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What are the most successful recent startups in India?

Listed are the top startups based on:

Traction: How well these Indian startups are receiving a market validation for its business model. Basically, how well the consumers are taking to the product/service.
Potential Market: How big is the market share for the respective product/service. Will the product be welcomed with wide arms in the market or will it be just another not-so-great product.
Pedigree of the Team: The background and professional credentials of the startup’s team members. Many of these listed startups are by IITians and past employees of big MNCs as well as professionals with a rich experience in the field.
Scalability: Even if the initial idea of the product/service is extraordinary, is there a chance for the business to grow? These startups have shown great potential and many have also received fundings, while others are not so far behind in line.

 
Airstream 
Lets you stream your PC data on your tablets and smartphones.
AlmaConnect
Website that connects you with your alumni network.
Appiterate
Delhi-based WYSIWYG A/B testing platform for app developers and publishers.
AppSurfer
Marketing tool to make your app/product/service more interactive and engaging.
Artoo
Helps businesses to capture, analyse and process information through mobiles/smartphones/tablets.
AxisRooms
A platform where hotels can manage their contracts, B2B partners and other hotel distributions.
Birds Eye Systems
Provides real-time traffic information and traffic flows.
bluegape
Website that helps brands launch their fan merchandise.
Brizz TV
They aim to bring the best of internet on the TV with just a set-top box.
CipherCloud
Software that protects your data on cloud.
CloudMunch
A full stack DevOps platform for developers.
Crayon Data 
Aims to make big data simplified.
Credii
A platform that helps companies discover, select and buy great services and software. 
DataWeave
Aggregates, organizes and visualizes data points across the web and makes them available to your apps and analytics.
Deck
A new kind of presentation app that is simple and effortless.
Girnar Soft
IT company that works on offshore products and outsourced software development.
Heckyl Technologies
Big data based analytical platform for businesses.
BedBathMore
Online shopping portal dedicated to home furnishings.
Cashkaro
India’s leading cashback and coupon website, who have partnered with many big brands like Flipkart, Jet Airways, Myntra, Expedia.
Chumbak
Website where you can buy funky products and fridge magnets inspired by India.
CouponDunia 
Find discount coupons of various top brands.
CrudeArea
Online graphic art marketplace.
DailyObjects
Online site for electrical gadgets and accessories.
Delhivery
Simplified logistics solution for ecommerce businesses.
DeliveryChef
Online portal for ordering food with a huge list of local restaurants.
Fab Bag
An online store for high quality, branded cosmetics for men and women.
FabAlley
Indian shopping portal for women clothing and accessories.
Giftery
Website where you can book gift packages and deals for your friends and loved ones.
India Circus
Online shopping portal for various decorative items.
Palet.ly
Online community that showcases celebrity styles, street styles and funky wear, which can be then bought from the linked ecommerce websites.
Contify
A product that acts as your personal industry news reporter.
CultureAlley
Learn languages with free audio-visual videos and vocabulary sessions.
Diabeto
Is one of the most innovative healthcare technology startups in india that develops health improving technology which is interconnected with web and mobile applications. Their flagship product is a diabetes monitoring app which allows suffers to keep track of their blood glucose results easily.
The device is plugged into the patient’s glucometer (compatible with all leading brands) and transmits readings to a user friendly app or web account. It makes managing and monitoring the condition a much simpler process.
DocSuggest
Website where you can search for doctors in your city.
EasyRewardz
Collaborative market place where members can track and manage their loyalty balances.
Engrave
Deals in customized wallpapers, posters, engravings, signboards etc.
Eventifier
Lets you archive and save all your photos, videos, tweets, conversations, etc from various events.
 Examify
Website for students where they can find questions on any subject and also practise them on various levels.
Flat.to
Startup catering to college students, working professionals and outstation individuals on their accommodations needs.
FlatPebble
Website where you can search and hire for photographers for any occasion.
FlexiMoms
Flexijobs, part-time work, consultant, remote working options, etc for Indian women.
Fork Media
An ad solutions startup helping businesses with their brand awareness.
Gingr
App that has introduced handles for businesses and allows its users to solve their queries over an instant message.
Giveter
S-commerce website that finds out the recipient’s interests on FB to help you gift better.
Grabhouse
India’s first roommate search engine.
Haptik
Allows users to have direct conversations with companies over an SMS.
Harness
 is a cloud based learning startup from India. ‘Touch on cloud’, the company’s main product, is an operating system that is ideally suited to a learning environment. It hands back control of the classroom to the teacher by engaging students with creative content, interconnect collaboration, and automatic evaluations. It also quickly produces useful reports on activity and results for the teacher.
Harness works across all major platforms and even allows students to make good use of their own devices.
Homeveda
A repositiory of how-to videos on curing some common diseases and ailments with the use of Ayurveda.
Hope Monkey
Website that helps you support causes and donate to various NGOs.
Housing
Online portal that lets you search for apartments on rent or on sale.
ideaDevice
Data center automation startup.
IIMjobs
Online management job portal.
InOpen
An IIT Bombay startup that focuses on developing in-depth and well researched academic content.
JustUnfollow
An app for Twitter users that lets you unfollow people. Is useful for both personal users who want to clear out their account and business owners who need to manage several accounts at the same time.
Kartrocket
Aims to simplify online selling in India.
LIQVD Asia
Asia’s first digital experiential marketing company.
Little Eye Labs 
Acquired by facebook Builds mobile app analysis tools that give detailed insights about the behavior of the app.
ManagementParadise.com
Website offering educational queries, help for projects, etc to management students.
MagnetWorks
Helps small and medium businesses by providing real-time analytics tools.
MediaAnt
Bridges the gap between businesses and media agencies.
MetisMe
Attachment management system that helps you handle and organize your emails better.
Milaap
Connects borrowers who need money for a small business, education, etc with lenders.
Mobikwik
Website where you can recharge and pay all your bills online.
Moojic
Digital jukebox for restaurants, cafes, gyms and bars.
Mswipe 
was launched by Matrix Partners India. It allows ecommerce stores to accept credit card payments via smartphones.
Musafir
Travel website that offers flights to over 3000 destinations around the world.
MyTopTeacher is a fun and interactive teacher rating website, and it is interlinked with key social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It allows children, students, and parents to rate classroom teachers, college professors, or even private tutors.
It is useful for anyone who wants to research a certain school or teacher, anyone who wants to give feedback to their tutor, or any teacher who wants to know what their students think.
NowFloats
Website creators for small and medium businesses.
Online Prasad
Delivers prasad and other auspicious items from various pilgrimage spots at your doorstep.
Palet.ly
Online community that showcases celebrity styles, street styles and funky wear, which can be then bought from the linked ecommerce websites.
Phone Warrior
Spam guard for mobile phones.
Plustxt is a company set up by Pratyush Prasanna who originally worked at both Microsoft and Xerox before transferring his skills to his own mobile messaging startup.
The service already works on Android and iPhone and is soon being launched on Windows, Java, and Blackberry. The app gives the user complete control over every aspect of their phone, allowing them to password protect specific conversations and numbers, block certain contacts, and keep online pictures private.
Poster Gully
Online fan merchandise store with products inspired from famous TV shows, movies, football players, witty quotes, etc.
PriceBaba
Search engine that helps you compare prices of various gadgets.
Purplle
Online store for buying cosmetics, haircare, skincare products, etc.
Qyuki
Social media platform for artists.
ReachAccount
Software that caters to all your accounting needs.
RecruiterBox
An easy and affordable recruiting software.
Saverr
Originally named CashItBack, is part of the brand Loyalty Commerce Pvt Ltd. It is a loyalty incentivizing portal that gives visitors rewards for making transactions with certain websites. Saverr is already partners with hundreds of online gaming sites and ecommerce stores, and it links their users with incentives like coupons and cash back deals.
SayShaadi.com
Premium online solution for Indian weddings that has everything and anything that a to-be couple need for the big day.
ShepHertz
Cloud ecosystem provider that offers mobile backend as a service.
Shopsense
Helps retailers engage customers and give them a better shopping experience.
Simplify360
Provides an integrated enterprise solution to businesses for their social needs.
SkoolShop
Deals with all school and academically needed products.
SnapLion
Instant app builder for brands.
Spotzot
Enables retailers and brands to reach out to customers by way of promotions and coupons.
Stayzilla
Helps you make accommodation arrangements in the remotest of places across India.
The Label Corp
Online retail store that has celebrity directors on board who style and design products.
Thrill
A mobile dating app.
Thrillophilia
India’s leading activity travel curator.
Ticket Goose
Online portal for booking bus tickets.
Tookitaki
Ad technology platform.
Travel Triangle
Offers travellers customized deals from local travel vendors.
TravelKhana
Provides quality food in trains across various stations in India.
Truly Madly
Online dating site.
uFaber
Offers various courses on online marketing, web designing, app building, etc.
Vaultize 
C loud based software startup that has recently emerged in the country. These include a private cloud option, disaster storage protection, and customizable data access options.
Viral Mint
Online  marketing tool.
VoiceTree
Cloud-based telephony solutions company.
Voxapp 
A SaaS platform for mobile surveys, deployment and data collection.
We Are Holidays
Online holiday planner.
Wheebox
Leading online talent assessment company.
White Collar Hippie
Offers unique outdoor experiences
Wishberg
Lets you build, manage and track your wishes online.
Wooplr
Social discovery platform that helps connect people with local businesses based on interests, location, and social circles.
Zepo
Aims to simplify e-commerce for small businesses
DataWeave 
developed by a company based in Bangalore, is software which enables businesses of all shapes and sizes to collect, monitor, and process useful data from the web. It is used by companies primarily as a way to intelligently monitor prices or open government data.
Amagi Media Labs
This media startup based in Bangalore, India has developed a process of targeting TV ads to specific geographic locations. Amagi allows TV networks to shows viewers different ads depending on their area, even if they are watching a non-regional TV channel.
Birds Eye System
Founder (s): Ravi Khemani, BrijrajVaghani
Business genre: Transportation solution
Through the lead product, Traffline, the startup Birds Eye System aims to provide all sorts of real time traffic information and solutions. And not only traffic solutions, the company has services to provide the customers with any type of information which they require while being on the road. This service is available for the customers on various platforms such as SMS, email, web application, social media and so on. As of now, Birds Eye System has its market in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai but by 2014 the company has plan to reach 10 other major cities.
Cucumbertown
Founder (s): Cherian Thomas, ArunPrabhakar, Chris Luscher, Dan Hauk
Business genre: Consumer Web
 This company gives out the ultimate online platform for all those chefs and cooks who want an identity amidst the crowd. The relationship between Cucumbertown and cooking is somewhat equivalent to the relationship between Tumblr and blogging. The service provided by this startup company is to give the chefs and cooks a way to publish their own content in both written and audio-visual way. Revolving around food, Cucumbertown has been proven to have extraordinary potential to increase the graph of e-commerce. And the increase is so steady that by 2014, the founders of Cucumbertown see themselves expanding their business in foreign markets like that of the US and Europe.
Stayzilla
Founder (s): RupalSurana, SachitSinghi, YogendraVasupal
Business genre: Online Travel and Hotel advisor
It is a unique startup platform that comes with a huge range of tariff and value worthy hotels from all over India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Although working on a low scale currently with 10000 up hotels in 800 cities, the growth rate of 400 percent per annum will definitely take this startup to a new level of success by 2014.
Goonj
Founder (s): Anshu Gupta
Business genre: Development sector
Goonj aims to build a relationship between the urban and rural communities with its signature initiative called ‘Cloth for Work’. In this initiative, people in rural India who are associated with construction works like road or bridge building, well digging etc. are rewarded with clothes given out and discarded by people from urban community. Goonj uses these materials discarded by one group of people as the resources for another group of people.
Vuclip
Founder (s): Nickhil Jakatdar
Business genre:  Mobile Entertainment
Since 2008, Vuclip has been providing the customers with rich quality video contents to be accessed on video-enabled mobile on any network. Out of a huge number of users, Vuclip has a major portion of its customers from India
Gram Vaani Community Media
Founder (s): Aaditeshwar Seth, MayankShivam
Business genre: Technology for development
World’s first voice-based social media platform aimed to provide an opportunity for the rural and those with a low-income to share their voice content. With the help of this easy platform, people can share information pertinent to various fields such as agriculture, health, trade etc. via phone call and communicate their needs with each other in a comprehensive way. Gram Vaani presently has 70 organisations that deal with almost a million people of 20 states in India. However, by 2014 the company already has plans to reach 5 million households.
Zoom
Founder (s): Greg Moran and David Back
Business genre: Car rental
Zoom offers car rental service either on an hourly basis or a daily basis. Customers can reserve cars either online or by using the mobile app. Located in Bangalore, Zoom had started off in February, 2013 with 7 cars that has reached number 50 at present. 
Zomato
Founder (s): DeepinderGoyal, PankajChaddah
Business genre: Online restaurant advisor
The company has a restaurant searching application that aims to provide with all the details of a food destination starting from its menus, location with contact number, specialty, timings, rate card, photos etc. It also enables the customer to leave comments as feedback on its online portal. Zomato is available for its customers as mobile app and in print as well. Currently working with 11 countries that add up to more than 2 lakh restaurants, Zomato has a target of expanding to 22 new countries by the coming year. With a unique idea to open an extraordinary startup business, Zomato has certainly made its position in the list of top startups to watch in 2014.
Capillary Technologies
The Bangalore based startup has been effectively deploying their product code named as Capillary’s Intelligent Customer Engagement Suite. The firm has integrated solutions all that a retailer wants to engage with their customers into the suit, effectively. Optimized social media and smart device experiences incorporated by the startup is helping the retailers as well as the budding firm to shoot up. Founded in 2008 by IIT-Kharagpur graduates Aneesh Reddy, Krishna Mehra and Jay Modani, the startup has managed to rope in some of the big names including Nike, Puma, pizza hut, and Mark and Spencer.
Bizosys
Founded in 2010, Bizosys boasts of its product that can predict or detect any possible tech flaws with 90 percent accuracy. Based in Bangalore, this startup was founded by three former Infosys employees Sunil Guttula, Abinasha Karana and Sridhar Dhulipala. The firm has successfully implemented their predictive tools for companies from various verticals right from startups to enterprises.
Ezetap
Ezetap had managed to impress the world’s largest credit card issuer American Express and bagged an investment in the recent past. Founded in 2011, Ezetap develops both software and hardware solutions and is one among the mobile point of sale companies in the world. The product of the Bangalore based budding venture has a card reader that can be plugged into any smart devices to process payments. The machinery is highly useful for retailers in various verticals including e-commerce, taxi service, insurance, restaurants and lot more.  Ezetap has managed to build up an impressive list of clients naming Myntra, Bookmyshow, Olacabs and Reliance General Insurance.
Flutura
This Indian startup has taken one-step ahead to create a patent pending solution that focuses on big data analytics and machine to machine. Founded in 2012, the firm is the brainchild of Krishnan Raman, Srikanth Muralidhara and Derick Jose. Flutura focuses more on machine-generated data unlike other big data analytics companies. The Bangalore based startup firm has named its innovative patent pending solution as Cerebra. A large number of energy, oil, and gas companies make use of the solutions provided by Flutura to stay ahead in this competitive market. 
Freshdesk
Freshdesk, an online help desk software solution, coverts Facebook messages into support tickets, to which agents can respond. Founded in 2011, the startup provides multichannel support via phone, email, chat, Twitter and mobile apps. A major portion of the clients of the startup belongs to small and medium enterprises that look for cloud based customer solutions. The Chennai based firm boasts of its vast product reach that extends over 118 countries with a customer base of over ten thousand.
Yebhi
Co-founders: Manmohan Agarwal, Nitin Agarwal, Rajul Jain
Yebhi, which began as Page on bigshoebazaar.com, has a registered user base of about 1.5 million people. It is the only shopping platform that buys and stores stock before selling.
Flipkart
Co-Founders: Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal
Naaptol
Co-Founders: Manu Agarwal
Naaptol is a startup which provides price comparisons.
Alma Mater
Co-Founder: Varun Agarwal
The company makes merchandise for students of schools and colleges.  
The Loot
 Co-Founder: Jay Gupta
The loot is a retail store chain of fashion apparels. It is being recognized as the biggest thing to hit retail therapy in India in a long time. The Loot is the only multi-brand retail venture that gives minimum 25pct off – 60pct all 365 days of the year on guaranteed products and prices.
ClickAstro.com
Readers ChoiceWebsite offering services and information related to different branches of astrology.

NASSCOM Emerge 50 2013 Awards were characterised by a mixture of burgeoning success stories and promising start-ups that are coming up with exciting new solutions - ones to watch for the future. The product landscape now exceeds the limit of software and finds synergy is hardware and other bodies of science. The list of Emerge 50 2013 expands its wings across technology areas like, cloud, internet relates services, enterprise app, mobility, big data/analytics.

CloudByteInc
Allow cloud service providers and enterprises building private clouds to easily host performance applications.

LinkSmart Technologies
IP oriented security domain startup solving niche problem of Insider threat in tamper-evidence and anti-counterfeit 
Voice of Big Data Pvt. Ltd.
"Facial Signature" uses 80 nodal points to identify faces and assign a unique id, utilizes 2D-3D mixed method.

Exotel
Founder (s): ShivakumarGanesan, IshwarSridharan, Siddharth Ramesh, Vijay Sharma
Business genre: IT and Telecom
Exotel is one of the key service providers in corporate sector. The business companies under this service are given with a specific virtual smart number that is to be used to manage their call logs and SMS. Not only that, the virtual number can be used to manage other applications such as IVR, call recording etc. Having started its journey in April, 2012 with 50 companies as customers, Exotel at present has reached the level of 475 customers. However, by 2014, the startup aims to hit the target of 3000 customers, which will undoubtedly signal a big growth.
 
Nanobi Data and Analytics
Founder (s): Mahesh Ramakrishnan, CV Vinod, SumantSarkar, AbhishekPurohit, Dr.Jayaprakash
Business genre: Analytics
Based in Bangalore, Nanobi is a cloud based analytics platform company that aims to provide simple yet highly effective business solution. The SMEs in India are offered cloud based analytic applications that have the potential for solving any kind of issue. 

Sapience Analytics Pvt. Ltd.
Patent-pending software that drives 20+% increase in productivity at companies whose employees spend most of their time working on PCs 
Keypoint Technologies
A world leader in user interface technology - combining linguistics and computing technology, improving the current text input experience across all types of connected devices .

Flytxt
Big Data Analytics driven technology and services bellwether in the area of Customer Experience and Revenue Management 
Uniphore
Harness the power of voice and data technologies to transform any mobile device, irrespective of its feature set, into an enterprise class service delivery platform

Other Indian Startup's without external funding.

Mindtickle was setup by alumni from IITs, ISB and Stanford, MindTickle blends social tools and game  mechanics to allow users to create interactive learning experience from their existingonline training content.  
Mangosense is a Pune-based startup that has an innovative offering called as Mangoreader. One of those truly innovative Indian startups, their mission is to make books more fun for kids by making them very engaging.

Wingify is a bootstrapping Indian startup that is on a mission to develop world’s best technology in web analytics and optimization. 

Synage started as a design agency, Synage pivoted and become a web technology company in 2007. One of the first in India to launch a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) product, DeskAway, this Indian startup has received a lot of awards for their creations.

Localbanya taking the concept of local ecommerce to a new level, LocalBanya went live in May 2012. Touted as Mumbai’s first online supermarket, LocalBanya has a huge catalog of groceryitems and has a cult following amongst Mumbaikars.

Goosebump is an award-winning eCommerce site based in Mumbai that sells pickles online and has made a name selling pickles to a populace that was brought up thinking only grandmothers makes it the best.

FusionCharts  started out as an initiative by a teenager to get some extra pocket money, FusionCharts now has more than 21,000 customers and 450,000 developers.

Kayako setup in 2001 by Varun Shoor with the aim of offering a better customer supportexperience, Kayako has come a long way. With a customer base of more than 30,000, this Indian startup successfully bootstrapped to become one of the leading developers of help desk and customer support software.

Acceltrade using proprietary trading algorithms and an indigenous platform for quantitativetrading, Acceltrade is one of those tech startups that have chosen to focus on the finance sector. Its revenue generation model is quite unique too.

Browserstack based right across the street from the SutraHQ in Lokhandwala, BrowserStack offers innovative solutions for cross browser testing. It is fast catching up with the developer community worldwide. 


 
Emerge 40 Winners 2013- GROWTH CATEGORY
Medisurge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
MOBME Wireless Solutions Ltd.
MoveInSync Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Must See India
Nadhi Information Technologies
Oxys Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Plintron Global Technology Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Vinculum Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Appointy Inc 
Bodhtree Consulting Limited
Cnergyis Infotech India Pvt. Ltd.
Consilium Software Pvt Ltd. 
Eram Scientific Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Evolute Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Gradatim IT Ventures (India) P. Ltd. 
Concept Software Services Pvt. Ltd.
Intense Technologies Limited
Lexplosion Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Medisurge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Emerge 40 Winners 2013- START UP CATEGORY
Health Management Services Private Limited 
Avekshaa Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 
Aurus Network Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
BlazeClan Technologies Private Limited 
Ekohealth 
FORMCEPT 
i7 Networks
Ideal Analytics Solutions Private Limited
Interview Master TS Pvt Ltd
iRam Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Lumos Design Technology Pvt. Ltd.
MangoSense Pvt. Ltd.
Navigators Software Pvt. Ltd.
NowFloats
QED InDemand Pvt Ltd.
Signals
TableGrabber
Tharakan web Innovations
The Curriculum Company
The Fluid Motion
uTrade Solutions
Winjit Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
 

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