Amritanshu (2nd from Right) and Anshul winning the Tata First Dot Award 2013 at IIT Madras
Crowdbeans, a Mobile App Development Company started by Amritanshu
Anand of Patna has been declared as Top 5 Student start-ups in India by
TATA and National Entrepreneurship Forum in TATA First Dot 2013.
Amritanshu Anand is presently Final Year B. Tech Student at IIT
Kharagpur.
CrowdBeans is a crowd powered mobile app testing
platform. It is a community of 200 testers and 50 developers, all from
IIT Kharagpur who put mobile applications through their paces by testing
on real devices under real-world conditions. Along with his Friend Anshul Singhle, Amritanshu
created Crowdbeans as a platform to link app developers to volunteer
testers. The model is effective, with testers being paid according to
the bugs they help identify.
Crowdbeans was selected in Jury’s Choice Award and secured 5th place
among Top 6 Student Startups of India in the two-day national conference
held at IIT-Madras, Chennai from January 20-21, 2013.
The six
national winners were selected by a panel of eminent jury members
comprising of successful entrepreneurs, angel investors and senior Tata
leaders. The entries were evaluated on criterias like milestones
achieved (investment obtained, track record), business model,
innovativeness and distinctive competence, passion and growth potential.
The
Six Winners were chosen from 400 Entries made by about 600 Student
Entrepreneurs. His start-up will now receive professional mentoring from
various entrepreneurs, angel investors, mentors, experts and other
student start-ups via the NEN Mentoring Platform.
Other winning
entries included ventures like Anaerobic workstation for research,
experiential learning tools for educational institutions, search engine
for e-commerce, automated food equipment, online courses, etc.
CrowdBeans
provides in-the-wild testing services that span the entire software
development lifecycle – including functional, security, load,
localization and Usability testing. The CrowBeans community provides
developers a chance to test their apps on various platform and across a
wide range of handsets.
If you develop a Mobile Application and
its needs to get tested Crowdbeans would help you to connect your app
with a strong community of Testers.
Written by BP Staff on 4 Feb, 2013
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