Inspiring Startups

The penetration of smartphones in India is growing at a rapid pace and according to various media research reports, India consists of second largest user base of smartphones. In past few years, the app economy has witnessed a key transformation in the delivery of digital services and frequent innovations. With the fastest growing smartphone and internet users, India is all set to become one of the primary app development markets.  National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has already initiated a startup program to launch around 10, 000 startups within the country to accelerate the mobile app ecosystem. Speaking about the development in app ecosystem, Ambika Sharma, Founder & MD, Instappy said, “India has moved swiftly towards digital and businesses are now looking at mobile to get incremental as well as sustained relationships with their customers, apps as compared to the web provide stronger incremental purchase from customers, higher engage...

Behind the scene It’s quite surprising that after building a successful facilities management company, Vineet Pandey and Vishal Panchal launched RaghuKaka an online marketplace for home and lifestyle services. The main object of RaghuKaka is to set standards, use technology and years of honed processes to make hiring services as easy and reliable as buying products from eCommerce. The reason behind this move is very simple and obvious too that owing a venture that employs over 700 skilled professionals for the corporate sector is easy, but whenever they looked to hire local service providers for household requirements, they were frustrated dealing with the unorganized options available.  Speaking about the idea behind RaghuKaka, Vineet Pandey, Co-Founder & CEO, said, “We realized that this was a big opportunity and the capability we had in delivering complex corporate facility solutions could be migrated to the retail sector as well. Raghukaka is an endeavour to brin...