IRCTC
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), is a subsidiary of the Indian Railways that handles the catering, tourism and online ticketing operations of the railways. IRCTC’s online ticketing portal, which is the largest e-commerce portal in India, is known for changing the face of railway ticketing in India. It pioneered internet-based rail ticket booking through its website, as well as from the mobile phones via GPRS or SMS.
BOOK MY SHOW
BookMyShow is India’s biggest online movie and events ticketing brand. The website caters to ticket sales for movies, plays, concerts and sporting events via the online platform. Launched in 1999, it is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It also has offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. BookMyShow reaches about 800 to 900 cinemas in 200 cities and towns. BookMyShow is part of Bigtree Entertainment was founded by Ashish Hemrajani, Parikshit Dar and Rajesh Balpande, in 1999.
REDBUS
RedBus is an Indian company into the business of providing bus ticket booking services through its website, iOS and Android mobile apps. redBus has its offices in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Pune, Vijayawada, Kolkata, Vishakhapatnam, and Singapore. In the year 2015, redBus started its operation in the international market with its business opening in Singapore and Malaysia. redBus has innovated the bus ticketing model and stands in a niche that has till date not seen any significant competitor at a similar position.
INDIATIMES
Indiatimes is an Internet subsidiary of The Times of India Group. The Times Group has a 100% stake in it. Times Internet is the largest Indian online group in India, and Indiatimes is the atypical online face of the group, providing hosting gateways to almost all major newspapers of The Times Group, apart from including one of the largest online shopping sites available in India.
MAKE MY TRIP
MakeMyTrip has revolutionised the travel industry over the years. India’s leading online travel company was founded in the year 2000 by Deep Kalra. Created to empower the Indian traveller with instant booking and comprehensive choices, the company began its journey in the US-India travel market. It aimed to offer a range of best-value products and services along with cutting-edge technology and dedicated round-the-clock customer support. Today, makemytrip has the highest recall amongst all travel portals in India.
TIMES INTERNET
Times Internet is an Internet subsidiary of The Times of India Group, under which some of the largest newspapers in India – The Times of India, The Economic Times, Navbharat Times and Maharashtra Times – operate. Indiatimes is the flagship brand of Times Internet. Times Internet is in turn promoted by The Times Group, which has a 100% stake in it. Times Internet is the largest Indian online group in India, with over 6.5 billion monthly page views. It has a wide range of services from online news to e-commerce, music, radio, television, video, daily deals, sports, educational platforms and location based services.
HOMESHOP18
HomeShop18 is the pioneer in TV shopping in India as it changed the way Indians shopped by launching the first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel. Today, the company brings the perfect balance between TV shopping and digital cum online shopping with India’s best online selling site, HomeShop18.com and HomeShop18 Mobile App. Shopping here is so much easier and fun with a wide range of products at value for money prices. And what’s more, it saves time too.
GAANA (TIMES GROUP)
aana.com is a commercial music streaming service providing free and licensed music. It was launched in April 2010 by Times Internet and provides both Indian and international music content. The entire Indian music catalog is available to users worldwide, but only users in India have access to international music. Gaana.com features music from 21 languages. Gaana.com allows users to make their playlists public so that they can be seen by other users. Its mobile app was launched to support almost all operating systems.
NAAPTOL.COM
Naaptol is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Naaptol was started by its founder and CEO, an IIT Kanpur alumnus in January 2008 as a product research and price comparison service. In 2009 it adapted the marketplace model and stated selling products online. Naaptol follows the marketplace business model. It has a website, and has also ventured into the m-commerce segment. In the initial stage, Naaptol started with a seed capital of Rs.50 lakhs. In 2010, Naaptol started investing in print media.
QUIKR.COM
Quikr is India’s No.1 online classifieds platform, a place where people can connect with each other to buy or sell goods and services. Launched in 2008 with the vision for buyers and sellers to “meet online, transact offline”, today Quickr has over 4.2 million listings which have generated over 150 million replies. Headquartered in Mumbai, Quikr operates from 940 cities across India and is accessed by more than 30 million unique users and 26 million brand new customers per month.
ARCHIES ONLINE
Archies Limited is an Indian company based in New Delhi. It was started in 1979 by Anil Moolchandani. Initially it sold song books, posters and leather patches. The company’s main product, greeting cards, was introduced in 1980. Cards were introduced for major Indian festivals such as Holi, Diwali and Rakhi, apart from the usual New Year, birthday and anniversary occasions. The company went public in 1995. In 1998, it was listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and Bombay Stock Exchange.
PRACTO
Practo was founded in the year 2008 by ND Shashank and Abhinav Lal after a personal experience for Shashank (where he was attempting to get a second opinion about his father’s medical records) left a bitter taste. Today, Practo is India’s leading portal bringing together people and the medical fraternity with the inherent mission of making life better for each and every user.
PEPPERFRY
Pepperfry.com is a furniture and home products e-commerce marketplace headquartered in Mumbai. It was established on January 3, 2012 by founders Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah. Post their association with eBay India in leadership positions, they decided to set up their own company. Pepperfry initially offered a selection of products across multiple lifestyle categories. A managed marketplace, Pepperfry is now known for its differentiated product range across categories like Furniture, Home Décor, Furnishings, Lamps & Lighting, Kitchen & Dining, Appliances, Appliances, Bath, Housekeeping.
FLIPKART
Flipkart is an e-commerce company founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal. The company is registered in Singapore, but has its headquarters in Bangalore, Karnataka. Flipkart has launched its own product range under the name “DigiFlip” with products including tablets, USBs, and laptop bags. In May 2014, Flipkart received $210 million from DST Global; in July 2014 it raised $1 billion led by existing investors Tiger Global and South Africa’s media group Naspers; and in May 2015 it raised $550 million from some of its existing investors. Flipkart’s last fundraising round in May 2015 had pegged its valuation at $15 billion.
MYNTRA
Myntra is an Indian e-commerce company of fashion and casual lifestyle products, headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. The company was founded in 2007 by IIT graduates Mukesh Bansal, Ashutosh Lawania and Vineet Saxena with a focus on personalisation of gift items. By 2010, Myntra shifted its focus to the online retailing of branded apparel. In May 2014, Myntra.com merged with Flipkart to compete against Jabong, Amazon and other established offline retailers like Future Group, Aditya Birla Group and Reliance Retail.
NAUKRI
Naukri.com is an Indian job portal operating in India founded in March 1997. Naukri.com is the brain child of Sanjeev Bikhchandani, operating under the company, Info Edge (India). Info Edge is a listed company on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. It went public in November 2006. Naukri.com has a database of close to 50 million registered job seekers and has an average of about 11,000 resumes being added daily while about 130,000 resumes are modified daily.
SNAPDEAL
In February 2010, Kunal Bahl along with Rohit Bansal, started Snapdeal.com, one of India’s largest online marketplaces, with the widest assortment of 12 million+ products across 500+ diverse categories from thousands of regional, national, and international brands and retailers. With millions of users and 150,000 sellers, Snapdeal is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 5000+ cities and towns in India. With its acquisition of Freecharge in 2015, a leading mobile transactions platform, Snapdeal has become one of the largest mCommerce companies in the country
CRICBUZZ.COM
CricBuzz is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches, player rankings and team rankings. The website also offers several mobile app. CricBuzz is also the largest mobile app for cricket news and scores in India. CricBuzz was created by three Infosys former employees Piyush Agrawal (IIT, BHU alumnus), Pankaj Chhaparwal and Pravin Hegde in the year 2004.
OLX
OLX, Inc. was founded in 2006. OLX, Inc. operates an online classifieds site, competing with the likes of portals like Quikr. OLX enables users to design ads with pictures and videos; control their selling, buying, and community activity; display their ads on the social networking profile; and access the site from their mobile phone. One of the key innovations of OLX was its recognition of the vastness of India and its languages in their attempt to regionalise their offerings. Resultingly, OLX accounts can be viewed by users in their local language.
REDIFF.COM
Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996 as “Rediff On The NeT”. It is headquartered in Mumbai, with offices in Bangalore, New Delhi and New York City. According to Alexa rankings, Rediff is the No. 17 Indian web portal; 89.1% of the millions of visitors to Rediff.com are from India, while the rest come primarily from the USA (3.4%) and China. Interestingly, Rediff.com was the first website domain name registered in India in 1996.
INMOBI
InMobi is a mobile advertising and discovery platform backed by Soft Bank and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. InMobi enables consumers to discover amazing products through mobile advertising. Through Miip, a revolutionary discovery platform, developers, merchants & brands can engage mobile consumers globally. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the 50 Most Disruptive Companies in the world, InMobi enables over 100 billion discovery sessions on mobile across a billion users every month, becoming the largest discovery platform in the world.
TIMESJOBS.COM
TimesJobs.com is an Indian jobs website operating in India and Middle East. It is owned and operated by The Times Group and ranks amongst the top job portals in India currently. TimesJobs.com started at a time when job portals were only getting introduced in India. With a massive online campaign, the brand TimeJobs has recognisability across sectors and across geographies in India and abroad. With a listing that covers jobs across innumerable industries and innumerable job functions, TImesJobs is the preferred choice for both job seekers and corporations alike.
CLEARTRIP
Cleartrip was founded by Mathhew Spacie, Hrush Bhatt & Stuart Crighton in 2006. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Cleartrip Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian online travel company providing online booking services for flights and train tickets, hotel reservations, and domestic and international holiday packages. Following the slogan – “Making Travel Simple” – it provides easy booking to travellers along with useful travel tips through their website with an objective to provide simple travel solutions for customers. It is amongst the top online travel portals in India. Apart from India, Cleartrip is also featured as a leading online travel agency in the Gulf region.
YATRA
Launched in August 2006, Yatra.com is today ranked as the leading provider of consumer-direct travel services in India. Yatra.com has emerged as the most trusted travel brand in India, and has won three awards at the India Tourism Awards felicitated for ‘Outstanding performance as a Domestic Tour Operator (Rest of India)’, ‘Outstanding performance as a Domestic Tour Operator in Jammu and Kashmir’ and ‘Outstanding performance as an Inbound Tour Operator-Cat C’ amongst many others over the years. Over the span of 8 years, Yatra made 3 acquisition namely, ticket consolidator Travel Services International (TSI), global distribution system (GDS) provider MagicRooms.in, and Indian events and entertainment portal BuzzInTown.com. It acquired 100% stake in Travelguru.com in 2012.
JUSTDIAL
Justdial is an Indian company providing pan-India search services via the Phone, Web, Mobile and SMS. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The service represents a large classifieds service where users can call a common number to request a human operator what products or services they are looking for. The available, listed businesses are then communicated to the users by Email or SMS. Justdial was founded by VSS Mani who serves as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Mani thought of the idea while working for Yellow Pages Company called United Database India (UDI) in 1987.
HIKE MESSENGER
Hike Messenger is a cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones that uses the internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other graphical stickers, emoticons, images, videos, audios, files, voice messages, contacts and user location. Hike was launched on 12 December 2012 and raised its first round of funding of $7 million from Bharti and SoftBank in April 2013. Apart from basic social messaging including photos, videos and audio files, Hike allows users to “nudge”, a feature used to ping the receiver.
YEPME
Launched in August 2011, Yepme is India’s biggest online fashion brand, which services over 1000 cities monthly as against most offline retail fashion brands, which service only 75 cities. Yepme now delivers close to 500,000 units to its customers every month. Yepme’s mission is to democratize fashion in India. The brand targets style conscious men & women between the ages of 20-29 years, in India. The target segment has a high level of fashion awareness through TV, Internet and Movies and wants Fresh Fashion every day. Yepme has a fan following of over 5 million on Facebook.
YEBHI.COM
Yebhi.com is an Indian online shopping e-commerce portal for Home, Lifestyle & Fashion e-retailer, launched in the year 2009. Yebhi, which began as BigShoeBazaar.com, has a registered user base of about 1.5 million people, of whom about half a million have transacted on the site. Nexus Venture Partners and N. R. Narayana Murthy’s Catamaran Ventures invested Rs. 40 crore in Yebhi.com in mid-2011. Fidelity Growth Partners and Qualcomm are also investors in this leading shopping portal.
WYNK (BHARTI AIRTEL)
Bharti Airtel has launched a new music streaming service with an OTT app that is carrier agnostic. Called Wynk Music, it is currently only available for Android and iOS, and offers an ‘expert curated’ library of 1.7 million regional and International songs across 8 languages (English, Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali). Competing directly with Gaana and Saavn, Airtel’s free Wynk Music app is also ad-free. Two subscriptions are available- Wynk Plus and Wynk Freedom.
ALIVE (TIMES GROUP NEWS APP)
Alive is a venture of Times Internet. It has applications and services to users in diverse categories. The Alive app includes mobile augmented reality software by Times Internet. Alive introduced OneScan, a new way to search not by keywords, text or voice but visually. So, now people can use phone camera to click/ scan any product, logo image or newspaper ad and let the app discover for them similar items; subsequently, customers have the option to buy the selected items online.
ZOMATO
Zomato is a restaurant search and discovery service founded in 2008 by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It currently operates in 23 countries, including India, Australia and the United States. It features restaurant information such as scanned menus and photos sourced by local street teams, as well as user reviews and ratings. The company also provides cashless payment, online ordering, white-label apps, table reservation, and point-of-sale systems.
PAYTM
Paytm is India’s largest mobile commerce platform. Paytm started by offering mobile recharge and utility bill payments and today it offers a full marketplace to consumers on its mobile apps. Paytm has over 100mn registered users. In a short span of time Paytm has scaled to more than 60 million orders per month. Paytm is the consumer brand of India’s leading mobile internet company One97 Communications. One97 investors include Ant Financial (AliPay), SAIF Partners, Sapphire Venture and Silicon Valley Bank.
POLICYBAZAAR
PolicyBazaar is an online insurance comparison portal offering both life insurance and general insurance products. It helps consumers take an informed choice regarding their insurance needs and make comparison an important intervention in their path to purchase insurance. It offers services both on mobile and the web through which customers can look for insurance products, compare the various options, buy the best option, and save money by buying the cheapest option after comparing.
BHARATMATRIMONY
BharatMatrimony is an online matrimony service and a part of Matrimony.com. It was founded in 1997 by Murugavel Janakiraman, who later met his wife through his own matrimony site. The company has 130 offices in India, with offices in Dubai, Sri Lanka, United States and Malaysia to cater to its customers beyond India. Murugavel Janakiraman started the BharatMatrimony website in 2000 while working as a software consultant for Lucent Technologies in Edison, N.J. In the late 1990s he set up a Tamil community web portal, which included matrimonial ads.
BANKBAZAAR
BankBazaar is an online marketplace that gives consumers access to customized rate quotes on loans, credit cards or personal finance products such as insurance policies, bank loans and credit card offers. They offer their services through web and mobile platforms, through which consumers can search for offers, compare, and customize it. In 2008, with an initial capital of Rs. 45 lakh, the name was chosen as it signifies a choice and comparison of banks. The founders Adhil Shetty, Arjun Shetty and Rati are a group of U.S. returned entrepreneurs who had worked in companies like Deloitte, Amazon.com, Capital One and Microsoft.
COVERFOX
Founded by Varun and Devendra Rane, both professionals from the insurance and tech industries, Coverfox aims to push the envelope for both these sectors. Firstly, more Indians will be buying insurance and secondly, a large segment is now looking online. Coverfox managed to get an IRDA Direct Broker licence in early 2014 and it has been almost 18 months since it started functioning operationally. In this period, it raised a Series round of US$2 million and followed it with a US$12 million Series B round in April, 2015 from Accel Partners and SAIF Partners.
