BetMee This app urges people around the world to challenge and

Snapshot Other compete with anyone at any given point in any kind of talent at the click of a button Name of the founder: Abhishek Sharma This Bengaluru based startup provides people the ability to compete and challenge Type of startup: anyone in any particular talent they possess just from a mobile app. The wide range Hyperlocal Mobile Startup of categories include Acting, Dance, Singing, Playing Instruments, Doing Stunts, Adventures, Sports and others. All the above categories can lead to a career for any Year of inception: individual who is a master in them. The basic idea behind this app is to recognize 2016 talent around the world and lead people towards a better opportunity. The app Product/service offered: has a feature wherein anybody can create a contest by uploading their video Talent showcase platform and urging their friends to participate in it. At the end of 2 days of each contest, Target customers: there’s an automatic voting icon that appears so that people can vote for the best Youth performance after which first 3 videos with the most number of votes win.After the launch of the app it received more than 300 likes on the Facebook page.

Indus OS A mobile operating system for regional Snapshot language users Name of the founder: Based out of Indus OS has developed a mobile Rakesh Deshmukh, Akash Dongre and operating system made especially for the regional language Sudhir Bangarambandi user, who are the ones left behind the technology surge we witness these Type of startup: days through the increasing publicity generated by mobile apps these days. Mobile OS provider So, this startup has developed technological features such as patented Year of inception: regional keyboards, word prediction, Indus Swipe (swipe to translate & 2015 transliterate), text-to-speech and a dedicated app marketplace called App Product/service offered: Bazaar in regional languages. Indus OS is currently available in 12 regional Mobile OS based on regional languages languages (, , Telugu, Tamil, Odia, Assamese, Punjabi, , Gujarati, , Bengali and Marathi). Currently, they have a total Target customers: user base of 3 million and this number has been achieved within one year Smartphone Manufacturers (OEMs) who would want to have Indus OS on their phone from the launch of their first device.

Innovalus Technologies With experience in conceptualizing, setting up Snapshot and operating technology R&D centers, the startup helps in setting up captives for technology based companies in India and U.S. Name of the founder: Vijay Raman This Bengaluru based startup was founded by former senior executives of Wipro Type of startup: with the aim of addressing the challenges of technology R&D operations in Recruitment scaling up. Innovalus Technologies helps set up captives for technology based Year of inception: companies located in US and India, while also dealing with the development of 2011 their analytics products. They have setup captives in India with as big a team size Product/service offered: as 100 employees. The company specializes in scouting engineering talent across Analytics and Engineering R&D Telecom/Networking, Embedded Systems and Cloud Platforms. Their global Target customers: engineering talent scale-up solutions enable customers to accelerate product Global technology firms velocity, while optimizing the cost of operations. They focus on technologies in the areas of telecom and networking, embedded systems and offer digital technologies such as social media, mobility, analytics, cyber security and cloud. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] JUNE 2016 PCQuest 57