These Indian Startups Have Bollywood Celebrities As Their Investors

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Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

Our Bollywood celebrities are rich, famous and of course good-looking, but apart from these they are now playing the role of investors, with a strong interest in startups. Today startups are one of the hottest things in the Indian economy, and when backed by our B-town celebs these startups overflow with glamour.

These days’ Indian startups are using big funding and celebrity stardom as a medium to stay ahead in the tough competition. The companies are very well getting backed by the Bollywood celebs to create a popularity factor in the growing markets.

Many celebrities are becoming a part of these startups by either becoming investors or endorsing the brand. Big names are putting in their money smartly in these startups like Amitabh Bachchan, AR Rehman, Salman Khan, AR Rehman, Karishma Kapoor, and even Sunny Leone.

Take a look at 10 of these Bollywood actors who are associated with the startups:

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

1. Yatra.com & Being Human – Salman Khan

Yes, our beloved Salman Khan is not just the top Bollywood actor, but he also holds a 5 % stake in this 7-year-old travel operator. He invested in Yatra.com and also backed for the marketing campaign. Salman has helped this startup to connect with the crowd and enhance its brand value.
And of course, we all know about his very popular brand ‘Being Human’, which has variety of T-shirts and watches, and also operates an online shop.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

2. Ticketplease.com – Ajay Devgan

In the year 2011, Ajay Devgan our Singham superstar launched his entertainment and ticket online site. This site offers a variety of tickets, be it movies, plays, sports and concerts. They also have some add-ons like chats, blogs, pictures and videos. This website was launched during the promotion of the movie ‘Jatt Yamla Pagla Deewana’.

 

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

3. Ziddu – Amitabh Bachchan

A Singapore-based online cloud storage and sharing solutions startup, it got its first round of funding from the very popular legendary superstar of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan. This organization is looking forward to earn $15 million in its next round. Amitabh Bachchan has made an investment of $2.50 lakh dollar in Ziddu. The good news is that by far this company is doing pretty and has achieved around 1.2 billion page views and 300 million visitors in just a month’s time.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

4. The Label Corp – Malaika Arora Khan, Suzanne & Bipasha Basu

A Mumbai based startup founded by Preeta Sukhtankar, it features many online lifestyle brands. This firm approached Malaika Arora, Suzzane and Bipasha for its three brands – The Closet Label, The Home Label & The Trunk Label. It’s an online store that offers a special handpicked collection of apparels and home décor items based on the expertise of these celebs. Basically, these brands follow the signature style of the celebs.

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

5. BabyOye.com – Karishma Kapoor

It is the most popular and leading online brand for baby and mother care products. The company gained even more popularity when actress Karisma Kapoor made an investment in the company, she holds a 26 % stake, which makes her the single largest individual shareholder in this startup. BabyOye offers a large variety of high quality products and services and is a perfect choice to shop for Indian parents.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

6. GoQii – Madhuri Dixit

This Bollywood queen who ruled the hearts of many, invested in a wearable fitness band called GoQii along with her husband Dr Shriram Nene.
Along with her focus on fitness with GoQii, the actress also owns an Online Dance Academy – Dance With Madhuri. This academy aims to help people stay fit, they do it perfectly by combining dance and exercise together.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

7. GroupHomeBuyers – Shilpa Shetty

Bollywood’s popular actress, Shipla Shetty came into news by launching her classified real estate site in the year 2011. This site offers the best deal on the leading and new Indian residential sites. The organization gained popularity as Shilpa invested in the venture and the buzz continued to keep both the company and Shilpa in focus for a pretty long period.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

8. IMBesharam.com – Sunny Leone

IMBeshram.com is an online adult store which was launched on September 1, 2012, and Sunny Leone is the face of this brand. The store offers a huge variety of adult products like lingerie, adult toys & products, sexy wear, sexy costumes, swimwear, footwear, party wear, lifestyle accessories and much more.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

9. Qyuki – Shekhar Kapur & AR Rahman

Shekhar Kapur and AR Rahman together launched their social media platform, named Qyuki in the year 2012. Qyuki is a social media platform which aims to engage Indian youth to showcase new media content. The popular corporate giant Cisco made a very early investment in this startup. The platform of Qyuki builds on Cisco’s cloud infrastructure.

 

Indian Startups, Bollywood, Bollywood Celebrities,Investors

10. Ketto.org – Kunal Kapoor

Ketto is a platform for online ‘giving’, where people can start giving with an amount as less as Rs 100. It was launched on Aug 15th, 2012. Actor Kunal Kapoor along with Varun Seth had launched Ketto. Over the past two years, Ketto has brought together many individuals, companies and non-governmental organizations. Which helped to create a bridge through crowdfunding. It has connected over 100 million young internet-savvy professionals to around +300 million people in India who don’t have access to the basic social services such as health care, education, and sanitation.

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