Fin Tech, Augmented Reality Amongst the Key Growth Drivers: Study

As India has become the third largest start-up ecosystem in the world, a new wave of innovation and business opportunities is waiting to hit the country and create a global start up hub. Enablers (www.enablersinvestment.com) an innovative web-based platform connecting and facilitating fundraising transactions between startups and investors is optimistic about the upcoming start-up growth in India. The company lists start-up opportunities aligned to investor interests and works as a partner for the entrepreneur to execute the funding process.

Enablers follows a detailed selection and validation process to study business models, review business plans, and capture the competitive advantage to identify scalable and sustainable businesses. The start-up is catering to companies across sectors including waste management, mobile, healthcare wearables, fashion and lifestyle, e-commerce, education, and mobile advertising. The team behind Enablers has a perfect combination of professionals including CAs, MBAs and Lawyers with experience in investment banking, corporate law & finance. The company closely follows the international start-up trends. The hottest trends for 2016 simplified by the Enablers Team are mentioned below:

·         With increasing mobile penetration, ease of use and upcoming expansion plans of telecom operators (ex. Reliance Jio), M-Commerce to take over the existing e-commerce models

·         Fin Tech, Health Tech, Augmented Reality, Robotics and IoT to drive the next set of growth

·         P2P communities and platforms in various sub sectors would prevail– Retail (online to offline models) FinTech (P2P/SME Lending), Health Tech (Data/Records)

·         Ed Tech startups in the test prep and personalized services space having proved their business models and gone through the 18-24 months cycle expected to see increased investor activity

·         B2B startups to see significant interest from Investors – Big Data Analytics, IOT-Automation, Wholesale Trading, SAAS offerings

·         Relaxation and clarifications in FDI norms and processes expected to ease investments and domicile start-ups in India as opposed to Singapore etc. Startup listing/IPO norms to enable visibility on exits and leading to expansion of investor base

·         More strategic investors to foray into investments and capitalize on the growth enabled by VC backing to startups

·         Balanced and realistic valuation along with consolidation would be underway through the year