Check out all of the awesome startups coming out of India. From quora
First the obvious ones
- Slideshare
- Zoho
- Pubmatic (ad network, also behind Vizisense – the indian comscore)
- TellaFriend / SocialTwist
- SocialMedian (started jan 2009, sold Dec 2009 for 7 million USD)
- DimDim (web conferencing) – acquired by Salesforce Jan 2011
- SmsGupShup (Indian twitter with focus on mobile)
- Directi (largest registrar in Asia)
- FusionCharts (flash charts used by many apps)
- Gluster (guys behind gluster filesystem)
- Justdial (phone & web based classifieds, now launched in US backed by sequoia)
- Makemytrip (covered on TC bunch of times)
- Travelguru (acquired by travelocity)
- Tutorvista (founding employee of mcafee, co-founder of elance, ex-ceo airtel/mahindra british telecom,etc . funded 30M$+)
Hidden gems & upcoming indian startups as of mid-2010
- multi-lingual : Tachyon technologies / quilpad (amazing lisp, open-source, web hackers, got invested from rediff and supposedly rejected Google M&A)
Lipikaar (revenue making via tech, recently launched dubzer at DEMO) - user generated content : Muziboo (youtube for audio, winner of 2009 facebook connect india challenge) , lifeblob (the indian plurk, investment from Seedfund)
- real estate : commonfloor, 99acres (supposedly reaching >40% of indian market in april/may ’10) ,makaan
- e-commerce : Flipkart (Indian amazon e-commerce startup selling books now, supposedly amazing systems/server performances) & Infibeam (e-commerce store, also launched their ebook reader)
Martjack (amazing traction/DIY framework for building stores) - voice : tringme / voicephp (Indian twilio) , callgraph (skype plugins) , voicetap (talk to an expert on phone) , kirusa
- maps : routeguru , sadakmap, mapunity
- facebook : ugenie (weread) , scrabulous guys
- gaming: hashcube (largest sudoku app at one point, incubated at iaccelerator), games2win (casualgames, comscore top 20 gaming reach , well funded ) , lordsofodds ( prediction/gaming via various channels, nice tv tieups, profitable ), Zapak ( Reliance group ) , indiagames ( acquired by UTV, non-casual games )
- offline focus: nextbit cpu ( licensing deals in millions) , notion ink ( adam tablet ), ideacts ( cybercafe software, 30000+ terminals, funded by seqoia )
- deals : snapdeals , mydala, taggle
- food related: tastykhana, hungrybangalore, lunchwalla
- online printing : myntra, pringoo, printo & many others
- photo: picsquare ( acuired by infibeam ), zoomin ( co-founded by founder of half/ebay )
- local / classifieds : burrp ( acuired by network18 ) , quickr ( supposedly fastest growing ) , asklaila ( amazing rate of product launches, partnerships ) , buzzintown
- search engines / aggregators :
antya ( small team, nice tech + seo juice), avashya
blogadda, indiblogs (ala technorati / 9rules )
guruji ( seqoia funded search engine, pivoted to music search, lawsuits, but still decent traction, future uncertain ) - students / jobs: sutraHR , bixee search ( owned by ibibo group ), bharatstudent, freshersworld, hellointern, pagalguy, minglebox
- ad networks : vdopia, jivox ( both video) , komli, tyroo, networkplay, tyroo ( all well funded )
- movies / ticketing / delivery : bookmyshow, kyazoonga, 70mm, Bigflix ( netflix’ish clone, great retail rollout, Reliance group )
- location yulop
- project management / collaboration: deskaway, remindo, uhuroo, tenmiles (makers of helpdeskpilot,tezaa,etc)
- payment : paymate, billdesk, mcheck, ccavenues
- auto: carwale, carazoo
- travel: redbus, cleartrip ( well funded, largest pool of lisp developers at one point )
- finance/risk : crederity ( background checks ) , dhanax ( ala kiva ), paisa ( stock portfolio )
- sports : cricinfo ( bought by espn )
- health: lifemojo, healthcaremagic
- analytics : wingify / visualsiteoptimizer
- blogging platforms: instablogs (citizen journalism), ibibo, bigadda
- cloud based : e2e networks, orangescape
Check out the entire Quora Thread here.
Links Below
- SlideShare.net (Document uploading and sharing)
- Justdial.com (Directory)
- Makemytrip.com (Travel)
- SMSGupShup.com
- FlipKart.com (Online Book Store)
- BookMyShow.com (Ticket Booking)
- SnapDeal.com (Daily Discount Deals)
- 99acres.com (Property)
- Zomato.com (Restaurant Information and Reviews)
- RedBus.in (Travel)
- iXiGO.com (Travel)
- Shaadi.com (Matrimonial)
- Naaptol.com (Gadgets E Shopping)
- DealTadka.com (Social deals platform)
- WebEngage.com (Customer feedback and short survey tool for websites)
- Shareaholic.com (Advertising)
- inquy.com (store and share files, bookmarks and notes.)
- OfferGrid.com (India’s first Shopping Network
