Founded in 2019, Chai Shai Bar is a burgeoning tea and beverage brand startup that originated in Jabalpur. The company has been gaining popularity among tea lovers due to its freshly made and hand-brewed kullad tea. The unique blend of tea leaves and spices infused in a kullad, a traditional earthenware cup, gives the tea […]
Portable cabins have been gaining popularity in recent years due to their flexibility, affordability, and convenience. One firm that is leading the charge in this industry is Mumbai-based Thakur Cabins. Founded by the visionary Zeeshan Thakur in 2012, Thakur Cabins is a dynamic and versatile company that has evolved from building just portable cabins to […]
Startups with rare ideas are always exciting, especially when the ideas are so rare that it takes you a second to digest them and look at them as an actual business with potential. Founded by Aby Baby, Dolphin IBA is an organic skincare brand that makes beauty products using donkey’s milk. The brand ships to […]
Founded in 2012 by Vikram Pandya, Shankar Farm Fresh is a popular dairy farm in Gujarat which offers fresh ghee and high-quality A2 milk. Today, it sells products across 15 Indian states. But things weren’t this fine for the business always. When Vikram (an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus) started the farm, he had the intention of […]
There’s something extremely special about rags-to-riches stories. In most of them, one man/woman decides to stop being the victim of their circumstances and moves forward with tunnel vision. Rising from the dust and becoming self-made is not just about money – it is the perseverance that inspires us. This is about Sunil Vashisht, a small-town […]
How many provision and general stores do you visit on an everyday basis? What would your reaction be if someone who works at a provision store sets up a tea brand that reaches crores? This is the story of Haresh Kathrotiya, the founder of Tulsi Tea. It is the second-largest tea brand under GM Tea […]
Founded by Nitin Saluja and Raghav Verma in 2012, Chaayos is a chai-cafe chain that sells numerous varieties of tea (chai) in dine-in, take-aways and delivery models. In FY21, the brand saw a huge drop in its revenue numbers compared to the figures of FY20. To be precise, it was a 44.8% decrease in revenue […]
Through their cloud kitchen, The Chhaunk, Hiranyamayi Shivani and her daughter-in-law Manjari Singh from Delhi prepare and market delicacies from Bihar. During the period of lockdown brought on by the pandemic, many people created their businesses. A similar train of thought was shared by Manjari Singh and her mother-in-law Hiranyamayi Shivani of Delhi. The duo, […]
This story is about Kerala-based AT Basheer, now 62 years old and one of the few who still makes ‘panjara paalu mittayi’ or sugar candies. The hereditary candy-making business In the 1930s, a teenager named Aboobacker from Kayamkulam, Kerala, fought with his father and ran away from his family. He took a bus to Tamil […]
An extension of their personalities, Aparna and Ambika conceptualised and founded Shobitam on March 8th, 2019 (on International Women’s Day) with a mission to make people “Look good, Do good, and Feel good!”. What started as a pilot launch on Etsy has now transfigured into a fast-growing start-up with over 300 percent growth in revenues […]