New Way of Exxploring India's Creative Community :Bananabandy

BananaBandy Has Arrived 

BananaBandy is an online market network for Indian creative professionals. It was founded in February 2015. It has already become India’s largest market network  with more than 10000 creative professionals. 

The basic aim of BananaBandy is to enable creative professionals such as graphic designers, photographers, animator, product designers, interior designers, fashion designers, etc. to upload and manage their portfolio and at the same time, it provide them them opportunity to work full time or freelance as they wish.

 In such a short time span of one year, BananaBandy has facilitated over 700 job listings from 450 companies. The website has over 6000 projects with 30000+ artworks. In the past 6 months, companies such as Walt Disney, Ogilvy&Mather, CouponDunia, Practo, Sunburn, Grofers, Asian Paints, etc. also joined their band wagon.

Founded by Kavan Antani, 19, and Shashank Jogani, 21, it started off as a completely bootstrapped company. Within 2 months of the launch, it raised a seed round at Rs 2.5 crore valuation from Srinivasa Aluri, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Private Equity and Chaitanya Deshpande, former M&A Head, Marico. In December 2015, BananaBandy also hosted Design Mela, India's largest online contest for creative professionals. The design event received over 1500 entries from creative professionals all across the country and was judged by eminent professionals such as Shekhar Kapur, Namit Malhotra, Vikram Phadnis, KV Sridhar, etc.

BananaBandy has shown way that availability of creative people is not limited to only conventional platform. It serves as a platform for Indian creatives to connect with their peers and showcase, promote and monetize their work. The design industry is today valued at over $7 Billion by the CII Design Report 2015 and is a major facilitator in fields such as automobile, fashion, etc. which contribute over $300 Billion to the economy today. The aim is to create an end-to-end solution for all the creative needs in the country. At its core, BananaBandy is an aggregator of creative services. Using its technology, BananaBandy matches parties depending on time, budget and other criteria. Its services will make the recruitment procedure shorter, more efficient and cost-effective.

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