India’s leading marketing services procurement platform, GroCurv, has pioneered the use of technology to bridge the supply-demand problem that has historically plagued independent marketing agencies. Founded by Venkatesh Rangachari and Vipul Gupta in 2019, the Delhi-NCR based company helps SMBs find the best-suited marketing agency for sales and marketing services such as digital marketing, social media marketing, performance marketing, e-commerce, lead generation, packaging design, PR and branding, amongst others. Their marketplace uses technology to revolutionise the way marketing agencies have traditionally found clients and givesagencies tools to be on top of their deliverables, while ensuring 100% payments.
With an aim of accelerating business growth for Start-Ups, SMEs and MNCs, the company has delivered over 2500 projects both national and international, across industries, such as Home & Personal Care, Food & Beverages, Healthcare, Online Retail, etc. with an impressive 80% + repeat rate. Their list of clients includes companies like SSF Plastics, Millenium Marbles, Lohia Corp, Finora Technologies, Lepton Software, Winuall, HEM incense, Dole International, Squirelocks, Josh Talks, The Moms Co., Coca Cola India, Tata Steel, Luxor Writing Instruments, Orientbell, etc.
In the words of Venkatesh Rangachari, Co-founder, GroCurv, “Just like Amazon and Flipkart deliver 30-40% of revenues for emerging D2C brands, Grocurv aspires to have at least 5000 agencies from across the country and generate 30-40% of their revenues by 2025. All this, while simultaneously bringing efficiency, transparency and trust to the marketing procurement ecosystem.”
What differentiates GroCurv is their promise of accurate and relevant projects to the agencies. The platform provides automated tools for clients to create projects, identifies the most relevant agencies, speed up the RFI and RFP process, help in proposal evaluation, contracts and project monitoring through a self-serve conversational solution. An ESCROW ensures 100% payment compliance. GroCurv believes agencies are a vital partner to SMB clients looking to grow fast. A typical agency search and onboarding of 6-8 weeks, is compressed to less than 2 weeks on GroCurv, through technology.
GroCurv has already bridged the trust deficit issue in the SMB space with a 98% success rate for all projects. This is a massive space with over 10 million SMBs globally looking to find the right agency partner. “Our partner agencies are nimble, innovative and responsive. Over 70 Cr worth of RFPs have been shared on the platform since 2019 and are now looking ahead at a 10 times increase in agency partners and platform revenue”, Vipul Gupta, Co-founder, GroCurv.












![New Delhi [India], January 9: Visually impaired cricketer and captain of Indian Men’s Cricket Team for the Blind Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy on Tuesday was conferred with Prestigious Arjuna Award from the President of India at a specially organized function at Rashtrapati Bhavan. National Sports Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports. Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in Sports and Games is given for good performance over a period of the previous three years and for showing qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and a sense of discipline. Illuri Ajay Kumar Reddy (Blind Cricket) is among the 26 sportspersons who were honoured with Arjuna Award for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2023. The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports last month had announced the National Sports Awards 2023. The nominated stars received their awards from the President of India. “I am overwhelmed with this recognition. I dedicate this award to my Parents and Family members for their support. I also would like to thank Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) and all the players with whom I have played,” Ajay Reddy said in a statement. Congratulating Arjuna awardee Dr Mahantesh G Kivadasannavar, Chairman- Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) said “It is an honour and proud moment for all the blind cricketers across the world. It is the good recognition for the hard work and dedication in taking Cricket for the Blind to the next level through various achievements by the Indian Men’s Cricket Team for the blind under the leadership of Ajay Reddy. CABI is happy that cricket for the blind is getting the recognition with other major sports.” Following the Award ceremony, Illuri Ajay Reddy, the chairman of the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) Dr Mahantesh G Kivadasannavar and CABI secretary Shailender Yadav also met Indian pacer Mohammad Shami. Shami is also among the 26 sportspersons who were honoured with Arjuna Award on Tuesday. Illuri Ajay Reddy is currently working in SBI regional office in Bangalore. He is a B2 category player, who is representing India since 2010. He has been part of winning two ODI World Cups, 3 T20 world cups, 1 Asia Cup. Ajay is the captain of the Indian cricket team for the blind since 2016. Under his captaincy Team India has won 1 ODI world cup, 2 T20 world cups, 1 Asia Cup and the Silver Medal in IBSA World Games and many bilateral and triangular Series. Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) acknowledges the great support received from the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports through this award. The continuous support and patronage received from the esteemed ministry has helped CABI to achieve this milestone.](https://thisweekindia.news/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Arjuna-Award-to-Ajay-Kumar-Reddy-Captain-of-Indian-Blind-Cricket-Team-thisweekindia.png)