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
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Grofers is a low-price online supermarket that provides grocery delivery.
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.
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.
Jumbotail
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Jumbotail is an operator of an online marketplace that simplifies food and grocery shopping.
Reliance Retail
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Reliance Retail offers online shopping and a chain of neighborhood stores, supermarkets, and wholesale/specialty stores.
Flipkart
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Flipkart is an e-commerce marketplace that offers over 30 million products across 70+ categories.
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.
Mamaearth
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Mamaearth is an online retailer specializing in baby and toddler products.
Magicpin
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Magicpin is a platform where users and merchants in a locality discover, interact, and transact.
Pepperfry
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Pepperfry is an online furniture marketplace that offers furniture, home decors, and more.
Spinny
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Spinny is a used car buying platform enabling trustworthy and hassle-free transactions.
Purplle
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Purplle is an online store selling cosmetics, fragrances, skin, and hair care products.
Wakefit
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Wakefit is a home solutions company that strives to create innovative products that are ergonomic, modern and affordable
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.
Medlife
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Medlife is India’s value-centric mobile app for online medicines order & home-delivery of medicines.
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.
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.
GlowRoad
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GlowRoad is world’s largest reseller network of 200,000+ resellers selling across 1000+ cities and earning money online.
Cashkaro
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Cashkaro is a coupons and cashback site rewarding customers for visiting online retailers through their site.
Healthkart
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HealthKart offers fitness products, services and community to help consumers achieve their fitness goals.
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
Meesho
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Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment.
Hopscotch
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Hopscotch provides an insider access to international brands for babies, kids, and moms.
Udaan
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Udaan is a B2B trade platform that brings manufacturers, traders, retailers, and wholesalers into a single platform.
Paytm Mall
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Paytm Mall is an online and mobile marketplace and a subsidiary of One97 Communications’ Paytm brand.
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.
Clovia
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Clovia is a lingerie brand that manufactures and sells fashion lingerie, innerwear, nightwear, and shapewear.
Bizom
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Bizom is the Retail Intelligence Platform of choice for brands and their retailers.
Ramco
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Ramco Systems is a rapidly growing cloud enterprise software company
ZopNow
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ZopNow is a technology platform for online groceries that connects consumers from hypermarkets online.
Evenflow
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Evenflow acquires and scales third-party brands that sell on e-commerce marketplaces.
Citykart
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CityKart is one of the largest family stores chain.
TCNS Clothing
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TCNS Clothing is the name behind the evolution of the fashionable contemporary wear brand for women
Boodmo
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Boodmo is an online marketplace of automotive components and products.
iD Fresh Food
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ID Fresh Food is a Bangalore-based company that offers Indian food.
Bulk MRO Industrial Supply
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Bulk MRO is a full-stack global supply chain platform for industrial products.
Future Retail
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Future Retail operates as a retailer and flagship company of Future Group.
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
Beardo.in
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Beard is an official brand manufacturer of natural ordinary oils or incompatible products to bearded man.
nurserylive
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nurserylive provides wide range of natural plants and accessories online in India.
ICICI Securities
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ICICI Securities is an integrated securities firm.
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.
Wingreens Farms
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Wingreens Farms sells a range of food products and is retailed in the market and online.
Eunimart
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Eunimart is a unified SasS Platform that simplifies Omnichannel Sales for Small to Medium Global Retail Brands.
Wellness Forever Medicare
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Mumbai-based retail pharmacy chain Wellness Forever Medicare Pvt Ltd
Intelligence Node
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Intelligence Node is a real-time retail price intelligence platform that develops artificial intelligence and machine learning analytical.
Universal Sportsbiz
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Universal Sportsbiz is a youth-focused fashion company that offers a variety of clothing brands.
Express Stores
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Express Stores is a retail and omnichannel startup company
Apollo Pharmacy
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Apollo Pharmacy is an e-commerce company for pharmaceutical products.
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.
LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani)
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LoveLocal is digitising and organising local retailers to deliver the neighbourhood shopping experience of the future.
Zenatix
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Zenatix is an energy data analytics company that provides energy management and analytics solutions.
Sattviko
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Sattviko is a traditional food products brand where traditional recipes meet with modern food technology.
Kirana King
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Kirana King operates as a grocery retail aggregator.
airpay
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Airpay offers online payment gateway solutions for e-commerce and retail markets in India.
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.
Wholesalebox
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Wholesalebox is an e-commerce portal for traditional shopkeepers to buy directly from manufactures bypassing the wholesalers and traders.
BigHaat
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BigHaat is an agriculture e-commerce startup that provides farmers with access to quality Agri – inputs and information.
Naaptol
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Koku Gamer is an online platform that offers gaming related news, editorials, reviews, previews, and other content.
GeoIQ.io
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Map-based intelligent platform with single-click access to street-level location data – demographics, competitions, movements – for retail.
Future Lifestyle Fashions
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Future Lifestyle Fashions is an integrated fashion company
sulekha.com
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Sulekha is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing digital business.
Mahindra First Choice
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Mahindra First Choice is India’s leading car mart
DealShare
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DealShare is a fast growing social e-commerce startup
6Degree
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6Degree is a fashion retail startup that provides scales SMB & enterprise businesses through a B2B Retail SaaS platform
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.
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.
DotPe
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DotPe is a technology start-up providing a commerce and payments platform to offline enterprise businesses.
WalMart India
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Wal-Mart India owns and operates 28 B2B modern wholesale stores under brand name ‘Best Price’.
LockTheDeal
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LockTheDeal is an online B2B ecommerce platform for retailers, dealers and traders offering wide range of products and brands.
Kapiva Ayurveda
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Kapiva Ayurveda is a fast-growing Ayurvedic food brand.
Happily Unmarried
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Happily Unmarried was anti established in 2003 with no vision and no business plan.
SuperK
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SuperK SuperK is a tech-enabled grocery retail aggregator enabling local entrepreneurs to set up and operate mini supermarkets.
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.
Avenue Growth
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Avenue Growth an online platform that brands with freelance sales professionals .
FirstCry
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FirstCry is an online shopping store offering a range of baby care products and toys.
Ben Franklin
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Ben Franklin opticians is owned by Eyegear Optics.
GoldVIP Technology Solutions (Crown-it)
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Crown It is a mobile app which is set to revolutionize retail business in India.
Frontier Markets
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Frontier Markets drives life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating digital livelihoods for rural women.
SnapBizz CloudTech
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SnapBizz CloudTech is cloud platform developed Mobile-First, connecting stakeholders of retail ecosystem with an Innovative business model.
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.
ParallelDots
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ParallelDots is an Image Recognition platform that empowers FMCG companies to maximise their sales through better in-store execution.
qZense Labs
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qZense Labs is building the next-generation IoT solution for fresh food quality assessment and management.
Seniority.in
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Seniority.in is India’s largest shopping destination for senior citizens
V2 Retail
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V2 Retail is one of the fastest growing Retail Company in India.
The Label Life
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TheLabelLife.com is an Indian e-commerce lifestyle brand
Shoppers Stop
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Shoppersstop.com offers a truly remarkable shopping experience on the Internet.
Smytten
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It an online discovery platform for premium products & services
ShopG
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ShopG is a social commerce platform selling multi category products.
Prozo.com
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B2b e-commerce company disrupting traditional supply chains by deploying technology throughout the value chain.
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
Msupply.com
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B2B eCom Company – Digital Sales & Distribution – Construction, Interiors, Infra, MRO Consumables Segment
MyPetrolPump
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MyPetrolPump provides doorstep delivery of fuels like diesel and petrol in specialized tamper proof miniature tanks.
Candes
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Candes is a home appliances company providing a complete range of home & kitchen electrical appliances at affordable prices.
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.
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.
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.
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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