Delhi, March 3, 2022: India's consumer internet companies have continued to attract investors and the industry is dominating news headlines in 2022 as well. Wizikey's latest report brings the most visible and talk-about Consumer Internet companies of February 2022 in India.
Taking the top spot is Paytm. The announcement of becoming the official acquiring partner for the government's e-RUPI vouchers initiative, coupled with its partnership with Twitter to ramp up the support for its 'Tips' feature in India got everyone's attention. Further, Paytm stocks continue to be a central focus.
Flipkart ranked second. The brand made quite buzz for its offers, discounts, especially drop in iPhone prices made quite a flash. Besides, Flipkart's announcement of 45-minute grocery delivery was widely talked about.
In the third place is BharatPe. The payment gateway company grabbed the headlines for Ashneer Grover, the former Managing Director of the company–his recent controversies and the internal probe.
CRED occupied fourth place, especially for reports about the company eyeing to raise $300 million at an aggressive valuation of over $6 billion. In the fifth rank is Zomato. The food tech company was in the limelight for its stocks and buzz around Zomato Financial Services Ltd.
Others in the list include Dream11 (6), Nykaa (7), Ola(8), Swiggy (9), and MX Player (10).
Commenting on the consumer internet industry, Anshul Sushil, Co-founder of Wizikey says, " "Indian consumer internet companies have seen tremendous momentum in the last one year. It's fantastic to see brands connecting so well with consumers. With a majority of unicorns, 2022 will be a year to watch out for. This also means more competition, which means brands need to up their media visibility. "
Wizikey's News Score is the industry's first integrated metric that measures news visibility. News Score is determined by analyzing the volume of news, headlines presence, the reach of publications, and much more. Wizikey's AI and ML technology gathers media intelligence from over 10 million news articles across 5000+ distinct publications.
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Wizikey is a media intelligence company that leverages AI to provide a single solution for the communications team to make data-driven decisions. We are transforming how communications professionals think about and exercise media intelligence in order to unleash the creative power of their audience and tell better stories. Launched in 2019 by IIT and MICA alumnus, Wizikey is used by 1000+ businesses including Unilever, eBay, UserTesting, Blockchain.com.
It is one of the fastest-growing Enterprise Software for Communications in Asia and has raised seed capital from Indian Angel Network with names like Ajai Chowdhry (Co-founder, HCL), Alok Mittal (Co-founder and CEO, Indifi), Ambarish Raghuvanshi (ex-CFO, Info Edge), Keshav R Murugesh (CEO, WNS), Raman Roy (Chairman, NASSCOM and Chairman, Quattro), Sanjiv Bajaj (Joint Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Capital)