Gaadi.com is India’s leading auto portal that provides users with a host of services like new car research, new car purchase, used car classifieds.

Taaza.com is a product in the content aggregation / vertical search space, adding value through user generated content and recommendations of other content from around the web. It will host content around nearly every vertical online.

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: Gaadi.com, Taaza.com

Key Competitors: CarWale.com, Zigwheels.com

Greycells18 Media has been set up in association with Network18, one of India’s leading media conglomerates and Educomp, India’s leading technology driven education company.

Greycells18 aims to be a pioneer in the world of education by creating comprehensive interactive learning services that will help students understand subjects better, and enable them to excel in their exams. These curriculum-based educational systems will use modern technological innovations in the ICT space, such as Interactive TV, e-learning and mobile learning, to create an interactive ecosystem where students can thrive. The company plans to develop a complete K12 (Kindergarten to Class 12) solution for students over a period of time.

We also see tremendous scope in leveraging the content thus created, by going directly to schools and ensuring that it is used as a teaching aid in classrooms. This concept will be particularly appealing in the backward and remote areas of our country, where schools have little access to modern educational methods or quality teachers.

Management

Sricharan Iyenger, Joint Managing Director
Sunil Khanna, Joint Managing Director

Corporate Address: Greycells18 Media, 426, MG Road, Ghitorni, New Delhi – 110030, India

Contact Email Id: contactus@topperlearning.com

Website: TopperLearning.com

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.

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

G2 Interactive is an activation marketing division of grey global group and the services they offer are data consulting, interactive marketing, direct marketing web development CRM/ECRM and E-biz consulting.

Management:

Sudhir Nair, Vice President G2 South Asia

Sudhir has done his computer Science from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. His past includes Marshall Infonet and Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc. He worked with Booz Allen till 2000 and was heading there IT production team. Sudhir is the Lead – New Business Initiatives at Grey Interactive and handles business enquiries and Grey.

Website: www.g2.com / India section.

Key Competitors: Webchutney / Tribal DDB / BC Webwise

Investor: G2 belongs to WPP group of company after the acquisition of Grey Global the world’s seventh-largest agency company by revenue.

Additional Notes:

Grey Interactive was borne out of Trikaya Grey the main line subsidiary of Grey Group Worldwide formed by Ravi Gupta in 1997. Grey Worldwide (India) has restructured its operations (2004) to offer value-added services to Indian marketers. The agency has integrated its direct marketing and interactive divisions to form ‘Grey Synchronized Services’ (GSS).

Company Overview:

Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is an Interactive Technology company being operated from Bangalore. Greynium was launched on the 1st of January 2006 with the acquisition of Indiainfo.com Ltd. Their wide range of services include,

• Application Development
• Portal Solutions
• Interactive media
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Web Hosting and Data Centre
• Staffing Services

Greynium also owns, www.oneindia.in.

Management

B.G Mahesh, CEO

B G Mahesh is the CEO of Greynium Information Technolgies Pvt Ltd. One of his ealrly ventures was Mahesh.com, a popular portal among NRI’s during the mid-1990’s. Mahesh has also been the CEO of Indiainfo.com a public company, before joining Greynium Technologies. Mahesh received his Graduate degree in Computer Science from University of Alabama at Birmingham and his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Mysore. Mahesh’s Blog

Sriram Hebbar, COO

Sriram Hebbar is the Chief Operations Officer at Greynium Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. Sriram, was responsible for spearheading the Times Interactive Marketing division at Bangalore. He started his career in 1990 as a sales executive; He has also worked with Sesa Seat Information Sytems Ltd, The Times of India group and Indiainfo.com Ltd. Sriram has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from IGNOU and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Bangalore University.

Website/s: www.oneindia.in , www.greynium.com

Corporate Address:

Bangalore Office

Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
17/1, Shanthishree Industrial Complex
5th Floor, Rupena Agrahara
Hosur Road,Bangalore – 560 068

Voice : +91-80-2518 0800
Fax : +91-80-2518 0801

City: Bangalore

Additional Notes:

Oneindia.in. (part of Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd) is an integrated Internet portal, delivering content, community and commerce to Indian consumers, businesses and the global Indian community.

Company Overview:

Guruji.com is a crawler based search engine for India and India related content. Its proprietary algorithm automatically identifies India related content on the web and organizes it.

Management:   

Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Anurag has 10+ years of extensive software engineering experience. As an Engineering Manager in Wisenut Search Engine, he was instrumental in developing its Core Search Technology and has a patent pending for that. He also held senior engineering positions in EBay, Synopsis and Delsoft.

Anurag holds B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and Masters in Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Gaurav Mishra, Chief Operating Officer and Founder

Gaurav has over 10+ years of software development experience and has worked in senior engineering positions for Microsoft, Pillar Data Systems and Nokia.

Gaurav holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in Computer Science and a Masters of Science from State University of New York, Buffalo.

Website: www.guruji.com

Its Blog: http://blog.guruji.com/

Investors: Sequoia Capital India, Nexus India Capital
Corporate Address:
Guruji.com Software Private Limited
Legacy Building, 1st Floor
#6 Convent Road
Richmond Town
Bangalore, Karnataka – 560025
India
Phone: +91-80-41477511
Fax: +91-80-41477513

City: Bangalore

Additional Notes: Guruji.com also provides search facility in Hindi, Kannada and Telugu besides English.

Company Overview:

Games2win is an online games company. It is in the business of Web-based Casual Games, Downloadable Online Games and Massive Multiplayer Online Games.

Management

Name: Mr. Alok Kejriwal, CEO

After launching Contests2win.com (an Internet brands promotions website), Mobile2win (a wireless VAS offering) in India and China and Media2win (a full service interactive agency), Alok formed Games2win.com in 2006.

He has done his schooling from Campion School, Mumbai, and his Masters from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Name: Cyrus Oshidar, Creative Director

An alumnus of the London School of Economics, Oshidar gave up a life of a banker to be a creative at Saatchi & Saatchi, London. He came back to India and worked at O&M and Ambience for six-and-a-half years. He was also former Creative Director of MTV India and Nickelodeon.

Name: Mahesh Khambadkone, Technology Founder

Mahesh has over 10 years experience in the computer gaming and multimedia space, having been involved in building gaming infrastructure and developing a AAA game title, as well as games on other platforms. He was formerly at Lisle Technology Partners and Dhruva Interactive.

Website: www.games2win.com

Corporate Address:

Games2win India Pvt. Ltd.

42, Film Center, 4th Floor,

68, Tardeo, Mumbai – 400034.

India.

City: Mumbai

Investors: Clearstone and SVB Financial Group.

Key Competition: www.zapak.com, indiagames.com

Additional Notes: Games2win is a subsidiary of Contest2win.com

Company Overview:

Google India is a subsidiary of Google Inc.  

India Management:

Name: Shailesh Rao
Position: Managing director, sales and operations Google India. 
 

Prior to Google, Rao was vice-president of products for Yodlee managing all aspects of product and corporate development for Yodlee’s core products and technology.Rao has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, a BS from the Wharton School with a concentration in finance, and an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management. 

Websites: www.google.co.in

Additional Notes: The company serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide range of revenue generating search services.

Google India Office

Bangalore:

Prestige Sigma, No. 3,
1st Floor, Vittal Mallya Road (Grant Road),
Corporation Division No. 61,
Bangalore 560 001,
phone: +91 80-5692-9000, fax: +91 80-5692-9100

Delhi
Tower C, Level 9,
Building No. 8,
DLF Cyber City,
Gurgaon 122002
phone: +91 124 451 2000
fax: +91 124 451 2100

Hyderabad
RMZ FUTURA
BLOCK A, Fourth Floor,
Plot No.14, Road No.2,
Madhapur, Hi-tech City,
Hyderabad – 500 081
phone: +91 40-5537-5000
fax: +91 40-5537-5101

Mumbai
264-265 Vasvani Chambers
1st Floor
Dr Annie Besant Road
Mumbai, 400 025
phone: +91-22-6611-7000
fax: +91-22-6611-7101