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VG Pitch of the week
VG Pitch of the week, a closed-door, invite only, online pitching session where our selected startups pitch to Early-stage Investors to raise funding. This is a deep dive session to unpack the company’s story in greater detail and focus on a single startup. What to …
91Squarefeet (Earlier Rolling Banners)
A plug-n-play Expansion Solution for Brick& Mortar retailers.
Fund Raise: $1mn in pre-seed funding from Omphalos Ventures India, Nikhil Vora of Sixth Sense Ventures, VG-Angels & others. Read full news here
Sectors: SOFTWARE/SAAS, RETAILS, ENTREPRISE TECH
Think of us like a LivSpace for B2B. We are digitising the retail fit-out supply chain so that expanding retailers can launch new stores at the click of a button. We have built a project management platform where brands can seamlessly collaborate with the suppliers of retail fitouts and speed up their expansion.
OPPORTUNITY
Indians are now seen competing and winning across sports disciplines. Sport has entered mainstream popular We are solving the expansion problem for retail chains in India. Since liberalization of FDI norms in 2012, the organised retail stores have tripled in volume. However, opening new stores is a big hassle for most companies as the retail fit-out ecosystem, and project management around that, is all unorganized leading to huge delays, budget overruns and large amounts of pilferage.
For brands, it is generally inconvenient and uneconomical to develop indigenous competencies of developing new stores. We are liberating brands from this hassle and levelling the playing field for new entrants. If not for us, brands must do this themselves or rely on local contractors.
We have a tech+service model wherein we take over the entire store development operations from a brand and report the performance via a project management dashboard. We have enabled AI in project management.
TEAM:
CO-FOUNDER & CFO: Civil Engineering graduate and worked as a structural designer for WSP on projects across Scotland, Britain, and UAE. He also worked with India’s biggest fashion retail chain, Madura Garments.
CO-FOUNDER & CFO: IIT Roorkee Mechanical Engineer who worked in operation with Reliance. He has also worked in Snap Deal in the supply chain division.
CO-FOUNDER & COO: Civil Engineer from IIT Delhi and worked as MEP consultant at WSP.
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VOICEOC
Voiceoc has raised an angel round from United States based accelerator Expert Dojo & prolific angel Kishore Ganji from Astir Ventures. Voiceoc also gets shortlisted by Expert Dojo for their Startups Programme. Read full news here Interested in Investing
Kraken
In March 2014, Kraken received $5M Series A Investment. Further, in Feb 2019, Kraken had announced that it raised $100M in a direct offering at $4BN valuation. Kraken is backed by Money Partners group, Hummingbird Ventures, Blockchain Capital and Digital Currency group among others Interested …
People.Ai
People.ai is an industry leading ROI (Revenue Operations and Intelligence) platform. Using patented AI technology, it transforms business activity data into recommendations that increase the impact of Sales, Marketing, and Operations. Companies such as Zoom, New Relic and PTC rely on People.ai to increase marketing ROI and grow revenue. The company has 39 patents and has an additional 51 under review.
Headquartered in San Francisco, People.ai is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital (Marc Zuckerburg is an LP), Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Clients: 180+ including Verizon, Zoom, Oracle, Veritas, PTC, Zendesk, IBM< Slack, Twilio etc
Funding History: In August 2016, they raised an angel round followed by Series A ($7M) in May 2017, Series B ($30M at $100M valuation) in October 2018 and Series C ($60M at $400M valuation) in July 2019
Jobsgaar
India’s first district level job search platform that connects workforce with job opportunities at the source location, enabling them to find district level jobs (100-120KM Radius). Jobsgaar launched in Jul’2020 and has achieved the following in less than 2 months. Jobsgaar looks to– Onboard employer & …
Kaustuv Ghosh
Kaustuv Ghosh
Currently working as Managing Partner – XL Ventures
Kaustuv has spent over two decades building businesses out of new technologies. Among many firsts, he brought natural language-based messaging to Asian banks, mobile news on demand to Indian audiences and Host Card Emulation to the APACEMEA region. He has designed, built and sold products especially in but not limited to, the payments domain. Blockchain, Host Card Emulation, Card Issuing and Processing, Remittance, Lending, Prepaid Billing and Stored Value Wallets.
Expertise: Payments, Enterprise software, crypto.
Work Experience: He is an alumnus of NDTV, NETS, Sybase, Sinar Mas and Orga Systems. Started and ran NDTV digital and FM radio business profitably; Mobile 365 India business from dining table, launching MSN Messenger Indiawide and acquired key wins(Justdial, ICICI Bank, Bank of Baroda, United Bank of India, Cricinfo, TV18) ; first NL sales to enterprises and a bank in Asia ex Japan(Babak Hodjat’s Answers Anywhere); rescued a prepaid telco billing and m-commerce op(Sinar Mas, Indonesia); 1st HCE deploy/deals outside Americas(ASB, leading Thai bank); 1st straight thru processor for SMEs on blockchain(signed up key accounts in India and Malaysia).
Location: Singapore
Educational Background: He is a graduate of NUS, MICA and Calcutta University.
FLO MOBILITY
At Flo Mobility, we are building an autonomous tech stack that can be applied to two wheelers, delivery bots and other use cases where slim and sleek bots need to navigate in crowded, unstructured environments.