Business Description:Location based streaming service that pushes relevant content to the people at the right time on their handheld phones.
Trackut is an operator-independent and free location-based streaming service that will help users create location oriented groups, network with friends and share location tagged data. Trackut works on a wide range of phones, including the ones without GPS capability. Trackut can stream a variety of information to the mobile users like peer location, local traffic updates, event info, classifieds, shopping guide, emergency info and customer locations.
Apart from streaming information onto your mobile, Trackut provides a unique way to capture stories, interesting locations, useful information by tagging the information with location and time.Trackut has powerful web, widget and third party application extensions. Trackut converges location based information seamlessly between mobile, Trackut web, social networking applications and embeddable widgets. Trackut assimilates existing networks and communities through the Trackut application on social networking portals which helps users bootstrap Trackut with just a few clicks.
Industry:Telecom/ Mobile
Founded in:2007
Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity
Significant Competitors:Loopt, Whirrl, Whereabouts
Company Details :
Company Name:Trackut
HeadQuarters:Bangalore
Stage of the company:Several customers or locations
No of Employees (2006):6-15
No of Employees (2007):16-25
Office Locations(2006):0-1
Office Locations(2007):0-1
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Profits (2006):preprofit
Profits (2007):preprofit
>Partnerships:Partnerships in talks :
OEMS : Nokia, Huawei
Content Providers : YellowPages.com and few more OEMs and content providers
Initial Funding:Personal savings
Addl Funding:Angel investors
Institutitional Capital:No
Revneue Model:By providing a platform for Location Based Advertising and Location Based Commerce, which we plan to commence after reaching the critical mass of users.
Awards & honors:Nominated for Nokia Innovation Funnel
Promoters Details :
Promoters Name(s):Vishnu Sunderam
Age:26
HomeTown:Coimbatore
Education:Masters
No of companies promoted:Yes (2)
Family Background:Business
Job:P2 Associate at Trilogy
Ex-Job Description:Evangalizing Products
Favorite Book/Movie:Forrest Gump
