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.

Sulekha.com, is an online user generated social media and local commerce destination classifieds network (yellow, pages, and events) for Indians established in 1998 based out of Austin, Texas.  It has strong reach amongst online Indians and NRIs serving 60 cities globally.

Management

Satya Prabhakar, Co-founder & CEO.  

Satya Prabhakar is the Co-founder and the Executive officer for Sulekha operating out of Austin, Texas. Satya has done his MS Comp Sc & MBA.

M. R. Krishnan, Director Sales and Business Development

M. R.  Krishnan  is the Director for Sales & Business Development and is placed out of India.

Website: www.sulekha.com

Investors:

Satya Prabhakar, received prior funding from the Indigo Monsoon Group (IMG), led by Param Parameswaran and Harish Raghavan & Norwest Ventures. Link,

Contact Address:

Sulekha.com New Media Pvt. Ltd.

No. 484 & 485, Pantheon Plaza,
4th Floor, Pantheon Road,
(Opp. Commissioner’s Office)
Egmore, Chennai – 600 008 (India)

Phone: 91- 44 – 42103174 / 66789999
Fax: 91 – 44 – 42111956

Additional Information:

Sulekha’s members and Sulekha’s team have developed Sulekha into a global Internet franchise serving Indians with multiple dominant competitive positions. Sulekha is part of Smart Information Worldwide, Inc with operations in US and India.

“StudioSmile” provides consultative, traditional and e-business analysis, strategic planning, development, design and implementation solutions in the internet business.

Other subsidiaries of this group include:

,a Design Studio

– An online media agency

Tyroo – An Adnetwork.

Zoomtra – A travel search engine.

InfoKarma – A mobile content portal which is yet to be launched.

Management

Harish Bahl, MD & CEO

Harish Bahl is the group CEO for Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG), who founded SITG in 1999 and since then has been incubating & heading the complete group portfolio. An engineer in computer sciences he brings over a decade of technical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills to the company

Manish Vij, Co-Founder & Business Lead

Manish, an MBA, is one of the youngest dotcom entrepreneurs with India’s first auction web site, kabadibazaar.com. Prior to Co-founding SITG group, he has worked with India’s largest portal Rediff.com for over 4 years.

C P Singh, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

C.P. Singh is an engineer in computer sciences and a PGD in Network Hardware Technologies and a graduate from the University of Karnataka. He is also the Co-founder of Smile Interactive Technologies Group.

Mahendra Swarup, Chief Mentor
An MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Mahendra was last the Head of Private Treaties initiative of Times of India Group. He has held positions like the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes.com) and Executive Director of Pepsi India. During his 30 years of business experience, he has held corporate responsibilities in blue-chip companies like ACC, Nestle India, Sun Breweries–Moscow and PepsiCo India at the senior-most functional levels.

Website: www.sitg.in

Contact Address

Smile Multimedia Private Limited
136-A, Second Floor, Vishal House,
Zamrudpur, Kailash Colony,
New Delhi, India Zip Code-110048
Land Mark : Opposite Lady shri Ram College
Phone : 011-29240251, 29240252, 29240253
Fax : 011-29240254

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

Yahoo recently invested in Tyroo – The Adnetwork from SITG.

Company Overview

Springer, began its operations on October 2002. Springer deals with publishing of journals in the Science, Technology, and Medicine sector. They develop, manage and disseminate knowledge – through books, journals and the Internet. Their products range across all media (books, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMs, databases, online services, organization of seminars and conferences).

Management

Sanjiv Goswami, Managing Director

Sanjiv Goswami is the Country Manger for Springer India, looking after sales & promotion in South Asian countries which include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka.

Website/s: www.springer.com , www.springerlink.com , www.sps.co.in

Contact Address

906-907, Akash Deep Building
Barakhamba Road
New Delhi 110 001
tel +91 11 23 35 99 46
fax +91 11 23 35 87 16

Additional Information:

They publish in six major fields: science, medicine, business, technology, architecture, and transport.

Company Overview:

SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations on the web. The SlideShare team is a small, tightly-knit group of developers and designers based in Mountain View (California, USA) & New Delhi (India) respectively. Slideshare’s blog

Management

Rashmi Sinha, CEO

Rashmi manages community and business development for SlideShare.
Rashmi is a designer, researcher and entrepreneur. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive NeuroPsychology from Brown University and has taught at SIMS, UC Berkeley. She is involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture Society, and co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series. Rashmi earlier co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting company. Her personal Blog

Amit Ranjan, COO

Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur. He authors Webyantra, India’s most widely read Web 2.0 blog. And he is part of the organizing team of Proto.in, India’s premier event for showcasing tech startups. Amits personal blog.

Jon Boutelle, CTO

Jon is the CTO of SlideShare. He studied Computer Science at Brown University. He started his career writing computer graphics code at AVS. He then spent several years working in the enterprise ecommerce space as a software engineer at CommerceOne. Jon writes a blog focused on rich internet technologies (AJAX, Flash, Flex et al). Jon’s personal Blog

Website/s: www.slideshare.net

Contact Information
655 W. Evelyn Ave #4,
Mountain View CA 94041,
email: rashmi@slideshare.net
Office Telephone: 650-564-0000
Office Fax: 877-801-8097

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

One can upload one’s PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into one’s blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. The transcripts of ones presentation will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results.

Company Overview:

Seventymm™ is a movie rental service, offering movies in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Assamese, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani and Punjabi. They have a free home delivery system and a pickup facility.

Management

Raghav Kher, Founder and CEO

Raghav Kher is the Founder of Seventymm™. Previously, he founded and served as CEO of Rendition Networks. Prior to Rendition, Raghav held variety of executive positions at Microsoft over eight years. He received his MBA from University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He also has a MS in Mechanical Engineering and another MS in Computer Science.

Puneet Sharma, General Manager

Puneet Sharma has done his PGDBM from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, Pune, and Executive Programme from IIM, Lucknow and PGDCA from Tata Unisys. He has been part of Hutch, DishnetDSL and Sify Limited, where he held his last position as DGM – Channel & Retail Sales for Broadband before moving to Seventymm.

Raj Atluru, Director

Raj Atluru is a Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he serves on the boards of Blue Titan Software, Great Point Energy, Konarka Technologies, Seventymm™, PAR3 Communications, Ping Identity, and Solicore. In addition, he led the firm’s investments in EnerNOC, CoalTek, Cerox, Pantero and Roving Planet. Raj received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Stanford University. In addition, he received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Rishi Navani, Director

Rishi Navani has been investing in India since 1996 and is a founding managing director of Matrix Partners India. Earlier, he was the MD at Sequoia Capital India (WestBridge Capital Partners). Rishi currently serves on the board of Seventymm. Rishi holds a B.A. with Distinction in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Website/s: www.seventymm.com

Contact Address

City: Delhi

Seventymm™ Services Pvt. Ltd.
1931/19 Govindpuri Extension
New Delhi – 110019
Phone: 011- 26029770
Fax: 26029766

City: Mumbai
Seventymm™ Services Pvt. Ltd.
#C-9,KosturchandMillCompound,
Dr.MC Jawale Marg, Near Kobutarkhana
Dadar(West),Mumbai-400028
Phone:022-66107070

City: Chennai

Seventymm™Services Pvt. Ltd.
GeorgeSquare, NewNo.234,
OldNo.102,2nd&3rdFloor,
TTKRoad,Alwarpet
Chennai-600018
Phone:044-60000700

City: Chandigarh

Seventymm™ Services Pvt. Ltd.
SCF-55,2nd Floor,SAS Nagar,
Phase2, Near Bassi Theatre,
Mohali
Punjab-160055,Phone:0172-3044400

Investors: Matrix Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and ePlanet Venture.

Company Overview:

ShareKhan.com is an online trading facility founded in 1999-2000 with a focus on equities, derivatives and commodities brokerage execution on the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE), Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE), National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange India (NCDEX) and Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX).

Management
Shripal Morakhia, Chairman

Shripal Morakhia, worked with the President of the New York Stock Exchange as Executive Assistant during 1979-1980 after obtaining his Masters Degree in Administration. He has also been on the Board of the Mumbai Stock Exchange as Director from 1988-89.

Ketan Parekh, CTO

Ketan Parekh joined Sharekhan.com in the year 2003 and has been the Head of Technology since then. Ketan Parekh graduated in the year 1985 aand took on ERP implementations at Oracle till ‘97. He did his ebusiness course by 2003. His past experience include workin with Money Care now, Saurashtra Capital Services and Cambridge Techonology Partners (CTP). He has also worked with Novell – Mumbai following the acqusition of CTP by Novell Inc India before taking on Sharekhan as CTO.

Website/s: www.sharekhan.com

Corporate Address
Branch – Head Office
A-206, Phoenix House,
2nd Floor,
Senapati Bapat Marg,
Lower Parel,
Mumbai- 400 013.
Telephone No: 022-67482000
Toll Free: 1800227500

City:Mumbai.

Key Competition: ICICIDirect, Kotak, HDFC

Investors:

VC Circle News, breaks IDFC’s stake of 66.67% in SSKI the parent company which holds retail equity brand Sharekhan from its original promoters the Morakhias. The remaining 33% is owned by the employees of the company.

Additional Notes:

Sharekhan Ltd provides trade execution services through Multiple channels – an Internet platform, telephone and retail outlets and is present in 225 cities through a network of 615 locations

Management

Name: Mr K. P. Balaraj – Managing Director

Sequoia Capital India has been formed with WestBridge Capital Partners which Balaraj co-founded in 2000. He is an MBA from Harvard Business School, holding a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class.

Name: Hari Agrawal – CFO

Hari Agrawal is the CFO of Sequoia Capital India. Sequoia Capital India has been formed with WestBridge Capital Partners, which Hari joined in 2000. Prior to joining WestBridge, Hari was the Financial Controller at Ford Credit Kotak Mahindra. Hari is a Chartered Accountant having secured a merit list in the final year and has a B. Com from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

email: hari.agrawal@sequoiacap.com
Websites: www.sequoiacap.com

Corporate Address:

City: Bangalore

Divyasree Chambers, 7th Floor, ‘A’ Wing, #11, O’Shaugnessy Road, (Off Langford Road), Bangalore 560 025, India. T: +91 80 41245880, F: +91 80 41245884

City: Mumbai

The Hilton Towers

Suite # 1234

Nariman Point

Mumbai 400021

T: +91 22 6630 7256

F: +91 22 6630 8750

Company Overview:

Sixer is a social networking site exclusively based on cricket.It is an online platform  connecting global cricket fans. Sixer enables a fan to share his cricket life, his team’s accomplishments and submit news, pictures, videos, match analysis, to be viewed by other fans around the world.

Management

Name: Raj
Designation: Founder

Name: Kishore Kumar
Designation: Vice-president

Website: www.sixer.tv/

Its Blog: www.sixer.tv/blogs

Investor: LINUS Capital

Key Competition: Tired and Tested, FanNation, FanSpot, NHL Connect, SportMates

City: Hyderabad

Additional Notes: With Sixer, a cricket fan can also:

• Join a fan club of  favorite player, local city/metro club or start a private club
• Upload cricket related news that can be read by other cricket fans
• Upload/watch pictures and videos uploaded by other members
• Get live scores of games

Company Overview:

Starcom is a media communication agency specializing in making connections between consumers and brands. Starcom USA is a full-service media division within Starcom MediaVest Group. SMG’s global organization offers services in media management, response media, internet and digital communications, as well as multicultural, entertainment, sports sponsorship and event marketing and media.

Management

Pranay Anthwal, General Manager India

Pranay Anthwal has a diverse range of experience prior to his association with Starcom. From Zee Interactive in Partnerships to Star Interactive in Partnership and Marketing to finally Times of India for Strategy and Brand Head Filmfare, and now Heads Starcom Digital. Pranay’s ryze profile

Ashish Tewari, Group Head (Internet) Starcom

Ashish Tewari leads the Internet business for Starcom India. Previously Ashish has also worked with Hutch as an Account manager & Asst. Manager at Bazee (Ebay India). He has done his graduation from Goa Institute of Management. Ashish Tewari also blogs.

Websites: www.starcomworldwide.com

Key Competition: www.minsdhareworld.com ,www.carat.com , quasar

Corporate Address:

Starcom Worldwide
C-36, Dr. Shirodhkar Road, Parel

City: Mumbai

Additional Notes:

In addition, Starcom offers specialized media services through units such as Starcom IP (Interactive media) and Tapestry (Multicultural Media). Starcom MediaVest is a subsidiary of Paris-based advertising conglomerate Publicis.