Moonmun Kanoi

The Bling Stores is a Mumbai based online store Founded by Moonmun Kanoi that provides chic style fashion accessories, apparels, and sunglasses collection.

This brand started due to Moonmun’s eternal love for the bling, which made her move from a small town in Assam to Mumbai (the city of dreams).

Started off in 2015, The Bling Stores has now grown to be a team of 25 & has expanded its business to US & London. The Bling Stores team strives to provide trendy and quality products to people at extremely affordable prices. The team comprises skilled professionals in art and science, who carefully select and collect trendy accessories from manufacturers and suppliers & put them up on the store.

Weblistr

Karthik K Bhandary (Co- Founder of Weblistr.com)

Karthik K Bhandary and Rashika Jain started off as marketing professionals and have worked for companies like Al-Zoba Co. W.L.L. and Bharti Airtel Ltd respectively.

Their passion for startups brought them together, which enabled them to conceptualize Weblistr, which is India’s one and only ecommerce aggregator and review platform that aims to solve common problems within the ecommerce ecosystem.

 

Pangram

Ridhvi, Anushhraay, Param & Gurangad

Initiated by Param, Ridhvi, Gurangad and Anushhraay – Pangram is a 360-degree digital marketing and solutions agency that is a composition of offerings such as Guerrilla Marketing, Public Relations, Photo / Video editing, Blogging, etc…

It is a 15-member company that brings together four young-bloods from diversified backgrounds. While Anushhraay (23-year-old) and Gurangad (22-year-old) belong to the financial background, Param (23-year-old) and Ridhvi (22-year-old) hold their specialty in Marketing.

JuxPux

Nipun and Pulkit & Simran Jeet

Jux Pux, a specialist in serving Cold and Hot Beverages, Ice Cream Sundaes, various quick bites and heavy bites, etc. is a 30 staffer foods and beverages company that operates a total of 5 outlets in Delhi, Agra and Hyderabad.

It is self-funded start-up that has been co-founded by 3 friends –– Pulkit Arora (MCA in Computer Science), Simran Jeet Singh (B.Tech in Civil Engineering) and Nipun Bhardwaj (B.Tech in Computer Science).

It has been started with a vision to create a niche for itself in the much complicated, unorganized and unevenly distributed foods and beverages sector.

Rakesh-Kamble

Rakesh Kamble

RentMyStay is a Bangalore-based company that holds an assorted set of fully furnished houses, which can be rented for flexible duration, be it for a short term or long term.

As of date, the company is a 26 member team with over 300 properties in 8 different areas across Bangalore, and has served over 1500 customers so far.

It is a 2-year-old start-up that was founded by Rakesh Kamble and Kiran N in 2014. Rakesh holds a B.E. in Computer Science, and Kiran has completed his B.E. in Computer Science and also has an MBA in Strategic Marketing.

Divyaansh Anuj

Divyaansh Anuj

‘Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.’ – Leo Buscaglia

This is the mindset behind the inception of Dextra, an online platform that enables creative people – writers, dancers, painters, artists, etc. – express their creativity in a better way by helping them learn the essential skill set.

To its CEO & co-founder Divyaansh Anuj, Dextra is something that also gives his meaning a life (as he likes to put it).

Divyaansh is a BITS Pilani alumnus and has previously worked as software developer at Oracle. But the comforts of a secure IT job in a fancy office space didn’t give him the satisfaction he gets in overcoming the challenges that he faces every day in growing his startup.

Read on Divyaansh’s interview to YoSuccess to get inspired & to know more about the online platform where you can express your creative thoughts more creatively.

Kulbhushan Kalia

Kulbhushan Kalia

Kulbhushan Kalia, also famously known as ‘KK’, is the all-round business professional, Founder, CEO and the driving force behind Avejana.

Avejana connects brands, retailers and consumers in the ecommerce space that thrive on user generated content marketing and management, to attain exhilarating solutions such as: review generation, on-site, marketing, SEO, network, etc. They assist and empower the brands to control all the consumer dialogue that happens around their products.

KK began his career with Essar Steel Limited as a Deputy Manager (Economic and Strategic Analysis Unit), soon after completing his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing from the KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (Mumbai) in 2005.

He has also worked with companies like Fidelity International as an Industry Specialist – Metals and Mining, and as Asst. Fund Manager (Equities) with Canara HSBC Life in his past.

A much sought after investment process consultant, KK also was the founder member and Asst. Fund Manager while at HSBC’s India Life Insurance JV, where he co-managed US$250 million. He invested actively in sectors such as FMCG, Consumer Durables, Fashion & Retail, Logistics, Metals & Mining, Cement and Power.

A visionary that he is – KK is on a mission is to enable companies to come up with better customer propositions, and also aims to transform himself into a Catalyst to the growth of businesses by helping them manage and understand consumer expectations better.

Deepti Prasad

Deepti Prasad

A full-time business professional, Deepti Prasad is the Co-Founder, head of sales / operations / customer management and the driving force behind Eventila.

Eventila is a young age online Event Planning platform that thrives to solve vendor discovery around event celebrations (Small team outings to big Indian weddings).

With 1200+ Service Partners, 250+ Happy Customers, 20+ Service Categories, and 25+ Corporate Clients, Eventila is one of India’s only platform that is focused to solve event management across segments including: weddings, private parties and corporate events. Their goal is to become a trusted partner for most precious life events of people and simplify the entire end-to-end event management experience.

She had started her career with the Economic Research Foundation as an Economist, soon after completing her Masters (Economics) from the Delhi School of Economics in 2007, and has gone on to work with prestigious companies like Cerg Advisory (Analyst), and GENPACT LLC (Assistant Manager and Business Consultant, Re-engineering Knowledge Centre).

Overall, in her previous roles, she has mainly worked around data analysis using both quantitative and qualitative data to solve complex business problems.

Dr.Florida Tilton

Dr.Florida Tilton

Florida is a first generation entrepreneur, with over a decade of experience in the biotechnology sector. Her areas of research expertise include Molecular Research, Herbal Sciences, Phytobiotechnology, Radioisotopy facilitated Genomic studies, Plant tissue culture, Genome analysis, Genetic enhancement of Plants, Molecular oncology and bioinformatics. She started her career as a Scientific Personnel at SPIC foundation.

Currently she heads Biozone Research Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a Biosciences start-up enterprise based out of Chennai.  It offers contract research academic and industrial training, publishing services and renewable energy solutions in its business cluster.

Rajiv Sheth

Rajiv Sheth

If someone asks about a globally known Indian fragrance, hardly any name comes to mind. This fact pinched like a thorn in the side to Rajiv Sheth, which finally inspired him to launch India’s first exclusive online perfume brand All Good Scents (a venture of Just Scents Pvt. Ltd.).

Having done his post-graduation at ISIPCA (one of world’s most renowned institution for perfumery science studies in Paris, France) and worked for many years in France with some of the best perfume makers, Rajiv returned to India to give India’s rich heritage of perfumery culture a global recognition.

Read on for Rajiv’s interview to YoSuccess to learn more about his passion for fragrances, and about his plans for his exclusive online startup – All Good Scents.