Coolest Startups India 2015

• MySmartPrice• Edureka• ShopClues• Linkstreet

Learning• Culture Machine

Media

• Year Founded: 2010

• Founders: Sitakanta Ray & Sulakshan Kumar

• About: – MySmartPrice is an independent price

comparison service website headquartered in Hyderabad, India

– Categories include: Mobiles, Electronics, Computers, Fashion & Lifestyle, Home appliances & Personal Care

• Funding: Accel Partners & Helion Ventures Partners

• Cool element: 24/7 personal clever shopping assistant

• Year Founded: Mid-2011• Founders: Lovleen Bhatia & Kapil Tyagi

• About: – headquartered in Bangalore– Edureka is an interactive, online learning

platform– Offers live instructor-led courses catering

chiefly to working professionals who want to boost their skills

• Funding: Angel Investors

• Cool element: Providing talent to IT industry by giving a make over to both freshers & working professionals

• Year Founded: July 2011

• Founders: Sandeep Aggarwal, Sanjay Sethi, Radhika Aggarwal

• About: – Online marketplace, headquartered in Gurgaon,

India, founded in California's Silicon Valley – Has over 12,000 registered merchants & retailers &

over 2,00,000 products on the platform to over 42 million visitors every year

– Joined as 35th entrant in Indian e-commerce in 2011

• Funded: Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, Helion Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Tiger Global

• Cool element: Amorphous categories it deals with & the customers & merchants it targets

• Year Founded: October 2011

• Founders: Arun Muthukumar & Vikram Ramakrishnan

• About: – private company located in Bengaluru – provides complete technical backup in online

education

• Funded: Angel Investors

• Cool element: Making learning personalized easy & fun

• Year Founded: 2013

• Founders: Sameer Pitalwalla & Venkat Prasad

• About: – Digital Media Company creating entertainment

for "the Internet generation“– Wholly owned subsidiary of The Aleph Group,

Singapore– Popular channels include, Being Indian , Being

Indian Music , Being Indian Originals, Put Chutney, Put Chutney Music, Blush, Epified, What's Trending India, Whack, Old Delhi Films, & Rascalas

• Funding: Tiger Global & Zodius Capital

• Cool element: Increasing popularity among the younger generation

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