Popular eCommerce sites that Indians love to shop

Shopping on net which was once tech savvy’s pastime has now become ubiquitous thanks to the surge in using of internet. The awareness of ecommerce and startups of different online shopping apps has increased the business of online shopping. Indians are very specific and choosy when it comes to online shopping and they rely mostly on Indian based startups and globally leading sites are not necessarily the popular ones within India. While some sites like Alibaba and Amazon ship only to the country, others like Amazon’s Indian unit Snapdeal and Flipkart taken up global modal and went as local as possible. Here are a few popular sites and their domestic and global ranking. The sites here are indicative to show what types of ecommerce win Indian hearts.

Top of the list is Amazon India – According to Similar Web. Amazon- which was launched in India 2013, six years after Flipkart beats all other websites. This came through after planned fight with mega spending on advertisements, localizing. Though top in the world Amazon ranks sixth place in India with 90.30 million visits by desktops in December.

 Flipkart which is the king of ecommerce in India holds second place of popularity on web. Flipkart pushes more towards app transaction where it beats Amazon. Flipkart leads the ecommerce pack in the India but is always under stress to maintain that lead. Similar Web rank in India is seventh with 76.90 million visits in December through desktops.

 

 

Snapdeal is self perceived online Walmart. Snapdeal is a technology that brings sellers and buyers together. The company has a big challenge of matching Amazon and flipkart. Similar Web ranking of Snapdeal is 19 with 44.40 million desktop visits in December.

 

 

Ebay which was once on the same pace as Amazon is slipped down to fifth position in India. Similar Web rank id 31 with 20.40 million visits.

 

Jabong which was imbalanced by management changes once now seem to have balanced now. Similar Web rank in India is 34 with 68.10 million desktop visits.

 

 

 

Shopclues working its way up the ladder focusing on daily house hold needs and expected to be profitable with IPO in 2017 has Similar Web ranking of 40 with 18.50 million desktop visits.

 

OLX a rival of Quickr came into being in 2007 became popular in buying and selling pre owned books cars and real estate has Similar Web rank of 41 with 13.30 million desktop visits.

 

 

 

 

Quikr has been growing fast. Similar Web rank in India 53 with 18.30 million visits.

Popular eCommerce sites that Indians love to shop

India Takes steps to Increase the Women workers in Tech

The thing we learnt from Tech industry is to focus on numbers and look for solutions. The numbers of Indian Tech force tells that only around thirty percent of women in India work in Tech Fields. The ratio of male to female is 76 to 24 and expected to increase to 65 to 33 India can do still better. In United States female tech workforce is only 21 percent. The tech community in India is helping to increase the women workforce.

PayPal has launched a program to bring back woman who taken off minimum 2 years from their career. The company targeted women with tech background and five years experience in analytics and product development. Ten candidates would be taken on board to work in Chennai and Bangalore and they would be given training and internship. PayPal has. Forty Two percent of women employees globally.

Another organization that works towards increasing of women workforce is Headstart Network Foundation. This group of three Lakhs entrepreneurs claims that is the largest network in India. This organization hosts events on weekends especially for women. The founder of F5 escapes Malini Gowrishankar helps women in having off beat experience. She is also national lead of Women Entrepreneur – WE. WE initiative program happens once a month in different cities featuring a successful woman entrepreneur, a monitoring session or networking hour.

Sairee, CEO and founder of Sheroes

Sheroes is job portal for Educated Women Professionals. The site hosts forum where women can talk to mentors and other systems to start a business of own. There are many other initiatives too. “Girls in Tech” is run by NASSCOM with an initiative to increase women entrepreneurs. There are number of Taxi hailing Apps that run on woman’s safety. India launch first tech university three years ago.  While these things seem like getting better for women, there is an adverse roar in Chhattisgarh that says that the enthusiasm of women to work and improve has adversely affected the men. The unemployment of men has increased due to women. Bringing Tech woman workforce equal to men workforce is not an easy task and needs a lot more efforts.

 

India Takes steps to Increase the Women workers in Tech

Most Promising Healthcare Startup Award at Bio Asia 2016 Awarded to BookMEDS

Mohammed Abubakr
Founder & CEO at BookMEDS Healthcare

Out of a list of more than 210 health care startups applications across India, Bio Asia 2016 selected 40 startups for Conference that was held at Hyderabad. These 40 were scrutinized by panel of esteemed judges and five were selected for the award. BioMEDS that came into market in 2013 is a Hyderabad based healthcare startup which aimes to Uberize brick and motor pharmacies in Pharma-Retail sector.  When customers order medicines on bookMEDS app or on bookMEDS website, it shows pharmacies that are located near customer’s house from which customer can select the pharmacy that could deliver. More than 270 pharmacies across Kolkata, Patna, Bhopal, Lucknow and Delhi signed up with bookMEDS. It is considered as fourth largest chain of pharmacies in India.

Mohammed Abubakr the Chief Executive Officer of BookMEDS said that the award from Bio Asia is recognition of the hard work put they put in. Pharma Retail had a market of $13 billion in 2015 and has $35 billion growth expectation by 2020 and BioMEDS aims to capture three to five percent of this market in five years. BioMEDS Believes on innovative ideas to attract customers rather than discount offer. BookMEDS is at the verge of expanding PAN India with 35 employees in board and in-house development team. Started out of Hyderabad and with a tough competition from Pharmacies like Medplus, Apollo and Hetro, BookMEDS has proved itself. Crack pharmacy market of Hyderabad, one can crack the market anywhere in the world and this is the mantra, the BookMEDS team knows.

The BookMEDS app not only enables the customer order medicines to doorstep but also aims to become a virtual medical assistant, like Cortona or Siri who are speclized for healthcare and medicine. There has been a continuous development in functionality of BookMEDS app in past three months. The article from Pharmacists Association of India the IPA which opposes online order on medicines was an eye opener for this development.

http://www.bookmeds.com/

Most Promising Healthcare Startup Award at Bio Asia 2016 Awarded to BookMEDS

TruckSumo is best way to moving anything anywhere

When we want to move from one place to other transportation is the big problem and especially in India, transportation is a much unorganized sector. Transportation is the segment where technology can create a big difference. There is a regular demand and large numbers of goods transportation vehicle owners cum drivers who can become entrepreneurs. Nithin ,Abhishek and Arun observed this untouched marker and gathered to give bring TruckSumo into existence. TruckSumo is an integrated technology that meets inter-city goods transportation demand. TruckSumo is collector of mini-trucks and it connects businesses with local logistics. The mission of TruckSumo is rewiring logistics of inter-city.

TruckSumo aims to be the Amazon Web Service for Logistics and they not only work with Small and Medium Enterprises but also like to work with institutional clients. It believes that if every employee is backed up with right tools and empower them with right system, they can make the organization more efficient.

The idea of TruckSumo Lingered in the minds of Nithin ,Abhishek and Arun for two years and they did a lot of research and discussion on this and could see the prevailing problems in this industry.  There was no transparent pricing system and quality in services. The available transportation facility was poorly utilized and the system was completely broken. All of them wanted to crack this problem and so on 2015 they felt that it was the right time for their dream project to come into being. They discussed it over coffee, while one wanted to crack inter- city, the other wanted to crack intra- city and they coined the name and logo in twenty four hours. Their skill sets also matched. While Arun is from sales background and Abhishek was skilled in large scale operations and Nithin was from Product and technology. TruckSumo has been on rise since 2015 and they are handling 17000 operations a month and 900 regular loyal customers.

http://www.trucksumo.com/

TruckSumo is best way to moving anything anywhere

The Road that lead to healthy state of HealthifyMe

HealthifyMe’s team

Though weight reduction and stay healthy advertisements try a lot to grab attention of viewers, they merely succeed but Healthify me had a different story. It came up list of health and wellness space securing position in the top 50 best apps and is awarded the top developer badge by Google. The startup graduated from Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Program and came back to India to teach building global products but this was not a cakewalk. This was actually of Tushar Vashisht the present CEO way back in 2011 when he took challenge of living the life of average Indian for three weeks. This was an eye opener of how hard it is to maintain healthy life. healthifyMe started on  along with another co-founder Shachin Shenoy a person who handled different Google products for six years. HealthifyMe launched calorie counter app in 2012 seeing the western nutrition app did not include any information of Indian food and was of less use for Indians users. In 2014 the app was made available to iOS and to android app and had 40,000 users. But healthifyMe wanted more. There was a big turnaround when the team stopped building new features and focused on bringing users by adding health and wellness coach, yoga instructors, fitness trainer, and nutritionists who come for an additional fee.  The second step up the ladder was moving to Google’s Material Design to get healthifyMe to get notices by searchengines and then worked on the design and Play store featured the startup in 2015 which increased the sales by twenty five to thirty percent. The number of users increased to 250,000. healthifyMe partnered with 3 hospitals in delhi and Bangalore. Apart from this the team started going around the cities and talk to users about what they felt about the App. All these is a lesson to everyone who want to startup and make it big.

http://healthifyme.com/

The Road that lead to healthy state of HealthifyMe

Get recognized through HYSEA

HYSEA stands for Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association formerly known as The IT and ITES Industry Association of AP – ItsAP is Top body consisting of representatives of software industry of Hyderabad registered under AP Public Societies Registration Act which epitomize the interest of Domestic and Export oriented Software product industry. This Apex body started in 1991 with 15 members who Forcasted the Prospects of IT in state economy and now it has around 300 members from IT and ITES. Initially HYSEA facilitated new software companies by guiding and supporting them to overcome the teething problem. Presently it is in major role of helping the government of Telangana to formulate simple and affective procedures and appropriate policies that help IT industry grow and florish.

The HYSEA conducts “Annual HYSEA Software Product Competition & Showcase” every year to encourage and support new innovative ideas, Startup Companies and multinational software companies with center in Hyderabad. This is one of the Esteemed Industry Events. This year is special because it is silver jubilee year of HYSEA. The Expected number of delegates to this honored is 1000, more than 150 leaders from IT industry and more than 150 startups. The main feature of the event is Keynotes from CEO’s of different IT majors and Startups. The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Telangana and IT Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad would be invited for award ceremony. The event aims to recognize and highlight interesting startups from different categories such as

• Enterprise Startup


• Consumer Startup


• Best Technology Innovation [ Non-Product]


• Established Products


• Student enterprenuership


• Best Gadget/Devices award


• Social impact

 

The upcoming entrepreneurs who fit into these categories can nominate their venture for awards after knowing the guidelines. Shortlisted finalists would get an invitation to the Annual Software Products Showcase & Awards where they can showcase their product and talk to Investors and industry and government decision makers.

http://hysea.in/

Get recognized through HYSEA

Delicious cuisines right at your doorstep

Everything in this world needs food and when it comes to human food is the main thing in life. A major share of a person’s wallet goes to different cuisines and restaurants that provide different delicacies. Unfortunately Food business has not entered much into Ecommerce and satisfying our taste buds in hectically scheduled life seem just a dream. Seeing this Foodebaba is designed to flabbergast the food lovers with different delicacies. The India’s first exclusive platform of desserts collections and delivery where one can have the taste of Indian legendary right at the doorstep. Taking advantage of latest technology Foodebaba interlinks traders and customers on one platform thereby saving time tedious effort of selecting buying the best of food in the market.

Foodebaba was launched in November 2015 by a bunch of foodies – a team of three who were inspired to do the unconventional, started in Delhi with a branch in Hyderabad. The two engineers and a charted accountant left their lucrative jobs and luxurious life style to and dedicated themselves to building a globally scalable platform of food that has potential. When asked what their ambition is, they said that they wanted to become the Amazon and Google of food industry. They aspire to bring all the legendry eaters of the world on one platform. Their mission is- connecting India to other parts of the world through tasty delicacies and desserts. This was not an easy task. There was one year of research with a team of 32 members. They faced many challenges. The first one was funding for which they initially got a few offers but the terms were not favorable. So they decided to put their savings. They learned about how business is done in India. Foodebaba offers wide array of products. The startup equips solutions to both customer and seller.

www.foodebaba.com

Delicious cuisines right at your doorstep

New Scheme in India -- Smart Phones for 250 Rupees! Is it worthy

Launch of Freedom 251 by Ringing Bells Pvt Ltd – a company formed five months ago.

Freedom 251 the cell phone for just Rupees 251 seem an exciting offer. But would this really work or would it be like a remake of flop launch of Aakash Tablet in 2011 remains to be seen. The smart phone launched by Ringing Bells Private Limited opened to orders on 18 February 2016 and the product is supposed to be delivered by month of June.

Now about the Phone – The look of the phone is like dwarf form of iPhone9, Has 3G dual SIM and  4inch HD IPS touch screen, 1.3 GHz quad core processor, 8GB internal memory, 1GB RAM, 1450mAH battery and 3.2MP camera but the using one can see the difference. The phone made in Taiwan had slow responding operating system, the camera is there for show – It is almost useless. Though freedom 251 would have the stamp of made in India, 80 percent of the product is manufactured in Taiwan. According to phone dealers, even 250 Rupees would be a waste if the phone does not work properly.

But how will Ringing Bells Private Ltd give it for Rupees 251? The company’s owners are from are agro-business men who were in trading agro products for past three decades. Their experience shows in the 1 page advertisement in news papers. The orders would be taken on their website and will stop when the orders reach two lakhs to two lakhs and fifty thousand. The manufacturing of the phone would actually cost more but the company expects weaving off of duty by government which would to cut the cost by Twenty to Thirty percent. There is also expected cost reduction of Thirty Five Percent by selling through their own internet channel. Lastly a waiver of 13.8 percent is expected by upcoming goods and service tax waiver through startup schemes and make-in-India schemes. The rest would be covered by economics of sales.

New Scheme in India -- Smart Phones for 250 Rupees! Is it worthy

Inayo- The Online Healthcare Platform Expands To 22 Cities With The New Funding

Mumbai-in light of interest social insurance commercial center, Inayo has brought $300,000 up in seed subsidizing. The speculators who took an interest in the round incorporate Amit Ranjan (Founder, SlideShare); Kemark Ventures; Zishaan Hayath and others. Inayo was begun by Raunak Jain, CEO (ex Flipkart, Toppr, IITB), Abhishek Sinha, COO (ex Housing, IIMB) and Purna Chandra, CTO (IITB).

The portable application stage goes for rearranging medicine and social insurance. The startup cases to have more than 30,000 items spread crosswise over classifications, for example, medications, patanjali, ayurvedic items, sports sustenance, individual consideration items, infant care items and so forth on the stage. As of now their administration ranges incorporate Powai and Andheri in Mumbai.

Shown Above: Inayo’s Co-Founders (Left to Right) – Abhishek Sinha, Raunak jain and Purna Chandra

To request pharmaceuticals on the application, clients need to either transfer a photo from their cell phones display or snap a photo of their legitimate solution on the spot and submit a request. The medicine is then physically confirmed by a drug specialist who has joined forces with Inayo. Later on, the startup expects to carry more robotization into the procedure with OCR and different intends to make it work at bigger volumes. After the request is set, an outsider logistics supplier guarantees the request achieves the client inside of their guaranteed time of an hour and a half.

The startup presently depends on informal, referral, online networking showcasing and tie-ups with specialists and drug stores to pick up footing and clients for their application.

http://www.inayo.in/

Inayo- The Online Healthcare Platform Expands To 22 Cities With The New Funding

Veteran business leaders back Gamezop app with Rs. 2.3 crores

20-year old techie has identified a massively underserved category, say investors

Leveraging HTML5, Gamezop allows users to play new games each week on a single app; completely eradicates installation friction

Smartphone gaming platform Gamezop has closed $350K (Rs. 2.3 crores) in seed funding led by entertainment marketers Kwan. US-based Powerhouse Ventures, an existing investor in Gamezop, also participated. Others in the round include TracxnLabs, Germany-based AECAL, and prolific angels Anand Chandrasekaran, Phanindra Sama, Vinay Menon, and Arjun Batra.

The Delhi-based company aggregates short and addictive games from around the world, which can be played on a single app and removes the friction of constantly installing and uninstalling individual games. Although Android only at this point, all of the hundreds of games featured on the Gamezop app are device- and OS-agnostic and can be shared as weblinks for play on any smartphone, tablet, PC, or Smart TV. The company is building a product for global markets and is extending features to HTML5 game developers to get them on par with their native counterparts.

MD of Kwan, Anirban Das Blah, says that his company has been looking for innovative gaming models for a while. “Kwan is in the business of helping consumers find content and products that engage and entertain them. However, it amazed us that India didn’t have a compelling gaming product. Gamezop we felt had the potential to be a game changer for the gaming industry in India. It wasn’t enough to work with them; we wanted and needed to be a part of their journey in a more meaningful way. That’s why we have invested in Gamezop!”

                Founder 

20-year old CEO, Yashash Agarwal, who was invited for the Thiel Summit in Silicon Valley last year, has been in the gaming business for two years now. “Content-light platform plays have been most scalable in the digital consumption space. Popular forms of digital entertainment, such as music or videos, already have platforms that serve as one-stop destinations. However, in gaming one only hears of individual titles. We are building a platform to make gaming reach the inflection point that the others have already witnessed,” he said.

The numbers back Agarwal’s hypothesis: at 135% CAGR, India is one of the world’s fastest growing mobile gaming markets and is projected to grow to $600M by 2016. However, it can still be called ‘untapped’ by global standards. “The Chinese market at 15X our size is massive. Super casual HTML5 gaming within messenger apps has really picked up there. We are already working on exciting distribution alliances and will build an open platform to piggyback on existing networks.”

                              Team Gamezop

Sri Peddu, MD of Powerhouse Ventures, has appreciated the careful selection of the target audience. “India isn’t a mature gaming market and most are still non-gamers who haven’t used gaming consoles. Gamezop with its snackable games is a crisp offering and targets those who would use their smartphones as their first gaming device. It’s a segment that is poised to grow and the founders have the requisite product expertise.”

The startup secured angel funding as a part of the latest batch of tech accelerator GSF. Founder of GSF, Rajesh Sawhney, has backed the startup in personal capacity. “With gaming being an underserved category in this part of the world, these guys are after the right problem. Removing the download-deletion fatigue, providing offline access to online games, and bespoke game recommendations to cut clutter are huge value additions.”

The team plans to invest the funds in technology, distribution alliances, and talent. Gamezop is seven members strong at this point and has Yashash’s elder brother, Gaurav Agarwal, who worked at Bain & Company earlier, as co-founder. The two have been selected to represent India this April at the International Business Model Competition at Redmond, co-hosted by Microsoft, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. In May, they will travel to Silicon Valley for the global finals of the TiE International Startup Competition.

Upon being asked if being one of the youngest in the country to raise institutional funding was a challenge, Yashash praised the evolving Indian startup ecosystem that no longer demands several years of experience. “Our focus has been to build a robust product that addresses the genuine problems for users and indie game developers alike. The early results are fabulous and we are glad to be backed by veterans who prioritized that over everything else.

www.gamezop.co

Veteran business leaders back Gamezop app with Rs. 2.3 crores

Dazo- A Bangalore Food Tech Company Is On Its Way To Windup

Bangalore based sustenance tech startup, Dazo has closed down and the organization has quit taking new requests.

The startup was focused as a curated sustenance request stage furthermore had risen subsidizing from Google’s Rajan Anandan, Amazon’s nation supervisor Amit Agarwal, Commonfloor’s Sumit Jain, TaxiForSure’s Aprameya Radhakrishna and SAIF’s Alok Goel.

In July, it propelled choices for clients to request in light of their state of mind. On that note, Shashaank Singhal, fellow benefactor of Dazo, said that clients need to de-mess their decisions when they are simply hoping to request nourishment on the web.

Note that part of elements from the Dazo application has been replicated by a percentage of the huge players. As of late, SpoonJoy excessively ceased its Delhi operations and the ones who neglected to raise Series A are nearly either a turn (to littler scale operations) or are closing down. It will be fascinating to perceive how sustenance classification area unravels in future, as there are still parcel of chances that remaining parts undiscovered in this segment. The company has its plans to shut down its entire operations soon and they have already initiated the process.

http://dazo.in/

 

Dazo- A Bangalore Food Tech Company Is On Its Way To Windup