Laminar is a platform as a service that lets a content company or a creator launch a global streaming service, by providing end-to-end solutions.  Raheel Khursheed was Snapchat’s first employee in India, hired to lead the Santa Monica-based disappearing messaging application’s operations in the country. But six months into the gig, bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, he quit. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/07/ott-startup-laminar-raheel-khursheed-netflix-amazon-prime Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Ramarko Sengupta on 13th Jul 2020 with edits by Teja Lele Desai. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Founded in 2015, Ultraviolette is a Bengaluru-based electric vehicle company, which is building an ‘aspirational’ superbike for the Indian market. In India, entrepreneurs Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajamohan realised that the next decade would see a rising need for electric vehicles.  However, they wanted to find a niche in this sector, and make a considerable impact. To this end, the duo decided to build electric superbikes in India for the Indian market. Thus, in 2015, they founded Ultraviolette Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/12/elon-musk-tesla-ev-startup-building-superbikes-india-ultraviolette Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 17th Dec 2020 with edits by Saheli Sen Gupta. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

With no revenue to rent an office, Piyush Somani started a small web hosting support business in a kindergarten centre in Nashik, where his team worked after the kids had left. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/smbstory/entrepreneur-kindergarten-centre-inspiration-esds-software-company Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Rishabh Mansur on 19th March 2020 with edits by Suman Singh. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

In this story, we feature Lalitesh Katragadda, the man who built Google Map Maker and Google Maps for India. Currently, as the founder of Indihood, the serial entrepreneur is building tech to create impact at scale.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/03/techie-tuesday-lalitesh-katragadda-google-maps-india Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 17th March 2020 with edits by Megha Reddy and Tenzin Pema. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

[Product roadmap] The role tech played in the journey of Bharat-focused social media startup ShareChat. In this week’s Product Roadmap we feature ShareChat, one of India’s newest unicorns. Here’s the story of how technology helped the Bharat-focused social media content platform build a 280-million user community along with video platform Moj.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2021/04/product-roadmap-social-media-startup-sharechat-unicorn Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 14th April 2021 with edits by Teja Lele. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Popular YouTuber and content creator Saloni Srivastava started HustlePost Academy to cater to a growing number of people who wanted to use social media platforms to start a business. The Academy offers 13 courses with live interactive sessions. Three years after Saloni Srivastava became a successful YouTuber with an interesting blend of tips and tricks for millennials, the 27-year-old is now giving hope to hundreds of Indians by encouraging them to start a new business. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/herstory/2020/11/woman-entrepreneur-online-business-youtube-instagram Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Rekha Balakrishnan on 18th Nov 2020 with edits by Megha Reddy. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Haris Ali, a Bengaluru-based animal rescuer and entrepreneur, started Sarvoham Welfare Trust to rescue and rehabilitate injured dogs from across the city. As a 12-year-old, Haris Ali loved taking care of a little family of dogs near his home – a mother with a litter of three puppies. With his daily pocket money of Rs 2, Haris would buy a small pack of biscuits and feed this canine family. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2021/01/bengaluru-dog-rescuer-entrepreneur-sarvoham-cupa-haris-ali Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Anju Ann Mathew on 11th Jan 2021 with edits by Suman Singh. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Growing up in Dehradun, Eltropy Co-founder, Ashish Garg, dreamt of going to the US, working with computers and having his own startup; all of which he realised. This is his story. he tells YourStory over a Zoom call, from his residence on a hilltop in San Jose, California, where he has his own tech startup called Eltropy today. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2021/02/bits-pilani-alum-ashish-garg-journey-from-uttarakhand-to-california-startup-eltropy Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Ramarko Sengupta on 26th Feb 2021. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

One of Google’s early employees, Mohit was a part of the team that built the Google File System, which the tech giant still relies on for storing data and access. He is also referred to as the Father of Hyperconvergence, the main technology of his product at his first startup, Nutanix, a listed cloud computing company with a valuation of over $5 billion.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/11/techie-tuesday-mohit-aron-google-file-systems-nutanix-hyperconvergence-cohesity Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on  10th Nov 2020 with edits by Teja Lele Desai. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

Khushboo Jain, Co-founder of ImpactGuru, says, the crowdfunding platform continues to change the lives of people through timely healthcare assistance. “Every minute, 100 people get hospitalised in India and 30 health insurance claims are filed. Seven out of 10 from the middle class population in India do not have any health insurance and those who do, are typically underinsured as the average cover in India is Rs 5 lakh. High out of pocket expenses stands at 60 percent - 3x global average,” explains Khushboo Jain, Co-founder, ImpactGuru. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/herstory/2020/11/woman-entrepreneur-crowdfunding-impactguru-covid19 Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: [email protected] This story was reported by Rekha Balakrishnan on 11th Nov 2020 with edits by Megha Reddy. Hosted by Julius Sharma!