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a2zbaby, a Mumbai based startup is a new e-commerce player in the baby care product vertical. a2zbaby aims to provide an e-commerce storefront where parents can find and discover products for their baby and buy it at will.

a2zbaby offers, chemical safe products, considering the safety and development of the child at each stage. a2zbaby delivers wide range from diapers to toys, car seats to cozy bouncers, food maker to laundry detergent and specialty child care products to designer cribs.

a2zbaby is founded by Premanshu Singh (IIM-A alumnus) and Kapil Chawla (MDI Gurgaon Alumnus). Premanshu has rich experience and worked in ITC, J&J and Webaroo Technologies while Kapil has worked with Infosys and Webaroo. Since they being the parents of new born babies they felt the need of an online store where user can find different brands under one place.

a2zbaby has more than 2500 SKU’s, across more than 25 brands, on offer now. Parents can visit the portal, explore products, talk to a product expert and buy it online. a2z doesn’t levy and shipping charges, Cash On delivery is available for orders above 999, provides 24*7 customer support and delivery time varies from 3-7 days depending on the user location.

a2zBaby, is very fairly simple to use. They have well planned page layout with neat categorization. Checkout is very easy and simple and works like a breeze.

a2zBaby directly competes with Hushbabies, Babyoye, FirstCry.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Jasper Innovative Marketing Solutions, parent company of Snapdeal has raised $12M from Nexus Ventures Partners and Indo US Ventures in series B round. Jasper aims to become mini Groupon, its expanding agressively in different countries, it has already operations in 5 countries – Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Singapore and plans to acquire more players in APAC region. Primarily investment would be utilized in expanding the operations in different countries.

At present Snapdeal offers dicsount coupons across 10 cities in India and about 40 cities they offer special discount coupons from e-commerce companies like tradus.in

Snapdeal has earlier acquired Bangalore based Grabbon, one of the early players in group buying space.

Lets have a look at the monthly traction of Snapdeal -

Undoubtedly Snapdeal traction looks very impressive. Snapdeal claims to have 1M users actively buying its discount coupons.

Beside Snapdeal, Jasper also runs and operates babybox.in, moneysaver prime.

Babybox.in is a parent informative portal and it aims to become a platform for hospitals, baby care brands to interact with parents. Intent is clear to form a database of parents which can be leveraged. Babybox has tie up with companies like Hushbabies which sell baby care products online.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com

Hushbabies, is an exclusive e-commerce portal for baby care products and parenthood in India which aims to dominate this $50B market in India. Husbabies is launched in early 2010 is based out of Coimbatore and is founded by Veena, a US returned serial entrepreneur in e-commerce space. She was not able to find range of quality baby care products under one roof and she realized there is a need and launched Hushbabies.

Hushbabies team offers, chemical safe products, considering the safety and development of the child at each stage. The products that include toys, books, baby products, health care, games, clothing, and furniture are chosen with extreme care. Hushbabies also offers products for new moms, making it an exclusive shopping platform for both new born babies and new mom.

Products are categorized quite neatly in the portal, easy to find the desired products, user can browse the products by brands as well and Advance search option is also provided for users.

Hushbabies delivers wide range from diapers to toys, car seats to cozy bouncers, food maker to laundry detergent and specialty child care products to designer cribs. Hushbabies have partnered directly with brands like AVENT, Chicco, Pigeon, Nuby, VTech, Leapfrog & thirty other brands. Hushbabies has their own warehouses in Coimbatore and Bangalore, products are shipped from their warehouses, Products are

Hushbabies offers its users easy returns policies, easy exchanges and direct warranty point for several brands. They also offer 24×7 customer service, a promising shipping and delivery model and have a dedicated team to analyze the post delivery process. Hushbabies, in the near future will add many value added services and extend benefits to its loyal customers.

-Hitesh, vcBytes.com