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Great Companies: How was the idea of this app born? Sugandha : I am from Tier 2 city and know the pain of a patient family. I just figure out that problem and solving. Great Companies : Brief us a little about docttocare. Sugandha : Docttocare is one of the leading healthcare online portals that enable users from non-metro cities access and book surgery appointment with doctors and hospitals located in major cities. Docttocare app handholds the users through the entire process of identifying the right doctors/hospitals, scheduling appointments on the desired date, Give the estimate of the surgery, arranging the transport/stay. Users, thus, can focus fully on receiving high-quality treatment and off-load logistical challenges to an experienced team of Docttocare. We are providing funds also if patients are not able to effort their surgery. Great Companies : What are the key features of docttocare? Sugandha : 1. Cost estimation from hospitals 2. A place to stay near to the hospital 3. Funds for a patient. Great Companies : What other benefits can one avail through this app? Sugandha : We provide free medical stays near to the hospital in some cases. and we have some ongoing promotional offers also. Great Companies : Does it help in providing the appointment for specialist doctors of metro cities? Sugandha : Yes, We do have only prime hospitals on our portal including 1000 surgeries like liver transplant, bypass surgery, Punctured lungs, etc. Great Companies : Does this app provide any special discount to its customers? Sugandha : Yes, We provide lowest cost surgery in our hospitals, #docttocare #Hospital #Doctors #Surgery #Patient

Great Companies: Can you commence by telling a little about your business? Monce C. Abraham: The backgrounds for the entrepreneurs and business leaders, my firm THEV Consulting has created value for, include Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, Cambridge, World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders (WEF YGLs), Fortune 500 CEOs, IIMs, IITs, RECs, McKinsey, non-profit founders and top level management. With almost 10 years of experience in leading organisations through their Marketing, Branding, Research, Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Development and CSR efforts, THEV Consulting has helped its clients overcome some of their biggest business challenges, surmount growth plateaus, improve efficiency, build innovation capability and achieve thought leadership. Great Companies: How did THEV Consulting come into being? And how has your exceptional expertise helped it? Monce C. Abraham: I founded THEV Consulting when I turned 25 years of age. I had already worked at some leading organizations and could feel my capabilities and skills getting better year on year, managing more and more responsibilities within shorter time periods at a young age. Turning 25 was turning out to be painful given the feeling of still not testing my limits, and living up to the larger potential inside me. Though my initial plan was to keep creating value for whichever single company I was associated with in a full-time role, I realized I could probably help more and more companies (instead of just one at a time) achieve results in shorter periods, and thus went on to found the company with encouragement and support for the same, from my family. Great Companies: What special services does THEV provide to its clients? Monce C. Abraham: THEV Consulting helps enable organisations navigate through their Marketing, Branding, Research, Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Development and CSR efforts. Great Companies: What is the vision behind THEV Consulting? Monce C. Abraham: THEV Consulting understands and respects the tremendous will, energy and effort put in to build organizations of long term value, and it hopes to continue to be an enabling partner to help more and more organizations navigate their way to greater success within shorter time periods. Great Companies: What is your success mantra? Monce C. Abraham: "If you are Destined to Succeed, Nothing can stop you" Work Smart. Work Hard. Never Give Up. #Marketing #Branding #Research #Strategy #Innovation #CSR

Great Companies: Can you brief us a little about the concept of this start-up? Nikunj Katkoria: WriteSoft is an answer for all your writing tensions! Be it Grammatical errors, plagiarized content, or unable to find quality employee or content, just send us your requirements, choose the package, and snap, your content is ready. We have 2 domains, Content Writing and Web development. We help clients to develop and maintain their websites blogs and social media handles by providing the right Content and Customised Images and Posters. We are having different teams for each and every function. For example, in Content Writing, we have a separate team for writers and separate team for proofreading. Great Companies: What all groups of the populace can benefit from your services except for writers and students? Nikunj Katkoria: Content Writing and Web Development Services are required by almost each and every person who aspires to be an entrepreneur. Majorly Digital Marketing Agencies, Online and E-commerce companies and Educational institutions can take advantage of our services. We aim to help everyone with this by providing the required services at very low cost. Great Companies: What all services do you offer? What is the price range? Nikunj Katkoria: As mentioned, we offer content writing and web development services to corporates at a very low cost. Our very Basic Package starts from Rs. 2499, in which we provide up to 24000 words in a month, 1000 words everyday - 6 days a week. We also have different packages depending on the clients' requirement. All the details are mentioned on our website - www.writesoft.co.in Great Companies: What is the success mantra behind your company’s progress till date? Nikunj Katkoria: The biggest factor in any service industry is the quality and timely delivery of work. Every person has their commitments and needs the work to be delivered on the mentioned time, failing affects their business. As our content passes through n number of stages, we ensure that proper quality is maintained along with timely delivery. We keep a track of each and every minute and ensure that the client gets the delivery within 24 hours as per the update cycles. Great Companies: What all do you plan on doing and offering in the future or in about 5 years, how do you see Write Sofi INC? Nikunj Katkoria: Everyone wants to be at the top, and since inception, we are striving very hard to fulfil the clients' requirements. Past 6 months has been extremely challenging, and now we are working on automating the processes, where a client will get regular updates 24x7 as in which stage their work is currently. The process will completely be automated in the next 3-4 months. In the coming years, we are planning to expand globally so that everyone can take advantage of our services and we keep exploring, keep learning and keep helping be at the top in this industry. #Writesoft #creativecontentwriting #Content #BlogArticle #Marekting #Writing

Great Companies: How did you begin the HRAI? When and how was the idea born? Vikas Vats: We formally begin with HR Association India in 2012, before that we were a group on LinkedIn of like-minded HR professionals to share knowledge and assist each other in various HR processes with latest Tools and techniques. Soon we realised that we need to have a formal body to meet the needs of the associated professionals. in 2012 we organised our first meet. There were three major agendas which was finalized to guide the future of HRAI To update HR Professionals with latest in HR Tools, Technologies and Conferences worldwide. To upskill HR Professionals at minimum cost. To recognise and appreciate best practices and make them benchmarks. Great Companies: How did you keep your firm Non-Profit? Because the services you give are top-notch and they have the potential to make good money. So what is the aim behind being Non-Profit? Vikas Vats: Our guiding principle is from Vishva Puran : सा विद्या या विमुक्तये। The knowledge is that liberates Our prime mandate is to spread knowledge at zero or minimum cost. At HRAI our work is that of a facilitator. We bring those people together who can create something new, innovative and useful for all HR fraternity. We have helped many national and international organisations take their products and services to HR people because we found them good and useful and we did this without any monetary association. You would be amazed to know that in our programs we have never allowed any sponsor even a single minute of stage time. Great Companies: With 22,000 and growing members, how did you grow so vast? Vikas Vats: To be candid we grew exponentially, and this was much more than what we expected. I believe this was majorly due to the fact that we collaborated with almost all like minded people we could find in India. We consider all other at HR Forums as our Associates and not competitors, and we help them in their activities. Today we are in touch with many HR forms and bodies internationally and next year we will be we give our members International exposure in many countries. Again our aim is to provide HR Association India members free of cost or heavily discounted passes of international HR conferences. We also aim to provide our senior members with speaking opportunities in international forums in coming year. Another reason of our fast growth has been new initiatives we take regularly. Last year was dedicated for women employees in corporate sector. We worked for the “Returning Women” employees who come to world of after a long gap, recently in Association with Kalam Centre we organised award function for women empowerment. Our focus this year is on Employee’s Health and we are very soon launching Organizational Health Index – An Index of Employee’s Health in any Organization. ( OHI ) OHI will help organisations compare their employee’s health with employees in other organisations. These kind of initiatives have helped us establish ourselves as research based organisation and a destination for HR professionals who want to do something new and innovative in their organisations. Great Companies: Is your platform suitable for a novice or is it just for professionals? What kind of skills can be inculcated in a HR professional if they become your member? Vikas Vats: Our platform is suitable for novice and professionals both, but we are trying our best to do more and more for our young generation. Almost all our programs are complementary for our members or heavily discounted. These programs are on topics like 1. HR Analytics Course 2. Competency Mapping 3. Assessments in HR 4. Competency based L&D 5. Coordinating Result guaranteed Training Program 6. Psychometrics for HR Professionals 7. Gamification for HR 8. AI, Robotics, Tech HR etc. Any HR professional can take benefits by becoming our member www.hrd.online. Great Companies: The HR Analytics course you offer seems to be really good, so what can one expect to learn out of your HR Analytics course? Vikas Vats: We researched almost all HR analytics courses and the need of the industry before designing this course. It has best of all the worlds like pre-training material, instructor-led training, live projects and online learning. One will learn almost everything related to HR analytics in this course but more than that our focus is what somebody will be able to DO after attending the course. We intend to incorporate six skills via this course. What the participants would be able to do is: 1. Work in / Lead HR Analytics Team OR Establish HR Analytics Function. 2. Data Analytics Based Alignment of All HR Processes with Organization’s Vision and Mission. 3. Work as Focal Point and Coordinate among all HR Analytics Stakeholders e.g. IT, Business, etc. 4. Create, Various HR Metric , Take Decisions and Do Predictive Analysis. 5. Optimization of Your HR Processes and Yield best ROI 6. Able to Develop Internal Business Cases for Various HR Processes, e.g. Impact Assessment of any Intervention. More about this course can be found at www.hranalyticscourse.com Great Companies: One can volunteer on your site for various teams like the event organising team, the jury, the outreach team and many more. What qualities should one possess to be a volunteer of your team and what can one expect out of it? Vikas Vats: The purpose of having volunteers is to create engagement and give HR professionals opportunity to be a part of something that interest them. This makes HRAI programs not a one-way process where we organise the program and our members attend. To become a member of any team one needs to have relevant qualification & expertise and passion for that team. For example in even event organising team we would like to have somebody who during college days been organising various kind of programs and functions and has it zeel for organising events. Likely in the Jury team we would like very senior HR professionals with hands on experience on one or more HR processes. Great Companies: The HR DISTINCTION AWARDS is a platform that awards professionals for their outstanding contribution of Human Resources. When is the next award ceremony and if there is any HR out there who believes he/she is capable of winning this; then how do they send their entries? Vikas Vats: HR Distinction Award, Inaugurated by Hon. Prime Minister of Mauritius has today become most prestigious HR Award in India, thanks to our evaluation criterion, transparency execution. The next ceremony of HR distinction Award is on 23rd of Jan 2020. Professional who have done anything outstanding can send entries at our website www.hrdawards.in . Their entries are evaluated on 6 criteria mentioned on the website : Innovation Replicability Scope Impact Sustainability Execution It's a completely automated process and still if somebody needs any handholding we can be contacted at phone numbers or email id at our site. Great Companies: What are the next Big steps initiative is HRAI coming up with Vikas Vats: As mentioned earlier we are Launching Organisational Health Index. The employees of the organisation will be assessed using an app on health. Employees will get detailed analysis and prescriptions for their health. The organisations would get detailed report about the Organisation’s and Employee’s Health on various parameters like how many of them are obese, have blood pressure, diabetes, on medication, or different kind of diseases etc. This would help them not only tailor make their welfare programmes but also they will be able to compare themselves with other organisations. They would be able to link their OHI ranking with their spending on employees health, their productivity, efficiency, rework, absenteeism, motivation and various other data points. This year we intend to cover only 100 organisations on First Come First serve basis. Great Companies: How can you help HR professionals who are not in big cities there not many avenues are available for their development Vikas Vats: We would love to help and upskill these HR professionals. They can anytime get in touch with us and we would guide then how we can organise conferences and training programs at their location. And need not to say most of this would be free of cost. Anybody who wants to take lead to organise such events in small cities we welcome them to be in touch with us. Vikas Vats, vikasvats@vikasvats.com President – HR Association India ( www.hrd.online ) #HR #Awards #HRAI #Association

Great Companies: Well, to being with, there are a lot of similar wallet apps out there like PayTm, Google Pay to name a few. What makes Niki.ai distinctive from the rest of your competitors? Sachin Jaiswal: The existing alternatives for online transactions have complex user interfaces that first-generation internet users find very hard to navigate. Niki.ai solves this problem by empowering users with a multilingual conversational interface that makes online transactions extremely convenient. A virtual agent built for the next billion users of Bharat, Niki handholds first-time internet users from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns for online transactions. Users can simply talk to Niki in their own language, using just their voice while it assists them through every step of the payment process. It is also designed to overcome the trust deficit that surrounds online transactions, ensuring that users never get stuck online and providing insurance on all payments made on its voice and vernacular platform. Another differentiator is the fact that it is completely driven by AI(Artificial Intelligence) and its algorithms have been designed to understand even the minute nuances of different languages. Great Companies: Your Niki bot or your virtual agent is not like typical bots and is actually fun and simple to use, how did you come up with the idea of making it the way it is? Sachin Jaiswal :The goal has been to simplify online payments for the next billion internet users emerging from Indians living in tier 2 and tier 3 cities who are yet to transact online. Inspired to fill this huge gap and enable the Non-English speaking population of Bharat, we wanted to build a product where one could take care of all the important payments and bookings over simple conversations, in a language that they are comfortable with. While doing so, we realised that these first time internet users have leap-frogged the technology revolution to use internet directly on their smart-phones. In order to make technology accessible to them and for them to move beyond entertainment apps to things like digital transactions, they needed excessive hand-holding and assurance.Thus, Niki was built for Bharat, to cater to these specific requirements. Niki assists the user right from discovery, to initiation till the task is finally completed and also provides insurance on all online transactions, removing all inhibitions that come in the way of making Indians transact online. Great Companies: Your app seems to have a wide range of services and is certainly not just another wallet app. Can you name a few unique services and offers you give to your users? Sachin Jaiswal: Voice and vernacular support: With multilingual support, Niki is the first app to make online transactions possible for the next billion users. Niki’s Hindi voice feature gives power to over millions of Hindi, Bengali and Tamil speaking Indians, to use technology in their first language. In other words, users can talk to Niki in their own language while it assists them through every step of the payment process, helping the next billion users become self-reliant for online transactions. Social Payments: This exclusive feature on Niki helps new internet users send payment links to their social contacts or nearby merchants/Niki partners to complete the online transaction while they can pay in cash. Insurance Card: To counter the trust deficit surrounding online payments, Niki provides users with an Insurance card for their online payments which assures them 100% fulfilment guarantee. It gives them a contact to reach out to in case they get stuck anywhere during the payment process or after their money is deducted. Great Companies: What are the benefits of being an Elite User of Niki.ai and how do you become one? Sachin Jaiswal: Benefits: Pay Later: Niki Elite users can transact for a service whenever required, and pay for it later. Higher credit redemption limit: For Elite users, Niki credits are redeemed automatically for 50% of the transaction amount while making a payment, while for other users it is 25%. Exclusive offers: We introduce amazing deals every now and then, which are exclusively offered to Niki Elite users. Becoming an Elite Member: Niki automatically chooses a user to join the 10,000+ strong Elite Club, by intelligently observing their behaviour. Becoming friends with someone doesn't take any special effort, it happens over simple conversations. The same applies here. Great Companies: What was the idea behind creating Niki.ai and when did it begin? Sachin Jaiswal: As technology revolutionised the way consumers shop for products and services during the last decade, with Niki, the goal has always been to build a product for Bharat to simplify digital transactions for the next billion internet users emerging from tier 2 and tier 3 cities, who are yet to transact online. Niki was thus designed as a virtual agent for the new internet users who can avail online services just by talking, keeping the experience similar to the offline world, where every service is availed through conversations. Users can talk to Niki in their own language while it assists them through every step of the payment process, helping them become self-reliant for online transactions. All the founders, Keshav Prawasi, Shishir Modi, Nitin Babel and I are batchmates from IIT-Kgp. Once we had the idea, we decided to move out of our jobs in March 2015 to co-found Niki.ai. In the early days, we rented a small space in Udaipur where we worked on NLP technology and our MVP. Within three months, we managed to secure seed funding and move to Bangalore. It was officially registered on June 4, 2015, and launched to the public a month later at YourStory’s TechSparks, being one of the Tech30 companies. Niki.ai received seed funding in the same year from Ronnie Screwwala’s Unilazer ventures. Also backed by Mr. Ratan Tata and SAP.iO among other investors, the company continues to resolve the pain-points of Bharat’s next billion internet users and as of today, boasts of 4.5mn+ users and a massive 300x GMV, contributed by Hindi users after adding Hindi language capabilities in October 2018. Great Companies: What does the future look like for Niki.ai? Sachin Jaiswal: Our focus lies on building a one-stop digital solution for all of Bharat and making technology accessible to all despite their age, gender, social or ethnic background. With our in-house, patented NLP and text recognition accuracy of 92%, we already have an edge in the space and are currently enabling more than 4.5 million users spread across 12000+ locations. We’re working on removing language barriers and enhancing ease of use to bring the next billion users online to make India truly digital. #Nikiai #Coversational #AI #Bot #Multilingual

Great Companies: How did the idea of Fidypay came into being? Manan Dixit: FidyPay is connecting Bharat (Rural & Semi Urban Population) with India (Digital Economy) through its offline and online kisok model for various financial and banking service solutions. It is Co-Founded by Manan Dixit & Ariff Manji. Manan is Tech Junkie who has worked in IT companies like Tech Mahindra & Amdocs for 4 years. With working in IT Industry, he understood the power of technology and the gaps it can fill in the Financial Literacy in India. Ariff is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded ventures into Print Media, Outdoor Media, Radio Stations, Bakeries, etc. He comes from business background family and has been the visionary in the journey of FidyPay. Manan comes from small town of M.P. and saw that people in this type of regions are still lacking the access to Digital Economy be it e-commerce transactions, Payments, Financial Services, Insurance or Store Digitization. These people don’t get the access and exposure of such services. All they see is an Ad on the TV about the service but when it comes to accessing them from their home is a difficult journey. Hence, I (Manan) discussed this problem prevailing in rural India with Ariff and embarked on narrowing this gap by building digital products & providing access to such services at low/no cost solutions. Great Companies: Why did you pick Rural over Urban, unlike most of your competitors? Manan Dixit: India has a vast unbanked population, most of whom stay in the rural areas. Currently, the estimated unbanked population of India is 40%. Most of these areas are so remote that the banking system cannot reach there. Therefore, they do not have the access towards digital payments and financial services neither offline nor online. Banks, wallets, and fintech companies have major focus upto Tier 2 & 3 cities. In rural or tier 4 cities their penetration is nil or low and operational viability is difficult for them. We are reaching this unbanked segment through our assisted model network which are enabling this segment to make digital transactions like bill payments, remittance facilities, micro finance, online store, digital banking, micro insurance, mobile wallet, value added services (VAS) like recharges, ticket bookings, etc. through our platform FidyPay. Great Companies: How do you plan to connect Bharat to India? How is it going so far? Manan Dixit: There is lack of basic infrastructure like power, network in rural areas, keeping this in mind we have brought in India’s First Solar Powered Manned Kiosk which can be installed in rural areas to provide financial inclusion services. We have installed more than 20 such kiosks in M.P. that is providing various kinds of financial services to people who are not familiar with technology and Banking operations. Secondly, we are narrowing the gap of Micro Digital Payment space by providing single platform for the Merchants to accept payments, digitalize their operations & provide VAS services using Bharat QR Code. Our strength lies in offline play through offerings such as point-of-sale terminals, Aadhaar based banking, micro ATMs that allow users to carry out banking transactions. Great Companies: With a cashless Rural India, what will the future of India look like by the eyes of Fidypay? Manan Dixit: With the push from Government for Rural India we at FidyPay has a vision to create Digital Bharat and Democratizing Digital Inclusion in the country. We see in coming times Rural India is going to be the epicenter of all the future growth that India would see. By making sure Rural India is Digital and less Cash dependent the economy of the country will be taking a steep jump and every citizen will be benefited from the same. Great Companies: How do you plan to educate the rural population of India to go Digital? Manan Dixit: We did a Pilot in a small village near Khandwa (M.P.) named Sihada having population of around 10,000. We learnt that people in this region wish to use digital solutions for transactions but due to lack of literacy and knowledge could not adopt these new technologies. But with our solutions of assisted channel it will be empowered to create awareness of digital platforms and enable people in rural areas to understand and adopt these new technologies. With these advancement and growth we are pretty confident that FidyPay would be the Gateway of choice for Rural India for performing any banking, insurance and micro finance transactions. Great Companies: What is success mantra of Fidypay? Manan Dixit: Our focus area has been Rural & Semi Urban region from Day 1 because if the root of the country can be made strong with Technology then the whole nation will grow at a faster pace. Hence our success has always been to go where no on goes and to uplift the people in those region with the aim to Democratize Digtial Inclusion. We have been able to acheive some amazing results with Skill Development Deparments where in we are creating Rural Entrepreneurs across the nation to make them sustainable and financially strong in their own Home Town by on boarding them on FidyPay Assisted Network. By being associated with us the Rural Entrepreneur is able to deliver services to his people which he has always thought of doing it someday. These are the people who are contributiing towards making FidyPay a successful Gateway of choice for Rural India. Great Companies: How did the idea of installing a solar-powered kiosk come to you? How does one operate this ‘one of its own kind’ Kiosk? Manan Dixit: When we started working on the idea of FidyPay we realised that the terrain where we are going to deloy our services has multiple issues with irregular electricity supply, slow internet connectivity and lack of basic infrastructure. Hence we came up with the idea to install Kiosk which are powered by Solar so that FidyHuts (Outlets) gets a uniteruppted electricity supply, better internet connectivity and importantly a Manned Kiosk to help people perform their financial, banking, etc.. tranactions with our guy assisting them. This person then also work on various financial literacy workshop from time to time as guided by our team. #FidyPay #Kisok #Financial #Banking #digital #Economy

Analysing the timeless trend of Indians for their love of Gold and Silver, there would hardly be a household in Urban India who wouldn't have gold or silver coins at their home once they start saving. Adding to this thought was the fact that there was no specific platform in this niche who could give variety of options at transparent rates with 100% Guarantee on Quality of products being sold. This led to the beginning of thought behind CoinBazaar. CoinBazaar was founded in Oct ' 2012 & is based out of Mumbai [The Financial Capital of India]. In addition to being the home town of all 3 co-founders, Mumbai's Zaveri Bazaar is regarded as the most trusted place for all Bullion Brands and it sets the benchmark for pricing of bullion coins & bars across India. The GOLDEN team Mr. Pankaj Jain is a Masters in Computer Applications [MCA] by qualification and his family are traditional jewelers. He has worked with Infosys for more than 7 years as 'Technology Lead' in various domains and creating innovative solutions before starting CoinBazaar.in in 2012. Mr. Priyesh Shah is a Chartered Accountant [CA] and a Certified Financial Planner [CFP] by qualification. He did his Masters in Commerce and worked as a Chief Financial Planner with experience of more than 7 years before starting CoinBazaar.in. Mr. Rakesh Jain is a Bachelor in Information Technology with expertise in software domain [BSc-IT]. He has worked with TCS for more than 7 years helping clients with their technical issues before starting CoinBazaar.in Products Offering CoinBazaar is the curator & aggregator for various bullion brands in India and also offers precious coins from various mints across the globe. The pricing of Gold and Silver Coins is as per "LIVE" bullion market rates which gets regularly refreshed on CoinBazaar several times during the day. This gives Transparency in Pricing and Best rate across all marketplaces and local jewelers selling precious coins and bars. Tough Market Coin Bazaar works on a mix of Real time Inventory & Ready Inventory Model to cater to widest range of Brands and Products. Coinbazaar Team has complete control over the products being despatched. This ensures a 100% trust on the product, which is both certified and verified before it is shipped. The special courier partners specialized in handling precious deliveries are onboarded for executing a safe and insured delivery to clients doorstep anywhere in India. Most of the clients make Online payments , however for those who can't even Cash On Delivery [COD] is available up to certain limit. Gold Business Coinbazaar have explored in extremely niche area and is not a "MeToo" company where they have learnt from the experience and expertise of existing company. The team has faced challenges in each and every front like Gaining Trust, Technical Challenges, Logistic Issues , Packing Issues, Financial Challenge etc. Technical challenges they could understand better with Co-founders expertise. Trust they built by only having Top Premium Bullion Brands, BIS and Hallmark Products which come with Certificate and Secured Packing. Logistic was a big challenge however over a period of time they improved their packing and tied up with precious metal handling companies for safe logistics. The Future is Shining 2019-20 The team of Coinbazaar is looking at scaling-up operations and look at raising angel funds to kick-start their expansion plans. They are looking at adding "Digital Gold" as well which would exponentially grow the clientbase. Also Coinbazaar App is on the cards for Android and IOS for daily price check and saving regularly SIP in Gold or Silver Coins. https://www.coinbazaar.in/ #Coinbazaar #Gold #Silver #Online #Digital #Pricing #transparency #100

Some personal experience whilst moving household goods in 2015 and other professional engagements with Logistics players and clients in their past assignments gave the founders of Decker Logistics first-hand knowledge and insight into the extent of fragmentation and unstructured nature of the Logistics and supply chain sector in India. FOUNDATION OF THE STARTUP VALUESHIPR began its journey on Apr 14, 2016, and is based out of Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Western parts of India account for over 40%+ Cargo and goods movement and hence we took a decision to be based out of Western India. THE GOLDEN TEAM Jyotheesh Kumar, Dr. Sharad Nair & Prashant Halari are the founders of VALUESHIPR. Jyotheesh Kumar – Co-Founder & CEO An Entrepreneur Manager with over 20 plus years of work experience spanning across Banking, Capital Markets, Logistics, Automobile and Consulting with Educational qualifications in Engineering and Management from premier institutes in India Dr. Sharad Nair – Co-Founder & Director - Strategy A Management Graduate and Doctorate in Philosophy with over 20 years experience across Banking & Financial Services, Learning & Development & Media, he has held Top Management positions with Top Banking Brands viz; Bank Julius Baer, Barclays Bank, Bank Sarasin, Mashreq Bank, Stanchart, Citibank across International Geographies – Asia & Africa. He has also been a serial Investor and Entrepreneur. Prashant Halari – Co-Founder & CTO A computer science Engineering graduate and a post-graduate degree in business administration from IIMs; Prashant started his career as a Research Associate with IIM, Ahmedabad and thereafter spent over a decade at Patni Computers (now Capgemini) as part of the leadership team. He has been an Entrepreneur and Investor. PRODUCT SERVICES Full truck/trailer Load (FTL), Part Truck express (PTL), Odd dimension Project Transportation, Movers & packers, Project Logistics, EXIM, Ocean & Air Freight as core product offering and other value-added services include Loading, Unloading, Coastal Shipping, Warehousing, Reefer, Insurance, Consulting. Valueshipr has various pricing models for different products. They charge a percentage of the Freight as commission as well as the ARR model for their SAAS offerings. TOUGH MARKET Since it’s a fragmented, unstructured and highly intermediated market, they have had their own share of challenges such as getting the workflows and pedigree established amongst the stakeholders at the beginning. They used a phase-wise and product vertical wise approach to test captive markets. They had their own fair share of learnings and pivots to get their act together and make meaningful inroads. The product-market fit has been established and customers love their offerings. TARGET AUDIENCE Target Group of clients are MSME cos, Large Cos, Freight Forwarders, NVOCCs, Warehousing cos, 3PL / 4PL Cos, Ecomm- cos, Chaz. ValueShipr has marquee clients that cut across sectors viz; Engineering, raw materials, plastics, Machine tools, pharma, FMCG, IT peripherals and Agro sectors. Some clients include Mahindra, Mala Foods, Jain Farm Fresh, Panalpina, Agility, VVF, etc FUTURE GOALS They believe they have covered a fairground, led a capital-efficient growth with the product platform, offerings and distribution with their bootstrapped funds available at their disposal. They are ambitious and want to expand, replicate the distribution reach to at least over 250+ cities and Industrial clusters and establish a formidable franchise and hence are in the process of seeking investments for growth. https://www.valueshipr.com #DeckerLogistics #Logistics #Valueshipr #SupplyChain #Cargo #Warehousing

The roots of Hivve Creative Solutions are based on a problem the founder, Mr. Adnan M Alam had faced himself, with his first start-up, that small companies and start-ups do not have access to professional marketing agencies due to lack of resources and funds. Established as a solution, Hivve Creative Solutions was founded with a single goal in mind, help companies share their stories through branding, identity development, and Digital Marketing/ Advertising. FOUNDATION OF THE STARTUP The company was founded in May 2018 and is based out of Mumbai. Hivve is the brainchild of Mr. Adnan M Alam, who holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration Honours from Cambridge University, London. A Professional Web and Graphic Designer, Motivational Speaker and a professor of Digital Marketing, Web Design and Entrepreneurship at several well-known institutes, he is an all-rounder that is conquering it all one step at a time. Hivve is a play upon the word 'Hive' which is indicative of a well-built network used by worker bees. The same philosophy is followed by Hivve Creative Solutions where the aim is to connect the right people through Design, Strategy, and Marketing. Hivve Creative Solutions comprises of a small yet powerful team of Designers, Writers, and Marketers who create powerful brand identities and marketing campaigns through design and storytelling. Hivve works closely with its clients, delivering constant work updates and feedback which helps in creating a very customized and personal marketing solution for every client, based on their current needs. PRODUCT SERVICES Hivve Creative Solutions offers the complete suite of Marketing solutions which include Digital Marketing, Digital Advertising, Social Media Marketing, Branding, and Brand Identity Development, Media Planning and Buying, Brand Management, etc. In terms of Digital Design and Development, a full suite of services are available which cover website design and development, app development and Content Production. Hivve Creative Solutions follows a flexible pricing model based on the needs of the client, but services start at INR 25,000. TOUGH MARKET What differentiates Hivve from its competitors is the way they operate. Following a core culture of delivering more than what is promised, through which they add a very personal and committed touch to each project that is undertaken by the organization. Another unique selling point for Hivve Creative Solutions is the flexible and competitive pricing structure which enables even the smallest of business or start-ups to get access to professional marketing and advertising services. During the first year of operation, Hivve had been actively working with the then recent start-ups in several different market niches. Some of their clients include ->Spreading Bliss Foundation - NGO, ->JobTalk - Online Learning and Development Platform, ->Swing of Life Foundation - NGO, ->Auto Assist - Automotive startup in UAE, ->Upstacle - Women Empowerment Blog ->Aiming Darts - Corporate Service Providers ->Digital Culture Institute - Institute of Digital Learning Hivve Creative Solutions faces tough competition from other well-established marketing agencies who have captured most of the market share and market penetration for the company is slowly but quite steadily increasing. FUTURE GOALS Hivve is a self-funded company. In the journey so far, the most memorable moments have been when clients had started generating revenue or securing new leads, prospects, and customers through Hivve’s intensive marketing and branding solutions. Their future goals are focused upon up-scaling and securing more international clients and hopefully larger companies. #Hivve #CreativeSolutions #Marketing #DigitalMarketing #SocialMedia #branding #BrandIdentity #MediaPlanning

EarlySalary Before inception of EarlySalary, there was a large credit undeserved population in India. The founders realised, easily accessible financial assistance was non-existent for young professionals and job beginners. They experience month-end cash crunch and due to lack of credit-score knowledge, they are unable to borrow money from the traditional credit facilities available. FOUNDATION OF THE STARTUP EarlySalary was founded in 2015 and is based out of Pune. Akshay Mehrotra, the Co-Founder and the CEO of EarlySalary chose Pune to launch his own start-up for a number of reasons. Firstly, being close to Mumbai, they get access to the best financial insights. Secondly, operational expenditure is 30 percent lower than Bengaluru-based startups. And finally, as their employees say, Pune offers them a better lifestyle, where they can manage with low rentals and stay close to the workplace, commute time is less and still enjoy all facilities like other metro cities, Choosing Pune has proved worthwhile when on a monthly basis, the company contributes almost Rs 35 crore to the balance sheet. Moreover, performance wise the company has disbursed 9L loans amounting to Rs 1,500 crores, which further proves Pune is an emerging startup hub and has a huge potential to grow. THE GOLDEN TEAM Akshay Mehrotra is the Co-Founder and CEO of EarlySalary, India’s largest consumer lending application. Ashish Goyal is the Co-Founder and CFO of EarlySalary; India’s largest consumer lending application. He oversees the overall strategic direction of EarlySalary. PRODUCT SERVICS EarlySalary is a mobile-based app that helps young professionals with Instant cash, Salary advances and other EMI options. Unlike, traditional credit facilities, EarlySalary charges much less interest rates, i.e., starting 2.5% TOUGH MARKET EarlySalary differentiates itself by focusing on solving a singular problem faced by its core TG – young salaried working professional. It introduced the concept of instant digital Salary Advance for the first time in the country. The company also provides flexible loan amounts starting from ₹ 5000 to ₹ 2, 00,000 on various loan categories – Shopping, Travel, Education, Medical etc. EarlySalary also serves as Financial Wellness Partners for more than 300+ companies and employees. Yes, there are competitors but EarlySalary leads from the front and continues to stem on its growth focus. The company is dedicated to solve specific problems faced by their customers and going deeper in building products to help many more customers. Today, while they are leaders in the digital salary advance and instant loans space, they have also integrated into many company’s HR systems to help even first jobbers and Blue-Grey Collar employees borrow instantly. Focusing on consumer credit needs has helped the company build additional products like EMI Credit for Shopping and Travel with leading online partners with No-Cost EMI offerings. Also, with a special focus on Education and Skill upgradation EarlySalary has introduced education loans on the app. FUTURE GOALS EarlySalary’s TG of young working professionals is the fasted growing segment in the country and hence would like to build EarlySalary as a market leader in this category. And in next 3 years, they aim to build a billion dollar balance sheet. https://www.earlysalary.com #earlysalary #salary #InstantCash #EMI #AdvancesSalary

The business world today runs on sales. Sales is the bread and butter of corporate offices and businesses. It is the oxygen needed for any business to survive and thrive! However, many organizations lack salespeople who are updated with their sales game and Sales5X helps to bridge this gap. A sales training and consultation firm, Sales5X helps small and medium businesses increase their sales by offering sales training for their sales staff ranging from prospecting, qualifying, pitching, handling objections, closing the deal, nurturing, asking referrals and upselling. A rigorous training process with a promise of successful results has resulted in many business owners seeking out help from Sales5X. The company was founded by Anmol Garg and Joseph Dass, each of them having worked intensely in the field of sales with the latter having an experience of over 25 years and the former, having an inspirational tale from being a software engineer to a sales engineer! Joseph Das has done it all, a master of all trades, sales-related, he started his career in sales by selling vacuum cleaners door to door in the 90’s. He then became a sales manager at Samsung working in both B2C and B2B markets for 10 years. Then he took over as VP, Sales at Eurostar, managing a team of over 300 members across 5 countries. Anmol, a connoisseur in the field of sales is capable of even “selling ice to an Eskimo.” A digital marketer by passion, Anmol has worked with and helped over 35+businesses with their sales and marketing strategies. Being a popular anchor across India, having hosted 500+ corporate & social events, he has mastered the art of building rapport with a huge audience within 30 seconds, improvising on the spot & influencing people - all essentials skills for a great salesperson! As successful as Sales5X has become, the founders have talked about challenges that business owners typically face with their sales teams. Speaking on the same, Joseph says, “Lot of salespeople in these businesses don’t come from a sales background, hence the lack the ability to engage with the customer. They might be able to do a great presentation but are completely clueless on how to close the deal. They are unable to handle customer objections.” On handling and guiding new age business owners, they have found them struggling to create a growth roadmap and executing it. Though business owners have shown their capability, having come as far as they have today, it takes understanding strategy and well-planned execution of sales plans to take the next step of growth. Entrepreneurs are unable to come up with a winning digital marketing strategy and therefore have issues with leveraging the opportunities available online. Without a healthy pipeline, poor conversion rates are the norm. Currently, Sales5X claims to have trained over 6000 sales professionals and has been credited to have effectively transformed 200 businesses. Recently featured on All India Radio, they were called out for sharing some of the best practices in sales and how to do sales in the 21st century! With services being offered both online and offline and putting out free webinars every Thursday evening, they are continuously helping corporates & businesses achieve their high sales targets! https://www.sales5x.com/ #Sales5X #sales #salestraining #Consultation #B2B #B2C

Cabs providing intercity transport? Check. Food delivery options across the country? Check. Efficient intercity logistics? Still under development. It is this market that attracted entrepreneurs and husband-wife duo, Amarjeet Singh and Sangeeta Yadav set out to utilize this gap and establish Portflip. Drawn along the same lines of functioning as any other app-based transport, Portflip provides truck booking services for means of transportation in Mumbai and Pune. Customers can simply book a truck, either through a phone call or on their website or Android app, track its location and status and have options of either directly paying the drivers or paying online. The platform is only a facilitator bridging the gap between customers and truck drivers, owning none of the vehicles partnered with them. With over 20,000 downloads on the Google Play Store, the company has a separate app for its driver-partners that enable them to decide their working hours and accept trip requests. Portflip founders claim that “driver-partners are on-boarded only after thorough vetting.” “Initially, we did research and development and studied the market for over six months. We faced issues and challenges in getting the right skill set to execute our vision, getting partners adapted to use technology, training them, and maintaining the supply as partners can log off from their devices, leading to a lot of rejections for customers,” Sangeeta says. Facing funded players in Intracity logistics like Tim Draper backed Blowhorn, HipShip, etc, Portflip refuses to be fazed. With a mission to “create a logistics system through innovation, dedication, and technology”, the duo concentrated in constructing a business model and recruiting employees that can understand, positively contribute to the same as well as come up with creative solutions to overcome challenges. Currently, a team of eight, the founders claim that the app completes a total of 350 orders in a month and earns a revenue of Rs 40 to Rs 50 lakh. An important aspect of their business model is to build strong working relationships with every participant in their professional vicinity. The Portflip team holds regular meetings with investors, partners and clients to take into consideration opinions, views and suggestions and working to incorporate them into the company. Based on a commission-based revenue model, their key clients include mostly rental furniture-based companies, FMCG, industrial and petroleum goods and products. Creating an “efficient, sustainable and reliable solution”, Potflip is all set to innovate their way through to the top of the transportation game. http://www.portflip.com/ #Portflip #truckbooking #driver #bookingServices