Many entrepreneurs like the founders of Ola and Flipkart come from the Punjab State educational system but always used to choose Tier 1 city to set up their startups. To change this situation, Punjab Government has started a new initiative, Startup Punjab. Under this new scheme, Punjab Government is promoting the setting up of incubator centers, partnering with the technical universities for a startup fund of INR 100 crore. So, here is a list of the top 10 startups in Punjab.
list of startups in Punjab:
Jugnoo
- Founders: Chinmay Agarwal & Samar Singla
- Industry: Logistics
- Founding Year: 2014
This startup comes on first on the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. Chinmay and Samar found Jugnoo in 2014. It is India’s first auto-rickshaw aggregator to make the daily commute easy and reliable. It connects riders with the auto-rickshaw with just a few clicks. Because it has also recently started with the B2B delivery network DODO, which makes use of the existing auto-rickshaws in the network to do deliveries in their idle time.
PayMart
- Founder: Amit Narang
- Industry: Fintech
- Founding Year: 2015
This startup comes on second in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. PayMart is a financial technology company working on replacing ATMs with a network of merchants. Before, two months the company announced the launch of India’s first virtual ATM in partnership with the ICICI Bank. It is the first company to launch the service in India.
PayMart is a Reserve Bank Regulated entity having a powerful presence in Bihar, UP, Punjab, Delhi NCR, North East, and Haryana.
AgNext
- Founder: Taranjeet Singh Bhamra and Mringak Sharad
- Industry: Agritech
- Founding year: 2016
This startup comes on the third in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. It is one of the fastest-growing companies working towards revolutionizing agricultural technology to check food quality. The startup offers software, hardware, and analytics for quality estimation in food and agriculture.
uTrade Solutions
- Founder: Kunal Nandwani and Ashish Grover
- Industry: Fintech
- Founding year: 2011
This startup comes on the fourth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. uTrade Solutions is a fintech solutions firm enabling smarter trading via multi-asset trading platforms, risk management, and latency algorithm trading for institutional investors and proprietary investors.
Technocrats Horizons Compusoft
- Founder: Tarvinder Singh
- Industry: Web Development
- Founding Year: 2005
This startup comes on the fifth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. With a team of around 50 employees, Technocrats specialization in web development, web design, open course customization, multimedia, software development, etc. The company hires quality web developers and analysts so that they can offer the best software solutions to their customers.
TickTalkTo
- Founder: Abhay Singhal
- Industry: Application
- Founding Year: 2016
This startup comes on the sixth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. TickTalkTo also has an aim to make meeting the psychologists normal and completely prejudice-free. The major idea is to help people cope up with daily life stress and keep themselves mentally healthy because mental health affects a person’s physical health as well.
WizIQ
- Founders: Harman Singh
- Industry: eLearning
- Founding Year: 2007
This startup comes on the seventh in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. WizIQ, an ed-tech startup in Chandigarh. It is one of the world’s largest cloud-based education platforms. Over 400000 educators have leveraged WizIQ to deliver learning services to around 4 million learners across the 200 countries. It is an easy way to teach and train online. It is a cloud-based learning delivery platform with a suite of integrated features like course builder, virtual classroom, reports, analytics, assessments creation, and mobile learning.
Stumania
- Founders: Raghu Madan & Sahil Sharma
- Industry: eLearning
- Founding Year: 2017
This startup comes on the eighth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. Stumania is a 24/7 educational assistance portal founded by the Sahil and Raghu to widen the landscape of learning. It provides access to learning content and material. It assists high school and college students with their day-to-day requirements for study materials, books, and assignments.
Flambird
- Founder: Jagjit Jassal
- Industry: Furniture
- Founding Year: 2016
This startup comes on the ninth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. Flambird is both an innovation and design enterprise based out of Ludhiana. It is a successful interior designer with a vision to bring innovative and user-friendly designs to furniture. Right from the design to marketing and manufacturing, everything is done in-house.
STATif
- Founder: Dr. Deepti
- Industry: Stats & Analytics
- Founding Year: 2014
This startup comes on the tenth in the list of top 10 startups in Punjab. STATif is a stat-based firm. It helps you to easily study and understand your statistical data easily. The data is electronically and then manually analyzed to make sure the negligence of errors in it. All you have to do is to send your data to the company. Then the team will also help to analyze all the data and send you when the work is done.
