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Delhi-NCR based accelerator, Huddle organised the first-ever edition of its ‘Young Founders Forum’ on 11 March. It saw five multi-speaker panels touching upon aspects of early-stage entrepreneurship

Out of the 76 total applications received, only six startups were shortlisted. The shortlisted names include Tridex Bazaar, CricInShots, Metvy, Xoog, MyStream.in, and Exam Lounge

Anicut Capital’ Dhruv Ranjan, We Founders Circle’s Neeraj Tyagi, Java Capital’s Bhargavi V, Seeders’ Abhishek Rungta among others were the jury members for the pitching competition

Delhi-NCR based accelerator, Huddle organised the first-ever edition of its Young Founders Forum on 11 March. The forum hosted five multi-speaker panels touching upon aspects of early-stage entrepreneurship. The panel discussions covered a wide range of topics including founder learnings, team-building challenges and techniques, creating an effective GTM strategy, investment guidance from VCs, and MVP building and scaling. 

AngelList India’s Jivraj Singh Sachar, Pepper Content’s Rishabh Shekhar, Onsurity’s Kulin Shah, Hubhopper’s Gautam Raj Anand, Shiprocket’s Vishesh Khurana, The New Shop’s Aastha Almast, Dr. Vaidya’s Arjun Vaidya were some of the speakers that were present in the sessions.

With the aim to support student-led startups, the forum also offered a platform for entrepreneurs from across the country to pitch their ideas and get an opportunity to raise funding. Out of the 76 total applications received, six startups were shortlisted — Tridex Bazaar, CricInShots, Metvy, Xoog, MyStream.in, and Exam Lounge. The selected startups pitched their ideas to the investors in a closed-door event where they had ten minutes for the pitch and five minutes for a Q&A session.

The jury members included Anicut Capital’ Dhruv Ranjan, We Founders Circle’s Neeraj Tyagi, Java Capital’s Bhargavi V, Seeders’ Abhishek Rungta, IAN’s Sandro Stephen, The Belgian Waffle Co’s Shrey Aggarwal, Campus Fund’s Anirudh Toshniwal, Antler India’s Vineet Agarwal, and Eximius Ventures’ Pearl Agarwal.

Here Are The Winning Startups Of Huddle’s Young Founders Forum

Tridex Bazaar

• Founded In: 2019
• Founder(s): Vipul Singh, Kartikey Bhatt, Arsh Gauttam
• Headquarters: Haryana
• Sector: Retailtech

Tridex Bazaar is a B2B cloud-based sales and distribution platform. The supply chain aggregator connects FMCG companies with kiranas/retailers. This allows them access to markets using existing infrastructure, without a heavy investment in stock, warehousing and logistics. The startup offers services such as last-mile delivery and warehouse solutions to primary and secondary FMCG companies.

Its clients include Nestle, Bikano, Parle, Suruchi and Veeta Day. Tridex Bazaar claims to have delivered over 10K orders with an ARR of more than INR 6.5 Cr and over INR 4 Cr in sales since Jan 2021.

CricInShots

• Founded in: 2021
• Founder(s): Harsh Savergaonkar, Aditya Kasibhatla 
• Headquarters: Pune
• Sector: Egaming

An online gaming startup, CricInShots is a blockchain cricket card collectable game platform. The players collect different player cards, skills and modifier cards to build their deck. They can also battle, trade and transact with other players using these cards in a virtual marketplace.

Metvy