Back in 2018, starting to operate as a tech based logistic startup in a place like ours, where local businesses had their comfort zone in conventional process, was challenging. There were so many buts and ifs for them while switching from the traditional obsolete business practices to the tech-based, digitally sound solutions owing to the reasons of socio-political scenarios and frequent internet shutdowns apart from other apparent ones. Meanwhile, at the same time we focused on a solution to the problem for the emerging social media based businesses and homegrown startups that mostly included women led businesses. There were young…
It’s the mid of the year 2021 and Kashmiris have already went through the tougher challenges for this first half while fighting against the pandemic and the repercussions associated with it. Amid these hardships, we, the business beetles of the valley came up with some good news earlier that paved way towards more and more employment generation and improving livelihoods, first with our Amazon partnership and second with shift to angel investment.
Today, here is the another one on the special day of someone, who is the brain behind the technology of Fastbeetle. …
A journey of two people on two wheels that started two years ago from the conflicted valley with nothing but an idea to execute, in order to empower their people, has breathe a new life with the much awaited stage of their first investment.
We are overjoyed to share with our people the news of moving into venture capital financing from bootstrapping. Yeah, you heard it right.
FastBeetle, your very own startup brand from Kashmir has raised Seed capital led by multiple investors in and out of the valley at 3 crore valuation. …
As our journey progresses towards restructuring and revamping the whole FastBeetle concept, our tech-driven entities shouldn’t be an exception. One of the entity being our cross-platform mobile applications which form a face for our audience to communicate with us.
Recently, after the launch of our mascot, we received huge amount of love for our favorite beetle character, Azeez. People are finding Azeez cute and a reason to smile whenever they look at him. So, why not make you all smile more, every time you place your orders from our mobile applications?
We have changed our app interfaces with Azeez’s introduction…
The dread and fear of COVID-19 wave 2 is taking toll on our shopping routines especially of the consumer essentials that we need the most in our homes. Be it a pinch of baking powder or a particular shampoo to take shower with, be it some tempting cheese or the medicines you need daily, be it iftaar list of Ramazan or your kid’s demands to be met; getting out to an all purpose departmental store is all you hunt for. …
With the quest to empower our people, we are wholeheartedly committed to bring in the most to the valley rather than taking out the most from here. The two really significant by products of this quest being ‘generation of employment' and ‘reaching the unreachable’. Throughout our journey, we have slowly been reaching the milestones while continuing to expand our reach and setting newer targets that meet a huge amount of offerings for our people.
Today, on the eve of our CEO’s birthday we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the top most essentials brand and your own Apni…
As the second wave of COVID-19 continues to haunt us while curtailing our routine activities, there shan't be any chance of not living up the peaceful month of Ramazan the way we have been living it. Staying indoors to reduce the risk is indeed a good choice but we know how significant Fridays of this pious month are for all of us. So, we bring out our another Ramazan special gift for you in the form of free Friday deliveries from our Srinagar hub.
Throughout the entire month of Ramazan on Fridays, any orders booked with us within Srinagar city…
As the most peaceful and soothing month of the year begins, FastBeetle is up to soothe your senses with exciting and fresh concepts for you. Starting with the introduction of free freezer service in our warehouse.
Undoubtedly, Ramazan comes with ample blessings for each one of us while teaching us to be more generous and more giving. In addition, there is a Kashmiri saying that goes as “Yi aesi bahan ryetan zaenaa che, ti che aesi Ramzan’kis aekis ryetas kharchawaan”. This means whatever we earn for rest of the 11 months of the year, we spend that in the month…
As the harshest winter in Kashmir took toll over almost anything and absolutely everyone in the valley, it also set the scene for us to be prepared for even worst consequences that nature can shower upon us anytime. We, as a team also came up with realisations from the lessons that nature taught us this winter.
While this excruciating epoch continued in the valley, it inspired us seeing our delivery team picking up and delivering goods from door to door with utmost care amid this harsh temperature followed by other risk factors.
As a token of love to our delivery…
Knowing the charges for any service is a fundamental requirement for the users of the respective service. To simplify this requirement for you, we came up with a feature integrated on our web and mobile apps on the onset of this year.
While your search engines hit the online delivery options with 'Parcel delivery near me' typed from your keyboards, the immediate next questions come up as 'What are the charges for this and that pin code?’, 'How much do you charge within this city?’, 'What amount you charge for parcel deliveries nationally or internationally?’ and so on.
We have…
