Their bootstrapped brand sold 25,000 units on Flipkart in five days during the 2017 festive sale.
Estimates by retail consultancy Technopak suggest that direct subsidy to consumers because of e-commerce this year would be over Rs 12,000 crore.
From mass layoffs to acquisitions, here's how the Indian start-up industry kept us on our toes.
While JioMart is doing 250,000 orders per day, BigBasket and Amazon pantry are doing 220,000 and 150,000 orders, respectively.
With a new $100-billion technology fund, SoftBank is likely to go after market leaders.
Yuri Milner is focussing on on consumer-driven Internet start-ups.
Many small-scale start-ups are operational in this space for some years now. Larger players, too, seem to have realised the potential and are now entering into the fray, mostly through acquisitions.
Gits now has super food mixes like brown rice and flax seeds idli mix, oats idli mix and such other products. It has also launched an organic and vegan version of ready meals abroad. It also has an e-store, besides selling through Flipkart, Amazon and Big Basket.
Venture capital investments in India's start-ups nearly halved to $1.5 billion in fourth-quarter 2015
'Almost 75 per cent of our total sales come from the top 50 cities in India.'
Buying on the internet is the future but be wary of the fine print and make sure you get a genuine product.
The threat may be a decade away, but it has brick-and-mortar sellers rethinking their strategies and banking on the govt to regulate online companies.
Be cautious when purchasing from little-known Web sites.
The whole point about this is not who eventually wins or loses but how, in just a few years, technology has so changed our lives, says Subir Roy.
Estimates suggest about $100 million has been poured into these companies and a lot more is still to come.
SBI had a tough journey in the last 40 years.
Paytm is just embarking on building a TaoBao like entity in India, it may want to address a challenge that the latter faced a few years after its launch.
Stay ahead of the game; learn the tricks from Ecom king Jack Ma.
India'sstartups have a good beginning but will they survive competition is a big questions which needs immediate attention.
As we ring in the New Year we must recognise that 2015 promises to be a very exciting time for India.
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