Small Town Startups

Patna-born entrepreneur Dheeraj Kumar returned to his hometown, leaving behind his restaurant The Fish & Chips Room in Dubai, to set up Cart Club. Here's why

Small-Town Startups | How a visit to Elon Musk’s SpaceX factory inspired this young techie to build India’s first private earth-imaging satellite

In a candid conversation, Awais Ahmed talks with Moneycontrol about how this whole idea came into existence, the challenges of building a space start-up in India and the investor’s sentiment towards this segment.

Here’s why this Indore-based start-up calls itself the Netflix of regional content

Stage, founded by Vinay Singhal, Praveen Singhal and Shashank Vaishnav, aggregates video content created by local artists in regional dialects. Starting out with Haryanvi and Rajasthani, it plans to expand to at least 15 other dialects over the coming months.

Small-Town Startups | How a Patna-based company is getting doctors to Bihar villages

With Medishala Healthcare app, villagers get virtual consultation with doctors based in Patna and can also visit them in person if the need arises. The company has tied up with local chemists to arrange the appointments.

Small-town startups: Why this company is based in a Tier 2 city despite running global operations

Running a mobility startup from Chandigarh, choosing not to burn money, and then becoming a global company have its own challenges and opportunities.

Small-Town Startups | Lokendra Singh Ranawat: From London to Udaipur, trying to build an online furniture retailing startup

Back in 2015, when the ecommerce bug had bitten the entire business community, Lokendra Singh Ranawat chose to relocate from London to Udaipur to start Woodenstreet, an omnichannel handcrafted fruniture startup, which sells online and across all the major cities in India

Small-town startups | How Karma Healthcare’s founder went from Goldman Sachs to serving village patients from Udaipur

Jagdeep Gambhir operates away from the hype and noise, but he is sharply focussed on the challenge of providing healthcare to people in the hinterland. Karma Healthcare is his vehicle to achieve that objective

Small-Town Startups I How a founder’s conviction about a tier-II city helped the firm raise funds

When Sibasish Mishra started Bookingjini, a software-as-a-service provider to hotels, in Bhubaneshwar in 2016, it looked like a strange choice. But now, its services are availed by 500 hotels in 5 states alone, and it has raised Rs 6 crore so far. An investor told Mishra: “I don’t know about your product, but your conviction to build it from Bhubaneswar had us sold.”