[Monday Wrap] From a wearable that can control your world to safe and comfy hostels - your startup fix to start the week

How do you ring in the future? Lazy Co wants you to control your world with its smart wearables. Aina, a premium AI-powered smart-ring, is many things - a smartphone, a fitness tracker, a smart home remote, and a timepiece. It offers an easier, faster way of doing certain tasks, including making calls and talking to friends. And to boot, it's stylish too!

With online delivery steadily gaining importance in our daily lives, the delivery boys working in these companies play an important role. A sector-agnostic focus helps Mumbai-based Grab ensure last-mile delivery. Founded by Prathish Singhvi, Nishant Vora, and Jignesh Patel, the startup offers same-day and on-demand delivery services.

After experiencing the gap in education and technology that students in small towns face, 20-year-old Vungarala V. Subrahmanyam built an AI platform to give upskilling, internship options to Tier II and III students. Verzeo helps students learn emerging technologies in their mother tongue, and offers them internship and work opportunities.

Launched in 2016, this Delhi-based student housing startup promises to give you Your Space. Founded by Karan Kaushik, Shubha Lal, and Nidhi Kumra, Your Space hosts 1,200 beds in 11 hostels, with an average occupancy rate of 80-85 percent. The company, which targets undergraduate and post-graduate students, has a 30-member team.

High energy costs? Try a Minion that uses AI to track and cut down your electricity bills. Bengaluru-based MinionLabs has designed a smart energy device that uses Machine Learning (ML) and deep learning techniques and leverages AI to disaggregate, track, and analyse a building’s electricity consumption.

Banking veteran Ashok Mittal saw that most NBFCs focused on larger clients with big ticket sizes; smaller merchants were often left by the wayside. That’s why his startup, Prest Loans, is going to Delhi’s Chawri Bazaar and Chandni Chowk to give loans. The NBFC offers loans and financing to small business and MSMEs.

Soumya Annapurna Kallari's entrepreneurial calling was strong. That's why the mechanical engineer chose to start Dwij, a venture that upcycles jeans to make utility bags. Her startup rescues and upcycles jeans discarded by developed countries, which would otherwise end up in landfills, and makes utility bags. Dwij has upcycled close to 2,000 pairs of jeans in the last three months.

A sarkari naukri is synonymous with security, stability and respect for India's middle-class population, especially in Tier II and III cities. Enter Varanasi-based SarkariExam, which has broken into the government naukri space. Founded by Arpit Seth, the bootstrapped startup is an online platform that gives students information on all government jobs, admit cards, and results in a single place.

Bengaluru-based Neewee, founded by Suyog Joshi, Nataraj Soorkod, Harsimrat Bhasin, and Gucchu Gul Lalwani in November 2014, saw a clear gap in the manufacturing market. That's why Neewee chose to bring IoT and other tech solutions to aircraft manufacturing. Its technology solution can digitally map the entire process of manufacturing without any impediment or likely breakdown and provide prescriptive inputs.

Seeing the rising demand, businessman Pramod Rao chose to plunge into the untapped farm-to-doorstep segment. Bootstrapped and operationally profitable, Gujarat-based Taaza Food brings buy-now-pay-later model for your fruits and veggies. The app-based hyperlocal startup delivers fresh fruits, vegetables, and milk to households in required time slots.

Founded in October 2016 by Sreeraman Thiagarajan, Uppal Shah, and Rushabh Vasa, Mumbai-based Agrahyah Technologies is riding the voice and vernacular wave on the internet. The software firm and content producer rolled into one is building a suite of apps, websites, content platforms, and voice-based products for India’s vernacular population.

Karan Shinghal, Arjun Midha, and Dhruv Agarwal have come up with a unique recipe, and process, so that your tea tastes the same, every time. That’s Haazri’s promise for your daily chai! Started in April 2016, Haazri’s tea is priced at Rs 20 a cup, and the team uses a standardised recipe across its five outlets, using tea leaves sourced from Dibrugarh.

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