The last few months have been testing, but we have shined through it all. Our world changed fast, and we overcame challenges being both bold and flexible. With the aim of both meeting current changes in the startup ecosystem and anticipating those in the future, we have tried to contribute to the community through various initiatives.

The New Normal is the Digital New Normal

The digital age has been threatening to arrive for a decade and more now. Experts in India believed that we finally arrived in 2018 when the markets were growing at 28% CAGR and online shoppers were expected to reach 200 million people from 120 million in 2018. And then came SARS-CoV-2. And the world changed once again. In the last few months as the pandemic wreaked havoc from New York to Nagpur and from Cape Town to Coimbatore, as world economies kept free falling and as Governments, preachers and pundits were reduced to shadows of their glorious pasts, the virus did one major service to the future of humankind – it has finally ushered in the promised Digital Age.

DriverShaab

DriverShaab, as the name suggests, strives to bring dignity and economic stability long due to the drivers in India. It is a service offering by Satadru Technologies Private Limited, a SaaS based platform that provides chauffeurs to businesses, fulfilling the customers’ transportation needs. Drivers with verified credentials receive employment in the logistics and passenger transport sector by registering on the platform, which, in turn, provides a stable source of livelihood in a nation with a 23.50% unemployment rate.

Agastya Buoyant

Agastya Buoyant Pvt Ltd is a startup that has gained expertise in design and development of inflatable products for different fields of applications in India. Read on to find out what the founder, Prantik Sinha, has in store for the future.

In view of the current pandemic, IIMCIP decided to take the series of Think Social Seminars digital. These Thinking Social Webinars are being organised every month in association with the Tata Group, leading to the grand finale of Tata Social Enterprise Challenge early next year. Last month, we organised.