Top 10 Indian Startups That Went International

In today’s video, we take a look at the top 10 Indian startups that went international.

00:00 Introduction
01:21 #10 FreshToHome
02:24 #9 Cult.Fit
03:31 #8 Moglix
04:38 #7 Cars24
05:45 #6 Urban Company
06:57 #5 Lenskart
08:08 #4 Ola Cabs
09:14 #3 Oyo
10:16 #2 Paytm
11:19 #1 Byju’s

#10 FreshToHome: Founded by Mathew Joseph and Shan Kadavil in 2015, FreshToHome is an online platform that delivers fresh meat. They are now delivering more than 1.5 million orders every month across 28 Indian cities. In 2019, they even expanded internationally to UAE and now plan to make their way to Saudi Arabia as well.

#9 Cult.Fit: Founded by Ankit Nagori and Mukesh Bansal in 2016, Cult.Fit had managed to open more than 200 fitness centers across India by 2019. In 2020, after the pandemic swept the world, Cult.Fit was forced to shut down some of their centers but that gave them the opportunity to go international by offering online classes to their users in the US.

#8 Moglix: Founded by Rahul Garg in 2015, Moglix is a B2B e-commerce platform that enables businesses to buy equipment and supplies like industrial power tools, chemicals and metals. Apart from operating in India, they also export their products to over 54 countries.

#7 Cars24: Founded by Gajendra Jangid, and Mehul Agrawal, Ruchit Agarwal and Vikram Chopra in 2015, Cars24 is a used car marketplace that lets you sell your car through their online auction platform to one of their 10,000 channel partners. Today, they are selling more than 15,000 cars every month. In 2021, they expanded their reach to countries like Australia and the UAE.

#6 Urban Company: Founded by Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Raghav Chandra and Varun Khaitan in 2014, Urban Company is essentially the Uber or Ola for home service professionals. Today, Urban Company has more than 35,000 professionals offering services to 5 million customers across 35 cities in India. They started their international expansion in 2018 to reach UAE, Abu Dhabi, Australia, Singapore.

#5 Lenskart: Founded by Amit Chaudhary, Peyush Bansal and Sumeet Kapahi in 2010, Lenskart is an omnichannel eyewear retailer that has expanded their offline presence to more than 750 stores across India. They first went international by opening their first store in Singapore in 2019 and today they have more than 25 stores in the country and are among the top three players.

#4 Ola Cabs: Founded by Ankit Bhati and Bhavish Aggarwal in 2010, Ola Cabs is one of India’s leading cab aggregators with more than 1.5 million driver-partners completing over 1 billion rides every year. The startup went global in 2018 by launching in Australia and New Zealand and the UK in 2019.

#3 Oyo: Founded by Ritesh Agarwal in 2013, Oyo became the world’s fastest-growing hotel chain after it managed to get over 43,000 hotels under its brand across 80 countries in just six years. The hospitality startup had to shut down operations in multiple countries and had to fire hundreds of employees during the pandemic to make their business sustainable.

#2 Paytm: Founded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma in 2010, Paytm is gearing up for India’s largest-ever IPO. While Paytm is a well-known digital payments startup in India, they also have operations across countries like Canada, Japan and Bangladesh. They have raised $4.4 billion from the likes of SoftBank, Alibaba and SAIF Partners for their international ambitions.

#1 Byju’s: Founded by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath in 2011, Byju’s is the world’s most valuable edtech startup. The edtech giant has been acquiring startups at an astronomical pace and not all of that acquisition was restricted to India. They acquired Osmo, Epic and WhiteHat Jr to build Byju’s Future School to launch in countries like the US, Australia, the UK, Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico.

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