Business Description:Synage is one of the very first Software As A Service (SaaS) companies from India. DeskAway, its flagship service, is a monthly, subscription-based online team and project collaboration service that helps individuals, small businesses, and teams within larger organizations to organize, manage and track their projects from a central location with their partners, employees and clients.
With the growing number of small businesses/ distributed teams, increased broadband penetration, and 24x7 mobile work culture, DeskAway is rightly poised to give teams an accurate view of how their projects are doing and help eliminate common problems that occur when multiple people are collaborating: email spam, multiple file versions, lost files, task accountability issues, lack of reporting & work transparency.
Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software
Founded in:2007
Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity
Significant Competitors:Basecamp, GoPlan, CentralDesktop, Zoho Projects
Company Details :
Company Name:DeskAway
HeadQuarters:Mumbai
Stage of the company:Scaling up
No of Employees (2006):Did not exist
No of Employees (2007):6-15
Office Locations(2006):Did not exist
Office Locations(2007):0-1
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Profits (2006):Did not exist
Profits (2007):
>Partnerships:
Initial Funding:
Addl Funding:Personal savings
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:a) Recurring monthly/yearly subscriptions b) Ad supported Free plan
Awards & honors:Finalist, Proto.in in 2008; Finalist, Startup.in in 2008
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Sahil Parikh
Age:28
HomeTown:Mumbai
Education:Bachelors University of North Carolina
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Family Background:Business
Job:Software Dev team at ClinicalTools Inc
Ex-Job Description:Heading a Software Dev team
Favorite Book/Movie:E-Myth by Michael Gerber , Movie: The Hurricane
