Ashutosh Kumar – Clappia – Exfinity Venture Partners

Here is Founder Ashutosh Kumar pitching Clappia – a SaaS-based digital workplace equipped with zero-code business App creation tools.

“Clappia’s vision is to become the leader of customized business apps. Every time a business head thinks that he needs a custom App for his niche requirement and that is unavailable in the App stores, Clappia should be the first name that rings in his head,” says Ashutosh.

The options that such businesses have today are SAP/Salesforce/Oracle (expensive and time-consuming), Freelancers (unreliable), the internal team (difficult and expensive) or existing misfit apps. Clappia intends to achieve its vision by creating a self-service cloud platform that enables zero coding mobile and web app creation by any business user. The Clappia team brainstormed and figured out the pattern among most of such app requirements and then created fixed software infrastructure that can take care of most of those app requirements. The final customization part is left to the business users who can modify everything just like they work on Excel.

Clappia enables enterprises to create mobility-focused Apps in a drag-n-drop interface, customize them according to their business needs, create workflows and push the Apps directly to targeted users.

Alternatively, they can import Apps from a range of existing Apps listed on the Marketplace and customize them according to their needs. Clappia claims to have made the App delivery mechanism so smooth that businesses don’t need to create separate mobile Apps.

The company was started in October 2017 by two IIT Kharagpur batchmates, Ashutosh Kumar and Sarthak Jain, with 6 and 7 years of product management and software development experiences respectively in companies like Cisco, Nutanix, Amazon etc. They were mentored by Pramod Ghorpade who has 20 years of industry experience working with various MNCs and startups. The team is 10+ members strong and growing across the board.