At VidTeq.com, we provide location service and driving directions in and around Bangalore city. The novelty is that we provide video map based driving directions. We provide the video clip of the route from any source to destination inside the city. Not only that we provide the pictures of the intersections, major landmarks and other information along the way. We believe this is the right technology that helps navigating in countries like India, where we don’t have directional boards. For example, when we give instruction that “Take left on MG road”, you may not find any board showing MG road, you will confused. We simply send the picture of the intersection and tell him to take left when it looks like picture. We believe this is the right technology for India. We currently have service for Bangalore city, we are planning to expand to other cities in India.

Website URL: http://www.vidteq.com

Management

Ravi Narala – Director and Co-founder,
Chandra Thimmannagiri – Director and Co-founder,
Muraleedhara Navada – Director and Co-founder

Company Address

VidTeq (India) Pvt Ltd
#14 Battarahalli, Opp RTO office
KR Puram, Bangalore 560049

Contact: Navada – 9845849422

Key Competitors

Not in the video space, it is unique, first time in the world so far. In the map space, MapMyIndia, Latlong.com, Yulop partially, Google, Yahoo etc. Note that we play our differentiation, which is video maps.

Additional Notes

At VidTeq we believe that paper maps are past, digital maps are present, visual based, video map, street-view kind of things are future. We want to convert all the maps in this world to be visual. We are working towards it.

Must See India is a free travel planning and sharing site with the aim to make travel in India easy. It focuses on:
• Information: Provide complete and reliable information on all tourist destinations in India (when to go, where to go, what to see, maps)
• Planning and Sharing: Help travelers in trip planning and booking, sharing photos and experiences.

Management:

Vikas Rana, Founder & CEO
Vikas did his B Tech from IIT Delhi in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of leadership experience at Trilogy. He left Trilogy in late 2007 to fulfil his dream for Travel.

Sanjay Goel, Co-founder
Sanjay did his B Tech from IIT Delhi in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of product development experience in Internet advertising at Tribal Fusion.

Karan Nahata, Co-founder
Karan did his B Tech from NSIT in 2002. He has over 5 yrs of management and consulting experience at Trilogy in various customer-facing roles.

Company Address:
C3-1205, L&T South City,
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore – 560076

Email: contact@mustseeindia.com
Tel: 080-4120-6179

Key Competitors:
HolidayIQ, OkTataByeBye, TripAdvisor

Website URL: http://www.mustseeindia.com

Kapston is a (Search + User + Research) driven digital interactive marketing and Internet business consulting company. We help our clients to discover, drive, convert, keep and multiply customers online. The services we provide in a nutshell are:

Search engine marketing
Social media marketing
Online branding and corporate identity
Web Analytics (website traffic and visit pattern analysis)
Square Inch Analysis (SIA), User experience & information architecture
Usability testing
Online differentiation, positioning & strategizing
Online corporate communications
Search engine optimization
Lead generation & nurturing
Online Competitor research & web monitoring
Web 2.0 marketing
Creative advertise design

Management

Namitha Prem, Director
Ranjith Pavithran, Director

Company Addresses

Registered office
422, 5th Main,
2nd A Cross Road,
Domlur, Bangalore – 560071
Ph: 98450 94394
e-mail: media@kapston.com

588 Allen Road
Millersville, MD – 21108
Ph: 781 559 4394
email: us@kapston.com

Key Competitors:

Pinstorm
Regalix

Additional Notes:

Founded in 2005, Kapston.com is an e-business consulting and online marketing company. Kapston help companies with all aspects of growing their online business, like promotion, branding, strategizing, SEO, creative advertisement designing, Web 2.0 promotions etc. Kapston coined the terms like 360 degree Internet communications, psychological product placement (PPP), Internet SWOT (iSWOT), Square-Inch Page Analysis (SPA), Business Oriented Online Marketing (BOOM), Website User Experience (WEX), WYGIWYG methodology in marketing etc. Kapston has presence in United States, Mumbai, Bangalore and Calicut.

Website URL: http://kapston.com/

Nabler Web Solutions is a technology-driven web analytics organization, based out of Bangalore, India. Nabler was founded in 2004 with the aim of helping global customers succeed in the ‘online world’ through effective web analytics solutions.

Nabler has helped Fortune 500 companies across United States, Europe and India to succeed in their online ventures by analyzing the components of their websites – Design, Content, Navigation, Merchandising and Marketing Programs. Nabler’s web analytics services have been playing a pivotal role in the Online Marketing Process – Reach, Acquisition, Conversion and Retention.

Nabler has been helping organizations achieve improved online performance and better bottom-line results with the help of its proprietary tools and algorithms. Nabler has an experienced team of web analysts who have provided services to companies across different verticals.

Nabler provides the following services under Online Campaign Analytics and Website Analytics:

# Strategic Consulting
# Customizing / Configuring Web Analytics tools
# Data collection & Auditing
# Reporting & Analysis
# Custom Web Analytics programming

Management

Seby Kallarakal, CEO

Seby Kallarakal founded ‘Nabler’ in the year 2004. Seby is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur and has experience in industries as varied as Architecture, Geographical Information Systems and the Internet. With over 6 years of experience in analyzing websites and a passion in the field of web analytics, Seby is leading Nabler to become the best web analytics organization from India.

Contact Address

Nabler
#2, 3 A cross, 2nd Block
HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar
Bangalore – 560 043
India
Tel: 91-80-2542 3566
Fax: 91-80-25424367
Website: http://www.nabler.com/

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.

Percept – Knorigin is a full service digital marketing agency that leverages interactive, web & degital media technologies to offer communication, marketing services and strategic outsourcing with committed ROI’s.

Management:

Viraj Malik, Managing Director & CEO

Viraj started his career with percept by starting an online advertising division in 1996 after finishing his mechanical engineering from MIT, Manipal. He moved on in 1998 and played a key role in setting up commercial internet datacenter ventures in India with Global Telesystems and Enron. He also plays advisory roles in few IT start-ups.

Website: www.perceptknorigin.com

Key Competition: Interactiveavenues.com / Mediaturf.com / Quasar.co.in / Webchutney

Contact Address:

Bangalore

201, 2nd Floor, ‘Touchdown’
No.1 & 2 HAL Industrial Area
Vibhuthipura,
Bangalore – 560 037

Mumbai

P22, Raghuvanshi Estate
11/12, Senapati Bapat Marg
Lower Parel
Mumbai – 400 018

Investor:

Percept Holdings, a leading advertising media and entertainment company is the parent owner of Percept Knorigin investing $5 million.

Additional Information:

Percept Knorigin plans to create Intellectual Properties in digital advertising aggregation and build a network of online properties (advertising network?), leverage the parent company’s content and network to build unique online and mobile assets, (and provide) ROI-linked marketing solutions to clients in India, UK and US. Link

Company Overview

Ozone Media was founded in February 2006 and is head quartered in Bangalore-India. The organization has recently established its branch operations in Mumbai. Ozone media is an ad network working with advertisers to maximize their return on investments and help publishers optimize the usage of their inventories on their marketing and advertising campaigns.

Management,

Kiran Gopinath, Founder and CEO

Kiran Gopinath is the founder-CEO of Ozone Media Solutions Private Limited, India’s leading Internet ad network which was launched in Jan 2006.

Website: http://www.ozonemedia.co.in/

Key Competitors: Tyroo.com , komli.com , tribafusion.com

Corporate Address:

17/1,4th Floor, Shanthi shree complex,
Rupena Agrahara,
Hosur Road, Bangalore-560068-India

Phone: 080-41558080/81
Fax: 080-41509538

Additional Notes:

Ozone Media has partnered with Sony pictures entertainment, Crackle.com, which is online video streaming site, with exclusive rights to sell their inventory in the Indian market, The article.

Company Overview:

AOL India is a direct subsidiary of AOL Global Operations Limited, Ireland. AOL India portal offers e-mail, instant messaging, news, sports, entertainment and other information.

Management:

Maneesh Dhir, CEO Indian Operations

Dhir is responsible for new overseas business development in Europe, Asia and the US. Prior to his current role in India, Dhir was VP and GM of Netscape in Mountain View, Calif.

P G Ponnapa, Vice President, Indian Operations

Ponnapa has done his Masters from IIM Calcutta and got his Engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. He was COO at Wipro Net Kracker, an ISP and prior to that was a Product Manager at Asian paints. He has also served as a CEO at n-Logue Communications before joining AOL India as Vice President.

Website: www.aol.in

Contact Address:

AOL India
Level 4, D Tower,
Diamond District, Airport Road,
Bangalore 560008, India
Phone: +91 80 4010 6000
Fax: +91 80 4122 6644

Email: adsales@aol.in

City: Bangalore

Key Competitors: MSN, Yahoo, Rediff

Additional Information:

AOL includes e-mail service with industry-leading spam blocking, and security protections against viruses and other threats. Wide range of content includes Videos, Bollywood, news and information, sports news with a special Cricket channel and a new Gurus channel with video advice.

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:

Position2, was set up in 2005, in Silicon Valley. It provides search engine marketing services to small and growing businesses in the US, India and worldwide. The business is defined by a multi-location approach with their Client Management team put up in the US and a full service delivery center in Bangalore, India.

Management

Rajiv Parikh, CEO

Rajiv Parikh, the CEO and the co-founder of Position2 has over a decade of experience in Sales, Marketing and Entrepreneurial ventures. His other directorial experiences include Aperon Biosystem, Met-roFi, Alta Vista, whereas he has also led marketing and business development ideas at 4Info, Sun microsystems, NCR and AT&T. Parikh has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Rajiv Parikh also blogs

Soumya Ravi, Director of Client Management

Soumya Ravi has over a decade of experience in advertising and marketing and she also leads Client Management at Position2. She has worked with agencies like J. Walter Thompson and Contract Advertising in India. Soumya has an MBA degree from Santa Clara University in California and is a qualified Google AdWords Professional. Soumya Ravi also blogs

Andreas Ramos, Director of SEM

With over 20 years technology development and entrepreneurial experience, Andreas Ramos has recently released his latest book, Insider SEO & PPC (2006). One of the first to pass the Google AdWords Professional Certification, he is a Qualified Google Advertising Professional. He has worked at SUN, SGI, Brio, and Dialpad.com. Andreas has a postgraduate degree from the Universität Heidelberg in Germany. Andreas also blogs

Website/s: www.position2.com , http://blogs.position2.com/

Corporate Address

Position2 Marketing Pvt. Ltd.
No. 1, 1st Floor, BSB Business Centre,
K.R. Colony, Domlur Layout,
Bangalore – 560 071, India.
Tel : +91-80-51256770 / 25357773
Fax: +91-80-25357774

Position2 Marketing Pvt Ltd.
3 Madhav Nivas, Opp. Shivaji Park Gymkhana
68 Keluskar Road, Dadar (West)
Mumbai – 400 028, India
Tel: +91 22 2444 62 16/17

Investors: Erasmic Venture Funds have invested in Position2. John Piscitello has also invested in Position2.

Additional Information:

Position2 acquired two companies in the search and online marketing space CCG from US and angel funded company Webshastra in India. Position2 a privately held firm with under 50 employees.