101 Top Indian Retail Companies and Startups of 2021

July 2, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best Indian based Retail companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Retail industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Indian Retail Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Grofers

Grofers

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Grofers is a low-price online supermarket that provides grocery delivery.

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Reliance Industries

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Reliance Industries is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas in India and internationally.

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BigBasket

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BigBasket is an online food and grocery store that delivers personal and household needs right to the customer’s doorstep.

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Jumbotail

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Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.

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Reliance Retail

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Reliance Retail offers online shopping and a chain of neighborhood stores, supermarkets, and wholesale/specialty stores.

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Flipkart

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Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories.

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Snapdeal

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Snapdeal is India’s largest no-frills, value-focused marketplace offering products across 600+ categories from 500,000+ strong seller base.

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Mamaearth

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Mamaearth is an online retailer specializing in baby and toddler products.

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Magicpin

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Magicpin is a platform where users and merchants in a locality discover, interact, and transact.

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Pepperfry

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Pepperfry is an online furniture marketplace that offers furniture, home decors, and more.

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Spinny

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Spinny is a used car buying platform enabling trustworthy and hassle-free transactions.

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Purplle

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Purplle is an online store selling cosmetics, fragrances, skin, and hair care products.

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Wakefit

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Wakefit is a home solutions company that strives to create innovative products that are ergonomic, modern and affordable

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SUGAR Cosmetics

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SUGAR Cosmetics is a cruelty-free makeup brand providing cosmetics that is high on style and higher on performance.

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Medlife

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Medlife is India’s value-centric mobile app for online medicines order & home-delivery of medicines.

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Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail

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ABFRL is a designs and manufactures branded apparel and operates a chain of apparel and accessory retail stores.

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Perpule

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Perpule’s UltraPOS is a cloud based, mobile POS system that substantially improves the billing and checkout process at your stores.

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GlowRoad

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GlowRoad is world’s largest reseller network of 200,000+ resellers selling across 1000+ cities and earning money online.

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Cashkaro

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Cashkaro is a coupons and cashback site rewarding customers for visiting online retailers through their site.

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Healthkart

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HealthKart offers fitness products, services and community to help consumers achieve their fitness goals.

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Arzooo.com

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India’s largest retail tech platform in consumer durables segment transforming 300,000+ SMEs with its flagship “Go Store” product

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Meesho

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Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment.

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Hopscotch

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Hopscotch provides an insider access to international brands for babies, kids, and moms.

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Udaan

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Udaan is a B2B trade platform that brings manufacturers, traders, retailers, and wholesalers into a single platform.

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Paytm Mall

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Paytm Mall is an online and mobile marketplace and a subsidiary of One97 Communications’ Paytm brand.

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Flatheads

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Flatheads is a lifestyle brand that designs and creates shoes from India for the world. Flatheads launched India’s first bamboo footwear.

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Clovia

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Clovia is a lingerie brand that manufactures and sells fashion lingerie, innerwear, nightwear, and shapewear.

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Bizom

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Bizom is the Retail Intelligence Platform of choice for brands and their retailers.

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Ramco

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Ramco Systems is a rapidly growing cloud enterprise software company

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ZopNow

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ZopNow is a technology platform for online groceries that connects consumers from hypermarkets online.

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Evenflow

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Evenflow acquires and scales third-party brands that sell on e-commerce marketplaces.

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Citykart

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CityKart is one of the largest family stores chain.

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TCNS Clothing

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TCNS Clothing is the name behind the evolution of the fashionable contemporary wear brand for women

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Boodmo

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Boodmo is an online marketplace of automotive components and products.

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StoreKing

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Digital Touch Point For Rural India

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iD Fresh Food

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ID Fresh Food is a Bangalore-based company that offers Indian food.

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Bulk MRO Industrial Supply

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Bulk MRO is a full-stack global supply chain platform for industrial products.

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Future Retail

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Future Retail operates as a retailer and flagship company of Future Group.

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Avenue Supermarts (D-Mart )

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DMart is a one-stop supermarket chain that aims to offer customers a wide range of basic home

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Beardo.in

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Beard is an official brand manufacturer of natural ordinary oils or incompatible products to bearded man.

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Voylla

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Imitation Jewellery and Accessories

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nurserylive

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nurserylive provides wide range of natural plants and accessories online in India.

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ICICI Securities

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ICICI Securities is an integrated securities firm.

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Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd.

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Online Multi Channel Order Fulfillment Platform which enables E-commerce merchants of all sizes to sell more.

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Wingreens Farms

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Wingreens Farms sells a range of food products and is retailed in the market and online.

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Eunimart

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Eunimart is a unified SasS Platform that simplifies Omnichannel Sales for Small to Medium Global Retail Brands.

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Wellness Forever Medicare

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Mumbai-based retail pharmacy chain Wellness Forever Medicare Pvt Ltd

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Intelligence Node

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Intelligence Node is a real-time retail price intelligence platform that develops artificial intelligence and machine learning analytical.

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Universal Sportsbiz

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Universal Sportsbiz is a youth-focused fashion company that offers a variety of clothing brands.

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Express Stores

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Express Stores is a retail and omnichannel startup company

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Apollo Pharmacy

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Apollo Pharmacy is an e-commerce company for pharmaceutical products.

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Style Bazaar

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Style Bazaar is a retail store that offers clothing, furniture, utensils, crockery, cutlery, sports goods, and other related products.

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LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani)

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LoveLocal is digitising and organising local retailers to deliver the neighbourhood shopping experience of the future.

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Zenatix

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Zenatix is an energy data analytics company that provides energy management and analytics solutions.

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Sattviko

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Sattviko is a traditional food products brand where traditional recipes meet with modern food technology.

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Kirana King

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Kirana King operates as a grocery retail aggregator.

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airpay

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Airpay offers online payment gateway solutions for e-commerce and retail markets in India.

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Sirona Hygiene

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Sirona Hygiene is a new-age startup with a range of category-defining Intimate & Menstrual Hygiene products for Women.

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Wholesalebox

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Wholesalebox is an e-commerce portal for traditional shopkeepers to buy directly from manufactures bypassing the wholesalers and traders.

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BigHaat

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BigHaat is an agriculture e-commerce startup that provides farmers with access to quality Agri – inputs and information.

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Naaptol

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Koku Gamer is an online platform that offers gaming related news, editorials, reviews, previews, and other content.

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GeoIQ.io

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Map-based intelligent platform with single-click access to street-level location data – demographics, competitions, movements – for retail.

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Future Lifestyle Fashions

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Future Lifestyle Fashions is an integrated fashion company

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sulekha.com

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Sulekha is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing digital business.

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Mahindra First Choice

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Mahindra First Choice is India’s leading car mart

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DealShare

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DealShare is a fast growing social e-commerce startup

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6Degree

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6Degree is a fashion retail startup that provides scales SMB & enterprise businesses through a B2B Retail SaaS platform

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specsmakers

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A one of South India’s fastest growing optical retail chain with a vision to provide best quality eye wear products.

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1 India Family Mart

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1-India Family Mart (parent organisation Nysaa Retail Private Limited), the fastest growing Value Retail Chain in India.

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DotPe

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DotPe is a technology start-up providing a commerce and payments platform to offline enterprise businesses.

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WalMart India

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Wal-Mart India owns and operates 28 B2B modern wholesale stores under brand name ‘Best Price’.

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LockTheDeal

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LockTheDeal is an online B2B ecommerce platform for retailers, dealers and traders offering wide range of products and brands.

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Kapiva Ayurveda

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Kapiva Ayurveda is a fast-growing Ayurvedic food brand.

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Happily Unmarried

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Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan.

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SuperK

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SuperK SuperK is a tech-enabled grocery retail aggregator enabling local entrepreneurs to set up and operate mini supermarkets.

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BASIX Sub-K iTransactions

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Sub-K is a service company that offers affordable, accessible and scalable digital payment solutions to the BoP segment.

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Avenue Growth

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Avenue Growth an online platform that brands with freelance sales professionals .

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FirstCry

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FirstCry is an online shopping store offering a range of baby care products and toys.

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Ben Franklin

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Ben Franklin opticians is owned by Eyegear Optics.

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GoldVIP Technology Solutions (Crown-it)

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Crown It is a mobile app which is set to revolutionize retail business in India.

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Frontier Markets

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Frontier Markets drives life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating digital livelihoods for rural women.

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SnapBizz CloudTech

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SnapBizz CloudTech is cloud platform developed Mobile-First, connecting stakeholders of retail ecosystem with an Innovative business model.

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PrettySecrets

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PrettySecrets is an online, Indian e-commerce website that offers a range of lingerie such as bras, panties, nightwear, swimwear, and more.

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ParallelDots

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ParallelDots is an Image Recognition platform that empowers FMCG companies to maximise their sales through better in-store execution.

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qZense Labs

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qZense Labs is building the next-generation IoT solution for fresh food quality assessment and management.

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Seniority.in

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Seniority.in is India’s largest shopping destination for senior citizens

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V2 Retail

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V2 Retail is one of the fastest growing Retail Company in India.

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The Label Life

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TheLabelLife.com is an Indian e-commerce lifestyle brand

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Shoppers Stop

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Shoppersstop.com offers a truly remarkable shopping experience on the Internet.

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Smytten

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It an online discovery platform for premium products & services

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ShopG

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ShopG is a social commerce platform selling multi category products.

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Prozo.com

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B2b e-commerce company disrupting traditional supply chains by deploying technology throughout the value chain.

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FIDOO

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FIDOO aims to digitize and organize local retailers to power the largest retail network in the world and deliver best shopping experience

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Msupply.com

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B2B eCom Company – Digital Sales & Distribution – Construction, Interiors, Infra, MRO Consumables Segment

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MyPetrolPump

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MyPetrolPump provides doorstep delivery of fuels like diesel and petrol in specialized tamper proof miniature tanks.

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Candes

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Candes is a home appliances company providing a complete range of home & kitchen electrical appliances at affordable prices.

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Appario Retail

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Appario Retail aims to be the choice for its customers and brand partners by providing a wide variety of products at great prices.

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La Opala

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La Opala is a Indian tableware retailer

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Aqualite India

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AqualiteIndia is one of the most popular footwear brands in India. It offers a wide range of shoes, flip-flops, sandals and slippers.

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Fashion & You

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Fashion & You is an Indian online shopping club providing members with access to international lifestyle brands and designer labels.

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DusMinute

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DusMinute is a platform that offers amenities such as a supermarket, pharmacy, home services, cafe and for residents of gated communities.

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