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Following are the startups that were showcased at proto.in conference under Internet and Web 2.0 Segment.

• Skilworth Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Cricketology.com)
• Genie Interactive
• Inasra.com
• minekey
• RouteGuru
• Pennywise Solutions Pvt. Ltd (Tolmolbol.com)
• Tyroo

Skilworth Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Cricketology.com)

Website   : www.cricketology.com
Location  : Chennai, India
Incorporation Year : 2007
Stage of Funding : Self Funded
Product   : Cricko
Core Focus Area  : Gaming and Social Network application for the Sports and     Entertainment industry
Market / Segment : Internet / Mobile
Competition  : None currently. Secondary competitors in the form of cricket     portals like Cricinfo and Cricketnext
Team Size  : 3
Revenue   : Yes
Profitable  : Not yet
Founder   : Pavan Kachibhatla & Srini Kachibhatla
Summary   
Circko is a new media interactive cricket network which incorporates the philosophies of Web 2.0 and is amied at cricket fans worldwide. It’s a product of Skilworth Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Genie Interactive Pvt. Ltd.

Website   : www.genieinteractive.com
Location  : Bangalore, India
Incorporation Year : 1999
Stage of Funding : Self funded
Product   : Voiee
Core Focus Area  : UI design / development for the web & mobile; Internet product /     application development using open source technologies
Market / Segment : Internet / Enterprise
Competition  : canvas.nowpos.com, jott.com, spinvox.com
Team Size  : 18
Revenue   : As a company: Revenues / Profitable: Yes. For the product: No     revenues as of yet
Founder   : Aradhana Handa / Deepak Samaga
Summary   
Genie Interactive Pvt. Ltd is self funded and was founded on 1999. At proto they were showcasing their product Voiee. Voiee is an easy to use, cost effective, simple yet versatile voice mail and messaging platform. It allows one to seamlessly and creatively integrate audio (voice) into their WWW universe. Their aim to make VOiee as the default platform for lot of voice based services.

Inasra Technologies

Website   : www.inasra.com
Location  : Chennai, India
Incorporation Year : 2005
Stage of Funding : Self Funded
Product   : Inasra.com
Core Focus Area  : Enabling users to book hotels online
Market / Segment : Internet, Enterprise
Competition  : Makemytrip.com, Cleartrip.com, Travelguru.com, Yatra.com
Team Size  : 8
Revenue   : Not Yet
Founder   : Yogendra Vasupal
Summary   
Inasra.com is an online hotel booking service in India. It brings 3500 hotels from 400 cities in India just a couple of clicks away. Inasra was founded in 2005 and is self funded.

Minekey

Website   : www.minekey.com
Location  : Sunnyvale, CA
Incorporation Year : 2005
Stage of Funding : First Round
Product   : Minekey
Core Focus Area  : Internet / Content
Market / Segment : End user
Competition  : Aggregate Knowledge, Loomia, Sphere
Team Size  : 10
Revenue   : Not yet
Founder   : Delip Andra
Summary   
Minekey is a Silicon Valley based VC funded start up incubated out of IIT Kharagpur. Minekey recomendations service makes the content discovery on blogs and websites a lot easier. It can help each of your sites visitors find the golden nuggets of content that would be most interesting to them, based on what they are currently reading or have read before.

RoutrGuru

Website   : www.routeguru.com
Location  : New Delhi, India
Incorporation Year : 2006
Stage of Funding : Seed
Product   : RouteGuru
Core Focus Area  : GIS, Consumer Internet
Market / Segment : End User , Enterprise
Competition  : RoadsofIndia.com, MapMyIndia.com, Google Maps
Team Size  : 3
Revenue   : Not Yet
Founder   : Avinash Agarwal
Summary   
RouteGuru is India’s #1 routing and driving direction services provider on the Internet and Mobile. It provides directions in the good old way.. i.r. using Landmarks. Their vision is to make geographical information accessible, usable and valuable in day-to-day lives of consumers and local businesses in developing countries.

Pennywise Solutions Pvt. Ltd (Tolmolbol.com)

Website   : www.tolmolbol.com
Location  : Hyderabad, India
Incorporation Year : 2003
Stage of Funding : Self Funded
Product   : Tolmolbol.com
Core Focus Area  : Local social search
Market / Segment : Internet
Competition  : JustDial.com, Guruji.com
Team Size  : 8 (Pennywise - 70)
Revenue   : For Pennywise: Revenue - Yes, Profitable - Yes. For     tolmolbol.com: Revenue - Yes. Profitable - Not yet.
Founder   : Anand R. Morzaria, Rithesh R. Prasad
Summary   
Tolmolbol.com is from Pennywise Solutions Private Limited. Tolmolbol is a place to search for trusted local businesses, voice out yout opinions, meet interesting people in your community, communicate interesting events and advertise local classifieds and get free SMS with information regarding businesses, events and classifieds.

Tyroo Media Pvt. Ltd

Website   : www.tyroo.com
Location  : Delhi, India
Incorporation Year : 2007
Stage of Funding : First Round
Product   : Tyroo
Core Focus Area  : Digital Media Advertisement
Market / Segment : Enterprise
Competition  : Google Adsense, Tribal Fusion, Advertising.com
Team Size  : 18
Revenue   : Not Yet
Founder   : Aditya Khanna
Summary   
Tyroo is the largest self served Indian ad-network. It’s pay for performance contextual advertising network, provides a unique platform for advertisers and for publishers to come together and do business, including the smaller players who haven’t participated online before. The combination of Tyroo’s Self-Serve system interface, sophisticated targeting and optimization technologies and localized features are it’s biggest competitive advantage.