Services

InMobi

InMobi, earlier known as mKhoj, started as an SMS-based search platform founded by Naveen Tewari. In 2007, the company switched to mobile advertising venturing into a more scalable business model. InMobi is now a mobile advertising and discovery site with 17 offices across the globe. As one of the world’s largest independent ad networks, InMobi reaches almost a billion monthly active touchpoints, and 30,000+ publishers. MIT Technology Review’s 50 most disruptive companies of 2013 featured InMobi.

TimesJobs

TimesJobs.com is an employment website from the Times Group operating in India and Middle East. Times Jobs provides placement services by connecting job seekers with recruiters having a huge network of associates. The online job portal earns revenues with paid services for job seekers and sale of databases to companies. TimesJobs.com has differentiated its services in unique ways, including reaching out to the job seekers and advising them about improvements to their profile, and also ensuring that interesting jobs on other portals are also listed on TimesJobs.

Naukri.com

The brain child of Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Naukri.com is the brand of Info Edge (India). It was India’s first recognised and well-advertised job portal. It went public in November 2006. Conceived as a platform of jobseekers and hiring managers meet, the services went commercial in October 1997. On date, Naukri.com has a database of about 44 million registered job seekers and an average of about 11,000 resumes are added daily while about 130,000 resumes are modified daily. Naukri.com leads the online job market with 70% traffic share. The website has retained its leadership in the job market with innovative plans for the jobseekers.

Droom

Founded in April 2014 by Sandeep Aggarwal in Silicon Valley, Droom is India’s first & largest marketplace to buy and sell new and used automobiles and automobile services. Droom has taken a completely innovative and disruptive approach to build trust and pricing advantages for buyers to provide a better way of buying automobiles, as the existing customer experiences provide evidence of many pitfalls. Droom uses the technology driven marketplace approach, enabling transactions between buyers and sellers by bringing transparency, building trust, and mitigating information asymmetry leveraging technology and data. With Droom’s innovative approach buyers get a huge selection, low prices, and develop trust. Read the Droom founder’s interview in this issue.

ImagesBazaar

ImagesBazaar was launched with a burning desire to create the world’s largest collection of creative images with Indian faces. It is a collective endeavour of thousands of passionate photographers led by renowned photographer Sandeep Maheshwari, who incidentally has even created a world record in professional photography. ImagesBazaar provides creative professionals all over the globe with an imperative resource for searching, purchasing and downloading Indian images. The uniqueness in imagesbazaar is the fact that it continues to document the varied facets of India, its people, culture, geography and related aspects. Truly, an admired company with an admirable focus.

CarDekho.com

CarDekho.com is an auto portal based out of Jaipur, India founded in 2008 by Amit Jain and Anurag Jain. The portal provides complete freedom to the car-fanatics of India to watch, know and understand automobiles at their core in much greater detail and from a wide variety of viewpoints. It monetizes lifecycles of car owners via applications like CarBuddy. It also provides reviews, price information, on-road prices and comparison facilities for new cars, as well as classified listings for used cars. CarDekho has received the ‘Best Car Website 2012’, ‘Most Popular Website 2012’ and ‘Website of the Year India’ awards given twice in a row – in 2011 and 2012. You can add this listing to the website’s various sparkling accolades.