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Industry: Online entertainment-oriented content
Location: Bengaluru

Buzzintown is an Internet portal dedicated to the promotion of live events, activities and entertainment with coverage in 19 cities in India and 16 more cities in the United States & Canada. By providing dynamic coverage of local events, the portal keeps users everywhere tapped into the cultural pulse of their towns. The portal claims over 1.8 million registered users & millions more who visit the portal regularly and make it a success.
“In the near future, Buzzintown plans to expand its presence, both online and offline, in India and abroad and foster more industry alliances, while growing the syndicated portion of its business,” says Dr Amitabh Saran. Buzzintown has a WAP site for wireless handheld devices that will allow users access content anywhere “on the go”. Video is another area Buzzintown will continue to exploit.

Amitabh Saran with the Buzzintown team

CircuitSutra Technologies

Industry: Semiconductor Software
Location: Delhi NCR

Claiming to offer cutting edge SoC modelling services to semiconductor industry, named as System on Chip (SoC), CiruitSutra (CS) aims to become a world leader in semiconductor industry. Growing at 100% y-o-y in last 4 years out of 5, it works with global mobile technology leaders like ARM, and another one which is among top 10 semiconductor companies in world, CS is a sponsor member of reputed forums like OCPIP. The team of 15 plans to expand to 50 in next two years and has got total funding of Rs1.25 crore from STEP JSSATE and SIDBI. It is partnering with big corporates and developing training modules to scale up. Being the only Indian company and recognisable in some of the international conferences, CS expects 100% growth this year as well and is pursuing its ambitious goals undeterred by the challenges.

Umesh Sisodia with Team