Coolest start-ups in India 2014

Updated : Apr 7, 2014

Frrole is growing significantly, says Amarpreet Kalkat

Amarpreet Kalkat, CEO, Frrole, says it feels great and fanatstic to be part of Business Today's Coolest Start-up list.

Updated : Apr 7, 2014

What makes Rolocule a coolest start-up

Rohit Gupta, Founder and CEO and Anuj Tandon, Co-Founder and COO, Rolocule say that their company is a coolest start up as its products affect million of people worldwide and has been able to bring a smile on people's face.

(From left) Venkatesh K. Sharma, Bharath Mohan, Aditya Nag, Co-founders of Insieve Technologies, take a selfie in Bangalore <em>Photo: Nilotpal Baruah</em>

Updated : Apr 5, 2014

Coolest Start-ups in India 2014: Insieve Technologies predicts your preferences based on your searches, app use

A customer at MTR, a popular Bangalore restaurant, can be presented reviews on why the filter coffee there is the best in that part of the city and tipped off that there's a coffee shop close by that's started roasting and grinding beans for a French press - all on the fly without asking for it and all in two-three seconds.

Freshdesk founders Girish Mathrubootham (right) and Shan Krishnasamy at their Chennai office <em>Photo: H . K . Rajashekar</em>

Updated : Apr 1, 2014

India's Coolest Start-ups: How Freshdesk has made customer support fun

Freshdesk has not only offered solutions to address customer satisfaction, but has also made it fun. And, that is what has makes it different from other companies. Its solutions have built-in games that enable support staff to compete among themselves to solve customer complaints effectively.

Co-founders Satyen Kothari (left) and Jitendra Gupta at their office in Santacruz, Mumbai <em>Photo: Nishikant Gamre/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Mar 31, 2014

Coolest Start-ups in India 2014: What sets Citrus apart from other payment solutions companies?

"The idea is that customers should make the payment in a shorter time than it takes to remove money from the wallet," says Citrus Chairman Satyen Kothari, who founded the company along with Jitendra Gupta in April 2011 and brought in the initial funding of Rs 16 lakh.

Co-founders Rohit Gupta and Anuj Tandon (in the green sweatshirt) playing their new game 'Dance Party' at Gupta's residence in Pune <em>Photo: Rachit Goswami/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Mar 31, 2014

India's Coolest Start-ups: Rolocule Games provides games that need play stations, on your iPhone

However, despite the sustained growth, the founders say the company could have expanded much faster had they taken more people on board and "delegated work" much earlier.

NowFloats team (From left) Nitin Jain, Neeraj Sabharwal, Jasminder Singh Gulati and looking for prospective clients at Chhattarpur flower market in Delhi <em>Photo: Vivan Mehra/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Mar 31, 2014

India's Coolest Start-ups: NowFloats gets you a website in 13 minutes flat

Hyderabad-based NowFloats helps you get a website - and helps promote it as well - without your needing access to the Net, or even a PC. Besides the speed and ease of getting a website up, the company also provides automated search engine optimisation.

NowFloats founders (From left) Nitin Jain, Neeraj Sabharwal and Jasminder Singh Gulati , who featured in the list of the jury.

Updated : Mar 27, 2014

India's coolest start-ups: How we ranked them

Our selection process this year was very different from that of previous years. This year, we opened up the process - any start-up incorporated since January 2010 could apply through an online application form we put up on our website.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

What is the coolest factor of Power2SME

R.Narayan, Founder and CEO, BEBB India, says the coolest factor is when we see a glee on the face of an SME person after he/she has made a saving of 5-7 per cent because of us.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

'Featuring in Coolest Start-up list was unbelievable'

Manasij Ganguli, CEO, Threadsol Softwares says featuring in the listing of start-ups means that there must be something interesting that we are doing.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

'Freshdesk Technologies has more than 17,000 customers'

Girish Mathrubootham, CEO and Founder, Freshdesk Technologies says the goal of the company is to help companies engage better with their customers.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

How mobile technology inspired Lumos' business plan

Gandharv S Bakshi, CEO, Lumos Design Technology says it feels awesome to be part of Business Today's Coolest Start-up list.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

'Reaching out to end consumers biggest challenge for MadRat Games'

Rajat Dhariwal says his start up MadRat Games till last year faced the challenge of getting the portfolio of 60 innovative games. The biggest challenge for him is brand building and reaching out to end-consumers.

Updated : Mar 26, 2014

'Delhivery offers real-time status of orders to consumers'

Sahil Barua, co founder and CEO of Delhivery says start-up focuses on online retail unlike other companies in India. The start-up provides flexibility to consumers as it offers real-time visibility to the status of their orders.