India's Coolest Start-Ups 2013

Business Today's listing of 15 Coolest Start-ups. The start-ups featured straddle diverse sectors - retail, e-commerce, social media, technology, health-care and biotech.

HECTOR BEVERAGES
Energy makes the world go...Tzinga! Neeraj Kakkar (front), Suhas Misra (centre) and James Nuttall, the founding team of Hector Beverages, living their promise. 

EMART SOLUTIONS INDIA
Srikanth Chunduri (left) and Aditya Bhamidipaty, founders of Emart Solutions India, have set their company apart in the cluttered e-commerce space by setting up and managing exclusive e-commerce portals and loyalty programmes for brands.

HATTI KAAPI
Mahendar U.S. gets ready to announce Hatti Kaapi to the world from a hilltop near Bangalore. The company is a fast-growing chain that serves South Indian filter coffee.

EDUTOR TECHNOLOGIES
Ram Gollamudi, co-founder and CEO of Edutor Technologies, showcasing how the digital medium could be leveraged. The company, which is into digital learning, has an interactive solution for school students and teachers that uses touchscreen devices.

AURUS NETWORK
Aurus Network founder Piyush Agrawal displays gadgets that help his company provide the infrastructure for online distance education.

MITRA BIOTECH
Mallik Sundaram, co-founder of Mitra Biotech, poses for the cameras with a microscrope. The company's technology platform Oncoprint analyses multiple cancer drugs to arrive at the best fit for a patient.

PIXPA DIGITAL
Gurpreet Singh, co-founder of Pixpa Digital, has a new way of looking at things. His company creates easy website design templates and e-commerce platforms for photographers.

CLOUDMUNCH
CloudMunch founders Pradeep Prabhu (left) and Prasanna Raghavendra in a brainstorming session on the lawns of their office in Bangalore. The company provides a platform for collaboration and management of software applications.

peel-works
Sachin Chhabra, founder of peel-works, inside a provision store in Mumbai. The company provides analytics around an organisation's indirect sales force, helping it keep tabs on their performance.

QYUKI
Qyuki CEO Poonacha Machaiah gets creative on the streets of Bangalore. The company, founded by Shekhar Kapur and A.R. Rahman, is a social platform for creative talent.

NAVIGENE
Rishi Dixit of Navigene Genetic Science at the company's lab in Mumbai. The company conducts genetic screening of babies to detect birth defects early on.

MINDTICKLE
Nishant Mungali, Deepak Diwakar, Mohit Garg and Krishna Depura (left to right), founders of 'gamified' learning platform company MindTickle, relax at their office in Pune.

BLUESTONE
Singh Kushwaha, founder of online jewellery store Bluestone, flanked by models Viraja Achar (in black) and Snizhana, is all smiles at a studio in Bangalore.

GLOCAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
Led by Dr Sabahat Azim, Glocal Healthcare Systems runs five low-cost hospitals in rural and semi-urban areas.

COCOBERRY RESTAURANTS AND DISTRIBUTORS
G.S. Bhalla, co-founder of Cocoberry, gives dahi a makeover as frozen dessert with fruit toppings.