Disturbed by news about the rape of a six-year-old girl in a school in Bengaluru, IT veteran Praveen Agarwala, along with Saurabh Tandon, developed BetterPlace, a digital platform for the blue-collared workforce in the unorganised sector. BetterPlace manages the entire life cycle of blue-collar employees, including onboarding, background checks, training and certification.
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Disentangling farmers from the clutches of middlemen, the Electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM), an e-commerce platform, enables them to sell their produce directly in the market at fair prices. Today, 585 mandis across 16 States and two Union Territories have enrolled into eNAM, trading over 40.8 lakh tonnes of produce on the platform. A total of 1.31 crore farmers and 1,20,074 traders are registered on eNAM.
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From initially running one rural health centre in 2012, West Bengal-based iKure Techsoft now has 28 centres offering affordable and quality healthcare to over 5.5 million people in 2,300 villages across West Bengal, Odisha and Karnataka through the innovative use of technology. The company has a cloud-based database on patient history through its patent-pending Wireless Health Incident Monitoring Service (WHIMS) technology.
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InMobi, a global provider of cloud-based intelligent mobile advertising, serves ads on mobile devices based on analysis and understanding of the user’s location and preferences. Once rejected by 20 venture capitalists, InMobi now holds the No. 2 spot in the Chinese mobile ad business with a global advertising network of 1.6 billion mobile users across 22,000 apps.
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Through indigenous technologies, Neurosynaptic Communications, a Bengaluru-based digital healthcare firm, allows doctors to remotely conduct consultations for patients in far-flung villages. In the past 16 years, the company’s Remote Medical Diagnostics (ReMeDi) technology has supported 2,200 rural tele-health centres, covering over 5 crore people.