Company Overview: Yaari is a social networking site for people looking for old associates, business networking and friends.

Management:

Name: Prerna Gupta, Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Prerna graduated from Stanford University with a BA in economics and was working in a venture capital firm, before she decided to start Yaari.com.

Name: Parag Chordia, Chief Technical Officer & Co-founder

Parag solves all technical problems faced by the site. In his spare time, he teaches at Georgia Tech. Parag received his PhD from Stanford University in artificial intelligence and music, and his BS in math from Yale.

Website: www.yaari.com

Key Competition: www.orkut.com, www.facebook.com

City: New Delhi

Company Overview:

Yatra is an online travel portal. It provides travel-related information, pricing, availability and reservations for airlines, hotels, buses and car rentals across 5000 large cities and small rural areas, throughout India.

Management

Name: Dhruv Shringi, Co-Founder

Prior to co-founding Yatra, Dhruv was working as Director, Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group. Prior to his stint at Ebookers, he worked with Ford Motor Company and also with Arthur Andersen. Dhruv holds an MBA from INSEAD and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Name:Manish Amin, Co-Founder

Manish is a veteran of the travel industry with over 20 years experience in the Travel and IT industry, 15 of which were with Ebookers.

Name: Sabina Chopra, Co Founder

Prior to Yatra, Sabina headed India based Operations of ebookers, Europe’s largest online travel company. She has also worked with Japan Airlines and a Canadian Airline. Her BPO work experience includes heading Operations for RAC (Aviva Plc) and Hewitt Associates. Sabina holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Delhi University.

Website: www.yatra.com

Corporate Address:

Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd.

B-21, Infocity, Sector-34,

Gurgaon-122002, Haryana,

INDIA
City: Haryana

Investors: Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Reliance Capital and Television 18 Group (TV18)

Key Competition: www.makemytrip.com , www.cleartrip.com

Additional Notes: Booking of airline and bus tickets and reservation of hotel rooms and car rentals can also be done by calling Yatra’s call center.

The company has also launched a social networking site raahi.com that aggregates content related to travel advisory and other support functions.

Company Overview:

Yahoo! Inc. is a global online network of integrated services. It provides a wide range of products and services like search engine facility (Yahoo! Web Search), communication services (Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger), social networking (My Web, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360º, Yahoo! Photos, and Flickr,), content (Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News, and Yahoo! Games), mobile (Yahoo! Mobile), e-commerce (Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Auctions, and Yahoo! Travel) and advertising.

Management

George Zacharia, Managing Director

George Zacharia joined Yahoo India in Jan 2006 from Sify, where he was earlier the Chief Operating Officer. Zacharias graduated from Nagpur University with a degree in Chemical Engineering in 1980 and from XLRI, Jamshedpur with a PGDBM in 1982.

(Note – George has now resigned from Yahoo! India )

Pranesh Anthapur, COO

Pranesh joined Yahoo India in November 2006 with the R&D department. Prior to Bangalore where he is now put up, Pranesh has worked at several key positions at Sunnyvale CA Yahoo HQ’s and also at International locations in the last seven years.

Websites: www.yahoo.com

Blog: www.yodel.yahoo.com/

Corporate Address:

Yahoo Web Services India Pvt Ltd, 801, Nicholas Piramal Tower B, Peninsula Corporate Park, G.K. Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400 013, India

Key Competitors: AOL India, Rediff India, MSN India

City: Mumbai