WhatsApp just awarded $50,000 to these 5 Indian startups
Medcords
Access to good quality healthcare is still a distant dream for millions living in rural and semi-urban areas. Medcords is using technology to bring dependable and affordable access to quality healthcare to those areas.
Their solution stores patient medical records digitally and allows for comprehensive consultations with a doctor using nothing but an internet connection.
So far, Medcords is operating in 2,000 villages with online health profiles managing medical records for 7,00,000 patients.
Melzo
The use of internet is booming in India but not everyone has access to fast data connectivity. Added to that, online content is only going to get more data-heavy as advertisers get more creative.
Melzo, an affordable virtual reality content platform, is trying to bridge the gap by allowing people to consume content easily on low-end devices.
The company is working with over 140 brands all over the world — not just in India. So far, they have managed to reach 3 million views for audiences across 200 countries.
This isn’t Melzo’s first award. During the Vibrant Gujarat Startup Summit 2018, they came in first and won another grant of $50,000.
Gramophone
Farmers in India have always complained about the low margins on any crop that they try to sell. Gramophone, an agri-tech platform, is trying to increase that margin and reduce the cultivation costs by 15% to 20% using agronomic intelligence.
The aim isn’t just to make farming more lucrative in India but to increase the overall production of a given crop, by more than 30%.
Javis
Javis might not be the same as Jarvis out of the Avengers, but it’s trying to solve the problem just like Tony Stark’s virtual assistant. The aim of the WhatsApp-based conversation AI platform is to make sure that the right people get connected to the right information in the shortest amount of time possible.
It’s essentially a very smart research tool. So far, the platform only has 1,500 users and deals with around 3-4 individual queries per day. But Javis is set to expand its footprint, pun intended, to 15,000 footwear outlets starting next month.
MinionLabs
India’s energy crisis is a reality that a lot of business have to deal with when the power bill comes in at the end of the month.
MinionLabs wants to help cut down on that cost by 12-16% by giving businesses real-time insights into how they can reduce their energy consumption — using machine learning.
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