Sequoia names 15 startups in Surge’s seventh cohort
- ByStartupStory | August 22, 2022
The 15 startups chosen for the seventh batch of Surge, the VC firm’s quick scale-up program, have been announced by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia. Half of the participants were in the pre-launch phase when they were chosen for the 16-week program, which began in early 2019.
They partnered with over half of our Surge 07 firms when they were in the early stages of development. Some of these are second or third-time founders, while others launched their companies immediately out of college. Many of the Surge 07 founders have substantial experience in their respective fields.
The cohort includes Nykaa’s former CFO, Uber’s first engineers in India, software engineers who helped construct Apache Hive, an aerospace engineer transformed fintech founder, and machine learning engineers who worked on Facebook’s conversational AI. Furthermore, one-third of the companies in this cohort is led by a woman. These vibrant women from the region contribute a lot of expertise and knowledge to the Surge community and this cohort.
Surge has taught 281 founders across 127 startups in 16 industries over the last three years. These companies have also raised a total of $1.7 billion in follow-on funding, with more than 60% of companies from the first five cohorts raising series A and higher. Byju co-founder Byju Raveendran, Sequoia Capital managing partner Douglas Leone, Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, & Zerodha founder Nithin Kamath are all past presenters and mentors for the program.
The following companies are part of Surge’s seventh cohort:
Founders are Shiva Dhawan, Rishabjit Singh, and Sarthak Vijay.
The software-as-a-service startup, based in India, delivers sales automation to landscaping contractors in the United States.
Beam
Founders are Mike Chinakrit Piamchon, Nattapat Chaimanowong, and Win Vareekasem. The fintech company is developing a one-click checkout solution for Southeast Asian vendors and shoppers. Beam is headquartered in Thailand.
Founders are Satheesh Ramdass and Vikram Venkatesan.
The Indian company offers interior designers, architects, and construction businesses a design-to-build automation system.
Founders are Amit Dugar, Shankar Ganapathy, and Shyam HN. Through reciprocal success goals, this startup enables business-to-business revenue teams to win corporate agreements, work effectively with their buyers, and expand customer accounts. BuyerAssist is headquartered in San Francisco.
Founders are Ankit Jain, Joydeep Sen Sarma, and Lalit Indoria. The Indian collaborative platform employs AI algorithms on Slack and Microsoft Teams to build natural-language ticketing. As a result, backend ticketing platforms like Zendesk, Salesforce, and Freshdesk can connect.
Gan
The founder is Suvrat Bhooshan
This India-based firm customizes movies at scale to make it easier for brands to communicate with customers, and to democratize the creation of customized videos with AI.
Founders are Haritabh Singh and Naomi Chopra
This San Francisco-based firm provides insights and visibility to managers and leaders to develop productive engineering teams.
Founder is Fatima Rizwan
The Singaporean company teaches, builds, and ships decentralized apps to prepare developers for opportunities in the Web3 ecosystem.
Users with no prior design knowledge can use this animation platform to create 3D graphics and games, among other things. PixCap is headquartered in Singapore.
Founders are Anvi Shah, Neehar Modi, and Sachin Parikh
This retailer offers high-quality home and wellness products to Indian customers.
The business is developing a full-stack tech solution for Indonesia’s agriculture industry to help farmers and agri-retailers improve their lives.
Founders are Abhishek Choudhary, Anuraag Gutgutia, and Nikunj Bajaj
This developer platform based in San Francisco enables startups to install and monitor machine learning models in minutes or days rather than weeks or months.
Founders are Grace Sai and Marc Allen
This Singaporean startup provides corporate software that assists businesses in tracking and reducing their carbon footprint.
Founders are Agnes Wirya Lie, Dominic Sumarli, and Frederick Widjaja
The fintech firm aims to financially empower Indonesia’s next generation by targeting youngsters.
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