Cohort III : kwiqreply

With the level of competition in today’s world, businesses have had to shift from traditional and increasingly low return channels such as email and SMS to channels where customers are most active. While today’s favoured channel may be WhatsApp, this could easily change tomorrow.?Businesses that can adapt to the shift, can stay ahead and kwiqreply enables just that. kwiqreply?is an omni-channel CRM that enables SMEs to handle sales, marketing and customer support at scale.

Amongst the multitude of CRM solutions that facilitate customer engagement, kwiqreply stands out in its approach with a superior, one-stop platform that offers end-to-end integration with engagement channels such as WhatsApp.?

Since its inception in August 2021, kwiqreply?has 80+ paying clients across domains such as D2C, EdTech, Health and Shipping. The company has worked with the likes of Hindustan Times, Almo, Mojocare, Vidyakul and more. They have also successfully managed WhatsApp Campaigns for IPL team Gujarat Titans and Lucknow SuperGiants in IPL 2022.

Why We Invested

• There are around 300-400 million SMEs worldwide with about 40-50 million in India alone. A small percentage of the Indian market represents approximately ~INR 45K Cr in direct revenue opportunity for kwiqreply.
• kwiqreply’s highly scalable platform is easy-to-use, competitively priced and delivers immediate impact on customer engagement and thus significant ROI.?
• kwiqreply (and its founder) fits Turbostart’s thesis of empowering young entrepreneurial talent perfectly. The founder’s confidence, clarity and proven track record of being a resourceful entrepreneur and a strategic thinker has further solidified our belief in this investment.
• Just about each and every startup in Turbostart’s portfolio requires a solution like kwiqreply. This deal will enable Turbostart to provide customers for kwiqreply, while driving immense value to our other startups.

The Founding Team?

The 22 year old Founder and CEO, Krishikesh Khairnar, has been something of a whiz kid. Krishikesh was born and brought up in a small town of Malegaon in Maharashtra. Thanks to his father, he was introduced to the internet in the 8th grade. At age 13, he developed his first website and over the next few years, Krishikesh continued to work diligently at multiple ventures, giving him hands-on experience in the marketing space. At age 18, Krishikesh made the decision to drop out of college and start a digital marketing agency!

In 2019, amongst a cohort of 80 student entrepreneurs from Ivy League universities, he was the only college dropout chosen to attend the TAVtech Fellowship, a Tel Aviv-based fellowship programme that equips the next generation of entrepreneurs with high-demand, technical skills in data science and cybersecurity.?

He later went on to develop a fake news detection chatbot which was the foundation for what we know today as kwiqreply.?

Along with Krishikesh, the core team consists of Yogesh Shirsath, Shubham Gupta and Dhiraj Pawar, who head Product, Tech and Customer Success respectively,?and have played a significant role in the product’s development and company’s growth.

About Turbostart?

Turbostart is a national, sector-agnostic start-up accelerator, created by industry veterans for today’s entrepreneurs. We identify the most innovative startups across India, provide seed funding and guide them to build a successful business and maximise the potential of what they have created, evident in the fact that our Cohort 1 companies have achieved 4x value appreciation. Founded in 2019, we have curated over 3000+ applications, funded 17 companies, worked with 25+ startups and 70+ founders so far.

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