Coolest Start-Ups of India 2016

Hike

FIVE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS

Incorporated in 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal, Hike messaging app has so far raised the funding of $ 86 million.

OYO Rooms

FIVE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

Ritesh Agarwal's OYO Rooms standardises India's unbranded hotels and then markets them on its website and app - the toiletry it supplies to every hotel is one small effort at standardisation. 

Urban Ladder

FIVE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

In 2012, Ashish Goel (R) teamed up with his IIM-B batch mate Rajiv Srivatsa to start an online furniture store that would change customer experience.
 

Tracxn

THREE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

Abhishek Goyal (R) and Neha Singh chose quit their investment roles to build Tracxn, which is into market research and data analytics. It provides actionable intelligence on start-ups to venture funds, corporates as well as other investors.

CleverTap

THREE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

Unlike most of the new-age start-ups, the founders of mobile analytics company CleverTap are not 20-something fresh college passouts. Anand Jain (L) , Suresh Kondamudi (R) and Sunil Thomas are technology veterans with decades of experience. The trio decided to join hands to set up CleverTap in 2013.

Capital Float

THREE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

The Bangalore-headquartered online-only lending platform for small and medium enterprises was started by Stanford classmates Gaurav Hinduja (R) and Sashank Rishyasringa. The goal of Capital Float is to offer flexible short-term loans.

Droom

THREE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

Sandeep Aggarwal doesn't let go of anything that has worked. He announced the launch of Droom, online marketplace for used vehicles on November 21, 2014, the same day he launched e-commerce marketplace ShopClues in 2011, now India's youngest unicorn.     

CloudCherry

THREE-YEAR-OLD START-UPS 

CloudCherry, an Omni-channel, SaaS (software as a service)-based customer experience management (CEM) platform helps brands track, measure and enhance customer experience and delight. [From L-R: Vinod Muthukrishnan, Co-founder and CEO of CloudCherry, Vidya Venugopalan Vijay Lakshmanam]