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March 4, 2011
The third edition of the Businessworld Hottest Young Entrepreneurs contest will see 25 companies compete in two categories. Five winners will be awarded in category A, which involves companies that are 2-5 years old. Three winners will be awarded in category B, which involves companies that are less than two years old. The winners will be announced in the first week of April. Here is the shortlist of companies:
Category A
1. Himanshu Aggarwal and Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds
2. Kannan Vishwanath, Anjaneya Lifecare
3. Pankaj Agarwal and Sushan Rungta, Clickindia Infomedia
4. Harpreet Grover and Vibhore Goyal, CoCubes
5. Lalit Mangal, Sumit Jain and Vikas Malpani, Commonfloor
6. Saloni Malhotra, Desicrew Solutions
7. Pulkit Gaur, Gridbot Technologies
8. Sunder Nookala, Krishnan Madhabushi, Mitesh Damania and Prashant John, Kwench Library
9. Anshuman Agrawal, Minimac Solutions
10. Shwetank Jain, P2Power Solutions
11. Anirban Roy and Romira Roy, SEED
12. Prasoon Gupta, Ankush Sharma and Abhishek Sharma, Techbuddy Consulting
13. Nupur Panjabi and Sumit Panjabi, The Hiring Tool
14. Anup Tapadia, TouchMagix Media
15. Varun Khurana, Sunil Goyal and Lomesh Dutta, Wirkle Technologies
Category B
1. Pavan Kumar Thatha and Rakesh Kumar Thatha, ArrayShield Technologies
2. Adhvith Dhuddu, AliveNow
3. Nishant Parashar and Arati Parashar, Engage4More India
4. Abhishek Sinha and Abhinav Sinha, Eko
5. Ankit Mathur and Neha Juneja, Greenway Grameen Infra
6. Sharath Potharaju and Ravi Pratap, Mobstac
7. Lohit Sahu and Nithya N., Phyzok Learning Solutions
8. Bipul Kumar, Tatsam Sports
9. Sharad Singh and Vivek Singhal, Valuefy Consultants
10. Apporv Jain and Harsh Snehanshu, Witcraft Marketing
A screening panel consisting of investors from the country’s leading venture capitalist firms helped shortlist the 25 companies.
The panellists were: Anand Lunia, executive director and CFO, Seedfund; Ajay Hattangdi, managing director, SVB India Finance; Alok Mittal, managing director, Canaan Partners India; Indus Khaitan, partner, Morpheus Venture Partners; Prashanth Prakash, partner, Accel Partners; Rahul Chowdhri, vice-president, Helion Venture Partners; Suvir Sujan, co-founder, Nexus Venture Partners; Samir Kumar, managing director, Inventus Capital Partners; Sateesh Andra, venture partner, DFJ India; Sudheer Kuppam, managing director, Intel Capital (Asia Pacific); Satish Kataria, managing director, Springboard Ventures.
(This story was published in Businessworld Issue Dated 07-03-2011)
