Accentium Web Pvt Ltd is a young and dynamic Internet company in India with a competent technical and business team and a vision to be one of the leading players in the Consumer Internet space in India.

Accentium runs Gaadi.com – an auto portal offering users a convenient place to research and buy New Cars and a quick and easy way to buy and sell used cars; SecondShaadi.com – India’s No. 1 site for people looking for a Second Marriage; StudyTimes.com – a content rich education site catering to students looking for both domestic and international study options.

Accentium also has an ownership in SitaGita.com – one of the leading online brands catering to the woman audience. We also have an exciting product in the content aggregation space, Taaza.com

Accentium also offers Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Optimization services through its brand Adlift.

Management

Vivek Pahwa, Founder and CEO
Ankur Warikoo, Co-Founder
Umang Kumar, Co-Founder

Company Address: 21-C, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon – 122016, Haryana
Contact Email ID: sales@accentium.com
Contact Number: 0124-4091111

Website: Accentium.com, SecondShaadi.com, StudyTimes.com, AdLift.com

Key Competitors

Education: shiksha.com, studyplaces.com
Matrimonial: shaadi.com, bharatmatrimony.com, jeevansaathi.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/

“StudioSmile” provides consultative, traditional and e-business analysis, strategic planning, development, design and implementation solutions in the internet business.

Other subsidiaries of this group include:

,a Design Studio

– An online media agency

Tyroo – An Adnetwork.

Zoomtra – A travel search engine.

InfoKarma – A mobile content portal which is yet to be launched.

Management

Harish Bahl, MD & CEO

Harish Bahl is the group CEO for Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG), who founded SITG in 1999 and since then has been incubating & heading the complete group portfolio. An engineer in computer sciences he brings over a decade of technical knowledge and entrepreneurial skills to the company

Manish Vij, Co-Founder & Business Lead

Manish, an MBA, is one of the youngest dotcom entrepreneurs with India’s first auction web site, kabadibazaar.com. Prior to Co-founding SITG group, he has worked with India’s largest portal Rediff.com for over 4 years.

C P Singh, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

C.P. Singh is an engineer in computer sciences and a PGD in Network Hardware Technologies and a graduate from the University of Karnataka. He is also the Co-founder of Smile Interactive Technologies Group.

Mahendra Swarup, Chief Mentor
An MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Mahendra was last the Head of Private Treaties initiative of Times of India Group. He has held positions like the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Times Internet Limited (Indiatimes.com) and Executive Director of Pepsi India. During his 30 years of business experience, he has held corporate responsibilities in blue-chip companies like ACC, Nestle India, Sun Breweries–Moscow and PepsiCo India at the senior-most functional levels.

Website: www.sitg.in

Contact Address

Smile Multimedia Private Limited
136-A, Second Floor, Vishal House,
Zamrudpur, Kailash Colony,
New Delhi, India Zip Code-110048
Land Mark : Opposite Lady shri Ram College
Phone : 011-29240251, 29240252, 29240253
Fax : 011-29240254

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

Yahoo recently invested in Tyroo – The Adnetwork from SITG.

Company Overview:

Zoomtra.com is a online travel search engine, focusing specifically on the Indian market. You can search flights, hotels, and travel packages. They are not a travel agency, therefore, you can not buy the ticket, or hotel from them, but instead they refer you directly to the site of the provider. The site searches the internet for the best offesr, searching many different providers, delivering many different options for you to choose from. There is no registration or fee required i.e. its free of cost. The Zoomtra team is a part of Studio Smile (www.studiosmile.com).

Management

Harish Bahl, MD & CEO

Harish Bahl is the group MD & CEO for Smile Interactive Technologies Group (SITG), who founded SITG in 1999 and since then has been incubating & heading the complete group portfolio.

Website/s: www.zoomtra.com, www.studiosmile.com

Contact Address
136-A, Second Floor,
Vishal House,
Zamrudpur,
Kailash Colony,
New Delhi, India Zip Code-110048

Phone: +91-11- 29240251, 29240252, 29240253
Fax: +91-11 – 29240254

City: New Delhi

Additional Information:

Zoomtra is a travel search engine aggregating and displaying comprehensive information from multiple travel providers on Air tickets, Rail tickets, Hotel bookings and International flights as needed.

Strategic Partners :

Yahoo!: Is the Internet’s leading global consumer and business services company, offering a comprehensive network of essential services for Web users around the globe as well as businesses of all sizes.

Floosietek: Is a long established company based in the United Kingdom which designs one of the world’s leading email servers.

NTT | VERIO: Is the one of the world’s largest web hosting company and leading provider of comprehensive Internet services.

Real Media 24 x 7: Is considered to be as the world’s best interactive marketing service provider. 

Perego Solutions:Perego Solutions offers comprehensive outsourcing solutions for the travel industry in the areas of Customer Contact, Technology and Transaction Processing.

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.

Company Overview:
Indiaplaza, with its operations in Bangalore, Chennai and Austin, is an India-centric e-commerce company. It was formed as a result of acquisition of US-based e-commerce company Indiaplaza.com by Fabmall.com, an e-commerce company in India .It offers a catalogue of over 3.5 million items for sale and also has in-house control of web technologies, warehousing and logistics; supported by a 24-hour Customer Service Centre in Bangalore.

Management:

Param Parmeswaran, Chairman

Param began his career with McKinsey & Company, Inc, in New York. Later, after a short stint on Wall Street as the Director of Corporate Finance of a boutique investment bank, he co-founded and was President of Integra Technology. He is also Chairman of Indigo Monsoon Group.

Param is a graduate of St.Xavier’s College of Calcutta University, a C.A and obtained his MBA from the Wharton School of Business. He helped found the TiE organization is Seattle.

V S Sudhakar, Co-Founder & Director

Sudhakar began his career with the TVS Group and then worked for a few years with Microland. He was the CEO of Planetasia, a part of the Microland Group.
He is an engineering graduate from the Reginal Engineering College, Allahabad and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

K. Vaitheeswaran, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

He began his career in 1985 with Murugappa Electronics. He joined Wipro Infotech thereafter in 1989 where he held various positions in sales, marketing and business planning of Computers & Peripherals in Chennai and Bangalore. He was a part of the six-member team, which co-founded Fabmart in August 1999 and later Fabmall in January 2003, which now is Indiaplaza.in

Vaitheeswaran holds an electronics engineering degree from Govt. College of Engg., Tirunelveli affiliated to the Madurai-Kamaraj University.

Website/s: www.indiaplaza.com , www.indiaplaza.in

Key Competitors:

Ebay India, Futurebazaar

Contact Address:

Fabmall House
#673, 10th Main, 7th Cross,
HAL IInd Stage, Indiranagar
Bangalore – 560 008. India.

City: Bangalore

Investors: The Indigo Monsoon Group (IMG)

Additional Notes: Indiaplaza (formerly Fabmall.com) also powers the shopping for partner websites like indiaplaza.com, ndtvshopping.com, manoramaemart.com etc.

Company Overview:

CarWale is an automative classified portal providing data for consumers and other stakeholder in the automotive ecosystem. It also provides marketing services for dealers trading in cars. It acts as a source of information about buying and selling used cars. The company blog .The site offers unique tools to help visitors research and compare all cars available in India today. Subscribers can buy and sell cars through the Classifieds section.

Management

Mohit Dubey, CEO and Founder

Mohit Dubey is the CEO of CarWale.com, an entrepreneur by nature, Dubey’s goal is to make it the leading online auto portal in India. In the past Dubey has been the head of marketing at Cyber Infodev Pvt Ltd and Dirshtee.com. He’s done his graduation from Goa University. His linkedIn profile.

Website/s : www.carwale.com,

Corporate Address

Shri Nidhi, 66/4,
Sector 28, Vashi, Navi Mumbai – 400703
Telephone: (022) 32651254/55
Fax: (022) 27890288

Investors: Seedfund has invested in Carwale by picking up close to 30% stake in the company for an undisclosed amount.

Additional Notes:

CarWale.com is backed by a wide network of new car and pre-owned car dealers who provide stock details, quotes and other services to thousands of online customers.Going beyond the online presence, CarWale has launched a classified magazine for used cars.

Company Overview:

Guruji.com is a crawler based search engine for India and India related content. Its proprietary algorithm automatically identifies India related content on the web and organizes it.

Management:   

Anurag Dod, Chief Executive Officer and Founder

Anurag has 10+ years of extensive software engineering experience. As an Engineering Manager in Wisenut Search Engine, he was instrumental in developing its Core Search Technology and has a patent pending for that. He also held senior engineering positions in EBay, Synopsis and Delsoft.

Anurag holds B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and Masters in Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Gaurav Mishra, Chief Operating Officer and Founder

Gaurav has over 10+ years of software development experience and has worked in senior engineering positions for Microsoft, Pillar Data Systems and Nokia.

Gaurav holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in Computer Science and a Masters of Science from State University of New York, Buffalo.

Website: www.guruji.com

Its Blog: http://blog.guruji.com/

Investors: Sequoia Capital India, Nexus India Capital
Corporate Address:
Guruji.com Software Private Limited
Legacy Building, 1st Floor
#6 Convent Road
Richmond Town
Bangalore, Karnataka – 560025
India
Phone: +91-80-41477511
Fax: +91-80-41477513

City: Bangalore

Additional Notes: Guruji.com also provides search facility in Hindi, Kannada and Telugu besides English.

Company Overview:

Just Dial is an information service provider in eight Indian metropolitan cities. It provides listing of businesses and commercial establishments along with their addresses, telephone numbers, websites, line of business, etc. Here one can also find details of various cinema halls playing the latest movies, options to select restaurants based on their cuisine, price or location, and a wide range of other listings.

Management

V.S.S. Mani, Founder & Managing Director

Mani was born in Jamshedpur, raised in Kolkata, and was studying to be a chartered accountant when he was pushed into a sales job in New Delhi with a directory firm. His first venture was a matrimonial magazine. And then he began to cultivate Just Dial from 1996, two years after he founded the company.

Website/s: www.justdial.com

Corporate Address

Just Dial Private Limited
Palm Court Bldg M,
501/B, 5th Floor,
New Link Road,
Besides Goregaon Sports Complex,
Malad (w),
Mumbai – 400064.

City: Mumbai

Investors: Tiger Global Hong Kong-based SAIF Partners

Key Competition: Yellowpages, Askme

Additional Notes:

One can call them on their single national number 3999 9999 to get appropriate information. Delhi Users can call 22222222 for information. Or else visit their website.

Company Overview:

iXigo is a travel search engine, aggregating and providing airline travel information to online user. One can choose the provider one wants to book tickets with, and can complete the booking directly on the provider’s site. iXiGO is an offering from Travenues, a travel technology company.

Management:

Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO

Aloke has over 6 years of managerial, operational, and product experience in the travel-technology. He has led strategic business development and partnerships at FinalQuadrant. He holds an electrical engineering degree from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from INSEAD.

Jens Schutter, VP, Products

Jens has been responsible for design, business logic, and implementation of key modules for Amadeus agency platforms. Jens has architected content frameworks, designed enterprise solutions and trained personnel during his earlier experiences at Lycos, IBM and Unilog. Jens holds a Masters in Engineering from Bielefeld University, Germany.

Rajnish Kumar, Vice president, Technology

Rajnish has to his credit J2EE applications and content management systems being used worldwide by Amadeus employees. Rajnish holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT).

Dharmendra Yashovardhan, Head, Marketing & BizDev

Dharmendra has consulted for Airlines, Fortune 500 companies and leading governmental bodies. Dharmendra holds an Engineering degree from MERI, Kolkata and has an MBA from INSEAD .

Website: www.ixigo.com

Address:
917, Galleria Towers
DLF phase
Gurgaon
Haryana

City: Gurgaon

Additional Information: They plan to launch flight alerts where users of iXiGo would be able to set their travel destination, date and budget and the search engine would automatically send them email alerts as and when it finds a matching option.
iXiGO has also launched  flight search on mobile, in partnership with OnYoMo.