What we exactly do ?
Pakumania.com is a unique online retailing store,engaged in selling different types of eatables from various parts of India. Our goal is to serve the large number of people staying away from there native places and the one who loves to eat (In India we assume everyone loves to eat).We have got suppliers in different states, and the consumer will get the eatables ordered from there native place with there own taste, shape and size as well.
Why Online Store ?
In today’s highly connected world, discerning consumers are seeking newer, smarter and cost effective ways of buying products and services. We provide consumers with the opportunity to make purchases for themselves or as gifts for others, using the internet and phone to make such purchases. We operate from various states of India to give the consumer exact taste of the products they are consuming. Products purchased on our web stores are of utmost quality. These are delivered to customers through our carefully selected courier and logistics partners. Customer service and satisfaction is our motto and we constantly work towards meeting and exceeding the expectations of our customers
Products ?
Our product is basically an online platform which offers sweets for all sweet lovers from different states of India. We specialize in delivering high quality fresh sweets which are a trademark of various states, by networking with a huge base of vendors to provide local authenticated sweets starting from Petha of Agra to Banana Chips of Kerala. For health conscious people we have a different segment where we serve them low calories sweets.
Conclusion
After doing in depth research on the sweets market we concluded that there is a huge scope for our idea.
We have analyzed that a huge number of Indian population migrate from one state to another due to various factors like- Job, Education etc. These people are frequent E commerce customers and have an inclination for traditional home state sweets. Our website will provide a very effective platform to serve these people with high quality fresh and authenticated specialty sweets.
We expect a good revenue growth for our company in the next few years. Our core focus will be on providing complete customer satisfaction by providing qualitative sweets and time bound delivery.
asha chaudhry
interesting concept vaibhav.
my husband is a dilliwala and misses dilli ki mithai here in goa!
quick q – what’s with this chocolate combo? it doesn’t seem to be handmade chocolate native to any region…
https://pakumania.com/product/all-in-one-combo/
you might want to stick to traditional stuff in my pov.
asha chaudhry
ps: have you checked out anoop’s thesouthindianstore?
https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/love-south-indian-snacks-buy-them-online-now
Darshan Bhambiru
Why limit to only SWEETS ? (banana wafers are not sweets) I meant Snacks ? #FoodPreneurs in General
If it helps you can list yourself on the many MARKET PLACE FOR FOOD to add to the reach, also you should be tied up with specific vendors as well so to say as you are offering selected goods (food items) and they may be themselves listed on such platforms too ? Foodpanda, Zomato and a few more that you can check.
However, with an overly flooded food-tech market in India, it might have a hard time dealing with the other upcoming startups. Zomato, with huge financial firepower has already decided to up the ante by deciding to invest $ 50 Mn to enter the food delivery market.
As already pointed out by Asha – Anoop Nair’s The South Indian store already serves more than Banana chips as well!
Heres some News related listed below, we had a FOODPANDA dissatisfied customer some time back maybe you can learn a few things from that as well.
Collating here for the purpose, so it serves the majority Food Preneurs as well.
Food Panda or Fool Panda?
They recently got funded
Click the image above for the article in detail! Listing a few highlights
Currently, the startup is operational in only in Gurgaon and plans to use the recently raised funds for building technology, growing operations and expansion. Going forward, the next cities on its radar are Delhi & Noida.
Just few months into operations, this NCR-based startup has recently raised INR 3 Cr. in funding from Powai Lake Ventures and angels including Aneesh Reddy (Capillary Technologies), Ashish Kashyap (Goibibo Group) & Alok Mittal (Canaan Partners).
Hoping to tap into the Food-tech-logistics market, three friends Prateek Agarwal (IIT KGP ’13, Ex- Housing.com , Ex-Schlumberger), Aushim Krishan (IIT KGP ’12; Ex- Barclays Capital , Singapore), Siddharth Sharma (NTU ’12, Singapore; Ex- Deutsche Bank ) launched Bite Club, a managed marketplace connecting people who cook great food (chefs) directly with the consumers.
There are a number of Problems Customers Face while ordering food :
Based on general mindset, people consider food as good if it is fresh, convenient, diverse, healthy, and obviously tastes good. What makes Bite Club different from other restaurants is that the food that it offers to its customers is handmade by top local chefs using the freshest ingredients in low volumes, which ensures no dilution of quality. “The fact that we have a network of chefs (and not someone cooking behind closed doors) cooking ensures creativity and diversity on the menu. We bet that no one can get bored eating the food that Bite Club serves because the menu changes daily. The nature of food is guilt-free, and can be eaten on a regular basis,”
THE FOOD-TECH INDUSTRY & FUNDINGS
The market for food delivery is vast but compared to international standards, the Indian Online food delivery is at a nascent stage and needs time to grow. The relentless entry and even presence of startups in this space further validates the huge growth potential of this segment. It is interesting to note that the Online restaurant guide Zomato is also planning to start food delivery and has even announced its plans to invest $50 Mn for the launch of food delivery business. A few months back, Holachef.com, another startup dealing in this space raised INR 2 Cr funding from India Quotient in the form of convertible notes.
Foodpanda also deals in this space. Acquired JustEat India!
Mumbai-based online food ordering app, TinyOwl, has raised INR 100 Cr. in Series B funding round from from Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners.
TinyOwl is currently serving only in Mumbai and it has planned to utilise the funds to expand in 50 other cities and gain market traction. It is also looking forward to make investments in user friendly technology and hence improve the level of customer experience and satisfaction.
The company had earlier raised $3 Mn from Sequoia Capital and Nexus Venture Partners in De…
TinyOwl, co-founded in 2014 by Harshvardhan Mandad and Saurabh Goyal, is an online platform, connected with around 4,000 restaurants, and serves its various customers according to their preferences. It works in a two wing structure, one being the TinyOwl which helps you order food from the nearby restaurants and other one is TinyOwl HomeMade which lets you order from local chefs.
Hope this helps you as well as information for the other Food Preneurs in the house can use it too likewise!
Imran Ladiwala (Ex nimbuzz) launched his app ‘Catch It‘ at the last Mumbai OH which you can use intuitively in other ways explore able too, to Throw offers, coupons, exclusive offers etc and find new customers too that ways with interactions and get testimonials or feedback too. It can actually share anything with anyone so go creative with your thoughts now!
Also Amit Kumar launched The Pasta Kitchen, with Rajeev Roy from Khopcha already listed here as well on TRHS respectively in the food domain along with the BawiBride – Perzen to name a few.
PS: Related: Here Are The Uber For Food Startups In India
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asha chaudhry
hey vaibhav,
i was going through the interesting startups showcased in 2015 and happened to notice this closing down tweet from you. sorry to hear about this. 🙁
what happened?