KOCHI: Food tech startup TastySpots, founded by a group of Kochi-based youngsters, has been selected for FbStart, a global startup accelerator program from Facebook.
As part of the prestigious program, TastySpots has received about $80,000 (about Rs 52 lakh) as credits and services from Facebook and its partners, and will also receive mentoring from senior Facebook executives, product managers, engineers and access to exclusive events.
Facebook had kick-started FbStart in January 2015 to help early stage mobile startups to build and grow their mobile apps. In an official email to TastySpots, FbStart says the app has been selected for “its impressive development so far and its potential for continued growth.”
TastySpots provides a curated list of restaurants and dishes across Kerala. Each restaurant is featured with maximum useful information including a 90 second video.
The app launched three months back currently has more than 2 Lakh users with a 70 per cent repeated visits. The App is available in Android, iOS and Web.