“Business Icons Don’t Work For The Organization, They Lead The Organization”
Unprecedented incidents like COVID19 bring lot of after effects. Nobody was prepared for such incidents from common man to the corporate world has been notably upended by it. Entire mankind was fighting for its survival and business sector was drastically impacted. Year 2022 was a year full of fluctuation where a constant threat of COVID 19. However, there were companies with strong executives that kept the situation under control, tried to continue working even during these challenging periods, and helped their businesses succeed. They are admirable for their perseverance and commitment. Because of this, Startup Reporter started a campaign in November, close to the year’s conclusion, to honor these business leaders on this “75 Saal Azadi Amrit Mahotsav”. Under the leadership of Honorable Prime Minister “Narender Modi” Indian businesses has seen a massive growth. He inspired us to find out those people who deserve to get recognized for their zeal and work.
Startup Reporter is a platform for online media interaction that showcases the newest company ideas and startup success stories. It is a business-focused news network. Consequently, it intended to use the 75 Indian Startup Founder Stories campaign to highlight developing businesses and show appreciation for the people who are consistent and always working to grow. The list includes Solopreneur, Startup, SME and MSME level people and organization.
The objective of this list is to encourage others to come forward and start their entrepreneurial journey and create more job opportunities. These listed people showed tremendous zeal that if you have strong determination and will to start something, nothing can stop you. They showcase that you need to be optimistic and find a solution for the problem. “Rise” is a word that defines growth, and growth is not only monetary growth. Establishing yourself during all odds and having the courage to start your own journey is also connected to growth and this is what these people showcased.
| Company Name | Name | Designation | Company Profile |
| Mobavenue Media Pvt Ltd | Tejas Rathod | Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer | Mobavenue is a leading growth & tech platform that provides MadTech (MarTech & AdTech) solutions to help businesses acquire new customers, grow their businesses, and make money. The company was founded by Tejas Rathod and Kunal Kothari, both of whom are recipients of the prestigious BW30 under 30 award. Mobavenue has grown rapidly since its inception and is now profitable. |
| Object Technology Solutions India Pvt Ltd (OTSI) | Chandra Talluri | Chief Executive Officer | Chandra Talluri, an accomplished business leader with extensive experience in global delivery and a blend of entrepreneurial management and strategic leadership in Technology. He has helped OTSI emerge as one of the leading digital IT services destinations in India. OTSI offers a wide range of solution and services to a variety of industry segments, including BFSI, healthcare & life sciences, energy & utilities, communications & media entertainment, engineering & telecom, retail & consumer services, hi-tech, manufacturing, engineering, transport, logistics, government, defence & PSUs. |
| Spotflock Technologies Private Limited | Sridhar Seshadri | Co-founder | Spotflock Technologies is a deep technology company that specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing whose founder is Sridhar Seshadri, an ex-Meta and ex-eSports industry veteran. The company has two business verticals – one focused on using these technologies to help government entities handle their e-governance needs, and the other focused on using these technologies to help sports organizations manage their sports programming. |
| Sai Silks Kalamandir Ltd. | Durga Prasad Chalavadi | Chairman and Managing Director | Sai Silks Kalamandir Ltd. is a retailer of ethnic clothing, specializing in sarees. The company was founded by Durga Prasad Chalavadi, a first-generation entrepreneur, in 2005. The company has since grown to 50 locations, and its total space is about 5.65 lakh square feet. |
| Nutrilitius | Abhilash Reddy D | Managing Director and Co-founder | Abhilash Reddy D is the managing director and co-founder of Nutrilitius, an online platform that sells high-quality nuts, dry fruits, and health supplements. He has over 8 years of experience in startup hustling and consulting, and he established Nutrilitius with the goal of providing customers with a healthy lifestyle through a robust feedback system and an efficient last-mile delivery system. |
| Deccan Healthcare Ltd. | Dr. Minto Purshotam Gupta | Chairman and Managing Director | Dr. Minto Purshotam Gupta founded Deccan Healthcare to help people achieve a “disease-free body” and to extend the lifespan of those who are already alive. The company has a large international presence, serving clients from many different countries. It is also one of the fastest-growing nutraceutical company with a huge distribution network. |
| Vanity Wagon | Naina & Prateek Ruhail | Co- Founders of Vanity Wagon | Naina & Prateek Ruhail founded Vanity Wagon as India’s Largest Clean Beauty Marketplace. The platform currently hosts 250+ Brands and 9000+ SKUs across 80+ categories. This has resulted in a multifold growth in monthly users from 5k in 2018 to 5.4 Lac in 2022. Vanity Wagon has raised up to $2Mn at a valuation of $8Mn. |
| NutraBooti | Tarun Gupta | Chief Product Officer | Tarun Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Nutrabooti. With his significant experience in the pharma industry and skills in providing strategic insights and product development, Tarun is building Nutrabooti with the core mission to reduce lifestyle diseases from the country and make the brand synonymous with nutraceuticals and make preventive healthcare accessible to all. |
| Love Organically | Deepshikha Deshmukh | Founder | Love organically and Love Veda are a perfect synergy of ancient, time-honoured rituals and modern science has armed every formulation with the power to make a real difference in the skincare world. Love organically creations are all about skincare in its best and purest form. With innocent ingredients and gentle formulations, you won’t need to worry about safe skin nutrition again. |
| KDM | N D Mali | Founder | N D Mali is the recipient of the Bharat Gaurav Award, which is India’s highest civilian award. Mali has worked hard to create a successful consumer lifestyle and premium mobile accessories brand, KDM. The company plans to become a household name in every town and rural area of India, and it is aiming to reach 1 lakh dealer networks by 2025. |
| TruCap Finance Limited | Rohan Juneja | MD & CEO | TruCap Finance is a Mumbai-based NBFC that provides loans to small businesses in six Indian states. Rohan Juneja, the company’s CEO, is a former investment banker and hedge fund manager with 17 years of experience in the industry. TruCap Finance operates 67 branches across these states. |
| One Point One Solutions Ltd. | Akshay Chhabra | Managing Director | One Point One Solution is a leading player in business process management (BPM) and offers technology, accounting, skill-development, and analytical solutions that help businesses build better capabilities and achieve seamless growth. Some of the company’s leading clients are Tata Nexarc, Cred, Domino’s Pizza, and Razorpay. Akshay Chhabra, the CEO, focuses on technology-driven innovation to build efficiencies and surge ahead in the BPM space. |
| EXZOD India Pvt Ltd | Nitin Kalla | Founder and Managing Director | EXZOD is a company that specializes in manufacturing, selling, and renting pallets. It was founded in 2018 and has already partnered with a number of businesses across different sectors. Nitin Kalla, the founder of EXZOD, has a lot of experience in the pallet industry and is driving the company forward. |
| Pitti Engineering Ltd | Akshay Pitti | Vice Chairman & Managing Director | Pitti Engineering Limited is a leading manufacturer of electrical steel laminations, sub-assemblies for motor and generator cores, die-cast rotors and machined casted and fabricated parts and shafts. Pitti supplies a wide range of products to diverse end-user segments, including freight rail, passenger rail, mass urban transport, hydro and thermal generation, windmill, mining, cement, steel, sugar, construction, lift irrigation, appliances, medical equipment, oil and gas, and various industrial applications.Under the leadership of Akshay Pitti, the company has made significant strides in advancing its technological capabilities and global stature. |
| ReWild | Adarsh Narahari | Co-founder and Managing Partner of ReWild | ReWild is a new-age real-estate company, incepted in 2021 with an intention of curating the most premium vacation homes that are well managed end-to-end. Luxury real estate is emerging in India as buyers are more inclined towards investing in well-thought countryside vacation homes. The ultimate aim of ReWild is to build an eco-friendly paradise in the laps of nature that is designed to enable people to live in harmony with nature and adopt a more conscious lifestyle. |
| TAILORTECH PRIVATE LIMITED | Susmitha Lakkakula | Founder | Susmitha Lakkakula has a Master’s degree in software engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Over the last six years, she’s led various businesses. Her fields of expertise include TV serials, IT, and fashion technology. During her pregnancy, she saw a huge gap in the market for organized and interactive interfaces for fashion design, styling, online personalised orders, and fulfilment. So she founded CloudTailor, a phygital solution to these needs. |
| Sass Communications | Ishita Singhal | Founder | Ishita, an entrepreneur has successfully launched her own public relations firm, Sass Communications. She has been in the industry for over 5 years and holds a degree in fashion marketing from Nottingham Trent University. Her clients include some of the leading names in the public relations industry, such as Makeup Eraser, Fix My Curls, Type Beauty Inc, Bare Body Essentials, and Bella Vita Organic. Ishita’s success is by her ability to build strong relationships with her clients and maintain synergy between them. |
| Bevzilla | Anurag Chhabra | Founder | Anurag Chhabra is the co-founder and CRO of Bevzilla, a company that is the first in India to launch instant coffee cubes. He has a background in relationship building, communication, and formulating marketing campaigns, which he has used in previous jobs at well-known organizations like Zomato, BT Group, and Fork Media. He started his own business, Bevzilla, in 2016. |
| Humm Care | Carina Kohli | Founder & CEO, Humm Care | Humm Care is a health-tech startup that offers personal, high-quality and curriculum-based maternity and family healthcare through the family building spectrum – for mothers, families and organisations. |
| EyeGear Optics India Pvt Ltd | Mr. Raj Pyla | Chairman and Managing Director | Raj Pyla established EyeGear Optics in 2008 with the goal of providing quality eyewear to customers in India. In addition to its Ben Franklin brand, EyeGear Optics also operates an Eyegear B2B Optical platform that helps independent optical retailers sell its products. |
| SolutionBuggy | Arjun N | Founder & CEO, | Arjun pioneers in the Indian manufacturing consulting space. He is a business coach, startup mentor and Industry thought leader and takes care of overall company operations, new initiatives and Strategy at SolutionBuggy,. His extensive experience in Turnkey Project management, networking and consulting has driven the progression of the brand. |
| Genefied | Ayush Jhawar | Co-founder & Technical Director, | Ayush has remained at the forefront of bringing innovative solutions to the market. His passion for technology made him pioneer in B2B enterprise SaaS with innovative ideas for large enterprises. Founded in 2018, Genefied bootstrapped its way to become pioneers in Loyalty Management, Digital Warranty Activation, Supply Chain Traceability, and Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions. |
| Leadup Universe | Mayank Verma | Co-founder, | Mayank has more than twenty years of corporate experience in handling business operations across multiple product categories and service domains. Some of Mayank’s distinctive capabilities include his capacity to build markets, curate new products, coach leaders, and offer consultancy services to help businesses achieve more profitability and greater market share. |
| Ekkaa Electronics | Sagar Gupta | Director | Sagar Gupta started his entrepreneurial journey in 2018, when he founded Ekkaa Electronics. Ekkaa Electronics is a renowned and ardent OEM, ODM expert company in manufacturing LED TVs. His clear vision and commitment towards quality standards has made Ekkaa the No.1 ODM player. Despite being a young entrepreneur he has paved his way into the manufacturing industry. |
| LakshMe | Maitry Shah | Founder and CEO | Maitry Shah is a financial expert who has noticed the growing need for financial literacy among women and has decided to create a platform to help them learn about financial matters. She is also motivated to help women overcome their fears about financial inclusion. And, this urge motivated her to commence, LakshMe – a platform to educate women and guide them to become ‘atmanirbhar’. |
| Bonkers Corner | Shubham Gupta | Founder | Shubham Gupta is a fashion enthusiast and entrepreneur who has been successful in starting his own business, Bonkers Corner. He is a believer in the idea that the best way to predict the future is to create it, and his business has been growing steadily each year. |
| ControlZ | Yug Bhatia | Founder & CEO | Yug Bhatia is the founder and CEO of ControlZ, a smartphone company in India that believes in the collaboration of technology and sustainability. ControlZ provides “as good as new” devices, wherein each component of the device is renewed with precision to meet the best quality standard. Mr. Bhatia is on a mission to inspire people to practice more conscious consumption. |
| Senior World | Rahul Gupta | Co-Founder & CEO, Senior World | The author of the article Rahul Gupta, who is a corporate professional with 25 years of experience in diverse industries, states that the SeniorWorld organization was founded in 2015 with the vision of promoting positive ageing. He quotes, “ Seniors’ lives are getting reshaped like never before. To start with, we are all living longer. With more and more people living well into their 80’s and 90’s, the 60+ group is today the fastest growing segment. It’s not just how long they are living, but also how they are living that’s changing” He started SeniorWorld with M.P. Deepu in 2015, they listened to their hearts to serve the country’s elderly population as it was a forgotten demographic. |
| Codleo | RS Maan | Managing Director and Global CRO, Codleo | RS Maan, Managing Director and Global CRO, Codleo Consulting has over 17 years of experience in driving strategic innovations and building businesses in the domain of technology. His expertise in strategic innovation, business planning, strategy development, software design, sales & marketing, channel creation, operating model improvement, and strategic partnerships accelerates business growth & expansion. |
| Dr Hedgewar Hospital | Dr Anant Pandhare | Medical Director | Babasaheb Ambedkar Vaidyakeeya Pratishthan established the Dr. Hedgewar Hospital in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. The hospital was founded by young doctors inspired by the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a nationalist pan-India organisation |
| India Today Television | Vivek Malhotra | Group Chief Marketing Officer | Indian Television Academy (ITA) Awards 2022 has conferred India Today Group with “ITA Golden Laurel Media Conglomerate” award for the Aaj Tak News conglomerate. |
| Jindal Aluminium Limited | Praghun Jindal Khaitan | Managing Director | Pragun Jindal Khaitan, scion of the Bangalore-based Jindal-Khaitan family, is perhaps, among the youngest managing directors in the country.. This Wharton graduate is an acolyte of his maternal grandfather and the founder and chairman of Jindal Aluminium, S. R. Jindal. Khaitan is committed to the task, but does not want to go overboard with it. . |
| Shakti Pumps (india) Limited | Mr Dinesh Patidar | Managing Director | Shakti Pumps India Limited is a largest manufacturer of submersible pumps for domestic, industrial, horticultural and agricultural use. The company is listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India. Shakti Pumps India Limited is India’s leading solar pumps manufacturer and Exporter. |
| Sterlite Power Transmission Limited | Pratik Agarwal | Managing Director | Sterlite Power is a leading integrated power transmission developer and solutions provider globally, focused on addressing complex challenges in the sector by tackling the key constraints of time, space and capital. In our Global Infrastructure Business, we bid, design, construct, own and operate power transmission assets across multiple geographies. |
| INOX Group | Siddharth Jain | Director | Siddharth Jain joined the Group in 2001 and has been actively involved in the Groups’ Strategic Planning & Business Development initiatives. He is directly responsible for the Industrial Gases, Entertainment and Cryogenics Equipment Manufacturing businesses. Under his management, each of these companies today have achieved leadership positions in their respective industries. |
| Radon India Pvt Ltd | Raju Garg | Director | My purpose is to establish RADON as the biggest retail chain around the world for impeccable home solutions for Bathroom, Vanities, Modular Kitchen and Wardrobes. The idea that describes my belief is “Modernity is something that satisfies us with comfort and elegance”. RADON is not only skilled at providing quality and exclusive designs but serves 100% satisfaction to its consumers. |
| Media Value Works | Rachana Chowdhary | Director | |
| Mindynamics | Sakshi Choithani | Director | |
| Bubble Communication | Aarti Notiyal | Director | |
| Renaissance Global marketing and consulting pvt ltd | Ganga Ram Gupta | Director |
