The year 2023 was full of new startups powered by the powerful vision and a mission to uplift living conditions, save the environment and create breakthroughs in healthcare. The startups helped create a new era of progress and hope, with innovation as the key to a bright future for humanity.
The following article will be beneficial in providing information regarding the eight breakthrough start-ups which ruled 2023 in India.
Senthil is an electronics and communication engineer living in Madhurai with more than ten years of experience working in companies like Qualcomm and Samsung. However, when his sister got pregnant, she got to realise the healthcare in rural India and pregnant women. Different surveys found that only 54% of pregnant women in rural India make the recommended visits compared to 68% in urban areas. To reduce the gap in rural India, Senthil started the IoT-based maternal healthcare application, JioVio Healthcare, that helps provide early risk monitoring solutions for pregnant women in their homes. After the launch of the startup in 2019, it has created more than 30 lakhs of mothers from 14328 villages in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. The 1000-day program has helped around 7,000 high-risk pregnancies since its startup.
Thermocol is one of the most widely used products in parties, schools, craft calls, events, and other decorative work. However, it has significant harmful impacts on the environment. Arpit Dhupar, 30, a 30-year-old IIT graduate from Delhi, is trying to change this reality by inventing a new biodegradable product which can help replace the thermocouple in the future. The startup has succeeded in inventing biodegradable metamaterial packaging with the help of crop waste. Every piece they produce helps reduce 250 tonnes of thermocol being dumped on land. The startup has produced around 250 tonnes of paddy stubble with 100 acres of farmland in Haryana and Punjab. The farmers are paid 2500/acre for the farm waste.
Plastic waste is one of the biggest emerging problems for all countries worldwide. Plastic waste causes various types of problems for the environment, resulting in degrading the quality of air, water, and land. Although there are a large number of startups working to reduce plastic waste in the country, the Hyderabad-based startup known as the Banyan Nation has successfully developed an innovative alternative to plastic known as polyolefin plastic (PE and PF). This plastic can manufacture premium packaging materials such as shampoo bottles, lotion, and detergent bottles. Mani Vajipey and Raj Madan Gopal co-founded the startup. Manigopal was studying for his MBA at Columbia Business School when he came up with the idea of the Banyan nation. Per his research, every plastic bottle in India is downcycled except water bottles.
The startup business has produced more than 3000 million FMCG bottles with the help of recycled plastic. The startup supplies its bottles to significant companies in India, such as HPCL, Reckitt, Shell, and Hindustan Unilever. The startup also recycles 1000-1200 tonnes of plastic every month in its recycling facility in Hyderabad.
Vimal, the founder of AgriVijay, soon realised that with many innovations happening, it becomes difficult for the farmers to understand which innovations are helpful for them and their development. To reduce the gap present, AgriVijay came to light. Also, Vimal wanted to increase the farmers' revenue and teach them different techniques that could help them reduce running expenses by reducing fossil fuel usage and helping prevent global warming. The startup provides renewable energy products to farmers and rural households. AgriVijay provides more than 200 products based on green energy, such as solar water pumps, solar inventors, solar water heaters, solar digestors, solar dryers, and cold storage.
Any type of specialised AI, similar to Chat GPT, which mainly uses English due to the presence of many texts and audio data for the platform. Understanding this need, Manu Chopra introduced Karya, which collects and provides data to its clients in various languages. Collecting data makes the startup very different from others in the market. The profits earned after covering all the startup's running costs are channelled equally to the startup's employees. The startup's employees generally come from rural India and work from different remote locations, which has helped them provide a way to earn a second income apart from their primary source of income. Around 32,000 employees from 22 states in India have worked for the company.
Sharmila Jain is well known for her achievements and dedication to bringing high-quality, nutritious food to rural India. She created a non-profit organisation and developed a millet-based brand named the God Mom. The primary reason behind the creation of the brand is the report released in the year 2006, which revealed the death of 17,060 farmers in India. The revelation positively impacted Sharmila, and she returned to India to work for the well-being of the farmers. With the help of her NGO, she helped around 1.5 lakh farmers to generate consistent income and improve their well-being.
The startup was founded by Santanu Naidu, Gargi Sandhu, and Niki Thakur to provide safe havens for older adults. Ratan Tata backs the startup. The trio is dedicated to providing shelter homes and companionship to support senior citizens. The young team members act as teammates and are known as GoodFellows. The trio has been serving more than 400 grand people around the country since its beginning.
Sumati Jalan started Bihart with 15 full-time employees and a network of 12 weavers and 18 artisans. They create products such as crop tops, Kurtis, tale bags, figurines, weft cushions and dolls. Bihart has earned around 1.5 lakh rupees as revenue every month, and it has created a brand presence in stores in some of the major cities of India, such as Rishikesh, Udaipur, Delhi, Bangalore, and Goa. The company generates the most sales in cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Goa and Chennai. The startup has played an essential role in transforming the lives of the rural people in Bihar.
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