Key trends that dominated India’s internet space in 2019 (and other top stories of the day)

Yearly, there are sectors that stand out and play out as themes—when it comes to new companies, traits, and so forth—for the 12 months or no less than for a part of the 12 months. For 2019, if we had been to hazard a guess on what these sectors had been, the decide can be language, logistics, and enterprise software program. 

“When the web markets hit the 30 to 40 p.c mark, the speed of startup creation takes a steep rise. India hit that in 2019, due to Jio. Other than the truth that now we have over 9 unicorns now, the depth that these startups have is extra,” Vaibhav Agrawal, Companion at Lightspeed Enterprise Companions stated, stating the market right now is open to entrepreneurs.

At YourStory’s first ‘Early Investor Summit’, Vaibhav spoke about the important thing traits that dominated the web house in India in 2019. He highlighted a number of the hottest themes which can be working and can proceed to work. 

Learn his tackle the way forward for Indian web house right here. 

Can PhonePe change the face of Indian kirana shops 

In an unique interplay with YourStory Founder and CEO Shradha Sharma, PhonePe Founder and CEO Sameer Nigam says, PhonePe is making a degree taking part in discipline and enabling lakhs of small kirana house owners to compete with larger and bigger retailers.  

Gender parity remains to be 99.5 years away: WEF report

Based on the World Financial Discussion board’s International Gender Hole Report 2020 international gender parity remains to be 99.5 years away. The hole has narrowed from 106 years as estimated in final 12 months’s report. The advance is essentially attributed to extend in participation of girls in politics. 

Fb prime downloaded app of the last decade, Netflix most paid for

Regardless of being a scandal-hit company previously two-odd years, Fb ends the last decade on prime with regards to app standing. It’s the decade’s most-downloaded app, revealed App Annie in a wrap-up report. Additional, Fb’s suite of apps — Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram — grabbed the second, third, and fourth spots within the record of most downloaded apps of the last decade.

PhonePe’s Sameer Nigam on why money burn will not be sustainable

Speaking concerning the money burn and competitors, YourStory Founder and CEO Shradha Sharma requested PhonePe’s CEO Sameer Nigam about his firm’s technique to deal with different biggies within the sector. Accepting that competitors was a problem for the corporate, Sameer stated PhonePe was right here to compete and combat again. 

Freightwalla is streamlining operations for 500-plus companies 

Freightwalla is an clever digital freight forwarder offering immediate quotations for ocean freight, real-time monitoring, and digital options to streamline logistics operations.

This bus driver’s son began a Rs 1 Cr turnover coworking house reserving platform

Gurugram-based Flexispace has grown rapidly and partnered with over 100 coworking areas run by Awfis, Cowrks, 91springboard, Instaoffice and extra. In an unique interplay with SMBStory, Sandeep narrates how he began the corporate and describes its worth proposition.

If information is the brand new oil, PhonePe is constructing large refineries of its personal

Talking concerning the function of information and machine studying (ML), PhonePe CEO Sameer Nigam says, “Given the sheer variety of individuals on-line now and the billion-plus transactions a month simply on UPI plus on Visa and MasterCard, we’re speaking about a number of billion information factors being generated each month simply on our website.”

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