Website: VanishBooks.com

Company Introduction: An online book store selling books of Indian and Foreign publishers.

Proprietor: Ruchi Vij

Managing Head: Rohan Vij

Company Address

4675-A (Back Portion),
21 Ansari Road,
Darya Ganj,
New Delhi – 110 002

Email: info@vanishbooks.com

Contact Number: 011 - 65449971, 43596460

Website: www.techmastiff.com

Domain: Consumer Internet Product development

Company Introduction:

Mastiff Tech is an emerging consulting service provider in consumer internet product domain. Company’s primary focus is into online media, content sharing and social networking space. Having gained immense experience in different areas and developed a thorough understanding of the digital media market, mastiff team helps clients from concept to market lifecycle for their product. Company unique approach supported by the domain knowledge maintains client’s ROI with high success rate and less time to market.

Mastiff Tech has crafted its presence in the competitive online content sharing and social networking domain. Company has core competency in all avenues of its development – from visualization of user interface and designing to implementation of robust frameworks that ensures smooth scaling of applications in web2.0 age. With time, company has utilizes its sound experience in online media domain to craft innovative solutions, which can further reduced the cost and go-to market time for an enterprise.

Mastiff’s portfolio is enriched by clients who range from venture backed product companies, movie distribution companies, audience measurement practice for pod casts to social networking providers in different domains like sports, movies etc. In addition to developing large-scale advertising platforms, mastiff has an excellent track record of implementing best online search tools, integrating with Google ad sense, online affiliate platforms and payments gateways etc. In short, mastiff is a complete online media solutions provider in Online Media, Online Travel and Online Retail Domains.

Key Executives

Tushar Vohra

Tushar Vohra is the founder director and chairman of the innovatively named - Mastiff Tech Pvt. Ltd. With his proven business and emerging technology expertise, Tushar leads a world-class professional team that addresses the needs and problems of mastiff tech’s fast expanding client base. Tushar handles varied roles in consulting, operations and general management with equal ease. Under the able leadership of Tushar mastiff tech is rapidly going places. In his illustrious career, Tushar won many accolades from Talisma, a leading provider of multi-channel CRM solutions, for his exceptional technical and problem solving skills. A multifaceted Tushar is armed with a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in India.

Ajay Pandey - CEO

Ajay Pandey, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mastiff Tech Pvt. Ltd. views himself as a facilitator, making sure people work as a team and have fun, even as they deliver world-class solutions. He has plenty of plans up his sleeve as mastiff moves up the value chain into web based product development and consulting. Ajay’s hands-on approach to business and first-hand experience with startups is particularly valuable in
Setting up and growing new practices within the organization. Ajay, an IIT alumnus, has held positions of increasing responsibility, in hi-tech startup companies such as Viaedge and Proteans. Enterprising, Ajay holds a masters degree in chemistry from IIT, Kanpur in India.

Manoj Samuel - VP Business Development

Manoj in the role of VP, business development have been in one word a startup expert. He has been associated with companies from the birth; some even say he is addicted to startups. He has five years experience in it domain and has held various roles in first startup company priority one consulting, a human asset management company. He joined his second startup, mastiff tech as the first executive employee. He has vast experience in bringing new clients and teams lookup to him at mastiff tech for his contributions. May it be writing code in one room startup or negotiating with funded product companies for development services, he has done it all. He holds a bachelors degree in electronics engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University Bhopal.

Company Address

Mastiff Tech Private Ltd.
Unit: 317-217,
Building No: 2, Sector: 1,
Millennium Business Park Mahape,
Navi Mumbai - 400 710
India,
Tel: +91 22 67600600
Cell: +91-9820077427
Fax: +91 22 67600601

Contact Person: Manoo Haryal (Manav)
Sr. Business Development Executive
E-mail: manoo.haryal@techmastiff.com
Contact: 91 09223519068, 91 9820077427
Tel: +91 22 67600600 X 609

Website – www.whizlabs.com

Introduction - Founded in 2000, Whizlabs is a global leader in IT Certification Exams Preparation. We are a ISO 9001:2000 certified company with over 10,00,000 satisfied customers with a whopping success rate of 99.7%. Whizlabs offerings have been endorsed by many distinguished organizations, such as TheServerside.com, JavaRanch, CertCities, and Addison Wesley publications.

Management – Sudeepa Basu, CEO

Contact Us

Address
824 Sargodha Apartment Plot # 13
Sector-7 Dwarka
New Delhi-110075

Email ID
support@whizlabs.com

Phone No
011-45542155

Key Competitor – Selftest Software

Company Profile:

Sapient, a global services firm offers interactive services with technology consulting solutions with their development center in India. Sapient Interactive India provides brand and marketing strategy, creative work, web design, web development and emerging media expertise, where as Sapient Consulting provides business and IT strategy, process and systems design, package implementation and custom development, as well as outsourcing services such as testing, maintenance and support. Sapient launched its India based development services in 2000 and it mainly focuses in serving clients from North America and Europe. Sapient India is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapient Corporation (NASDAQ SAPE).

Management:

Sandeep Dhar, Managing Director

Sandeep a Delhi University graduate, has attended the advanced Management program at Wharton School of Business. Sandeep who began his career with NIIT has extensive knowledge in consulting, sales and finance. Having been worked with Citibank in India and in Asia Pacific, Sandeep has also worked with IBM and ABN AMRO Bank in Singapore. Before joining Sapient, Sandeep served at Mphasis a subsidiary of EDS a business process outsourcing firm.

Contact Address:

Sapient Corporation

Sector 25/A DLF Phase III,
Cyber green, Tower D&E, Gurgaon
Pincode, 122002

Tel: 0124-4167000

Website: www.sapient.com

Additional Information:

Sapient launched its India operations in 2000 and has over 3000 professionals in its Delhi and Bangalore offices. Sapient’s Globally Distributed Delivery model which provides ROI services through a combination across Sapient Interactive & Sapient Consulting) will now be looking for Indian clients also.

Company Profile:

Holiday IQ is a leisure and lifestyle information services comapany based out of Bangalore. Launched in 2004 as India Resorts survey, Holiday IQ is a traveler community led Holiday Information site.

Management:

Hari Nair, Founder & CEO

Hari is a chartered account who left his corporate career to pursue his passion for travel. Prior to Holiday Hari was a Partner & Executive Director at KPMG India in Mumbai; Hari is the co-founder of HolidayIQ portal. Hari’s blog. Contact Hari: ceo@holidayiq.com

Vinu Krishnan – Co-founder & COO

Vinu is the Co-founder of Holiday IQ portal. An XLRI Jamshedpur graduate, Vinu has previously served at key positions in companies like Hewitt Associates & KPMG. Vinu looks after operations in Holiday IQ.

Investors

HolidayIQ has received 2 rounds of funding from Erasmic ventures & Vireet Investments. BCCL has also invested in HolidayIQ.

Contact Information:

HolidayIQ

No. 68, 1st Cross, 2nd Main
HAL III Stage,
Bangalore 560 075, India

Tel: +91 80 41153595

Additional Information:

Holiday IQ is a web 2.0 venture where consumers provide feedbacks and photographs of Travel destinations and Holiday accommodations in and across India.

Travelmasti” is an e-travel services business based out New Delhi, India. They provide Internet travel related services to inbound / domestic tourists & Corporate India for their conferences and other requirement. It also offers hotel reservations and information on various hotels and resorts in India. They also have a forum in place, Link Travelmasti forum:

Management:

Saghan Aggarwal, Founder & CEO

Saghan Aggarwal is a post graduate from Poona University. Prior to Travelmasti, Saghan’s held senior management posts in product management at Aricent and at Huges Software Systems. He overlooks product development and is also the CEO of the company.

Manan Aggarwal, COO

Manan Aggarwal a 28 year old MBA Finance graduate co-founded Travelmasti in mid 1999 along with Saghan.

Investor:

Bennett Coleman & Co. which owns The Times of India has acquired stake in Travelmasti for an undisclosed amount.

Website: www.travelmasti.com

Contact Information:

707 Vishwa Sadan Building
District Centre, Janakpuri
New Delhi – 110058, India

Tel: +91 11 25554101 - 25554105
Fax: +91 11 25554106

Additional Information:

Travelmasti also runs a forum board, which provides information and personal experiences needed traveling across the world.

Company Profile:

GoYaar.com is an India specific social utility website launched in September 2006. With its unique user specific tools, GoYaar’s platform provides fully integrated email, video, photo album, blogging, instant messaging and peer-to-peer collaboration tools, all as a one-stop source.

Management:

Phalgun Raju, CEO

Phalgun Raju is a 29-year old former McKinsey and Company Consultant with Master’s degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School. He is also the founder and CEO of Go yaar.

Website: www.goyaar.com

Contact Information:

Questions: memberservices [-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Advertise on GoYaar: sales [-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Careers at GoYaar: recruiting[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Business Development: bizdev[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Media Inquiries: mediarelations[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com

Additional Information:

GoYaar.com, a social networking site, has launched a social search engine and directory for India-focused web content including blogs, audio pod casts, video, music, events, groups, bookmarks, and local business reviews and recommendations.

Company Profile:

NDTV Convergence is a wholly owned subsidiary of New Delhi based media conglomerate NDTV Ltd. NDTV group launched its individual online operations in late 2006 after synergizing their various horizontals under one umbrella NDTV Convergence. NDTV convergence is a direct subsidiary of NDTV Networks PLC (incorporated by the laws of England).

Management

Sanjay Trehan, CEO

Sanjay Trehan, a post graduate from Stephens College started his career in advertising at Lintas. Sanjay has also worked with Jaldi.com and Hindustan Times before joining Indiatimes as Vice President, Broadband & Web 2.0 services. Sanjay joined NDTV Convergence in March 2007.

Salil Kumar, COO

Salil Kumar was appointed as Chief operations for NDTV convergence in Sep 2007. He has earlier worked with Go4i.com & Hindustan Times heading their Internet division. Salil who began his career as an FMCG distributor with HLL has also worked with Hungama and Bharti Airtel.

Website: www.ndtv.com

Contact Information:

NDTV Ltd.
Archana Complex
Greater Kailash Part 1
New Delhi 110 048, INDIA.

Tel: +91 11 26446666
E-mail us at: feedback@ndtv.com

Additional Information:

NDTV convergence consolidates its web and mobile properties by syndicating their offline TV content across the available verticals. In a deal with Japan based, the new media group (TNMG); NDTV convergence will provide content syndication through TNMG’s IPTV platform across Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Founded in 2005 Gameshastra Inc has operations in US and India. Gameshastra Inc is a games outsourcing service provider. Their Hyderabad based game development centre provides game art, animation and quality assurance (QA) services for console, PC and online gaming platforms.

Management:

Narayan K, Country Manager

Narayanan K manages was appointed as head of India Operations by Gameshastra Inc in July 2007. He started his career in Indian software services. Prior to Gameshastra, Narayan K was associated with the growth of two organizations in their formative years - Hexaware Technologies Limited (in India) and Emirates Airlines (in Dubai). Narayanan possesses extensive experience in creating Centers of Excellence and has been Head of Travel and Transportation and Application Management practices in Hexaware. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University and Diploma in Computer Management from University of Bombay.
Sunderrajan, Head game Art

Prior to joining Gameshastra, Sunderarajan was an advisor to Red Octane technologies and also the founding President of Pentameter Graphics, a leading animation studio based in Chennai.

Website: www.gameshastra.com

Contact Address:
Gameshastra Solutions Pvt Ltd,
8-2-120/77/4B, Road No.2,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
INDIA -500 034
Tel: +91 40 6666 1188
Fax: +91 40 66668976

Email: sales@gameshastra.com

Company Profile:

Financial Technologies India provides technology IP solutions and domain expertise with technology licensing and development. It also offers transaction outsourcing services for digital transactions and financial markets across all asset class including equity, commodities, currency and debt. Financial Technologies (India) Limited, the flagship company of the Financial Technologies Group.

Management:

Jignesh Shah, CEO & Chairman

Jignesh Shah founded Financial Technologies (India) Ltd. and has held the position of Chairman and CEO since January 2001. Prior to establishing Financial Technologies, he was with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), working on the design and implementation of the BSE’s online trading system, BOLT®. Mr. Shah graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Mumbai and has received specialized training in Money and Capital Markets as well as in Futures and Options Trading from the New York Institute of Finance.

Dewang Neralla, CTO

Dewang Neralla has been the Executive Director of the Company since January 2001. In addition, he is also the Chief Technology Officer and the co-founder of Financial Technologies with Jignesh Shah. Before establishing Financial Technologies, Mr. Neralla was part of the BSE team for designing the BOLT®. trading system. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computers. Link

Websites: www.ftindia.com

Investors: Financial Technologies India is listed on BSE (FINTECH) and is the flagship brand of Financial technologies Group a US$ 3.29 bn as on June 2007.

Contact Details:

Landmark B’ Ground Floor Suren Road,
Chakala Andheri ( East)
Mumbai, 400 093
IND +91-22-26173746 (Phone)

Additional Information:

Financial Technologies joins other shareholders including NYSE, Goldman Sachs, ICICI, SBI, IDBI, LIC, various public sector banks among others of NSE by acquiring 1% stake in NSE (August 23 2007), reports India Bulls. Link