Winner for YCE Interactive 2011
Titash Neogi, Sievelogic Software
Titash is a software engineer by profession and a business management / IT major by qualification who worked with Symantec Corp, US for 7 years before starting his own company - Sievelogic Software and building bibkosh.com. Bibkosh is the world’s first Knowledge Curation platform that allows academics, students and professionals to create and curate knowledge and collaborate with friends over this created and curated knowledge.
With information having become truly democratised, Bibkosh gives everyone the opportunity to become a social knowledge curator using both the information from the net as well as the social web. As the CEO and Founder at Bibkosh, Titash’s role involves everything from architecting Bibkosh, giving business and vision pitches to customers and partners, working with team members and helping them writing code for the platform.
www.bibkosh.com
Other shortlisted finalists
Adhvith Dhuddu, AliveNow Inc
AliveNow is a full service social media management company offering comprehensive marketing, branding and advertising solutions on social media. AliveNow offers a wide range of services like social media management, social media application development, social media analytics, social media audits, and more. AliveNow also has a unique product offering, SocialRestaurants, that help restaurants of all sizes leverage social media in unique and innovative ways like making a reservation via Facebook, ordering food via Facebook, etc. AliveNow and Adhvith Dhuddu were recently selected by Business World magazine as India’s 25 hottest Young Entrepreneurs in 2011.
Adhvith, an engineering graduate from Virginia Tech University, USA, had founded two companies while in the US. Adhvith is also passionate about finance and economics, and his columns have been featured in The Central Penn Business Journal in the US and in India in the Hindu Business Line and Mint WSJ.
www.alivenow.in
Anjan Cariappa, Muckati Sentient Design and Devices
Anjan started his career in animation while still in college and by the age of 26, he was heading a team of more than 2000 artists and animators from India, Singapore and the Philippines. He has directed two animated feature films. Yearning to do more, he quit his job as the creative director there and started Muckati with a vision to use creativity without boundaries. Currently his work spans across Interactive, Design and Screen – ranging from media (original animation, game and other interactive content), automobiles (life-saving active safety systems and proprietary web enabled GPS systems), computers and packaging industries. In the three years of its existence, Muckati has seven patent pending products to its credit. As a business model, Muckati focuses on leveraging these IP through licensing.
www.muckati.com
Srinivasan Varadarajan, Pixeldruids Studios
Srinivasan started as an AI Programmer in 2000 and progressed to Director of RedOctane Technologies in 2005. He has handled and worked in large projects like Tony Hawk Proving Ground, Kung Fu Panda, Shrek 3, Bee Movie, and Guitar Hero Franchise for RedOctane, Activision and Vicarious Visions before starting Pixeldruids - a gaming studio in Chennai. Pixeldruids was started by two passionate gamers to develop Games and Animation content. The team specializes in the development of games for PC, Smart phones, Tablets, MAC and mobile devices as well as providing high quality Art Outsourcing and Consultation services. Apart from games and animation content the team is working on immersive interactive product design for gamers and entertainment audiences and have started the work on the development on the own engine, DruidsTech.
www.pixeldruids.com
Vikram Singh, Maya Studios
A designer from National Institute of Design with a Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Vikram hails from Lucknow and started Maya Studios three years ago. Maya Studios is focused on connected experiences and interfaces across digital platforms and devices. The studio works in the domain of interaction & interfaces and designs software & services for mobile, web and new hardware platforms. Their recent projects include the touch screen car infotainment (for a leading SUV company in India), design and development of Photon TV app, design of live TV mobile apps for leading telcos like Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone etc. Besides a considerable knowledge on the Indian mobile-content consumption patterns, Vikram also has varied interests including Indian history, photography and Urdu language.Sector Definition for Interactive
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