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101 Incredibly Innovative Indian Startups That You Should Know
- December 13, 2018
- Posted by: Aditi Khinda
- Category: Digital Marketing Case Studies

“It’s not about the ideas, it’s about making ideas happen”
This statement is immensely manifested by Indian Startup Entrepreneurs who have given their hearts & souls to build ultimate empires and make their ideas happen as well as acknowledged all around the world.
However, every startup has its own uniqueness. Where, no other startup shares the same ideology, mission, motive, and audience with each other.
Indian startups are the part of the growing ecosystem that brings all the entrepreneurs, investors and partners together.
However, these competitive millennials of this century are constantly on the run to accomplish the best milestones of their respective industries. These milestones become existent with the use of advent innovative technologies and outwitting online marketing strategies.
Whether you look for their online campaigns or any marketing move, these startups are ready to win the competition anytime with their innovative ideas. While some of the startups got vanished with no time, there are few who have blossomed like a flower with the help of like-minded enthusiasts (marketers & entrepreneurs).
Therefore, we decided to encourage these Indian startups who have made their exceptional innovations and fend a top high place among the giants. Here is the list of top 101 Incredibly Innovative Indian Startups that you should know.
Here we go!
S.No. | Startup | Founding Year | Headquater | Founders | Category | What's unique |
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1 | Digiperform | 2014 | Noida | Vaibhav Vats, Manu Jolly | Education and Training | Digiperform is India’s leading Digital Marketing Certification Company; the first organization to be awarded as ‘Asia’s Most Trusted Brand in Digital Education’ by WCRC. The organization offers advanced Digital Marketing Course in Noida, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other major cities of India. |
2 | Cure.Fit | 2016 | Bengaluru | Mukesh Bansal (founder of Myntra) and Ankit Nagori (ex-CBO, Flipkart) | Health and Wellness | Brilliant startup that makes group workouts fun, daily food healthy & tasty, mental fitness easy with yoga & meditation, and medical & lifestyle care hassle-free. |
3 | OYO | 2013 | Gurugram | Ritesh Agarwal | Hospitality | India’s largest hotel network with more than 100,000 rooms in 230 cities. Over the last nine months, the budget hotel brand has ventured into Malaysia, China and the UK. |
4 | dunzo.in | 2015 | Bengaluru | Ankur Aggarwal, Dalvir Suri, Kabeer Biswas and Mukund Jha | Customer Service | Dunzo is an app-based service that lets users 'hire' people, who in turn, run errands for them or carry out odd jobs on their behalf. |
5 | Rivigo | 2014 | Gurugram | Deepak Garg, Gazal Kalra | logistic | One of the fastest growing startups in India which provides express surface logistics all over the country. |
6 | Digit Insurance | 2016 | Bengaluru | Prem Watsa, Kamesh Goyal | Finance | Digit believes in simplifying insurance processes: every insurance product is explained to customers in a 2-page document, so that even a 15-year-old can comprehend them. |
7 | Osumare Pvt. Ltd. | 2012 | Pune | Umesh Ahirrao | Digital Services | Osumare Marketing Solutions (OMS) is a core marketing company dedicated to addressing your marketing needs so that you can optimize your marketing goals and attain maximum profit. |
8 | LBB - Little Black Book | 2012 | Delhi | Suchita Salwan | Customer Service | Discover Awesome Places, Services & Events Around You |
9 | Republic World | 2017 | Mumbai | Rajeev Chandrasekar | Information | Republic TV is an Indian news channel. |
10 | The Minimalist | 2015 | Mumbai | Sahil Vaidya, Chirag Gander | Design | A bootstrapped design agency that works with clients such as Saint-Gobain, Bharti Airtel, Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola and Abbott. |
11 | Razorpay | 2013 | Bengaluru | Harshil Mathur, Shashank Kumar | E-Commerce, Payments | Razorpay is the only payments solution in India which allows businesses to accept, process and disburse payments with its product suite. |
12 | Nineleaps | 2014 | Bengaluru | Vivekanand Jha | Information Technology, Product Design | IT startup that work in the areas of mobile, web, analytics and Big Data promoting experimentation with new technology and techniques. |
13 | Innov8 Coworking | 2015 | New Delhi | Ritesh Malik, Shailesh Gupta, Sumit Ranka | Real Estate | A Y- Combinator backed workspaces and community startup based in India. They provide premium workspaces . |
14 | Schbang | 2015 | Mumbai | Harshil Karia, Sohil Karia & Akshay Gurnani | Advertising, Marketing | A digital solution agency that also experiments in original content. |
15 | Acko General Insurance | 2017 | Mumbai | Varun Dua | Financial Services, Insurance | A digital insurance company that redefines insurance for the consumers and gives them great prices, extreme convenience and stress-free claims. |
16 | Treebo Hotels | 2015 | Bengaluru | Kadam Jeet Jain, Rahul Chaudhary, Sidharth Gupta | Hospitality | The startup offers budget hotels, shelter to travelers at affordable prices. |
17 | InCred | 2016 | Mumbai | Bhupinder Singh | Banking, Finance | InCred provides personal, education & home loans as well as credit to small and medium-sized businesses. |
18 | Jumbotail | 2015 | Bengaluru | Ashish Jhina, Karthik Venkateswaran | Food and Beverage | The platform builds an online marketplace for food and grocery, targeted at wholesale buyers. Their idea is to systematize the food and grocery network in India using technology, data science and design. |
19 | Zapr Media Labs | 2012 | Bengaluru | Deepak Baid, Sajo Mathews, Sandipan Mondal | Ad Retargeting, Ad Targeting | The world's first media consumption repositories & software platform to facilitate cross-device targeting. Their technology platform auto-detects broadly all offline media content being viewed by millions of people. |
20 | BrowserStack | 2011 | Mumbai | Nakul Aggarwal, Ritesh Arora | Web-Testing | Web and mobile app testing platform on the market |
21 | udaan | 2016 | Bengaluru | Amod Malviya, Sujeet kumar, Vaibhav Gupta | B2B | A network centric B2B trade platform for small & medium businesses in India. It brings traders, wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers in India on to a single platform. |
22 | SigTuple | 2015 | Bengaluru | Apurv Anand, Bharath Cheluvaraju, Rohit Pandey, Tathagato Dastidar | Analytics, Big Data, | SigTuple builds intelligent screening solutions to aid diagnosis through AI-powered analysis of visual medical data. |
23 | InterviewBit | 2015 | Pune | Abhimanyu Saxena, Anshuman Singh | E-Learning | A platform to learn skills that you need for technology jobs. |
24 | Shuttl | 2015 | Gurugram | Amit Singh, Deepanshu Malviya | Transportation | They provide an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone. |
25 | WittyFeed | 2014 | Indore | Parveen Singhal, Shashank Vaishnav, Vinay Singhal | Media and Entertainment | It's the fastest growing content company on the globe. |
26 | Exadatum Software Services | 2016 | Pune | Divya Rakesh, Sandip and Abhijeet | Big Data, Information Technology | A technology enabler who in combination with suite of products makes big data implementation easy, efficient and standardised. |
27 | 9Stacks | 2017 | Delhi | Sudhir Kamath, Pratik Kumar, Abhinav Nigam and Rishab Mathur | Online Games | A unique concept binding all the Poker lovers together under one roof to start the game with 9 stacks of poker chips! |
28 | Meesho | 2015 | Bengaluru | Sanjeev Barnwal, Vidit Aatrey | E-Commerce | An online reseller network of housewives and SMBs, who sell products within their network on social channels. |
29 | AEON Learning | 2013 | Bengaluru | Karthik KS, Vikalp Jain | E-Learning | The establishment offers a range of options for working professionals ranging from management degrees from esteemed universities to leading edge technology skills taught by highly specialized mentors. |
30 | airpay | 2010 | Mumbai | Amit Kapoor, Kunal Jhunjhunwala, Rohan Deshpande | E-Commerce | Airpay offers online payment gateway solutions for e-commerce and retail markets in India |
31 | Ask Arvi | 2017 | Mumbai | Alok Tiwari, Sushant Reddy | Commercial Insurance | Arvi provides an interactive, instant and informative insurance buying experience to customers over a mobile chat platform. |
32 | Avishkaar Box | 2014 | Delhi | Swati Gupta, Tarun Bhalla | Education | Avishkaar creates products that make learning Meaningful, Joyful and INSANELY Addictive. |
33 | Biryani By Kilo | 2015 | Noida | Kaushik Roy, Ritesh Sinha, Vishal Jindal | Food and Beverage | BBK delivers authentic taste of Biryani prepared in the most authentic way to satiate both stomach & heart. |
34 | Blowhorn | 2014 | Bengaluru | Michael Strong, Mithun Srivatsa, Nikhil Shivaprasad | logistic | India's leading intracity logistics provider and offers forward, reverse logistics for first, middle and last mile within cities |
35 | Boltt Sports Technologies | 2015 | Noida | Aayushi Kishore, Arnav Kishore | Artificial Intelligence | A bunch of techies & fitness freaks brimming with passion & purpose, creating innovative wearable solutions for health, fitness & lifestyle. |
36 | Boxx.Ai | 2016 | Bengaluru | Ajay Kashyap, Prakhar Raj, Shitiz Bansal | Artificial Intelligence | Boxx uses Artificial Intelligence to build products that enable enterprises solve their most critical analytics problems quickly and at affordable costs |
37 | Cash Suvidha | 2016 | New Delhi | Anoop Garg, Rajesh Gupta | Banking, Finance | A Digital Lending Platform that helps the ambitious people by providing them a wide range of loans including entrepreneur loan, SME Loan, invoice finance and women empowerment loan. |
38 | CallHealth | 2014 | Hyderabad | Sandhya Raju | Health Care | CallHealth is a technology-powered healthcare company that brings healthcare services to the doorstep of the customer. |
39 | Chimple Learning | 2015 | Bengaluru | Srikanth Talapadi, Anupama Kolamala | Education | A non-profit organization in India dedicated to radically improve children's learning. |
40 | Clip | 2017 | Bengaluru | Nav Agrawal | Media and Entertainment | A digital media video startup that allows its users to easily create, watch and download funny Indian videos. |
41 | CoWrks | 2012 | Bengaluru | Sidharth Menda | Real Estate | CoWrks creates beautiful, inspiring and high-energy work environment that will change the way we work forever. |
42 | CrediFiable | 2017 | Bengaluru | Presha Paragash | Financial Services | A new age finance company revolutionizing the consumer loan market. They provide personal loan to salaried professionals. |
43 | Credy | 2017 | Bengaluru | Harshit Vaishnav, Pratish Gandhi | Financial Services | A mobile credit line with customization for specific end use - such as medical emergency, school fee payments, and debt consolidation. |
44 | Doctor Insta | 2015 | Gurugram | Amit Munjal | Health Care | India's 1st Video Medicine Company where One can consult Care-Givers anytime, anywhere. |
45 | Drivezy | 2015 | Bengaluru | Abhishek Mahajan, Amit Sahu, Ashwarya Singh, Hemant Kumar Sah, Vasant Verma | Automotive | India's largest vehicle sharing platform which helps people turn their vehicles into earning members of their family. |
46 | Swiggy | 2015 | Bengaluru | Sriharsha Majety, Nandan Reddy, and Rahul Jaimini | Food and Beverage | A food delivery app that enables customers to order food Online and delivers the it right at the customer's doorstep. |
47 | Ecom Express | 2013 | New Delhi | K. Satyanarayana, Manju Dhawan, Sanjeev Saxena and T. A. Krishnan | Delivery | Ecom Express Private Limited is a Company promoted by the veterans of the Express Industry of India. |
48 | East India Comedy (EIC) | 2012 | Mumbai | Sorabh Pant | Media and Entertainment | One of the pioneers of comedy in India, EIC has surely left a mark on people's minds and makes everyone laugh very hard |
49 | Urban Ladder | 2012 | Bengaluru | Ashish Goel, Rajiv Srivatsa | E-commerce | An omnichannel furniture and decor retailer. The company delivers and installs all the products it offers. |
50 | Fella Homes | 2016 | Gurugram | Amit Gupta, Digendra Singh Rathore, Kunal Singh, Sayantan Biswas, Virender Pratap Singh, Yadwinder Paul Singh | Real Estate | The platform opens the door of options of finest rental homes in your choice of the locality which suits to your pocket. |
51 | Filmygyan | 2013 | Mumbai | Aftab Khan | Media and Entertainment | Create content & funny memes that goes Viral on Social Media |
52 | Fingerlix | 2016 | Pune | Shree Bharambe | Food and Beverage | A food processing company that prepares and produces Ready-to-Cook food for families. |
53 | Flintobox | 2013 | Chennai | Arunprasad Durairaj, Shreenidhi Srirangam, Vijay Gandhi | Children | Flintobox engages children with fun and creative activity boxes! |
54 | Flochat | 2015 | Mumbai | Aahana Mulla, Prateek Lal, Yuvraj Bhalla | Mobile Apps | India's first Hybrid Instant Messenger. |
55 | Flock | 2014 | Mumbai | Ayush Goel, Bhavin Turakhia | Mobile Apps | A real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that speeds up and simplifies Communication and boosts productivity. |
56 | ftcash | 2015 | Mumbai | Deepak Kothari, Sanjeev Chandak, Vaibhav Lodha | Financial Services | The Organization aims to empower micro-merchants and small businesses with the power of credit using digital payments, using only a bank account and a feature phone. |
57 | Fynd | 2012 | Mumbai | Farooq Adam, Harsh Shah, Sreeraman Mohan Girija | Retail | Fynd is India's Largest Fashion O2O company with real-time inventory access to over 8.5k+ stores. |
58 | GamingMonk | 2014 | New Delhi | Abhay Sharma, Ashwin Haryani | Gaming | An eSports gaming company. Various eSports or Competitive Gaming Tournaments are played across platforms such as PC, Console & Mobile. |
59 | Get My Parking | 2015 | New Delhi | Chirag Jain, Rasik Pansare | Automotive | B2B - Open IOT Smart Parking Platform |
60 | GoCoop | 2011 | Bengaluru | Siva Devireddy | Retail | A social marketplace that enables users to source, buy, and collaborate directly with cooperative and community-based producers. |
61 | GoFro | 2015 | New Delhi | Amitabh Misra | Tourism, Travel | GoFro was born out of our firm belief in empowering the modern traveller with flexibility of choices |
62 | Gold Farm | 2012 | Tamil Nadu | Abhilash Thirupathy | Agriculture | App based Tractor renting platform. |
63 | YourQuote | 2016 | Bengaluru | Ashish Singh, Harsh Snehanshu | Internet | It is a journal for it saves your effort and create a stunning portfolio of your work that the world loves. |
64 | HalaPlay | 2016 | Bengaluru | Swapnil Saurav | Digital Entertainment | A Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform that empowers serious and casual sports enthusiasts to play cash based quick, simple and interesting games. |
65 | HandyTrain | 2015 | Goa | Gourav Jaswal | B2B | A mobile product platform for corporate professional training that slashes cost & time. |
66 | Hansel.io | 2015 | Bengaluru | Mudit Krishna Mathur, Parminder Singh, Varun Ramamurthy Dinakar | Mobile Apps | A mobile app management platform, provides the infrastructure that companies need, in order to personalize product experiences. |
67 | ZipLoan | 2015 | Delhi | KSHITIJ Puri, Shalabh Singhal | Financial Services | ZipLoan is a online lending platform to provide Small Business Loans. |
68 | HipCask | 2011 | Mumbai | Aneesh Bhasin | Food and Beverage | A smartphone application that enables users to discover wines, whiskies, and beers. |
69 | Homergize | 2015 | Bengaluru | Vinod R. Kaushik | Construction | Homergize is a one-stop shop for Design, Decoration & Renovation |
70 | Yaantra | 2013 | Delhi | Ankit Saraf, Anmol Gupta, Jayant Jha | Information Technology | India’s leading mobile phone repair, refurbished & Unboxed centre In India |
71 | InnerChef | 2015 | Gurugram | Bal DiGhent, Rajesh Sawhney, Sanjeev Singhal | Food and Beverage | An online food discovery and delivery experience that will make the foodie in you come alive. |
72 | The Moms Co | 2016 | Gurugram | Malika Datt Sadani and Mohit Sadaani | Health Care | A Gurgaon-based Mom and Baby Care consumer goods startup |
73 | The Office Pass | 2017 | Gurugram | Aditya Verma | Information Technology | A technology platform that connects companies & professionals to "ready to use" cool, economical and flexi Coworking office space |
74 | Josh Talks | 2015 | Haryana | Shobhit Banga, Supriya Paul | Media | A startup that produces videos and events that that aims to empower each individual to dream big and achieve even bigger. |
75 | Koinex | 2017 | Mumbai | Aditya Naik, Rahul Raj, Rakesh Yadav | Blockchain | India's most advanced digital assets exchange. Buy, sell and trade in the world's fastest growing assets: cryprocurrencies and tokens. |
76 | KrazyBee | 2015 | Bengaluru | Karthikeyan K, Madhusudan E, Wan Hong | E-Commerce | An India-based e-commerce web app, enabling its users to order products from online retailers on different pay schemes. |
77 | LetsTransport | 2015 | Bengaluru | Ankit Parasher, Pushkar Singh, Sudarshan Ravi | logistic | Lets transport is a “Last mile” logistics solution provider. |
78 | Little Black Book | 2012 | New Delhi | Dhruv Mathur, Suchita Salwan | Events | LBB engaged in search and discover highly recommended places, products, local experiences & much more. |
79 | m.Paani | 2014 | Mumbai | Akanksha Hazari | Business Intelligence | The mobile-based loyalty and data solution for the mass-market consumer in emerging economies. |
80 | Mobiefit | 2015 | Goa | Gul Panag | Health Care | A mobile application that provides the user with a workout and workout videos for exercises that don't require equipment. |
81 | Money View | 2014 | Bengaluru | Puneet Agarwal, Sanjay Aggarwal | Finance | A user-friendly Android app that uses information from SMSes sent from banks, merchants. |
82 | Mr Button | 2012 | Gurugram | Deepak Khetan | fashion, Brand Marketing | An online retail Platform for men’s style; blending a unique mix of content and commerce that allows men to discover, access and preserve their infallible style and fashion. |
83 | Baba Job | 2007 | Bengaluru | Sean Blagsvedt | Jobs and career | Babajob.com is job website and mobile portal dedicated to connecting informal sector workers. |
84 | Netmeds.com | 2010 | Chennai | Pradeep Dadha | Pharmaceutical | You can buy and send medicines from any corner of the country - with just a few clicks of the mouse. |
85 | NiYo Solutions | 2015 | Bengaluru | Virender Bisht | Finance | NiYO is a fintech company that helps salaried employees access company benefits and other financial services. |
86 | Noticeboard | 2016 | Bengaluru | Sarath Chandran, Vishal Gahlaut, Vishesh Dahinwal | Communications Infrastructure | Noticeboard is focused on leveraging the power of the mobile phone to make information more accessible. |
87 | Numberz | 2016 | Gurugram | Aditya Tulsian, Baskar Ganapathy, Rajeev Chari | Banking | Numberz helps you do your numbers, literally! So that you can continue to pursue your dreams! |
88 | OncoStem Diagnostics | 2011 | Bengaluru | Manjiri Bakre | Health Diagnostics | OncoStem is a diagnostic oncology company focused on discovering and developing novel tests for improved treatment planning. |
89 | ZoomCar | 2012 | Bengaluru | David Back, Greg Moran | Automotive | ZoomCar is a self-drive-focused car rental company allowing individuals to rent vehicles by the hour, day, and week. |
90 | Play Shifu | 2016 | Bengaluru | Dinesh Advani, Vivek Goyal | Artificial Intelligence | Shifu creates an innovative and immersive learning experience during play time by bringing board games and mobile devices together through Augmented Reality. |
91 | Bigbasket | 2011 | Bengaluru | V S Sudhakar, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh, V S Ramesh | Delivery Service | An online food and grocery store. |
92 | Qbera | 2015 | Bengaluru | Aditya Kumar, Anubhav Jain | Financial Services | A managed marketplace for unsecured personal loans that leverages tech-enabled acquisition, underwriting and loan processing capabilities to offer credit products co-created with banks that are part of Qbera's multi-lender network. |
93 | RenewBuy | 2015 | Gurugram | Balachander Sekhar | Auto Insurance | Simplest way to renew your car insurance. Get quote and insure your car in couple of minutes. |
94 | Rentickle | 2015 | Gurugram | Amit Sodhi, Vineet Chawla | Electronics, | A one stop shop for easily renting furniture, appliances and other home furnishing essentials. |
95 | Sendd | 2015 | Mumbai | Sumeet Wadhwa | Customer Service | Enabling logistics via technology. |
96 | SlicePay | 2015 | Bengaluru | Deepak Malhotra, Rajan Bajaj | Consumer Lending | Changing the way India pays by extending Indians a single line of credit. Started with an early adopter generation of college students who are most frequent digital shoppers and the right demographic to build social network based credit scoring. |
97 | Find Yogi | 2012 | Bengaluru | Naman Sarawagi | Retail | FindYogi is India's leading online destination for making shopping related decisions. |
98 | Stanza Living | 2017 | New Delhi | Anindya Dutta, Sandeep Dalmia | Hospitality | Stanza Living is a co-living platform created for students moving to a new place. |
99 | StoreKing | 2011 | Bengaluru | Govardhan K, Sridhar Gundaiah | Information Services | Storeking is a revolutionary platform enabling small town Retailers to sell over 50,000 products to walk-in customers without having to invest in working capital stock. |
100 | StyleCracker | 2013 | Mumbai | Dhimaan Shah | Fashion | India’s first online personal styling portal understands the importance of great style in day-to-day life. |
101 | Portea | 2012 | Bengaluru | Manjusha Anumolu, Ganesh Krishnan, Meena Ganesh | Health Care | India's Home Healthcare Pioneer and the largest and fastest growing provider of in-home medical care in India |
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