Gravi Train Technologies Inc. is a food tech AI company that’s making it fast and convenient for people to enjoy eating without violating the boundaries of their diet. Our first product, FastFoodCravings.com personalizes the menu viewing experience by allowing people to filter menus by any combination of dietary restrictions. Stop struggling within menus flooking or things you’re able to eat. Quickly find restaurants that have the most options for your unique diet (gluten-free halal pizza, vegan keto sesame-free dessert, etc.).

 
(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?

Dating and eating socially was challenging with my unique combination of dietary restrictions. It would take hours to find a restaurant that I could dine at. I’d have to call restaurants before a date to understand my ordering and substitute options or I’d be stuck sitting at the table having awkward conversations with waitstaff. When Covid struck and takeout was the only option with one restaurant phone through which all customer orders were being funneled through, it was tough to be able to talk to waitstaff over the phone. Food ordering apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc. unfortunately, don’t provide enough ingredient information. I’ve ordered food that I thought I could eat only for it to arrive with a garnish that violates my dietary restrictions. 

 
(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?

You’ve seen those icon legends on menus to signify that certain foods are gluten-free, vegetarian, a certain spice level, etc. Finding those icons is like playing Where’s Waldo and they’re limited to only a handful of dietary restrictions. My start-up takes those caveman era menus and brings them into present day while and serves a MUCH larger and more diverse market. The beauty is that people with dietary restrictions will start walking into those restaurants where they know there’s something for them to order rather than walking into a restaurant and hoping there might be a substitution available for a dish or ingredient they can’t eat. This will also lower ingredient costs for restaurants.

 
(4) Who is the target market?

Initially, it’s people with food allergies/sensitivities, lifestyle, and religious diets who are too busy to cook. Example of lifestyle diets include keto, paleo, being pregnant, etc. Busy people include working professionals, parents, students. Eventually, once I have data on the types of cuisine x dietary restrictions that are most commonly being searched for in particular geographies, my product will evolve to an advertising platform that provides data and marketing services to restaurants in an effort to help inform the menu creation process.

 
(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?

FastFoodCravings.com is a recently launched marketplace so I have to focus on getting users and restaurants on the platform. I’m working on this piece and my initial strategy involves approaching food allergy-specific interest groups, including non-profits, charities, lobbyists, and regional/national restaurant associations. 

 
(6) What stage are you at?

FastFoodCravings.com is an MVP and the underlying ingredient classification AI software has multiple use cases. I’m working on confirming product market fit currently.

 
(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?

Data classification has been the biggest challenge to date. I’ve managed to work past that, but it has taken 2+ years to do so as a bootstrapped founder. Current challenges include marketing and adoption. 

 
(8) What is next for the startup?

Scaling the product roadmap to take the MVP to a platform and building out some of the additional use cases for the underlying AI software.

 
(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?

I’d like Gravi Train Technologies Inc. to be a valued partner by the restaurant industry. I’d like my data to be involved in menu curation with restaurants caring about catering to diverse dietary needs and hopefully opening themselves up to larger markets without having to change their physical location. I’d like people to be able to easily make more informed dining decisions and I’d like my products to be the go-to solution, like Google for food.

 
(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?

Don’t create a start-up based on fads or temporary trends. Cast a wide net when solving a problem. A lot of start-up advice suggests getting very niche, but the big homerun type of success lies in finding a one-size fits most solution for common (not identical) niches. This makes it easier to pivot if you have to and you can always launch small, then scale.

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(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
Just when we moved towards digitalization – WhatsApp, Wechat and Telegrams of the world have taken offline interaction, online. Which gave another challenge that needs to be dealt with i.e – plain boring, emotionless conversation. Unfortunately online conversations were boring!
Which made us aware about what world is missing, with an idea to make online conversations fun, smart and expressive, we started Bobble AI.

Which lead to us creating Bobble content- 

With just a selfie – we make you smile in 10 different ways and cry different ways. Later on, we realized our conversational content needed a more sustainable distribution channel fortunately, in 2016 Android and iOS opened their keyboard APIs for 3rd party developers. Launching Bobble Indic Keyboard in early 2016 gave us the early mover advantage. A Keyboard has always been seen as a utility historically, we envisioned it as a strong platform for distribution. With a vision to revolutionize communication, we dreamt of building technology that would make online communication personalized, fun and smart. We have created a platform, through which people can not just share content but they can also make – payment, commerce, news reading and multiple other used cases within the used keyboard.

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?
We competing against Google’s Gboard, Microsoft’s Swiftkey, Tencent’s Sogou, and Baidu’s Facemoji. All keyboards need support from Android phone manufacturers for getting preloaded into the device. Our competitors believed in monopolistic terms while dealing with OEMs, while we have always preferred to create larger value for OEMs. 

Our competitors have been keeping the 180+ smartphone manufacturers corrupted and crippled therefore none of the manufacturers thought of creating their own keyboard. We reversed the rules of the playground, our business model thrives on the fact that our OEM partners win, however when they were dealing with our competitors they have been losing. We let our OEM partners have – their own branding, access to data and multifold increase in revenue.
In addition to that, we have been able to win users’ heart. Bobble Indic Keyboard is the highest rated, the most engaged, the most retaining, and the most viral keyboard in the world according to authentic third party sources. 

(4) Who is the target market?
Our objective is to revolutionize communication experience for people. There are 2.5 billion Android devices. 85% of the world uses android phones, 62% the US uses android phones and with that our aim is to get in each one of them and add smartness to the phone experience. We have started with India, recently expanded to Indonesia and are now looking at other southeast Asian , European and Middle East countries.

We partner with large consumer facing companies like Phone manufacturers, Banks, Telcos, E-commerce, OTTs, and OTAs who have millions of active users and provide our customized solution to increase their engagement & revenue. In this B2B2C model, we ensure that our technology adds value in the life of all those consumers who are directly/ indirectly associated with us.

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?
We run on – Consumer first approach. Presently we have over 25 million users in India and reaching 10M in Indonesia, we grew by offering superior value to our distribution partners. 
Along with having superior technology, over the years we have built some inherently viral products and services. 

(6) What stage are you at?
With our hard work and cutting-edge technology, we have proven our work and our business model. In June 2019, we raised series B funding primarily for product R&D and scaling up, this year we will be looking out to raise series C.

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup has had to overcome?
Bobble’s journey has been unique and phenomenal in every possible way, we went through some major ups and downs. 

●    Indian economy is suffering. With low per capita income, it is very difficult for any company to survive and remain profitable unless it reaches significant scale and engagement. 
●    In India developing an AI-powered system is challenging as India is huge- in terms of diversity. There are over 22 major languages and more than 720 dialects. To build a keyboard that understands and serves the needs of 1.3 Billion people, we had to work really hard. 
●    One of the other challenges for us was to find talent who had relevant experience. Due to the age-old incompetent curricula followed in most of the educational institutes in India, there’s a lack of adequate talent to build and deploy AI systems at scale. We had to bring back talent from the USA, which came at a huge cost.
●    Incidentally, India’s investment scenarios are at a nascent stage. India lacks thesis-driven investors, we have particularly observed hunting in a pack culture. As a result, Investors are mostly influenced by the successful thesis of China and the USA. Nobody in India dared to go against Google, in their core technology strength, as an outcome we had to reach out to Chinese manufacturers.

(8) What is next for the startup?
In 2019, we joined forces with small and large Android Manufacturers including Xiaomi, Indus OS, Lava, Foxconn, etc. With that we are expected 50M+ users in 2020. In the coming years, we forecast a major growth in terms of revenue, which will overpower all existing revenue channels by at least 25 times. As we move forward we’ll keep advancing our technology, apart from Keyboard we’ll keep developing additional input method solutions, such as voice, camera, and gestures. At the same time, we are monetizing keeping the user experience intact. 

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
Presently our objective is to create a system that works for all sorts of people despite their differences. We are developing technology that not only serves real-India, but is for everybody. With time we’ll keep increasing our horizon, starting from Asian Pacific regions. While partnering with smartphone manufacturers our objective is to win the largest keyboard space in India and then the world.  As we move forward we’ll be adding more input method solutions, such as voice, camera, and gestures. Through our data intelligence, we understand the needs of people, with our technology, we aspire to serve all those needs of people, at the same time we dream of keeping the fun essence alive. With our personalized, fun, and expressive products we’ll make this world a better and a happier place. 

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?
We see there are three major opportunities for startups to establish themselves in the market-

1.    Replacing the Incumbents
2.    Disrupting the Traditional industries
3.    Organizing the Unorganized sectors 

For each of the three, a unique strategy needs to be followed. 

In order to compete against incumbents, startups need to focus on their strengths. In the market run on the rules made by the incumbent, there is a higher chance of them winning. To compete, startups need to rebel against the incumbent with their own set of new rules which should be exactly reverse of the existing. 

While when it comes to disrupting traditional industries, the prime strategy should be to introduce modern technologies like AI/ML and innovative ways which would be extremely hard for the traditional players to copy.

Whereas,  if a startup wants to establish itself in an unorganized sector, it should start by establishing transparency in the industry, introducing data-driven decisions and disciplined approach to organizing the market.  

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(2) What inspired the creation of the startup? 
I had my own mental breakdown 6 years ago. I tried coaching, yoga and meditation and only got professional therapy when it was too late. I then ran into my co-founder, psychiatrist prof. Chibanda who was 1 in 12 therapists in Zimbabwe and trained ordinary people to give access to therapy for everyone. He just finished a clinical trial that showed this was even effective to treat depression. We met and the thought was: hey, why don’t we make this accessible for everyone via a digital platform? 

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition? 
We train ordinary people who otherwise would not work or work less to be able to become a coach with our proven methodology. This way we can make the coaching very affordable ($35 a session) while you get expert support that is shown to work.

 
(4) Who is the target market?
Medium to large companies.

The coaching method works well both for academically and practically educated people so any kind of employees with any kind of problems our coaches can handle.  

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?
Did a couple of pilots with well-known companies (Philips, Merkle, Royal institute of the Tropics, 2 known startups in the Netherlands and showed the results to others. 

(6) What stage are you at?
Seed. We’re still adjusting our business model and internal processes, but expect we’re ready for scale within the next 6 months. 

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?
Who to sell the service to and how to position it. We basically created a new job, the Inuka coach. Its not easy. 

(8) What is next for the startup?
Start our first large (>200) employees rollout! 

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
The biggest coaching company in the world. 

(10) How do you build resilience into your startup during this COVID-19 pandemic?
We have done three things:
(1) Trained all coaches by our co-founder Prof. Chibanda on WHO facts and mental health guidelines around COVID-19
(2) Opened up our coaches also to the general audiences in Europe and the USA via www.inuka.io/covid19 (before we only offered via companies)
(3) Reframed our offer for companies within the COVID-19 context

(11) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?
Do the things you enjoy, so you can stomach the many things you don’t enjoy but still have to do  

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(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
I’m a busy single dad who understands the importance of healthy real food, but doesn’t have the time to make it myself. I was inspired by my desire for my kids and I to eat well. Now I have found the solution, I feel there’s a business opportunity and moral obligation to change the way people eat.

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?
About 50 minutes. Most meal kits take 60 minutes to prep, cook and then cleanup afterwards. Restaurant delivery can take around the same amount of time. Our solution takes around 6 minutes, 10 if you include boiling the water. Our meals are also crafted by amazing chefs, vetted by registered dietitians, and come with nutritional info, so you know exactly what you’re consuming. 

(4) Who is the target market?
Today, it’s busy people like me who want the inherent nutrition from real ingredients, but don’t always have the time. Tomorrow, it’s all about making our meals as accessible as possible, including to places in America and the world that could in desperate need of nutritional support.

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?
With a great team, additional funding, and by always delivering on the promise – real food, made simple, without compromise. 

(6) What stage are you at?
We hard launched in October of 2017 and the business is growing fast. We’re delivering our amazing pot-to-plate experience to customers in 22 states and they’re repeating a lot, which is encouraging. 

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?
The biggest challenge was figuring out who our target customer really was. Then I looked in the mirror, remembered why I got into this, and it clicked.

(8) What is next for the startup?
We have raised $2MM of capital so far and are currently raising a Series A round to create more consumer awareness, trial and subscription. 

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
Feeding a lot of people real nutritious food.

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?
Build a plan, stick to it as much as possible, but be ready to quickly adjust that plan -a lot.

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Our smart timelapse camera enables cost effective data-based decision making in real estate, agriculture and the parking industry. ZEITDICE uses patent-pending proprietary hardware that takes less than a minute to setup and delivers insights without expensive camera installation. 

(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?

Timelapse photography enables humans to see patterns over a long period of time. Computers are becoming more capable of recognizing patterns, so we figured computers will be able to help human society understand patterns if we make timelapse photography easily available to computers. 

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?

We focused right away on long term pattern recognition and are creating patents around that. Our approach is very different compared to a computer vision system that needs real time decisions. Client’s love what we have because it’s so much easier to setup than anything else they have ever tried. (4) Who is the target market?

For the construction industry we already have international distribution. We are expanding into agriculture and parking where our technology is in high demand.

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?

We have a solution to a problem people are desperate to have solved (long term visual documentation). So far word of mouth is all we needed to grow the business.

(6) What stage are you at?

Shipping, Pre-Seed, financed through pre-sales and some family & friends money. With product shipping every month creating more recurring revenue, our unit economics are working already. Looking for growth capital. 

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?

Hardware comes with challenges we underestimated. We invested early in manufacturing trying to meet shipping deadlines while later loosing it all since we had to rebuild the product from scratch. We recovered since our clients were willing to wait and place more orders. 

(8) What is next for the startup?

Growth capital for our next generation product to meet the demand in our markets. 

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?

ZEITDice Technology will be established as the go to platform for computer vision in real estate, agriculture and parking. Whoever wants to add smart computer vision to their systems will consider us first.

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?

Keep taking to your (potential) clients as much as you can, their problems can lead you to very valuable solutions. 

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We provide a platform where diverse employees can safely share their experiences and where diverse job-seekers can find those experiences and learn what it’s like to work at a company from people that identify similarly to them. We also provide employers an end-to-end solution so they can recruit diverse talent and identify areas for improvement within their diversity programs.

(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
We are our own users. Both my sister/Co-Founder, Dumebi, and myself know the challenges that minorities face when trying to navigate the corporate world, and we believe that the best way to provide help is to openly share the stories that so many diverse employees share so others can learn from them. 

Between our passion for helping other minorities and our individual work experiences, we are best positioned to solve the problems that each of our stakeholders face. 

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?
For employees and job-seekers, other job review sites take a one-size-fits-all approach because the insight isn’t specific to people’s identities. With our Portraits, employees can share their individual experiences, and job-seekers can find Stories from people that identify similarly to them, ultimately helping them figure out which companies they can succeed with. 

For employers, other HR or diversity software solutions are one-sided; they either help with internal diversity or with external diversity. We’re building an end-to-end solution where employers can not only work on externally building diversity through recruiting and branding, but also identify areas for improvement internally centered around fostering inclusion.

(4) Who is the target market?
Our target market is diverse job-seekers between the ages of 18-30. We let our users define diverse on a personal level. If you feel like a minority in your company, then consider yourself diverse, and use Chezie to share your experience and learn from the experiences of people that identify similarly to you. 

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?
Our primary marketing strategy has been around content marketing. We have all of these Stories from diverse employees at companies like Google and Goldman Sachs, and that content is valuable right now because of how shareable it is. People read the Stories and other diversity-related content that we share and immediately connect with it and want to share it on their social media pages. 

(6) What stage are you at?
We launched Dyversifi, now Chezie, in September, 2019. We spent the first 9 months in MVP stage, and then in June, we redesigned our site, restructured our Story process, and re-launched to allow users the ability to create accounts to gain access to Stories. 

Since re-launching, we’ve gotten 450 signups, and gone from 150 to 1100 Stories captured.

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup have had to overcome?
We face the chicken-and-egg problem, where we don’t add value to job-seekers or to employers unless we have a significant amount of content, but we can’t get that content without already having traffic. 

To combat this, we will launch a ‘Storytelling’ program with college students. We will hire students to interview alumni at major companies and gather their Stories. Our goal is to go from 1,000 Stories to 10,000 by the end of 2020. 

(8) What is next for the startup?
Both myself and my sister/Co-Founder, Dumebi, are working on Chezie part-time right now. The next phase is for me to quit my job and shift to focusing on Dyversifi full-time.

Our top priority right now is getting more Stories submitted. We have about 1,100 right now, but we want to get to 10,000 by the end of the year.

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
We also want to be the trusted brand for diversity. There are several media publications that publish yearly “Top Companies for Diversity” lists, but these lists are misguiding for a number of reasons. Chezie can be the official stamp for companies looking to boast about their diversity because we have data on actual employee sentiment. As our brand awareness and user base increases, and as we gather more submissions, we can create a ranking methodology that helps diverse talent objectively compare companies, but that also helps companies identify what they are doing well and what they need to improve upon. 

More information about company diversity rankings here.

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be?
Try your best to build excitement around major moments in your company’s history. Looking back, we should have started collecting emails for our launch as soon as we had the idea. We spent 3 months interviewing people to figure out how to construct the platform, but we didn’t do a good job marketing it before we started. Create a simply landing page outlining your business and send it to friends and friends of friends to get their contact information. That way, when you do launch, hopefully you already have a few hundred people that you can spread the word to.

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(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
It started of curiosity to find a way of solving startup product needs. They were ignored, underserved due to limited resources; meanwhile, the product engineering folks at companies like Facebook, Google, and co are bored and less busy. So we thought to create a platform that connects them to work.

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition?

• We focus on Silicon Valley FAANG talents only
• We innovated in the compensation model to have startups pay in Cash + equity
• We provided an integrated platform to effectively and efficiently connect, manage and provide delivery intelligence to the engagement process from end to end

(4) Who is the target market?
Early Stage Startups: Pre-product, Pre-seed, Seed, Seed+, and Series A.

More specifically, Venture-backed Seed Stage companies 

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market?
We are still early, so it’s mainly from partnerships with VCs,  word of mouth, referrals, and introductions from Founders.

(6) What stage are you at? 
We are in beta. 

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup has had to overcome?
Getting out of our heads, putting aside our assumptions: Unlearning and focusing on serving FAANG experts how they want to be served.

(8) What is next for the startup? 
Fundraising, Partnerships, and Scaling Rapidly.

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years?
IPO

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up-and-coming startup what would it be
Think small, go Big!

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(2) What inspired the creation of the startup?
I spent over 30 years in sales, sales leadership, and consulting roles working for others. Starting my own sales consulting company provided me with the opportunity to do this on my own terms and on a larger scale. 

(3) What differentiates your startup from the competition? 
My experience, my passion, and the hands-on building approach I take to helping startups scale their sales when they need it most. 

(4) Who is the target market? 
SaaS, software, tech, AI, etc. 

(5) How did you grow your presence in your target market? 
By joining and investing in relevant networking groups and resources to help build and promote my brand. I started doing webinars, mentoring, podcasts, radio shows, and leveraging LinkedIn and my own network of strong connections from many years in the tech/startup space 

(6) What stage are you at? 
Early stage, first year. 

(7) What are some of the biggest challenges that your startup has had to overcome? 
The financial and time commitment associated with building a business from scratch.  It requires patience, persistence, hard work, and faith. 

(8) What is next for the startup? 
I’ve worked very hard to build strong networking relationships and the infrastructure I feel is necessary to take my business to the next level.  I feel poised to do this in 2022. 

(9) Where would you like to be in the next 5 years? 
I’d like to be in a position where I’m getting mostly if not entirely referral business from startups and SMBs that I have helped to succeed by scaling their sales and profitability. 

(10) If you had to give one piece of advice to an up and coming startup what would it be? 
No one can do it alone. Surround yourself with people that have been there and done that and are willing to help you get there. At some point, someone did that for them and most want to pay it forward.

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