LinkedIn Releases List Of Top 20 Most Preferred Startups By Employees In India

The past year has been challenging for startups across different sectors in India, with the funding winter, widespread layoffs, and leadership changes making it a testing environment to stay afloat.

However, it is indeed such times of uncertainty that push companies to adapt and innovate. Putting the spotlight on such extraordinary startups, LinkedIn¡¯s latest list features 20 young Indian startups that are growing fast, gaining attention, and being the preferred ones to work for by employees.

These are the startups that have trailblazed their way through recent economic and workplace challenges and managed to stand out to investors and top talent along the way.

Which Are This Year¡¯s 20 Top Startups In India?

1.Zepto

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Year founded: 2021

What they do: Zepto is a quick-commerce company delivering groceries and essentials across 10 cities in India. The Mumbai-based startup raised $200 million in August and became India¡¯s first unicorn in 2023.

2.BluSmart

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Year founded: 2018

What they do: BluSmart offers electric ride-hailing services in Delhi NCR and Bengaluru with its 4,500-strong electric car fleet. Founded in 2019, the startup is planning to expand this fleet to 10,000 cars by the end of this year and invest more in setting up electric chargers across India.

3.Ditto Insurance

Year founded: 2018

What they do: This insurtech startup helps people compare plans, understand policies, and buy insurance through its online platform. The company shared with LinkedIn that they are looking to hire hundreds of freshers in the coming year.

4.Pocket FM

Year founded: 2018

What they do: Audio series platform Pocket FM offers audio entertainment across multiple genres and Indian languages through its 100,000+ hour-strong content library. Founded in 2018, the company states it has 80 million listeners globally.

5.Skyroot Aerospace

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Year founded: 2018

What they do: Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace specialises in futuristic space-launch vehicle design and building. With its maiden mission Prarambh, the startup in 2022 became the first Indian private company to launch a rocket into space.

6,GoKwik

Year founded: 2020

What they do: GoKwik offers data and technology-led solutions for eCommerce and D2C brands to improve customer experience across the shopping funnel and boost conversion rates and revenue growth. It uses AI/ML technologies to solve problems like Return to Origin (RTO) and aims to democratise the shopping experience.

7.Fi

Year founded: 2019

What they do: Fi is a financial app with an in-built savings account that also offers mutual fund investment options, and other financial services like personal loans in partnership with regulated entities. The company shared that it is looking to hire backend engineers, DevOps experts, and for product design and analytics roles, among others.

8.Sprinto

Year founded: 2019

What they do: Sprinto automates Information Security compliances and privacy laws for software-as-a-service companies and helps monitor entity-level risks and controls. Founded in 2020, the company supports more than 15 compliances.

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9.Supersourcing

Year founded: 2020

What they do: Supersourcing is a B2B AI-enabled platform for hiring remote engineers, and provides pre-vetted developers to medium and small-sized businesses, enterprises, and funded startups. Supersourcing shared that it is looking to hire more than 200 freshers in the coming year.

10.GrowthSchool

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Year founded: 2021

What they do: GrowthSchool partners with instructors to create cohort-based courses on personal and professional growth topics like marketing, design, and business. Founded in 2021, GrowthSchool shared with LinkedIn that it is looking to onboard 70-80 freshers in the coming year.

11.Jar

Year founded: 2021

What they do: Jar is an automated gold savings app that allows people to save spare change from their online transactions and invest it in digital gold, as well as offers manual and daily, weekly, or monthly savings options. Launched in 2021, the app currently has more than 1.5 crore users.

12.Shyft

Year founded: 2019

What they do: Shyft, formerly known as Mindhouse, is a wellness and life management and tracking platform that offers health, yoga, nutrition, and dermatology programmes. It also provides personalised employee health and wellness solutions to corporates.

13.Teachnook

Year founded: 2021

What they do: E-learning platform Teachnook offers students curated programmes to help them upskill in topics like Web3, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, business development, and performance marketing. It also offers courses and mentorship programmes that allow students to get guidance from industry experts.

14.StockGro

Year founded: 2020

What they do: Bengaluru-based social investment platform StockGro aims to educate young investors about trading and investment. It allows people to build their trading skills in a simulated environment, and follow experts and top investors.

15.Exponent Energy

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Year founded: 2020

What they do: This startup is on a mission to simplify energy for electric vehicles (EVs) and offers a 15-minute rapid charging solution for EVs. The company aims to power 25,000 EVs by the end of 2025 and deploy 1,000 charging stations.

16.Housr

Year founded: 2019

What they do: Focused exclusively on millennials and working professionals, Housr provides luxury co-living and accommodation solutions across five Indian cities and more than 75 properties. The company plans to fully automate their properties and expand to other Tier 1 and 2 cities across India.

17. AccioJob

Year founded: 2018

What they do: Run by IIT Delhi alumni, edtech startup AccioJob offers courses around full-stack web development and data analytics. The company also provides placement services and facilitates career guidance and mentorship from industry experts.

18.TravClan

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Year founded: 2019

What they do: TravClan is a B2B platform offering business solutions for travel companies, which include flight and hotel bookings, travel websites, payment gateways, and marketing material. It also operates as a destination management company across more than 18 domestic and international destinations.

19.DotPe

Year founded: 2019

What they do: DotPe offers business solutions for omni-channel selling, which include point of sale, an e-commerce website, QR, payments, and delivery. It provides a full-stack food tech offering for food and beverage companies, a one-stop platform for retail firms to grow online, and customer relationship management tools for service-based businesses.

20. Fasal

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Year founded: 2018

What they do: Fasal is a full-stack platform for horticulture farming, which started with the mission of removing the guesswork from farming. Through its AI-driven platform, the company provides farmers farm-specific, crop-specific, and crop-stage specific actionable advisory; and helps them reduce the cost of cultivation and increase quality and yield.

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