Meet 3 cool Indian startups picked for Start-Up Chile’s latest batch

Start-Up Chile is an ambitious accelerator program started by the Chilean government in 2010 to transfrom the country into the innovation hub of Latin America.

It began a pilot run in 2010 with 22 startups from 14 countries. They were brought to Chile, given US$40,000 of equity-free seed capital, and granted a six-month visa to develop their projects.

In the latest batch there are 100 startups picked from 25 countries all around the globe, including these early-stage, high-potential bootstrappers from India.

Pykih

This Mumbai-based B2B (business-to-business) startup builds data discovery systems for those who want to slice and dice data to quickly draw insights. It helps media brands move toward more innovative and data-driven news projects. It also builds customized, interactive, real-time data visualizations to explain your business case intuitively in a glance.

“We believe each big enough problem deserves a design that best leverages the properties of the data and the context of the business case. To achieve this, Pykih has built many lego-like building blocks,” says Pykih founder Ritvvij Parrikh, who started the company from his house in September 2013.

Currently, Pykih has a 13-member team, and its software has been used by organizations like Microsoft, 500 Startups, and the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website.

Pykih was incubated at Zone Startups India, a collaboration between Canada’s Ryerson Futures and the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Relatas

This Bangalore-based startup built an innovative business relationship product: a smart calendar with intelligent document tracking. This lets users manage their contacts for both business and personal life. It has features like unified communication, secure scheduling, document analysis, and a global meetings map.

Tech in Asia tried out the product in September when Relatas was in beta stage. It can sync multiple calendars, lets you learn more about the person you’re planning to meet, find common connections, and keep relevant others informed about your whereabouts. “Relatas was an attempt to solve a problem that I face on a regular basis as I love meeting people, attending events and traveling,” Relatas founder Sudip Dutta says.