1) Northern Arc Northern Arc Capital is a non-banking finance company that connects debt investors with borrowers.
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Started in: 2008 Founders: Kshama Fernandes Industries: Enterprise, Finance, Financial Services Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: $383,626,249 Funding rounds: 11 Number of investors: 12 (Standard Chartered Bank, Eight Roads Ventures, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Kotak Mahindra Bank, LeapFrog Investments) You can find their website here
2) Agnikul Agnikul is a space technology company that designs, builds, tests, and launches orbital class rockets for micro and nano satellites.
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Started in: 2017 Founders: Moin SPM, Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy, Srinath Ravichandran Industries: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: $14,543,144 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 17 (LetsVenture, Pi Ventures, BEENEXT, Mayfield Fund, Naval Ravikant) You can find their website here
3) Vivriti Capital Vivriti Capital is a marketplace for small businesses and individuals that don't have easy access to credit.
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Started in: 2017 Founders: Aniket Deshpande, Gaurav Kumar, Irfan Mohammed, Soumendra Ghosh, Vineet Sukumar Industries: Analytics, Banking, Crowdfunding, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, Marketplace Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $107,701,572 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 2 (Aspada, Creation Investments Capital Management, LLC) You can find their website here
4) Netmeds Welcome to the most convenient drugstore in India!
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Started in: 2010 Founders: Pradeep Dadha Industries: E-Commerce, Health Care, Pharmaceutical Number of employees: 501-1000 Funding: $99,000,000 Funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 4 (OrbiMed, Sistema Asia Capital, Daun Penh Cambodia Group, Tanncam Investment) You can find their website here
5) BankBazaar.com BankBazaar.com is an independent online marketplace that provides immediate customized loan and insurance rate quotations.
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Started in: 2008 Founders: Adhil Shetty, Arjun Shetty, Rati Shetty Industries: E-Commerce, Finance, FinTech, Insurance, Marketplace Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $115,000,000 Funding rounds: 6 Number of investors: 16 (Sequoia Capital India, Amazon, Experian, Eight Roads Ventures, Mousse Partners) You can find their website here
6) Five Star Business Finance Five-Star is a Reserve Bank of India-registered non-banking finance company (NBFC) (RBI).
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Started in: 1984 Founders: V K Ranganathan Industries: Banking, Finance, Financial Services, Personal Finance Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $456,059,601 Funding rounds: 7 Number of investors: 8 (Sequoia Capital India, Norwest Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Matrix Partners India) You can find their website here
7) Star Health and Allied Insurance Medical Insurance, Accident Insurance, and Travel Insurance Plans are all available from Star Health and Allied Insurance.
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Started in: 2006 Industries: Health Care, Health Insurance, Insurance Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $173,773,498 Funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 6 (Sequoia Capital India, GIC, Capital Group, Apis Partners, ICICI Venture) You can find their website here
8) Financial Software & Systems Financial Software & Systems (FSS) is a leading global provider of payment technology.
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Started in: 1991 Founders: Nagaraj Mylandla Industries: Debit Cards, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Services, Information Technology, Mobile Payments, Payments, Software, Transaction Processing Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $129,250,000 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 4 (New Enterprise Associates, The Carlyle Group, PremjiInvest, Jacob Ballas Capital India) You can find their website here
9) YAP In Asia, YAP is the API Platform for Banking and Payments. YAP is used by more than 200 Fintechs throughout Asia.
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Started in: 2014 Founders: Madhusudanan R, Prabhu R Industries: Developer APIs, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile Payments, Payments Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $15,997,308 Funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 14 (Kunal Shah, Flourish Ventures, BEENEXT, Better Capital, Amrish Rau) You can find their website here
10) Kaleidofin Kaleidofin is a fintech platform that offers entire financial solutions to individuals and households who are financially disadvantaged.
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Started in: 2017 Founders: Puneet Gupta, Sucharita Mukherjee Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, Risk Management Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $7,853,930 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 6 (Flourish Ventures, Oikocredit International, Blume Ventures, Omidyar Network, Bharat Inclusion Seed Fund) You can find their website here
11) Veritas Finance Veritas Finance caters to the financial needs of micro, small, and medium-sized businesses.
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Started in: 2015 Founders: Arulmany Duraisamy Industries: Finance, Financial Services Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $131,225,871 Funding rounds: 8 Number of investors: 9 (Norwest Venture Partners, Caspian Impact Investments, CDC Group, Lok Capital, Kedaara Capital) You can find their website here
12) Treat at Home People in need of medical services can interact with authorized healthcare professionals on-demand through a digital healthcare marketplace.
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Started in: 2018 Founders: Ajmal Saleem, Dr. Saleem Haniffa Industries: Apps, Elder Care, Health Care, Home Health Care, Marketplace, mHealth Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $105,241 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 1 (10,000 Start-Ups) You can find their website here
13) Fieldproxy Fieldproxy is a SaaS platform that allows business owners to create custom apps to help them run their field operations more efficiently.
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Started in: 2016 Founders: Balakrishna Balasubramanian, Swaroop Vijayakumar Industries: Information Technology, Software Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $334,116 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 1 (100X.VC) You can find their website here
14) Prodapt Solutions Prodapt Solutions is a specialist IT services company that works with Digital Service Providers all around the world.
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Started in: 1999 Founders: Vedant Jhaver Industries: Information Technology, Software Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $75,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 (Affirma Capital) You can find their website here
15) Flintobox Flintobox is an edtech firm that uses creative educational items to make early childhood development more enjoyable.
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Started in: 2013 Founders: Arunprasad Durairaj, Shreenidhi Srirangam, Vijay Gandhi Industries: Children, E-Commerce, Shopping Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $15,413,257 Funding rounds: 6 Number of investors: 6 (InnoVen Capital, Globevestor, GSF, Lightbox, Ashvin Chadha) You can find their website here
16) Pando Pando delivers an open-market, freight management platform which digitizes logistics operations.
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Started in: 2015 Founders: Ashok Vasan, Nitin Jayakrishnan Industries: Enterprise Software, Logistics, Supply Chain Management Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: $11,048,634 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 10 (Nexus Venture Partners, Next47, Alok Mittal, Chiratae Ventures, Girish Mathrubootham) You can find their website here
17) Servion Global Solutions Servion Global Solutions focuses in assisting businesses with Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions.
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Started in: 1995 Founders: Kavikkal Balakrishnan, N Raghunandan Industries: Big Data, Information Technology, Mobile, Software Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $140,000,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 1 (Everstone) You can find their website here
18) CreditMantri CreditMantri is a data-driven tool that allows users to get credit and financial reports based on their credit history.
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Started in: 2012 Founders: Gowri Thyagarajan Mukherjee, Ranjit Punja, Sudarshan Rajasundaram Industries: Credit, Financial Services, FinTech Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $10,997,913 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 9 (IDG Capital, Accion, Quona Capital, Trifecta Capital Advisors, Chiratae Ventures) You can find their website here
19) TVS Logistics Services TVS Logistics Services is a third-party logistics provider that specializes in supply chain management, logistics, and other related services.
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Started in: 1995 Founders: T.V.Sundram Iyengar Industries: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $211,614,184 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 4 (Goldman Sachs, Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nippon Express) You can find their website here
20) CaratLane CaratLane is an Indian-based online jewelry company that offers a large selection of loose diamonds for the gem and jewelry industry.
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Started in: 2008 Founders: Avnish Anand, Gurukeerthi Gurunathan, Mithun Sacheti, Srinivasa Gopalan Industries: E-Commerce, Jewelry Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: $58,000,000 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 1 (Tiger Global Management) You can find their website here
21) TenderCuts TenderCuts is an online meat store that sells antibiotic-free, sanitary, and farm fresh chicken, goat, and shellfish.
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Started in: 2011 Founders: Nishanth Chandran Industries: Food Delivery, Livestock, Mobile Apps Number of employees: 1-10 Funding: $15,759,255 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 2 (Nabventures, Paragon Partners) You can find their website here
22) LYNK Logistics LYNK is a tech aggregator with a big aim to change the way things are transported.
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Started in: 2015 Founders: Abinav Raja, Shekhar Bhende Industries: Logistics, Supply Chain Management Number of employees: 51-100 Funding: ₹66,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 (Ramco) You can find their website here
23) Aquaconnect Farm advising and market connection are provided by a full-stack aquaculture technology venture.
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Started in: 2017 Founders: Rajamanohar Somasundaram Industries: Aquaculture, Machine Learning, Seafood Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $1,123,810 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 2 (Omnivore, Hatch Blue Ltd) You can find their website here
24) Apollo Pharmacy Apollo Pharmacy is a medicinal items e-commerce site.
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Started in: 2016 Industries: E-Commerce, Pharmaceutical, Retail Number of employees: 251-500 Funding: ₹5,278,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 3 (Enam Holdings, Arpwood Capital, Hemendra Kothari) You can find their website here
25) Go Colors Go Colors is the owner of a well-known women's underwear business.
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Started in: 2010 Founders: Gautam Saraogi Industries: Fashion, Marketing, Shopping Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $15,655,577 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 2 (Sequoia Capital India, ICICI Venture) You can find their website here
26) Juicy Chemistry Juicy Chemistry is a consumer brand with its own name.
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Started in: 2014 Industries: Beauty, Health Care Number of employees: 1-10 Funding: $6,950,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 2 (Verlinvest, Akya Ventures) You can find their website here
27) Skill Lync Skill Lync is developing a platform for alternative engineering. Job-leading engineering courses are available through Skill-Lync.
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Started in: 2018 Founders: Sarangarajan Iyengar, Suryanarayanan Paneerselvam Industries: E-Learning, Education, Higher Education Number of employees: 251-500 Funding: $150,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 1 (Y Combinator) You can find their website here
28) TVS Automobile Solutions In India, TVS Automobile Solutions offers car repair services.
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Started in: 2009 Founders: K V Narasimha Chary Industries: Automotive, Consumer, Service Industry Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: ₹350,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 (Mahindra Rise) You can find their website here
29) GUVI Guvi is an online technical learning platform founded by IIT Madras.
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Started in: 2014 Founders: Arun Prakash, Arun Prakash, Bala Murugan, Sridevi Arunprakash Industries: Internet Number of employees: 1-10 Funding: $928,695 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 4 (Zone Startups In, Gray Matters Capital, GenNext Ventures, CBA Capital) You can find their website here
30) FR8 FR8 is a long-haul logistics startup that uses technology to overcome inefficiencies in the logistics industry.
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Started in: 2016 Founders: Jay Panneerselvam, Vasanth Immanuel Industries: Logistics Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $3,753,110 Funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 2 (Northern Arc, Omnivore) You can find their website here
31) sulekha.com Sulekha is one of India's most popular and rapidly expanding digital businesses.
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Started in: 2000 Founders: Satya Prabhakar Industries: E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding: $44,600,000 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 3 (Norwest Venture Partners, GIC, Mitsui Global Investment) You can find their website here
32) Disprz Disprz is a one-of-a-kind “knowledge-tech” start-up that aims to improve people's knowledge, productivity, and intelligence.
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Started in: 2015 Founders: Kuljit Chadha, Subramanian Viswanathan Industries: E-Learning, Education Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $4,500,000 Funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 5 (InnoVen Capital, Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited, Kae Capital, Xseed Partners, Auctus Capital) You can find their website here
33) specsmakers One of the fastest growing optical retail chains in South India, with a mission to supply high-quality eyewear.
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Started in: 2011 Founders: Pratik Shah, Sonal Shah Industries: Eyewear, Fashion, Retail Number of employees: 251-500 Funding: $18,200,965 Funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 3 (Eight Roads Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures India, Fulcrum Venture India) You can find their website here
34) Grinntech Lithium Battery Packs for Automotive and Stationary Use
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Started in: 2013 Founders: Nikhilesh Mishra, Puneet Jain Industries: Electric Vehicle, Energy Storage Number of employees: 11-50 Funding: $2,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 5 (Lakshmi Narayanan, 23 High Networth Individuals (HNIs), UCAL Fuel Systems, KS Manian, V Sumantran) You can find their website here
35) Updater Services Updater Services (UDS) is a corporation that provides management services.
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Started in: 1985 Founders: Raghunandana Tangirala Industries: Facilities Support Services, Facility Management, Management Information Systems Number of employees: 10001+ Funding: ₹1,000,000,000 Funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 (MOPE) You can find their website here
36) Real Image Media Technologies Real Image Media Technologies is a technology company that specializes in film, video, and audio.
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Started in: 1986 Founders: Jayendra Panchapakesan Industries: Film Production, Hardware, Software Number of employees: 501-1000 Funding: $22,336,472 Funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 3 (Intel Capital, Nomura Securities, StreetEdge Capital) You can find their website here
37) Curatio Healthcare A mobile healthcare interaction platform based in Chennai, India.
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Started in: 2005 Founders: G Ramani, K Krishna Industries: Health Care, Medical, Mobile Number of employees: 101-250 Funding: $36,200,000 Funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 4 (Sequoia Capital India, Chrys Capital, Westbridge Capital, Fulcrum Venture India) You can find their website here
