69 Best Startups in Southern Asia to Watch in 2024

FreshToHome is an India-based company that delivers fresh meat and fish to consumers across India and the Middle East.

Total Raised: $256.00M

Last Funding: $104.00M (Series D)

Tala is a financial technology company with a mobile application to manage personal loan. Founded in 2011 and has headquarters in Santa Monica, California.

Total Raised: $345.24M

Last Funding: $145.00M (Series E)

Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for team communication.

Total Raised: $37.89M

Last Funding: $37.89M (Series B)

Altiostar Networks is a company that provides 4G and 5G open vRAN software in a B2B model.

Total Raised: $134.00M

Last Funding: $114.00M (Series C)

Manufacturer of kitchenware products and home appliances.

Total Raised: $2.24M

Last Funding: $2.24M (Unknown)

Platform for simple and smart talent engagement.

Total Raised: $2.05M

Last Funding: $2.05M (Unknown)

Platform offering supply chain services connecting factories and raw materials suppliers to customers.

Total Raised: $1.97M

Last Funding: $1.97M (Unknown)

Platform offering educational content for kids.

Total Raised: $2.23M

Last Funding: $2.10M (Unknown)

A software solutions company providing bioinformatics solutions to life science and other sector

Total Raised: $2.26M

Last Funding: $0.74M (Unknown)

App for uploading pitch decks, sending email links, and receiving alerts when leads open documents.

Total Raised: $0.34M

Last Funding: $0.34M (Pre Seed)

Recruitment startup based in Bangalore focusing on innovative hiring solutions.

Total Raised: $0.15M

Last Funding: $0.15M (Pre Seed)

An application for making investments in mutual funds, managing investment portfolios and retirement savings in India

KyePot is a Mumbai-based mobile platform offering users social financial services, including community-based saving, lending, and borrowing facilities.

MoHash is a decentralized finance company founded in 2021 by Arun Devarajan.

Logistics service that offers delivery and transportation solutions.

Last Funding: $0.00M (Unknown)

Pepper Content is a content marketplace building a platform for content creators and brands offering an AI-enabled content generator.

Unacademy is an education technology company offering an online learning platform and mobile learning application.

PhonePe is a mobile payment application that enables users to transfer money instantly.

Wakefit is an online sleep company headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

A financial technology company providing payments solutions that allow businesses to accept, process and disburse payments.

The Times of India is a Mumbai-based company founded in 1838.

ClearTax is a financial technology company providing solutions for income tax filing, GST and mtual fund investments. It participated in the S14 cohort of Y Combinator.

Meesho is an online reseller network in India founded in 2008 by Vidit Aatrey.

Licious is an India-based consumer fresh meat and seafood brand.

GeoIQ.io is a Bangalore-based company founded in 2019 by Ankita Thakur.

Sharechat is a company founded in 2015 by Farid Ahsan, Ankush Sachdeva and Bhanu Singh.

upGrad is an Indian online higher education company, founded in 2015 by Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar, Phalgun Kompalli, and, Ravijot Chugh.

Ola Electric is a multimodal electric vehicle project in Nagpur founded in 2017 by Bhavish Aggarwal, Anand Shah and Ankit Jain.

Rainstreamweb is an Ahmedabad-based company founded in 2015.

Citrix delivers people-centric solutions that power a better way to work by offering secure apps and data on any device, network or digital workspace

BookMyShow is a company founded in 2007 by Ashish Hemrajani.

Embibe is an educational technology company that created a platform offering personalized learning plans.

CoverFox is a Mumbai-based insurance technology company offering an online platform for managing insurance policies.

Turtlemint is a Mumbai-based insurance technology company providing a platform to facilitate the process of buying and managing insurance policies.

Skillmatics creates educational games for children in pre-school and primary school.

CarTrade.com is a Mumbai-based company founded in 2006.

InCred is a Mumbai-based company offering a financial services platform that utilizes technology and data-science to simplify the lending process.

Shadowfax is online to offline (o2o) crowdsourced B2B delivery and third-party logistics service provider based in Bengaluru. It was founded by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi graduates Abhishek Bansal and Vaibhav Khandelwal in 2015.

Hetero Health Care is a company founded in 1993 by Hetero Healthcare Limited.

Cuemath is an international online learning platform that provides K–10 pupils with a math and coding curriculum.

Eruditus Executive Education is an education company founded in 2010.

KMC Constructions Limited is a Bangalore-based construction company.

Shopify is an Ottawa-based cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke.

Cellworks is a life sciences technology company involved in drug and bio-marker discovery and researches in therapeutic areas.

OneDirect is a customer relationship management company.

Wizely is a company founded in 2017 by Nihar Bobba.

Grabhouse is a Bangalore-based company founded in 2013.

Ujjivan Financial Services is a Bangalore-based company founded in 2005.

CoinSwitch is a financial technology company specializing in developing solutions for cryptocurrencies.

Rupeek is an asset backed online lending platform, it is disrupting traditional brick-and-mortar lending model. Our low operational costs and credit evaluation tools are making credit cheaper for borrowers and investing more valuable for lenders. Rupeek aims to bring financial inclusion for the masses and introduce products that are transparent, people friendly and provide value for lenders and borrowers. Simplified and affordable gold loans are only the beginning.

Servify is a device lifecycle management platform, which integrates multiple OEM Brands and a sales and service ecosystem to deliver an after-sales service experience.

o2h discovery is a Contract Research Organisation providing integrated chemistry and biology services for collaborative research from its research centres at Ahmedabad, India and SciTech Park in Cambridge, UK.

Egnyte delivers secure content collaboration, compliant data protection, and simple infrastructure modernization, all through a single SaaS solution.

NeoGrowth is an India-based digital lending platform focused on lending to small and medium business.

Toppr is a product of Toppr Technologies Private Limited. It was co-founded by Zishaan Hayath and Hemanth Goteti. It is a learning app for students studying in classes 5th to 12th or students appearing for entrance exams and scholarship exams. As of December 2017, Toppr has a user base of 2.5 million people.

An Indian artificial intelligence company creating conversational AI technology

Apna is a Mumbai-based human resources company founded in 2019 by Nirmit Parikh.

Capillary Technologies is a company founded in 2012.

PagarBook is a Bangalore-based company founded in 2019 by Rupesh kumar mishra, Adarsh Kumar and Arya Adarsha Gautam.

Upstox is an India-based investment platform founded by Shrini Viswanath, Ravi Kumar, Kavitha Subramanian, and Raghu Kumar.

BillDesk is a company founded in 2000.

CoinDCX is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Sumit Gupta. CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange.

Travelguru.com is a Mumbai-based travel company founded in 2005.

A company that is a developer of no-code data pipeline technology. It was founded in 2016 and has offices in San Francisco and Bangalore.

Open is a neobank based in India offering Business accounts including a debit card, with all transactions being managed from an iPhone or Android application. Open currently accepts to open mobile bank accounts for residents of India.

Pepperfry is an online home and lifestyle shopping store selling products with cash on delivery facilities.

Pharmeasy is a company founded in 2015 by Mikhil Innani, Dharmil Sheth and Dhaval Shah.