Rebalance Accelerator’s Inaugural India Cohort: 7 States, 11 Women Founders, 10 Startups
Summary
We often forget that success comes with speed, andThe idea is to embrace the daily hustle and also allow the visionary in us, a chance to zoom out and change our lens once in a while. The midnight pep-talks on our Whatsapp group, decoding VC signals, heart-to-hearts during one-on-one mentor hours, overcoming the fear of numbers and market sizing, transparent mentor-peer feedback sessions, endless versions of pitch decks with countless cups of coffee, pulling our hair out over financial projections, eleventh hour practice sessions before the demo day, excellent food with outstanding people who became family doesnt even begin to outline the journey until here.We hosted 10 diverse founding teams led by 11 women founders from Delhi NCR, Goa, Bangalore, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Uttarakhand who worked together for 14 weeks.The companies were spread out across health & wellness, consumer brands, food-on-demand, education, language & cultural transliteration, deep technology, voice commerce, environmental sanitation, ethical pet adoption and care, the sexual and mental health of adolescents.YFret is an AI-driven, real-time marketing engine that is capturing the future of commerce: VOICE to help brands deliver personalized shopping experiences, both offline and online.Yfrets AURA engine plugs into mobile apps, websites, stores or voice apps, learns your preferences and helps brands deliver relevant content within 0.2 seconds.Making India accessible to the world through an app that enables foreign to Indian language learning easy and culturally relevant.It is the only app that goes beyond translation or script-based pedagogy to immerse users into the local culture through cultural tips and transliteration. It is available on android and iOS.Larder removes the hassle of ordering and tracking food online by reducing your 30-minute wait to a 30-second experience.It is a 24/7, automated mini-retail booth that gives you access to the best brands, anywhere, anytime.Highlights: 4 booths live, 18+ booths in the pipeline, 20+ food partners in 4 months.Kiwi creates a platform for farmers in India to deliver health-conscious food and uniquely designs their product display based on the consumers life stage/ailments.A health and wellness food brand that offers solutions to ailments/lifestyles categorized into 23 body health categories such as diabetes, moms to be, travelers, babies, PCOD through offline and online channels.Mr n Mrs Pet is organizing and shaping ethical pet sourcing and parenting in India.India suffers from unethical breeding in puppy mills, disorganized pet adoption process with insecure payments, unethical re-sale of pets on listing platforms, uninformed pet parents and inexperienced service providers.MMP is Indias first pet-sensitive end-to-end platform that educates a potential pet parent and aggregates all essential services from sourcing to caring for pets.Highlights: 300+ Happy pet parents with 30% recurring customers; 200+ responsible breeders and 100+ service providers already on the platform.A global, premium tea brand from India crafting wellness teas for the new generation of health-conscious consumers.Snigdha is Indias first tea sommelier and introduced a long list of firsts with Tea Trunk since 2014: Matcha Tea, Blue Pea Tea and more.TeaTrunk is available on their website, online and across hotels, restaurants, and cafes.Building an ecosystem that leverages technology to bridge the gap in the sexual and mental health of adolescents, worldwide.There are 270 million searches by adolescents on sexual queries every month in India. ThatMate helps adolescents make informed choices through school curriculum tie-ups, their app that becomes a self-discovery-partner, and an AI-powered interactive bot: Bolo for questions they cannot ask anyone.Click here to know more.Highlights: 140 schools, 14000 adolescents with a 100% retention rate in 3 states of India, within a year.Espresso Labs is adding voice to enterprises. Their first product Hello Suite customizes Alexa and Google Home to enhance guest experiences across hotels and assist hotels in upselling their services.Highlights: Live in 3 luxury hotels in Delhi NCR, India & Vienna (Austria); 80% of customers want to see this service in other hotelsAuthMetrik helps companies increase revenue by stopping unauthorized sharing of subscription accounts using keystroke dynamics.119% of customers are lost due to password sharing every year amounting to $10 billion in losses for companies.