India's Coolest Start-Ups 2017

1. BetterPlace Safety Solutions

Co-founders: Pravin Agarwala and Saurabh Tandon

The Bengaluru-based start-up, BetterPlace, uses a hybrid model comprising data analytics and physical verification to carry out extensive background checks on workers. The company calls it a trust platform to help workers get 'better placed.'

2. Cuemath

Founder: Manan Khurma

Cuemath is a maths excellence program for students from kindergarten to Class VIII. Instead of memorising formulas, it has puzzle cards, tablets and aids like the Mathbox that consists of a number of learning aids to help students discover concepts better.

3. Darwinbox

Co-founders: Rohit Chennamaneni, Chaitanya Peddi and Jayant Prasad Paleti

Darwinbox is capable of managing the HR needs of an employee's complete lifecycle - recruitment, leave, attendance, payroll, employee movement and talent management.

4. Indus OS

Co-founders: Rakesh Deshmukh, Sudhir Bangarambandi and Akash Dongre

Indus OS aims to simplify smartphone operation with features like regional hybrid keyboards, word and matra prediction in regional languages, auto correction with over 3 lakh words in database.

5. Coverfox.com

Co-founder: Devendra Rane

Coverfox has made buying insurance as easy as online shopping. Though Coverfox's bouquet mostly has general insurance products such as car, bike, travel and health covers, it plans to expand its life insurance product basket too.

6. Jugnoo

Jugnoo co-founders: Samar Singla and Chinmay Agarwal

Jugnoo has raised $16 million and aggregated about 50,000 autorickshaws in 30 cities. It is clocking an annualised revenue run rate of $10 million.

7. Legaldesk.com

Co-founders: Krupesh Bhat and Ashok Kadsur

LegalDesk's services include drawing up a will or preparing a gift deed, name change or correction, agreements for personal/vehicle loan, and preparing contracts for dealerships and distributorships.

8. NoBroker

NoBroker Co-Founders:  Saurabh Garg, Akhil Gupta and Amit K. Agarwal

NoBroker is a technology platform that makes the entire exercise of renting, buying and selling properties a happy, convenient and cost-effective experience as it doesn't involves any broker.

9. Rentomojo

RentoMojo Co-founders: Achal Mittal, Ajay Nain, Gautam Adukia and Geetansh Bamania

RentoMojo is an online service provider that rents furniture and household appliances. Renting home essentials might be a new concept, but the demand is growing as young people want to use quality products, pay less and love the hassle-free experience.

10. Shotang

Co-founders: Anish Basu Roy and Anterpreet Singh with Vishal BG, Operations Director

Shotang aims at tech transforming the order fulfillment, market access and payment processes in the traditional cellphone retail distribution channels. Retailers can download this app from the playstore and then procure all their inventory on the same margins as earlier.

11. FarMart

Co-founders: Mehtab Singh Hans and Alekh Sanghera

FarMart is a technology platform for farmers to rent out their under-utilised machinery to fellow farmers on a pay-per-use basis through call centres and a mobile app.

12. Zenatix Solutions

Co-founders: Amarjeet Singh, Vishal Bansal & Rahul Bhalla

The start-up helps firms cut their energy bills. It plans to enter the B2C segment with the launch of a plug-and-play device for homes.