Company Profile:

MapmyIndia is a product of CE Info systems based out of Delhi. CE Info Systems (P) Ltd, an ISO 9001-2000 Company, is India’s leader in providing services and solutions based on Internet & Mobile Applications, GIS and turnkey projects, and Location-based Business Intelligence.

Management:

• Rakesh Verma, Managing Director

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical), from BITS, Pilani, India 1967-72 and MBA from Washington State 1978-79. Rakesh has spent majority of his time in the US before he launched his own independent venture CE Info System in 1992.

• Rashmi Verma, Director

Rashmi Verma, a Bachelor of Engineering from Roorkee University (1973-77) and has done her MS in Computer Science from EWU, Washington U.S.A. (1978-79). Prior to CE Info system, Rashmi has worked with names like IBM and Citibank in the IT sector back in the US.

Website: www.mapmyindia.com

Key Competitors: www.satnavtechnologies.com

Contact Address:

B-44, Shivalik, Malviya Nagar
New Delhi – 110 017, India

Tel:  +91-11-2669 2120,
2669 1121, 2669 2103
Fax: +91-11-2669 1104

sapna@mapmyindia.com

Investment:

Nexus India capital has invested in over Rs. 10 crores or $ 2.5 millions.

Additional Information:

Since its inception in 1992, CE is providing services at various levels of the value chain; right from data collection, to preparation of customized map, to preparation of database intelligent enough to provide location-based services, development of Internet & Mobile Applications, ready to use Internet and intranet and desktop GIS applications, integrated software and hardware solutions, legacy data conversion, consumer indexing photogrammetry, market research, website development, vehicle tracking solutions and navigation systems among others.

Company Overview:

Cricinfo is a cricket website. The site was founded in 1993 and it covers news and features written by cricket writers, and in-depth statistics on cricketers. Cricinfo also reaches on one’s mobile phone.

Cricinfo now reaches more than 7 million users every month.

Management

Sambit Bal, Founder – Editor

Sambit Bal, the founder-editor for Wisden Asia Cricket started his journalism career at the age of 19 yrs. He joined wisden in the year 2001 and was the founder editor of Wisden Asia Cricket.

Murari Venkatraman, Co-founder & CEO

Murari Venkatraman is the CEO and Co-founder of CricInfo India.

Website: www.cricinfo.com

Investors: Sify’s been one of the major investor for CricInfo, India.

Contact Address

Cricinfo India
NO. 1 /1 Primrose Road
Off. M.G. Road
Bangalore – 560 025
Karnataka
India

City: Bangalore

Key Competition: Sixer

Additional Notes:

They have also launched Cricshop.com which is a one-stop cricket shop for everything connected with the sport. Their Cricinfo Magazine was launched in January 2006, under an agreement between the Wisden Group and Infomedia India Limited. Cricinfo provides content to 3 television broadcasters and more than 35 online & offline publishers.

Company Overview:

Cyberica Net Technologies Pvt. Ltd established in 1999 is a Business and IT consulting firm. It provides industry-specific solutions. All of their solutions are developed using the Cyberica’s Complete Solution Delivery model implementation methodology.

Management:

P. K Puri, Managing Director

P. K. Puri has done his B.Sc. followed by an LLB and an MBA. Prior to Cyberica, he has worked in Senior Management position for Sunflag Group(UK), Forbes and Campbell, (Tata Group) and Modi Group.He has played a pivotal role in Cyberica’s journey helping position the organization in various markets throughout the US , Asia and Europe by negotiating several key alliances, partnerships and customer contacts.

Siddharth Puri, Director – Technology Lead

Siddharth Puri has done his B.S Computer Science from Melbourne, Australia. He currently leads the technical team at Cyberica Net Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Prior to this his last assignment was working with AcuraX Technologies, Australia which specialized in field of Location Based Services. Sidharth Puri’s personal Blog

Website/s: www.ecyberica.com

Contact Address
152/3 Mohan Bhawan
Sarai Jullena
New Friends Colony
New Delhi-110025, INDIA

TEL : +91-11-41602112
FAX : +91-11-26912546

City: New Delhi

Additional Information:

Cyberica also runs a Visaonnet.com launcehd in 2001 a travel abroad channel. It also has online admission management service, Admissionhelp.com with clients like St.Stephens College, Hindu College and other leading colleges of University of Delh. This service was launched in 2002 and now spans across India.

Company Overview:

Compare Infobase Limited owns, develops and manages web portals. They are an IT enabled software company providing customized software, web and Internet technology solutions.CIL was established and developed with a vision to incubate and ideate end-to-end solutions for websites and e-businesses.Since 1998 Compare Infobase has been constantly scaling new heights and bringing forward the latest technologies and web solutions.

Management:

Simarprit Singh, Managing Director and CEO

Simarprit Singh is the founder and CEO of Compare Infobase Limited. He has a B.Com degree in Statistics and a Post-graduate diploma in Computer Applications. He was also the founder of DISC (Information Technology) Pvt. Ltd. He later served as the VP of Business Development at Nucleus Software, prior to his return to entrepreneurship at Compare Infobase.

Harmeen Kaur, Director Creative

An honours graduate from Delhi University, Harmeen Kaur is the Director Creative at Compare Infobase. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Fine Arts and Textile Designing.

Sharad Poddar, Director Finance

Sharad Poddar was associated with International clients in setting up the Information and Technology system for MIS reports before joining Compare Infobase. He provides consultancy to the IT sector in opening of subsidiaries and branch offices abroad, dealing with RBI and establishing various STP and EOU units.

Kapil Puri, Director
Kapil Puri is a B.E in Computer Sciences from Mumbai University and has been involved with the Telecommunications industry since 1988.

Sunil Chopra, Director
Sunil Chopra also holds the post of Chief Executive Officer at Super General Trading Company in Dubai, a division of the Bhatia Brothers Group of Companies, UAE.

Website: www.infobase.co.in

Corporate Address:

Company Infobase Limited C-62, Community Center, Janakpuri,
New Delhi-58 (India)
Tel: +91-11- 25542045, 41588013, 41588014
Hotline Nos. : +91-11- 41574999, 41574888, 41574890

City: New Delhi

Additional Information:

The company has more than 4000 portal and domain names to their credit.

Company Overview:

CarWale is an automative classified portal providing data for consumers and other stakeholder in the automotive ecosystem. It also provides marketing services for dealers trading in cars. It acts as a source of information about buying and selling used cars. The company blog .The site offers unique tools to help visitors research and compare all cars available in India today. Subscribers can buy and sell cars through the Classifieds section.

Management

Mohit Dubey, CEO and Founder

Mohit Dubey is the CEO of CarWale.com, an entrepreneur by nature, Dubey’s goal is to make it the leading online auto portal in India. In the past Dubey has been the head of marketing at Cyber Infodev Pvt Ltd and Dirshtee.com. He’s done his graduation from Goa University. His linkedIn profile.

Website/s : www.carwale.com,

Corporate Address

Shri Nidhi, 66/4,
Sector 28, Vashi, Navi Mumbai – 400703
Telephone: (022) 32651254/55
Fax: (022) 27890288

Investors: Seedfund has invested in Carwale by picking up close to 30% stake in the company for an undisclosed amount.

Additional Notes:

CarWale.com is backed by a wide network of new car and pre-owned car dealers who provide stock details, quotes and other services to thousands of online customers.Going beyond the online presence, CarWale has launched a classified magazine for used cars.

Company Overview:

Cross-Tab provides offshore outsourcing and paneling services in the market research & analytics domain to clients in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. They are also a full service market research agency in India, specializing in online research.Cross-Tab is presently developing online panels in other Asia Pacific countries to provide global online research companies with a better reach to the online population in the region.

Management:

Ruchika Gupta, Director and Co founder
Ruchika has several years of work experience in advertising and marketing. She has worked with JWT, 3M and EuroRSCG. Ruchika has done her Masters in Management Science from BITS, Pilani. She is responsible for Finance and HR functions and also manages all Panel initiatives for the company.

Praveen Gupta Director and Co founder

Praveen has had rich experience in marketing with Arvind Mills and later with DDB. Praveen is a Chemical Engineer from BITS, Pilani and PGDM from IIM, Lucknow. He heads the Bangalore Operations of Cross-Tab and is also responsible for client engagements and project delivery.

Kedar Sohoni, Director

Kedar has worked with Nestle India to lead their marketing exercise for 2 major brands. He also worked for Business Consulting Group (BCG) in the area of Industrial Market Research. Kedar is an IIT-Bombay and IIM-Lucknow alumnus.  He heads the Mumbai Operations of Cross-Tab and is also responsible for client engagements and project delivery.

Ashwin Mittal (Director)
Ashwin has been a Strategy Consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in the US and has been the VP (International Business Development) of an India-based manufacturing company. He has an MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and also holds M. Com & CA degrees from top Indian institutions.

Investors: Inditech Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Website/s: www.cross-tab.com

Corporate Address

India offices

Bangalore:
468, Koramangala, 6th Block,
80 Feet Road,
Opp. Koramangala Bus Depot,
Bangalore- 560 095

Tel No: +91-80-41785800 / 41785814Fax No: +91-80-41785808

City: Bangalore

Additional Notes:Their services include:

• Survey Programming
• Global Online Data Collection
• CATI
• Data Processing & Analysis of Market Research Data
• Advanced Data Analytics and Data mining
• Preparing Reports and Presentations

They also provide innovative market research outsourcing solutions in the areas of online panel management and online survey management.

Company Overview:

Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Mumbai, Connecturf is the parent company of Mediaturf. Through its operating units, Mediaturf- An interactive agency, Solutionturf – digital technology E-CRM – solutions provider and Knowledgeturf- online research and intelligence unit, Connecturf acts as a 360-degree interactive company.

Management

V. Ramani, Vice Chairman

After having years of experience in the advertising world (Lintas, Ulka, McCann Ericsson, Contract and Euro RSCG) and experience stretching across Unilever, Bajaj Auto, LML, Philips, BPL, Nestle, and Air France, Ramani conceptualized the idea of an advertising agency that specialised in Internet communication.

Abhay Palkar, CFO

Abhay Palkar: A Chartered Accountant by profession, Abhay has held prestigious posts at Magna Publishing, JWT and Group M.

Himanshu Shah, CIO

Himanshu has lent his expertise in realm of sales and marketing to India’s leading firms, Webmoney (Euro RSCG) and Cybermart (Dow Jones) and London’s Cnet Direct and Carphone Warehouse before joining Connecturf.

Raja Ray, National Creative Director

Prior to joining Mediaturf, Raja lent his expertise to renowned interactive and advertising agencies – Rediff.com and Lowe Lintas. Currently National Creative Director at Mediaturf, Raja conceptualizes effective advertising strategies for ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, ING Vysya and other industrial leaders.

Website: www.connecturf.com

Corporate Address:

Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.2nd Flr, DTC Building,
Sitaram Mills Compound, N.M Joshi Marg,
Lower Parel (E),
Mumbai – 400011.Tel: +91-22-66424242
Fax : +91-22-66424243

City: Mumbai

Branch :Address

City: Delhi                                                
Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.                               
E-47, First Floor,                                              
Saket,                                                         
New Delhi – 110017.                                             
Tel: +91-11-26535223/26535224/40513687                           
Fax : +91-11-26535219 

City:Chennai 
Connecturf India Pvt. Ltd.   
27 – C Krishnaswamy Avenue, 
Mylapore, 
Chennai 600004 
Tel: +91-44-42177412 / 24984717
Fax : +91-44-42177124

Investors: Mediaturf Worldwide was formed as a joint venture with investments from eVentures, Euro RSCG and Microland (Media2India).

Key Competition:

Quasar Media, Interactive Avenues, Tribal DDB, Webchutney,  MOne, Media2Win

Additional Notes:

Mediaturf has tied up with Enpocket, a global mobile media company that provides integrated entertainment and marketing services to build and retain mobile audiences. Mediaturf handles the business end of the relationship using the Enpocket engine to provide state of the art Mobile CRM to clients across operators.

Company Overview:

Founded in 1988, contest2win is a consumer media company for people to play various formats of contest on the internet. The company originally started as a brand promotions website but has grown into an entertainment destination.

Management

Alok Kejriwal, Chairman

In August 1998, Alok left his family business to create a business proposition on the net called contest2win. Success of c2w led him to incorporate a new company called mobile2win which is dedicated to wireless promotions. He has roped in venture capital from some of the leading VC firms that include ICICI Ventures, E Ventures India, Softbank China and Clearstone Venture Partners, among others.Mr Kejriwal did his schooling from Campion School, Mumbai, and went on to do his Masters from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Raj Menon, COO

Raj started his career with AC Neilson ORG-MARG and has a thorough understanding of Indian online space, gained from close to 6 years in the industry. He oversees the Business Development, Sales and Operations of contests2win.

Website: www.contest2win.com

Investors: ICICI Ventures and eVentures

Corporate Address:42, Filmcenter, Tardeo, Mumbai 400 034. – India.

Additional Information: Mobile2Win, Media2Win and Games2Win are similar ventures from Contest2Win management. Contest2win is a 70 member team based out India & China.

Company Overview:

 Cyber Media Dice is a joint venture of CyberMedia a media house and Dice a technology recruitment service back in US.CyberMedia Dice Careers Ltd is a technology focused job board dedicated to the rapidly growing technology recruiting sector in India.

CyberMedia

CyberMedia is an Information Technology focussed media house with more than 13 online publications to its count, the content revolving around infotech, telecom, consumer electronics and biotech areas. The group’s other media activities include internet market research, content management, multimedia, gaming and media education related services.

Dice

Dice Holdings, Inc is a US based company specializing in career websites, organizing fairs for online and web related communities including dice.com Dice.com is a leading recruiting and career development website for engineering and technology professionals.Dice Holdings, Inc. is the leading provider of specialized career websites and career fairs for select professional communities.

Management:

E. Abraham Mathew, CEO

E. Abraham Mathew has been on the board of Cyber Media Group from more than a decade now. In his capacity as President of CIOL, E Abraham Mathew spear-heads the Internet business activity of the CyberMedia group and also heads the business initiatives for Cybermedia Dice.CyberMedia Dice is a specialty job board brought to you by Dice, world’s No.1 technology job site and CyberMedia, India’s renowned media house.

Board Members,

• Prasanto K Roy, President Chief Editor.
• Anil Kumar, Vice President.
• Shyam Malhotra Editor in Chief CyberMedia Publications

Corporate Office:Website: www.cybermediadice.com

Key Competitors: Naukri.com, Monsterindia.com, Vault India

Bangalore
CyberMedia Dice Careers Ltd
401, MBC Chambers
134 Infantry Road
Bangalore – 560 001
Tel: Ph: +91-80- 2286 1511 / 2286 9872 / 2286 8238
Fax:+91 – 80 – 2286 2971

Additional Information:

Cybermediadice was launched in the year 2005. During the year, the company has introduced a unique product for the technology sector in India called the CyberMedia Dice.

CyberMedia Dice is a specialty job board brought to you by Dice, world’s No.1 technology job site and CyberMedia, India’s renowned media house.

CIOL or CyberMedia India Online Ltd, is IT portal focusing on relevant IT information and news through its network. It has 11 publications spanning across info tech, telecom, consumer electronics & biotech areas.

Their online websites include:

www.ciol.com

www.pcquest.com

www.dqindia.com

www.voicendata.com

www.livingdigitalindia.com

www.dqchannels.com

www.dqweek.com

www.globalservicesmedia.com

www.cybermediaevents.com

www.cyberastro.com

www.cybermediadigital.com

www.cybermedia.co.in

www.biospectrumindia.co.in

www.biospectrumasia.com

Management

Pradeep Gupta, CMD & CEO

Pradeep Gupta, had cited the early IT buzz in 1982, which led him to start his own publication venture.He has also been on the board of Kaleidoscope Entertainment and Chairman at e-gurukul, an IT educational portal. He is also an angel investor with stakes in firms like Infinity ventures an Angel fund to provide venture capital to IT start-ups and also member of the investment management committee of Punjab venture capital ltd.

Mr. Pradeep Gupta is a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi (1975) and PGDBM from IIM Calcutta (1977).

E. Abraham Mathew, President

E. Abraham Mathew has been on the board of Cyber Media Group from more than a decade now. In his capacity as President of CIOL, E Abraham Mathew spear-heads the Internet business activity of the CyberMedia online group and also heads the business initiatives for Cybermedia Dice. He has done his Masters in Business Administration.

Board of Directors

• Pradeep Gupta, Managing Director
• Rohit Asava Chand
• Dr. Ashok Agarwal
• Mr. K.S. Mehta
• Mr. Shyam Malhotra
• Mr. K. K. Tulshan, Executive Director, Head Infrastructure Group

Website: http://ciol.com/

Corporate Services:

Bangalore
302,3rd Floor,
73, Shree Complex,St.John’s Road
Bangalore – 560 042
Tel: 91 – 80 – 41300711-14/41238238
Fax: 91 – 80 – 2557 6002

New Delhi
D-74, Panchsheel Enclave
New Delhi – 110 017
Tel: 91 – 11 – 649 8999, 649 1320, 649 0695
Fax: 91 – 11 – 649 6765

Mumbai
Asian Advertisers,Plot No D-7/1,Ground Floor,
Road No. 16, Next to Sun City Hotel
MIDC Andheri East,Mumbai-400 093
Ph: +91- 22-28386171,28387241( Ext 317)
Fax: 28387242

Email inquiries: salesciol@cybermedia.co.in

Additional Information:

CIOL was created with a vision to provide IT information to the growing Internet community and was launched in the year 1996. CyberMedia is the parent company that owns CIOL.com and their ticker signal is CYBERMEDIA.