Tech-based Platform for Photographers, Videographers VsnapU Raises 2 Cr in Seed Round Led by Inflection Point Ventures

• VsnapU is a photographer aggregator platform that provides photo and video services across multiple geographies for personal and business events which need on demand photography
• Funds raised to be used for technology and business innovation, team expansion and to procure more contracts
• VsnapU has been ranked as one of the Top 10 Activities in India on Trip Advisor and No.1 in Goa
• IPV has announced the launch of $50 million AIF Fund Physis Capital to invest in Series A and B growth stage startups
• IPV has so far invested over Rs. 500 Cr over 132+ deals

A leading platform for photography services, VsnapU has raised over 2 Cr. in a Seed Round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The funds received will be used for technological advancement, business innovation and expansion, and procuring more contracts and team expansion.

Founded by Parminder Sahni and Taranbir Singh, who are passionate about the idea, along with their vast experience in travel and photography. VsnapU is a platform that provides photography services across multiple geographies at affordable pricing. The company aggregates locally available photographers which allows them to provide instant photography solutions to both their B2B and B2C clients.

(L-R) VsnapU Cofounders  - Kaushik Singh, Taranbir Sahni, Parminder Sahni, Anshu Sharma

They are currently present in 40 cities in India and are rapidly expanding across 28 countries internationally through their ‘Travel photography model being led by their Co-founder Anshu Sharma, who has joined recently with over 20 years of experience in travel and tourism. VsnapU works with both, full-time photographers as well as gig photographers.

They currently have B2B partnerships with hotel chains (Taj, The Leela), Travel websites (Make My Trip, Thomas Cook), Holiday activity organizers (TripAdvisor), and platforms like Just Dial. They have done over 30,000 shoots and they plan to expand into the wedding photography business by forging new partnerships with established wedding organizers in the country.

Mitesh Shah, Co-founder of Inflection Point Ventures, says, “A photo speaks a thousand words. Clicking pictures to capture every waking moment of our lives has become a ritual for all of us. VsnapU is addressing this market opportunity to ensure that our life changing moments are captured perfectly. Occasions like weddings, baby shower, maternity, birthdays and anniversary always call for a photoshoot where one can time travel to those special moments whenever we like. However, finding the right photographer has become a challenge due to multiple reasons such as unavailability, affordability, and no way to check track record etc. VsnapU has understood the pulse of the customers and have created a platform which not only empowers emerging and professional photographers but also gives the best possible option to the seekers at any given point of time along with live update and progress on their much-awaited photographs/videos. IPV aims to further elevate their business and help them to expand their horizons in India and international market”.

VsnapU specializes in all categories of photography and manages the processing and delivery on the cloud via their online tech-platform developed in-house. They also share live progress and updates from start to the end of shoots, and the client can view the after-shoot processes like editing and quality scoring on their phone or laptops with the live online panel. Tech framework has primarily been developed by Kaushik Singh VsnapU’s co-founder who brings in his technical experience to the company. They send their trained photographer from specific genre to the desired shoot location, resulting in immediate execution of the tasks. Post the shoot, the raw as well as edited images can be seen along with the quality score. The delivery is made automatically via mail and text message of a drive link valid for 365 days on the cloud space.

Parminder Sahni, Co-founder, and CEO, of VsnapU, says about the demand side, “Photographers should be available as easily as other professionals like doctors, engineers, or accountants. Booking a photographer should be as simple as booking a cab or ordering groceries. As social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Tumbler, and Pinterest gain popularity, the photography market is likely to witness rapid growth in the coming years.

While Taranbir Sahni, Founder and COO of VsnapU has the same zeal for the supply end and quotes “We want every individual to be confident while taking up photography as a profession. Every artist should have enough projects & financial stability. They should use their time only in creating content. Not client handling or editing or payment follow-ups.”

The global market for photography is estimated to be $30 billion. Innovation and innovative technologies are the focus areas of industry players. In the years to come, the worldwide photography market is also expected to experience different product launches by market players to lure in users. The startup offers professional-quality photographs and editing skills, which boosts its presence in the market for photography. VsnapU has a first-move advantage for on-demand “tourist photography” inside resort/hotels.

VsnapU is a platform for Photographers with more than 1000 artists who are either servicing travelers from across 28 countries or creating professional e-com content for companies whom they dream about shooting for. These clients use VsnapU as a quality assured booking source for scattered artists across an unorganized industry.

Inflection Point Ventures is an angel investing platform with over 7400 CXOs, HNIs, and Professionals to together invest in startups. The firm supports new-age entrepreneurs by providing them monetary & experiential capital and connecting them with a diverse group of investors.

AI-based SaaS Startup Spyne Raises Seed Funding led by Smile Group, Others

Spyne, an AI-based SaaS startup that helps creative professionals such as photographers and corporations to smartly leverage their content for business growth, has raised seed funding led by Smile group and other angel investors participating.

The recent funding will be used to build deeper technology solutions to streamline and distribute massive offline content photographers have.

Launched in July 2018, Spyne is founded by Sanjay Kumar (IIT Kharagpur) and Deepti Prasad (Delhi School of Economics). “Our vision is to build a single platform for creative professionals, businesses and consumers across the globe to achieve their creative goals in the most effective manner. The digital photography industry is worth nearly $110B, with millions of photographers working as freelancers on various photography assignments, producing billions of images/videos every day. There is a huge scope of innovation in the ways how content is stored, edited and distributed to clients and social media platforms presently.” says Sanjay.

The team is already working on a full spectrum of features - Face detection, auto-tagging of millions of photos with relevant text to make them crawled by Google; and AI-based Photo & Video editing solution to reduce the edit time of projects from days to minutes.

“The world speaks the language of visuals. Instagram’s growth is the biggest example. On one hand, you have creative professionals that require intuitive solutions to become more productive. At the other, you have businesses that need plenty of high-quality content to drive conversions.” says Deepti.



She further adds “Let’s just take photographers as an example. Most of them still use DVDs and USBs to share their content with customers. Some have moved onto cloud-based solutions. But, can the photographers deliver personalized experiences to the people viewing the content? Can an AI solution understand the photographer’s subjective enhancements on the images and replicate the same over the photographer’s next batch of images? Spyne is exploring this route.”

The company is already on a high growth path. It has signed up more than 700 photographers in the last 10 months of launch and is looking to scale till 3000+ by the year-end. Spyne platform has enabled the photographers to share 10M+ images with their clients, generating 5000+ favorable reviews for photographers, unprecedented in the domain.

Spyne management team comes with a vast product, technology & marketing experience. Before launching Spyne, Sanjay Kumar, Co-Founder, and CEO was leading the large Product and Technology teams at Oyo, Amazon, Yatra, and Fashionandyou. He has over 12 years of experience in building and scaling technology products to billions of users on a global scale. Deepti Prasad, the Co-Founder, comes with 10+ years of consulting experience and is the person behind content marketing and digital branding. Raunak Panpalia, who heads product, brings a rich 9+ years of experience in building enterprise products. Vivek Vishnoi leads the sales & operations team, which is responsible for high profile corporate partnerships.

Photographers’ Guide to Know About Free Photo Recovery Software

You have stored devices where you transfer all your images and pixels files from your camera’s memory card. You do this for the safer side, but accidents can happen anytime. What if you delete files from the memory card thinking that you have already transferred them to another device and later found that no files were there in a device? Are they deleted by mistakes? How can you help yourself? There is no better option than free photo recovery software! You can easily access deleted files from the device with no effect on pixels and resolution.

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A photographer when on a shoot focuses on angles and capture a beautiful click, which is must. If he is a traveler, then he has devices carried along and if he is a professional, then he may transfer all images calmly. Well, a photographer protects his photographs from viruses and avoids inserting connecting tools such as pen drives or mobile devices in excess. But, in case, his laptop full of his clicked images comes in touch with virus from online or any other device, it is essential to have knowledge about photo recovery free tools so that no time gets wasted in trying your own experiments.

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Restore Photographs if Deleted By Chance

A photographer has a busy schedule in which he doesn’t serve his organization, but also has his freelancing projects. More the work he does, more the folders he has. He should always go with a safer side. Along with his wonderful assemblage of pictures, he must have the best free photo recovery software installed in his PC, desktops, laptops, and phone devices as well.

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Have you ever thought that of the files you once deleted by considering them as useless, but later on realized that the folder you have deleted was not the one that you was suppose to delete? In order to avoid such nightmare, it is great if your system has data recovery free download installed in it and is operative.

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Saved Images Vs Locations

Who doesn’t want to explore the world? From snowy jacketed mountains to salty beaches, a photographer has discovered a lot. His images reflect a lot! Each photograph narrates various things. Along with it, a photographer is an amazing storyteller as well. Many news clipping of veteran journalists and bloggers depict it. You being a photographer can understand this and can save your experience in the form of photographs and interviews.

There might be the case when any of your data or images get replaced or erased that you have never thought of. What’s the option? It’s simple! Keeping data recovery software free download signed in to your system can help you prevent from many concerns

The Recovery Software Free Download: Why is it Introduced?

Important documents, files, and images are leading the organizations for many years. Saving projects is the end process in the system of getting a relief that the work done is in the system. An employee switches many jobs and keeps his experience with him in the form of documents. A business owner has access to online to save files, but not every file can be stored on mails due to hacking fears and more.

Thus, it is important to have a personal macbook, hard drives, laptops, and many more store devices. In this case, corporate world never fails to have better solutions with it. One can find a complete record of files and if any file gets deleted by mistake, they feel blessed to have data recovery software free download full version with crack in every desktop and laptop used for official purposes.

A photographer has a similar story. He has his experience revolved around his photography talent.

You are never late to go through data recovery software for pc free download and get the installation done. Before your data or images get destroyed, it is essential to mark the importance of having data recovery software free download always in your phone.

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Noida-based Siftr Lets You Create Your Own Photography Website From Existing Online Content At Instagram, Flickr or Facebook

A picture is said to say a thousand words. It somewhere also depicts the story and the aspirations of the photographer behind it. Every photographer aspires to do something big in his/her career but, unfortunately, most of times their dreams are just confined to a Facebook page with borrowed likes. Changing this scenario and making these amazingly creative people realise their dreams, is a Noida-based startup called Siftr.

Launched a month ago, Siftr is a machine learning based photo curation platform. The platform auto-creates photographers' website from their existing online content present on sites like Instagram, Flickr, Behance, 500px or Facebook, and presents the best photographs in a visually appealing manner.

No doubt, there are hundreds of platforms (eg. Squarespace, Smugmug, etc.) already present online which help photographers create their own websites but the whole creation process involved in these sites is very painful. Further, keeping these sites always updated and fresh with all latest photos is an extremely tough task to achieve.

This is where Siftr's self-updating capability takes the cake and sets it apart from all the other platforms. A Siftr user is never asked to upload even a single photo himself to create/update his website. The platform uses artificial intelligence to continuously analyzes all your photos online and find the best shots to create visually appealing and professional photography shots.

As a result, Siftr claims to be the World's first zero-maintenance, self-updating website.

[caption id="attachment_101898" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Screenshot of a photography website created using Siftr platform[/caption]

The platform is indeed quite handy for pro photographers as Siftr eliminates the need for constant updating. One can just keep uploading new pictures on their preferred social networks and the Siftr platform automatically finds new photos and keeps adding the best ones to the website, which can then be customized according to the requirements. So, while having a client meeting a pro photographers can just bring his or her Siftr link/URL and save a lot of time collecting & curating photos.

Founded by Romil Mittal and Mayank Bhagya, Siftr was launched just 4 weeks ago and is currently fully bootstrapped. It has so far analysed more than 1 million photos.

"We haven't done any paid marketing till now, but plan to start that soon," said Romil. The founders current future plans involves keep building upon their machine learning platform and improve their photo curation algorithms.

Siftr's mission, as the co-founder of Siftr - Romil says is to help these hobbyist and serious hobbyist photographers realise their photography dream and help them get more opportunities and nurture their talent further.

The startup's main target audience are the various hobbyist and serious hobbyist photographers present out there. Due to the phenomenal rise in good quality mobile phone cameras and photography based social platforms, various people have realised their photography talent. Unfortunately though, because of have a day job in a non-photography domain, many aren't able to devote time to showcase their talent to the world.

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