Accentium Web Pvt Ltd is a young and dynamic Internet company in India with a competent technical and business team and a vision to be one of the leading players in the Consumer Internet space in India.

Accentium runs Gaadi.com – an auto portal offering users a convenient place to research and buy New Cars and a quick and easy way to buy and sell used cars; SecondShaadi.com – India’s No. 1 site for people looking for a Second Marriage; StudyTimes.com – a content rich education site catering to students looking for both domestic and international study options.

Accentium also has an ownership in SitaGita.com – one of the leading online brands catering to the woman audience. We also have an exciting product in the content aggregation space, Taaza.com

Accentium also offers Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Optimization services through its brand Adlift.

Management

Vivek Pahwa, Founder and CEO
Ankur Warikoo, Co-Founder
Umang Kumar, Co-Founder

Company Address: 21-C, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana
Contact Email ID: sales@accentium.com
Contact Number: 0124-4091111

Website: Accentium.com, SecondShaadi.com, StudyTimes.com, AdLift.com

Key Competitors

Education: shiksha.com, studyplaces.com
Matrimonial: shaadi.com, bharatmatrimony.com, jeevansaathi.com

Anand Bazaar Patrika is a West Bengal media conglomerate catering to Bengali audiences around the globe.

It has numerous websites under its presence,

1. www.anandabazar.in & www.telegraph.in. – 2 Bengali dailies.
2. www.epaper.telegraphindia.com – E paper websites.
3. www.telegraph.in/wap - Mobile websites users
4. www.indiainfocom.com – Information Tech news
5. www.anandautsav.com – Durga Puja festivities
6. www.tilottama.in – Beauty pageant contest
7. www.thetelegraphstore.com – Shopping website
8. www.mjoy.in – Gaming website
9. www.ilovekolkata.in – Kolkata specific website

Management

• Kedar Gavane, Manager – New Media Channel

Kedar has done his post graduation from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Prior to ABP, Kedar has also worked with Infosys Technologies. Kedar is now the Manager overlooking new media initiatives at ABP Group from Bangalore.
Website: www.abp.in

Contact Address:

ABP Head Office

6 Prafulla Sarkar Street
Calcutta 700001 India

Tel: 91 33 22345374, 22216600, 22378000
Fax: 91 33 22253241

Additional Information:

ABP has also launched a gaming website, www.mjoy4free.mjoy.in tying up with an US based agency Greystripe for their services. ABP’s mjoy4free also has a wap site, for mobile users to directly look and connect through their handset.

Company Overview:

Active media technology is a mobile marketing technology and campaign management solutions company based in Uk.. Founded in the year 2001, Active media technology provides software platforms and toolkits to consumer organizations interested in deploying wireless applications and services using SMS and WAP.

Management,

• Raj Singh, Co-founder & Executive Director, India.

Singh is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has graduated with a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford. Raj Singh has worked with organizations like Credit Suisse First Boston, British Airways and Shell International. Prior to co-founding Active Media Technology, Singh was Senior Consultant at The Capital Markets Company, a European consultancy. Raj B Singh heads Business Development & Operations for Active media technology, India.

Other Executive Members,

• Ramesh Kumar, Sales & Marketing.
• Ariya Priyasantha, Technology & Strategy.

Website: www.activemediatech.com

Contact Address:

Asia Pacific office

A-61, Sector – 57
Noida – 201301
UP, India

Tel: +91 0120 4078000

Sales enquiries
Email: sales@activemediatech.com

General enquiries
Email: enquiries@activemediatech.com

Additional Information:

Established in 2001, ActiveMedia Technology has offices in London, New Delhi, Mumbai and Romania and partners in Spain, US, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, & Turkey. The company employs more 35 people globally.

Company Overview:

AOL India is a direct subsidiary of AOL Global Operations Limited, Ireland. AOL India portal offers e-mail, instant messaging, news, sports, entertainment and other information.

Management:

Maneesh Dhir, CEO Indian Operations

Dhir is responsible for new overseas business development in Europe, Asia and the US. Prior to his current role in India, Dhir was VP and GM of Netscape in Mountain View, Calif.

P G Ponnapa, Vice President, Indian Operations

Ponnapa has done his Masters from IIM Calcutta and got his Engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. He was COO at Wipro Net Kracker, an ISP and prior to that was a Product Manager at Asian paints. He has also served as a CEO at n-Logue Communications before joining AOL India as Vice President.

Website: www.aol.in

Contact Address:

AOL India
Level 4, D Tower,
Diamond District, Airport Road,
Bangalore 560008, India
Phone: +91 80 4010 6000
Fax: +91 80 4122 6644

Email: adsales@aol.in

City: Bangalore

Key Competitors: MSN, Yahoo, Rediff

Additional Information:

AOL includes e-mail service with industry-leading spam blocking, and security protections against viruses and other threats. Wide range of content includes Videos, Bollywood, news and information, sports news with a special Cricket channel and a new Gurus channel with video advice.

Company Overview:

Affle is a a Britain-based technology company. They have developed technology to allow for real-time content /advertising discovery on the mobile phone supported by GPRS/3G/CDMA as a medium.

Management

Anuj Khanna, CEO & Chairman Executive Committee, Experienced Serial Entrepreneur & Innovator

Anuj Khanna is a serial entrepreneur & innovator, and founder of three high-tech companies – myMCSB in 2000, SecLore in 2000 and the third is Affle in 2005. Anuj completed his B.E in Computer Engineering from NUS (Singapore) on the SIA Scholarship and dropped out of his M.Sc to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship.

Anuj Kumar, Executive Director (South Asia) Professional

Anuj Kumar started his career in advertising, working with the leading advertising & media companies – JWT & GroupM MindShare, managing the advertising business of some of the largest advertisers. He later moved to ESPN STAR Sports, where his role included programming, acquisitions, & sales strategy formulation. Anuj Kumar holds Bachelors in Economics from St. Stephen’s College (India) and a Masters in Communications from MICA (India).

Parijat Mishra, Techinical Director

Parijat holds a B.E in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Prior to Affle, Parijat had lead several R&D projects at the Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore. He is a Linux and functional programming aficionado. While at Affle, he invented the software development GPACS process. Parijat has designed and implemented the core technology platforms that form the foundation of all Affle products and product development processes.

Website/s: www.affle.co.uk

Corporate Address
First Floor, Block B
Vatika Atrium,
Sector 53,
Gurgaon 122002, India

Phone: +91 124 4375543
Fax: +91 124 4375545

City: Gurgaon

Additional Notes:

Affle has launched a new platform for text messaging application SMS, SMS2.0. A search function embedded in SMS2.0 allows users to conduct a search as they would on the Internet via search engines like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft

Company Overview:

Incorporated in the year 2001, Avenues has developed several ASP hosted solutions. Avenues has three Business Units namely– Avenues Commercial Services, Avenues Travel Industry Services and Avenues Community Related Services.

Management

Viswas Patel, CEO

As the Founder -CEO of Avenues India Private Limited, Vishwas, oversees the strategic planning, execution, financial management and marketing tie-ups at Avenues. He is a commerce graduate and holds a Degree of law from Mumbai University.

Vivek Nayak, COO

A management graduate with an additional PGD in computer management, Vivek is the COO at Avenues. Prior to joining Avenues in 2002 Vivek has worked in strategic positions like business development and corporate planing with global agencies like WPP ( Contract), FCB Ulka & Trikaya Grey.

Website/s: www.avenuesindia.com, www.avenuesworld.com

Corporate Address
Avenues India Pvt Ltd,
Level II, Plaza Asiad,
S. V. Road, Santa Cruz (West),
Mumbai- 400054, India.
City: Mumbai

Additional Notes:

The Company’s first initiative, CCavenues was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to eMerchants across the world.

Company Overview:

Arzoo is a travel portal which offers a range of services like Air Ticket Bookings, Hotel Bookings, Holiday Packages, Car Rentals, Travel Insurance, Foreign Exchange for Travel, Weekend Getaways etc.

Management

Sabeer Bhatia, Founder

Sabeer Bhatia has been to Birla Institute of Technology and Science before moving on to Stanford to finish his graduation. While at Stanford he got a chance to work on Ultra Low Power VLSI Design. He has worked with companies as diverse as Apple Inc a conglomerate & Firepower Systems Inc an early start up before launching HoTMaiL Inc in 1996. Hotmail was bought over by Microsoft in 1997 and from there he moved on to Arzoo.com, which was shut during the Dotcom bubble burst. In 2006 Arzoo was relaunched as a Travel portal. His other achievements

Yogesh Patel, COO & CTO

Yogesh Patel is a serial entrepreneur who founded and co-founded many startups. He has worked at IBM Storage Division as Team Leader for ASIC chips for Storage products. Hotvoice Communications International, Inc. funded by SoftBank, was co-founded by him. Rincon was another IT consulting company co-founded by Mr Yogesh. Yogesh Patel now is the Chief Operating & Technology Officer at Arzoo.com.

Website: www.arzoo.com,

Corporate Address

Arzoo.com
NavinMail Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Samrudhi Venture Park, 5th Floor,
MIDC Central Road, Andheri – East,
Mumbai – 400093.

City: Mumbai

Additional Information:

Arzoo was founded in 2006 and it serves different consumer segments viz:  individuals, families and businesses.

Company Overview:

The Company was founded in 1988 with a focus on Content Transformation services, converting static content to consistent dynamic digital content. Aptara develops custom content for the eLearning courses, hosts content on companion Websites, and repurposes content to various formats. They also target content for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), online learning, online quizzes, blended learning, technical documentation, interactive simulations, and corporate presentations.

Management

Ranjit Singh, President & CEO

Ranjit Singh joined the company’s board of directors in May 2002 and was appointed CEO in February 2003. He creates growth strategies for Aptara, and has worked in senior management positions with Xerox, Citigroup, ContentGuard, and thePlatform. Ranjit holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Bath, UK, and an MBA from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA

Website: www.techbooks.com

Corporate Address

India Office
New Delhi
A-28, MCIE
New Delhi – 110044
India
+91.11.4168.2424/4168.2525

Investors: American Capital recently bought out Aptara Inc for $ 45 million, Source.

Additional Notes:

Aptara Inc is been managed out of 8 locations In US and 2 in India in Delhi and Pune. Aptara employs more than 4000 employees across US, Australie, Uk and India. Its an ISO 9000 : 2001 certified company.

Akamai Technologies India Private Limited deals in distributed computing solutions and services. It is service provider for accelerating content and business processes online. Akamai detects and avoids Internet problem spots and vulnerabilities for optimal website performance. Akamai is a global service provider for accelerating content and other distributed media solutions and services for their online media clients. More than 1,700 organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing performance of their online businesses.

India Management:

Chris Schoettle, Vice President of Technology and Networks

Chris Schoettle is Executive Vice President of Technology and Networks at Akamai. His responsibilities include software development, architecture, information security, network infrastructure and service operations for all Akamai services. Schoettle is also responsible for the Akamai India operation in Bangalore.Chris Schoettle, age 43, joined Akamai in March 2001. Since April 2006 he has served as Executive Vice President, Technology and Networks, responsible for the global technology platform, including software development, architecture, information security, network infrastructure, service operations and the Akamai India operation.

Websites: www.akamai.com

Competitors:

Panther Express: http://www.pantherexpress.com/

Savvis Inc: www.savvis.net/corp

Corporate Address

Akamai Technologies India
No. 77, Jyothi Nivas College Road,
Koramangla Industrial Layout
Koramangla, Bangalore, 560095

Telephone: +91 80 66251600

General Email: contact-india@akamai.com

Additional Notes:

Akamai is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States with operations around the world. Akamai works out of Bangalore in India.

Company Overview:

ACL Wireless Limited is a leading India-based provider of mobile value added services to operators, enterprises and consumers. It provides solutions in the field of mobile communities, instant messaging, carrier agnostic connectivity, billing and content aggregation. The community & messaging services suite comprises of products such as mobile chat, mobile social networking, mobile photo sharing and internet messengers on mobile. These are available across the GPRS & SMS mediums.

Management:

Sanjay K Goyal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sanjay is a serial entrepreneur. He founded ACL Wireless in early 2000 and evolved it to become the fastest growing technology company in India by 2005.Sanjay graduated with honors in mechanical engineering in 1992 from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Atanu Mandal, President

Atanu, an IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad alumni, has been the founder of the first Indian Mobile ASP and Solution Provider. Prior to joining ACL, he served as the CEO of Cellnext.A veteran technologist and business leader, he brings a significant experience of 17 years from the telecom and wireless arenas to ACL, where he is responsible for day-to-day operations.

Nures Sayeed, Chief Marketing Officer

Nures is a Master in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.Nures moved to SpiceJet Airlines in 2005 and developed the complete look and feel for its brand launch in India in May 2005. Having being involved in the advisory board of ACL since its conceptualisation, Nures has joined full time in 2006 as the CMO and is currently spearheading brand development and marketing initiatives. Nures is also a keen golfer.

Vineet Jain, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer

Vineet Jain, the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer with 11 years of experience in the field of engineering, leads the company’s software engineering group. He has been a key player in the definition, development and creation of ACL’s leading wireless applications. 

Debmalya De, Chief Technical Officer (Managed Mobility Services)

Debmalya is a B.Tech graduate in Radio Physics and Electronics from Calcutta University. Prior to joining ACL, he worked with Modi Telstra, IBM & Wipro Technologies.

Board Directors:

1. Lewis P. Rutherfurd (Co-founder and Managing Director of Inter-Asia Management)
2. Sanjay K Goyal (From the management)
3. Ashish Kashyap (CEO of MIH India)
4. Atanu Mandal (From the ACL Management)
5. M.S. Fung (Chief Operating Officer of Inter-Asia)
6. Leroux Neethling (CFO MIH India)

Investors:

MIH Internet India (A part of Naspers Group based in South Africa) which runs the Web 2.0 portal ibibo.com invested 12.3 million USD in ACL Wireless in July 2007. (Related link). Their ticker sign is ACL
Inter-Asia is one of Asia’s premier venture fund management firms to seize the growing investment opportunities in the Asian markets.

Website: www.acl-wireless.com

Contact Information:

India,
ACL Wireless Limited Community & Messaging Services
First Floor, Tower D, Logix Technopark
5 – Expressway, Sec-127, Noida, UP – 201301

Tel +91.120.4069400
Fax +91.120.4069599

Locate India

Additional Information: Founded in 2000, the company employs over 220 people and operates from its offices in Noida, New Delhi, Mumbai & Dubai. ACL was declared a Red Herring 100 Asia winner for 2006 and has also been ranked amongst India’s fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte, two years in a row.