The MobME Story - March 2010
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A group of bored college students in Trivandrum, India started MobME in 2005 to aggregate content and sell bulk SMS services. They raised $0.5 million in angel funding while still in college. MobME now has 70 employees across multiple offices and delivers over 25 million SMS per day for major Indian mobile operators. They have won several awards for being one of India's most innovative startups.
The MobME Story - March 2010
- 1. The MobME Story Rules are made to be broken!
- 2. Bunch of B.Tech Students in Trivandrum T 4th sem, different branches, but equally bored! H The urge to do something different E Looking out for an opportunity S P A R K
- 3. What we had in us? Some small bit of money Enormous amount of guts At least one person who is really good at >> Ideation Implementation Crunching numbers Selling A great team is most critical to a start-up
- 4. Starting-Up Aug 2005, 5th Semester in College Registered a partnership firm, TORQUE Got tech guys on board Incubated in Technopark, Trivandrum Areas of business Content aggregation Bulk SMS retailing Out-dialer server in BPL
- 5. Growing Up We wanted to form a Pvt Ltd company hire more coders try making more products do business with BIG firms have an office in Cochin In short, we wanted a LOT OF MONEY!
- 6. Funding Angels are the best for a start-up Raised 0.25 M USD in Q3 2006 MobME Wireless Solutions (P) Ltd Did all the stuff on the previous slide Raised another 0.25 M USD in Q1 2007 But this time, at 10X valuation! Doing all that while still in college, is FUN!
- 7. Mentors George Brody, CEO, Globerangers (USA) RC Dutt, Incubation Specialist, Technopark Anil Thricovil, ex-CEO, Alamy Images Murali Gopalan, Senior VP, UST Global Nandakumar, CEO, Suntec Ashish Thomas, VP, Singtel Mammootty, Actor Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Shekhar Kirani, Senior VP, Verisign
- 8. What we do?
- 10. Today Team Size - 70 2 offices in Cochin & 1 in Trivandrum SOHOs in Mumbai, Gurgaon & Chennai Presence in 10 other cities Partnered with all leading Indian Mobile Operators Server Deployments in more than 20 Telco Data Centers Operational Break-even & Q-Q double digit growth
- 11. We are achieving scale We deliver more than 25M SMS everyday (multiple services) Combined TPS on SMSCs of above 2000 200M Voice Calls handled over Asterisk & Digium We run one of Indias biggest GPRS based subscription service
- 12. Awards & Recognitions 2006 - Invited by then President, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam 2006 - One of India's 100 Innovative Startups. 2007 - Finalist @ Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program 2007 - Youngest of NASSCOM 100 IT Innovators. 2008 - Wall Street Journal 10 Startups to watch for in India. 2009 - ISBA Entrepreneurship Award 2008 2009 - Indias Most Innovative Startup Award by NASSCOM 2009 - Emerge 50 Companies in India by NASSCOM
- 13. Core @ mobME Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO Sony Joy, COO Vivek Steve Francis, CFO
- 14. DARE Dreaming BIG is not a bad idea 20 yrs exp or a rich dad is not mandatory! There is no such thing as too much effort You cant be unlucky too many times Advice is good but decision is yours Be open to adapt
- 15. L E S S O N S
- 16. Team @ MobME
- 17. Buzz me! Email: sony@mobme.in Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonyjoy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sonyjoy Website: www.MobME.in Mobile: +91-99999-0-7669