Francisco with a significant part of team in Pune, India.

Nexus Venture Partners

Predikt

Predikt [Chicago, 2013]: Predikt analyzes professional data of users and numerically shows how well they fit specific job positions. Provides artificial intelligence technology screens resumes and identifies the best applicants for your job openings. It also aggregates and analyzes social data from github, linkedin, facebook, kaggle, blogs etc. It evaluates multiple signals such as relevance of experience, education, reputation of companies, projects, publications etc. Claims that using Predikt, recruiters will be able to quantify a candidate’s fit, view actionable insights and hire upto 5X faster. Currently part of Plug & Play Ventures, Chicago.


Antezen [Bangalore, 2011]: Antezen provides web based platform that offers an automation solution for resume screening, referrals and applicant tracking for recruiters. Tools for recruiters include features such as 1-click screening, resume parser and tracking applicants based on their skill set ratings. Released their product - Skillsume, a web based tool for creating resumes with drag-drop user interface.

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$7M



UniRow

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$5M

$98M

Company Details: Collaboration (1/4) Company Details Funding Investors

Celoxis

Celoxis [Pune, 2001]: Celoxis is a cloud-based project management software enabling companies to manage various aspects of the business from one integrated application. Their flagship application combines management of projects, resources, issues, documents, time sheets, expenses, and collaboration. Project Planning component with scheduling feature and templates, Project tracking component with time ; expense tracking, notification features, bug tracking, request tracking and customizable dashboards, portfolio reporting, resource management, team collaboration and also a flexible API integration for data exchange.

DeskAway

DeskAway [Mumbai, 2007]: Deskaway is a SaaS application for team-based project management and collaboration developed by Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. It provides project and task management, wiki-style document management, task lists, file sharing, internal blogs, calendar, contacts, messaging, personal email reminders, reports, user interface customizations, security, and integration with FreshBooks and Google Apps. DeskAway offers a system for creating and storing templates.

Blue Jeans

Blue Jeans [Mountain View, 2009]: Provides a cloud-based video conferencing service that enables people to connect with each other any time, any place, and from practically any device. Can support more than 100 simultaneous users on a video conference. Has offices in Mountain View, USA and Bangalore, India. Over 2,000 customer accounts including Facebook, Stanford University, 99 Designs, Wharton University, RedHat, MIT Sloan School of Management.

$98.5M Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Battery Ventures

ProofHub

ProofHub [Chandigarh, 2010]: ProofHub is a web based project management software and online collaboration tool that helps companies, groups and freelancers manage, schedule, discuss, work and communicate with clients and team. Features offered include to-do’s, milestones, discussions, file sharing, inbuilt proofing tool, time tracking, inbuilt browser chat. Offers packages ranging from $15 to $149. Also offers a free plan that provide 250MB storage space loaded with select features and access to unlimited users. Clients include TripAdvisor, Zomato, Harvard University, Wipro, Intuit among others.

GrexIt

GrexIt [Bangalore, 2011]: GrexIt turns email inbox into a collaboration tool to help support, sales, project management, recruitment and operations teams collaborate efficiently from their inbox. Offers "Shared Labels" in Gmail to share useful emails and attachments, assign tasks, and track status on support and sales queries. Shared Email Archive to which a team can add email conversations which can also integrate with Gmail Labels to automate archival and sharing of important emails. It is integrated with Google Apps, and is available on the Google Apps marketplace.

The Morpheus, Citrix Startup Accelerator


Oogwave [Noida, 2012]: Oogwave offers a SaaS application for enterprise level and cross organizational collaboration with social networking, file sharing, work management and communication. The first version of oogwave was launched in September 2011, by Toronto based oogwave INC which was founded in the summer of 2010. The app was initially accessible via computer/laptop browsers and the subsequent version of oogwave introduced responsive interface to allow access via mobile and tablet browsers. The company has attracted funding from TLabs, a division of Times Internet Ltd.

$18K TLabs

Framebench [Delhi, 2012]: Framebench is a cloud based communication and feedback platform specially for digital agencies and creative design firms. It is a central workplace where one can store & share your creative assets. Remote teams & clients can then review, mark changes required on the assets and even host discussions on them in real time. This is automatically documented for viewing at any later time. 1000+ companies have been using it since its debut.

$150k Blume Ventures

Collaborate Cloud [Bangalore, 2012]: Collaborate Cloud is a collaboration platform that focuses on communication, collaboration, productivity and workflow automation. It allows an organization to have all their employees, departments and business functions on to one single common platform facilitating communication & collaboration. Allows employees to interact in real time, conduct virtual meetings, collaborate on files, delegate tasks, manage events, track due dates and manage all their business functions by collaborating on relevant apps picked up from the cloud app store or built using the app builder. Teams can setup workrooms and workflows to automate any internal process. The platform will also be accessible through mobile devices & tablets allowing employees to stay connected and share work updates on the go. Collaborate Cloud is available as a software-as-a-service and can be used on an on-demand basis.

Dream IT Ventures

Dotmach [Trivandrum, 2012]: Dotmatch offers a web based collaboration & work management tool to enable enterprises and SMBs to offer an effective way for teams to communicate and share content. The application also has an inbuilt social element, that provides content or file collaboration internally and also with other services. Currently the services supported are Box.bet and Dropbox, but the platform plans to add Skydrive and Google drive to the list.

Tydy [Bangalore, 2012]: Tydy offers a platform in a mobile interface for sales, management & other such distributed teams in an organization to manage project schedule, research and tasks. Document sharing, presentation tools, feedback forms and sales checklists are few of the features offered. Their platform allows businesses to enable their users to browse through products, receive promotions and campaigns and interactive photo galleries, videos. Offers web analytics features and marketing solutions for online retail stores. Used by customers like Mantri, Puma, Zansaar. Raised angel funding on LetsVenture led by Hareesh Ramanna, MD of BORQS Software, with participations from Bhupen Shah, co-founder of SlingBox; Nikhil Ramanlal, director of Atandra; and Soumitra Sharma, former associate at IDG Ventures.

$138k


InFeedo [Gurgaon, 2013]: Building a web-based private social engine for idea generation, problem solving and consensus building within an organization. Users can post ideas and discuss problems in real-time. Option of anonymous posting regarding a specific problem in the community, forming private groups with access limitations. Incubated by former Google Director.

Ad Documentum [Bangalore, 2013]: Cloud based Document Templating & Correspondence Automation that allows business professionals to define a document template which could be linked with real time data to generate and deliver automatic correspondences. Its tools allows users to collaborate, restrict and annotate content in a multi-user environment. Finds its applications across verticals such as banking & finance, education, healthcare, government & utilities, transportation and logistics. Automated correspondence such as billing, customer communications, reporting, notifications, messaging and invoicing are offered.

Mammoth

Mammoth [San Francisco, 2013]: Mammoth is a cloud-based collaboration tool that enables individuals or businesses to communicate, share links, pictures and documents, create boards for various topics etc. The tool also allows for document formatting and organization of files on a board. Also provides a chrome extension called mini-mammoth which allows user to simply drag and drop any link, text, image etc. The company is planning to release mobile/tablet apps soon for both iOS and Android. HQ in San Francisco Bay Area with an office in Hyderabad, India.

Brightpod [Mumbai, 2013]: Brightpod is a cloud-based collaboration app developed by Synage Software which offers marketers the tools needed for efficient communication, task delegation and file sharing on the web. Incubated at The Morpheus.

Svyft [Hyderabad, 2014]: Svyft is an encrypted instant messaging and group chat for teams. Users can create unlimited private or public chat rooms with unlimited members. Provides Dropbox and Google Drive integration for easy file sharing. Also has real time apps that run within a chat room called Chatlets. Its first chartlet, Tasks is a Kanban board to track projects, issues, bugs, events. Group Chat is free, while chatlets cost a monthly fee of $25/month. Team is split between offices in NYC and Hyderabad.


Trackmemo [Bangalore, 2014]: Trackmemo provides a newsfeed of updates and activity from cloud applications like Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Github, Asana, Basecamp, Trello. Users can track projects, documents and code repositories with real-time updates and alerts. Also offers centralized, threaded and searchable conversation threads for collaborating with teams. Product of MyCrofto.

CcZen [San Francisco, 2014]: CcZen, is a product of TeamSync, US based software product startup. It is a group email service that enables groups to communicate, share, and organize information in a simpler ; more efficient way. Users can form ; organize group emails from the inbox itself and even helps for organizing attachments on the cloud automatically. Launched in Summer 2014. Hiring for Bangalore office as of Oct 2014 with another office in San Francisco. Backed by Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail).

Company Details: ERP + Business Process Automation (1/1)

Company Details Funding Investors

Azuqua [Seattle, 2011]: Azuqua enables organizations to create business processes spanning multiple cloud services and integrate them together along with allowing users to embed their own logic into the business process via click, point ; drag features interface. Currently focused on marketing technology - social media, marketing automation, and CRM. Will also sync coworkers’ calendars using Asana, Evernote, Google Docs and Trello. Pricing will be based on number of processes connected. Techstars startup. Have offices in Seattle and Bangalore, India.

$5M Ignition Partners

KissFlow

KissFlow [Chennai, 2012]: KissFlow, product of OrangeScape, is an alternative to using email and spreadsheets to track approvals and other tasks in a company. It is a cloud-based business workflow management platform that helps businesses to create workflows for things like expense reporting, access google docs, calenders, contacts and spreadsheets directly from the platform along with an analytics dashboard to track all the business processes in the company. Has 9000+ customers across 100 countries.

ERPNext [Mumbai, 2008]: ERPNext, product of Web Notes Technologies Pvt. Ltd., is an open source integrated ERP software for small ; medium businesses. Its solutions for businesses include accounting, asset management, CRM, HRM, POS integration, project ; sales management, warehouse management system. The software has a Model-View-Controller architecture with metadata modeling tools that add flexibility for users to adapt the software to unique purposes without the need for programming. It provides an embedded reporting system with office suite integration along with report customization.

Company Details: Business Apps Suite (1/1)

Company Details Funding Investors

Exactlly [Kolkata, 1997]: Provider of business management software such as ERP, HRMS, CRM & PMS. Its ERP helps companies to manage and record business processes and data at every stage of business, HRMS for HR and payroll tasks, CRM to increase sales and revenues and maintain relationships with leads and a project management system to enable effective project and team management. Has multiple offices in India and Dubai. Customers include Dupont, Sharekhan, AutoSonics, Tulip Group among others. It has more than 40000 users spreading across 17 countries. The founder is currently the Chairman of NASSCOM ERPC and an active charter member of TiE Kolkata.

Zoho [Chennai, 2005]: Zoho offers a suite of business, collaboration ; productivity applications in a freemium model. Offers a suite of 25+ apps for CRM, helpdesk, email hosting, project management, accounting, app creator among others. While headquartered in Pleasanton, USA, its software development, sales and support operations are in Chennai, India. A self-funded company, Zoho has never taken funding from outside investors

A2Zapps [Delhi, 2007]: A2Zapps is an enterprise cloud computing company enabling companies to use business software in verticals such as institutions, media houses, online retail, financial service companies among others. Platform and services comprise of 3 parts - Work Desktop, for business employees to manage, share & collaborate on documents, communicate with other employees, schedule tasks and meeting among others; Work App Store, a marketplace for ready-made business apps; Work App Builder, allows companies and individuals to custom build their own apps in the Cloud using the Developer toolkit. All apps are integrated, social and mobile in nature.

EazeWork [Noida, 2009]: EazeWork provides cloud based HRMS, CRM Software, Payroll Software, Helpdesk software to SMEs. Products include EazeHR, EazePay, EazeSales, and EazeSupport. Business users can use EazeWork software through emails, mobiles phones (SMS only) and web browsers. Claims to have over 25,000 users across Asia, Africa and Europe. Clients include Vinculum, Yebhi, TRF, Vikalp, Location Labs, mCarbon, JCDeaux, TriCore etc.

Company Details: Productivity (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

WeekWill [Chennai, 2009]: WeekWill is a cloud hosted solution that enables consumers to receive email notifications on mobile phone via SMS/call. User doesn't require an internet connection on mobile to receive notifications, can receive updates within 30 seconds of mail arrival in inbox. The product works with multiple mail clients, also offers users the option to filter unwanted emails, spam filtration and even provides content filtration option. Offers monthly, yearly and corporate plans.

MetisMe [Mumbai, 2012]: MetisMe, product of Gusto Web Labs Pvt. Ltd., is an Email Data Management System that solves the pain point of data search and sharing from within their email. It currently helps Gmail users set up an attachments stack, search for desired attachments and sync them with cloud drive on demand or by setting automation rules, forward or download attachments from multiple emails. Presently, after installing the plug-in, users can see all their attachments under one tab similar to how they view files in their local drive. Users can search for desired attachments with ease and sync it with cloud drives like Dropbox, Skydrive, Gdrive and Evernote. The company has a mobile app for iOS and releasing one soon for Android. The company is planning to release MetisMe for MS Web Exchange and Outlook users.

Vibe [Kochi, 2013]: Vive, a product of Profoundis Labs, is a contact mapping application for Mac OS, iPhone and a Chrome extension. Vibe looks up email addresses through APIs of most popular social networks to retrieve links to profiles and homepages, as well as short biographies of people. Provides information like name, location, job, social network accounts, short biography, and topics of interest as the user hovers on email addresses. The product is free for individuals while businesses pay for extra features. Profoundis, the developer of Vibe, is a part of Startup Chile, Microsoft Accelerator Program and Blackbox VC connect.

$40k Startup Chile

Ref [Austin, 2013]: Ref is an auto-suggest feature for Gmail that pulls contacts from LinkedIn, Salesforce, Facebook etc. Users install the app into their browser and then open Gmail and link their 3rd party accounts to the app. With Ref, they can reference people, files, leads, tasks, and other entities straight from the compose window of their e-mail by typing the @ character. Currently supports Facebook, Asana, LinkedIn, Google Contacts, Dropbox, Trello, Google Drive and Box.net.

Teamgum [Mumbai, 2013]: Teamgum has created a browser extension that allows users to share articles they find on the web with other team members. It integrates with other apps like Pocket and Twitter. Also offers a smartphone app that provides users with live news feed of the articles shared, have conversations with users remotely through the app, make shared article recommendations to other users, notification, commenting and sharing system for articles. The browser extension or app allows users to create their own identity profile

Company Details: Productivity (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Typeless [Bangalore, 2013]: Web based contacts management tool. Can be integrated with various online services, enables for sharing contacts on Gmail groups, data sync of contacts across accounts. Associated with contacts on Gmail, Outlook and mobile devices. Available as a Chrome extension currently. Currently available as a free service.

Quickly [Singapore, 2014]: Quickly is a chrome plugin that helps users organize and use their Gmail inboxes better. Based on the context of the email, Quickly suggests a single action or a series of actions that the user can take. Also provides actions with popular apps like Asana, Google Drive, Dropbox and Mailchimp. Releasing integrations with more apps soon. Launched on 19 June 2014, in beta. Founders earlier worked together on GuitarStreet.in.

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Company Details: Developer Tools (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

BrowserStack

BrowserStack [Mumbai, 2011]: BrowserStack is an online cross-browser testing product which provides a cloud platform where developers, testers and designers can test their web applications. They serve more than 300,000 registered users worldwide including Wikipedia, Microsoft, Ubuntu, jQuery, Citrix, Adobe, Ebay, Stanford University and more. They also offer local testing that allows users to test their internal servers using the BrowserStack cloud, which has support for firewalls, proxies and active directory. Features include mobile emulators for iOS and Android for testing across range of devices, pre-installed developer tools for testing and debugging and multiple desktop OS support.

LoginRadius

LoginRadius [Edmonton, 2011]: LoginRadius is a unified social API platform that combines 30 major social platforms such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. into a single API. With LoginRadius API, websites and apps can implement social login, capture user social data, enable social sharing, add single sign-on, and more. Headquartered in Edmonton, Canada with an office in Jaipur, India. Powering social login and sharing on 100,000 websites in 180 countries with monthly reach of 15 million users.

$1.3M

Accelerate Ventures, Yaletown Venture Partners, Real Ventures, Business Development Bank of Canada

Errorception [Mumbai, 2011]: Errorception is an error reporting service for client-side in-browser JavaScript errors. Errorception attempts to solve the problem of front-end errors by getting details about such errors and reporting them back to the developer. Errorception focuses on run-time and load-time performance. The developer’s JavaScript code is not modified or otherwise tampered with. The tracking snippet is also lazily loaded, so that the site’s load-times are not affected.

Shippable

Shippable [Bellevue, 2013]: Shippable helps teams ship software faster by giving them a virtual build, test, and deployment environment in the cloud. Offered features include GitHub signin, support for multiple languages/platforms, cross-platform, build history and artifacts, granular permission model, integrated code quality tools like code coverage and trend visualization. Built on Docker, and is 3x faster than other competing products build on VM. It is part of the TechStars Seattle 2013 cohort. Shippable provides 5 private repositories for free, pricing starts at $10/month.

$10.05M Divergent Ventures, Vulcan, Inc., Madrona Venture Group, Founder's Co-op, SK Ventures, Techstars

Postman [Bangalore, 2013]: Postman is a suite of API management tools which helps developers to work with REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs more efficiently. The Postman Chrome app let’s user construct and send API requests quickly, which is a lot faster than writing your own code or using existing command line tools. Postman lets developers craft simple as well as complex HTTP requests quickly. It also saves requests for future use. Used by over 500k developers. Rated as one of the best development tools of 2013 by Scott Hanselman (Microsoft MVP) and several other top developers. Founding team went to BITS Pilani.

Company Details: Developer Tools (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Docspad [Bangalore, 2013]: Docspad offers a cloud-based software providing document handling features like preview, edit, annotate etc. into web and mobile applications. It offers support to all popular document formats, working across all devices, customisable viewer and a simple API integration. It serves customers who build applications in cloud storage, productivity, conferencing etc. It is a part of Microsoft Accelerator program's 2014 summer batch. Product of BookPad, which was acquired by Yahoo! in Sep 2014 for $8.3M.

MoEngage

MoEngage [Bangalore, 2014]: MoEngage is a mobile marketing platform. The platform builds user profiles based on In-App behavior of users and then users are automatically segmented into engagement centric segments like Starters, Engaged, Lapsed, Tried ; Left and Uninstalled. Marketers can then reach out to customers via Push Notifications/In-App Messaging/Emails, thereby driving engagement ; conversions. Marketers can track customer engagement metrics and get insights on Customer Acquisition. Currently in closed beta mode with few clients. Has offices in SFO and Bangalore.

Company Details: Mobile Developer Tools (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

ShepHertz [Gurgaon, 2010]: Provides backend and infrastructure to mobile app developers to build apps and games. Has three products - App42 PaaS - a scalable platform with pre-configured Java, PHP, Ruby, Python and Node templates to build apps. Also has specialized solutions for games and mBaaS. AppWarp offers on-premise solutions to build and host customized gaming servers. App42 Cloud APIs offer a one-stop cloud shop for developers to choose from over 500+ backend APIs across 20+ modules. AppHawk allows developers to manage their users, tasks, requirements, increments, estimation, costing, documents and collaboration tools for communication and sharing information and documents on the cloud. AppClay provides user friendly interface to develop HTML5 and Android native apps without any coding. AppHQ offers management console for App42 Cloud API and AppWarp. The company also plans to launch a shared and dedicated cloud containers in the future.

$1.8M Kae Capital, Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angels, growX ventures, India Quotient

99tests 99tests [Bangalore, 2011]: 99tests provides a crowd testing platform for software and mobile applications. Developers can test critical user flows with real testers on real handsets, with pay-per-performance pricing model. 8000+ testers and 53000+ bugs logged as of Jan 2014. Over 80 companies such as Intuit, Flipkart, Practo are customers.

$210k

AppSurfer [Pune, 2011]: AppSurfer allows users to run demo for Android apps on browsers before installing and stream them to any device or platform. These demos can be embedded on blogs, product pages, press releases etc. and inside Facebook. Provides an API for custom use cases to third party AppStores, online IDEs, etc. Recently introduced interactive ad features in apps.

$200k One97 Communications

Plivo

Plivo [San Francisco, 2011]: Plivo provides a cloud-based API platform that enables developers and businesses to build Voice and SMS apps without carrier lock-in for their web and mobile apps in the cloud. The APIs aid to make and receive calls, send SMS, make a conference call etc. Developers can create Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) endpoints to perform the telephony operations. Headquartered in San Francisco, with another office in Bangalore. Y Combinator graduate.

$1.75M Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Qualcomm, SV Angel, Y Combinator

Plivo

Semusi [Gurgaon, 2012]: Semusi is a context-awareness SaaS platform for apps which provides real time behavioral insights for the mobile app users based on their demographics, activity, location etc. Developers/Publishers/advertisers can use Semusi SDK to create and serve personalized and engaging experiences. The SDK works with sensors and the Semusi service to decipher gender, activity & place for each user. Based out of Gurgaon, India and Singapore. Used by apps like Silverline, Popcam, Kentaura.

Company Details: Mobile Developer Tools (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Playblazer Inc. [Mumbai, 2013]: Playblazer is a multi-tenanted ; auto-scaling, cloud-hosted backend for Social ; Multiplayer Games. Playblazer provides game developers and studios a configurable API that provides instant access to a comprehensive set of pre-built - data models, components ; workflows by leveraging AWS infrastructure to enable rapid development of games accessible from any platform. Used by games like Real Steel Friends (Dreamworks IP/Jump Games) as well as the official game of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Emficient Technologies Pvt Ltd [Delhi, 2013]: Provides a cloud-based mobility PaaS with tools to build, integrate, deploy and manage data driven B2E (Business-to-Employee) mobile apps for mobilizing business processes, workflows, tasks, reports, databases ; custom applications. The platform enables apps to be securely integrated with virtually any enterprise backend system. Apps can then be easily accessed by mobile users using the ‘mFicient’ app. Features include user, device ; app management, rapid development tools and single sign-on integration with Active Directory (LDAP). Has built-in popular industry standard data connectors for secure backend integration with enterprise data. Has offices in Switzerland and India.

AppIterate [Delhi, 2013]: AppIterate is a WYSIWYG A/B testing platform for native mobile apps. It allows app publishers to A/B test and iteratively optimize their designs/UX and functionality of their mobile apps to improve in app purchases, user engagement and conversion metrics. It also allows app publishers to run tests and deploy based on user segments and see real time conversion metrics. Pricing - $49/m for less than 10K MAU, $199/m for upto 25K MAU. Customers include Reviews42, Ola Cabs, Spice Labs. Based out of San Francisco and Delhi. Backed by SAIF Partners and angels - Greg Badros and Prashant Malik.

$500k SAIF Partners

BetaGlide [Bangalore, 2013]: Working on an analytics product for Android apps, focused on solving device fragmentation. Also provides a SaaS dashboard for developers to monitor and measure various metrics calculated from the data gathered by their SDK. Raised $1M in April 2014 from Mercury Fund. TLabs alumnus. IIT Kharagpur Founding Team

$1M TLabs, Mercury Fund

AppKnox [Bangalore, 2014]: Appknox, product of XYSec Labs Pvt Ltd., offers a platform that scans mobile apps in an automated manner to find security flaws such as leaked payment, banking and other sensitive data of the users. Helps coders by offering a testing API that can be built into their continuous integration process. Also certifies the apps post security testing, detecting vulnerabilities and prioritize the security loopholes to be solved. Users receive automated reports including a score card of vulnerabilities, ranked by severity. This report includes helpful suggestions for developers, and threat scenarios for managers.

$19.9k StartupChile, JDFI


$11.3M


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$25M

Company Details: eCommerce (1/3) Company Details Funding Investors

Putler [Mumbai, 2007]: Putler is a cloud based sales analysis & reporting platform. It aggregates transactions from different payment gateways and shopping carts and processes the data to show statistics, charts and details in the form of custom reports required. Putler can also aid with issuing refunds, manage subscriptions and work even while offline. Has integration with popular gateways (Paypal, Shopify, Zapier, Etsy among others) and offers inbound API for a gateway not integrated. Part of Apps Magnet.

Unbxd Unbxd [Bangalore, 2011]: Unbxd offers an on-site product discovery SaaS which helps e-commerce businesses increase conversions with personalised and relevant search queries with auto-completion, synonym detection and other features. Businesses get useful analytics from product search which enables them to offer relevant products. Used by eCommerce portals like Yepme, Redmart, Travelguru, Carat Lane, CBazaar, Zansaar.

$2M Inventus Capital Partners, IDG Ventures India

MineWhat

MineWhat [Bangalore, 2012]: MineWhat enables online stores to make informed decisions on marketing, merchandising and product strategy to increase customer lifetime value. It was founded in early 2012 as a social discovery engine that picked up on user interests expressed on social media networks and used that to suggest products that they might like. MineWhat later joined The Ark Challenge incubator in Arkansas. The tool features include promotion and marketing of products, shopper segmentation to acquire and retain more consumers, competitive positioning of products and product strategy for improving business. Supports various platforms such as Shopify, Magento, Opencart, eBay, Drupal commerce, amazon etc. The company graduated out of the incubator as one of the two best startups there.

Ark Challenge

Semantics3

Semantics3 [San Francisco, 2012]: Semantics3 is building the world’s largest database of products and prices currently tracking billions of prices, tens of millions of products and thousands of merchants. All of this data is available in realtime through their products API. Customers include developers building data-driven e-commerce apps, merchants figuring out trending products and monitoring prices and many others. Their primary offering is the Products Data API with which developers can track prices across a variety of products and build shopping comparison engines, enrich e-commerce stores with rich metadata and more. HQ in SFO with another office in Bangalore, India.

Y Combinator

Boomerang Commerce

Boomerang Commerce [Santa Clara, 2012]: Boomerang Commerce provides a cloud-based platform that provides tools to eCommerce businesses to help product category managers and pricing analysts to optimize product prices to maximize yield in terms of revenue, profit and conversions on the website through its flagship product, Price Optimization Platform. It provides retailers advanced tools to optimize their product prices for competitiveness, profitability, marketing effectiveness and customer lifetime value. Technology is plug-n-play for both online and B;M retail. HQ in Santa Clara with a dev center in Bangalore, India. Early customers include Staples, Sears, DHGate, Groupon Goods and RadioShack.

$8.5M Trinity Ventures, Madrona Venture Group


ZapStitch

ZapStitch [Bangalore, 2013]: Cloud Data Integration platform that seamlessly integrates/migrates data between various SaaS Apps like SalesForce, NetSuite, Workday, Concur etc, useful for integrating e-commerce, CRM, Accounting, e-mail marketing and HR data. Plug-and-play cloud connectors that allow businesses to set up integrations in under 10 minutes. Secured seed funding in April 2014 from Anupam Mittal (founder of People Group) and other angels

Zamplee Zamplee [Dallas, 2013]: Building a SaaS platform for B2B eCommerce, both international and domestic. Hiring for tech and business positions for Dallas, Bangalore, Vizag, Vijayawada and Hyderabad postings. Founders based out of Dallas, Texas. Currently in stealth mode.

MartMobi [Hyderabad, 2013]: Helps eCommerce sites, Brands and Retailers go instant mobile across varied platforms & devices without writing any code. Self service platform for retail businesses to create and maintain their own branded mobile apps and mobile optimized websites. Partnered with Zepo in May 2014, to provide mobile websites and tools for merchants. First Indian startup selected for Techstars.

Techstars

TargetingMantra [Gurgaon, 2013]: TargetingMantra offers a cloud-based platform for the personalization and targeting needs of e-commerce, media and other online businesses. It helps businesses provide personalized widgets to their customers and thereby increase customer loyalty. Its proprietary algorithm combines the customer behaviour data with data from store's product attributes to reveal only the relevant data set to them. The widgets help to provide personalised recommendations to customers, help manage user history and cross-sell cart along with analytics on user behavioural data on the website. The widgets also help in targeting the right users through email targeting, product ads and dynamic content optimization. Started under the Batch 9 mentorship of 500 Startups. Advisors include RajanAnandan, MD of Google India; Ankur Warikoo, head, Groupon Asia-Pacific; and former Farmville MD Gaurav Agarwal.

$1.1M One97, 500 Startups, Nexus VP

Sourceeasy [San Francisco, 2013]: Sourceasy is a private label apparel manufacturing and sourcing service. Sourceasy simplifies private label production for eCommerce, designers, brands and merchants. Sourceasy provides a web application that helps merchants design and source their private label merchandise from low cost manufacturing centers of the world. Head office is based out of New York, USA and we have production offices in Mumbai, Delhi and Tirupur, India. Manufacturing facilities expanding shortly to Vietnam, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Incubated at 500Startups.

500 Startups


Zettata [Bangalore, 2013]: Zettata has developed an intelligent search software for eCommerce websites which provides personalized and relevant search results for better user experience, higher conversion rates and behavioral insights on customers

Helion VC, Accel



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Company Details: Retail (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Capillary Technologies [Bangalore, 2008]: Capillary offers an Intelligent Customer Engagement platform to retailers and consumer businesses - managing the entire life cycle of customer data from acquisition, analysis, insights and activations. SaaS provider of end-to-end Multi-Channel Customer Engagement, Big Data, Customer Intelligence, Clienteling, Real-time Loyalty and Social CRM solutions to 150+ enterprise customers - with over 10,000 locations and 75M shoppers. Marquee customers include Marks ; Spencer, Pizza Hut, Puma, Benetton, KFC and Courts, have realized as much as a 4-6X ROI from customer engagement across every major channel, including in-store, mobile, online, e-mail, and social by leveraging Capillary’s solution. Present across Asia-Pacific, EMEA and North America. The company has also been named: a Gartner 2013 Cool Vendor, among Harvard Business Review’s Pioneers of Reverse Innovation and to Mint WSJ, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Hottest Technology Businesses 2013. Capillary is financed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Qualcomm Ventures. The company claims that the retailers realize a 15% increase in Average Basket Value and 30% increase in their customer retention rate using its solutions.

$34.1M Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm

MobStac [Bangalore, 2009]: Provides a mobile commerce app platform for developers with native SDKs for both iOS and Android, universal shopping, in-app payments, order management system. Has two other products for in-store customer engagement - CMXstac (cloud platform to manage rules, messaging and analytics for indoor app usage) and Beaconstac (a software platform for iBeacon engagement, messaging and analytics). Started out as mobile cloud platform for publishers to build and manage their mobile websites and apps. Customers include The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Times Internet, Outlook. HQ in New York City, with the team based out of Bangalore, India.

$2M Accel, Cisco

Indix [Chennai, 2010]: Indix is providing a Saas based product intelligence platform. Built a catalog of 200M+ consumer products to help brands compare prices and make business decisions. Signed-up high profile customers including Microsoft who are using it to get real-time price and channel intelligence.

$14.5M Nexus Venture Partners, Avalon Ventures

UrbanPiper [Bangalore, 2011]: SaaS platform for brands and retailers to acquire, engage and monetize their customers. Provides a cloud hosted service and mobile apps integrated with PoS systems to enable flexible loyalty, rewards, messaging and mobile payment solutions for consumers of brands and retailers. HQ in San Francisco, with the technology team based in Bangalore, India. Customers include Chai Point, Ratnadeep Supermarket.

Anchanto [Singapore, 2011]: Achanto provides services for business, brands and retailers to build enterprise grade web stores and provides fulfillment technology platform coupled with inventory warehousing, picking, packing, delivery. It provides both forward and reverse logistics services for eCommerce businesses in South East Asia.

Company Details: Retail (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Unicommerce [Delhi, 2012]: Unicommerce's flagship product Uniware is a SaaS based application for end-to-end management of order fulfillment, wherein, companies can manage vendors, procurement, inventory, warehouse, drop-shipments and returns. Used by e-commerce companies in India, SE Asia and N. America like Snapdeal, Jabong, Lazada and their vendors. Currently, Unicommerce is used in 50+ warehouses with 1000+ concurrent users and 250+ businesses. Has raised funding from Snapdeal founders, Nexus Venture Partners. Was close to raising $10M from Tiger Global in Nov 2014, reported to have been acquired by Snapdeal in Dec 2014.

Nexus VP



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$48M FINANCE

Stockopedia, Accern

$1.17M

Company Details: Finance (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

IRIS

IRIS [Vashi, 2000]: Provider of full professional XBRL products and solutions to organizations globally and is a member of the XBRL India Jurisdiction. Its XBRL based solutons include software products and tools such as data conversion services from structured and unstructured data into XBRL, workflow based e-filing solutions for regulators in capital markets and banking, taxonomy development and testing services. Finds its applications for enterprises, business registers, central banks, stock exchanges, BSFI and government sectors. The company headquartered in Mumbai, India with international offices in United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, and the UAE.

Stockopedia

Stockopedia [London, 2008]: Provider of stock market research and market analytics regarding investing in European stock markets. It allows individual and institutional investors to discover, analyze stocks using custom created ratios and screens. Offers tools to screen over 13 million new data points/day. Allows users to research the health of their stocks, maintain buying checklists for decision making, calculate valuation of stocks and optimize portfolio using portfolio analysis tools. Headquartered in London with developer team in Bangalore.

ChargeBee

ChargeBee [Chennai, 2011]: ChargeBee offers subscription billing solution for online SMEs. Apart from ready integration with 30+ payment gateways across the globe, ChargeBee helps businesses leverages alternate payment types for recurring transactions to collect money at much lower rates. ChargeBee delivers invoicing, automated notifications, coupon management, analytics and much more to manage recurring billing. Some of the features that help differentiate ChargeBee are the ability to use custom fields, custom domain support with mobile compatible check-out pages. ChargeBee has around 500 paying customers from 10 countries including Australia, US, UK and Canada. Currently, the startup processes average monthly transactions worth $1.6 million. Has a office in Los Angeles.

$1.17M Accel Partners

Beejak [Noida, 2011]: Beejak, a product of Great Developers Info Tech, is an online invoice management system targeted at SMEs and freelancers. Beejak's features include customized invoice templates, automation of recurring invoices and multi currency support. Beejak doesn't accept payments from the clients and provides an option for the companies to accept payments directly into their accounts.

Sentieo Sentieo [Harbor Beach, 2012]: Sentieo offers equity research applications for institutional investors. Offers financial document search from its database of SEC filings, Conference Call Transcripts, Company Press Releases, Investor Presentations. Equity Data Terminal for accessing financials with 10M+ data points and a charting engine for plotting Sentieo's data sets. Offers mobile app.

Company Details: Finance (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Accern [New York City, 2013]: Accern offers sentiment analysis for investing in financial market through the use of natural language processing to extract insights out of data. Provides a customizable sentiment analysis platform where the user can choose his/her own sources and filter those sources, including ratings for each source, topic, keyword or phrase based on importance and relevance. Provides financial institutions, hedge funds, and brokerage firms the data to help their users make predictive decisions on equity movements, explore hidden investment opportunities, decrease investment risks, and increase their ROI. Operates on a monthly subscription basis per seat with a one year contract. Selected in the “2014 Global Hot Technology Start-up Watch List" for the TiE50 Awards Program.

DiligenceVault [New York City, 2014]: DiligenceVault is building a SaaS solution for simplifying due-diligence on fund structures including hedge funds, private equity funds, and alternative mutual funds. Provides customized templates and analytics. Looking to hire in Ahmedabad. Currently in beta


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Company Details: Health (1/1) Company Details Funding Investors

Srishti Software

Srishti Software [Bangalore, 2005]: Srishti Software's offering Paras is a healthcare management solution for hospitals of various sizes and complexities. Offers patient administration system (PAS), clinical administration system (CAS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Offers multilingual versions in English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic. Clients in India, East Africa, Middle East and USA. Rated 'One of the most innovative IT companies in India' by Nasscom in 2005, placed in the NASSCOM Emerge Top 10 companies under the category of Emerge Products for the year 2010, received eINDIA 2012 award under the category 'ICT initiative in Healthcare by the Private Sector'.

Claimat

Claimat [Clearwater, 2009]: Claimat is a healthcare management solutions company providing HIPPA compliant solutions in EMR and practice management tools for clinics. The EMR includes the functionality for small, large, and multi-location practices. Patient registration, eligibility check, claim management ; submission, medical entries management and billing are few of the offerings. Online appointment booking and revenue cycle management are integrated into the platform.

Practo [Bangalore, 2008]: Practo offers a web-based platform which benefits both patients and doctors; Practo Search enables patients to browse through more than 50,000 detailed doctor profiles online and book confirmed appointments. Also has a subscription-based SaaS product called Practo Ray that doctors and clinics can use to manage their practice efficiently. Expects to generate revenue of INR 20 crore for FY 2014-15. Also plans to expand to team size of 400 from current 225 by Dec 2014. Based in Singapore with an office in Bangalore. Expanded to Singapore in 2013. Looking to raise $20M second round of funding from Sequoia and a new investor.

$4.6M Sequoia Capital

TeleradTech

TeleradTech [Bangalore, 2009]: TeleradTech offers hosted Radiology workflow solution, RadSPA, with integrated image management (PACS). Also provides workflow solutions for Cardiology, Dental and Vet specialists. Offers FDA approved DICOM viewer of diagnostic quality. Caters to 20+ countries. Has offices in US and India.

TeleradTech

Attune [Chennai, 2009]: Attune Technologies is a provider of cloud-based health information systems and laboratory information systems along with web-based solutions for clinic chains. The company's product is currently used in hospitals, labs, imaging centres, day care centres, dialysis centres and clinics. Its products HealthKernel, LabKernel and ClinicKernel provides hospital, labs and clinics with an integrated services for scheduling, billing, workflow management, patient data management etc. It has enabled diagnostics lab chains such as Metropolis and Medall to implement its cloud-based LIS system to track samples from the point of collection to storage. Also hospitals such as Kamatchi Memorial Hospital and Kurinji Hospital are using its cloud-based HIS system to automate the complete hospital processes.

$6M Norwest Venture Partners

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M



$25M


$11.3M


$5.3 M

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$98M

IT


Druva [$67M]






$114 M $77M



$3M



$7M



UniRow

$20M


[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M



$2.7M

Company Details: Education (1/3) Company Details Funding Investors

Fedena

Fedena [Bangalore, 2009]: A multipurpose, cloud-hosted school management software ; student information system used by 40,000+ educational institutions worldwide for administration ; management related activities, i.e. manage students, teachers, employees, courses, etc. Product of Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd., start-up behind INR new font, designed by Uday Kumar in 2013. Product has won various innovation awards including MIT TR35 and NASSCOM Emerge 10.

$2M William Bissell of FabIndia

EdSaas

EdSaas [Hyderabad, 2009]: EdSaas, product of Enlume Inc., is a cloud-based school management software that enables institutions to have real-time operational visibility across correspondents, administrators, principals, staff, parents ; students. Features offered in the modules include staff enrolment management, scheduling, staff attendance ; leave management, task assignment, student admission process management, assignments, examinations ; evaluations, fee scheduling, collection along with fee structure definition ; automatic fee slip generation. Other features include transportation management, parent communication and staff-student interaction, dashboards, hostel management and reporting of various analytics related to various departments of the school.

Snapwiz

Snapwiz [San Francisco, 2009]: Snapwiz works with publishers to offer a learning solution that is personalized and accessible everywhere using web, smartphone and tablet. It creates a customized course based on students’ skills, available time, and what they need to learn to maximize their test scores. Students can access their study plans and course material on their smart phone or on their tablet. Snapwiz utilizes learning tools such as computer adaptive quizzes, entertaining video lessons, step-by-step problem solving videos, virtual flash cards and other stimulating activities to transform passive content into an interactive and engaging learning content. Won the 2014 SIIA Codie Award. Has Pearson, Wiley's, McGraw Hill and For Dummies as its content partners.

$720k Permira

Splashmath

Splashmath [Gurgaon, 2010]: Splashmath, the flagship product of StudyPad is a comprehensive, curriculum based mathematics learning app for elementary school children. Parents, teachers and students can interact in the app. Available on web, iPads, iPhones, Kindle & Android devices. Featured by Apple & Amazon among apps in education category. Used by 4M families & 30K teachers globally. IIT Kharagpur Founders.

Kinderlime Kinderlime [Santa Clara, 2011]: Provider of smartphone/tablet apps to preschool and afterschool activity providers. The provider sends photos and videos of children to parents. The solution also consists of secure check in/out of children, online enrollments, tuition payments and capacity planning tools for preschools. Its apps are available on iOS platform only as of Oct 2014.


PlayPower PlayPower [Ahmedabad, 2011]: Playpower Labs makes fun Math games for the web and tablet platform targeted for students in grades 2 - 8. The games are uniquely designed to produce detailed learning data for players, parents and teachers. The product is also available for schools where teachers can use it as an engagement platform for mathematics curriculum in the class along with providing analytics to improve students' performance.

Logtera

Logtera [Pune, 2012]: Logtera is an education technology organization focussed on building mobile/tablet based game applications for children to enable learning on math topics. Offers applications on iOS store for children belonging to grades 1-5. Has released 15+ titles in the year 2013-2014. Gets revenue from paid apps and in-app purchases. The company is based in both US and India. Has development office in Pune, India with marketing in US and the target focus mainly on US.

Verificient Technologies

Verificient Technologies [New York City, 2012]: Verificient Technologies provides Proctortrack, its scalable continuous identity verification solutions through its automated testing platform. They work with institutions and corporations in a variety of industries and verticals who are looking for automated solutions for verifying the identity of end users. Its technology keeps track of user's face through the webcam to detect facial patterns and anomalies during a test. Proctortrack is easily integrated into the LMS of an institution and aids to ensure integrity in online testing. Secured seed funding from Kaplan EdTech Accelerator. Also secured investments from WestWay Capital, Bessemer VP and Kapor Capital.

$2M Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, Expansion Venture Capital

Kryptos Mobile

Kryptos Mobile [Bangalore, 2012]: Provides a web based cross-platform technology platform that allows schools and universities to create apps through the self-service mobile app creation platform called Kryptos AppMaker. The platform is serving to 100+ universities and schools across US, Canada and Australia to make apps related to student grades, courses, account summary etc. Claims of having a traction of 80+ clients and 700+ live apps as of Oct 2014. Headquartered in Illinois along with an office in Gurgaon and Bangalore.

CoLearnr

CoLearnr [London, 2013]: CoLearnr is an online platform for learning various subject concept through videos in a collaborative network. Users can browse through various subjects such as Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Healthcare etc. and watch the videos on the platform for free. They can also start a new topic of their own and post content on it. The platform also has a discussion board where users can post their queries and collaborate with others. The company is currently targeting higher education institutions in US, UK and Europe with Asia and India for future target.


YellowDig YellowDig [Philadelphia, 2013]: YellowDig offers a SaaS solution for knowledge collaboration among students. Allows clipping links through its browser extension or mobile app, searching through content based on keywords, contributors, boards, etc. Provides point-based gamification features for shared content. Signed up Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Nov 2014. Founded by MIT and IIT graduates. Currently in beta



$2.7M

HEALTHCARE Claimat

$10.6M


$1.17M



$25M


$11.3M


$5.3 M

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$98M

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$114 M $77M




$7M



UniRow

$20M


[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M


$3M

Company Details: Travel & Hospitality (1/1) Company Details Funding Investors

Rategain [Noida, 2004]: RateGain is a provider of SaaS solutions to hospitality and travel industry for revenue management decision support, rate intelligence, electronic distribution and brand engagement helping customers to streamline their operations and sales. Its customer base comprises travel suppliers and intermediaries including airlines, hotels, cruise lines, car rental companies, online travel agents, tour operators and wholesalers. For travel industry they provide price intelligence and a tool for monitoring competitor pricing. Has raised about INR 300 Cr. in a first round of funding round led by US-based private equity firm TA Associates

$5M TA Associates

Hotelogix [Noida, 2008]: SaaS based property management system for independent hotels, hotel chains, resorts, inns, lodges, bed ; breakfast and other mid sized hospitality setups. Single dashboard for managing front desk, PoS and house-keeping with inbuilt analysis reports. Also provides a booking management software to manage booking from all channels (Expedia, Amadeus, Sabre). Claims product usage in over 75 countries.

$3M Blume Ventures, Mumbai Angels, Accel Partners, Saama Capital

Rezopia [Redwood City, 2010]: Rezopia is a cloud-based end-to-end travel reservations, contracts, operations and distribution management system for travel providers. Rezopia's features include negotiated contracts management, GDS ; external 3rd party interfaces, multi-channel distribution (B2C, B2B, Mobile, Call Center, Web Services), CRM ; accounting. Travel suppliers like railways , airlines and hotels can use the platform both for selling their inventory and extending their core services with value added offerings such as special package holiday offers. Customers include Queensland Rail, DiscoverBranson, Resortime etc. HQ in San Francisco with an office in Bangalore, India

Vacation Labs [Goa, 2012]: Online booking system for tour operators, travel agents, and activity operators. Includes booking and payment system, CMS, back-office system to manage bookings from all channels – online, phone, email, ; agents. Enables operators to maintain content, inventory ; rates in a centralized SaaS system, accept online booking through widgets ; forms, distribute products to other travel marketplaces and OTAs. Also provides a white-labelled SaaS platform to tour operators to open their marketplace and invite and manage suppliers. Raised angel funding in Aug 2014 from Abhishek Goyal, Himanshu Nautiyal, Nikhil Rasiwasia and Neha Singh. Claims to have customers in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

$60k

HotelKey [Bangalore, 2014]: Developing a cloud platform based on mobile to enable hotel owners/managers to manage independent boutique hotels and motels on smartphones/tablets. Hotel management functions such as reservations, check in, check out, monitoring room service, rate management are included. Real-time view ; tracking the availability of housekeeping staff availability and also provides a mobile bookings app for guests and pushing deals through the app. The company is based out of San Francisco with engineer team in Bangalore, India.


$3M



$2.7M

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$10.6M


$1.17M



$25M


$11.3M


$5.3 M

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$5M

$98M

IT


Druva [$67M]






$114 M $77M



$7M



UniRow

$20M


[$34.1M] Indix [$14.5M]

$48M


Company Details: Local Businesses (1/1) Company Details Funding Investors

Mobikon [Pune, 2009]: Mobikon, a Singapore and India based company, provides SaaS based CRM and engagement platform for restaurants via its Konekt Platform. Konekt includes product modules for tablet/smartphone based customer reviews, table management and guest profile creation, eMenu and loyalty services. 400+ outlets use Konekt in India, Singapore and Dubai. 25K reviews/ month. 1.37 M customers engaged.

$1.7M Jungle Ventures

RestoLabs [Noida, 2012]: RestoLabs is a SaaS based technology company providing online ordering solutions to restaurants. Their solutions include customizable web based ordering interface, custom made mobile apps for the restaurant to allow their customers order online along with features to allow customers order food from a restaurant through the facebook page of the restaurant. Restaurant owners can customize their menu, offer deals and digital coupons on the mobile app, payment gateway integration, mail notification system for confirmation updates to users. The platform also has features to manage staff, track online orders and delivery. Offers basic, premium ; enterprise plans.

NowFloats [Hyderabad, 2012]: NowFloats enables SMEs to get an online presence by using SMS or the mobile app which can also be updated by sending regular SMS. Additionally the company's algorithm ensures highest discoverability through intelligent Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The website created also allows busienss owners to engage with the customers. NowFloats offers subscription (via SMS/email) for businesses to update offerings with the latest content and enables owners to know in real-time what search queries are bringing visitors to the site. As of March 2014, the company has 5000+ businesses using the platform in 40+ countries. The company has earlier rasied a small amount of funding from Bangalore angels and few senior industry leaders in June 2012.

Omidyar, Mumbai Angels, Blume Ventures, Hyderabad Angels

Synup [Bangalore, 2013]: Synup offers web based tools for local marketing consultants, agencies and brands to advertise locally, review their listings across the web. Few of the offerings of the platform include crawling of 200+ local directories and search engines, single dashboard to view and manage local listings, tracking review sites for customer feedback review widget embedding on the website to receive customer feedback and search engine rank tracking. Claims to have few hundred paying customers in Canada and United States. Helps businesses to monitor and analyze their rankings on nine different search engines and local directories. Launched its service in June 2014. Raised seed funding from a Bangalore based startup incubator, Angel Prime, in August 2014.

$500k AngelPrime

AgentDesks [Chennai, 2014]: AgentDesks offers a mobile help desk and CRM solution that helps real estate agents to manage their properties ; customers. Offers tools to manage sales force and track their performance, customer information database and communication tools, marketing tools to better focus spending on the right channels and maintain a property database and store inventory details that can be shared readily with customers. Offers both individual agent and team monthly subscription plans. Claims more than 7000 agents from over 35 countries using their service. CEO based out of New York, with the team working out of Chennai.

Company Details: Others (1/2) Company Details Funding Investors

Junction TV

Junction TV [Santa Clara, 2010]: Provider of a cloud scale TV everywhere platform enabling Media Companies, Telco, Cable operators to launch and operate linear and on-demand TV across any device. It is available both in the form of platform-as-a-service as well as for on-premise deployment. Its cloud-based video asset management system enables video content owners to produce, manage and deliver their content to audiences on any device. Headquartered in Santa Clara with engineering facility in Kolkata, India. It is backed by US-headquartered Databazaar group and India-headquartered Infinity group.

Papertrell

Papertrell [Bangalore, 2011]: Cloud platform built for publishers, authors, content owners to convert books into interactive apps that run across multiple devices. Works for books that offer non-linear reading patterns such as reference, self-help, cook books, essays. Publishers that have used Papertrell include HarperCollins, Hachette, Chambers and Hamlyn. Supports iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Amazon Kindle and the web. Have launched over 100 book apps which have received over 3,000 5-star reviews, are read daily by over 600k people and have received a Webby Award in 2011.

GeckoLife [Delhi, 2011]: Available on a web platform along with mobile apps that allows users to communicate with their family/friends/colleagues on the network. Users can create groups and projects on the network along with the option to lock them based on the preference for limited access. Users can set up and manage their interests/schedules and contacts along with the option to transfer files. Launched in India in 2014. Has offices in Singapore and Delhi, India.

BlackMonk

BlackMonk [Bangalore, 2012]: BlackMonk, initiative of DoubleSpring Media, offers a web based publishing platform for online newspapers, magazines, niche websites and communities. The platform enables publishers to put out content, build communities and drive revenue through multiple channels. BlackMonk enables pubishers to create responsive websites and web portals for greater outreach. And, with 20+ apps, publishers can put out multi-format content including articles, events, business directory, photos/videos and more. Few key features include customized building of content ; sharing, multiple revenue stream support, search engine optimization tools etc.

Scrollback

Scrollback [Bangalore, 2012]: Scrollback, product of Askabt Pte. Ltd, is the platform provider for building "micro-forums" on websites to sustain open communities through text chat on the portal. Its forums are real-time and suitable for mobile as a replacement for standard forums. Unlike Facebook Chat and WhatsApp which are designed for small, private groups of friends, Scrollback is group chat for large, open communities that need persistent conversations that can be moderated, shared, embedded, browsed and searched. Raised INR 3 crore from Jungle Ventures, Singapore’s National Research Foundation under the Technology Incubation Scheme, Crystal Horse Investments, Singapore Angel Network and Roland Turner.

$500k Jungle Ventures, Crystal Horse Investments

Company Details: Others (2/2) Company Details Funding Investors

YoPano [Pune, 2014]: YoPano is an online platform to create, share and host virtual tours. Offers two versions: YoPano Pro, a self- service tool to create and share virtual tours. Users can upload panoramas, add hotspots (videos / links / etc.) and then share the virtual tours. Aslo offers YoPano Express, an online tool to enhance existing Google business virtual tours. Has both one time payment and subscription based plans.

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