Company Profile:

GoYaar.com is an India specific social utility website launched in September 2006. With its unique user specific tools, GoYaar’s platform provides fully integrated email, video, photo album, blogging, instant messaging and peer-to-peer collaboration tools, all as a one-stop source.

Management:

Phalgun Raju, CEO

Phalgun Raju is a 29-year old former McKinsey and Company Consultant with Master’s degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School. He is also the founder and CEO of Go yaar.

Website: www.goyaar.com

Contact Information:

Questions: memberservices [-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Advertise on GoYaar: sales [-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Careers at GoYaar: recruiting[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Business Development: bizdev[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com
Media Inquiries: mediarelations[-at-]goyaar[-dot-]com

Additional Information:

GoYaar.com, a social networking site, has launched a social search engine and directory for India-focused web content including blogs, audio pod casts, video, music, events, groups, bookmarks, and local business reviews and recommendations.

Company Profile:

MIH Web India, is a subsidiary of MIH the worldwide digital business division of Naspers, the South Africa-headquartered media conglomerate. MIH India provides Internet and mobile related services through its independent brands. It is currently on the lookout for new possibilities of investing in online business and new start-ups in India.

Management

Ashish Kashyap, Country manager & CEO

Prior to his appointment with MIH-Internet (India) as CEO, Ashish was the Managing Director, AdSales for Google India. Ashish also has worked with companies like IndiaTimes.com, MTV and Times FM radio. He studied economics at University Of Delhi, where he graduated with honors, and an International Masters in Practicing Management from Insead, Fontainebleau,France. His Linkedin profile,

Their websites include,

Pixrat, a photo sharing site.
Bixee.com, a job search aggregator
Motafish.com, – For casual gamers
Chotafish.com – Kids gaming site.
ibibo.com – User generated content platform

Contact Address:

Vatika Towers
Ground Floor, Block A,
DLF Golf Course Road, Sector 54
Gurgaon-122003
Haryana, India

Additional Information

MIH had earlier acquired startups Bixee and Pixrat, and now MIH is looking to enter mobile’s value added services market, by picking up 30% stake in ACL Wireless VAS service.

Company Overview:

SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations on the web. The SlideShare team is a small, tightly-knit group of developers and designers based in Mountain View (California, USA) & New Delhi (India) respectively. Slideshare’s blog

Management

Rashmi Sinha, CEO

Rashmi manages community and business development for SlideShare.
Rashmi is a designer, researcher and entrepreneur. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive NeuroPsychology from Brown University and has taught at SIMS, UC Berkeley. She is involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture Society, and co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series. Rashmi earlier co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting company. Her personal Blog

Amit Ranjan, COO

Amit has a previous background in product marketing, sales & consumer research. His last job was with PepsiCo; prior to PepsiCo, he worked with Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi and a Mechanical Engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur. He authors Webyantra, India’s most widely read Web 2.0 blog. And he is part of the organizing team of Proto.in, India’s premier event for showcasing tech startups. Amits personal blog.

Jon Boutelle, CTO

Jon is the CTO of SlideShare. He studied Computer Science at Brown University. He started his career writing computer graphics code at AVS. He then spent several years working in the enterprise ecommerce space as a software engineer at CommerceOne. Jon writes a blog focused on rich internet technologies (AJAX, Flash, Flex et al). Jon’s personal Blog

Website/s: www.slideshare.net

Contact Information
655 W. Evelyn Ave #4,
Mountain View CA 94041,
email: rashmi@slideshare.net
Office Telephone: 650-564-0000
Office Fax: 877-801-8097

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

One can upload one’s PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into one’s blog or website, browse others’ presentations, and comment on individual slides. The transcripts of ones presentation will be indexed by internet search engines and show up in search results.

TechTribe.com is a career networking platform, specifically for tech professionals, college students and software developers based in India. TechTribe revolves around the concept of Tribers (aka members) and Tribes (aka communities). Tribers connect with each other via Tribes. TechTribe is limited to the techie community of India.

Management

Rohit Agarwal, CEO

Rohit Agarwal is the founder and CEO of techTribe Networks. Prior to starting techTribe, Rohit has held the positions of vice president, strategic marketing at Baan Company, founding VP of marketing and business development at Webify Solutions, founding VP, marketing at CommercialWare and VP, product strategy at newScale. He has also held sales and marketing management positions at Remedy Corporation (acquired by BMC), and FileNet (acquired by IBM).

Alfred A Vieira, VP Products and Co-founder.

Alfred A Vieira is a product management executive with a background in the design of software for workflow, collaboration and service delivery management. He has done his B.A. (Psychology) from Yale University, followed by A Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from University of California.

Sean Pudney, Chief Architect

Before joining techtribe, Sean Pudney has worked as Technical Architect in newsScale and as Senior Engineer in Spectra Consulting. He has done his B.S. (Electrical Engineering) from Michigan State University.
Personal Link:

Website/s: www.techtribe.com

Investors:  Canaan Partners

Corporate Address

146-149 Tribhuvan Complex
Ishwar Nagar New Delhi 110 065
India

City: New Delhi

Additional Notes:

The section Grassroots provides a way for raising a petition; get the community to provide their thoughts on it, and send the feedback to someone who can impact the change. Members can express their thoughts in Blogs, and share acquired knowledge through Articles. With techTribe frontFoot, one can refer other Tribers to job opportunities.

Indyarocks is an online and mobile-based social networking site for connecting Indians across the globe. The platform also provides unlimited media (photos, videos, blogs, classifieds etc.) storage and sharing capabilities for all its users through its media centre.

Management:

Dr. Vishnu, Co-Founder & Head of strategy

A technology savvy medical doctor, Vishnu was the soul behind Innova Health Systems which aimed to provide quality health care to rural India. Innova was acquired later in 2002. He later, along with Kalyan, founded Indyarocks.

Kalyan Manyam, Co-Founder & Head of India operations.

Prior to Indyarocks, Kalyan Manyam was heading the APAC sales/alliances for a niche US based Product Company. When he was 23 years old, he also had founded a health care technology firm – Innova Health Systems Ltd. which got acquired later. He is an active member of TiE Hyderabad chapter. He is also an active member of Naandi foundation.

Website: www.indyarocks.com

Key Competition: www.yaari.com, www.fropper.com, www.minglebox.com, www.orkut.com , www.facebook.com

City: Hyderabad

Additional Information: It is the flagship service of PhoneLinx Communications which is based out of San Jose, California and Hyderabad, India. Indyarocks has recently launched its widescreen online video feature.

Company Overview: Yaari is a social networking site for people looking for old associates, business networking and friends.

Management:

Name: Prerna Gupta, Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Prerna graduated from Stanford University with a BA in economics and was working in a venture capital firm, before she decided to start Yaari.com.

Name: Parag Chordia, Chief Technical Officer & Co-founder

Parag solves all technical problems faced by the site. In his spare time, he teaches at Georgia Tech. Parag received his PhD from Stanford University in artificial intelligence and music, and his BS in math from Yale.

Website: www.yaari.com

Key Competition: www.orkut.com, www.facebook.com

City: New Delhi

Company Profile:

Minglebox Communications Private Ltd. is a VC funded start-up in the space of internet and mobile, founded by ex IIT/IIM alumni. The founders are marketing and technology professionals with varied experience in consumer goods, internet, telecom, financial services and IT industries across India and the US.

Management:

Kavita Iyer, CEO

Kavita is the Chief Executive Officer of Minglebox and has over 10 years experience across business and marketing roles in India’s leading corporates – the Tata Group, ICICI and till recently Wipro Technologies’ financial services business. She is a director’s gold medallist from IIT Delhi and an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus.

Sanjay Aggarwal, Chief Technology Officer

Sanjay is the Chief Technology Officer of the company and has over 12 years of experience in the software/IT industry. He was a key member of an early stage telecom startup in Boston where he helped build a highly scalable web based Network Management solution. He has worked for many global services/products/technology companies including Yahoo, Infosys, Nortel and Cascade/Lucent. Sanjay holds a Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi.

Sushma Abburi, Chief Product Officer

Sushma Abburi is the Chief Product Officer of the company and has over 10 years of experience in product management and IT consulting with leading corporates in the US and India. She started her career with Hindustan Lever and till recently headed global support for a range of supply chain products with i2 Technologies. She has an MS from Georgia Tech, Atlanta and a Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi.

Investors:

Minglebox received $ 7 million in funding from Sequoia capital India.

Key Competitors:

www.orkut.com

www.yaari.com

www.fropper.com