Showing posts with label Mobile Startups India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile Startups India. Show all posts

Droom Is India’s First Mobile Marketplace To Buy & Sell New & Used Automobiles

Have a used car to sell but don't know where to go, whom to approach? Don’t worry anymore, because now you can sell your used car yourself without any middleman at Droom. Founded in April this year in Silicon Valley, the Gurgaon-based startup prides itself on being India's first marketplace to buy and sell used and new automobiles.

At Droom, they understand that the whole process of selling and buying an automobile can be completely broken and full of pitfall, stress, pain points and anxiety. Hence, they try to make the whole process smoother and much easier by building trust, increasing transparency and mitigating information asymmetry between two users interested in buying or selling their cars. They try their level best to make the experience of selling and buying automobiles worry free and less cumbersome.

Buying a vehicle is very easy at droom. Firstly, you just have to find a vehicle of your interest. You can search, sort, filter and shortlist the vehicles that interest you the most. The second step involves building trust and comfort. In this step, you’ll review and evaluate the listing details. Droom makes sure that they have a rich catalogue of information on the vehicle, including the history and condition of the vehicle, seller background, and the authenticity of the vehicle. The third step involves paying the commitment fee. This fee acts as a token or advance. It is covered under buyer protection and is completely refundable. This fee makes the seller committed to the deal and the listing gets deactivated on the site. The fourth step involves meeting the seller and reassuring your committed item. In this step, the buyer makes the final value payment to the seller and they sign and exchange documents. And, in the fifth step the seller handovers the key to the buyer.

Selling a vehicle is as simple as buying the vehicle on the platform. The seller starts by creating a listing for their vehicle. This will include filling out the basic facts, the details about the seller, trust factors, housekeeping items and a description of the vehicle. The second step involves the buyer committing himself/herself to the vehicle by paying the commitment fee. Once this is done, the listing is deactivated on the site. The third step involves meeting and realizing the final value payment. In this step, the buyer and seller sign and exchange document and receive final value payment. Droom releases the commitment fee on completion. And, in the fourth step the seller handovers the keys to the buyer.

Droom has a very committed and strong founding team with over 75 years of combined experience in FMCG, Internet, technology and E-commerce. The company is based out of Gurgaon.

GSF Launches 'M-Accelerator', A Specialized Program For Mobile Startups In India

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Gurgaon-based technology startup accelerator GSF global accelerator has lately launched a specialized accelerator program called 'M-Acceleratr' for mobile startups in India and plans to launch more specialized vertical programmes going forward.

Through M-Accelerator GSF will train and fund 10-15 Indian mobile-first startups beginning next year across two batches annually. Functioning as a "super-accelerator" by design, GSF M-Accelerator offers founders four months to make the kind of progress ordinarily accomplished in six to eight months. The selected batches will spend time in India, the Silicon Valley, New York and Singapore.

GSF M-Accelerator will invest $40-$50k at 8-9% equity into the startups inducted into the Global Accelerator program. GSF also does follow-on rounds of up to $500,000 into a few select startups after the program.

GSF M-Accelerator is created in the image of a hackathon. Products pivot several times as teams go through intense, often grueling Q&A sessions with mentors and entrepreneurs in residence. The result of this accelerator is an ecosystem created by the startups for the startups: a challenging, risk-taking of product focuses teams, innovating in areas of mobile marketplaces, mobile apps and mobile commerce.

Since its inception GSF Accelerator had funded 33 startups across three batches including Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook earlier this year.

The four-month 'M-Accelerator' program will start in February next year. A typical week at GSF M-Accelrator consists of three key elements: Mentor Hours, Workshops and Visits.

GSF Mentors include Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, LinkedIn, Zynga, Evernote, Uber, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Matrix Partners, Canaan Partners, Accel, SoftBank, Intuit, Lyft, Spotify, InMobi, Nokia, MIT University, Stanford university, Makemytrip, Ixigo, Zomato, Slideshare, PayTM, Savaan, Hungama, Ola cabs, etc.

BlacMail makes Ordinary Phones Smarter for Emails (without GPRS)

BlacMail Mobile email ApplicationBlacMail is a new push email mobile application launched by Bangalore based mobile applications startup Fifth C , the mobile app is a push email mobile application enables low-end ordinary phones to send and receive mails and that's too without having GPRS as one would normally need to get connected with internet. The app provides low-end mobile users to have email send-receive feature similar to that of smart phones or PDAs such as BlackBerry or Nokia E63.

BlacMail allows users to access their mails through any GSM network on their cell phones anywhere in India be it Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or even your company/ corporate emails.

BlacMail makes Ordinary Phones Smarter for Emails (without GPRS)

Difference that this mobile app making is - Unlike to other 'pull email' based applications available in the market, BlacMail is based over 'push email' application that pushes mails to the user's phone as soon as they land in the user's email inbox. Therefore, BlacMail only alerts your phone and you when an unread email from your internet account is pushed to it. While other services of the similar kind pull an email to your phone by frequently checking your internet mail accounts for unread mails unnecessarily draining your phone battery life.

Available for free trial download BlacMail is at present available only in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad and also at all UniverCell outlets. However the company is negotiating with a top operator in India for release of BlacMail across India soon.

The paid version of this mobile email app is subcription service based on credit system that needs to be purchased for mobile service providers (UniverCell outlet as of now).

Coming to the features the on demand option allows users to get mails only when they want it, and the mail download size option enables them to control the size of mails, thereby saving the user’s credits. Another feature that empowers users to control their credits is the white-list option. It white-lists domains,sites or email addresses that user wants to receive mails from, and filters out all other unwanted domains, thus reducing spam and keeping the user’s inbox clean.

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