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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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