Meet the Indian startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort
Summary
In January 2022, the startup raised a seed round of $1 Million from TDV Partners, SoMa Capital and marquee investors.Started in 2021 by Soumyajit Das and Samay Jain, Gurugram-based Better Opinions is a prediction market of India which allows users to trade their opinion on everyday topics.In February 2022, it raised over $1 million in its pre-seed round from Y Combinator, Java Capital, Soma Capital, and angels such as Mayank Kumar, Co-founder, upGrad, Sudhanshu Raheja, Head of Product and Engineering, GoTo Financials (Gojek-Tokopedia), Pratyush Prasanna, SVP, Gojek, Chinmaya Sharma, Chief Commercial Officer Namshi and the Ranadive Family, the Co-founders of Sacramento Kings.In December 2021, the platform launched its real money gaming app RMG App and within a month of its launch the startup claims to have seen 150,000 sign ups with a week-on-week growth of 30 percent.Founded in 2020 by Miran Junaidi and Sourav Sanyal, OurEye is a video intelligence solution for enterprises to monitor any and all standard operating procedures, leveraging pre-existing CCTV-IP infrastructure. Such disputes can easily be tracked and settled through its software.Founded in 2019 by Joybroto Ganguly and Sriramkumar Sundararaman, Bengaluru-based startup AntWalk is an up-skilling platform that empowers teams with continuous learning tracks to equip them with the right skills at the right time.Its upskilling programs are customised to business objectives of organisations across sales, customer success, general management, technology and product functions and promote employee development by enhancing their existing competencies and developing newer ones.AntWalk claims that it is powered by 3000+ experts from 500+ global brands across 40+ countries to power these courses and 1:1 Interactions.Launched in 2021 by Joel Koshy, Rahul Mallapur and Bently Nixon, Bengaluru-based Blitzllama is a toolbox that helps brands to collect user feedback at scale, map a users product journeys and get highly contextual answers in minutes to focus on better branding and marketing execution.Founded in 2021 by Sachin Jain and Sagar Soni, New Delhi-based Requestly records all API traffic and allows developers to modify responses for any API request without changing anything on the backend. With Edustack, teachers can create, assign, autocorrect and generate analytics in minutes instead of spending hours on printouts, photos, and giving feedback.Founded in 2021 by Sandilya Miduthuri and Chalam PVS, Gurugram-based is an android dialer app for young people in India. RedBrick AI offers a suite of APIs to help developers consume the annotations being created, and integrate with MLOps.Founded in 2020 by Shiv Bidani, Balaji R and Mitul Mehta, Bengaluru-based Streak is building a new age personalised and gamified banking solution for teenagers.The startup is a fast-paced edu-fintech startup working towards redefining children and teenagers relationship with money.Founded in 2021 by Franklin George, Manish Singh, Abhilash Thulaseedharan and Arun Thulasidharan, Bengaluru-based Castled Data helps organisations sync customer and product data in realtime from cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres etc to their sales, marketing and support tools like Salesforce, Hubspot, Google Ads, Mixpanel, Intercom and lots more.Founded in 2019 by Amit Bansal, Puneet Bansal and Amit Mishra, Gurugram-based 91Squarefeet is simplifying physical retail expansion for big brands. This gives them the boost to grow without dilution, warrants and hassle.Founded in 2021 by Amal Dani, Omkar Ghaisas, and Aditya Mehta, Mumbai-based Harmoney is a bond trading platform for financial institutions and asset managers in India.