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  | Headquarters | 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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check out http://vivu.tv , i think they are doing a decent job
You missed Vinny Lingham – he is Indian, but I think he is South African born.
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 :)
How about yatra? Do they count in startups now? and iXigo?
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…
True arun.”Zoho” popped up as soon as I saw the heading.May be tringme should be in ?
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 :)
and there is one more Fusion garage @Sg headed by an indian.part of techcrunch50
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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