Chhattisgarh Startup GIM Books
Founded by Yash Raj Agrawal, GimBooks assists small and micro-sized businesses in India to create and manage documents like GST-compliant invoices, waybills, quotations, purchase orders, delivery challans, manage their inventory and expenses, keep a live track of various business reports and send payment reminders to customers.
Yash worked as a business analyst with Target Corporation before he started his own venture of trading in Pyrolysis products, where he witnessed the need for a modern accounting platform for MSMEs. A technology enthusiast, he always wanted to bring in a modern approach to the widespread traditional businesses in India. With the launch of GST, he believed it was the right opportunity to move in this direction, and GimBooks was launched in October 2017.
GimBooks is a mobile-first, India-centric platform for micro and small business owners. The vision of GimBooks is to make business easy for millions by providing them with an easy-to-use and affordable solution,” says Yash. GimBooks helps users simplify their regular bookkeeping with the help of their Android app Easy Invoice Manager or their integrated website www.gimbooks.com.
They offer a platform that can be used even by a layman or someone who doesn’t have any prior accounting knowledge. Unlike other software that offers a one-size-fits-all form of bookkeeping, GimBooks offers domain-based bookkeeping, where it is customised according to the industry the user is from. The software is adaptable to the ever-changing dynamic requirements of GST The bootstrapped startup has already crossed revenues of Rs 1 crore and is growing at 20 percent month-on-month. They are operating out of Raipur, but have users present in over 2,000 cities in India. Recently, GimBooks was awarded the ‘Best Startup of the Year’ by Entrepreneur of the Year Award (EOTY) awards and was honoured to get it from Bhupesh Baghel, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. They were also the winners of the Shuruaat Bus Pitching Competition conducted by The Global Education and Leadership Foundation (tGELF), in partnership with Facebook, ATAL Innovation Mission by NITI Aayog and Apollo Tyres, which spanned in 13 cities across the country to find social entrepreneurship ideas by the youth.