DFJ-TiE India Venture Challenge Declares Winners
Tue, 02/21/2006 - 14:55 — Sahad P V
Thanks to Rajan, here are the winners and the other finalists for the DFJ-TiE India Venture Challenge finals held at Indian School of Business in Hyderabad on February 20. (Ed. Among them, I remember meeting Mukesh Hegde at TiE Conference in Delhi late last year.)
The two winners
* Dr. Girish Saraph, Vegayan Systems, Mumbai (IIT B incubated company)
* Mukesh Hegde, NCE Technologies, Bangalore
Rest of the finalists
* Manish Agrawal, MAdApps, Bangalore
* Debashis Bhattacharya, Simbiosys Biowares Inc, Texas and Bangalore
* Kabir Singh, Comfort Controls, Hyderabad, ISB student – current Class
* Sumantra Roy, Ad Response Optimizer, Mumbai, ISB Alumnus – Class 2000
* Manav Garg, Reftree, Bangalore
* Kuruvilla P Kurian, DVDplex - Video Subscription Service, Bangalore
* TR Bharath Rajkumar, EaZyShopping, Chennai
* Ritesh Banglani, Couch Potato Entertainment, Bangalore
There were 125 contestants originally, and 10 went to the finals. Two won the prize money (funding) of $75,000 (Rs 33 lakh) each.
February 21, 2006
Its interesting to see the number of entries from Bangalore that made it in to the top 10:) Makes me proud as a bangalorean despite all the infra problems, its the place to be for new ideas!