Startup Stories & Learning
Startup Stories & Learning
Ashraf M
This Podcast will focus on the past, present, and future startups' stories right from ideas to becoming unicorns focusing on India & the APAC region, from this learning & experience I can be mentoring the startups in their journey along with my panel of experts to achieve their business goals, I am a nerd, cloud specialist founder, and CTO
Paytm - India, A Startup Success Story
Paytm - India, A Startup Success Story  Paytm (an acronym for "pay through mobile") is an Indian digital payments and financial services company, based in Noida. It was founded in 2010 by Vijay Shekhar Sharma under One97 Communications. The company offers mobile payment services to consumers and enables merchants to receive payments through its QR code, point of sale, and online payment gateway offerings. In partnership with financial institutions, Paytm offers financial services such as micro-loans and buy now, pay later to its consumers and merchants. Apart from bill payments and money transfers, the company also provides ticketing services, retail brokerage products, and online games.
Oct 23, 2022
16 min
Deliveroo - The United Kingdom, A startup success story
Deliveroo - The United Kingdom, A startup success story Deliveroo was founded back in 2013 (8 years ago). It was founded in the UK by 2 Americans. The company is working across the globe and, they are in more than 60 countries. Apart from the UK, where they provide most services, they are in other countries such as Australia, Singapore, Australia, Italy, Germany, and France. They provide their services in Ireland, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and Hong Kong (China). Deliveroo is one of the most preferred food delivery services in the UK and is slowly making its stronghold in other countries. It works with the main chain of restaurants to provide quality services to its customers. Founder - Will Shu (CEO) Co-founders - Greg Orlowski
Oct 2, 2022
12 min
Swiggy - India, A startup success story
Swiggy - India, A startup success story Swiggy is a food delivery platform at its core, the services of which can be accessed from Android and IOS devices, and through the website. It partners with a wide range of restaurants and provides easy access to diverse food dishes from varying cuisines. Furthermore, it also accepts feedback and ratings from the customers that help others pick their restaurants and the choices of dishes wisely. As soon as a delivery is done, the customer is entitled to give feedback, and rate the food, and the delivery services. The company uses this data to improve its services.
Sep 11, 2022
24 min
Zomato - India, A startup success story
Zomato - India, A startup success story About Zomato and How it Works Zomato is an Indian food delivery startup restaurant aggregator. It primarily provides concrete information, menus, and user reviews of the restaurants. Along with this, Zomato also has food delivery options from partnered restaurants in the selected cities. Zomato - Founders & Team The founders of Zomato are Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. Both are IIT graduates and were working with Bain & Co in New Delhi before they came together to launch Zomato.
Sep 4, 2022
14 min
FoodPanda - Singapore, A startup success story
FoodPanda - Singapore, A startup success story FoodPanda is a model for food delivery that is growing in popularity. Unlike traditional food delivery models, FoodPanda allows customers to order food from restaurants and have it delivered to their homes. This is done by using an app and ordering through the app. The app notifies the customer when the food is ready, and they can then pick it up from a designated location. FoodPanda has been very successful in China, where there are high rates of obesity and diet-related diseases. They plan on expanding into other countries in the near future.
Aug 27, 2022
8 min
Gojek - Indonesia, A startup success story
Gojek - Indonesia, A startup success story Gojek (also known as Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa) is a company that creates on-demand smartphone apps for ride-hailing and a number of other services. The company's app offers services such as transportation and logistics, food ordering and delivery, digital payment, shopping, news, and entertainment, among others, allowing customers to access travel, logistical support, and a variety of other activities with only a few taps on their smartphones.
Aug 14, 2022
11 min
GRAB - Singapore, A startup success story
GRAB - Singapore, A startup success story Grab was founded in 2012 by Anthony Tan (while he was in Harvard Business School) and Tan Hooi Ling, is the developer of the Grab super-app, which provides users with transportation, food delivery, and digital payments services via a mobile app. Starting with the taxi business, Grab’s business model has now become a Super App concept that enables millions of people each day to access driver- and merchant-partners to order food or groceries, send packages, hail a ride or taxi, pay for online purchases, or access services such as lending, insurance, wealth management, and telemedicine. Grab currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is Southeast Asia’s first decacorn and the biggest technology startup in the region.
Aug 2, 2022
13 min
Carousell - Singapore, A startup success story
The success story of Carousell, How Singapore's first classified (used item) startup made it. Carousell is an online marketplace that allows users to both buy and sell a variety of different items. Customers can choose from multiple categories, including but not limited to: · Fashion · Electronics · Cars & Property · Home & Living · Jobs& Services
Jul 31, 2022
11 min
Ola Cab - India, A success story
The success story of Ola Cab is how India’s first ride-sharing company started Ola Cabs is an Indian multinational ride-sharing company, headquartered in Bangalore. It also operates in other business verticals including financial services and cloud kitchens. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company
Jul 3, 2022
11 min
Flipkart - India A success story
The success story of Flipkart is how India’s first e-commerce company started, Flipkart (story of Flipkart) is an Indian e-commerce firm based in India and registered as a private limited company in Singapore. Today, we’ll take a look at Flipkart’s rise to stardom.
Jun 26, 2022
13 min