Gaurav Rai

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Springboard [Online Edu startup which offers free

as well as paid courses]

Grofers [online order grocery, pet supplies and electronic products]

Jugnoo [Online Auto-Rickshaw aggregator primarily from Chandigarh and NCR]

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Springboard is Bangalore & US based Edu-tech startup

launched in 2013 by Parul Gupta and Gautam Tambay.

Springboard raises $1.7M in seed funding.

Springboard offers online courses in data science and UX design. The company claims that over 1000 students undertook its paid courses in year while several thousand are undertaking free courses. The paid cost $300 -500 a month.

In these courses, each students gets access to a mentor, as well as a community of fellow students and alumni every week. Some mentor are from Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, Etsy, LinkedIn and Pandora.

Springboard (formerly Slide Rule)

Allen Blue (co-founder of LinkedIn)

John Katz man (founder of the Princeton Review)

Naveen Tiwari (founder and CEO of InMobi)

Kartik Hosanagar (The Wharton school professor)

Kashyap Deorah (co-founder of Chalo )

Springboard Investors

Grofers was founded on December 27, 2013 by Saurabh Kumar

and Albinder Dhindsa.

The company worked on a B2B model before becoming a hyperlocal B2C delivery service. In November 2014, it started its offerings to the end customers.

They are a local mobile e-commerce platform that is transforming the shopping experience for people like you, by connecting them to local stores. Their aim to become the one-stop shop for all your daily needs. Users can order through the app and get everything delivered to their doorstep, quickly.

They offer a wide assortment of groceries, fruits and vegetables, cosemetics, electronics, bakery items, flowers and much more.

Grofers

Grofers has raised $166.5 Million after 3 rounds of funding:

Seed Funding: $0.5 Million from Deepinder Goyal, Founder of Zomato, and Sequoia Capital in September 2014

Series A: $10 Million was closed in February 2015 by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global

Series B: $36 Million was announced in April 2015 by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global

Series C: $120 Million was announced in November 2015 by Softbank, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global

Grofers investor

Growth:-

Their focus on growth drives us to step out of our comfort zone and scale new heights every day.

Growth

Jugnoo, a phenomenon that has changed the way people choose to travel, happened in November 2014, founded by a handful of IITians. Jugnoo connects passengers wishing to travel form one point to another point within a particular city, less than a year ago, has now snowballed onto a revolution.

Jugnoo contributes to the Digital evolution of India by making the on demand Auto services a reality for people.

Jugnoo gets $3M in Series B funding from Paytm, others

Jugnoo

Vikas Taneja

Shalin Shah (Vice President at Piramal Enterprises)

Jagdish Amin ( Worked in the Enterprise and e-commerce space)

Jai Farswani

Justin Weil (Investor in Facebook, Yandex)

Jugnoo investors

Their mission is to establish a successful hyperlocal

commerce in India, with the help of auto-rickshaw network, mobile-first bottom-up approach and on-demand technology solution.

Mission