Meet the 10 Indian startups taking off for the UK tonight

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Ten startup founders from India are taking off for the UK tonight for a week-long program of networking and mentoring. They are the latest batch of chosen ones under a Tech Rocketships program initiated by UK-based TechHub, with support from UK Trade & Investment. Here’s a look at the ten that found seats on the rocketship:

Cashkumar

Bangalore-based Cashkumar is a peer-to-peer loans site for individuals and businesses. It began as a portal for forex vendors in 2014 and was incubated in Kyron accelerator. Then it pivoted.

Cashkumar now uses non-traditional data points to assess eligibility for loans. This enables loans to flow to those who would be denied in the usual banking system. The bootstrapped startup is poised for rapid growth this year as demonetization in India brings more people online for financial transactions.

See: Here’s the multiplier effect of going cashless

BendFlex

A BendFlex tool being used to inject an embryo of a Zebrafish. Photo credit:BendFlex

Tech in Asia featured BendFlex in 2015 among cool, young startups waiting to be funded. That was the year BendFlex was born in a lab of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. Its founders are two PhD’s from IISc, Raghunath Babu and Ramnath Babu.

BendFlex produces equipment for in-vitro fertilization, such as micro-grippers for biological cells and bioreactors for cell culture. Other patent-pending micro-devices are also on the anvil.

See: How a medical device maker got $5 million in seed funding

Outsell

Bangalore-based Outsell, as its name suggests, promises to help exceed sales targets. It provides sales coaching to enterprises to help their sales teams get up to speed on product knowledge. The SaaS (software-as-a-service) startup gives sales reps bite-sized content on their mobile devices.

See: Meet the artificially intelligent sales gorilla that closes deals faster

Get My Parking

Delhi traffic is a force to be reckoned with. Photo credit: Wikimedia

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