Mobile2win is a mobile content and mobile VAS enabler having a strong presence in the media and entertainment segments.

Management:Rajat Jain, MD & CEO

A postgraduate from IIM, Ahmedabad and an engineering graduate from IIT, Delhi,Rajat, was the Managing Director with The Walt Disney Co. India, Prior to Disney, Rajat was with Sony Entertainment as Executive Vice President and Business Head, SET MAX, their movies and cricket TV channel. Rajat has also held senior management positions with the Essel Group, Telstra International, Benckiser India and Hindustan Lever.

Gopal Kirshnan:

GK is an interactive marketing and interactive media entrepreneur with 16 years of professional experience. He started his career in sales with HCL HP and promoted one of Mumbai’s leading systems integration services companies (1990-97). He holds an engineering degree and has co-founded mobile2win.

Rajv Hiranandani

After completing his MBA in Marketing in Connecticut USA, Rajiv worked with TCI – the largest TV Cable network in the US. Post his stint with TCI he joined Indian Express (IE), as head Sales and Marketing for the group’s Internet initiative. He has built the M2W India business and is the Country Head for the India operations

Key Team Members Include,

• Vijaya Lakshmi
• Amit Tidke
• Hara Prasanna Kar
• Deepak Gupta
• Sachin Jain
• Putata Bodke
• Amit Mithrani
• Rajneel Kumar

Website: www.mobile2win.com

Key Competitors: www.mauj.com

Investors:

Investors in Mobile2win include Nexus India Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Softbank China. Siemens Venture capital fund and Contest2win have already diluted their stake in the business.

Contact Address:

Mobile2win

Todi Estate, 3rd Floor, B – Wing,
Sun Mill Compound, Lower Parel,
Mumbai – 400013.

Tel: 91-22-66541468
Fax: 91-22-66541469

Additional Information:

Founded in 1998 as a 5 member company mobile2win, same as contest2win has now grown into an 80 member team across India. Mobile2win’s china arm got acquired by Walt Disney Internet Group, Tokyo in Aug 2006.

Company Overview:

Active media technology is a mobile marketing technology and campaign management solutions company based in Uk.. Founded in the year 2001, Active media technology provides software platforms and toolkits to consumer organizations interested in deploying wireless applications and services using SMS and WAP.

Management,

• Raj Singh, Co-founder & Executive Director, India.

Singh is a qualified Chartered Accountant and has graduated with a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford. Raj Singh has worked with organizations like Credit Suisse First Boston, British Airways and Shell International. Prior to co-founding Active Media Technology, Singh was Senior Consultant at The Capital Markets Company, a European consultancy. Raj B Singh heads Business Development & Operations for Active media technology, India.

Other Executive Members,

• Ramesh Kumar, Sales & Marketing.
• Ariya Priyasantha, Technology & Strategy.

Website: www.activemediatech.com

Contact Address:

Asia Pacific office

A-61, Sector – 57
Noida – 201301
UP, India

Tel: +91 0120 4078000

Sales enquiries
Email: sales@activemediatech.com

General enquiries
Email: enquiries@activemediatech.com

Additional Information:

Established in 2001, ActiveMedia Technology has offices in London, New Delhi, Mumbai and Romania and partners in Spain, US, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, & Turkey. The company employs more 35 people globally.

Company Overview:

Hovr is an ad-supported consumer based mobile content provider based originally out of New York. It is a free of cost service. Hovr’s software-enabled technology adLogic, delivers advertisements that are personally relevant. Hovr’s Forum

Management

Vipul Sawhney, Co-founder and CEO, President

Vipul Sawhney is the Co-founder & President at HOVR Inc. Prior to HOVR Vipul sawhney was the VP Technology for LocatioNet in New York. Vipul is a graduate from University of Pensylvania.

Sidhartha Bezbora, Product Manager, India Operations

Sidhartha has 8 years of experience in Mobile VAS and Mobile User Experience. He has worked with companies like ACL Wireless, NTS (Niche Tech Services Pvt. Ltd.) & Aithent Technologies. He completed his graduation from Madras University and went to pursue IBM certified E business Professional course in 2000. He has also done his MBA – Marketing & Communications from Ashwood University. He also blogs.

Website/s: www.hovr.com

Contact Address

HOVR Software Pvt Ltd
919, 9th Floor,
Galleria,
DLF Phase IV, Gurgaon,
Haryana 122002, India
W: (91) 124 4057349

City: Gurgaon

Additional Notes:

HOVR provides free downloadable cell phone games including puzzle, action, casino, sports games and many more. One can directly download HOVR’s free mobile games to one’s mobile phone or one can choose to download on one’s computer. It has also launched Hovr Mobilespace, a social network.

Company Overview:

Affle is a a Britain-based technology company. They have developed technology to allow for real-time content /advertising discovery on the mobile phone supported by GPRS/3G/CDMA as a medium.

Management

Anuj Khanna, CEO & Chairman Executive Committee, Experienced Serial Entrepreneur & Innovator

Anuj Khanna is a serial entrepreneur & innovator, and founder of three high-tech companies – myMCSB in 2000, SecLore in 2000 and the third is Affle in 2005. Anuj completed his B.E in Computer Engineering from NUS (Singapore) on the SIA Scholarship and dropped out of his M.Sc to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship.

Anuj Kumar, Executive Director (South Asia) Professional

Anuj Kumar started his career in advertising, working with the leading advertising & media companies – JWT & GroupM MindShare, managing the advertising business of some of the largest advertisers. He later moved to ESPN STAR Sports, where his role included programming, acquisitions, & sales strategy formulation. Anuj Kumar holds Bachelors in Economics from St. Stephen’s College (India) and a Masters in Communications from MICA (India).

Parijat Mishra, Techinical Director

Parijat holds a B.E in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Prior to Affle, Parijat had lead several R&D projects at the Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore. He is a Linux and functional programming aficionado. While at Affle, he invented the software development GPACS process. Parijat has designed and implemented the core technology platforms that form the foundation of all Affle products and product development processes.

Website/s: www.affle.co.uk

Corporate Address
First Floor, Block B
Vatika Atrium,
Sector 53,
Gurgaon 122002, India

Phone: +91 124 4375543
Fax: +91 124 4375545

City: Gurgaon

Additional Notes:

Affle has launched a new platform for text messaging application SMS, SMS2.0. A search function embedded in SMS2.0 allows users to conduct a search as they would on the Internet via search engines like Google, Yahoo or Microsoft

Company Overview:

MAUJ Mobile is a Telecom Solutions company offering services in three areas -

• Mobile Content & Applications (Games, Wallpapers, Ringtones, News, Matrimonials)
• Mobile Software & Services (Middleware Solutions, Roaming Applications,SMS Gateways)
• Mobile Media Solutions (Advertising and Branding Opportunities)

The company develops services on all leading platforms including J2ME, Smartphone, BREW, Symbian, SS7 and I-Mode and is partnered with some of the leading wireless operators in the world.

Management

MAUJ is the wireless division of the People Group, which is also involved in Internet businesses (Shaadi.com, Fropper.com) and Film Production (People Pictures). The company was founded by Anupam Mittal in 1997.

Manoj Dawane, CEO

MAUJ is headed by Manoj Dawane, a CEO and has sustainable experience working in the technology & telecom domains. Prior to Mauj, Manoj has played commendable senior roles with Bharti Airtel, NetDecisions Group and Hutch as the COO of Uttranchal and Western UP circle.

Website: www.mauj.com

Investors:

Mauj is an mobile and telecommunication wing of People Interactive and was funded Sequoia capital.

Key competitors:

www.acl-wireless.com

Additional Information:

Founded in 2003, MAUJ has developed partnerships with more than 25 operators and portals worldwide. The Company offers solutions in Mobile games both in the domestic as well as international markets. MAUJ employs approximately 110 people in its offices in Mumbai, Dubai, London, and New York.

Company Profile:

People Group was founded by Anupam Mittal in 2001 and has over 350 employees with operations in India, USA, UK and the UAE. Within India, the group operates out of 6 regional offices.

They own businesses like Shaadi.com, is an online matrimonial service based out of Mumbai. Shaadipoint.com, provides matrimonial related services from match making to wedding planning. Shaadi times.com, is a wedding portal providing information, and expert advice on relationship and marriage. Fropper.com, is a social networking site run from Mumbai. Astrolife.com is a full fullfledged online astrology service provider. It also hosts advice s and guidance from renowned experts like Marjorie Orr. Mauj.com & 7007 offers, content and apllication related mobile – telecom services.

Management:

Anupam Mittal, CMD People Interactive.

Anupam Mittal founded People interactive in 1997 in Mumbai where it is now headquartered. An MBA graduate from Boston, Anupam Mittal has more than 10 years of management and business development experience in technology, media and communication industries. He has worked at senior management positions in US and Europe. Today the total strength of the entire Group is 400 employees with offices in India USA, UK & UAE. Anupam Mittal was also the Chairman at IAMAI

Investors:

West Bridge capital partners

Sequoia Capital

Intel Capital

Key Competitors:

www.bharatmatrimony.com

www.jeevansaathi.com

www.simplymarry.com

Websites:

www.shaadi.com

www.shaadipoint.com

www.shaaditimes.com

www.fropper.com

www.astrolife.com

www.mauj.com

Corporate Office:

Headquarters
People Interactive (I) Pvt Ltd
Shiv-e-Numh, 2nd floor, 205, Dr Annie Besant Road,
Worli, Mumbai – 400 018.
Phone: +91-22-24952277, Fax: +91-22-24951177

Customer Relations
People Interactive (I) Pvt Ltd
83-C, 1st Floor, Hansraj Pragji Building,
Off Dr. E. Moses Road,
Worli, Mumbai 400 018
Phone: 1-800-222077 (Toll Free), Fax: +91-22-24812300

People Infocom Pvt Ltd
Film Centre Building, 68, Tardeo Road, Tardeo,
Mumbai – 400 034
Phone: +91-22-23517007, Fax: +91-22-23517008

Additional Information:

People Interactive is a multi-brand Internet company. People Group recently secured a total investment of $18mn through leading venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital and Intel Capital. The group operates in the Mobile VAS space through its company People Infocom. People Group is also involved in film & television production and event management through subsidiary companies, People Pictures, Purple Media and PEP Management respectively.

Company Overview:

ACL Wireless Limited is a leading India-based provider of mobile value added services to operators, enterprises and consumers. It provides solutions in the field of mobile communities, instant messaging, carrier agnostic connectivity, billing and content aggregation. The community & messaging services suite comprises of products such as mobile chat, mobile social networking, mobile photo sharing and internet messengers on mobile. These are available across the GPRS & SMS mediums.

Management:

Sanjay K Goyal, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Sanjay is a serial entrepreneur. He founded ACL Wireless in early 2000 and evolved it to become the fastest growing technology company in India by 2005.Sanjay graduated with honors in mechanical engineering in 1992 from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Atanu Mandal, President

Atanu, an IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad alumni, has been the founder of the first Indian Mobile ASP and Solution Provider. Prior to joining ACL, he served as the CEO of Cellnext.A veteran technologist and business leader, he brings a significant experience of 17 years from the telecom and wireless arenas to ACL, where he is responsible for day-to-day operations.

Nures Sayeed, Chief Marketing Officer

Nures is a Master in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.Nures moved to SpiceJet Airlines in 2005 and developed the complete look and feel for its brand launch in India in May 2005. Having being involved in the advisory board of ACL since its conceptualisation, Nures has joined full time in 2006 as the CMO and is currently spearheading brand development and marketing initiatives. Nures is also a keen golfer.

Vineet Jain, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer

Vineet Jain, the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer with 11 years of experience in the field of engineering, leads the company’s software engineering group. He has been a key player in the definition, development and creation of ACL’s leading wireless applications. 

Debmalya De, Chief Technical Officer (Managed Mobility Services)

Debmalya is a B.Tech graduate in Radio Physics and Electronics from Calcutta University. Prior to joining ACL, he worked with Modi Telstra, IBM & Wipro Technologies.

Board Directors:

1. Lewis P. Rutherfurd (Co-founder and Managing Director of Inter-Asia Management)
2. Sanjay K Goyal (From the management)
3. Ashish Kashyap (CEO of MIH India)
4. Atanu Mandal (From the ACL Management)
5. M.S. Fung (Chief Operating Officer of Inter-Asia)
6. Leroux Neethling (CFO MIH India)

Investors:

MIH Internet India (A part of Naspers Group based in South Africa) which runs the Web 2.0 portal ibibo.com invested 12.3 million USD in ACL Wireless in July 2007. (Related link). Their ticker sign is ACL
Inter-Asia is one of Asia’s premier venture fund management firms to seize the growing investment opportunities in the Asian markets.

Website: www.acl-wireless.com

Contact Information:

India,
ACL Wireless Limited Community & Messaging Services
First Floor, Tower D, Logix Technopark
5 – Expressway, Sec-127, Noida, UP – 201301

Tel +91.120.4069400
Fax +91.120.4069599

Locate India

Additional Information: Founded in 2000, the company employs over 220 people and operates from its offices in Noida, New Delhi, Mumbai & Dubai. ACL was declared a Red Herring 100 Asia winner for 2006 and has also been ranked amongst India’s fastest growing technology companies by Deloitte, two years in a row.