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Where do Indian Start-ups stand in high flying 50 Tech Start-ups of the world?

by Arun Prabhudesai on June 19, 2009 |

It was interesting to read the list of 50 Tech Start-ups in the world that you should watch out for released jointly by BW and YouNoodle.

According to Business Week these are 50 Tech Start-ups flying under the radar. The list includes fledgling tech companies—most started in 2005 and later—from the U.S., China, India, Israel, and Russia that are attracting some early buzz and are poised to grow beyond their regional or niche-market origins.

Now the first thing that I wanted to look was, if there were any Indian start-ups – I was atleast sure of one name, Zoho – the one startup that I highly regard.

Surprisingly, Zoho did not figure in the list – but there were 2 other names, IBIBO and Komli. Yes, Komli is doing some great work, but Ibibo came as a big surprise to me (I am not going to delve too much into why, but it is anybody’s guess).

The list has 2 Indian startups (ibibo & komli) and 4 start-ups headed by Indians (Bloom Energy, Kosmix, Thefind & daylife).

Company
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Headquarters
bw 1x1 Where do Indian Start ups stand in high flying 50 Tech Start ups of the world?
Year Funded CEO
Cotendo San Carlos,
Calif.
2008 Ronni
Zehavi
Proclivity
Systems
New York 2006 Sheldon
Gilbert
Monitise London 2004 Alastair
Lukies
Cloudera Burlingame, Calif. 2008 Michael
Olson
Bloom
Energy
Sunnyvale, Calif. 2002 K.R. Sridhar
Positive
Energy
Arlington,
Va.
2007 Daniel
Yates
Nila Los Angeles 2004 Jim
Sanfilippo
Fusion-io Salt Lake City 2006 David
Bradford
Raydiance Petaluma,
Calif.
2005 Barry
Schuler
Pelago Seattle 2006 Jeff
Holden
SynapSense Folsom,
Calif.
2006 Peter Van
Deventer
Modu Kfar-Saba,
Israel
2007 Dov
Moran
Inrix Kirkland,
Wash.
2004 Bryan
Mistele
Sermo Cambridge, Mass. 2006 Daniel
Palestrant
Livescribe Oakland,
Calif.
2007 Jim
Marggraff
Palantir
Technologies
Palo Alto,
Calif.
2004 Alex Karp
SecondMarket New York 2004 Barry E.
Silbert
Better Place Palo Alto,
Calif.
2007 Shai Agassi
Boxee New York 2008 Avner Ronen
Mochi
Media
SF 2005 George
Garrick
Huddle.net London 2006 Alaisdair
Mitchell
Metaweb
Technologies
SF 2005 Thomas
Layton
Fon Madrid 2005 Martin
Varsavsky
Loopt MV,  Calif. 2005 Sam Altman
Xobni SF 2006 Jeff
Bonforte
KupiVIP Moscow 2008 Oskar
Hartmann
Spotify Stockholm 2006 Daniel Ek
TokBox SF 2007 Ian
Small
PBworks San Mateo,
Calif.
2005 Jim
Groff
Kosmix MV, Calif. 2005 Venky
Harinarayan
Evernote MV, Calif. 2005 Phil Libin
Yola SF 2007 Vinny
Lingham
Adconion
Media Group
London 2005 T. Tyler
Moebius
QueBarato Brazil 2007 Pending
confirmation
TheFind MV, Calif. 2006 Siva
Kumar
Daylife New York 2007 Upendra
Shardanand
Jajah MV, Calif. 2005 Trevor
Healy
AdMob San Mateo,
Calif.
2006 Omar
Hamoui
Ibibo Gurgaon,
India
2007 Ashish
Kashyap
Justin.tv SF 2006 Michael
Siebel
Komli Media Mumbai,
India
2006 Amar
Goel
RockYou Redwood,
Calif.
2006 Lance
Tokuda
Etsy Brooklyn,
N.Y.
2005 Rob
Kalin
Sonico Buenos Aires 2007 Rodrigo
Teijeiro
Scribd SF 2007 Trip Adler
Slide SF 2005 Max
Levchin
OpenDNS SF 2005 David
Ulevitch
Tudou Shanghai 2005 Gary Wang
Ning Palo Alto,
Calif.
2004 Gina
Bianchini
Zynga SF 2007 Mark
Pincus

Do you think any other Indian startups deserved to be in the list?

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 blue June 19, 2009 at 11:56 am

check out http://vivu.tv , i think they are doing a decent job

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2 Juz June 19, 2009 at 1:11 pm

You missed Vinny Lingham – he is Indian, but I think he is South African born.

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3 Arun Prabhudesai June 19, 2009 at 3:12 pm

Juz, I actually thought that and did a bit of research before posting the article, no where has it been mentioned about his connection with India and hence did not put it. Could you point me to a place where I can verify it, I would be more than happy to include him :)

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4 Sumedh June 19, 2009 at 1:48 pm

How about yatra? Do they count in startups now? and iXigo?

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5 Arun Prabhudesai June 19, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Nice to see you Sumedh after a long time ;) – I would not term Yatra as a startup anymore – iXigo yes, but with Travel Industry rolling on the floor, I dont think they could have been a part of it. Infact if you see the complete list, I dont think travel as a segment features much here…

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6 VJ June 19, 2009 at 3:30 pm

True arun.”Zoho” popped up as soon as I saw the heading.May be tringme should be in ?

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7 Arun Prabhudesai June 19, 2009 at 3:32 pm

aha…you are right…Tringme seems be doing well off late and I am sure that is one startup that should also have been in contention – I am sure Yusuf will agree to me :)

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8 VJ June 19, 2009 at 6:56 pm

and there is one more Fusion garage @Sg headed by an indian.part of techcrunch50

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9 varun October 15, 2010 at 3:36 pm

InstaColl is a Bangalore based startup. Their products are really helpful for any web enabled documentation need. Grapevine is that they are backed by Sabir Bhatia, however the products do speak for the company.

Varun

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