Most Indian cities are busy with cluttered streets, winding and hidden alleyways -- every postman's nightmare. Informal structures stand side by side with formal ones making navigation challenging -- even for locals -- and these cities are only going to keep sprawling, fast. By some estimates, the country's urban population alone will surpass 500-million by 2030: almost double the entire population of the US. Zippr's Aditya Vuchi hopes to fix the broken postal format in India's exploding economy.
...moreIn Indian cities, house numbers and street names are mostly unencumbered by logic. You might think house number 132 might be close to 130 or H block will be next to G block and you would be dead wrong. With the face of cities changing rapidly with metro constructions and flyovers, the landmark you once used to explain your address can disappear or move overnight. Street names can change and anyone who has tried to explain a full address to a pizza delivery service knows the difficulty in accurately conveying location. A Hyderabad-based startup has a solution for all of this.
...moreCentral location management service that enables users to create and share short codes, Zippr has announced today that they have received a million dollars in funding. This round is led by Indian Angel Network while few private equity investors have participated as well. Zipprs are unique eight digit alphanumeric codes like YSMP1204 assigned to each location on a map. It can be shared with friends or vendors to avoid low value conversations around finding an address and enables services to reach a customer in a jiffy.
...moreExplaining to the delivery guy where exactly your address is in the middle of an office meeting can be a pain. But in a country like India, where one bylane opens up to more, it is inevitable. At the same time, timely delivery of products and services has become a big challenge for e-commerce, logistics and home delivery service firms. But a couple of startups are hoping to make life a tad easier for both e-commerce customers and courier services. These startups are hoping to map your address to a simple set of numbers or a combination of numbers and letters.
...moreA dear one has to be rushed to a hospital, you have called the ambulance service but are having great trouble explaining to the ambulance driver your address and how to reach your place quickly. Oh, how you wish there was an easier way to do it! Actually, there is. It’s called Zippr, and the 108 Ambulance service in states such as Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are using it. You send your Zippr code to the ambulance’s Assisted Vehicle Location Tracking device, and the driver gets a navigation map right to your doorstep.
...moreB Mahendra, a corporate executive, hated having to give people directions to his office. The address was not easy to locate and there were too many twists and turns for anyone to remember. Today, he doesn’t bother. Thanks to an app developed by Hyderabad-based start-up Zippr, Mahendra simply sends an eight-character alpha-numeric code to anyone who wants to visit his office. Simply put, Zippr provides short codes to help people find locations to a T. Like the URL shortening service Bitly, Zippr ( www.zip.pr ) converts an address into a number that latently contains a map.
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