YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Only one decade ago, SaaS products accounted for less than five percent of software. This is great news for India as all signs point to future domination in the sector.

India 113

India Silicon Valley Global Software 113

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. They suggested I go back to being a student.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. The largest tech employer, according to SFBT, is Salesforce.com with 4,000 employees as of January 2014 (an increase of a thousand from one year earlier).

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20