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Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Last updated on: October 16, 2013 16:05 IST

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Yourstory.in has released its annual list of the 30 brightest and the most promising companies from India which made it to TechSpark's Top 30 this year.

One of India's leading platforms for entrepreneurs and start-ups Yourstory.in has come up with its annual list of the 30 most promising technology companies.

These companies were short listed from 800 applications received from across the country.

The Top 30 comprises an amazing list of companies and for the first time in the history of Tech30, the list includes a woman entrepreneur -- Aruna Schwarz of Stelae Technologies, a cloud based software solutions provider.

Read on to know what makes these companies special.

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Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: Agile CRM and GetActive
Photographs: Courtesy Agile CRM and GetActive

2mpower Health Management Services Pvt Ltd (GetActive)

2mpower Health Management Services' GetActive was born after three years of intensive research from people with more than 300 man years of experience in wellness, disease management, information technology, motion sensor applications and behaviour psychology.

It plans to address 60 per cent of total death toll worldwide today caused by lifestyle related health conditions.

That's 38 million lives, which are lost every year due to insufficient physical activity.

Agile CRM

Agile CRM is the next generation SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) CRM (Customer Relationship Management) service that comes integrated with marketing automation, social suite and web analytics.

It's marketing automation capabilities are useful for all businesses.

Whether you are selling to businesses or consumers, online or through other means -- Agile's campaign feature helps you be in touch with your contacts, know who is really interested and accordingly guide you to give VIP treatment to them.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: Avengersoft Solutions and Airwoot
Photographs: Courtesy Avengersoft Solutions and Airwoot

Avengersoft Solutions P Ltd

Avengersoft is a technology and IT enterprise headquartered in Cochin, Kerala.

They provide organisations with strategic insight, ability to integrate multiple activities of the office thereby increasing efficiency and flexibility.

The start-up's objective is to try and create a paperless office with seamless integration of all functions to bring in more transparency and faster information flow thus making the decision-making process faster.

Airwoot

Airwoot is a New Delhi-based social media listening and analytics start-up that helps businesses engage with their customers on social media and provide real-time customer support.

For the novice, Airwoot is for brands who're having a tough time listening to what users are throwing at them on social media.

There are appreciations, complaints, rants, SOS calls by thousands of social media citizens.

Manual sieving is not possible and this is where Airwoot intends to help by providing the brand with support so that it can prioritise and take the necessary action in real time.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: BrioTribes' Smart Platform and CentraLogic's Huhoka
Photographs: Courtesy Smart Platform and Huhoka

BrioTribes Technologies

BrioTribes Technologies develops a Saas framework for independent software vendors (ISVs) that help them Saas-enable their current product offerings, by addressing their Saas concerns out of the box.

It's called SMART and its stereotyping capabilities allows it to enable a rich feature list for products with no vendor lock-in. Thus developers can code only the required business functions.

CentraLogic Consultancy (Huhoka)

CentraLogic is a young and dynamic IT services company with the core objective of delivering value to its customers.

Their solutions and services are focused on providing a range of products and services across verticals using latest technologies.

Their product Huhoka, is an artificial intelligence-based comprehensive contacts management solution, which helps businesses tap potential leads from their existing contact base.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: CloudMunch and Dotmach
Photographs: Courtesy CloudMunch and Dotmach

CloudMunch

CloudMunch is democratising DevOps by providing a powerful, extensible, full stack platform to make continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure, fast and easy.

Their service lets software teams spend 100 per cent of their time focused on their application code and not managing/developing test environments, continuous integration servers, deployment, ongoing operations or trying to stitch together various tools for better quality and faster release cycles.

Focus on code, CloudMunch will do the rest.

Cloudion Technology (Dotmach)

Dotmach brings together your team content, tasks and strategies to a single place, where you can transform your work culture and achieve remarkable results.

With Dotmatch, you can stay connected to your team and organise workflow at one place to enhance your productivity by collaborating the resources available at hand.

It offers a virtual discussion platform across the organisation in order to facilitate real-time communication.

It lets all your team interact in real time and share knowledge and content.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: CollaborateCloud and Cooolio Online
Photographs: Courtesy CollaborateCloud and Cooolio Online

CollaborateCloud

Collaborate Cloud is a collaboration platform that focuses on communication, collaboration, productivity and workflow automation.

It allows an organisation to have all their employees, departments and business functions on a single common platform facilitating communication and collaboration.

The platform allows employees to interact in real time, conduct virtual meetings, collaborate on files, delegate tasks, manage events, track due dates and manage all their business functions by collaborating on relevant applications picked up from the cloud app store or built using the app builder.

Through CollaborateCloud, teams can set up workrooms and workflows to automate any internal process and can work the way the want.

Cooolio Online Pvt Ltd

Cooolio is an online portfolio company based in India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore.

It innovates, conceptualises and develops new age web and mobile-based technology applications.

Revolutionary products are built with an aim to take the web and mobile experience to new dimensions with the motto of "being amazingly simple yet highly functional".

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: Crayon Data and DeltaX
Photographs: Courtesy Crayon Data and DeltaX

Crayon Data

Crayon Data is focused on simplifying big data by providing clarity and simplicity in choice.

It believes that existing providers and technology approaches are vested in complexity.

The technology is simple. No black box, no complex proprietary stuff.

The WhiteBox platform they are building is a simple approach that tries to use the straightest route from data to results, from noise to signal.

They work with the latest and greatest in open source technologies and are building cool algorithms, in some cases with some really great external collaborators.

DeltaX

DeltaX offers digital media solutions for advertisers and their agencies to efficiently buy, track, attribute, optimise and report media across search, social media, display real time bidding, mobile, video and other media channels.

The company aims to give its customers "unprecedented ROI and Scale" through real-time optimisation of search, social and display campaigns.

Recently, DeltaX was named among the "Top 10 innovative digital start-ups to watch" at the Havas Demo Day hosted by Enternships.com.

They were also part of YourStory's CitySparks, a seven-city start-up event; DeltaX represented TechSparks Chennai.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

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Photographs: Courtesy Exploita Traveltech and Eye and Buy Retail

Exploita Traveltech Pvt Ltd

Exploita is a global marketplace for adventure, wildlife and off beat tours.

Since such travel is mostly dependent on local know-how and hobbyists dominate this industry, they decided to bring everyone together to a common place, making it easy for adventure freaks to find their next adventure while helping the adventure companies reach out to a wider audience.

Eye and Buy Retail Pvt Ltd

Eye and Buy is an e-commerce solution provider offering easy, cost-effective solutions.

Using their single-interface multi-purpose system, you can have complete control on the way you transact online.

Whether it is inventory management or order procurement, the power to seamlessly integrate various channels on which you sell will only prove beneficial for your business.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

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Photographs: Courtesy Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics

Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics

Flutura allows enterprise expertise to be fully maximised, no matter what domain they are in.

Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics is a boutique decision sciences and analytics company that specialises in machine- and human-generated Big Data, with a deep focus in the telecom, healthcare, utility and digital industries.

They aim to mould technology to fit your business needs by ingesting monstrous amounts of data, distilling key patterns, and providing actionable outputs.

In their own words, "we frame unanswered questions."

Gesture Research

Gesture Research keeps tab on assisting innovation savvy organisations to construct new and exciting encounters leveraging Microsoft's Kinect for Business and Hi-Tech Innovations.

They work together with clients around the globe to influence the Natural User Interface -- Kinect Experience as an essential component of their business and consumer applications.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

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Photographs: Courtesy GoToPal Internet and Gumption Labs

GoToPal Internet Pvt Ltd

GoToPal is an exclusive, round the clock, free of cost virtual personal assistant provided to you to manage your digital life.

It starts with waking you up, understanding your personal calendar, responding to your phone calls, taking appointments from callers and automatically blocking your free slots.

It also prompts you with reminders in the form of notifications / SMSes / calls, helps maintain your shopping list, hunt wishlist deals, answer knowledge questions and even helps you greet your friends and family on your behalf.

The way everything is carried out by GoToPal, it deserves to be termed your "Personal Assistant".

Gumption Labs

GumptionLabs is started by highly experienced software professionals with an excellent track record of building robust, scalable web and enterprise applications across different domains.

They have products like Traders Cockpit, which is a proficient equity market screener and an impressive analysis tool that helps retailers, analysts and traders in making informed trading decisions.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

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Photographs: Courtesy Madstreetden and Kallows Engineering

Madstreetden

Madstreetden aims to make machines more useful by making them a bit more human: fun, intelligent and relevant.

These machines will sense functions as babies, observe and play as youngsters, learn and change with you as they grow older.

The organisation currently delivers three categories of experiences for people around the world through its products.

They deliver fun and play, usefulness and convenience, and their products are helpful and revealing.

Someday in the near future, they hope to bring everyday objects to life.

Kallows Engineering India Pvt. Ltd.

Kallows was founded in Goa in 2007.

The founders of the company -- Gajanan Nagarsekar and Kevin Kreger -- started the company as a vehicle to teach students in Goa and to establish local expertise in embedded programming and mobile applications development.

The company has provided free educational services and technical presentations for Padre Conceicao College of Engineering (PCCE), Goa University, Rayeshwar Institute Of Engineering and Information Technology, and D-Link.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: kPoint Technologies and LoudCell Technologies
Photographs: Courtesy kPoint Technologies and LoudCell Technologies

kPoint Technologies

kPoint is a B2B solution provider in India with clients in the technical and manufacturing domain (for instance, Cognizant Technology Solutions in technology and Kirloskar in manufacturing).

Their products are targeted at companies that offer training to their employees and the clear mandate was to improve the internal know-how within a company.

kPoint's product has multiple features and some that can be easily understood includes the ability to search for things within a video by keywords (one can directly jump to the part they want to watch), record tutorials and keep it online for others to watch and simplify informal knowledge sharing.

LoudCell Technologies Pvt Ltd

LoudCell's vision is to save diesel cost and reduce wastage/inefficiency for diesel generator owners in India and other emerging economies.

They are a start-up with offices in California, Gurgaon and China.

LoudCell develops innovative and highly sophisticated technology to address the problems of fuel and energy wastage.

Its offerings are based on the core technology platform that delivers the most widely needed features for fuel and energy management at extremely low costs, and they are designed to be tamper-proof. 

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: Mango Man Consumer Electronics' teewe and MindArray Systems
Photographs: Courtesy teewe and MindArray Systems

Mango Man Consumer Electronics Pvt Ltd (teewe)

Mango Man Consumer Electronics is run by a bunch of young engineers who have worked in best technology start-ups (Zynga, Capillary etc) and have built variety of products --  from games to big data analytics products.

They believe that they are building a global product which can disrupt the way people consume content in their homes.

Currently, they are involved in the process of building 'teewe', a new kind of an entertainment device for TV.

MindArray Systems Pvt Ltd

MindArray is determined to create technologies that facilitate you to regain business agility.

Their product, the IT Performance Manager, according to them is the 'world's best monitoring product'.

They're based out of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and their solution aims to unify security, compliance and performance management activities, to create an all-in-one solution to monitor, manage and automate business processes.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

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Photographs: Courtesy spatial Ideas

Spatial Ideas

Spatial Ideas is dedicated towards building solutions which help better manage businesses' resources and greatly improve the ability to take well informed decisions.

Through this, they strive to ensure success of their clients.

They claim to be on the forefronts of the SoLoMo (Social, Location and Mobile) revolution and offer services in the space of social media engagement and analytics; and enterprise resource management and solutions.

Pervazive

Pervazive's products monitor, analyse, and (quite ingenuously) automatically repair not only telecom devices, but virtually any device with a digital heartbeat.

Their products are field-tested successfully across diverse systems, device landscapes, and geographical locations, which has helped position the company as a reputable innovator with one-of-a-kind market-disruption capabilities.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: Sollet Soft Solutions
Photographs: Courtesy Sollet Soft Solutions

Retigence Software LLP

Retigence Software's Retail Decision Support System (RDSS) provides powerful, easy-to-use ordering, reporting and analysis solution.

It provides flexible sales, inventory and purchasing analysis allowing retailers to easily measure performance indicator such as sales, purchase, inventory turn, gross margin at store, vendor level.

It can be used on standalone basis to improve availability of information to you so that you can make more informed and better decisions daily.

Sollet Soft Solutions Pvt Ltd

Sollet has industry experts building an enviable record of implementing highly innovative and leading edge solutions for large and small enterprises, government as well as private sector organisations.

It has wider industry exposure in the banking, telecom, insurance and IT sectors.

They provide a comprehensive range of products and services for the payment industry which is their primary focus area.

Top 30 emerging Indian tech start-ups

Image: MIBS and Stelae Technologies
Photographs: Courtesy MIBS and Stelae Technologies

MIBS

Mobilistic Innovative Business Solutions Private Limited (MIBS), is focused on providing global solutions in the area of supply chain management and mobility networks.

The company was incorporated in early 2010 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

MIBS has a team that has combined expertise in international freight forwarding and logistics.

Stelae Technologies

Stelae Technologies is a software vendor providing an automated conversion solution for multiple categories of content.

Their product Khemeia is a cloud-based technology which transforms unstructured information into structured enriched content ready for indexing.

This enables its users to provide their users with an enhanced search experience so that they can re-utilise their content for different output types including web, print and hand-held devices.