Star Incubator YC endorsement, welcome to join the Unicorn Club in emerging markets
On the just-concluded YC S19 Demo Day, 197 startups took the stage to showcase the results of the incubation. Among the many companies, we have found companies in emerging markets that are worthy of attention, including “Latin America OYO”, “India”, “Middle East Super App” and “Indonesian Robinhood”…
To understand the opportunities that Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious startup incubator, is focusing on in emerging markets, it has combed 28 companies from emerging markets in the Summer Batch. In the previous article, we have introduced Companies from Latin America and the Middle East Including “Latin America OYO”, “Blue Collar Edition”, “Middle East Super App”. In this article we will introduce companies from India and Southeast Asia. If you want to find someone to talk about opportunities in emerging markets and continue to get information on overseas markets, you are welcome to join the “ID:wow36krchuhai” to join the 1000 community.
India [8]
Binks Online “Smart Tailor”
The collision between the sewing machine and “Internet +”, “India Yoshirt” Binks is an Indian online women’s private custom company. It innovatively simplifies the service process of the traditional tailoring industry: customers no longer need to go to the physical store, after the website uploads the image, the computer vision model can calculate the user’s size data to achieve “space separation” Body, made in three days.”
GreenTiger’s “Robinhood” for Indian investors
The numerous procedures for opening an account once blocked Indian investors from the US stock market. The zero-commission US stock trading software GreenTiger simplifies the registration process. Its users can participate in the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange transactions without commission, which takes only 2 minutes. GreenTiger also offers zero-share trading with a minimum of 100 rubles. The founder team from Microsoft announced that it saw a market opportunity worth $7.2 billion.
Khabri “India version of the Himalayas”
Although the podcasting platform is raging in the Internet market, in India, podcast platforms such as Apple Podcast and Spotify are still not attractive, want to find your favorite podcasts? Many users have to vote for YouTube audio. And Khabri isEfforts to build an exclusive podcast network with 2,500 creators. Currently, Khabri has received 60,000 active users, and the average daily usage time of users is about 20 minutes.
Lokal Strong Local News
News App The country and state news is scrolling through the app, and you want to know the local news and get a copy of the newspaper. In the eyes of the founders, the local news of India that has been neglected is precisely the business opportunity. As the name suggests, Lokal focuses on local news across India. Within 10 months of the launch, Lokal received 260,000 active users, with a monthly growth rate of 27%. Currently, Lokal’s news coverage has covered 18 regions in southern India, and 11 of them have market share and readership ahead of their peers. In addition, daily information such as vegetable prices, surrounding activities and contact information of local medical police stations can be found on Lokal to serve residents’ lives.
Mela goal “India fights a lot”?
Self-sealed for the Indian version of “Too much”, Mela is a group-based e-commerce platform based on Whatsapp and Facebook, with a daily growth rate of 59%.
MyPetrolPump “Do you want to cheer on the chef?”
MyPetrolPump provides fuel-adding services for B-end customers in India, including trucks and generators. It has been profitable since its launch and has 1,400 B-end customers with a monthly turnover of $500,000.
Nonu Rescue Hairline
As a men’s personal care vertical e-commerce, Nonu has launched an anti-hair loss kit that includes anti-detoxification medications, vitamins and herbal shampoos. The founder said that 80% of Indian men do not know the existence of prescription anti-detoxification drugs, and they have spent nearly one billion dollars on all kinds of fake anti-off products, and have not saved their hairline. Just take a photo of your head and upload Nonu, and the user can receive the anti-detox drug from the door every month. According to Nonu, about 60 million hair loss patients in India are willing to pay the $120 annual subscription fee – a market opportunity worth $7.2 billion. Nonu has acquired more than 500 subscribers and plans to enter the gender health market in the next step.
Vahan AI achieves match matching, “India Moka” is online
Founded in Bangalore, Vahan has developed an artificial intelligence virtual recruitment assistant on WhatsApp to help companies automate a range of employee recruitment and management processes. Job seekers simply send “hi” to Vahan’s phone number on WhatsApp, and the robot can immediately qualify them, respond to their questions or even schedule them.Interview. Supporting English and a variety of dialects, we are committed to serving companies such as Uber and Zomato who are in high growth period and have strong talent needs. A $20 fee is charged for each successful match.
Southeast Asia [4]
Eden Farm benchmark Sysco
Eden Farm wants to be the next B2B giant in Indonesia. Eden Farm eliminates the dealer distribution link in the traditional business chain, and directly purchases ingredients from the farmer to the restaurant, which not only solves the sales problems of the farmers, but also optimizes the restaurant’s ingredient supply chain. In this mode, farmers can also adjust production according to market demand. Eden Farm’s ultimate goal is to extend its business footprint to all of the neighboring Asian countries, locking in this $30 billion market opportunity.
GitStart paid version “GitHub”
Users can post programming tasks to global developers on GitStart. After each task, GitStart will charge the user a single order fee. If the user wants to hire a developer for a long time, GitStart will charge a commission based on the order fee.
PayMongo “Philippine version of Stripe” to optimize payment process
PayMongo is committed to providing innovative solutions to the underpaid online payment facilities in the Philippines, helping companies quickly and easily accept online payments from multiple sources in minutes. Users can access PayMongo’s API directly or access the pre-built shared checkout form in the form of a web link share. Since its launch in June, the company has successfully signed up to 900 merchants.
TradeID “Robinhood for Indonesian investors”
TradeID is similar to the Indian GreenTiger business model and is the next “Robinhood” in the Indonesian market. Supporting zero-share trading, small-capital users can also experience the fun of trading. The team said that their current business is fully compliant in Indonesia and that $500,000 in transactions have been recorded since its launch.
Organization | Guo Chen@出海
Edit | Zhao Xiaochun@出海
图 | Oriental IC
