Former Flipkart employees or Flipsters or the Flipkart Mafia have founded more than 200 startups as of 2017 - which are changing the Indian startup ecosystem.
In today’s video, we take a look at the top 10 Indian startups that are founded by the Flipkart Mafia (former Flipkart employees).
00:00 Introduction
00:54 #10 Suki
02:01 #9 OkCredit
03:04 #8 Vogo
04:01 #7 Slice
04:57 #6 Spinny
05:56 #5 Navi Technologies
06:57 #4 Groww
07:58 #3 Cure.Fit
08:57 #2 PhonePe
10:07 #1 Udaan
#10 Suki: Founded by former Flipkart CPO Puni Soni, along with Karthik Rajan and Anshu Sharma in 2017, Suki is an AI-powered voice assistant that helps doctors in performing administrative tasks so that they are free to engage with their patients in a more effective manner and provide the care they need.
#9 OkCredit: Founded by Harsh Pokharna, Gaurav Kumar and Aditya Prasad in 2017, OkCredit is a digital ledger that enables merchants and shopkeepers to keep track of the credit history of their customers. Today, OkCredit has more than 23 million SMBs using their digital ledger.
#8 Vogo: Founded by Anand Ayyadurai, Sanchit Mittal and Padmanabhan Balakrishnan in 2016, Vogo is a dockless scooter rental startup that is providing an affordable, accessible and convenient mode of transportation to its users. Today, Vogo scooters have completed more than 10 million rides.
#7 Slice: Founded by Rajan Bajaj and Deepak Malhotra in 2016, Slice launched their flagship ‘super card’ in 2019 - which is essentially a credit card for millennials but has no annual charges, no joining fees and no hidden charges. Today, they have more than 350,000 customers and plan to reach 1 million users by the end of FY22.
#6 Spinny: Founded by Mohit Gupta (Assistant Director of Delivery Operations at Flipkart), Niraj Singh and Ramanshu Mahaur in 2015, Spinny is an online retailer for used cars. Just like e-commerce platforms are able to deliver smartphones and clothes to you the next day, Spinny is able to do that with cars - thanks to Mohit Gupta’s experience of handling same-day and next day deliveries at Flipkart.
#5 Navi Technologies: Founded by Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal, along with Ankit Agarwal in 2018, Navi Technologies is trying to revolutionize India’s BFSI industry. And they are doing it quickly by acquiring companies across these industries. They have already launched their lending and insurance products and are in process of launching their mutual fund as well.
#4 Groww: Founded by four Flipsters Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Ishan Bansal and Neeraj Singh started working on Groww in 2016 and launched their investment platform a year later - offering everything from mutual funds, stocks and gold. Today, they have more than 1.5 million users on their platform and have also achieved rare unicorn status.
#3 Cure.Fit: Founded by Mukesh Bansal and Ankit Nagori in 2016, Cure.Fit has built a network of more than 130 fitness centres. While the pandemic has pushed them to pivot to digital offerings, they have been able to afford that thanks to their investors who have poured in $480 million into the startup.
#2 PhonePe: Founded by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer in 2016, PhonePe is a UPI-based digital payments startup that was acquired by Flipkart even before they launched. Today, PhonePe is a leader in the UPI payments space and is valued at $5.5 billion.
#1 Udaan: Founded by Amod Malviya (former CTO at Flipkart), Sujeet Kumar (former Operations at Flipkart), Vaibhav Gupta (former Products, Business Finance and Analytics at Flipkart) in 2016, Udaan is one of the largest B2B online marketplaces for traders, wholesalers and retailers - offering a catalogue of 500,000 products.
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3 авг 2021
