Times Internet is an Indian internet technology company, based in Gurgaon, which owns, operates and invests in various internet-led products, services and technology. It is the digital arm of the Times Group, the largest media conglomerate in India. Times Internet currently owns and operates 39+ digital products across news, sports, music, video, trivia, spirituality and a suite of transaction-led market-places across real estate, personal finance, education, jobs, table reservation, etc.
The economy of Bengaluru contributes over 43.65% to the economy of the State of Karnataka, accounting for 98% of the Software Exports of the State.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm focusing on multi-stage investments in the enterprise technology, consumer, and health sectors. Over the past two decades, the firm has backed companies such as Snapchat, Affirm, MuleSoft, and AppDynamics.
Quikr, is an Indian online marketplace and classified advertising company, based in Bangalore, India. It founded by Pranay Chulet. Quikr has listings in over 1000 cities in India in categories such as mobile phones, household goods, cars, real estate, jobs, services and education. It was founded by Pranay Chulet and Jiby Thomas in 2008. Quikr is a free classifieds and online marketplace that helps users to sell, buy, rent, or discover anything across India.
InMobi is an Indian multinational mobile advertising technology company, based in Bengaluru. Its mobile-first platform allows brands, developers and publishers to engage consumers through contextual mobile advertising.
Freecharge is an Indian financial services company based in Gurgaon. It allows users to pay bills such as electricity, gas and telephone, as well as recharge mobile, broadband, DTH and metro cards. In addition, it enables the users to invest in mutual funds and get credit through Freecharge EMI.
RadPad was a photo-based mobile application for renters. Radpad's assets were acquired by the owners of LandlordStation on December 31, 2016. As of October 2016, renters could no longer pay rent through the app however Pay With Radpad was relaunched under the new ownership in March 2017. RadPad became the largest rental service in Los Angeles, the second-largest rental market in the country, in March 2014. RadPad also offers additional real estate products such as renters insurance, credit reporting, and lease signing.
CapitalG is a private equity firm under Alphabet Inc. Founded in 2013, it focuses on larger, growth-stage technology companies, and invests for profit rather than strategically for Google. In addition to capital investment, CapitalG's approach includes giving portfolio companies access to Google's people, knowledge, and culture to support the companies' growth and offer them guidance.
Housing.com is a Mumbai-based real estate search portal which allows customers to search for housing based on geography, number of rooms, and various other filters. The company has 6,000 brokers and serves 40 cities in India including Chennai, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Delhi.
Paytm is an Indian multinational technology company that specializes in digital payment system, e-commerce and financial services, based in Noida. Paytm is currently available in 11 Indian languages and offers online use-cases like mobile recharges, utility bill payments, travel, movies, and events bookings as well as in-store payments at grocery stores, fruits and vegetable shops, restaurants, parking, tolls, pharmacies and educational institutions with the Paytm QR code. As of 2020, Paytm is valued at US$16 billion, making it one of the highest valued fintech companies in the world.
Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He started online real-estate portal Commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for CommonFloor as well as delivering on company goals. On 7 January 2016, the classifieds advertising platform Quikr announced that they acquired CommonFloor. After 1 year of acquisition, Sumit moved out of Quikr. In July 2017, Sumit along with Co-Founder Ashwani Jain launched Opentalk, a social voice app aimed to help users become better at speaking English by talking with other English speakers. Sumit is now the Co-Founder & CEO of Graphy.com, a platform to help the creators grow their audience, monetize their skills, and host live cohort-based courses.
Alfred, also known as Hello Alfred, is a resident management software application that enables real estate developers and property managers to provide in-home services and experiences to their residents. Residents in Alfred buildings are assigned a personal home manager, or Alfreds, who are W-2 company employees, and can make requests in the company's app. The Alfred platform integrates with Real Page, Yardi and Entrata so that building management teams can operate their buildings through a single platform.
Startup India is an initiative of the Government of India. The campaign was first announced by Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi during his speech in 15 August 2015.
MapmyIndia is an Indian technology company that builds digital map data, telematics services, location-based SaaS and GIS AI technologies. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered at New Delhi with regional offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru and smaller offices across India. It also has international offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo.
Hello English is an English language-learning application, which allows users to learn the English language through interactive modules. It functions on a freemium pricing model. The app is available on Android, iOS, Windows and Web.
Compass, Inc. is an American licensed real estate broker that utilizes the Internet as a marketing medium with the use of real estate technology. Compass employs more than 25,000 agents who earn a percentage of the selling price and give a percentage of each commission to Compass, consistent with the traditional real estate brokerage business model. Compass specializes in high-margin, luxury homes in upscale markets. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York City. The company provides software to real estate agents. Compass is the first company to have built a proprietary mobile app for real estate agents.
BYJU'S is an Indian multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bangalore. It was founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. as of December 2021, BYJU'S is valued at US$18 billion and has over 115 million registered students.
Meesho is an indian e-commerce company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. It was founded by IIT Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal in December 2015. It provides an online platform for small businesses to sell their products to consumers as well as resellers who can resell the products via social channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
Dunzo is an Indian company that delivers groceries and essentials, fruits and vegetables, meat, pet supplies, food, and medicines in major cities. It also has a separate service to pick up and deliver packages within the same city. Dunzo currently provides its delivery services in eight Indian cities including Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Pune, Chennai, Jaipur, Mumbai and Hyderabad. The company also operates a bike taxi service in Gurgaon. Dunzo is headquartered in Bangalore and was founded in 2014 by Kabeer Biswas along with co-founders Ankur Agarwal, Dalvir Suri and Mukund Jha.
Stanza Living is the common brand name for Dtwelve Spaces Private Limited. It provides fully-managed shared living accommodations to students and young professionals. Founded by Anindya Dutta and Sandeep Dalmia, the company is present across 14 cities including Delhi, NCR, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Chennai, Coimbatore, Indore, Pune, Baroda, Vijayawada, and Dehradun, in India, with a capacity of 55,000 beds. Stanza Living is a technology-enabled housing concept which provides fully-furnished residences with amenities like meals, internet, laundry services, housekeeping, security and community engagement programmes. The company has an asset-light business model under which it engages in long-term lease agreements with property owners/developers, who convert their assets into shared living residences as per company guidelines. These assets are subsequently operated by Stanza Living.
