The document outlines three startups: Springboard, Grofers, and Jugnoo, highlighting their business models, funding, and key investors. Springboard is an online education platform offering paid and free courses, Grofers is a hyperlocal grocery delivery service, and Jugnoo is an auto-rickshaw aggregator transforming urban travel in India. Each startup has secured significant funding to support their growth and operational missions.

1. Gaurav Rai

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 List of three firms
 List investors in all three firms
 Talk about firm
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 Springboard [Online Edu startup which offers free
as well as paid courses]
 Grofers [online order grocery, pet supplies and
electronic products]
 Jugnoo [Online Auto-Rickshaw aggregator primarily
from Chandigarh and NCR]
List of firms chosen

4.  Springboard is Bangalore & US based Edu-tech startup
launched in 2013 by Parul Gupta and Gautam Tambay.
 Springboard raises $1.7M in seed funding.
 Springboard offers online courses in data science and
UX design. The company claims that over 1000 students
undertook its paid courses in year while several
thousand are undertaking free courses. The paid cost
$300 -500 a month.
 In these courses, each students gets access to a mentor,
as well as a community of fellow students and alumni
every week. Some mentor are from Facebook, Uber,
Airbnb, Etsy, LinkedIn and Pandora.
Springboard (formerly Slide Rule)

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 Allen Blue (co-founder of LinkedIn)
 John Katz man (founder of the Princeton Review)
 Naveen Tiwari (founder and CEO of InMobi)
 Kartik Hosanagar (The Wharton school professor)
 Kashyap Deorah (co-founder of Chalo )
Springboard Investors

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 Grofers was founded on December 27, 2013 by Saurabh Kumar
and Albinder Dhindsa.
 The company worked on a B2B model before becoming
a hyperlocal B2C delivery service. In November 2014, it started
its offerings to the end customers.
 They are a local mobile e-commerce platform that is
transforming the shopping experience for people like you, by
connecting them to local stores. Their aim to become the one-
stop shop for all your daily needs. Users can order through the
app and get everything delivered to their doorstep, quickly.
 They offer a wide assortment of groceries, fruits and vegetables,
cosemetics, electronics, bakery items, flowers and much more.
Grofers

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Grofers has raised $166.5 Million after 3 rounds of funding:
 Seed Funding: $0.5 Million from Deepinder Goyal,
Founder of Zomato, and Sequoia Capital in September
2014
 Series A: $10 Million was closed in February 2015
by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global
 Series B: $36 Million was announced in April 2015
by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global
 Series C: $120 Million was announced in November 2015
by Softbank, Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global
Grofers investor

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Growth:-
Their focus on growth drives us to step out of
our comfort zone and scale new heights every day.
Growth

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Jugnoo, a phenomenon that has changed the way people
choose to travel, happened in November 2014, founded by a
handful of IITians. Jugnoo connects passengers wishing to
travel form one point to another point within a particular
city, less than a year ago, has now snowballed onto a
revolution.
Jugnoo contributes to the Digital evolution of India by
making the on demand Auto services a reality for people.
Jugnoo gets $3M in Series B funding from Paytm, others
Jugnoo

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 Vikas Taneja
 Shalin Shah (Vice President at Piramal Enterprises)
 Jagdish Amin ( Worked in the Enterprise and e-
commerce space)
 Jai Farswani
 Justin Weil (Investor in Facebook, Yandex)
Jugnoo investors

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 Their mission is to establish a successful hyperlocal
commerce in India, with the help of auto-rickshaw
network, mobile-first bottom-up approach and on-
demand technology solution.
Mission