Showing posts with label Startups in India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Startups in India. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Make your toddler happy this summer with Flintobox - 'Colour Carnival’

About Flintobox
Flintobox creates subscription activity kits for children between 2 and 8 years. 90% of brain development happens by the age of six. Early experiences and positive interactions during the age of 2-8 years determines the overall development of children for years to come. Based on this premise of Early Child Development, Flintobox helps in making these years count with fun learning play tools! The boxes are packed with creative play activities to teach kids concepts over a period of time. Flintobox feeds a child’s curious mind and fosters independent growth through explorative puzzles and games. The products are designed by game designers, montessori and pedagogy experts and child psychologists. Crafted with kid-friendly materials, the box is shipped all across India with COD available in certain areas.




New Product : Colour Carnival
Flintobox recently launched ‘Colour Carnival’ - an activity kit exclusively for toddlers. Colour Carnival box has been curated to introduce children between 2 and 3 years to the concept of colours and patterns in a unique and interactive manner. The discovery box, loaded with 6 play activities - including a storybook, is designed to keep toddlers busy and mentally active all through the summer holidays.


How Colour Carnival help Kids
With Colour Carnival, kids receive creative hands-on engagement with activities that help in overall skill and habit development while simultaneously getting introduced to different shapes and colours. From geometric patterns and colourful shapes, the box contains intriguing puzzles and riveting games along with experiential fine-motor activities. The activities are designed to cover 12 developmental areas including coordination, cognitive and gross motor, creativity, exploration, language, and social skills through fun means. This way, the child is wholly involved and ends up staying away from TV or excessive screen time! In addition, the activities also serve as a great way to spend quality time indoors with the family. Perfect for the Summer!
Flintobox has released 2 new themes for the month of April for the age groups 3 to 4 (Jr. Colour Scientist) and 4 to 8 (Wildlife Safari). Limited number of boxes are produced every month, so if you are planning to get one for your child, you know what to do next!


Flintobox Journey
Flintobox was founded by Arunprasad Durairaj, Vijaybabu Gandhi, and Shreenidhi Srirangam. As young parents, they realised the growing trend of TV addiction in children and the urgent requirement for activities to get their children engaged with. The idea of Flintobox was then born. After a few test runs, they invested their savings of close to Rs.10 lakh to establish the business in September 2013.

In October 2014, they raised USD 300,000 from leading angels GSF Global, Globevestor (USA), AECAL (Germany), and Mauj Mobile.


Connect with Flintobox
Twitter          - https://twitter.com/flintobox
FB                - https://www.facebook.com/flintobox
Google plus - https://plus.google.com/+Flintobox-kids


Monday, April 11, 2016

BananaBandy - India's Largest Platform for Creative Professionals


About BananaBandy
BananaBandy, an online market network for Indian creative professionals, founded in February 2015, is already India’s largest with 10000+ creative professionals. The basic aim of the website is to enable creative professionals such as graphic designers, photographers, animator, product designers, interior designers, fashion designers, etc. to upload and manage their portfolio and at the same time, connect them with relevant full time and freelance work opportunities.




Need for BananaBandy
The Indian creative community is the largest in the world, but inspite of the massive potential, it is yet under-appreciated and primarily untapped. Inspite of being an industry, which contributes over $7 billion to the economy, it is still slipping under the radar and connections are yet referral based.


How BananaBandy Works
BananaBandy serves as a platform for Indian creatives to connect with their peers and showcase, promote and monetize their work. The design industry is today valued at over $7 Billion by the CII Design Report 2015 and is a major facilitator in fields such as automobile, fashion, etc. which contribute over $300 Billion to the economy currently. The aim is to create an end-to-end solution for all the creative needs in the country. At its core, BananaBandy is an aggregator of creative services. Using its technology, it matches parties depending on time, budget and other criteria. It is working on various services to make recruitment procedure shorter, more efficient and cost-effective.


Achievement
In a short time span of just 14 months, the website has facilitated over 700 job listings from 450 companies. It has over 6000 projects with 30000+ artworks. In the past 6 months, BananaBandy has got associated with companies such as Walt Disney, Ogilvy&Mather, CouponDunia, Practo, Sunburn, Grofers, Asian Paints, etc.
In 2016 BananaBandy was shortlisted among the top 10 startups in Mumbai.
At Surge 2016, the biggest tech conference in India, it was shortlisted among the top 40 startups in India.


The Journey
Founded by Kavan Antani, 19, and Shashank Jogani, 21, BananaBandy started off as a completely bootstrapped company. Within 2 months of the launch, it raised a seed round at Rs 2.5 crore valuation from Srinivasa Aluri, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Private Equity and Chaitanya Deshpande, former M&A Head, Marico.
In December 2015, BananaBandy also hosted Design Mela, India's largest online contest for creative professionals. The design event received over 1500 entries from creative professionals all across the country and was judged by eminent professionals such as Shekhar Kapur, Namit Malhotra, Vikram Phadnis, KV Sridhar, etc.


Get in touch
For more details, visit www.bananabandy.com
You can find out more about their 12 month journey on https://journey.bananabandy.com/

Contact Details:
Address: 505, 5th floor, Pushpa Kunj Bldg, Sitaram Deora Marg, A Road, Churchgate, Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400020
Tel: 022-22060815/9930112092
Email: shashank@bananabandy.com



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