Startups have reached every corner of the country. Technology has not only disrupted daily lives but has also broken through cultural biases in many parts of India. India witnessing a healthy convergence as the startups are helping the people to become micro – entrepreneurs through its business model.
They are giving rise to allied and related business which directly and indirectly create employment and reshaping and redefining cities and towns. According to report Travel and tourism provide employment to nearly 300 million people in the world either directly or indirectly. Also, SME sector generates employment for around 60 million people and creates 1.3 million jobs every year. Platforms are building an extensive logistics network was accompanied by massive direct and indirect employment generation.
Startups possess the great capability to not only provide options of direct employment but make markets more accessible and create micro-entrepreneurs from the same.
Zostel – Started in 2013 with the mission to change the way people travel. Zostel is a community-led, experience-driven ecosystem carrying a variety of service offerings under its belt. These include providing social and private accommodation, conducting outdoor activities, and curating original entertainment events, among others. Originally incepted as a hostel chain for backpackers, the company’s mission is to mobilise local communities across India and establish a robust, accessible, and trustworthy travel ecosystem. Zostel aims to achieve this objective by leveraging a strategic blend of technology, capital, and regional resources.
Mall91 – Mall91 is India’s first vernacular social commerce platform built specifically for the next 400M users coming online. Through an innovative technology platform which combines live videos based shopping, local language voice recognition based catalog discovery and Whatsapp like chat/messaging based checkouts, Mall91 has reached to 2000+ Tier 2/3/4 towns/villages of India and creating a new massive market by enabling Bharat users to perform their life’s 1st ecommerce transaction. Its unique approach of offering additional high engagement, high frequency use cases around social gaming, entertainment, content, payments is resulting in becoming a daily first screen app for the next 400M users.
Shiprocket, making logistics more seamless
One of the primary challenges experienced by nearly all tier II and tier III sellers is that the digital market requires robust logistics operations. However, such sellers neither have a strong channel network as their larger counterparts do nor are they able to match the cost-effectiveness due to lower volumes. This challenge is being solved by logistics aggregators such as Shiprocket, which enables its customers to ship domestically and internationally at rates starting from Rs 27/500 grams and Rs. 100/50 grams respectively. The platform has active partnerships with top 17 courier companies, thereby equipping its customers with access to over 26,000 PIN codes in India and over 220 countries. Other than cost effectiveness and reach, Shiprocket enables these micro enterprises with ease to comprehend panels with in build support, ability to collect COD payments on their behalf and most importantly accept returns from their buyers. Solving for their cash flow problems, they have also launched a daily COD remittance service thereby cutting down payment turnaround time by almost a week.
Bonito Designs
Bonito Designs -Elevating interior designing into an art of understanding spaces and customizing them to reflect the identities of their owners, Bonito Designs is a bespoke interior design studio that essentially brings in stories to spaces. It acquaints, familiarizes and understands the vision of the space owner and then strives to reflect them in a manner that corresponds, and exceeds the vision of its clients. Bonito Designs partners with artisans, carpenters, contractors. It has a referral program where the partner is encouraged to grow their team by bringing in more artisans to work for them on our projects. This indirectly encourages them to employ more people and grow as individuals as well by creating micro entrepreneurs as well.
Routematic
Routematic, one-stop automated solution for employee commute offers technology-based employee Transportation app. It provides predictive fleet services for the corporate houses, ensuring the best combination of employee pickups with the least time-consuming route. This saves the commuter hassles of driving or coordinating their ride, in the most efficient way, thereby contributing to their productivity at work. Routematic is the only technology-enabled fleet operator in the market. Routematic onboards Drivers, just as in the app-based taxi aggregators, who own the vehicle, this creates a lot of opportunities as they have a regular flow of income and enjoy being a regular employee. The company has around 500+ drivers staff. we train them under various programs like On-the-job learning, Mentoring scheme & In-house training. These programs generate and nurture a sense of inclusiveness among the drivers and makes them feel as an important part of the system.Request you to please take it forward.
