Wednesday 11 November 2015

                Start up funding of the week 

It has been long back i wrote article in my blog, i was going around start up companies eco system in the recent times and currently i am working for funded start up called www.snackexperts.com Head quarter in Chennai.

It has been up's and down's for the start up companies, although the start up company fails there are few start ups.  In that case i would like to write down the companies recently got huge amount of fundings.

CityFlo: On-demand bus aggregator startup, CityFlo, raised $750K (about INR 4.8 Cr) in a funding led by IDG Ventures.

Twigly: Kitchen on cloud-business, Twigly, raised $200K in its angel round funding from Amit Gupta, Sahil Barua, Mukul Singhal, TracxnLabs and Deepak Singh.

Fortigo: Yet to be launched startup, Fortigo, has reportedly raised close to $2 Mn in seed funding from Nandan Nilekani. The startup aims to improve the quality of transportation services in businesses.

MyIndianStay: Online homestay accommodation listing platform, MyIndianStay, raised $200K in angel round of funding led by institutional investors.

BookMyBai: Domestic help aggregator, BookMyBai.com, raised over $150K (INR 1 Cr) from 50K Ventures and a group of angel investors led by Vineel Nalla, in its first angel round of funding.

LoanBaba: Consumer lending marketplace operated by Sahas Technologies, LoanBaba, raised about $320K (INR 2.10 Cr) in seed funding from an unnamed angel investor.

SatvaCart: Online grocery startup SatvaCart reportedly raised somewhere $1.8 Mn (INR10-12 Cr.) in its second round of angel funding.

Semantics3: An ecommerce data analytics startup, Semantics3, raised $1.5 Mn from existing investors, E-Merge and Zillionize.

Bobble: A mobile app that converts selfies into comical stickers, Bobbleapp, reportedly raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding from SAIF Partners.

BoiBanIt: Food ordering marketplace Boibanit raised $150K in angel funding from R Kumar Textile Group’s Varun Ahuja and investment banker Anubhav Verma.

Deyor Rooms: Budget hotel aggregator Deyor Rooms reportedly raised $500K (INR 3.28 Cr) in angel funding from Redcliffe Capital’s Dheeraj Jain.

Bidgely: Energy management platform Bidgely raised $16.6 Mn in Series B funding round led by Constellation Technology Ventures.

Explara: Event ticketing platform, Explara, raised $486K (INR 3.2 Cr) in pre-series A funding round led by Hyderabad Angels.

 In the next post i will be sharing the Acquisitions of the start up companies.

Friday 17 July 2015

Qualities i found myself to be Community Manager after 6 years.


It was 2009, when i started my college where i met a Person Mr.Kumaran who could guide me in creating better vision for future. And it just crossed 6 years who am today "Community Manager"

Through my personal experience i found these are basic qualities to be a Community Manager.



  • Spreading the word about Projects/Technologies in Public Speaking engagements and Social Media.
  • Mentoring newbies who wants to be part of Projects/Technologies and give them task in the same.
  • Working without seeing dignity and pride but with more love/dedication/humbleness to expand the community.
  • Be passionate about the community will give 100% success
  • Knowing well about Technologies to answer experienced developer and college student.
  • Always interacting in irc chats and Forums to be update with Technologies. 





Friday 3 July 2015

How Drupal Development Company Can Help You On Building Your Website?


If you are planning to build or revamp your company’s website, you will have number of open source CMS are available today. But i want to take this opportunity to elaborate you, why Drupal is top player in CMS category and How a Drupal development company will help you to meet the demands in digital media. 

Drupal Development company  help you to define your website core action build your website render in all devices - responsive build your website loads faster Will create a site structure that will enhance SEO build website that aims to attract, engage and eventually convert new customers build website to educate the audience on what the company does, why it provides the best solution for people's needs and prompt users to take action (subscribe, contact the corporation or purchase) as quickly as possible Will identify right modules(Drupal has thousands of free modules contributed by developers all over the world) which will fit the requirement, that result in the time-savy and cost effective. Could extend Drupal the way it works best for the company or organization. Drupal  aligns more closely with industry standards. 

Websites can be spun up in a matter of minutes. Content can be deployed and edited in a matter of seconds, which will be again be the time-savy. Add, remove or revise contents simply. Use the WYSIWYG editor and in-place editing to quickly create formatted content and make changes on the fly. Easily deliver content segmented by audience, language and device type. Built with mobile in mind, as the technology is in hand. is user-friendly, easily customize the front page and listing blocks by the clients. Integrate your mix of CRM, Email, Marketing Automation and other software with Drupal as the backbone. No limitations and no licensing or contract headaches. Drupal is powered by more than 1 million websites across the globe because of Multilingual Capabilities. Drupal is used from personal blogs to the largest enterprises, media publishers, universities and government agencies, including The Econom

Saturday 15 November 2014

I was lucky to attended my Open Source days(OSI Days) on 7.11.2014 morning in Bengaluru, India. Its interesting to compare any other meetup i have attended. I was impressed in venue to find Crowd is younger, older and more tech savvy. Many of them work for small companies or startups. Because of these hybrid roles, the host team used the term “Opensource” to refer to a broad grouping of people who are involved with Open Source with minded to contribute technically and non-technically.

Ten presenters each a day gave 30 minute talks, and they ended on time. The presenters got straight to the point without long autobiographical slides about who they were and other belabored introductions. Many of the examples they showed involved code samples, with tips such as making sure to include helpful information in error messages, making sure users have the right context and setup to run the code samples, avoiding PDFs to improve search results on Google, and more.

 While watching Krishnan, Program Director, AU’s presentation, I thought about how I liked the focus on content. It’s so easy to get distracted into other topics outside of Open Source because his presentation taught me where Tamil Nadu schools and colleges status in using Open Source technologies and his effort’s making to use Open Source tools and platforms, methodologies, strategy, etc with excellent data graph. There were also some Open Source lover’s from larger companies, such as HP and Oracle.

As i want to mention, Open source is being adopted by big tech player such as HP, Wipro, Oracle etc. The food was not free :P, But the space was generously donated by NIMHANS, Bangalore. People tend not to have egos and are particularly friendly. One presenter,Sahni, ibibo, Founder talked about ways his company make use of Open Source more dynamic and reactive. His presentation lasted for 25 minutes. Research guys from bookmyshow.in took over the stage for tech talk and got applauds from audience because of their entertaining skills.

At last, the conference had stalls put up by sponsor's. I had look into their prototyping explanations. Got some more ideas how to implement more of Open Source technologies in a company, I can list some of the advantages that any business can make use of Open Source tools, For the below feature’s. Security

Sunday 25 August 2013

LInUx MiNt

Linux Mint is a for desktop computers, based on ubuntu or debian. Linux Mint is aimed at being a "modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use." Mint provides full out of box multimedia support by including some proprietary software such as java and adobe Mint's motto is "from freedom came elegance".


 I was really impressed by this linux mint ..i have used many linux distros. But this beats all other OS's.

Try it friends :)


Sunday 26 February 2012

Hi Frns,

Richard stallman Founder of Free Software Foundation Came to IIT-M to Give a International Seminar on FREE SOFTWARE FREEDOM AND EDUCATION.Huge Particpants Turned up around 3500.I was one of the Organizer for this Event.Felt Happy.And got scolding from RMS for offering him LUNCH.Bcz their culture is they do their job and do not depend upon other's always.He needs help only when he cannot carry it by his own.

RMS strongly pointed out TAMIL NADU free laptop scheme.And stated that it is not free laptop unless it contains Open Source Software in it.




Here some of the News Paper Covered his Story.


Friday 3 February 2012

Debian 6.0.4 Released


Debian, the mother of Ubuntu and Linux Mint, has announced the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename  "squeeze" ).
This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustments to serious problems. Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available.

This is not a new version of Debian, it only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 6.0 CDs or DVDs but only to update via an up-to-date Debian mirror after an installation, to cause any out of date packages to be updated.

Those who frequently install updates from security.debian.org won't have to update many packages and most updates from security.debian.org are included in this update.

New installation media and CD and DVD images containing updated packages will be available soon at the regular locations.

Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude (or apt) package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available.