Top 10 Indian Startups and how they took off

Online marketplace Snapdeal was started by Wharton graduate Kunal Bahl and IIT Delhi guy Rohit Bansal. The company now has top investors like SoftBank onboard and is the biggest local rival to Flipkart.

This Indian e-commerce company is based in Noida, India. Launched in 2010, Paytm has expanded to mobile recharges and bill payments, e-commerce, bus travel and even online deals. It is giving Flipkart and Snapdeal a run for their money.

OlaCabs, commonly called Ola, is India’s home-grown transport network company. Launched as an online cab aggregator in Mumbai, this Bangalore-based startup is among the fastest growing online businesses currently. It is also India’s answer to global taxi giants like Uber.

Touted as India's largest branded network of hotels, OYO Rooms currently operates in more than 160 Indian cities.

This company, founded by a rather young founder-CEO Ritesh Agarwal, has been branded as one among the next start-up unicorns. It is backed by investors like Softbank Group and Sequoia Capital.

This restaurant search and discovery service was founded by Deepinder Goyal and Pankaj Chaddah. It also provides cashless payment, online ordering, table reservation, and point-of-sale systems.

Users have access to restaurant contact details, scanned menus and photos sourced by local street teams. User reviews and ratings also help.

It currently operates in 23 countries, including India, Australia and the United States.

This online marketplace in currently based in Gurgaon, India. It was founded in California's Silicon Valley in 2011. It came to India as the 35th entry in the Indian e-commerce space and now has over 12,000 registered merchants, 2,00,000+ products and over 42 million visitors every year across 9500 locations in the country.

Practo is a comprehensive health app. It currently has over 1,00,000 doctors listed from over 310 Indian towns and cities. It has over 1.3 million pageviews and 30,000 appointments booked every month, with traffic growing at 24% month-on-month.

The company has seven offices, in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Singapore.

UrbanClap is an online platform that helps customers find and hire service professionals. The idea is really picking up amongst India’s nuclear families, tanks to the ease it offers.

Lenskart is an online eyewear portal founded by Peyush Bansal along with Amit Chaudhary and Sumeet Kapahi. They currently sell prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lenses.

The company has self owned and franchise stores across India.