Indore-based Kimirica Hunter now manufactures hotel toiletries and amenities for a range of premium hotels such as Marriott, Starwood, Hilton, Jumeirah, Hyatt, Sofitel, Pullman, and an array of independent luxury hotels. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/smbstory/hotel-travel-kimirica-hunter-marriott Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Rishabh Mansur on 21th Feb 2019. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

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EP 52 - Meet the brothers who started a Rs 300 Cr hotel amenities company from a 100 sq ft room

Two-time Silver medalist, para-athlete Divij Shah lives by the maxim that fear is the greatest disability of all. 'Daar ke aage jeet hai' Some injuries heal faster if you move forward. This is not just a simple motivational line, but a powerful statement that Divij Shah lives by. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2018/03/divij-shah-silver-medal-para-cycling-champion Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Dipti Nair on 14th March 2018. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 51 - Here's how this 26-year-old cycling champion faced his first failure when he was just 6

A spinal injury may have confined her to a wheelchair, but Nisha Gupta didn't let that stop her. Now an international basketball player, she dreams of being a model when not on the basketball court. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2021/02/monday-motivation-wheelchair-basketball-woman-nisha-gupta Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Diya Koshy George on 15th Feb 2021 with edits by Anju Narayanan. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 50 - Being wheelchair-bound did not deter this para-athlete from pursuing her dreams

In 2019, the Sarin brothers — Shaan, Rahul, and Aakash — took up a three-storey building in Punjabi Bagh, Delhi, and launched three restaurants — one on each floor. The three restaurants, which share a kitchen, are named TEO Lounge and Bar, The Dineroom, and Cartoony Planet. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/smbstory/delhi-restaurant-dineroom-teo-lounge-cartoony-planet Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Rishabh Mansur on 6th March 2021 with edits by Suman Singh. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 49 - These Delhi brothers started 3 restaurants in the same building, now make Rs 10Cr turnover

Logistics startup Rivigo changed the way trucks ply across India with its relay model. The company, India’s latest unicorn, now has 3,000 customers across 20 sectors, and aims to expand its footprint. Rivigo was set up in 2014 by former Mckinsey consultants Deepak Garg (37) and Gazal (33) with the idea of creating a relay truck model, where no driver would drive for more than four-five hours at a stretch and would return home the same day.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2019/07/rivigo-unicorn-logistics-startup-gurugram Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Ramarko Sengupta on 31st July 2019 with edits by Teja Lele Desai. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 48 - How a road trip and coffee led to the birth of billion-dollar logistics startup Rivigo

Wasif Mohd started Fresh Up Mattresses in 2016 to differentiate from the competition and capture the unorganised sector. In four years, Fresh Up has emerged as a fast-growing mattress brand in North India with over 250 employees. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/smbstory/mattress-brand-fresh-up-noida Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Rishabh Mansur on 14th Jan 2021 with edits by Anju Narayanan. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 47 - With 2 helpers and second-hand machinery,this entrepreneur built a mattress brand that now clocks Rs 38 Cr

Justin Waldron co-founded gaming company Zynga with Mark Pincus when he was 19. Today, he is an investor in over 50 companies across the globe, and has also founded another gaming startup - Playco. Justin talks about his Zynga journey, investing in startups, and founding Playco. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2021/03/zynga-startup-investor-serial-entrepreneur-playco-justin-waldron Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by  Sindhu Kashyaap on 16th March 2021 with edits by Tenzin Pema. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 46 - Zynga co-founder and startup investor Justin Waldron's game plan with PlayCo

Boxer Manju Rani shares how she broke the glass ceiling in a Haryana village, and overcame economic hardships to become successful. This is a story of grit, determination, and how belief can take you to great heights.   Read more at: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2020/04/manju-rani-young-boxer-india Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Anju Ann Mathew on 6th April 2020 with edits by Javed Gaihlot. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 45 - This 20-year-old female boxer from Haryana punched her way to her dreams

Laminar is a platform as a service that lets a content company or a creator launch a global streaming service, by providing end-to-end solutions.  Raheel Khursheed was Snapchat’s first employee in India, hired to lead the Santa Monica-based disappearing messaging application’s operations in the country. But six months into the gig, bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, he quit. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/07/ott-startup-laminar-raheel-khursheed-netflix-amazon-prime Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Ramarko Sengupta on 13th Jul 2020 with edits by Teja Lele Desai. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 44 - This Twitter alum’s startup can help content creators launch their own Netflix, Amazon Prime-like platform

Founded in 2015, Ultraviolette is a Bengaluru-based electric vehicle company, which is building an ‘aspirational’ superbike for the Indian market. In India, entrepreneurs Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajamohan realised that the next decade would see a rising need for electric vehicles.  However, they wanted to find a niche in this sector, and make a considerable impact. To this end, the duo decided to build electric superbikes in India for the Indian market. Thus, in 2015, they founded ﻿Ultraviolette Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/12/elon-musk-tesla-ev-startup-building-superbikes-india-ultraviolette Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 17th Dec 2020 with edits by Saheli Sen Gupta. Hosted by Julius Sharma! 

EP 43 - Inspired by Elon Musk’s Tesla, this EV startup is building superbikes for India

With no revenue to rent an office, Piyush Somani started a small web hosting support business in a kindergarten centre in Nashik, where his team worked after the kids had left. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/smbstory/entrepreneur-kindergarten-centre-inspiration-esds-software-company Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Rishabh Mansur on 19th March 2020 with edits by Suman Singh. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 42 - At 23, he started his business in a kindergarten centre. Now he runs a Rs 160 Cr turnover company

In this story, we feature Lalitesh Katragadda, the man who built Google Map Maker and Google Maps for India. Currently, as the founder of Indihood, the serial entrepreneur is building tech to create impact at scale.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/03/techie-tuesday-lalitesh-katragadda-google-maps-india Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 17th March 2020 with edits by Megha Reddy and Tenzin Pema. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 41 - Meet Lalitesh Katragadda, the man behind Google Map Maker, now building tech for India's next billion

[Product roadmap] The role tech played in the journey of Bharat-focused social media startup ShareChat. In this week’s Product Roadmap we feature ShareChat, one of India’s newest unicorns. Here’s the story of how technology helped the Bharat-focused social media content platform build a 280-million user community along with video platform Moj.  Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2021/04/product-roadmap-social-media-startup-sharechat-unicorn Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Sindhu Kashyaap on 14th April 2021 with edits by Teja Lele. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 40 - [Product roadmap] The role tech played in the journey of Bharat-focused social media startup ShareChat

Popular YouTuber and content creator Saloni Srivastava started HustlePost Academy to cater to a growing number of people who wanted to use social media platforms to start a business. The Academy offers 13 courses with live interactive sessions. Three years after Saloni Srivastava became a successful YouTuber with an interesting blend of tips and tricks for millennials, the 27-year-old is now giving hope to hundreds of Indians by encouraging them to start a new business. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/herstory/2020/11/woman-entrepreneur-online-business-youtube-instagram Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Rekha Balakrishnan on 18th Nov 2020 with edits by Megha Reddy. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 39 - YouTuber Saloni Srivastava shows how tostart an online business by investing just Rs 21 a day

Haris Ali, a Bengaluru-based animal rescuer and entrepreneur, started Sarvoham Welfare Trust to rescue and rehabilitate injured dogs from across the city. As a 12-year-old, Haris Ali loved taking care of a little family of dogs near his home – a mother with a litter of three puppies. With his daily pocket money of Rs 2, Haris would buy a small pack of biscuits and feed this canine family. Read more at: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2021/01/bengaluru-dog-rescuer-entrepreneur-sarvoham-cupa-haris-ali Follow us on Social Media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/yourstorycom Instagram: www.instagram.com/yourstory_com Twitter: www.twitter.com/YourStoryCo YouTube: www.youtube.com/yourstorytv Write to us: podcast@yourstory.com This story was reported by Anju Ann Mathew on 11th Jan 2021 with edits by Suman Singh. Hosted by Julius Sharma!

EP 38 - Meet the dog-lover from Bengaluru, who has rescued over 2,000 injured dogs

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