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EARLY­STAGE<br />

START­UPS<br />

ShopSocially<br />

Company/Product:<br />

ROI­driven SaaS social commerce pla orm enabling online businesses to embed social<br />

experiences on the website or email. Bagged the Technology Genius Award for<br />

Social Commerce at LinkShare Golden Link<br />

Started by: Founded by IIT­K alumni Jai Rawat and Samir Palnitkar, in 2009<br />

Current Stage:<br />

Funding Received:<br />

Grew by over 1000% in 2013. Used by hundreds of websites including Target, CBS, HBO,<br />

Show me, American Apparel, TripAdvisor, NBC Universal, Symnatec.<br />

$2.9M seed and Series A funding in 3 rounds from 6 investors­Metamorphic Ventures, XSeed<br />

Capital, Valhalla Partners and other angel investors<br />

Scandid<br />

Company/Product:<br />

Started by:<br />

Price comparison engine and coupon aggregator for online stores.<br />

Started by:<br />

Founded in 2012 by Madhur Khandelwal and Sushil Choudhari<br />

Funding Received:<br />

Highpoint/Addi onal<br />

info:<br />

$250,000 in angel funding from Sandeep Johri and other angel investors based out of Silicon<br />

Valley and New York in May, 2013<br />

Winners of NASSCOM EMERGE­50 2014 Award<br />

Framebench<br />

Company/Product:<br />

Cloud based communica on pla orm for storing and sharing crea ve assets, allowing<br />

remote teams and clients to review and host discussions or feedback on them in real me<br />

Started by:<br />

Current Stage:<br />

Funding Received:<br />

Founded in 2012 by Rohit Agarwal and Vineet Makran, alumni of Birla Ins tute of Technology<br />

and Science<br />

Over 1,000 companies have used Framebench including HBO and Unilever. Its latest GMail<br />

annota on tool saw 6000 downloads in 2 weeks.<br />

Angel investment of $150,000 from Blume Ventures, CIIE and other angels investors in<br />

January, 2013<br />

chejad@gmail.com<br />

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