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  • Now&Me – Taking The Nation Towards Better Mental Health!

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    With all the awareness initiatives and the movements taking place in the field of mental health, we see people talking about it but we actually don’t see people understanding what in reality goes behind being mentally unhealthy. For those who’ve felt like, “so many people have told me to open up, but nobody really understands what’s going on”, Bani Singh and Drishti Gupta launched nowandme.com in 2018.

    Nowandme.com is an online safe space that’s bridging the gap between people, their problems and someone who wants to hear them and lend a helping hand. This venture believes in the power of human experiences and the community. The aim of this company is to develop a community where people can share their experiences and emotions without the fear of being judged. Also, this portal publishes blogs and videos on the website to generate awareness about pressing issues like mental health.

    Now&Me – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Now&Me
    Headquarter Gurgaon
    Sector Healthcare
    Founders Bani Singh and Drishti Gupta
    Founded 2018
    Parent Organization NowAndMe
    Website www.nowandme.com

    About Now&Me and How it Works
    Now&Me – Target Market Size
    Founders of Now&Me and team
    How was Now&Me Started?
    Now&Me – Name and Logo
    Now&Me – Startup Launch
    Now&Me – Startup Challenges
    Now&Me – Funding and Investors
    Now&Me – Revenue Model
    Now&Me – Growth
    Now&Me – Future Plans

    About Now&Me and How it Works

    It’s as simple as logging onto nowandme.com and pouring your heart out!

    Now&Me has shared and displayed more than 4000 personal and heartfelt experiences. Meaningful, wholesome and sensitive interactions take place among the community every day. One can choose to post/respond anonymously as well. nowandme.com is a pace where you can truly be who you are. It is basically a form of kinder internet, where you don’t have to pretend to be someone you’re not.

    nowandme.com lets you connect with strangers on a deeper level and allows you to heal, learn and grow through mixed experiences of individuals. It acts as a platform for people going through a rough phase in life and wanting someone to talk to. Even those who want to share their achievements and success stories can be found. It is a community that is growing with each passing day.

    Now&Me is a glocal brand, which started in Delhi-NCR. It conducts various offline events and workshops regularly. The most recent one being on ‘Stress Relief’ at IIT-Delhi. Another event on ‘Social Media’ was conducted by the team at LSR. ‘Create Don’t Hate’ was organized at SelectCity CityWalk Mall in association with JustDelhiing. The team has also created offline no-judgment zones, talking circles, network therapy, and safe spaces to encourage catharsis and been an active part of activities like Drum Circle – Music Therapy and Art Therapy as well.

    HealthifyMe Success Story – Founders | Funding | Revenue | Business Model
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    Now&Me – Target Market Size

    According to the WHO, “There is growing evidence of the global impact of mental illness. Mental health problems are among the most important contributors to the burden of disease and disability worldwide. 5 of the 10 leading causes of disability worldwide are mental health problems. They are as relevant in low-income countries as they are in rich ones, cutting across age, gender, and social strata. Furthermore, all predictions indicate that the future will see a dramatic increase in mental health problems.”

    Founders of Now&Me and team

    Bani & Drishti, Cofounders of NowAndMe
    Bani & Drishti, Cofounders of Now&Me

    Now&Me co-founders Bani Singh and Drishti Gupta are college friends. Both of them graduated from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University in May 2019 with a degree in statistics. They officially started working together in February 2019, while in the last year of college. Bani mainly handles the creatives (content+curation) while Drishti looks into the technology, communications, and outreach. Usually, it is a bit of everything that the two of them need to pay attention to.

    The Now&Me team also includes tech support staff and constant help from interns. They only recruit individuals who are passionate about the cause and can grasp the complexities and commitment required to run the organization. The team mainly hires in the field of web development, content creation and communications.

    How was Now&Me Started?

    The idea and inspiration for the company came to the co-founders after seeing the people around who were going through some or the other issues or problems in life, but were not able to find an outlet to let out their troubles. Drishti and Bani tested the idea amongst the peers in college, and their response was taken into consideration.

    NowAndMe logo
    Now&Me logo

    Other than the obvious choice of domain availability, the name- “Now and Me” signifies being in the present with one’s feelings.

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    Now&Me – Startup Launch

    Now&Me was launched through word of mouth and social media while the co-founders were in college. Support from friends and families helped Drishti and Bani in giving the initial push to the brand. Regular offline events helped as well in building the brand identity. Everybody is going through something in life and everybody needs a shoulder to lean on. NowAndMe is that shoulder.

    “To spread awareness among people regarding our product, we constantly share content on our social media pages and also upload informative blogs every week on the website, most of which are written by mental health experts. This has attracted more people and motivated them to share their feelings with us.” says Bani, co-founder of nowandme.

    Now&Me – Startup Challenges

    The biggest challenge for Now&Me is the long-standing stigma around mental health, that stops people from seeking help even when they know that it’s the right thing to do. Conducting safe, small talking circles in an attempt to encourage people to open up and own their feelings has proved to be extremely novel and successful in getting people’s attention.

    Now&Me – Funding and Investors

    NowAndMe has been bootstrapped and has not raised any funds yet.

    Now&Me – Revenue Model

    NowAndMe is a free platform and records no revenue.

    Now&Me – Growth

    • nowandme.com gets over 10,000 unique visits every week, and has about 1000 registered users.
    • nowandme.com ranks amongst the best 10k websites in India (via Alexa Rankings)
    • Mr. Ankur Warikoo, former CEO, nearbuy.com is an esteemed supporter.
    • NowAndMe has conducted events on ‘Stress Management and Mindfulness’ in esteemed institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)

    The co-founders say that while they want to keep the platform free, they also want to provide users with access to the right kind of knowledge and professionals. For this, they will be compiling different means of recourse available, such as online and offline therapy, 24/7 helplines and tele-counselling services, and workshops.

    Now&Me – Future Plans

    “Along with the sharing platform, we also aim to become the Yellow Pages for Mental Health in India.” Now&Me founder Bani Singh said emphasizing on the company’s future plans.

    The long-term agenda is to integrate good professional help in the Now&Me platform along with its existing endeavors towards mental health and its affordability, availability and accessibility.

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  • Mom’s Belief is Empowering Parents’ of Children With Special Needs

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    Mom’s Belief is a start-up, that empowers parents of special needs children in the absence of accessible and affordable services. Founded in 2017 by Nitin Bindlish , Mom’s Belief has a clinical team of Child Psychologists, speech & occupational therapists & special educators who work together to provide training to parents & professionals who care for Children with Development disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Down Syndrome, Learning Disabilities, Intellectual disability, global development delay, and Cerebral Palsy.

    For its innovative model, Mom’s Belief was awarded as the most innovative project by Zero Project at the United Nations, Vienna in 2019

    Lets go through the Success Story of Mom’s Belief and get a glance on Mom’s Belief Founders, Business Model, Funding, Growth, Revenue Model & more…

    Mom’s Belief – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Mom’s Belief
    Headquarter Gurgaon
    Sector Special Needs
    Founder Nitin Bindlish
    Founded 2015
    Parent Organization Rays of Belief Pvt. Ltd.
    Website momsbelief.com

    Mom’s Belief – About
    Mom’s Belief – Founders and Team
    Mom’s Belief – How it Started?
    Mom’s Belief – Name, Tagline and Logo
    Mom’s Belief – Work Culture
    Mom’s Belief – Competitors
    Mom’s Belief – USP and Innovation
    Mom’s Belief – Business Model and Revenue Model
    Mom’s Belief – Funding and Investors
    Mom’s Belief – Startup Challenges
    Mom’s Belief – Growth
    Mom’s Belief – Awards
    Mom’s Belief – Future Plans
    Mom’s Belief – FAQs

    Mom’s Belief – About

    Established in 2015, Mom’s Belief launched its programs in early 2018 after three years of research and development. Mr. Nitin Bindlish created the program to empower the parents of special needs children with teaching tools and professional support, motivated by the simple intent to improve the lives of families who know the day-to-day challenges inherent in supporting a special needs child. Mom’s Belief has developed thousands of resources and teaching tools that accommodate the learning styles of children with special needs and has touched 3200+ lives till date.

    Mom’s Belief assigns a master level child psychologist to each family which connects with parents using video conferencing, phone, email, and instant messaging. The psychologist helps parents to identify goals and create monthly individualized education plans (IEPs) and also get the teaching tools delivered to there home every month. Mom’s Belief also supports schools and therapy centres to enhance the therapies they offer for special needs kids.

    Mom’s Belief – Founders and Team

    Mom’s Belief was founded in 2015 by Mr. Nitin Bindlish.

    Nitin Bindlish is Founder of Mom's Belief
    Nitin Bindlish | Founder of Mom’s Belief

    Mom’s Belief has a team of child psychologists, speech and occupational therapists and special educators who work together to provide guidance and training to parents and professionals who provide services for children with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, Down syndrome, learning disabilities, intellectual disability, global developmental delay, and cerebral palsy. The team also addresses behavioral and mental health issues and is led by senior clinical leaders who are associated with Stanford University and Sir Ganga Ram, Max (Gurgaon), AIIMS and VIMHANS hospitals in the New Delhi area.

    Mom’s Belief – How it Started?

    Mom’s Belief was created out of a desire to address the overwhelming need for special needs support in India. Their special needs support services address the struggle that parents of special needs kids face. It’s reported that there are 52 million children who show signs of a developmental disorder such as autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, ADHD, or intellectual disability. But there aren’t enough qualified professionals available to treat them.

    Imagine what it must be like to have a 10-year-old child who is non-verbal, a 14-year-old child who struggles to dress him or herself, or a five-year-old child who can’t hold a crayon. Then imagine what it would be like to have no access to a professional who can help you. That is the reality that these parents face every day. Mom’s Belief was created to empower these parents with professional guidance, knowledge, and resources so they can help their child.

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    The mom’s belief name was inspired by Founder & CEO Nitin Bindlish’s vision of a company that empowers mothers to transform the lives of their special needs children because they firmly believe that a mother knows her child best and there’s nothing more powerful than her belief in her child.

    mom's belief tagline & meaning
    Mom’s Belief Logo

    The logo shows a mother cradling her child that portrays her warmth, love and support for her child.

    The mom’s belief company’s tagline is “Actually You Can!” which reassures and reaffirms the belief that parents can play an active and important role in the development of their child with special needs, with the right guidance and support.

    Mom’s Belief – Work Culture

    Employees at Mom’s Belief are encouraged to take initiatives in their work and work on execution instead of waiting for permission to go ahead. Some of the main highlights of Mom’s Belief’s work culture are:

    • Taking initiative: As a company that uses an innovative model to empower parents as co-therapists and support children with special needs all over the world, Mom’s Belief employees are constantly motivated to take up innovative initiatives across various functions.
    • Encouraging transparency and open culture: The leadership team is highly approachable and this encourages employees to take up initiatives.
    • Creative thinking: Being a young organization, Mom’s Belief is ready to push boundaries in the field of health & wellness and is driven to come up with creative solutions to modern health needs.

    Mom’s Belief – Competitors

    The company have no competitors in India. There is no organization or individual who provides a home-based neuro-developmental program that incorporates training and learning resources for the parents of special needs children.

    Mom’s Belief – USP and Innovation

    Mom’s Belief’s has a Iconic Home Program where parents are connected with one of child psychologists, who completes a neuro-developmental profile of the child. The parents and psychologist then create an individualized education plan that is specific to the child’s needs. Once the education plan is in place, the psychologist customizes resources and teaching tools to support the education plan. The library of nearly 1000+ resources enables them to provide a highly tailored program for each individual child.

    The resources are delivered to the home and after one month, they collect them, create another education plan, and then send a new set of learning resources. Parents receive training from a child development expert so that over the course of time, they become knowledgeable, skilled and effective therapists for their child. The mandatory training is delivered in weekly, one-hour sessions. Training sessions can be held at the company’s R & D center, or via video chat platforms such as Skype, Facetime or WhatsApp video.

    Mom’s Belief – Business Model and Revenue Model

    Mom’s Belief is largely a direct B2C company where a person enrolls in the program for a certain period and pays upfront for the enrollment. The company;s monetization model is highly unique for the industry.

    Mom’s Belief offers a monthly subscription model that covers an initial assessment, customized resources that are delivered monthly to the home, and ongoing mentoring from an experienced child psychologist. Parents of special needs children are accustomed to paying fees for regular therapy sessions, and for some, the fees are exorbitant. Mom’s belief provides ongoing professional support and resources at a cost that is far more manageable.

    Mom’s Belief – Funding and Investors

    Mom’s Belief is a social enterprise and was funded through businesses and private investors with whom they have long-standing relationships. Mom’s Belief’s home-based program for families is a subscription-based program, and they make the program available at a more affordable price point for families in the EWS category.

    Mom’s Belief – Startup Challenges

    One of the key challenges that Mom’s Belief faces is encouraging parents to believe in their capacity to support their child with guided therapy. Parents are still encouraged to believe in the old model in which the therapist or psychologist delivers the therapy while parents stand by passively. Yet it’s known how effective parental engagement can be and several studies conducted in the UK have also demonstrated the effectiveness of supported parent engagement for special needs children.

    Many parents are held back by the belief that they need special training or knowledge to provide support for their developmentally disabled child. The startup’s program provides dedicated hours of training and ongoing mentoring to the parent, which helps them realize that they can have an impact. In fact, the tagline is Actually You Can!

    Story of Now&Me – How two college girls are helping people achieve mental health
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    Mom’s Belief – Growth

    Over the past 3 years, the team have worked effortlessly to create a model that empowers parents, caregivers, and professionals and also create an ecosystem that fosters the use of tools, resources, training, and expert guidance to work towards a world where no child with special needs is left behind. And to further this cause, they have expanded their services to locations like New York, London, California, UAE, and Kuwait in addition to being India’s largest holistic care provider for children with special needs.

    Currently, there are 113+ centres all over the country working with mom’s belief which provide special services like occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, as well as structured learning, and counselling.

    “Having touched 3200+ lives is just the tip of the iceberg, as we are continuously working on expanding to new locations around the world and in India, where we aim to have 200+ centres pan-India by the end of the year 2020. We are also focused on leveraging technological developments in the world of innovative healthcare to help us reach and change a million lives in the next few years”, says Nitin Bindlish, Founder of Mom’s Belief.

    Mom’s Belief – Awards

    Mom’s Belief was awarded as the most innovative project by Zero Project at the UNITED NATIONS, Vienna in 2019, for its innovative model that supports the parents of special needs children and the professionals who work with them.

    Also awarded in the fifth edition of the International Business Excellence Awards  2019 in Dubai the brand bagged the prestigious award for contribution in the Wellbeing and Health category. Mom’s Belief has also been awarded the ”Promising Brands” of 2019 by The Economic Times.

    Mom’s Belief – Future Plans

    The mission of Mom’s Belief is to improve the lives of one million children over the next ten years using a network of one million parents and professionals. To achieve this mission, they are expanding their team to increase their reach across India and into other countries where the demand for services is strong.

    The UAE, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Vietnam are part of the plans and they are building networks in some of these countries, so they can take these plans forward. Mom’s Belief is also working on creating an active community of parents of special needs children in India so that they have a platform to share their struggles as a special needs parent and coping strategies that have worked well for them so that other parents can get the help they need and deserve.

    This community will be a space for parents who are willing to ask for help, and to share effective parenting tips with other such parents who are struggling to get their life back, which includes being able to provide the best help and care for their children while at the same time living their life to the fullest, in order to avoid burnout and maintain personal wellness.

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    Mom’s Belief – FAQs

    What is Mom’s Belief?

    Mom’s Belief has a clinical team of Child Psychologists, speech & occupational therapists & special educators who work together to provide training to parents & professionals who care for Children with Development disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Down Syndrome & more.

    Who is Mom’s Belief Founder?

    Mom’s Belief was founded in 2015 by Mr. Nitin Bindlish

    What is the status of Mom Belief’s Funding?

    Mom’s Belief is a social enterprise and was funded through businesses and private investors with whom they have long-standing relationships.

    How does Mom’s Belief make money?

    Mom’s Belief offers a monthly subscription model that covers an initial assessment, customized resources that are delivered monthly to the home, and ongoing mentoring from an experienced child psychologist. Parents of special needs children are accustomed to paying fees for regular therapy sessions, and for some, the fees are exorbitant

  • By founding Oxfordcaps, these Women Entrepreneurs are raising the bar for Co-living spaces

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    Millennials are on the top of co-working and carpooling. With that, there’s also a huge rise in the demand for co-living areas in and around India. This trend is at the top of current housing trends in the country and youngsters are all over it. With the vision of providing co-living spaces, Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera came together to launch Oxfordcaps residencies in 2017.

    Lets go through the Success Story of Oxfordcaps along with getting a glance on Oxfordcaps founders, funding, How it started, competitors & more..

    Oxfordcaps – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Oxfordcaps
    Headquarter Gurugaon
    Sector Real Estate
    Founders Annu Talreja (CEO) and Priyanka Gera (COO)
    Founded 2017
    Parent Organization Oxfordcaps Student Residences
    Website oxfordcaps.com

    Oxfordcaps – About and How it Works
    Oxfordcaps – Target Market Size
    Oxfordcaps – Founders and Team
    Oxfordcaps – How it Started?
    Oxfordcaps – Startup Launch
    Oxfordcaps – Startup Challenges
    Oxfordcaps – Competitors
    Oxfordcaps – Funding and Investors
    Oxfordcaps – Growth
    Oxfordcaps – Awards
    Oxfordcaps – Future Plans
    Oxfordcaps – FAQs

    Oxfordcaps – About and How it Works

    Oxfordcaps is Asia’s No. 1 branded and tech-enabled student housing company and provides a hassle-free and technology-driven living experience to Gen Z students in India and Singapore. This venture provides a custom-designed and standardized Student Housing product with a full-stack model of services and amenities including Wi-Fi, laundry, nutritious meals, professional housekeeping and an array of events and activities focused on career development and lifestyle for its students. The projects and services are standardized within the Oxfordcaps brand services guidelines, providing a transparent, hassle-free and safe alternative to a market dominated largely by the unorganized PG (Paying Guest) segment to date. They operate via three sub-brands and cater to students across price segments including Oxfordcaps Premium Residences, Oxfordcaps Student Residences and Oxfordcaps Dorms for the budget segment.

    Oxfordcaps Logo

    All the Oxfordcaps residences are equipped with top-notch security features like CCTV Camera, biometric access and 24×7 security guards. Also, they serve FSSAI quality food at all Oxfordcaps residences. Oxfordcaps focuses on hygiene, taste, and variety when it comes to food. And they have a strong operations team, including F&B experts. There is a quality check at every point. For menu planning, the team takes feedback not only from the students but from their parents as well. Oxfordcaps also provides wholesome delicious vegetarian, non-vegetarian and Jain meals along with late-night meals.

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    Oxfordcaps – Target Market Size

    The market size is estimated to be $15 billion with more than 10.4M students across India migrating to cities every year to pursue their academic dreams. However, student housing today suffers from a high level of fragmentation, lack of quality solutions, price transparency, reliability and complete lack of technology enablement of processes.

    Oxfordcaps is addressing this gap and aiming to meet the unmet demand. The market in Singapore is equally appealing to addressing student accommodation needs of international students from the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

    Oxfordcaps – Founders and Team

    Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera are the founders of Oxfordcaps.

    Oxfordcaps founder
    Priyanka Gera (COO) and Annu Talreja (CEO), Founders of Oxfordcaps

    Annu Talreja (CEO & Founder, Oxfordcaps)

    Annu is a student of Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gold medalist at School of Planning and Architecture and has completed a Master’s Degree at INSEAD

    Priyanka Gera (COO & Founder, Oxfordcaps)

    Priyanka is an IIM-Calcutta and School of Planning and Architecture alumni. The idea of creating a branded chain of student accommodation germinated while she was an architecture student in Delhi.  

    Oxfordcaps are hiring through LinkedIn, reputed colleges and industry references. Apart from basic CS qualifications like data structures, algorithms, and programming concepts, the team evaluates the candidates on their approach towards problem-solving. The final decision is based on the candidate’s overall performance and not just one skillset.

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    Oxfordcaps – How it Started?

    The idea of creating a branded chain of student accommodation germinated when the co-founders were students and finally after their experience in companies such as JLL and Marriott Group, they had a more definite and structured approach to solving this problem that plagues over 100 million students across Asia.

    Oxfordcaps is Asia’s No. 1 branded and tech-enabled student housing company and provides a hassle-free and technology-driven living experience to Gen Z students in India and Singapore. This venture is looking to expand to 12+ cities and standardize our Student Housing product with design thinking and technology at the core of the experience. They provide a custom-designed and standardized Student Housing product with a full-stack model of services and amenities. The projects and services are standardized within the Oxfordcaps brand services guidelines, providing a transparent, hassle-free and safe alternative to a market dominated largely by the unorganized PG (Paying Guest) segment to date. They operate via three sub-brands and cater to students across price segments including Oxfordcaps Premium Residences, Oxfordcaps Student Residences and Oxfordcaps Dorms for the budget segment.

    The Oxfordcaps founders come with international experience in managing student housing. The learnings from Singapore aside from their experience in managing 12+ Indian cities for the past year have made them more adaptive to the market needs. This international experience equipped them in designing spaces that meet international standards. Their focus on community building with regular events and engagements is highly appreciated and has a special affinity among students. The founder’s need for community building is deeply rooted and is also reflected in the way they include community spaces in their designs.

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    Oxfordcaps – Startup Launch

    In 2019, Oxfordcaps announced that it is starting its operations in Bengaluru by acquiring 5000 beds in the city. This marks the Singapore based company’s foray into the South Indian market. Oxfordcaps has also exclusively tied up with IFIM Business School which is an industry first and one of its kind associations. The company will provide the best in class on and off-campus international standard accommodation for students studying at the business school. Oxfordcaps will also provide the best technology-enabled living experience to the students from 5 other key universities in Bengaluru including Presidency University, Reva University, R.V. College of Engineering, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Christ University and NMIMS, in addition to IFIM Business School.

    Oxfordcaps had also associated with Dharma Productions’ movie – ‘Student of the Year 2’. Student of the Year 2’ was one of the most awaited movies of the year amongst the Gen Z students. With Oxford’s expansion in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Dehradun, Pune, Indore, Bengaluru, Greater Noida, Ahmedabad, and Jaipur, this association helped the venture gain more affinity among the student community as well as position it as a preferred ally among our business partners.

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    Oxfordcaps – Startup Challenges

    Student Housing product has never been looked at from the lens of design thinking and technology at the core of the experience. The market size is estimated to be $15 billion with more than 10.4M students across India migrating to cities every year to pursue their academic dreams. However, student housing today suffers from a high level of fragmentation, lack of quality solutions, price transparency, reliability and complete lack of technology enablement of processes. Oxfordcaps is addressing this gap and aiming to meet up to the unmet demand of 36 million students pursuing higher education in India.

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    Oxfordcaps – Competitors

    This industry is not at all untapped. It has major players in the marker possessing cut-throat competition for Oxfordcaps. Starting from Nestaway, ZiffyHomes, StayAbode, SimplyGuest to Placio, YourOwnROOM, RenyMyRoom, Rentroomi and a lot more in the startup ecosystem.

    Oxfordcaps – Funding and Investors

    Oxfordcaps has raised US$10.4 million. The investors include 500 Startups, Times Internet and Kalaari Capital. Also, there is an ongoing discussion on Series B round of $50 million. The new capital will be used for fueling the company’s growth with expansion into 10+ cities and standardization of its Student Housing product with design thinking and technology at the core of the experience.

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    Oxfordcaps – Growth

    Oxfordcaps has started tapping the opportunity and has clocked a 75X growth in less than 11 months since its launch in India and has expanded from 200 beds to over 15,000 beds to date.

    Oxfordcaps – Awards

    • Entrepreneur India – Real Estate Startup of the year
    • BW Businessworld – BW Disrupt 40Under40 “Prominent change-makers under 40”

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    Oxfordcaps – Future Plans

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    Oxfordcaps – FAQs

    Who are Oxfordcaps Founders?

    Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera are the founders of Oxfordcaps.

    What is Oxfordcaps?

    Oxfordcaps is Asia’s No. 1 branded and tech-enabled student housing company and provides a hassle-free and technology-driven living experience to Gen Z students in India and Singapore.

    Who are the top competitors of Oxfordcaps?

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  • Listnr – Now Create Your Podcast without Recording!

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    Podcasts are gaining popularity worldwide. As per Statista, while in 2006, only 22 % of the adult population in the USA was aware of podcasting, now in 2020, 75% of the adult population of USA knows about podcasting. Back home, in India also podcasts are slowly gaining grounds. According to a PWC report, by the end of 2018, there were 40 million podcast listeners in India, which is 58% more than the previous year. The increasing number of podcast listeners undoubtedly inspires many to create their own podcasts. However, there are many who finds the process of creating podcasts, like recording and editing audio etc quite cumbersome. To address this challenge, Listnr was founded.

    Listnr super simplifies podcast creation, by allowing to create podcasts without the hassle of recording. StartupTalky interviewed Listnr founder Ananay Batra, to get and insight into the startup.

    Listnr – Company Highlights

    Startup Name Listnr
    Headquarter Gurgaon, Haryana
    Founder Ananay Batra
    Sector Web/SaaS
    Founded 2020
    Parent Organization Listnr Co.
    Website www.listnr.tech

    About Listnr
    Listnr – Founder
    The Idea Behind Starting Listnr
    Listnr – Business Model & Revenue Model
    Listnr – Challenges
    Listnr – Growth

    About Listnr

    Listnr is an amazing platform that lets you convert your blog posts or any other text to voice overs or podcasts. So now, you can start a podcast without the headache of buying recording equipment or the hassle of recording or editing any audio. The platform facilitates easy one click conversion, where you simply have to select the content (you want to converted to audio) from any website or just write the text in the dashboard, and Listnr converts it to the audio format which you can download and distribute to platforms such as Spotify, Apple podcasts and Google.

    Through Listnr you can start a podcast in 30+ most spoken languages of the world including English ( US, UK, India, Australia dialects), Hindi, Russian, Mandarin, German, Spanish etc in different regional dialects. Also, users can easily embed the audio files created through Listnr into one’s blog post or website with code snippets.

    Listnr uses state of the art Speech Synthesis + the company’s in-house Deep Learning Engine to make the voice sound very human like and get a sentiment analysis of the written content.

    Our target Demographic is of people from 18 to 54 year old. 56% of Podcast Listeners are between the age of 18 to 34, where an average Podcast Listener consumes about 6hrs and 37 minutes of Podcast shows every week. Starting March 2020, there has been a noticeable diversion in the way people consume media. There has been a scattered  shift from the most popular social media sources to Podcast hosting platforms and blogs. There has been a 30 – 40% increase in podcast consumption in the last 2 weeks – says Listnr founder Ananay Batra

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    Listnr – Founder

    Ananay Batra is the founder and CEO of Listnr.

    Listnr Founder & CEO
    Ananay Batra – Founder, Listnr

    Ananay is a computer science graduate from York University, Toronto. Besides Listnr, Ananay also founded Que News, a subscription based News summarization platform.

    The Idea Behind Starting Listnr

    The idea of starting Listnr came to Ananay while working at Quenews. Quenews was almost like ‘Spotify for News’, where the team would summarize news from various credible sources,  and offer it to the users as audio news. The company used a Speech Synthesis Engine to convert the news to audio format. Ananay realized that such text to speech conversion technology can be very helpful for someone who wants to start a Podcast, or one who wants to convert his blog posts to voice overs, which made him start Listnr.

    While listening to the Joe Rogan Podcast, I thought – it would be so cool if people could start a Podcast without recording anything and it was as easy as writing a Tweet. The idea seemed pretty cool but in order to Validate the idea, I made a basic landing page with an email capture and started distributing it around various Social Media channels. 2 days later, I had 100+ people sign up and 20+ emails asking when I would release the product. I went around asking people about Listnr in my Inner Circle and Network, after a positive response, I went ahead with the development. says Ananay Batra explining the idea behind starting Listnr.

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    Listnr – Business Model & Revenue Model

    Listnr operates on a SaaS business model. While Listnr is free for upto 10 conversions per month, the company will soon roll  out attractive monthly and annual subscription plans .

    Listnr – Challenges

    Starting a startup all alone is undoubtedly challenging.

    As Ananay quotes, “As a solo-founder, there is no one around to support you. You basically have to keep pushing yourself to do stuff. No one would care, if I don’t work on Listnr, people only start caring when you’re a success”

    Besides, started in 2020 itself, the startup also got hit by the Covid crisis. The startup is currently finding it really tough to  get development help and other resources given the Job uncertainty due to Covid.

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    Listnr – Growth

    Listnr has been built to solve a real time issue, as it simplifies the process of creating voice overs and podcasts like never before. Given the popularity that podcasts are gaining, a platform like Listnr can surely be termed as the ‘need of the hour’. As for now, Listnr has been able to attract new customers through various platforms especially through IndieHackers and Reddit, and there are 100+ clients in the waiting list.