Internet & New Age Business Conference | Corporate Profiles
Sector Corporate Representative Description
AgriTech Bijak Mahesh Jakhotia, Co- Bijak is an online B2B marketplace to trade
Founder agriculture commodities. It allows producers
to sell their produce at real-time prices to
wholesalers and retailers. It also provides
loans to buyers and working capital for
producers. Additionally, it provides
aggregated logistics services to eliminate
wastage and avoid partial truck loads. Other
features include digitizing transactions with
an electronic book-keeping feature, advance
payments, and individual rating system.
AgriTech Gramophone Tauseef Khan, Co- Gramophone is an app-based platform
Founder & CEO providing farm input products & information
to farmers. It enables farmers to purchase
crop protection, crop nutrition, seeds,
implements, and agricultural hardware
products. It also provides agronomic
information, such as weather information,
latest market prices, expense calculator and
advice, and best cropping practices.
AutoTech Spinny Niraj Singh, Founder & Spinny is an online outright buyer of used
CEO second-hand cars. Sellers can schedule an
Ravi Hans Jora, Head inspection and get an offer for their car.
Finance & Strategy Buyers can also browse through the online
inventory, select a car of their choice, and
schedule a test drive. The platform also
enables car owners to list their car for sale
on the platform and get instant offers.
AutoTech GoMechanic Kushal Karwa, Co- Gomechanic is an app-based garage
Founder aggregator for automotive repairing services
providing on-demand car care support. It
offers services, such as tyre/wheel care,
cleaning, detailing, denting/painting, battery
replacement, glass/custom services and
more. Users can schedule doorstep pick-up
via the platform or app.
Why should you attend?
India is going through a digital revolution with nearly
750mn internet users, of which 73% is being accessed
through mobile phones. It is only inevitable that
Agriculture sector would be empowered through this
revolution. Bijak is at the forefront of this change and
deals with age-old issues that have affected the sector for
decades through digital solutions. The Mandi system has
strained interactions among agri buyers and sellers from
different parts of the country. Bijak app seems to address
this problem by acting as a medium for buyers and
sellers to interact, thus aiding better price discovery of
crops. Bijak is also a digital lender in a sector where most
players are dependent on informal sources of finance.
Perspectives on how digitization is enabling farmers with
higher income, output, along with finance needs. How
easy data availability is helping farmers to go beyond
conventional farming methods?
Post listing of CarTrade, Spinny could provide
understanding on the emerging used car online
marketplace space. It will show differences in classified
versus transaction models and approaches of different
industry. It will provide an indication on competitive
intensity and Spinny’s own evolution from an online
retailer of used cars to a full-service model.
Get a perspective on how GoMechanic is disrupting the
car services industry dominated by authorized service
centres and local workshops. How is technology and
process helping reduce pain points and improve
transparency and cost effectiveness? Its approach and
plans to expand to into car accessories, car detailing, car
insurance and buying and selling platform, which could
bring it in direct competition with auto-market places.
B2B E-Commerce ElasticRun Sandeep Deshmukh, ElasticRun is a Kirana Commerce Platform. It
Co- Founder & CEO enables businesses to reach small Kirana
stores in the deep rural parts of India. It acts
as an extended arm of FMCG companies’
direct distribution networks in the rural area
to provide a set of net new customers to the
FMCG companies. It also brings banks and
financial institutions closer to a new set of
underserviced SME customers from its rural
Kirana network. ElasticRun has been
harnessing the data generated from its
platform to help its customers sharpen their
marketing plans.
B2B E-Commerce Udaan Vaibhav Gupta, Co- Online B2B marketplace for multi-category
Founder & Team products. The company offers a network-
centric B2B trading platform for small &
medium businesses. The product catalog
includes electronics, clothing, fashion
accessories, home furnishing products,
pharmaceuticals/medicines, and more.
B2B E-Commerce Zetwerk Amrit Acharya, Co- Zetwerk is an online B2B marketplace
Founder & CEO providing manufacturing services. It enables
buyers to discover new suppliers for various
procurement requirements by interacting
with new or existing suppliers in a seamless
manner through its procurement suite, which
includes features, such as a request for
quotation (RFQ) preparation, vendor
selection, comparative statements, and
negotiations. It connects suppliers with
buyers across the world to get new orders
and maximize revenue.
Cloud Kitchen Curefoods Ankit Nagori, Co- Curefoods is a cloud kitchen operating 75+
Founder brand kitchens. Highly trained team runs
these premises to cook and serve high
quality foods which are 100% natural and
chemical free.
Digitising Kirana is the buzz word. Hear the management
of ElasticRun speak on, inter-alia, what goes behind
digitizing Kirana outlet, gap that e-B2B platforms are
bridging which distributors were otherwise not able to
bridge, margin structures and credit terms offered by
FMCG companies, opportunities and challenges, etc.
Perspectives on the B2B marketplace, logistics and
lending platform being built by Udaan. Competitive
landscape with Reliance Retail, Amazon, and Flipkart, all
focusing on this market. Implications for FMCG/Retail as
Udaan aims to digitize the Kirana (local grocery) stores in
India. With FMCG distribution undergoing a tectonic shift
with emergence on tech enabled B2B distributors, insights
into how distribution landscape across consumption
categories is likely to unfold over the next decade.
Overall strategy, execution challenges, approach and
future evolution of the company.
Perspectives on the business scale up in India versus
globally successful ventures in similar segments, how the
company is using tech to differentiate vis-à-vis
incumbents and competitors, and thoughts on the
evolving industry ecosystem over the long term.
What is the strategy on acquiring new customers and
dependence on food aggregators? Also, what is the right
to retain customer and create brand loyalty in cloud
kitchen format.
Digital Media & Pratilipi Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Pratilipi operates a vernacular platform for Perspectives on the business scale up in India versus
Entertainment Co- Founder & CEO reading and sharing of stories. It enables globally successful ventures in similar segments, strategy
users to publish and read stories, poetry, and aspirations over the medium to long term
essays and articles in multiple Indian
languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada,
Malayalam & Telugu. Users can also rate
content posted by members.
Digital Media & Pocket Aces Aditi Shrivastava, CEO Pocket Aces is a digital entertainment This could interest ZEEL investors as PocketAces is an
Entertainment Pictures Kunal Lakhara, CFO company that operates FilterCopy, a independent content creator that has multiple digital
Anupriya Sinha, VP, publishing platform that offers mixed-media brands. How should one think of the importance of the
Corp Strategy including entertainment, sports, fashion, various businesses: content studio, distribution and digital
etc.; Gobble, a destination for food content talent management for PA? What are the monetisation
and Dice Media, a digital new age video models that offer non-linearity for PA? What are the
series production company. It uses data ingredients of producing curated viral content, which
analytics to create and analyze content, competes fiercely with user-generated content as well as
understand audiences and optimize scripted content?
distribution.
EdTech upGrad Gaurav Kumar, Head UpGrad provides online higher education Perspectives on the edtech space, especially the business
Corporate programs for working professionals. It offers model, strategy and evolution of UpGrad. Appeal of
Development & accredited courses and certificates in online education to transform careers, especially given
Strategy relevant industries such as E-Commerce, Big need for constant reskilling and improving employability
Data, and BFSI. It provides courses on data in India. Differences with K-12 or test prep models versus
science, management, marketing and career upgradation model.
software & technology to be taken by
professors of top-class universities. It also
provides one-on-one career guidance
solutions.
FinTech KrazyBee Madhusudan Finnovation Tech Solutions provides Instant Perspectives on personal loan offerings using new
Ekambaram, Co- Personal Loan services through its platforms generation technology by FinTechs and its implication for
Founder & CEO Krazybee (College-going students) and banks. Also, know about widening personal loans
Kreditbee (Salaried & Self-employed landscape in India driven by FinTechs targeting even
professionals). It has provided credit to over college-going students, along with salaried/self-
2.2 million borrowers with disbursement of employed segment.
Rs43+ bn. It addresses pressing challenges in
the lending space by offering a unique
proposition via innovative new gen technology.
Gaming NODWIN Sidharth Kedia, CEO Nodwin is an e-sports event organizer. It This will likely interest Nazara investors as it owns
Gaming provides gaming solutions and creator of e- Nodwin. How should one look at the role of event
sports events and organizes esports managers in the e-sports space? What are the new
tournaments. It also offers joint IPs, content monetisation models that can evolve in this sector? How
production, talent management, can the industry players increase adoption and prize
sponsorships and brand integrations, white money to attract international talent as well for the Indian
label and activation, media rights and e-sports events?
licensing services.
Gaming Mobile Anubhav Behal, Mobile Premier League (MPL) is one of the
Premier Corporate largest esports and skill gaming platform,
League Development, IR with over 85 million users across India,
Indonesia, and United States of America.
MPL has worked with numerous game
developers and onboarded 70+ games on
its platform.
Gaming Loco Anirudh Pandita, Loco is an online platform for live streaming
Founder video games. The platform allows users to
Ashwin Suresh, play and live stream game and build their
Founder own gaming community.
HealthTech Pristyn Care Harsimarbir Singh, Pristyn Care is a healthcare start-up which
Co- Founder provides patient-centric healthcare services
throughout the journey from disease to
health. Pristyn Care has an ecosystem of
80+ clinics, 400+ partner hospitals across
22+ cities, and 140+ in-house super
specialty surgeons for Proctology, Urology,
ENT, Gynaecology, Vascular, Laser, and
Laparoscopic surgeries. Every surgery at
Pristyn Care is done using the most
advanced medical technology & equipment.
HR Tech Betterplace Pravin Agarwala, Co- Betterplace is an online blue collar employee
Founder & CEO management portal. It offers services like
digital onboarding which includes digital
employee onboarding services for blue and
grey collar workforce and background
verification services like address check,
criminal records check, police verification
certificate for blue collar workforce.
This is likely to interest Nazara investors as it has recently
taken a stake in a skill-based gaming company. Given
MPL's success in creating multiple games, it will be useful
to understand how easy or difficult it is for gaming
companies to create new IP and drive user adoption.
How should one think about the role of distribution via
app store – Is it fair to expect better terms of trade for the
Indian mobile gaming industry with increased scale
and/or anti-trust interventions?
This could interest ZEEL investors given Loco was spun-off
from digital video content company, PocketAces. What
are the advantages of being incubated by a digital video
company? How does Loco compete with specialised
game streaming platforms like Twitch or generalists like
YouTube? What are the monetisation models here?
Perspectives on the market for secondary and higher
secondary care healthcare services in India: something
not actively targeted currently by the listed hospitals but
an emerging area of interest.
This will be of interest to InfoEdge investors as InfoEdge
has extended its recruitment offering by acquiring
Zwayam, a recruitment SaaS tool. How is BP able to
overcome challenges of the Blue Collar segment
comprising high churn and preference of Indian
languages rather than English for workers? Are there any
government interventions, such as change of labour
codes that are driving formalisation? How should one
think the market growth opportunity and competition
given that many serious players are attempting to build a
business in this segment?
InsurTech Turtlemint Dhirendra Turtlemint provides an online insurance
Insurance Mahyavanshi, Co- comparison platform for individuals. It offers
Founder quotes for life insurance, health insurance,
Badri Sanjeevi, CFO car insurance, and bike insurance. It
provides personalized recommendations to
customers, based on algorithms and data
analytics. It also offers other services like
claims processing and an insurance
calculator.
InsurTech Plum Akshay Golecha, Lead Provider of a health insurance & benefits
Business Development marketplace for employers. It features a
platform for dental care, nutrition, fitness,
mental wellness, doctor consultation, and
COVID-19. It provides a top-up plan for tax
benefits, Covid cover, and critical illness. It is
a tool available on the subscription-based
pricing model. It also offers claims
processing services.
InsurTech Onsitego Kunal Mahipal, Onsitego provides an online extended
Founder warranty platform for individuals. It offers
quotes for smartphones, tablets, laptops,
cameras, air conditioners, televisions, and
more. It also offers users to book for a
service post which the product is picked by
the company, repairs it, and delivers it back
to the customer.
Logistics & Dunzo Kabeer Biswas, CEO & Dunzo is an app-based platform offering
Mobility Tech Co- Founder hyperlocal delivery services. It offers delivery
of food, grocery, medicine, etc. and send
packages from one end of the city to the
other. The company uses its own fleet of
errand runners or coordinates with local
merchants or vendors to deliver the task.
Logistics & Rapido Bike Aravind Sanka, Co- Rapido offers an app-based platform for
Mobility Tech Taxi Founder two-wheeler ride-hailing services. Users can
book their ride by providing location details
or by enabling the GPS in the mobile app to
automatically get the location. Users can
find an estimated fare for rides while
booking the ride. Also, it offers features like
real-time tracking, insured rides, variant
payment options, door-step service, and
more. Also, it extends its service for B2b
delivery services.
With the impending IPO of PolicyBazaar, Turtlemint can
provide a perspective on the online distribution of
insurance, its key challenges and opportunities. Also, the
differences versus an online broker model of
Coverfox/Policybazaar and its Point of Sales Person
(PoSP) model that empowers insurance advisors to serve
their customers better. How its business model, strategy
and evolution are likely going forward?
Perspectives on group health insurance in India,
opportunity and challenges, plus implications for
healthcare service providers in terms of volumes, pricing,
etc.
Perspectives on relatively newer offerings from FinTechs
like extended warranty on consumer durable and mobility
products. With rising affluence of middle class in the
country, the demand for consumer products and thus
warranty on it has risen multifold. Meet to understand the
market opportunity, evolution and business model of this
segment.
Post Zomato IPO, Dunzo could provide perspective on
evolution and trends in the Hyper local delivery business.
In addition, its foray into express grocery can provide
perspective on competitive landscape and difference in
approaches across players. Also, get details on business
model, strategy and evolution going forward.
Perspectives on the ride-sharing industry and Rapido's
plans for scaling up. Legal challenges for expansion of
the industry and scale-up possibility of the model given
traffic, affordability, and safety challenges in India.
What’s the overall strategy, plans and future direction of
the company? Also, get to know about the shared
mobility industry.
Logistics & Shadowfax Abhishek Bansal, Co- Shadowfax is an app-based provider of last- Perspectives on the evolving 3PL logistics space in India
Mobility Tech Technologies Founder & CEO mile delivery services. It allows users to book and how hyperlocal and instant express logistics space in
Vaibhav Khandelwal, on-demand, scheduled, and next-day the country are likely to evolve going forward. Also, for
Co- Founder & CTO deliveries, as well as end-to-end forwarding insights on how first and last mile delivery economics can
services. It caters to e-tailers, offline stores, evolve going forward.
restaurants, pharmacies, and the FMCG
sectors.
Logistics & BlackBuck Uttam Kumar Garodia, BlackBuck is a web & AI-based marketplace Perspectives on how trucking experience in the country is
Mobility Tech (Zinka Director for booking freight transportation. Through changing, narrative around shift to organized operators
Logistics its web-based platforms, load providers can and views around the FTL transportation space in the
Solutions) post loads and find carriers, make bookings, country.
track and manage shipments using GPS.
Features include online payments, view
transactions, loading, and unloading details,
check order status, and resolve disputes.
Property Tech NoBroker Amit Kumar Agarwal, Online P2P listing platform for residential This will interest InfoEdge investors as it runs a leading
Founder & CEO and commercial properties. The platform property classifieds portal. What are the factors driving
enables users to search for properties by retail adoption of NoBroker's self-serve digital tools in a
applying the location filter. Property owners space where assisted commerce (broker) dominates?
can list their properties by providing What is the size of the opportunity in adjacent areas like
necessary information such as location, society admin or property management services? Is there
pictures, area, prices, and more. synergy with NB's core business for these new services?
SaaS LogiNext Dhruvil Sanghvi, CEO LogiNext is a provider of cloud and AI-based Perspectives on how technology for mature industries like
logistics management software. Its offerings logistics is changing with more hyperlocal and B2C
include a fleet management app for route spaces taking center stage in the Indian logistics space
and load capacity optimization, vehicle going forward.
tracking & driver behavior analysis, field-
force tracking app, delivery management
app enabling delivery and courier
companies to optimize routes, shipments
tracking, and more.