GSF joins DreamPlus alliance with 10 other Asian Accelerators, helps Whatfix raise $300k

Founded by Rajesh Sawhney, GSF is an Indian Accelerator that has invested in more than 35 startups through its 3 batches till now. The Accelerator has just announced that it has joined the DreamPlus Alliance which is a group of 11 Accelerators from across the countries in Asia. Dreamplus Alliance will help these Accelerators exchange ideas and learn from each other and it will help startups in Asia expand in the region through a collaborative network of alliance partners. DreamPlus is an ICT Accelerator powered by one of the largest conglomerate in Korea, Hanwha Group. Focusing on supporting the expansion of new and developing a network including leading accelerators from the ten

major Asian markets.

At the inaugural DreamPlus day held in Seoul, Korea, 11 Accelerators and 11 startups (one from each alliance member) participated. Whatfix, a GSF startup, won the competition as the leading startup in Asia. Hanwha Group, the Korean Conglomerate behind the initiative announced a $300k prize for the winner.WhatFix is a SaaS customer engagement startup that helps business on board their customers seamlessly and provide interactive knowledge flows to enhance product adoption. It allows for creation of interactive support FAQs, training material and tutorials which can be integrated with ease across all touch-points inside applications, blog, etc. The aim is to enhances self-service capability of web-based products and applications, which helps companies to reduce support queries and improve user engagement. The company had started of as a B2C solution but seems to have shifted focus more to a B2B proposition.

Whatfix is a product from Quicko Labs which is a Bangalore based startup which was founded by Khadim Batti and Vara Kumar Namburu in 2011. Talking about winning the event, Khadim Batti says,

Whatfix has several customers across Europe & Amercia and now having support from Hanwha group will help us to get into Korea and other south Asian markets. We also look forward to rapidly scale our team and focus on aggressive growth.

GSF as an accelerator has always been in favour of companies taking a global approach as son as possible and the DreamPlus Alliance is another step in that direction. Rajesh says, “GSF has a comprehensive Global strategy to help its startups go global fast. With DreamPlus Alliance, we unfold our “look-east” strategy, idea is to provide a platform to GSF startups to access different Asian markets with the

help of our alliance partners in these markets.”

Website: Whatfix