
This Hubballi startup is no second-stringer
The HinduIf you thought you hear music through your ears, Navajith Karkera and Jagath Bidappa may correct you. Think of experiences like a clap of thunder or drums being played in front of you or being at a concert.” The quest to see if headphones could impart a similar experience led the duo to found their own startup Rapture Innovation Labs. So, for us, doing it in Hubballi didn’t feel very different from doing it in Bengaluru, because we’re up against global brands,” Karkera says. “When we did tests and analysis, we found that the fidelity or the clarity we provide is somewhere in the range of the headphones that usually cost between $250 to $300,” Mr. Bidappa says. Local roots, global ambitions Ratish Pandey, Founder at Ethique Advisory and an angel investor at Rapture Innovations, says, “As an angel investor, my evaluation of startup proposals focuses on three key parameters: the founder, the idea, and scalability.
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