Startups in West Bengal

A Kolkata based bootstrapped EduTech startup, InnovED Global, is turning into an unstoppable force and giving funded giants a run for their money. Sayak Chakrabarti, AIR 181, who secured 122 marks out of 122 in Mathematics in IIT JEE Advance, 2017 was one of the few students that were using InnovED Global online test series. Achilles heel Earlier this year in February, InnovED Global become the first company in India to launch a full-fledged IIT JEE advance test series in proper...

We are publishing an interview of Mr. Souparno Majumder, CEO, Cuboid.io - This Kolkata based startup has created an AI based game development platform to help developers for learning codes and build the games. About the founders Soupano Majumder - CEO/Full Stack Developer And Marketing Person. Saikat Mondal - CTO/Full Stack Developer And Marketing Person. They mutually started of this project on 2/3/2017 to help all the game developers and to contribute to our country's ever growing mobile gaming industry. What is the problem...

We are publishing an interview of Mr. Tamajit Mukherjee, Director, Tailorkraft. About the founders  The founders are alumni of IIT BHU, Varanasi. Tamajit joined RIL after his B.Tech and Ankit joined IIT KGP for his PhD after a short stint at Jindal Steel. Ankit has since then built 4 software products for startups based in US, UK and HongKong. Tamajit has experience of handling Business Strategy and Operations in 2 startups. What is the problem you are trying to solve? Can you share...

We are publishing an interview of Mr. Sakyabrata Dutta - Director, Peazy - A Kolkata based startup which is disrupting the indian parking industry by using ai/modern techniques. Please tell us about the founders  The co-founders, Sakya and Mahul, are batch-mates from engineering college at IIEST Shibpur (2009). Post engineering, Sakya went on to complete his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur (2011) and started building a career as a marketing professional with MNCs such as Nestle, Emami and OLX. Mahul continued building his career...

We are publishing an interview of Mr. Satanik Roy, Managing Director, HyperXchange - This Kolkata based startup has created an online-2-offline marketplace to buy/sell preowned smartphones with warranty/insurance. About the founders  Dipanjan Purkayastha - 15 years’ across US/India in Strategy/M&A/BD. Scaledtech businesses from scratch to hundreds of millions of dollars. Angel Investor, on the Board of several startups. Asish Chakraborty - 6 years’ tech management in top global Tech MNCs. Enterprise Content Management specialist. Multiple project implementations using various SDLC processes like SCRUM and...

A Kolkata based Edtech startup has done what other Unicorns in Edtech field couldn’t achieve. They have launched India’s first online test series comprising of all types of questions-Matrix type, Passage Based, Assertion reason, Integer type as well as more than one correct. With 2.2 lakh student qualifying for IIT-JEE Advanced. Essentially, not a single online test series exist in the market which is adaptive to all the different types of question in the prescribed format of JEE-Advanced. Is InnovED Global...

We are publishing an interview of Manjima Mukherjee (Founder) & Payal Basu (Chief Administrative Officer) of Flashback - A Startup which Exhibits Corporate Culture in Photography and Merges the Creative and Corporate Track of it. About the founders: MANJIMA MUKHERJEE, Inspiration for the young girls - at our middle class society we still find many girl-child remain uneducated because of age-old gender discrimination system. In the same society we can see Manjima as a successful entrepreneur. MANJIMA MUKHERJEE, owner of FLASHBACK started her Photographic journey with...

Weblistr: From Birthdays to Businesses It all started with a long-distance friendship and a birthday present. Rashika Jain (co-founder, Weblistr) was living in Kolkata after having completed her MBA at Great Lakes, Chennai. Her good friend, Karthik Bhandary (co-founder, Weblistr), was living in Kuwait. While trying to find the right birthday present for him, Rashika discovered that it was extremely difficult to track down a trustworthy website that would deliver to Kuwait. From this experience, two issues of interest emerged. Issue #1:...

We are publishing the interview of Vineet Patawari, Co-founder and CEO of Elearnmarkets. Elearnmarkets.com (ELM) is an online financial education portal, which has steadfastly embarked on a mission for spreading financial literacy in India. It is providing an incredible opportunity to everyone to gain essential knowledge about finance through the online courses that it offers. It offers an integrated learning platform which consists of learning videos, interactive learning tools, games, data analytic tools, market community and blogs for market intelligence. Elearnmarkets...