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.

Company Overview:

Hovr is an ad-supported consumer based mobile content provider based originally out of New York. It is a free of cost service. Hovr’s software-enabled technology adLogic, delivers advertisements that are personally relevant. Hovr’s Forum

Management

Vipul Sawhney, Co-founder and CEO, President

Vipul Sawhney is the Co-founder & President at HOVR Inc. Prior to HOVR Vipul sawhney was the VP Technology for LocatioNet in New York. Vipul is a graduate from University of Pensylvania.

Sidhartha Bezbora, Product Manager, India Operations

Sidhartha has 8 years of experience in Mobile VAS and Mobile User Experience. He has worked with companies like ACL Wireless, NTS (Niche Tech Services Pvt. Ltd.) & Aithent Technologies. He completed his graduation from Madras University and went to pursue IBM certified E business Professional course in 2000. He has also done his MBA – Marketing & Communications from Ashwood University. He also blogs.

Website/s: www.hovr.com

Contact Address

HOVR Software Pvt Ltd
919, 9th Floor,
Galleria,
DLF Phase IV, Gurgaon,
Haryana 122002, India
W: (91) 124 4057349

City: Gurgaon

Additional Notes:

HOVR provides free downloadable cell phone games including puzzle, action, casino, sports games and many more. One can directly download HOVR’s free mobile games to one’s mobile phone or one can choose to download on one’s computer. It has also launched Hovr Mobilespace, a social network.

Company Overview:

The parent company of Hindustan Times Online is one of India’s biggest Media houses. On the internet, HT publishes the news and information portal called www.hindustantimes.com. It also has a classifieds site HTClassifieds.biz. Their portals include Hindustantimes.com, mobile content site 4242.in, HT Next and LiveMint.com

Management

Piyush Shah, Head, Online Business, Check out his LinkedIn profile

Pooja Puri, National Sales Director

Websites: www.hindustantimes.com

Key Competition: Times of India

Additional Notes:

As part of its expansion into electronic media, HT Media, through its subsidiary HT Music and Entertainment Company Ltd., has entered the FM radio market in key Indian cities through a consulting partnership with Virgin Radio. The channel, Fever 104, is currently available in Delhi and Mumbai.

HT Media has also launched a national business newspaper, Mint, to publish Journal branded news and information in India. View the website at www.livemint.com

Corporate Address:

Delhi Office
HT Media Limited, 18-20, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi – 110 001, India. Tel: +91 11 55561405

Fax: +91 11 23704688
City: New Delhi

Mumbai Office

HT Media Ltd

Palai Plaza, Opp Hotel Midtown Pritam

Dadar Station Road, Dadar (East), Mumbai-400014

Ph: 022-66175800

Hungama is a promotion marketing company and an independent wing of Virtual Marketing Pvt. Ltd. across South Asia. Its business is spread across Internet and Mobile, Events and promotions, Entertainment and CRM and Loyalty Programme Management.

Virtual marketing India Pvt. Ltd. is a complete E – commerce solution company into Digital Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Event Marketing, Entertain Marketing & Media Properties.

Management
Neeraj Roy, CEO Hungama

Neeraj is a Sydenham college graduate who started of his working experience with Taj Group of Hotels as the marketing manager of South Asia. Prior to starting Hungama in 1999, Neeraj has also worked as a Local investment banking firm, Prime Securities.

Investors:

ICICI venture has invested in Hungama.

Additional Information:

Hungama was founded in 1999 by Neeraj Roy, with an eye for online advertising, and now Hungama.com is perceived more as an integrated promotion marketing company.

Contact address:

Virtual Marketing (India) Pvt. Ltd.
F-1, First Floor, Laxmi Woolen Mills Estate
Shakti Mills lane, Off Dr. E Moses Rd.
Mahalxmi, Mumbai 400 011
Phone No. +91 22 24903344
Fax No. +91 22 24903355

Email Id: mumbai@hungama.com