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Hawkar is a tech-driven platform designed to bridge the gap between street vendors, retail stores, and customers by providing a seamless digital marketplace. Street vendors have historically been a crucial part of the urban economy, supplying middle-class and low-income groups with essential goods. However, with the rise of online retail and large-scale retail chains, they face challenges in visibility, frequent evictions, and extortion threats, limiting their growth. Hawkar aims to empower street vendors and small retailers by giving them an online presence through a mobile application, enabling them to connect with customers effortlessly. The platform also partners with e-rickshaw services to facilitate doorstep or curbside deliveries, ensuring that vendors who cannot move around can still serve their customers in an eco-friendly manner. This initiative not only enhances accessibility for customers but also promotes last-mile connectivity, saving time and fuel. Beyond commerce, Hawkar serves as a support system for street vendors by helping them access government schemes, legal assistance, and business growth opportunities through events, fairs, and promotions. By strengthening their presence and increasing sales, Hawkar also promotes the ‘Vocal for Local’ initiative. Starting in Lucknow, Hawkar aims to scale city-wide, state-wide, and eventually Pan-India before expanding globally to countries with similar market structures. With street vendors and retail collectively contributing up to 16% of India’s GDP, Hawkar holds huge scalability potential while providing employment opportunities to low and middle-income individuals, creating a structured and thriving local economy.

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Entity Type
Private Limited Company
Sectors
Software Development
Startup Stage
Ideation

Startup Teams

  • 1 Yash Tiwari (Founder)
  • 2 Ashutosh Mishra (Director)

Incubation Details

  • Incubator Name
    Navankur Foundation
  • Incubator Host Institution
    University of Lucknow
  • Incubator Address
    INCUBATION CENTRE, LUCKNOW UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY ROAD, LUCKNOW, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India,
  • State
    Uttar Pradesh
  • City
    Lucknow

Approved Incentive

  • 1 Sustenance Allowances (1st Tranche )
    ₹ 78,750.00

Year of Establishment2023

Location

State
Uttar Pradesh
Disctrict
Lucknow
Address
2/295 GRD FLOOR RASHMI KHNAD,SHARDA NAGAR ROW HOUSE ASHIYANA,Aashiana,Lucknow,Lucknow- 226012,Uttar Pradesh
Pincode
226012