Digitalization in India is expanding rapidly across cities, towns, and villages. Introduction of new technologies and high-speed internet is opening many new doors for employment. 

Especially in the IT sector which generates about 8 percent of India’s GDP alone. Various schemes such as Digital India, start-up India, etc. have affected the age of digital technology positively on the economy as well as employment. 

Many online platforms are offering various services and software products to corporates and customers and creating a new era of digital business in India. Here, we have come up with those online platforms that are growing impressively through providing purely digital business in India. 

PAISABAZAAR

Paisabazaar

PaisaBazaar.com is India’s most popular online destination for all types of loans, credit cards, banking and investment knowledge and other finance related products and services. Since its beginning in early 2014, Paisabazaar has marked a noteworthy growth with an annualized loan disbursal rate of USD 1B. 

PaisaBazaar.com has become India’s biggest portal for insurance comparison, analyzing various investments and mutual funds. This company has been funded by Tiger Global & Ribbit Capital, Naukri, and Intel Capital

• Industry: Financial Services, Marketplace
• Founded: 2014
• Founder: Naveen Kukreja
• Headquarters: Gurgaon, India
• Number of Employees: 1000+
• Customer Reach: Asia-Pacific (APAC)
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Loans, Insurance, Credit cards
• Digital Presence: 30 million customers
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.paisabazaar.com/

ZOHO

Zoho

Zoho is among the best SaaS providers in India that delivers a wide range of business, collaboration, and productivity applications. It has more than 20 million active users worldwide and over 33 products including CRM, office suite, project management, invoicing, email marketing, and social media management. 

This SaaS platform provides Zoho Writer, Zoho CRM, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Projects, Zoho Meeting and Zoho Creator to aid different requirements like support, collaboration, sales, marketing, finance and recruitment. 

• Industry: Information Technology, Software Services
• Founded: Sep 1996 
• Founders: Sridhar Vembu, Tony Thomas
• Headquarters: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
• Number of Employees: 10,000+ 
• Customer Reach: Global
• Digital Presence: 45 million users
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Zoho CRM, Zoho People
• Acquisitions: Zoho acquired ePoise in March 2019
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.zoho.com/

AGILE CRM

Agile CRM is one of the popular CRM SaaS companies which is serving the growing need of small businesses. Agile CRM is basically an end-to-end comprehensive CRM which assists small and medium scale businesses to manage their customer lifecycle through a single platform. It focuses on driving a sustainable and growing digital business. 

• Industry: CRM, SaaS, Marketing Automation
• Founded: May 2012 
• Founder: Manohar Chapalamadugu
• Headquarters: Asia-Pacific (APAC)
• Number of Employees: 250+ 
• Customer Reach: US, UK, Australia
• Digital Presence: 367,444 monthly web visitors
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Agile CRM
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.agilecrm.com/

IBSFINTECH

IBSFintech is also a well-known SaaS provider that provides categorized financial software. It is basically designed to manage treasury, forex, and finances for corporations. IBSFintech helps both small and big scale companies to leverage the power of innovative financial solutions. 

As a SaaS-based company, IBSFintech manages financial risks of a company by serving them quick insights. This SaaS tool helps users to analyze and decide how they can deploy their money that brings effective results in any digital business smoothly. 

• Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology
• Founded: 2007
• Founder: Chandra Mohan Grover
• Headquarters: Asia-Pacific (APAC)
• Number of Employees: 11-50
• Customer Reach: Global
• Digital Presence: 300+ monthly web visitors
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Treasury, Trade finance
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://ibsfintech.com/

FRESHWORKS

Freshworks

Freshworks is one of the growing SaaS-based companies that offer business with software services for customer engagement solutions. Freshdesk is its flagship product that makes it easy for sales, marketing and support executives to connect effectively and efficiently with customers for better services. 

Freshworks is among Top software-based companies that is delivering great services for digitally-empowered businesses. This cloud-based suite is used by over 150,000+ businesses including Cisco, Zomato, Toshiba, and Hugo Boss. Freshworks has raised a sum of 484 USD in funding from investors. 

• Industry: CRM, Software, Information Technology
• Founded: Oct 2010
• Founders: Girish Mathrubootham, Shan Krishnasamy, Vijay Shankar
• Headquarters:  San Mateo, California, United States
• Number of Employees: 2500
• Customer Reach: Global
• Digital Presence: 1 million monthly web visitors
• Top-Selling Products/Services:  Freshdesk, Freshsales, Freshconnect
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.freshworks.com/

VTION

VTION is a SaaS based media-tech company which focuses on solving key problems in the media-based ecosystem. VTION analyzes consumer behaviour and trends. 

Users can generate analytics and filter data as well which helps to understand the pattern of customer behaviour. VTION has raised a sum of 36 INR funding in 1 round and this is funded by Angel List. 

• Industry: Digital Media, Broadcasting, Video Streaming
• Founded: Aug 2016
• Founder: Manoj Dawane
• Headquarters:  Gurgaon, Haryana, India
• Number of Employees: 250
• Customer Reach: India
• Top-Selling Products/Services: VTION
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.vtion.in/

FACILIO

Facilio is a software company that uses Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT) to help businesses achieve sustainability, maintenance and streamlined operations.

 It assists through providing effective digital services like channelizing business management with smarter, automatic and predictive facilities. In its early stage, Facilio has raised a sum of US$ 6.4 million funding in 1 round. This was a Series A round in Dec 2018. 

• Industry: Machine Learning, Software
• Founded: 2017
• Founders: Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy, Prabhu Ramachandran, Rajavel Subramanian, Yogendra Babu
• Headquarters:  Atlanta, United States
• Number of Employees: 50
• Customer Reach: Asia-Pacific region
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Facilio
• Digital Presence: 1270 monthly page visits
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://facilio.com/

HIPPO VIDEO

Hippo Video

Hippo Video leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to help businesses create, personalize, edit and offer actionable analytics for videos. Hippo Video has thousands of active users worldwide and is supported by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge.

• Industry: Enterprise Software, Machine Learning
• Founded: 2016
• Founders: Karthi Mariappan
• Headquarters:  Atlanta, United States
• Number of Employees: 50
• Customer Reach: Global
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Hippo Video
• Digital Presence: 190,650 monthly visitors
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.hippovideo.io/

PAPERFLITE

Paperflite is a sales enablement platform for marketers, business entities, enterprise and sales teams. It allows content curation from marketing and lines up the most befitting assets in real-time to sales teams and enables them to deliver the best pitch to their business prospects.

Paperlift offers better quality leads and empowers business to achieve targets using existing content in an effective way. 

• Industry: CRM, Software
• Founded: 2016
• Founders: Anant Bhat, Vinoth Kumar, Yega Kumarappan
• Headquarters:  Camden Wyoming, United States
• Number of Employees: 50
• Customer Reach: Global
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Paperflite
• Digital Presence: 18,000 monthly visitors
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://www.paperflite.com/

GROWW

Groww

GROWW is an online investment platform which targets first-time investors who are interested in investing money in stocks and direct mutual funds in India. Headquartered in Bangalore, this platform allows investors to open their personal account and transact in mutual funds. Groww provides insights about systematic investment planning, mutual funds, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world. 

This platform allows customers to invest in gold and US stocks as well. Groww has raised a sum of US$ 59.2 million in funding over 5 rounds and backed by the top investors in this company;  Y Combinator Continuity Fund and Ribbit Capital. 

• Industry: Financial Services, Funding Platform
• Founded: 2017
• Founders: Harsh Jain, Ishan Bansal, Lalit Keshre, Neeraj Singh
• Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
• Number of Employees: 251-500
• Customer Reach: India
• Top-Selling Products/Services: GROWW
• Digital Presence: 9 million users 
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://groww.in/

ZERODHA

Zerodha is a financial service company in India that provides retail, currencies, commodities trading, institutional broking, mutual funds, and bonds. Zerodha is India’s one of the biggest online investment platforms that allows various kinds of investment. This company develops software and tools for market research and data analysis well. 

• Industry: Finance, Stock Exchanges
• Founded: Aug 2010
• Founders: Nithin Kamath
• Headquarters: Bengaluru, India
• Number of Employees: 1100+
• Customer Reach: India
• Top-Selling Products/Services: Equity Trading,
• Derivatives Trading, Currency Trading, Commodity Trading , Mutual Funds,
• Digital Presence: 3 million+ users 
• Current Status: Active 
• Website: https://zerodha.com/