Meet the 3 cool Indian startups picked for Start-Up Chile’s latest batch

Start-Up Chile is an ambitious accelerator program started by the Chilean government in 2010 to transfrom the country into the innovation hub of Latin America.

It began a pilot run in 2010 with 22 startups from 14 countries. They were brought to Chile, given US$40,000 of equity-free seed capital, and granted a six-month visa to develop their projects.

In the latest batch there are 100 startups picked from 25 countries all around the globe, including three early-stage, high-potential bootstrappers from India.

Pykih


This Mumbai-based B2B (business-to-business) startup builds data discovery systems for those who want to slice and dice data to quickly draw insights. It helps media brands move toward more innovative and data-driven news projects. It also builds customized, interactive, real-time data visualizations to explain your business case intuitively in a glance.

“We believe each big enough problem deserves a design that best leverages the properties of the data and the context of the business case. To achieve this, Pykih has built many lego-like building blocks,” says Pykih founder Ritvvij Parrikh, who started the company from his house in September 2013.

Currently, Pykih has a 13-member team, and its software has been used by organizations like Microsoft, 500 Startups, and the current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website.

Pykih was incubated at Zone Startups India, a collaboration between Canada’s Ryerson Futures and the Bombay Stock Exchange.