The Bangalore chapter of The
Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) has announced the names of ten startups picked for
its second accelerator batch that commenced earlier this month. The selected
startups come from sectors like Big Data, healthcare, mobile, cab service, and
robotics, among others. According to the accelerator, it had reviewed more than
300 applications for this batch, which takes its portfolio count to 20 startups.The last batch included
startups like Tourlandish, an on-demand mobile concierge that helps travellers
discover & book the best things to do in town, which received seed funding
of $25,000; and Channelyst, an online marketplace for channel partners, SMBs
and consumer product companies that raised $500,000.
Here is a quick look at the
10 startups:
EventsHigh: It aggregates
information related to events and allows users to explore them based on their
interests and locality.Swarmverse: It provides
online pre-payment schemes on jewellery to its customers.Pristech Analytics: The
startup connects all key players in the parking industry- from the motorists,
parking lots, merchants, shopping centres, airports, universities and large
organisations via mobile devices to make parking information available for
public use through an app/cloud.
Let’s Drive Along: An app for
car-owners to benefit from next generation car-pooling. Its features include
flexible timing, flexible set of pool buddies, car-pool on demand, and a cost
sharing model with no money exchange fuss.
Discover Dollar Technologies:
It detects and resolves overpayment to suppliers of large retailers in
real-time using all data sources including unstructured data like emails and
contracts.
Skyriz: The startup has
developed Ray, a Braille-based smartphone.
Chipster Technologies: It has
developed a compact computing device which has a wireless display, mouse and
keyboard for an uncluttered setup. According to the startup, the device makes
traditional desktop computer obsolete.
Sastra Robotics: It develops
high-end robotics technologies for industrial, consumer and academic research
purposes.Lostclikfound.com: It
aggregates all lost and found items on its portal, creating a virtual lost and
found ecosystem.
LabP53 Cancer Research: It
analyses patient’s DNA in order to find out the best suitable treatment for
their genetic makeup.
