Indias Coolest Start-ups 2013

Updated : Jun 12, 2013

Highlights of BT's Feb 3, 2013, issue: India's coolest start-ups

Managing Editor Josey Puliyenthuruthel talks about Business Today's February 3, 2013, issue. The big story: India's coolest start-ups that have a very promising future.

The founders of Hector Beverages (left) and Emart Solutions India (right)

Updated : Mar 18, 2013

Business Today's listing of India's Coolest Start-ups

With more funding options available, the number of start-ups in the country is rising exponentially. Deal tracker Venture Intelligence says the number of early-stage VC investments have grown 71 per cent in 2012 against 2010 levels. Full coverage

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

Cover drive

Deputy Chief Photographer Shekhar Ghosh tries a number of shots for the front cover of the India's Coolest Start-ups issue.<br />

Rishi Dixit collecting an infant's urine sample to examine it for genetic disorders at Navigene's Mumbai lab. Such testing is still rare in India <em>Photo: Nishikant Gamre/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

Navigene Genetic Science helps in detecting genetic defects early in babies

Navigene Genetic Science was cofounded by Rishi Dixit and Vrushali Joshi. It collects urine samples of newborns from hospitals and paediatric clinics across six major cities and tests them at its lab in Thane for as many as 110 possible genetic disorders.

CEO Poonacha Machaiah (in crimson T-shirt) at a jamming session with colleagues at Qyuki's office in Bangalore <em>Photo: Shekhar Ghosh/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

Qyuki helps creative minds to earn money from their work

Qyuki is a platform for performing arts and fine arts, as well as a marketplace for creative minds to earn money from their work.

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

Start-Up, Up And Away

Six of the leaders bond before the Business Today cover photoshoot.

G.S. Bhalla <em>Photo: Vikram Sharma</em>

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

Coolest Start-ups: How Cocoberry was born

Entrepreneur G.S. Bhalla was casting about for a unique food-and-beverage business idea when it occurred to him that frozen yoghurt would go down well in the hot Indian summer.

Dr Sabahat Azim <em>Photo: Subir Halder</em>

Updated : Jan 30, 2013

How Glocal Healthcare Systems ensures affordable quality treatment

Glocal Healthcare Systems, headquartered in Kolkata, but with all its hospitals based in rural or semi-rural areas of West Bengal, hopes to change the face of rural health-care in the state - and subsequently in other parts of the country.

Sachin Chhabra (extreme right) observes a salesman at work at a provision store in Mumbai <em>Photo: Rachit Goswami</em>

Updated : Jan 26, 2013

peel works enables brands to track indirect salesmen performance

Sachin Chhabra's peel works enables companies to keep tabs on people who close the sales cycle to check whether they are performing optimally. The start-up's cloud-based solution, called 9Yards, gives companies analytics data on nine parameters to measure the performance of sales staff.

Prasanna Raghavendra <em>Photo: Shekhar Ghosh/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 26, 2013

CloudMunch helps smaller IT companies deliver software faster, cheaper, better

Founded in Sept 2011, Pradeep Prabhu and Prasanna Raghavendra, CloudMunch has created a platform where developers, testers, web architects, programme managers even customers have access to a single dashboard that tracks the progress of a code being prepared in real time.

Updated : Jan 24, 2013

Model view

Behind the scenes of the Bluestone Jewellery shoot with Deputy Chief Photographer Shekhar Ghosh.

The four founders of MindTickle take a breather from work at a club in Pune <em>Photo: Nishikant Gamre/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 23, 2013

How MindTickle helps organisations in training new hires

Pune-based MindTickle, a year-and-a-half-old start-up, provides web-based "gamified" training and orientation products for companies. It uses its two products, Allboard and Hifli, for training and team-building programmes, so that new employees can settle in quickly.

Gaurav Singh Kushwaha photographs models wearing his jewellery at a studio in Bangalore <em>Photo: Shekhar Ghosh/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 23, 2013

Affordable jewellery sets Bluestone apart from other stores

The affordable jewellery it provides sets Bluestone apart from most other jewellery stores, whether brick-and-mortar or online.

Gurpreet Singh <em>Photo: Vivan Mehra/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 18, 2013

Pixpa.com helps in easily creating their own websites

Pixpa.com, a do-it-yourself web designing platform, using which creative professionals can showcase and sell their work online.

Majumder (left) and Sundaram (right) believe treatment for every cancer patient should be different <em>Photo: Deepak G . Pawar/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 18, 2013

Mitra Biotech: A friend in the fight against cancer

The company has stirred much debate in scientific circles with its technology platform, Oncoprint, which analyses - in just seven days - a range of drugs to arrive at the right fit for a cancer patient.

Updated : Jan 16, 2013

Behind the scenes: Business Today special on India's coolest start-ups

Deputy Chief Photographer Shekhar Ghosh had a fizzy time shooting the founders of Hector Beverages in Manesar, Haryana. Hector Beverages, maker of the Tzinga energy drink, features in <i>Business Today</i>'s Coolest Start-ups of India listing.

Updated : Jan 16, 2013

'Any individual or SME can easily use our platform'

Gurpreet Singh, Co-Founder & CEO of Pixpa Design, says his company helps organisations to build, manage and maintain their own websites and generate business.

Mahendar U.S. prepares filter coffee in the open on the outskirts of Bangalore <em>Photo: Shekhar Ghosh/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 16, 2013

Hatti Kaapi provides a quick cup of South Indian coffee at Rs 8

Hatti Kaapi provides a quick cup of steaming South Indian coffee at Rs 8

Employees splash the energy drink on the bicycle-riding founders Kakkar (in front), Misra (centre) and Nutall <em>Photo: Shekhar Ghosh/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 16, 2013

Coolest Start-ups: Hector Beverages, the maker of Tzinga energy drink

Start-up Hector Beverages put in their own funds, and began scouting boutique research and development firms in Europe for a "magic" formula that would provide an affordable energy drink that "did not taste weird",

Ram Gollamudi <em>Photo: A . Prabhakar Rao</em>

Updated : Jan 15, 2013

Edutor Technologies makes learning easy

Edutor Technologies created a solution that digitizes school textbooks and other learning material so that students no longer need to carry as many books to school and back as before, but can access study material on their touchscreen tablets.

Cyberspace architects Chunduri (left) and Bhamidipaty (right) take a break at a beach in Mumbai <em>Photo: Rachit Goswami/www.indiatodayimages.com</em>

Updated : Jan 15, 2013

Emart Solutions India has found a niche in the e-commerce market

Emart was set up in July 2009 to create exclusive e-commerce platforms for brands and provide other web-related services, such as managing loyalty programmes and product delivery.