10 Best Startups to Watch For - 2019

Ever since the startup ecosystem decentralized from the convictions of Silicon Valley, the environment around it has also metamorphosed into a more favorable, much more inviting one. Today, the ground breaking innovations can occur in a basement, a garage, or a college dorm. But the Indian startup ecosystem, which is ranked at number 37, much below China, Singapore, and South Korea, needs more thrust to race against the global rate. As we are now starting to reap the harvest of union government’s initiative such Startup India and Make in India, the numbers are obliged to improve. That makes the subcontinent’s startup ecosystem as exciting as its counterparts across the world. As technology remains the magic wand, more tech-explosions are highly anticipated from the startup ecosystem, especially in terms of the new norms like Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things, which are now moving to the next level. While Artificial Intelligence is getting ready to evolve from narrow AI to broad AI, the IoT is expected to make some new friends in the form of Blockchain deployment. The combination of both is predicted to have a good go in the next few years. Quite lucidly, the business world has every reason to await the startup revolution 2.0. In this issue of siliconindia, we present an index of '10 Best Startups to Watch For – 2019'. Each startup on this list possesses the potential to constitute a single handed revolution, significantly transforming the respective vertical and contributing to the business world as whole. siliconindia's editorial board scrutinized the index through frequent discussions with a renowned panel of industry’s topmost CEOs, directors, VCs, and industry analysts, throughout the year. We hope these success stories will serve as an igniter for entrepreneurs who love to live an akin dream.