NextBiT Computing

Business Description:NextBiT Computing started as a provider of complete product solutions in the domain of broadcast, hand-held and Mobile Consumer Electronic Devices. With hardware and software intellectual property finding use in devices like Digital Set Top Box for IPTV, DVB and Digital Signage, Personal Media Player, Mobile and navigation devices, NextBiT has worked with customers from across the world, powering the designs of over 5 Consumer Electronic devices.

In 2006, with the perceived growth in the demand for digital signage infrastructure, NextBiT launched gCoSign which is a product-service offering, addressing the growing Indian digital signage market.

NextBiT offers a Consumer electronic grade hardware available to customers on upfront sale, and a web-based signage player management service available on a monthly subscription basis. This combination offers customer a low cost, easy to set-up, easy to manage and operate system for execution country wide digital signage networks with the least amount of operational expenses.

GcoSign also provides methods for generating information which help customers in monetizing their signage networks. NextBiT also works with a number of Consumer electronic companies providing them with complete system designs for device such as Personal Media Players, Set Top Boxes, Blu-Ray Firmware, Navigation devices and more.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2005

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:Broadsign , Scala , 3M Digital Signage, www.streme.tv, Cisco Digital Signage

Company Details :

Company Name:NextBiT Computing

HeadQuarters:Bangalore

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):16-25

Office Locations(2006):6-15

Office Locations(2007):over 30

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):16- 50 lacs

Profits (2007):1-5 crore

>Partnerships:Member of Texas Instruments Third Party Network

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:1. Sell the gCoSign Digital Playback hardware for signage and related applications

2. Monthly management interface subscription from every signed customer

3. Other ancillary services (Value Added Services) provided to customer on subscription basis

Awards & honors:Participated at Texas Instruments Developer Conference 06, 07

Presented at Proto.in, July 08

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Vishal Somnath

Age:29

HomeTown:Quepem, Goa

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Principal Engineer at iSoftTech Pvt. Ltd

Ex-Job Description:Embedded System Software

Favorite Book/Movie:The butterfly effect

www.orangetrend.in

Business Description:We sell t-shirts, printing/ embroidering on them using our designs available online or customising as per customer's designs. Payments can be made through the payment gateway. We do our shipment within three days.

Industry:T Shirts

Founded in:2005

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:myntra.com, dilsebol.com, youthcode.com

Company Details :

Company Name:Orangetrend

HeadQuarters:Coimbatore

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):1 to 5 lacs

Profits (2007):1 to 5 lacs

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:By providing high quality, quick service (i.e. within 3 days), even for bulk Corporate T shirt orders, we get a good price for our t-shirts.

Awards & honors:Nothing in Particular

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Premnath R

Age:28

HomeTown:Tirupur

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Factory Manager at Poppys Knitwear Pvt Ltd

Ex-Job Description:Production & HR

Favorite Book/Movie:Frozen Thoughts

www.orangedestinations.com

Business Description:Orange Destinations is a leading corporate Travel Company located in New Delhi. They help the corporates to find hotel accommodations/ Transportation/ Conference venues/ Corporate Picnic Spots/ Corporate Dinners/ Meeting Places/ PR/ Event management etc.

Industry:Hospitality/ Travel

Founded in:2007

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Make My trip.com, Travel Guru, FCM Travels

Company Details :

Company Name:OrangeDestinations

HeadQuarters:New Delhi

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

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:No

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):6 to 15 lacs

>Partnerships:N.A.

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal credit cards

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Orange Destinations negotiate with the vendors for the best available rates. And they sell to clients on a commission basis or they take commissions from the vendors.

Awards & honors:Best New Travel Company by Kerala Tourism.

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Sam John

Age:26

HomeTown:Cochin

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Sr. BDM at The Metropolitan Hotel, New Delhi

Ex-Job Description:Sales & Marketing

Favorite Book/Movie:God Of Small Things

www.parichay.co.in

Business Description:Parichay is for-profit-social-venture reviving/promoting artforms/crafts that are nearly extinct due to lack of innovation and market-interface. We provide a more sustainable, non-migratory livelihood to our rural/tribal artisans. Parichay involves modern-professional designers to produce contemporary high utility products that address customer needs and create a regular sale-cycle.

The USP is the Fusion Art where various art forms are fused together to make a perfect blend and give a high perceived value product. To implement our plans we have established our Design and Learning Center at Jamshedpur (housing six craft studios, Sales outlet and accommodation) which is first-of-its-king in Jharkhand.

Industry:Handicraft - Social Venture

Founded in:2008

Source of idea:Discovered by chance

Significant Competitors:Potential & Indirect competitors: Synthetic product producers

Current & Direct competitors: NGOs, Fabindia, Khadi Gram Udyog, The art circle, various non branded products in the modern retail stores

Competitors in similar products: Ply-Boo Industries, Behrampur; Timpack Pvt. Ltd., Byrnihat; Kerala State Bamboo Corporation Ltd., Angamaly

Company Details :

Company Name:Parichay

HeadQuarters:Jamshedpur

Stage of the company:Have prototype

No of Employees (2006):Did not exist

No of Employees (2007):6-15

Office Locations(2006):Did not exist

Office Locations(2007):2-5

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):preprofit

>Partnerships:Current Partnerships:

* NGOs: Kalamandir, SJVK, SEEDS

* XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust

Partnerships/Tie-ups in the pipeline

* Design Schools: NIFT, NID, Pearl Academy

* Interior Design Malls: Ishanya (Pune)

* Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts

* Retails Giants: Home D?r

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Angel investors

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Our income source is the sale of Parichay Designed and partner NGOs/organizations products to:

* Interior Designers

* Corporate

* Modern retail stores

* Retail customers

* Industrial: Steel Industry, Army, Railways, Real estate companies

Specialist Sales Channel:

* Designers: Our established designers recommend products to their existing customers to get orders for customized products for snob value customers

* Interior Design Malls: to demonstrate/sell our products

* Personal Networking of partners and associates (B2B - Corporate sales)

Retail Channel:

* Online Sales at http://www.parichay.co.in

* Modern Retail Outlets (State and private)

Awards & honors:* Nominated for the Manthan Awards South Asia 2008

* 1st Social Venture funded by XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust

* Felicitated by NABARD, 2008

* Appreciated by Press (print and visual media) for the contribution to society & field of art

* Founder Vikas Sharma appreciated and awarded 4th Best Management Student award at 16th Business School Affaire and Dewang Mehta Foundation Awards for the initiative.

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Vikas Sharma

Age:26

HomeTown:Delhi

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Business Developer at UTStarcom Inc

Ex-Job Description:Product Business Development - South Asia Region

Favorite Book/Movie:How to change the world

www.pallaviarts.com

Business Description:Pallavi Arts was founded in 2003 to provide services related to designing and printing.

Pallavi Arts is a major supplier to world's known, India's largest and top automotive companies viz Maruti Suzuki (Including Pune Dealers-Chowgule Industries, My Car Pvt. Ltd.), Toyota (Including Pune Dealer DSK Toyota) and in other sectors, Hindustan Petroleum, Government of Maharashtra (Agriculture Dept.), Ramlex Pvt. Ltd., National Indosonic, Crystal Farma Pvt. Ltd., Smt. Hiraben Nanavati Institute of Management & Research for Women etc.

Pallavi Arts provides leading companies with Printing and Web Development solutions.

Industry:Designing & Development

Founded in:2003

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:All companies working in Designing & Development

Company Details :

Company Name:Pallavi Arts

HeadQuarters:Pune

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):6-15

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):1 to 5 lacs

Profits (2007):6 to 15 lacs

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Bank loans & mortgages

Addl Funding:Bank loans & mortgages

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:By providing best services to the Customer in line with customer's requirements and quality work in time.

Awards & honors:Customer Satisfaction

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Pallavi Bhagwat Mane

Age:27

HomeTown:Pune

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Departmental Head at Sawkar Art Service

Ex-Job Description:Management

Favorite Book/Movie:I dare/Wednesday

www.pagalguy.com

Business Description:PaGaLGuY.com is a media company that provides news and brings together prospective MBA applicants from across the nation. The members of PaGaLGuY.com comprise over 50 percent of the students in the top B-schools of the country. Catering to the needs of the members with niche web applications and doing so effectively has enabled PaGaLGuY.com to retain its members and command surprising levels of brand loyalty. With over 2,25,000+ registered users and having over 1,100,000 articles on their website with over 5M impressions clocking per month, they are the first and foremost source of information and interaction for everyone interested in management education.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2005

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:www.coolavenues.com, www. shiksha.com, www.studyplaces.com

Company Details :

Company Name:PaGaLGuY.com

HeadQuarters:Mumbai

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):6-15

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Profits (2006):breakeven

Profits (2007):breakeven

>Partnerships:Partners with Business Today Acumen, biggest B school quiz in India since 2006 Officially admission query channel for ISB Hyderabad - www.isb.edu/pgp Strategic partners for the QS World MBA tour in India Online Media Partners for " Eureka " B- Plan competition organized by IIT-B Online Media Partners for Flagship events like Confluence, Vista, Intaglio, Backwaters, Iris from B- Schools like IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C, IIM-K, & IIM-I

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Advertisements & other products

Awards & honors:Featured on Young Turks CNBC- TV 18 in May 2005 Featured as part of the Cover Story in Business World in September 2005

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Allwin Agnel

Age:27

HomeTown:Mumbai

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Family Background:Business

Job:CEO at N.A.

Ex-Job Description:N.A.

Favorite Book/Movie:Maverick by Ricardo Semler

www.onevoice.in

Business Description:We create positive and lasting influences on the way people do business - using music. Right from signature tunes to music that enhances well-being, our offerings are geared towards aligning organizational goals through the sensory medium - sound. We are a core team of musicians and brand consultants backed by researchers, lyricists and psycho-acoustics experts.

Industry:Consulting

Founded in:2008

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Corporate Sound, Germany

Sounds of Seduction, Germany

Muzak, USA

Company Details :

Company Name:One Voice

HeadQuarters:New Delhi

Stage of the company:Have first customer

No of Employees (2006):Did not exist

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):Did not exist

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):Did not exist

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Family & friends

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Mainly through business anthems that foster employee and team-bonding. Our other service offerings include broadly: music for life enhancement like sound screens in work spaces; sound design for products, retail environments and human interaction; customized music appreciation programs for corporates and schools and; sonic branding solutions like signature tunes and background music.

Awards & honors:Individually yes - one Guitarist of the year, several advertising awards, one robbed Cannes Silver Lion ... so far none as a company but give it a shake.

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Supreet Mahanti

Age:28

HomeTown:Cuttack

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Creative group head at iContract

Ex-Job Description:Copy/Content and Creative spervision

Favorite Book/Movie:Catch 22

www.ragechocolatier.com

Business Description:The company is in the business of manufacturing customized chocolates that is of premium quality. It caters to an audience that ranges from the youngsters to the young at heart. They also cater to the corporate segment and to all who want to taste fine chocolate. Guaranteeing the finest of home made chocolates, Rage Chocolatier works towards bringing out the best of taste through sheer craftsmanship and passion.

In addition to the best tasting chocolates, the company also offers extensive packaging offers for gifting purposes for special events.

Industry:Retail/ Consumer-based

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:Other home made chocolatiers and International Brands available in India

Company Details :

Company Name:Rage Chocolatier

HeadQuarters:Bangalore

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):2-5

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):1 to 5 lacs

Profits (2007):6 to 15 lacs

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Angel investors

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Good quality chocolates and customised premium packaging

Awards & honors:

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Rashmi Vaswani

Age:26

HomeTown:Bangalore

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Management trainee at E&Y

Ex-Job Description:Management

Favorite Book/Movie:Book: Charlie and the Chololate Factory, Movie: Love Story

www.radioverve.com

Business Description:RadioVeRVe is the one place online that we aim to aggregate all Indian Indie music irrespective of genre, language or region. We will also package it attractively and help people discover music from India that they never knew existed. We are currently integrating this with events and articles about the Indian Indie scene to provide a complete package to the artistes and the audience!


RadioVeRVe aims to use this music in projects that can generate revenue for the artists and apart from providing a platform and much needed publicity, provide a means for the artists to support themselves through their music.

Industry:Media/ Entertainment

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Wanted it as an individual customer

Significant Competitors:Split-Radio, Muziboo, Tempostand

Company Details :

Company Name:RadioVeRVe

HeadQuarters:Bangalore

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):

Profits (2007):

>Partnerships:Onstage Foundation - Gaurav Vaz heads the Onstage Foundation (http://onstagefoundation.org)


Various content providers


Artiste Management - OML (Only Much Louder)


Music Label - Counter Culture

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:We plan to remain non-commercial on RadioVeRVe but use the content we have and our expertise in other projects that will make us money.

Awards & honors:Indian Young Music Entrepreneur of the Year - 2008 Conducted by the British Council


Featured on all leading dailies and magazines across the country


Featured quite a few times on national TV

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Gaurav Joshua

Age:26

HomeTown:Bangalore

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Technical Writer at Citrix R&D India Pvt. Ltd

Ex-Job Description:Writing

Favorite Book/Movie:Keep changing with the season!

www.prepgmedicos.com

Business Description:PrePgMedicos is an online community of MEDICAL Post Graduation aspiring medicos like you with a common & only aim of cracking pre-PG entrance examinations specifically Aipgmee & Aiims. We provide doubts discussion sessions, latest in medical filed, drug alerts, books discussions, counseling sessions, exam alerts. If someone don't find what he/ she are looking for, he/ she can request it so that we can arrange it as far as and as soon as possible.

Industry:Education

Founded in:2008

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:www.rxpg.com www.netmedicos.com

Company Details :

Company Name:PrePgMedicos

HeadQuarters:Indore

Stage of the company:Just starting

No of Employees (2006):Did not exist

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):Did not exist

Office Locations(2007):Did not exist

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):Did not exist

>Partnerships:www.edoctor.mcqsonline.com

Initial Funding:Family & friends

Addl Funding:Family & friends

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:1. Through Local banner advertisement

2. We are going to launch Test series all over INDIA targeting around 4000 students with a nominal fees of which will be oriented for PrePg exams both covering all subjects (Rs. 1000 per year or Rs.100 per month ) and separate Prof subjects wise also (Rs.600 per year or Rs.40 per month)

3. Through google ads

4. We are also in a process of launching our carrer oriented book for PrePg exams

Awards & honors:Not Recieved yet

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Ankur Gupta

Age:26

HomeTown:Indore

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Administator at PrePgMedicos

Ex-Job Description:Full Management

Favorite Book/Movie:Harrison internal medicne

www.rasilant.com

Business Description:Rasilant is an RFID technology consulting, services and solutions company. Rasilant tackles Security concerns and improves organization processes through RFID automation and has a turnover of INR 1 Billion in three years.

Core competency : Domain expertise to deliver end to end business solutions using the RFID technology still very niche in India

Offerings : RFID/DC , ERP,EAS, Portal development, Online Marketing solutions

More than 500 clients in three years

Select Elite Clientele : MCI,DCI,PCI - Medical, Pharmacy, Dental Councils Of India

Bajaj Auto & RohmNHass - RFID Supply Chain Automation

IL&FS, Indian Express - RFID Parking Management

Industry:Radio Frequency Identification Technology

Founded in:2005

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Itec, N Net, Daphney Systems

Company Details :

Company Name:Rasilant Technologies

HeadQuarters:Mumbai

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):26-50

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):2-5

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):16-50 lacs

>Partnerships:Strategic Partners: 21CHMS - Hospital domain; HCL; Core - Education; Dimensions group - Education; Eros Elevators; HID; Process consultants for industrial applications

Other partners: TI -TFID, Feig Controller, Impinj, Alien, Intermec, Motorola, Evolis, HID, Confidex, ThingMagic, TagSYS RFID, RF Code, Kennedy Group

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:80% of the business is generated through channel partner base built geographically across India and in the Middle-East - Strategic Partners in the Education,Industrial,Corporate and Hospital sectors.

Rasilant compliments strong ERP Solutions built inhouse or developed by partners with RFID integration and piggybacks on partner's existing geographical presence and customer base to target prospects in each domain.

Education Applications: RFID enabled Campus Management ERP and Smart Cards(Recurring Model) with Strategic Partners viz . ERP partners Industrial Applications : RFID enabled Supply Chain and Warehouse Automation with Strategic Partners viz. Process consultant companies. Corporate Applications : RFID enabled Access Control , Asset Tracking and Parking Management Solutions with Strategic Partners viz. Architects , Networking companies.

Rasilant also has it's presence in the Hospital and Retail domain already.

Rasilant offers niche services : RFID Consulting,Process Modelling,Integration, Installation, Training, Support only for large projects.

Software Trading is another line of business for Rasilant Technologies.

Awards & honors:Client appreciation have been the greatest honours

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Sahil Anand

Age:26

HomeTown:Mumbai

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:Business

Job:Executive Director at Rasilant Technologies

Ex-Job Description:Company Affairs

Favorite Book/Movie:Cold Steel

www.PennyWiseSolutions.com

Business Description:We are IT Services provider with specialisation in the areas of Web Application development in the offshore model. We provide comprehensive services in the following major areas:

.NET Development, Java Development, Open Source LAMP Development, Search technology development, SEO and SEM

Our team is focused on providing quality solutions at minimal cost that would aid our client's operations & business needs. We have a strong technical team that develops automated applications for customized business requirements, be it anything from a website implementation to brochure design and printing, search engine optimisation and search engine marketing, or development of backend automation applications.

We deliver clients solutions with quality, speed and cost effectiveness.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2003

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Most Small & Medium Business Outsourced Software service providers

Company Details :

Company Name:PennyWise Solutions

HeadQuarters:Hyderabad

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):26-50

No of Employees (2007):51-100

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):51 lacs - 1 crore

Profits (2007):1-5 crore

>Partnerships:-Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

-Microfost Small Business Specialists

-Sun Partner Advantage

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Bank loans & mortgages

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:At PennyWise Solutions, we have a proven business model. We provide consultancy, development and internet advertising services to our clients.

Awards & honors:-Listed as Dun & Bradstreet's Ememrging SMEs Hyderabad 2008

-Shortlisted and featured in Proto in January 2007 for Tolmolbol.com

-Best small company in IT & ITES Sector, Dun & Brandstreet - Fullerton India SME awards 2008

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Anand Morzaria

Age:29

HomeTown:Coimbatore

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:Business

Job:N.A. at JP Morgan Chase

Ex-Job Description:N.A.

Favorite Book/Movie:N.A.

www.picporta.com

Business Description:Picporta is a next generation image storage, indexing and search technology engine. Essentially it being an expert system which not only relies on precise image recognition algorithms but also uses reasoning to reinforce the findings based on its prior knowledge and user feedback.

Fabulous application can be built over our machine vision engine such as next generation gaming interfaces, interactive interfaces, augmented reality theme parks, intelligent surveillance systems and medical imaging applications.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:Riya,Polar Rose

Company Details :

Company Name:Picporta

HeadQuarters:Ahmedabad

Stage of the company:Have first customer

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Profits (2006):preprofit

Profits (2007):preprofit

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:1) Providing Image searching with more data to paid users.

2) Licensing the technology to dating /marriage portals.

3) Licensing the technology to stock photography sites to find out misuse of their copyrighted art.

4) Picture selling (with automatic suggestions on the same type of pictures from other users).

5) Online picture printing.

6) Exclusive data storage solution with video content analysis.

7) Services for professional Photographers.

8) Mobile based point-click search.

Awards & honors:Finalists for Proto - July 2008

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Pulkit Gaur

Age:27

HomeTown:Jodhpur

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Technical Manager at Meditab Software

Ex-Job Description:Managing

Favorite Book/Movie:No favourite book / Fav. Movie is Aviator

www.phonon.in

Business Description:Phonon provides telecom technology platforms to enterprises and content creators. In a world of instant information, Phonon provides business focused applications that provide 'information at your fingertips'. Our computer telephony integration (CTI), interactive voice response (IVR) and mobile applications provide customers with quick, friendly and immediate access to information that they require.

Turnkey and hosted solutions such as customer self service IVRs, auto-dialers, payment IVRs, click4call solutions and customised self-service systems benefit our customers by:

* Increasing revenues by proactively contacting end-users right when they need operations.

* Optimising costs through self-service systems that allow end-users of the service get the right information at exactly the moment they require without compromising on the quality of interaction - so say good bye to 'you are in queue, please wait..'

Industry:Telecom/ Mobile

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:OnMobile, Livewire

Company Details :

Company Name:Phonon

HeadQuarters:Baroda

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):16-25

Office Locations(2006):2-5

Office Locations(2007):16-30

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):

Profits (2007):

>Partnerships:Dialogic Corporation

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:We work on turnkey and revenue share projects.

Awards & honors:We've focused on our customers. Our list of satisfied and marquee customers (the best in their respective domains in India) is the best award we can get in the short span of about 22 months of our existence. Besides the honour of a prominent coverage in the national editions of The Economic Times (1st December 2006) for our very first and innovative project for a premier airlines in India, Tata-NEN hottest start-ups is the first award we are contesting for.

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Ujwal Makhija

Age:29

HomeTown:Baroda

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:Business

Job:Asst. Vice President at WNS Global Services

Ex-Job Description:Projects and Sales

Favorite Book/Movie:The Paranoid Survive

www.indyarocks.com

Business Description:PhoneLinx's flagship offering is Indyarocks.com. Indyarocks.com is an entertainment focussed online and mobile social networking site for Indians across the globe.
With more than 1.6 million new users joining Indyarocks in the last 6 months, it is the fastest growing social networking site in India (Virally and no advertising so far)

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Orkut.com, Bigadda.com, Ibibo.com, minglebox.com

Company Details :

Company Name:PhoneLinx Comm.

HeadQuarters:Hyderabad

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):6-15

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Profits (2006):

Profits (2007):

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Family & friends

Addl Funding:Angel investors

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Advertising and Micro Transactions

Awards & honors:

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Kalyan Manyam

Age:29

HomeTown:Hyderabad

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Family Background:Business

Job:Director at Solix Technologies

Ex-Job Description:Founded

Favorite Book/Movie:Forest Gump

www.httpfuse.com

Business Description:A Fuse allows community (or groups of people) to build important links/ bookmarks on the topic of their interest. (or)


A Fuse is a collection of bookmarks/links on a particular topic; unlike personal bookmarking services it is built up by a community of people rather than an individual. Such a Fuse will help each other (members of the community) to discover important links across different areas of the topic.


httpfuse.com contains such a collection of fuses on wide variety of topics. Sample fuses on various topics:


http://www.httpfuse.com/fuse/Global_Warming__The_Signs_and_The_Science,http://www.httpfuse.com/fuse/IPhone


http://www.httpfuse.com/fuse/Gmail,http://www.httpfuse.com/fuse/AIDS

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2008

Source of idea:Wanted it as an individual customer

Significant Competitors:http://www.stumbleupon.com

Company Details :

Company Name:Httpfuse

HeadQuarters:Hyderabad

Stage of the company:Just starting

No of Employees (2006):Did not exist

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):Did not exist

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:Yes (1)

Profits (2006):Did not exist

Profits (2007):

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Family & friends

Addl Funding:Family & friends

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Mainly through advertising

Awards & honors:

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Rama Vadakattu

Age:26

HomeTown:Hyderabad

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:Yes (1)

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Associate Applications Engineer at Oracle India Pvt Limited

Ex-Job Description:Applications

Favorite Book/Movie:N.A.

www.hungryzone.com

Business Description:Hungryzone offers users a common platform for their food needs. It offers a convenient and an economical solution to the logistical problem of locating, selection, ordering and delivery of food items from reputed restaurants and food joints in the city.

Users will also be able to order or subscribe to economical and home made packaged meals on weekly or monthly basis though HungryBangalore. Its unique offering enables users to place orders/ bookings online, through mobile or through a dedicated customer care.

The present day consumer spending is 40% on food and grocery and spurred by busy lifestyle, it is increasing at a rapid pace. The absence of a common platform to enable individual/ group to choose, compare and place provides a tremendous opportunity. For instance in Bangalore there are 650000 IT professionals all of whom would be our target customers for online food ordering.

Around 50% of the entire IT population are bachelors and do not stay with their family, they would be our target customers for our economical and homemade hygienically packaged meals. A similar trend can be found in almost all major cities. We would be able to leverage the web's ability to create networks of users through online communities and content sharing unlike the traditional brick and mortar restaurants.

Industry:IT/ Internet/ Software

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:webdhaba.com, ordermonger.com.

Two indirect yet major competitors:

1) The traditional way of ordering food i.e. phone. The advantage of ordering over phone is the perceivable human involvement.

2) Restaurant review sites, these sites have restaurant reviews and contact details.

Company Details :

Company Name:Hungryzone

HeadQuarters:Bangalore

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):

Profits (2007):

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Angel investors

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:The revenue model consists of the following components:

Commissions: HungryBangalore will receive commissions based on total bill amount for orders generated through it.

Advertising: The pricing of advertisements on HungryBangalore would be part fixed and part pay-per-click.

Awards & honors:TiE EAP 2007 company from Bangalore

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Ritesh Kumar

Age:27

HomeTown:Bangalore

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Senior Software Engineer at Ketera India

Ex-Job Description:Engineer

Favorite Book/Movie:N.A.

www.hummaa.com

Business Description:Ultimate consumer destination site for Indian/South Asian music and Independent artist discovery.

Industry:Media/ Entertainment

Founded in:2006

Source of idea:Systematic search for business opportunity

Significant Competitors:Last.fm, Pandora.com, artistdirect.com

Company Details :

Company Name:Hummaa Infotainment

HeadQuarters:Bangalore

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):

Office Locations(2007):

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):losing money

Profits (2007):1 to 5 lacs

>Partnerships:-All Music companies in India (excluding T-Series and Yash Raj Music)
-Nokia (http://nokia.hummaa.com)

Initial Funding:Bank loans & mortgages

Addl Funding:Bank loans & mortgages

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Ads, Corporate tie ups (check, http://nokia.hummaa.com), Music Store, Offline events, events e-ticketing

Awards & honors:None

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Mandeep Makkar

Age:26

HomeTown:Saharanpur

Education:Masters

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Sr Software Engineer at Yahoo India

Ex-Job Description:Yahoo MVAS

Favorite Book/Movie:To Kill a Mocking Bird

www.gridbots.com

Business Description:Gridbots is a young company which is driven by a passion for robotics, AI and machine vision.

We envision making machines assist humans in routine tasks to make life simpler and efficient by saving precious time and energy.

Our business philosophy is to make high end technology available to the masses at affordable prices, and what matters to our business is customer satisfaction and how our solutions help in improving their lives.

Currently, our product line involves robots for home use, underwater robots, surveillance and automation products.

Industry:Robotics

Founded in:2007

Source of idea:Built hobby into a business

Significant Competitors:iRobot

Company Details :

Company Name:Gridbots

HeadQuarters:Ahmedabad

Stage of the company:Several customers or locations

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Profits (2006):6 to 15 lacs

Profits (2007):6 to 15 lacs

>Partnerships:

Initial Funding:Personal savings

Addl Funding:Personal savings

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:1)Consumer Robots: Robots which can be used at home and hospitality robots are being manufactured under our gBot series.

2)Smart Surveillance Solutions: Our smart machine vision solutions incorporate advanced machine vision technology which can detect faces and other objects in the pictures automatically, thus making existing surveillance systems smarter and useful.

3)Automation Solutions: Under our automation solutions division we have developed an RF based automation solution which helps in easy installation and it incorporates controllability from mobile phones, web and computer interfaces.

Awards & honors:

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Pulkit Gaur

Age:27

HomeTown:Jodhpur

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:Yes (2)

Family Background:First gen entrepreneur

Job:Technical Manager at Meditab Software

Ex-Job Description:Technical

Favorite Book/Movie: Aviator

www.inasra.com

Business Description:Currently, Inasra is a leading mass market solution for accommodation in India. The depth of choices (with respect to accommodations in India) that Inasra provides is unparalleled. Though being operating in an unorganized industry (Hotel Industry in India), our ability to offer this depth is due to robust systems & processes we have in place to partner and operate with accommodation service providers (ASPs) on a day-to-day basis.

Our current systems and processes can handle all the types of ASPs that exist in the market. To the customer on the front-end, there is no difference.

Industry:Hospitality/ Travel

Founded in:2005

Source of idea:Discovered by chance

Significant Competitors:Desiya

Company Details :

Company Name:Inasra Technologies

HeadQuarters:Chennai

Stage of the company:Scaling up

No of Employees (2006):0-5

No of Employees (2007):0-5

Office Locations(2006):0-1

Office Locations(2007):0-1

No of companies promoted:No

Profits (2006):preprofit

Profits (2007):preprofit

>Partnerships:4000 Hotels in India - Supply side

wego.com - Demand side.

ixigo.com - Demand side.

Travel agents in India - Demand side (Started this month)

Initial Funding:Family & friends

Addl Funding:Family & friends

Institutitional Capital:No

Revneue Model:Commission offered by our hotel partners

Awards & honors:Proto Nominee - July of 2007

Promoters Details :

Promoters Name(s):Yogendra Vasupal

Age:26

HomeTown:Chennai

Education:Bachelors

No of companies promoted:No

Family Background:Business

Job:N.A. at N.A.

Ex-Job Description:N.A.

Favorite Book/Movie:GEB by Douglas Hoffstadter & Information Rules by Carl Shapiro