IIT ROORKEE START UPs Global Alumni Meet March 26, 2017
AAS VIDYALAYA Problem Being Solved 50% of children in India drop out after Primary due to various reasons. AAS (Anytime Anywhere School) will take the school TO them by providing education through a Real school experience albeit ONLINE using Smartphone as the key medium. https://spark.adobe.com/page/x0unyqddbuevg/ Conceptualization & Design Completed. Vendor to be finalized by Mar 17. Phase 1 to launch by June 17 Company incorporated as a PLC Tech Director & 3 Teachers on board Dummy classroom created in Mumbai to record sessions Friends & Family round underway Access to Charity schools to enroll children for POC Tie-up with Telecom Service Providers & Device companies (Greendust) to provide connectivity / device where required Scale up guidance & support Of course, Investments Vikas Kakwani 1993 EE Manuj Agarwal 1993 EE
Problem Being Solved Media space buying and selling is an unstructured, fragmented, inefficient and opaque ecosystem. Oi media will offer a transparent, efficient and reliable marketplace that reduces wastage of time, money and effort. Praphul Misra 1987, E&C 5 Products 37K+ TouchPoints 2K+ Stores 3K+ Outdoor Sites 77 Lakhs in 2016-17 from 12 paying customers 11 Member Team Based in Delhi NCR, with clients across North India & Middle East Raised 2+Cr in Seed Funding Current focus on increasing marketplace traction Hiring additional tech and business development resources Current office space sufficient for next level of growth INR 2 Crore Fund raising in progress Require connects with key decision makers in brands / agencies
Problem Being Solved Sauroville Tech P Ltd is a for-profit Social Enterprise to deliver significant Positive Impact on Bottom of Pyramid (BoP), while working in a sustainable for-profit mode, offering off-grid rooftop SOLAR, Solar Battery Charging Stations & EV (Electric Vehicle) products and solutions leveraging technology-based innovations. Traction: 21 distributors in 30 districts across 5 states Revenues: Rs 30 Lacs in 2015-16; Rs 48 Lacs in 2016-17 Team Size: 5 Geographic Presence: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, North East, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana Current Funding: Self-funded / Bootstrap Promoting Micro-entrepreneurs, VLE (Village Level Entrepreneurs) Incubation / Investments: At advance level talks with IIT Kanpur for govt-funded INVENT Programme Looking to join hands with Mentors, co-founders, experts with experience in Social Impact, Renewable energy, micro-finance & FMCD sector Founder / Director : Vinay Kumar Jaiswal IIT Roorkee, 1999, Computer Science & Technology
Problem Being Solved Improve the capacity utilization of manufacturing companies from 60 % to 90% by use of technology to address the chronic issue of capacity-order mismatch. 4000 registrations 6 Industrial Hubs Gurgaon. Faridabad, Manesar, Haridwar, Rohtak, Rudrapur Currently Boot Strapped, will be looking for funding in next quarter 22 Member Team All Engg. and MBA Live portal 1000+ new vendors every month enroll on the portal INR 5Cr Business Allocation every month Nitin Kumar 2003, Mech Alok K Sahu 2003, NIT Rourkela Target 1,000,000 Manufacturer Registrations in next 3 Years Target Cover Manufacturing Industry in China, Thailand, Bangladesh Need Mentoring for Scaling it up and handling Cross Cultural aspects
ADORAZ Problem Being Solved Helping Users purchase the best jewellery piece from a click of a button at the right price with confidence, by bringing the offline jewelers to the digital marketplace. Help Merchants increase visibility, reach and revenue, by quickly adopting the Digital platform Anurag Soni 2004, CSE We are currently in the pre-launch stage. 2 member team Operating out of Delhi Self-funded till now Sachin Kanaujia 2004, ECE Plan to launch in NCR region in the coming month Onboard 100+ merchants and 5000+ users by year end Expand to a 10+ member team by year end Looking for Mentoring, Investments and Office Space
www.jiyyo.com Problem Being Solved Millions of Patients and Thousands of HealthCare Providers are looking for a platform to discover each other. Jiyyo is a marketing platform for Hospitals/Labs/Chemists where patients can search for their medical needs and connect to providers. Brand New Product: Launched in March 2017 in Chandigarh 15 Hospitals and 50 Labs already marketing themselves on Jiyyo 4 Co-Founders Sid left Apple Inc, USA and moved to India for Jiyyo. $100K Angel Funding (USD) Looking for an Advisory Board Assistance on Marketing North India Expansion in next 12 months Setup Experienced Sales and Development teams Planning Series A Investment Round: Next 8-12 months Siddharth Angrish 2004, CSE Founder 2 Pic, (If IIT R) Atul Gupta 2005, CSE
Doxper Problem Being Solved Doctor don t TYPE. They WRITE. Doxper collects and instantly digitizes prescriptions and patient case history forms at the point of care using just Pen & Paper. Doxper completes care delivery ecosystem from there on! Shailesh Prithani 2005, CSE 300+ doctors. Thousands of prescriptions per month. Revenue generating all paid subscriptions Team size of 20+ Working in Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Pune, Mumbai & Bangalore We are Funded Won the MIT Solve challenge at UN HQ (New York) earlier this month Doubling team size in 3 months. More tech hiring Reach 2000 doctors in 1 year Tech innovation (Machine Learning & Deep Learning) Creating patents portfolio Looking out for more partners & mentors
Changing Ways Logistics Works Technology enabled aggregation; bringing efficiency, convenience and transparency to long haul logistics. It aims at creating India s first Single Window Logistics Ecosystem 16,000 Metric Tons transported, 400+ vendors, 100+ clients Booked Freight INR 2.8 Cr 15 member team Rajasthan & Gujarat, Delivers across India Angel funded B2B Intercity Siddharth Jain 2007, MIED Planning to cover North-West corridor in 2017 Facilitate selling new and used Trucks Looking to raise another round of investment siddharth@vaahika.com
The Great Indian Film & Literature Festival Crux GIFLIF is world s first and only Film and Literature Festival, launched (in Dec 2015) with the intent to provide a platform to independent film-makers and authors to showcase their talent. Karan Kukreja 2009, Mech. 2 running annual chapters Gurgaon (Dec: 2015 &2016), and Bhopal (Sept 2016). Attended by more than 35000 people and reached out to approx. 4 crore people via print & digital mediums. Net value invested via sponsors and partners in 3 editions is INR 2.31 crore. Next edition planned from 04-06 Aug 2017 in Bhopal. Future Plan To launch GIFLIF corner, which would be promoting independent artists and would be conducted PAN India, and conduct 5 editions of it in 2017. Create rich online video content of the events and promote them on youtube channel GIFLIF Official. To reach a registered online user base of 1 lakh in the year 2017.
Grinntech Motors & Services (P) Ltd. Problem Being Solved Help electric vehicle market scale by developing cost optimized Lithium Ion Smart Energy Storage Solutions Design in India for Indian needs: Prevent over design; Reduce cost Modular Structure : Zero development Cost for custom applications Very low cost as compared to imported lithium battery packs Puneet Jain Chemical, 2009 Integration testing with light e-vehicle OEMs Started generating revenue from FY 16 17 Office in Dehradun, Noida and Chennai Bootstrapped by founders Technology Development Collaboration with CBEEV, IIT M Helping government with specifications & standards Setup of Production line Production capacity of 60 MWHrs battery packs Raising Funds for production line setup Develop advance energy storage solutions for Buses & Trucks Nikhilesh Mishra Mechanical, 2009
Trainman Problem Being Solved Complex Railway system accompanied by long waiting list for a journey, huge train delays and inconvenience in accessing railway information led to the birth of Trainman. Trainman provides Waitlist PNR confirmation prediction, Seat Availability, Offline Train Tracking and simplified access to railway information. Vineet Chirania 2010, CSE 2 Lac unique visits a day & more than a million app downloads on playstore Bootstrapped and is running profitable! 6 members (Including part time and full time employees) Head Office: Gurugram, India Selected under FB Start accelerate track in 2017 Plans to hire 4-5 people in next 6 months Will add in-train food booking facility through the app Looking for mentorship from our esteemed alumni Need support from Indian Railways and a viable regulation in favor of railway startups Founder 2 Pic, (If IIT R) Mohd Amir 2010, CSE Karan Attri 2011, EE
TBS Plant Augmented Reality Comics Problem Being Solved TBS Planet is an Augmented Reality Content Startup that develops technology enabled content across genres and age-groups. It has been official comics partners for Reliance Jio Chat and Bollywood movies like Shivaay and A Flying Jatt Rajeev Tamhankar M Tech Polymer 2012 Partner to Reliance Jio, Ajay Devgn Films, Balaji Motion Pictures. Shortlisted in Top 100 Startups of India by Times Now and ET Now. Comics Ved and 13 Days : #1 and #8 Amazon bestsellers Reach of 50 Offline Experience Zones (~500K footfall pm) Team Size: 10 members Geographical Presence: Located at Blr and Jabalpur. Sells throughout India Current Funding, if any: None. Starting CrowdFunding and Angel Round Hiring: Artists and Sales folks Mentoring: For expanding to other geographies and animated content generation Incubation / Investments: Looking for raising funds through crowdfunding and angel round Office Space: Have an office in Jabalpur and a warehouse in Bangalore
Problem Being Solved Make websites and apps 30-40% faster by auto-optimising images. Simplifying workflows around image transformations, storage, delivery and automated tagging 10+ paying customers $1000+ MRR 3 team members Working out of Altf Coworking, Gurgaon Bootstrapped Hire a tech guy (specifically Machine Learning) Ramp up sales now that basic systems are in place A small amount of investment to create a buffer for tech infrastructure Developing content and context aware intelligent image optimisations Founder 1 Pic Rahul Nanwani 2012, EE
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Fella Homes Problem Being Solved Fella Homes is a network of fully furnished homes and provides accommodation to the working professionals across NCR without brokerage. With Fella Homes one can enjoy the complete freedom from the insecurities of conventional home rental process. Digendra Rathore 2013, Mechanical Managing 200+ properties across NCR with 800+ people staying in them Team Size - 40+ Presence - Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida, Ghaziabad & South Delhi Funding - Raised Pre-Series A in April 2016 Focus is on generating more revenues and achieve operational break-even Looking to raise next round of investment in 2-3 months Yadwinder P. Singh 2013, Mechanical Founder 1 Pic Amit Gupta 2013, Electrical Virender P. Singh 2015, Chemical
Problem Being Solved (Spread Awareness in rural and urban areas regarding a problem that 36.7 % population is suffering but no established specialit. There by reducing deaths due to Colo rectal cancers by preventive health care practises, eliminating quacks and early diagnosis. ) <Bharat> 2013 & PEM 1 Centre in district place, 1 in bengaluru city(recently started) Around 2 M/ month INR from Rural and 0.5M/month from Urban 4 members working out of Karnataka Operating profit, hence self sufficient to run current centers Want to set up centres across South India in district places to concentrate rural population Expecting around 40M INR Many social initiatives like School intervention programs SWACH Bharat, etc part of the model to end Open Air Defecation
IoTrek Technology Pvt. Ltd. Problem Being Solved To organise and support huge number of Sensors & Use Cases in IoT domain; we are building An Integrated & Scalable IoT Network & Application Platform using LoRa Technology. 3 Pillars of our solution: Internet Connected Sensors, Wireless Network & Application Panel. Piyush Vishwakarma 2015, EE Paid Pilot Projects with TATA Communications and Intel Will start consistent revenue in Q1 2017. 8 members Team Operating out of Delhi Angel Funded. Top 10 IFDI 2.0 Competition. Kamran Alam 2015, ECE Business Sales Guy with Industry Level Expertise in IoT Forming board of advisors Raising next round of funding. Scale Ventures is taking lead. Prerak Ujgare 2016, EE
Start Ups incubated at and mentored by TIEDS TIEDS START UPs
Log 9 Materials. nannovating the world! Problem Being Solved Log 9 innovates and develops end user commercial applications of the wonder material 'Graphene'. We develop scientifically proven nano-technologies from the labs into commercially viable end products for industrial production. First Product Launched in the Market - PPuF Monthly Selling 15000 Pcs Team Size > 20 Geographic Presence: Roorkee, Delhi, Bangalore Angel Funded, Incubated at TIDES, IITR Akshay V. Singhal Meta, 2015 Sayantan Biswas Mech. Dropout Expanding R&D Team to 8 Setting up R&D base in Bangalore Licensing PPuF Technology to ITC, Phillip Morris Future Products: Water Purifier, Air Purifier, Etc.
Problem Being Solved Transport.co.in is an online and mobile marketplace to connect loads with goods carrier vehicles. Our comparison metrics help customers to select most relevant transporters for them and our lead generation technology in turn empower transporters and truckers with more business. Purvishkumar Patel M.Tech DMM, 14 Accelerated by CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad Incubated by TIEDS, IIT Roorkee Currently the startup is building supply-base and is doing extensive ground research of Road Transport Industry. Hire full stack developers Seeking mentoring from SME experts and Logistics Industry Would be happy to be introduced or referred with transporters and logistics companies around NCR. Smita Tank M.Tech Software Engineering, MS Ramaiah University, Bangalore
Contree Mobile based payment solution for college canteens and expense settlement platform for students. Founder 1 Pic Deepanshu 2015 Mech <Bullet Points Only> 12,000+ app downloads on Google Play Store 2.4 mn INR revenue generated till date Officially registered under Startup India Pan India app based presence Expanding to colllege canteen segment Founder 2 Pic, (If IIT R) Atul 2015 Mech Plan to capture Universities canteens across India Seeking Mentorship from alumni network Office located in Gurgaon and IIT Roorkee Campus Founder 3 Pic, (If IIT R) Mohit 2015 Elec
TM MadGuy Labs Problem Being Solved A platform that unites Students, Teachers and Coaching Institutes for various competitive and entrance exams, focuses on facilitating online learning, classroom program and regulating un-organized coaching industry. Alok Katiyar 2015, CHEMICAL 8 coaching on board Revenue- Rs.6 Lakhs with Rs.0 marketing expenditure since December 20 members team Operating out of Hyderabad Bootstrapped, Incubated at TIEDS Expending our operations in Lacknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra Enabling students to choose coaching institute on the basis of their performance in the various competitive exams. MadGuy Study Hub- To Provide students a common place where they can study from their favorite teachers. Looking to raise another round of investments. Sanjay Meena 2015 CHEMICAL NA Sonaal Topno 2015,GPT NA Vishal Meena Chemical 2016
Problem Being Solved Bridging the information gap between policy formulation and its implementation via providing simplified and aggregated information, leading to increased awareness and thereafter offering end to end services to citizens and businesses to avail govt benefits. Narayan S Rao 2005, ECE 60,000 monthly visitors with 300,000 page views on theindianiris.com Started generating revenue from Feb, 2017 10 members team Operating out of Delhi, NCR Angel Funded, Supported by CIIE, & Incubated at TIEDS Pawan K Panwar 2012, P&P Currently promoting GOIs Solar Mission, focusing on Roof Top Solar plants Expanding Campaigns in 50 Cities in one year Looking for Support from alumni in government Looking to raise another round of investments in 6-9 months
Student Startups / Ideas
Problem Being Solved SNAP is an optical imaging device which calculates the Concentration of Nitrogen in a leaf and determines the Optimum Fertiliser Inputs using a mobile application to Maximise Yield. Ankit Alok Bagaria B.Tech iii yr, Chem Provisionally Patented Prototype Validated for 150 Paddy crops samples with 86% correlation with the present methods SNAP App & Tasveer s Website under development Ekdeep S Lubana B.Tech II Yr, ECE Data Validation and Research for more crops Robust product development with better algorithms that calculates NDVI value Collaboration with Agtech Firms and organisations that support agriculture Collaboration with the Government Mentoring to develop as a start-up Incubation
PCSS IITR Problem Being Solved Inter university transportation, system. Public cycle sharing system for university campuses. Kuldeep Singh Mech, 2014-18 Product under review of college administration for implementation. Team of 4 member Prototype in development phase Rishabh Gupta Mech, 2014-18 Industrial collaboration for production Expansion in major north Indian campuses Product expansion for industrial workspace
Campus Friend Problem Being Solved A platform which brings together like minded people Recommendation system for campus related activities Recommendation of Elective Courses, Groups, Movies Elective course recommendation system completed Revenues: None Team Size: 5 Geographic Presence: ArIES, Hobbies Club, IIT Roorkee Current Funding: None Rahul Rata Mirdha EE, IV Yr Amit Manchanda ECE III Yr Hiring: No Mentoring: Yes Incubation/ Investments: Yes Office Space: No