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by a business analytics company. For its founder, Dhiraj C Rajaram, it all started
because of three reasons: one, his unending urge to learn; two, to separate noise from
signals – in terms of information that comes to businesses in their day-to-day life.
And three, his belief that innovation in businesses is nothing but chance. Read the
story of his inspiring journey on YourStory..
14. The two PhD dropouts behind the social media and analytics startup
- Airwoot
Airwoot (http://www.airwoot.com/) is a New Delhi-based social media listening and
analytics startup founded by Saurabh Arora and Prabhat Saraswat. They met in 2008
at the Technical University of Denmark, pursuing Masters. Prabhat continued his
doctorate in Denmark while Saurabh went on to pursue his doctorate in cloud
computing architectures at Hasso-Plattner Institute in Berlin. Midway, they both
dropped out and returned to India. They did different things before coming together to
start Airwoot — a social customer support helpdesk.
25. Alma Mater lets you doodle and play with your tee designs
Alma Mater is an online store providing apparel and memorabilia to alumni students
from schools and colleges across India. Founded by Varun Agarwal and Rohn
Malhotra in 2009, the company has shipped 3,00,000 units till dates and is
continuously innovating to push this number. They give an option called Play, which
lets you doodle on tees. It has over 2000 art vectors and over 800 fonts to choose
from. You can upload your school/college or company logo. They have worked with
over 2500 school/colleges, 600 corporates, 400 private groups, 100 start-ups in 180
Indian cities and six countries.