Hyderabad SaaS Landscape!

Tarun Davuluri
Telangana State Innovation Cell
5 min readApr 6, 2020

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Special thanks to Rohit Chennamaneni, Co-founder— Darwinbox for helping me put together the Hyderabad value proposition, Genesis & Evolution part of the blog.

With the ‘old world’ of IT going through a rapid transformation, organisations are moving many applications to the cloud boosting the Indian SaaS industry. Moreover, Hyderabad is blessed with all the ingredients necessary for the industry’s success. The prior corporate experience of founders, the availability of digital marketing talent, which is essential to market a SaaS company, approximately 22,000 in strength, are fundamental to the success of a SaaS company. The proximity to customers in the form of large corporates of Pharma, IT and manufacturing sectors makes understanding the client requirements to build resilient products

Genesis & Evolution:

Since Indian IT experts have been catering to the high-end B2B consulting for years, the transition to the SaaS industry has been easy. Since 2010, Indian SaaS companies have received more than $1.484 billion in investments. According to a joint research report by Google and Accel Partners, by 2025, SaaS in India will become a $10 billion revenue industry and will cater to 8% of the global SaaS market. With advantages like the low cost of development and operations and the presence of SaaS companies such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Informatica, Hyderabad has attracted the best, global SaaS talent.

Entrepreneurs from the city caught the bus with a focus on the US SMEs. Indian enterprises such as Zenoti and Host Analytics occupy this space. Success breeds success, and the success stories from Hyderabad like SumTotal (now Skillsoft), Host Analytics, HighRadius, Gainsight, Pramati & Zenoti paved the way to companies like Darwinbox, Innovapptive, OpsRamp and Simility that are creating commotion in the whole SaaS Community. Ivy Comptech/Party Gaming is probably the largest IPO issuance (by market cap) at their peak. One interesting fact about Hyderabad is many bootstrapped companies like Ozonetel, Talebu have shown steady progress in attracting business. Freshworks has recently started it’s product development centre in Hyderabad, the biggest after Chennai. With High Radius becoming the first SaaS unicorn and, Great exits of NowFloats and Report Garden, Hyderabad revived it’s energy in SaaS space and making its way to become one of the leading SaaS ecosystems in the global market place.

Here’s our snapshot of the Hyderabad SaaS-ecosystem curated from #SaaSBOOMi Hyderabad (Formely SaaSt) group!

This list is ever-growing — If we’ve inadvertently missed your SaaS Startup and you would like to be included in the list,please fill up this: https://bit.ly/2UFoFgQ If you want us to modify the text, please use the same form.

(A — D)

Abda Digital — Digital Business cards platform for the Enterprise

Acculi Labs — Non invasive Diagnostics for corporate wellness and chronic patients monitoring

AEye SoftLabs— Multiple products based on computer vision. Broadly, we are into video analytics for security.

AnswerWise — AI platform that integrates with existing helpdesk and CRM systems

Automate.io — Could software for workflows

Cordys — EIM and BPM Software

CommonDoor — Software to manage hostels & PG’s

Darwinbox — End-to-end HR technology platform

(E-H)

ekincare — Patent-pending integrated health benefits platform

EngageBay — All-in-one marketing, sales and support software for growing companies

eTravos — eTravos is travel market place helps agents, banks, wallet, corporates to enable travel ticket system

Eunimart — Single platform to help SMEs scale their business globally

Facteye Tech Labs — Talent intelligence platform

Flujo — Communication & Collaboration suite for teams

Foyr — Design Software for interior designers and architects

Frejun — Automatic Meeting notes with AI

GainSight — Customer success management

Gaitx — AI assistant for small business

Gamooga — Marketing automation software for B2C companies

GenY Labs — We have created Auris, an AI powered consumer insights platform

Gramener — Data visualization and predictive analytics platform

GreyMetrics — Reporting Solution for Online Marketers

High Radius — AI Software for receivables and treasury

Host Analytics — Financial planning and analysis software

(I-N)

Ideanz — Low-code development platform

Imaginate — Enterprise collaboration platform on smart glasses using virtual reality & augmented reality

IMImobile — Customer engagement software

Innovapptive — Software provider for Oil, Gas, Chemicals, Mining and Manufacturing

IvyComtech — Creating Industry leading solutions for the online gaming

Khaata — Full stack Transaction management for sellers

MartJack — Enterprise Class Multichannel Commerce platform built for Retailers, Brands

MyClassBoard — School Management Software

NowFloats — Cloud-first products that let businesses provide a better digital experience

NumberMall — B2B eCommerce in retail groceries

(O-R)

OpsRamp — Digital operations management, from discovery to resolution, powered by AIOps

Ozonetel — Cloud Communication for businesses

PerspectAI — Skill assessment platform using Games & AI

Pramati — Builds independent social, mobile and cloud-based technologies

Quixy — A platform empowers users with no coding skills to build unlimited enterprise-grade applications

Report Garden — Software for Internet marketing and SEO

Runo technologies — CRM for SME’s

(S-T)

Saras Analytics — Data management and predictive analytics company

SatisFIND — SaaS platform connecting businesses and frontliners with real customers through Mystery Shopping.

SeekNShop — Natural Language Search and Voice Search solutions for shopping domains and the enterprise.

SellersCommerce — B2B eCommerce SaaS

Simility — Fraud detection software

SmatBot — Platform to create chatbots faster and effective

Sociohub — All in one community management platform

Stezy — Do it yourself Blockchain

Stumagz — A Cloud suite for Colleges to become digital

SyncRooms — Enable hotels onto online grid

Sumtotal — Human resource management software

Telebu Communications — Communication and collaboration software

ThoughtFlow Technologies Inc — A Visual Workspace for Product Teams

Tigersheet — Custom software for Business

Troop Messenger — Instant Messaging & Collaboration Platform for Businesses

Truepush — Push notifications services for websites

(U-Z)

Upshot.ai — A full lifecycle customer engagement platform

Vaave — A Platform to manage alumni relations

XaaSOn — AI Powered B2B XaaS Digital Products Market Place

Zaggle — B2B enterprise Saas Software

Zeetaminds — Cloud Based Digital Signage Software

Zenoti — Cloud software for Spas

This list is ever-growing — If we’ve inadvertently missed your SaaS Startup and you would like to be included in the list,please fill up this: https://bit.ly/2UFoFgQ If you want us to modify the text, please use the same form.

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Tarun Davuluri
Telangana State Innovation Cell

Community Evangelist and Ecosystem Builder | Sr Fellow @SaaSBOOMi | Writes on Startups and Technology