2020 – A socially distant yet connected huddle

‘In the race between time and experience, experience always wins.’

-       The entrepreneur’s mantra

 It’s been a year of surprises. A year filled with learning. Each day a lesson making us stronger, wiser, and well-prepared.

Sitting in our own spaces, traveling masked from point A to point B, what remains in the startup ecosystem is that, the show must go on. And, believe me, the show is going on.

•  As an accelerator, there is a day in the life of each founder, in our own huddle, and several we admire within the startup ecosystem who reaffirm that the journey is of a connected huddle. A socially distant one but one building the future, for the future.

Here’s a glance on one individual. Let’s name him ‘Hope’, and a potential of their life in the days ahead.

It’s 6 am, and Hope wakes up to an aero pressed cup of americano from Blue Tokai’s very own Vienna Roast. As the oaky notes stir liveliness within Hope, he checks his Eva app to analyse what diet to follow. A keto based diet to enhance the energy levels with all the natural elements leads Hope to his kitchen, where he whips himself a batter of pancakes from Wellversed’s Ketofy ultra low carb pancake mix. What Hope realises is that intent focused foods, to curb ailments create natural resources of energy, which can be tasteful, and require the correct balance of ingredients. To track his food performance, Hope scans his food with the Calvry food tracking application, realising it is merely 3 grams per serving that ensures he can satiate his taste buds and yet have room for more nutrients to be consumed. His dietician is notified of his food intake through the tracking application, ensuring he remains within his dietary goals. 

He reaches into his freezer opening a compact pack to mix milk with a Liquii love berry smoothie sipping the raspberry and blackberry blended 100% fresh fruit smoothie. From freezer to glass within 90 seconds, Hope realizes it is time that needs to be saved to ensure he makes the most of his day and with the costs saved on no wastage of fruits, his expenses our managed, as is his health.

 Checking his phone, he logs into Go Social to continue his streaks, creating content that engages several upvotes around a community of millions of creators like him. Being rewarded on an application was never this easy and engaging, as he uploads pictures alongside other photographers that compete to rank up within the challenge rooms.

It’s almost time for work, a Friday filled with meetings, calls for ease, for mind and body, as Hope relies on the micro modal comfort of Modern Crew’s trunks. Getting ready to leave, he follows his hemp extract skin care routine, as suggested by the contextual recommendations of Zebo’s facial scan, enabling any grade of acne is tended to with high accuracy and diligent prescription from leading dermatologists, per scan.

In the age where work-life balance is needed, self-care is as important as self-discipline.

Hope sets himself to work, a recent recruit as a patient advocate at a leading hospital he applied through the search platform of Qwazent, specialising in health-care recruitment, Hope bagged himself his dream job. Working his way through his professional goals, he checks in on his expenses on Money Planned, tracking his goal of owning a home in the next 5 years. Goal-planning being a constant motivator to his milestones he is notified to trade like a professional via Yobee Research’s algo trading tool, like several thousand do, to ensure they diversify their earnings in a trusted partner that provides high and consistent returns.

In a world where financial literacy is necessarily for all, financial tools tracking performance, and enabling growth are must-haves for a secure future.

 Setting out for work, Hope packs a few tea sticks and snack bars of The Healthy Company, as a digestive beverage and healthy treat post lunch. Hailing a ride, he sits in a three-wheeler, which is electrified by RACEnergy, being driven by a driver whose financing is partially backed by the EV companies financing partners, and whose auto was financed by a syndication of investors benefiting high returns through Grip Invests investment platform offering lucrative lease financing opportunities. 

At work, he walks through halls being cleaned by Atron’s proprietary steam technology, ensuring there is 98% less water wasted with no compromise towards hygiene. He enters a room where his colleagues are reading the day’s news on Shortpedia, as it provides vignettes of updates, enabling each reader to stay updated with the latest happenings that cover a revelation of support provided to dairy farmers in Maharashtra through Brainwired’s precision livestock health monitoring and tracking system constructed to empower farmers.

As the day progresses, like clockwork at 11 am, F5 refreshments reach work to distribute the subscribed offerings of kadak chai, and snacks, as the office sips away through their work. In the background, a kirana store in the neighbourhood is provided enhanced quality, organisation and earning through F5’s backend enablement of the unorganised retail sector.

Patients walk into the hospital, as it approaches lunch time. Hope and his colleagues order from the nearest cloud kitchen, serving multiple cuisines, all managed under a platform enabled by ZFW Hospitality. They pay using their respective wallets to earn rewards for their next meals only to forget to order dessert. Luckily new age customers like them require new age retail, and that’s where The New Shop’s offering fulfils their needs. In the midst of a busy hospital, within 100 sq. ft. The New Shop have set their retail presence, filled with products both durable and non-durable specifically catered to the footfall and user set at the hospital. Emerging wellness brands like Shrubs are present, providing adaptogenic teas for a customer who is cognisant of a feel-good and taste-good bottled product.

There is a buzz of excitement in the hospital as communication is passed on about Astrek Innovations exoskeletons to enable mobility for paraplegics to walk via a motorised lower limb exoskeleton.

Technological advancements each day across food, medicine, mobility, space, education and entertainment are all signs of a healthier future. 

Hope and his colleagues begin to head out for early dinner. Walking across to the closest bar, buses drive past spurring the circular economy as they are electrified by the indigenous electric mobility technology of Cell Propulsion, supporting LCV’s and HCV’s.

Hope’s phone buzzes, as it is a notification from his very own digital health clinic, Bold Care, notifying him to maintain his health and wellness. With a touch of a button he orders nutraceuticals to curb his hair loss and reorders his prescribed sexual wellness kit which provides him 24x7 customer care for comfort, backed by experienced doctors from around the country. 

At the bar, Hope authorises payments to his favourite beverage mixers, ordering a Jade Forest elderflower tonic, paying with the help of state-of-the-art technology of Trillbit’s contactless ultrasonic authentication protocol.

As the day comes to an end, Hope checks his phone to see where his friends stand on the Go Social Challenger app, notifying his goal-planner about his expenses on Money Planned, scanning the low calories of Jade Forest on Calvry, as he checks his next food recommendations to stay fit through The Healthy Company.

It all revolves around staying a few steps ahead, with preventive healthcare, high quality food to eat, rich content to interact with, and the ideal huddle of products and services to be a customer off. 

The future of Hope’s wellbeing and growth are all backed by a hope in the startups building for a hopeful future.

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 To build* this Huddle, a future that could look like this, and to be a part of it, as an enabler, and a customer makes it exciting, enchanting and educational each day.

* There are several founders, entrepreneurs, team-members, investors, mentors, and companies, building hundreds of products to consume, vehicles to sit in, technology to interact with for fitness, education, mindfulness, and nutraceuticals to consume, and beverages to celebrate with that are not mentioned, and need to be honoured.

All of them stand true to the life of some Hope out there, and to celebrate them each day is important. To those mentioned and those not mentioned, those you think of and those implied, may each day be a bigger learning and success.

We’re all a part of the same Huddle, we’re all in this for the same hope.