Top 12 Internet Entrepreneur of India
- Ram Shriram - Director Google.com
- Kavitark Ram Shriram is one of the richest American according to forbes list not only because he is one of the biggest shareholders in Google but also because of Business Ventures in Plaxo, Yodlee, Tellme Podshow and Zazzle .Ram is a founding board member of Google Inc. and 247customer.com. Ram also serves on the boards of Zazzle.com and Predictify. Ram serves on the advisory board of Naukri.com.
- Suhas Gopinath - globalsinc.com
- Mr. Suhas Gopinath, a resident of Bangalore and hails from a middle class family, where his father was a defense scientist. At the age of 12, he launched a web site called CoolHindustan.com. In 2000, at the age of 14 Mr. Gopinath traveled to the United States to found Globals Inc. in San Jose, California, as the laws in India did not allow a minor to set up a company. He is recognized as "the world's youngest CEO"
- Avnish Bajaj - Baazee.com
- Avnish BajajPreviously he was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of India's Largest Online Marketplace - Baazee.com - which was acquired by eBay and currently serves on the Advisory Board of eBay India. Avi serves on the Board of Yo! China (Chinese fast food chain), itzCash Card (pre-paid cash card business) and Quikr (online local classifieds site). He is also an investor and advisor to Cleartrip (online Indian travel agent), Pangea3 (Legal Process outsourcing business), Pinstorm (Search Marketing Company ) and Indus Biotech (Bio Sciences Company).
- Vinay Chhajlani - Webdunia.com
- India’s first multi-language portal and language technology service provider, Webunia.com (India) Pvt. Limited, is the brainchild of its Founder-CEO, Vinay Chhajlani. Under his leadership, Webdunia pioneered language Internet by providing Internet services in 11 Indian languages.
- In addition to providing language technology services to leading players in the industry, like Microsoft, Rediff.com, Tata ISP, Indiatimes, NIIT Swift, Sify, Apollolife, Amul, Britannica and Indya.com, the company is working closely with the Government on several e-governance projects.
- VSS Mani - justdial.com
- Starting with just Rs 50k, VSS Mani has built a business with an annual turnover of Rs 100 crore and a valuation in excess of Rs 500 crore. Just Dial is a case of getting it right the second time around. Not giving up after having to wind up Ask Me, VSS has taken his phone-based business model to print, online and SMS. He is now busy executing an international rollout.
- Ajit Balakrishnan - rediff.com
- Ajit Balakrishnan is the Founder Chairman & CEO, Rediff.com. The first Indian Web company to be listed on the Nasdaq, Rediff.com. Earlier he co-founded and is a director of Rediffusion-Dentsu, Young & Rubicam, one of India's largest ad agencies. Balakrishnan sits on the government committee reviewing the Indian Information Technology Act. He also co-chairs the Confederation of Indian Industry Task Force on eCommerce and is the chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management,Calcutta.
- Dinesh Agarwal - IndiaMart.com
- IndiaMart.com is a leading online B2B (business-to-business) marketplace bringing Indian suppliers and international buyers together. Founded in 1996, IndiaMart currently has around 900 employees across 29 offices across India. Recently, the company received an undisclosed amount of funding from Intel Capital.
- Dinesh Agarwal, founder and chief executive officer of IndiaMart.com was initially working as a software engineer and had a vision to own a business.
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani - Naukri.com
- Sanjeev is India's most successful Internet entrepreneur. For close to a decade he struggled on the sidelines but never gave up on his Big Idea. In 2006, naukri.com became the first dotcom to IPO on an Indian stock exchange.
- The thing with entrepreneurship is you can't afford to have a big ego. You want to stay in business, you do every bit of business that comes along. You want to keep the dream afloat, you don't care what the neighbours and relatives have to say about who wears the pants in your house
- Anupam Mittal, - Shaadi.com
- An MBA in Operations and Strategic Management from the Boston College - USA, Anupam Mittal is the Chairman and Managing Director of People Group - A New Media & Entertainment group, which includes business such as People Interactive (Shaadi.com, Fropper.com, Shaaditimes.com, Astrolife.com and Shaadi Point), People Infocom (MAUJ Telecom & 7007), Pep Management, People Pictures, and Purple Media.
- K.B. Chandrasekhar - exodus.com
- K.B. Chandrasekhar ("Chandra") founded Jamcracker in 1999, and is also co-founder and Chairman of e4e Services Inc., a global business process outsourcing company. In the mid-1990s, he founded Exodus Communications, which he led to become the leading provider of enterprise hosting services. K.B. Chandrasekha came to the United States from India in 1990 with very little money, but with exceptional talent and motivation. His first success came with a company called Fouress--now known as Exodus Communications. After nursing the start-up to maturity, Chandra left Exodus to pursue another vision: to help the ASP market take off.
- Alok Kejriwal - Contests2win.com
- Alok Kejriwal is a serial entrepreneur and founded Contests2win (c2w) in 1998. c2w was the world's first customized brands promotions website and has retained its leadership position since then. Alok and c2w have gone on to create 3 new businesses - Mobile2win in China and India, Media2win and Games2win and have raised venture capital from top tier VC firms and financial institutions.
- Innovation, Passion and Integrity are the pillars of the group and the values that it represents. The group has experienced its first exit with the Mobile2win China business being acquired by Walt Disney in September 2006.
- Murugavel Janakiraman - BharatMatrimony.com
- Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and CEO, Consim Info Pvt Ltd,. The group has successfully launched BharatMatrimony.com and expanded online businesses ClickJobs.com (a premium jobs portal), IndiaProperty.com (a portal for Indian real estate), IndiaAutomobile.com (an online automobile supermarket), and IndiaList.com (a classifieds portal).
- "By being aware of the potential for failure in every success, we remain humble. By nurturing the seed of success in every failure, we remain hopeful."I