Startups in West Bengal

Landing a job is always a difficult, mundane and time taking task even for a candidate from a Premier institute like IITs. We all know that the number of IITs in India has increased in the last few years. In 2007, there were 7 IITs and the number has gone up to 23 in the last few years till date. ... Read More »

We are publishing an interview of Mr. Subh Jha, CEO, Legal Salah. About the founders  1. Sujit Jha (advocate) – COO, Legal Salah. 2. Abhinit Kumar Singh (CA), MD, Legal Salah. 3. Tausif Warsi- (CS) – Head compliance, Legal Salah. 4. Subh Jha (CS, LLB) – CEO, Legal Salah. What is the problem you are trying to solve? Can you share with us ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »

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 ... Read More »