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.

Company Overview:

Cricinfo is a cricket website. The site was founded in 1993 and it covers news and features written by cricket writers, and in-depth statistics on cricketers. Cricinfo also reaches on one’s mobile phone.

Cricinfo now reaches more than 7 million users every month.

Management

Sambit Bal, Founder – Editor

Sambit Bal, the founder-editor for Wisden Asia Cricket started his journalism career at the age of 19 yrs. He joined wisden in the year 2001 and was the founder editor of Wisden Asia Cricket.

Murari Venkatraman, Co-founder & CEO

Murari Venkatraman is the CEO and Co-founder of CricInfo India.

Website: www.cricinfo.com

Investors: Sify’s been one of the major investor for CricInfo, India.

Contact Address

Cricinfo India
NO. 1 /1 Primrose Road
Off. M.G. Road
Bangalore – 560 025
Karnataka
India

City: Bangalore

Key Competition: Sixer

Additional Notes:

They have also launched Cricshop.com which is a one-stop cricket shop for everything connected with the sport. Their Cricinfo Magazine was launched in January 2006, under an agreement between the Wisden Group and Infomedia India Limited. Cricinfo provides content to 3 television broadcasters and more than 35 online & offline publishers.

Company Overview:

Industrial Products Finder was visualized and conceived as an industrial new-products-news monthly by R. V. Pandit, and was launched as such in October 1972. It launched its online subsidiary in 2000 June.

• The other online services offered are: ww.bypd.in, which was launched on 01 April 2007 as the Bharat Yellow Pages Directory on the Net. It lists industrial products dealt by Shops/Firms located throughout India.

• The Indian Textile Journal – ITJ, which is a textile publication. It has expanded its coverage to include trade and commercial information, new products & processes, technological breakthroughs, corporate profiles and trade fair information.

• Automotive Products Finder – APF which is the latest offering from IPFonline Limited. It makes available factual content relating to the automobile sector and provides information on suppliers/manufacturers of auto components and products.

Management

R V Pandit, Founder & Publisher

R V Pandit, a Publisher, Journalist, Restaurateur and a Film maker is the Founder and the Owner of the online publication, Industrial Product Founder Online.  He also runs ahis specific R. V. Pandit website. He launched IPF  in the year 1972 and took it online in 2000 by appointing L. Subramanyan, Chief Executive, IPFonline in 2000.

Website/s: www.ipfonline.com, www.bypd.in, www.indiantextilejournal.com, www.automotiveproductsfinder.com

Contact Address

IPFonline Limited New No.17, Old No.7
Shafika Building, 2nd Floor
Kodambakkam High Road
Nungambakkam, Chennai – 600 034.
E-mail: cs@ipfonline.com

Telephone: 91 – 44 – 28261234
Fax: 91 – 44 – 2826 2737

City: Chennai

Investors: IL&FS Venture Corporation & HDFC have invested in IPF, Industrial Products Finder.

Additional Notes:

The magazine, being industry – centric in nature, is made available only through prepaid annual subscriptions to businesses, industries and technical / managerial personnel. Ipfonline.com is a portal for business visitors to interact, participate, and buy/sell industrial products. The portal is a storehouse of information on industrial products and services.

Company Overview:

Sify provides Internet, Networking and e-commerce related services. Sify provides networking services, data operating services and built customer relation management programs for their corporate clients. Sify also provides broadband service access, iway cyber cafes, dial-up internet access & an online portal having content revolving around news / entertainment and lifestyle for its consumers.

Sify’s product & services,

• Corporate services

• Consumer related services

Management:

Name: Raju Vegensa
Position: CEO & MD Sify

An entrepreneur at Silicon Valley, Raju Vegensa has 2 of his independent ventures ServerWorks Corporation and ServerEngines LLC working. ServerWorks started in 1994 and was bought over by Broadcom Corporation in 2001. Raju Vegensa still serves as CEO and MD at ServerEngines and ServerEngine operates out of 2 locations Texas and Hyderabad in India. Raju Vegensa has also been a venture capitalist and has his private firm Infinity Capital Ventures. Raju Vegensa has been the MD and CEO for Sify since 2006.

Name: Suri Venkat
Position: Chief Operating Officer

Suri Venkat joined Sify in August 2006 as its Chief Operating Officer after a successful career in large organizations such as ITC Ltd. He has also built an infrastructure company, Energy Infrastructure Development Group( CAPEX: USD 500) as an entrepreneur.

Personal Links: rajuvegesna@sifycorp.com

Investment:

Sify is a public Ltd. company and Sify is its ticker signal. Sify reports net profit of $ 2.3 million for the year 2007.

Website: www.sifycorp.com

Corporate Services:

Sify Limited
II Floor, Tidel Park,
No.4, Canal Bank Road,
Taramani, Chennai – 600 113, India.
Phone: +91 44 2254 0770-77
Fax: +91 44 2254 0771

Email to customercare@sifycorp.com

Additional Information:

While providing end to end solutions to corporates & consumers, Sify also is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company.

Overview:

BharatMatrimony Group is one of the largest players in the online classifieds space in India. They have many operating divisions:

• BharatMatrimony.com – Matrimonial Classifieds
• ClickJobs.com – Job Portal
• IndiaProperty.com – Real Estate Portal
• Indialist.com – Free Classifieds Portal
• IndiaAutomobile.com – Automobile
• Loanwala.com – A Third party Loan shoppe

Management

Murugavel Janakiraman, CEO and Founder

Janakiraman Murugavel is the CEO of BharatMatrimony.com, headquartered in Chennai. The Chennai-born Murugavel was working in the U.S. as a consultant before he started the portal in 1998.

Executive Team

• Manvendra Bhangui, CTO
• Michael M.Bala, Business Head, Click Jobs
• Uday Zokarkar, Business Head, BharatMatrimony
• J. Krishna Prasad, CFO

Investors:

Canaan partners, Yahoo!

Key Competitors:

Recruitment: Naukri, TimesJob, MonsterIndia.
Real Estate: 99acres, Magic Bricks

Website:

www.bharatmatrimony.com
www.indiaproperty.com
www.indiaautomobile.com
www.indialist.com
www.indiapages.com
www.loanwala.com

Contact Address:

No.94, TVH Beliciaa Towers,
Tower -II, 10th Floor,
MRC Nagar, Mandaveli,
Chennai – 600 028, TN. India.
+91 (044) 2463 1500
+91 (044) 2463 1777

City: Chennai

Additional Information:

The company has extended its services to cater to the NRI community by setting up operations in USA, Dubai, Canada and more recently in UK.