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50 Disruptive Startups

YourStory's 100 Digital Influencers of 2020

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A YourStory list of startups that made the news this year for all the right reasons.

YourStory presents 50 Newsmakers of 2019 that spotlights startups that dominated the headlines in 2019. After scaling new heights in 2019, we believe, YourStory's 50 Newsmakers will continue to lead the Indian startup ecosystem to higher ground in the year ahead.

The Top 10

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Paytm is fintech that is creating an internet ecosystem in India.

Paytm is a payment gateway that provides payment services for customers and merchants. It is owned by One97 Communications, and backed by investors including SoftBank, SAIF Partners (now Elevation Capital), Alibaba Group, and Ant Financial.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ola is India’s largest mobility platform and one of the world’s largest ride-hailing companies.

Bengaluru headquartered Swiggy is a food ordering and delivery platform.

Oyo Rooms is a global platform that empowers entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack tech products and services that aim to increase revenue and ease operations; bringing easy-to-book, affordable and trusted accommodation to customer.

Zomato is an Indian food aggregator co-founded by Deepinder Goyal in 2008.

Cred offers rewards for paying credit card bills on time.

bigbasket is India's largest online food and grocery store that delivers products to customers' doorstep.

IndiaMart is an online B2B marketplace for business products and services, connecting buyers with suppliers.

Bengaluru-based ShareChat is India's leading social media platform, aimed at 'building an inclusive social space for the next billion internet users'.

Ather Energy is an electric vehicle company that manufactures electric scooters and has also established one of the fastest electric vehicles charging infrastructure Ather Grid, which was built and designed in India.

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Locus is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics.

Snapdeal is an e-commerce startup headquartered in New Delhi that connects buyers to sellers of millions of products from national, international and regional brands.

Freshworks is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup, disrupting traditional CRM, ITSM, Customer Support, and Marketing Automation with its complete customer engagement suite, Freshworks360.

Cure.fit is a healthcare startup that leverages technology and data to enable people to live a healthy lifestyle and get access to healthcare at an affordable cost.

BookMyShow is India's entertainment destination with global operations across UAE, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

Udaan is disrupting offline distribution with its unique B2B model by bringing the benefits of online commerce to manufacturers, traders, suppliers, and wholesalers in smaller towns.

Reverie Technologies is a local language technology service start-up, which helps netizens converse, transact, and collaborate in their native language.

PhonePe is a digital payments platform through which users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores, make utility payments, buy gold and make investments.

Unacademy is an e-learning platform that aims to build an online knowledge repository for multilingual education.

Dream11 is India’s biggest fantasy sports platform with 10 crore+ users playing fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby & baseball.

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50 Disruptive Startups

YourStory's 100 Digital Influencers of 2020