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:

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:

Times Internet Limited, (TIL), is the digital venture of the media house – The Bennett Coleman and Company Limited. TIL offers web products and services through integration of content, community and e-commerce. Indiatimes is the flagship brand of TIL.

Management

Dinesh Wadhawan, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Dinesh Wadhawan is MD and CEO of Times Internet Ltd. Dinesh has over 28 years of varied experience, including his previous assignment at Microsoft USA – Servers & Tools division and at Paramark Inc.

Upen Rai, Director, Sales

Upen has earlier worked as Associate Director in Zee Telefilms. He has also worked with Newsweek, Walt Disney and MacMillan among others. Upen is a graduate from the University of Delhi with a Master’s Degree from the University of Rajasthan. He is also the COO of Times Group’s TV channel Zoom as well as that of its Integrated Market Solutions Group.

Executive Council Board:

• Mohit Hira, Director, Marketing
• Ajay Vaishnavi, Director, Telecom
• Rajesh Kalra, Chief Editor
• Rajendra Mehta, VP – HR

Website: www.indiatimes.com
Corporate Address

Indiatimes, Times Internet Ltd.,
I World Tower, DLF City Phase V
(Opp DLF Golf Course)
Gurgaon, Haryana – 122002

Tel: 91- 124 – 418 7000

Key Competition: www.rediff.co.in , www.yahoo.co.in

Additional Notes:

Times Internet has launched various other new initiatives like Indiatimes Art, Wallet 365 and remit2india.

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

Company Overview:

Desimartini is a social networking website from Pahwa Knowledge Based Services (KBS). The platform has features like chatting / profiling / blogging / networking and building community.

Management:

Vivek Pahwa, CEO and Co-founder.

A graduate from Indian School of Business and the University of Michigan, Vivek Pahwa is the CEO and the Co-Founder of Desimartini.com. Vivek ventured out a step further from Pahwa Group of companies, a family business, to create Pahwa KBS and online entity catering to communication and online publishing content. Visit his profile on DesiMartini

Investors:

DesiMartini is internally funded by Pahwa Group of Companies.

Additional Information:

Desimartini focuses on their sms features, enabling consumers to send sms’s to any cell phone within the country.

Websites: www.secondshaadi.com, www.desimartini.com , www.pahwakbs.com

Key Competitors:

www.minglebox.com

www.fropper.com

www.yaari.com

Contact Information:

vivekpahwa@gmail.com

Founded in 1996, Rediff.com is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York, USA. Rediff.com provides horizontal in terms of online news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services.

Chairman & Managing Director: Ajit Balakrishnan.

Ajit Balakrishnan is founder, Chairman and Managing Director of the Company. Mr. Balakrishnan is also a Director of Rediffusion -Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Private Limited, where he has served since March 1993, and a Director of Rediffusion Holdings Private Limited (earlier called Rediffusion Advertising Private Limited).

Chif Financial Officer: Joy Basu

Joy Basu has been the Chief Financial Officer for Rediff since September 2003. Prior to this he served as Chief Financial Officer of Sahara India Media Communication Limited.

Director: Arun Nanda

Diwan Arun Nanda has been a director of the Company since its incorporation in December 1995. Mr. Nanda is also a Director of Rediffusion Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Pvt. Ltd.

Other Board of Directors

• Diwan Arun Nanda: Director
• Sunil N. Phatarphekar: Director
• Pulak Prasad: Director
• Ashok Narasimhan: Director
• Sridar Iyengar: Director
• Rashesh C. Shah: Director

Key Competitors:

www.yahoo.co.in

www.aol.in

Website: www.rediff.com

Corporate Office:

Rediff.com India Limited
Mahalaxmi Engineering Estate
L.J. Road # 1, Mahim (West)
Mumbai 400 016. India
Tel: +91-22-24449144
Fax: +91-22-24455346

Additional Information:

Rediff has over 325 advertisers on their India website during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006. It is a publically listed company and the ticker symbol is (REDF) on Nasdaq.

Company Overview:

burrp! is a community website, where you can find and share local stuff, ranging from restaurants to bars; cafes to roadside stalls; and much more.

Management:

Co Founder: Anand jain

Anand was previously with Motorola as a Senior Developer. Check out his blog and his linkedin profile

Co Founder: Deap Ubhi

He left MMC in 2005 to join Alpine Investors, a middle market Private Equity firm based in San Francisco, where he was a Senior Associate till he left the job. Check his Linked in profile. Deap’s Blog

Website: http://www.burrp.com/

Address:

Burrp Inc
38, K Dubash Marg,
Kala Ghoda Fort,
Phone: +91 22 22844324

Additional Information:

They are currently offering services in Delhi (recently launched), Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad & Kolkatta.