First blog on my new home… 🙂
A roundup of Indian tech startups…a gist of what I have been reading for past few weeks…
Startup |
What they do |
| Mobile | |
| Burrp, JustDial, Mkhoj, Onyomo, MGinger, Myzus, Moveo, ValueFirst | Local search. Burrp is more lifestyle services oriented. All are getting into mobile/SMS based services. JustDial is more into call centre interface and certainly have a head-start. mKhoj is primaily into localized deals and discount offerings. Onyomo is primarily local search. mGinger is trying to apply chain marketing to SMS media. They pay a few bucks for every SMS Ad read by a user. Not sure how willing an advertiser would be, when he knows his ads might be getting read just for the sake of a few bucks. Also, this will be popular only in young not-earning-but-want-to-spend crowd (say age 16-20). Moveo is into mobile VAS applications. |
Ticket booking & Movie rental |
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| Bookeazy, Movietell, BookMyShow |
Ticket booking online. Bookmyshow is recent entrant from the house of Media giant TV18. Others will have a very tough time competing with them. |
| Seventymm, Madhouse | DVD rental online (Indian Netflix). Madhouse has been acquired by Seventymm. They also have very good funding. With a clear-cut revenue model, they look set for a big success. |
Travel |
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| MakeMyTrip, Yatra, TravelGuru ,Ezeego and so on… | Travel services online. Biggest revenue category, dog fight going on. All are very similar to each other. |
| Travenues (iXigo), Zoomtra, Inasra | Travel search engines. They parse all the above sites and give users structured output. I believe they work on lead generation revenues. Inasra is focusing on Hotel bookings. |
Financial services |
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| Apnaloan, InsuranceMall | Apnaloan connects borrowers with banks. The site looks very crappy to me. 😐 InsuranceMall is an insurance selling site. They are part of some insurance brokerage firm called Bonsai. I dont know why, but they dont sell life insurance online. IRDA restrictions? |
Real Estate Search |
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99acres, Jaidad, IndiaProperty |
Real Estate B2C classifieds. Is there some scope for a vertical search engine here? 🙂 |
E-Shopping |
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| SpotEazy, ShoppingTadka, OffersForShoppers | Shopping deals search engines. Most of these are present only in a city or two right now…but all of them intend to expand nationwide very soon…ShoppingTadka yet to launch. |
Global players |
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| SlideShare | Share PowerPoint presentations. They now have the one & only, Guy Kawasaki, on board. Look very much set for success. |
| Zoho (AdvantNet) |
Web office suite. Their products are superb, and are certainly ahead of their Google counterparts. |
Social Networking |
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| MingleBox, Yaari, Sixer.TV, BigAdda, SERaja | Social networking. MingleBox has early mover advantage. BigAdda is a late entrant from Reliance. SERaja is events-based networking. |
Photo sharing & printing |
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| Picsquare, iTasweer | Photo sharing and printing. There are several other players here. Very crowded. iTasweer has struck a deal with Microsoft for having their service integrated with Vista. |
| Komli, Tyroo, Ozone | Ad networks. Yahoo picked up stake in Tyroo. Komli is working on a product in this space. |
Uncategorized |
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| Myntra | User created designs (T-shirts, Mugs, Caps etc.). Goos that these guys have a clean & simple revenue model, especially because advertising model has not yet generated a lot of money in India. I didnt get the name though…is it a twist to ‘Mantra’? |
| Maps & GPS | |
| RouteGuru | Road directions, the good old way, using landmarks. Very ‘Indian’ way of solving the problem. |
MapMyIndia |
Similar to Google Maps. I guess they act as content providers to a lot of other sites. |
Classifieds |
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| Sulekha | Sulekha has an early mover advantage here. |
