With newbie entrepreneurs launching new ventures everyday in the city, Bengalureans are trying out something new in the way they live and work. From ordering food to sharing videos, they are experimenting with products introduced by fledgling businesses.
This Holi, homemaker Suchi Gaur was busy making ‘gujiyas’, not for her family but for 10 people who had given her the order as they wanted homemade food. A ‘mom chef’, she is one of five homemakers working for a start-up that monetises culinary skills of stay-home moms.
Ms. Gaur, a Bengalurean for the past five years, is busy on other days cooking extra food for buyers who do not fancy restaurant food. She keeps food orders ready, which a person picks up and delivers to customers in Indiranagar. She gets three-fourths of the tagged price of the food while the start-up keeps a quarter. Already 30 Bengalureans are buying homemade food from the mom chefs.
While techie Arvind Krish orders homemade food because it is customised to his taste, Jaya K.B., who owns a 15-member company on Airport Road, said three people share food ordered for one person.
Entrepreneur Manish Jha, who founded Moms Curry, said an application will soon enable people to order online from mobile devices.
While mom chefs share their skills with others, a Bengaluru techpreneur is telling people to try “Crispify”, a video editing and sharing tool. Users can download the application for free from Google Play on to Android phones to edit, beautify, compress and share videos. The application will be available on Windows and iOS soon.
L. Balaraman, who created the 8MB application, said: “People can speed up slow videos of wildlife and sports and share them instantly with friends”.
Yet another entrepreneur has launched a start-up that helps Bengalureans assess used cars and two-wheelers before selling or buying them. Called checkgaadi.com, for a price, it helps owners judge the condition of a vehicle and the price it may command in the market.
