Inaugural Cohort
ANS Commerce
Full-stack e-commerce enabler
Full stack ecommerce enabler for online brands, providing end to end solutions that include brand store tech platform, performance marketing, marketplace management & e-commerce warehousing and fulfilment. ANS Commerce provides full-stack e-commerce solutions to help them sell on marketplaces (Flipkart, Amazon etc.) and brandstore (their own website). They have 100+ clients like Lakme, ITC, Jack and Jones etc.
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Entropik
Emotion AI technologies to offer unique insights into customer behaviour
India’s first Emotion AI company with patented technologies that help brands measure cognitive and emotional response of consumers towards product experiences, media campaigns and brand content. With AI technologies of Brainwave Mapping, Facial Coding & Eye Tracking, Entropik provides a unique view of Customer Digital Journey through the lens of Emotions & Subconscious Behaviour enabling brands to measure and optimize Media, Digital or Retail Experiences. Engagement model-wise, affectlab.io is offered as a SaaS Platform with subscription based on number of Campaigns to be tested in a year.
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Fashinza
Apparel Manufacturing Made Smarter, Faster, Cheaper
A managed marketplace that allows fashion brands across the world to access manufacturing capacity on-demand and assists them from design to delivery. During production, they provide complete visibility of the production progress on cloud and ensure that things progress as planned without constant follow-ups from the brands. Fashinza takes end-to-end responsibility of the production and quality
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Gully network
A tech-enabled modern retail network of mid-sized grocery stores.
Gully Network is building an asset-light and tech-enabled network of mid-sized stores under the brand “GULLYMART”. Gully Network provides the store with an integrated tech-enabled solution consisting of exclusive supply with increased margin, superior fulfilment rate, automatic and data-driven stock replenishment and access to credit. Existing unbranded stand-alone stores that wish to enjoy benefits of a modern retail chain join the network for an increase in income and end-to-end automation.
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Piggy
Smart money app with inbuilt bank account that automates wealth creation
Piggy helps you get more out of your money. It gives you a better way to manage money on mobile with a built-in bank account which optimises your spends, autosaves money on purchases, and automatically builds wealth for you from your monthly income. Piggy uses advanced algorithms to keep track of your bills, spends, goals & life needs, and gives personalised recommendations for better outcomes.
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Tagbox
Supply Chain Monitoring at Your Fingertips
A startup that provides supply chain monitoring solutions to F&B, pharma and hi-tech/industrial companies to solve problems related to product quality and compliance, traceability, and operational efficiency using IoT, ML and AI. TagBox is helping organizations solve supply chain problems like Product Quality and Compliance, Traceability and Operational Efficiency. TagBox allows to simply ‘tag’ a product, shipment or asset, predict and prevent supply chain quality failures, ensure end-to-end SKU or batch traceability, and improve operational efficiency KPIs. TagBox brings together a seamless blend of disruptive technologies – IoT for supply chain sensing, ML for predictive insights, and AI for actions and control.
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Unbox Robotics
AI powered Swarm Robotics Platform for Retail and Logistics Enterprises
Unbox Robotics has built a plug-and-play system of AI-powered mobile robots that sort packages in vertical space and improves personnel productivity fivefold in less than 50-70% of the area required by existing methods. Unbox robotics provides an entire package involving Mobile Robots, Sort Stands, a Robot Control System software, and Peripheral Systems for infeed and outbound material movement along with integration and support services. Their solution’s plug & play nature allows them to offer the solution as a service to their customers.
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Wolkus Tech
AI-powered IoT platform for precision agriculture
An IoT-based AI-powered intelligence platform that captures real-time data on conditions from on-farm sensors and delivers farm-specific, crop-specific & crop-stage-specific actionable recommendations to farmers in vernacular languages through the “Fasal” app. Fasal offers a cloud platform that collects the microclimatic data (like temperature, humidity etc) captured by the on-field sensors incorporated in its proprietary AI-based microclimate forecasting algorithm to analyze and provide insights on microclimate, disease forecast, irrigation management, resource optimization etc.
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What our founders say about us
Flipkart is as big as it gets when it comes to ecommerce in India. We got a peek into their ecommerce engine which went a long way in shaping our products and GTM Vibhor Sahare, CEO,
ANS Commerce
The biggest takeaway for us was to figure out a scalable use case for our Emotion AI stack in the consumer internet industry and validating it with pilots under the guidance of mentors Ranjan Kumar, CEO,
Entropik Tech
Flipkart Leap gave us access to top leaders across fashion brands to help understand the problems faced by them. This helped us tweak our value proposition in a manner that resonated with prospective clients Pawan Gupta, CEO,
Fashinza
Master sessions on scaling, storytelling and product market fit were really helpful. Validation of our business model was the key takeaway for us from the program. Ajay Nain, CEO,
Gully Network
The program had a right balance of sessions between industry experts and sessions with mentors from Flipkart with the focus being on KPIs - all which were very relevant to the scaling process we are in currently. Glad to see an established startup like Flipkart contributing to the startup ecosystem in India Nikhil Mantha, COO,
Piggy
We got to do a couple of insightful pilots with Flipkart. In addition, we had the chance to talk to multiple teams across various groups to evaluate different kinds of use cases for our product Adarsh Kumar, CEO,
Tagbox
The program not only supported us as we worked with the Flipkart team to deploy our solution, but we could also do deep dives in areas right from hiring, international GTM to fundraising. I believe the program will act as a strong program for us as we scale further Pramod Ghadge, CEO,
Unbox robotics
Flipkart leap has been an amazing program. We landed up on the program when we were struggling with our hiring and other aspects.We had access to amazing mentors who allowed us to understand our business in a more nuanced way and navigate around it. Shailendra Tiwari,
Wolkus technologies
Focus Areas
The focus for the first cohort of Flipkart Leap is early stage startups with a working prototype and early adoption metrics in the following themes:
Design & Make for Bharat- Consumer & Technology Products that are built for Indian consumers
- Digitization of predominantly offline sectors in a Post-Covid world: Agritech, Edtech, Healthtech etc
- India Tech Stack based ideas, Other New India platforms to enable the next 500MN users to become digital natives
Innovation in Digital Commerce- Disruptive Technology & Business models
- New frameworks and vertical specific solutions that enhance customer buying experiences
- Loyalty, Rewards & Affordability constructs to engage and retain customers
- Innovation in User Engagement models
Enabling Technologies for the Retail Ecosystem - Platform Seller Capabilities providing intelligence, insights & tools for online sellers to grow business
- Accelarate digitization of Kirana and SME/MSME, improving their operational efficiency, innovation in financial products etc.
Supply Chain Management and Logistics- Improving Speed, Transparency and Optimisation, Innovation in Automation, Devices and New technologies
- Innovation in Sustainable product, processes & technologies to make the SC greener
- Hyperlocal Solutions solving for location based & on demand services
Enabling relevant “Deep Tech” applications- Continued evolution of ML/AI as applicable to e commerce
- Initiatives to support the Open Source ecosystems in India
- Other technology areas like Blockchain, Internet of Things, Edge Devices, Big data etc
What happens in the program?
Mentor Connects
Speaker Sessions
Proof of Concept
Demo Day
WorkshopsOUR Mentors
Anand Lakshminarayanan
SVP, Flipkart Commerce Cloud Mentor to: ANS
Sankalp Mehrotra
VP, Ads & Monetization Mentor to: Entropik
Nishit Garg
VP, Fashion Mentor to: Fashinza
Sandeep Karwa
VP, Innovation and New Bets Mentor to: Gully Network
Saurabh Tandon
VP, Fintech and Payments Group Mentor to: Piggy
Balamurugan N
Principal Architect , Automation Design Mentor to: Unbox, Tagbox
Bharath Ram
VP, Growth, Retention, New Initiatives Mentor to: Fasal
THE Speakers
Building your personal brand
Shradha Sharma CEO, Your Story
Scaling operations
Chaitanya Ramalingegowda CEO, Wakefit
Scaling teams and culture
Vaibhav DomkundwarCEO, Better Capital
Entrepreneurial Journey
Rajiv Srivatsa Partner, Antler India, Co-founder, Urbanladder
Fundraising your way to scale
Rahul Chandra Managing Director at Arkam Ventures
Hiring for startups
Krishna RaghavanChief People Officer, Flipkart
THE Speakers
Shradha Sharma
CEO, Your Story Topic : Building your personal brand
Chaitanya Ramalingegowda
CEO, Wakefit Topic : Scaling operations
Vaibhav Domkundwar
CEO, Better Capital Topic : Scaling teams and culture
Rajiv Srivatsa
Partner, Antler India, Co-founder, Urbanladder Topic : Entrepreneurial Journey - the highs and lows
Rahul Chandra
Managing Director at Arkam Ventures Topic : Fundraising your way to scale
Krishna Raghavan
Chief People Officer, Flipkart Topic : Hiring for startups
In the Media
Bengaluru: Walmart Inc.-owned e-commerce marketplace Flipkart has selected eight startups in the first cohort of Flipkart Leap, its startup accelerator program...
With a view to strengthening India’s startup ecosystem and galvanizing local entrepreneurs, Flipkart announced the launch of Flipkart Leap, an industry-best accelerator program, on August 10, 2020, eliciting applications from nearly a thousand startups .
We catch up with Jeyandran Venugopal, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Naren Ravula, Vice President - Strategy, and Aishwarya Kalakata, Director - Product Innovation as they talk about Flipkart Leap.
E Commerce giant Flipkart has announced eight startups as part of the first cohort of the company’s startup accelerator programme Flipkart Leap, which was launched in August 2020
E Commerce giant Flipkart has announced eight startups as part of the first cohort of the company’s startup accelerator programme Flipkart Leap, which was launched in August 2020
An interview with Naren Ravula, Vice President and Head of Product Strategy and Deployment, Flipkart where he talks about how accelerator programs are changing the landscape of the startup ecosystem in India.
In line with its increasing focus on fashion and grocery categories, as it looks to onboard the next 200 million customers, Flipkart and group company Myntra have started piloting solutions with some of the first cohort of 8 start-ups that are part of the Flipkart Leap accelerator programme.
How Unbox Robotics is bringing efficiency in packing and sorting systems, while TagBox is enabling organisations to make their supply chains smarter and more reliable
From agile manufacturing to building 7-Eleven for India, how startups are disrupting the retail tech ecosystem in India
A peek into the journey of three of the eight startups shortlisted for the first cohort of Flipkart Leap – the e-commerce platform’s flagship accelerator programme - Fasal, Entropik and Piggy - and how they are leveraging digital technologies to drive impact on ground.
Flipkart’s Demo Day had over 900 attendees from across the globe including investors, industry leaders and varied talent from the startup ecosystem, making it one of the most successful ‘Demo Days’ in the country.
Flipkart's Demo Day saw over 900 attendees from across the globe including investors, industry leaders and varied talent from the startup ecosystem.Through this platform, the startups of the program presented their ideas, which evolved over the course of the 16-week mentorship training.
Eight startups showcased their solutions to 900+ attendees from across the globe including investors and industry leaders from 70+ organisations and varied talent from 280+businesses - making it one of the most successful Demo Days in the country in recent times.
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