[WATCH] The week that was: from Bengaluru’s rise in startup power to why founders push boundaries in tech

Continued research shows that a better quality or productivity of your day depends on how you devote your mornings. The daily commute to work, often tagged by procrastinates and stress, isn’t the best way to maximise your morning time and can fully thwart your plans for the day.

Keen to change this is Bengaluru-based two-wheeler rental startup Ontrack Technologies. Incepted in 2016 in the classrooms of Christ College, Bengaluru, Ontrack aims to provide users with an agile, speedy, and more independent mode of transportation.

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Ontrack entered the B2C monthly rental seat in 2017, and claims to manage the fourth-largest fleet in the country. It also has a B2B sit, partnering with Swiggy and Nestaway.

Harshit Sonthalia, a BBA student of Christ College, wanted to own a bicycle. His requirement was not for the excite of flexibility, but alone to escape Bengaluru’s loathsome transaction. But he neither had the money to purchase a bike or to regularly splurge on cabs and meter-less vehicles.

” My personal striving and excursion floors of my peer batchmates made me realise how we were all in the same boat ,” Harshit says.

OnTrack founders

He soon persuasion his father to buy him a bike and decided to rent it out to his friends. Word soon started spreading across campus, and Harshit persuasion his father to buy him another scooter. One bike became two, and today, along with Co-founder Vansh Jain, he has built a fleet of 1,500 two-wheelers in Bengaluru. Read their floor now.

Moving on to a startup represent gesticulates with its AI platform.

Observe.ai Co-founder Sharath Keshava was working out of Manila, in the Philippines, which is considered the BPO capital of the world. The obviou problem word with bellow cores was latency when it came to driving faster and better customer experience and the classic machine-replacement phenomenon.

Founded in May 2017 by Akash Singh, Sharath Keshava, and Swapnil Jain, Observe.ai empowers announce centre workers to do their jobs better. Its articulate AI platform provides the worker with real-time feedback on customer sentiment and navigates them on the next best action during a customer call.

L to R – Swapnil Jain, Akash Singh, Sharath Keshava, co-founders, Observe.ai

The startup claims to have developed a machine capable of analysing 100 percent of customer exchanges, to generate better business outcomes. Though headquartered in California, Observe.ai has an office in Bengaluru .

Startups outings are often highly inducing since they are tell us a floor of how solving for real-life questions can help them affected jackpot. This legend pertains to blue-collar workers.

Kunal Patil, an NYU Stern School of Business graduate, had expended more than a decade in financing bank and financial services before starting WorkIndia. And, like most good inventions, this too was born out of necessity. Sometime in 2015, Kunal was on the lookout for data entry freelancers in Mumbai, and it turned out to be a struggle. Despite portals like BabaJobs and Quikr Jobs, undertaking uncovering and recruitment in the blue- and the grey-collar segment was largely broken.

This was primarily because unlike the white-collar workforce that relied on job places, online ads, and other formal sources for information, blue- and grey-collar craftsmen were dependent on informal remarks from friends or home. There was no organised platform that have been able to accord these task seekers with relevant recruiters and opportunities. WorkIndia set out to fix this problem for a blue/ gray collar economy that is said to be the largest in the world .

And our Techie Tuesday of the week was a onetime CTO of Rivigo, the Gurugram-based billion-dollar logistics startup.

” When one lists an expectancy, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Thus, it is always better to strive high and miss, than aim low-spirited and made ,” says Qasim Zaidi.

Starting his outing from Aligarh Muslim University, Qasim has worked with unicorns such as Paytm and Indonesia-based Tokopedia. He last-minute joined assembling Rivigo but cease the company in search of better openings.” I ever swopped organisations at unpredictable terms. I discontinue Paytm when it got funded by Alibaba; left Tokopedia after a year it became unicorn; and more recently, Rivigo. People often questioned my decisions, but I believe the best time to quit is when one is at the heyday of their carry-on ,” he says.

Qasim Zaidi, former CTO at Tokopedia and Rivigo

From brazen decisions by endowed techies to a deep-dive into why startups still adore Bengaluru. One of our reporters extended onward and discovered how a neighbourhood is reshaping itself as a centre for startups.

Bengaluru, India’s startup uppercase, is home to more than 5,234 startups, a report by TiE-Delhi-NCR and Zinnov territory last September. Its classy community, Koramangala, was once crucial for the startup ecosystem in India. With young techies, affordable inns, and suites turned into office gaps, Koramangala indicated everything that a startup universe would look like. Further, Koramangala formerly housed India’s most successful startup story – Flipkart.

Today, Koramangala’s fintech street boastings Instamojo, Paytm Money, PhonePe, Cashfree, Slice, furniture rental startup Furlenco, and coworking infinite WeWork. However, 10 times down the thoroughfare, Koramangala is less desirable by budding entrepreneurs.

Identified with maddening traffic, broken roads, and cramped up structures, in the last five years, the startup ecosystem has gradually started moving to the neighbouring HSR Layout.

Finally, a startup story that endorses health snacking, right at a time when we are revisiting fitness points. But as it always croaks every year, most of us give up within the first few weeks, because, let’s face it, for how long can apple slices and accost tea slake our evening-time hunger stings?

Amar Choudhary, Founder of Chakhna Shot

Chakhna Shot wants to tell you that your 4pm pick-me-up needn’t be so drab. Operating under mother fellowship Belly Fit F& B, the Gurugram-based startup was founded in October 2018 by IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus Amar Choudhary to provide healthy snack alternatives that don’t save on appreciation.

The startup was recently selected for Amazon’s Launchpad programme, a stage by the ecommerce giant that showcases cutting-edge produces of innovative startups.

” On doing some experiment I found out that healthful snacking was limited to the premium segment. Cracking into the mass segment is what I aspire for. I believe that irrespective of the buying power, every individual should get access to good snacks ,” says Amar.

( Edited by Evelyn Ratnakumar)

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