Benchmark is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that provides seed money to startups.
TechCrunch is an American online newspaper focusing on high tech.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments in the enterprise technology and consumer space. To date, the firm has backed more than 300 companies, including Snapchat, DoubleClick and AppDynamics.
Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies.
HomeAway was a vacation rental marketplace. It operated through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offered rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses.
Path was a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices that was launched in at the date 14 November 2010. The service allows users to share up to a total of 50 contacts with their close friends and family. Based in San Francisco, California, the company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin.
Zoomcar, is an Indian self-drive car rental company, headquartered in Bangalore, India. The company was founded in 2013 by David Back and Greg Moran. As of April, the company operates in 45 cities across the country.
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.
Ola Cabs is an Indian ridesharing company offering services that include vehicle for hire and food delivery. The company is based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India and was developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of October 2019, Ola was valued at about $6.5 billion A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.
Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures.
Paytm is an Indian e-commerce payment system and financial technology company, based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Oyo Rooms, also known as Oyo Hotels & Homes, is an Indian hospitality chain of leased and franchised hotels, homes and living spaces. Founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal, OYO initially consisted mainly of budget hotels. The startup expanded globally with thousands of hotels, vacation homes and millions of rooms in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China, Brazil, Mexico, UK, Philippines, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, the United States and more.
Greg Isenberg is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is best known as a technology startup thought leader and the founder of the Webby award-winning 5by, a video discovery platform acquired by StumbleUpon in 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
Square Yards is a technology that enables transaction platform. It owns and operates the real estate aggregation and transaction portal squareyards.com and Square Connect mobile app for property brokers. The company claims to be the #1 pan-India distributor by revenues for primary residential real estate in India, and virtual monopoly in key NRI markets. It aggregates 6000 realty projects of around 500 developers and builders and distributes around 27,000 different configurations of homes. It also has a network of 15,000 brokers in 31 cities in India and overseas.
Faasos is an Indian "food on demand" service that was incorporated in 2011. It is one of the brands owned by the online restaurant company, Rebel Foods.
Furlenco is an Indian online furniture rental platform that was incorporated in 2012.
BYJU’S - The Learning App is an Indian educational technology (edtech) and online tutoring firm founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran at Bangalore. In September 2020, it was the world's most valued edtech company with a valuation of $11.1 billion. Byju's claimed on 27 May 2020 that they had gained ₹2,800 crore revenue in FY20.
Meesho is an Indian-origin social commerce platform founded by IIT Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal in December 2015. It enables small businesses and individuals to start their online stores via social channels such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad - Solve for India program. In June 2019, Meesho became India’s first startup to receive investment from Facebook.
Swiggy is India's largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform founded in 2014. Swiggy is based in Bangalore, India, and as of March 2019, was operating in 100 Indian cities. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries under the name Swiggy Stores.
MyGate is a company that makes a security and community management app. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, the company was founded in 2016 and has operations across 18 cities in India.
