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1 A presentation by Srini Raju ilabs Capital 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation Empowering Economies through ICT-Enabled Innovation & Entrepreneurship Taj Krishna, Hyderabad November 6-10, 2006

2 ilabs Fund Driven by people with experience of building global companies Significant capital contribution from the Principals One of the few home-grown teams Fund size over $ 350 m (ilabs Fund I + II) 2

3 Professionals-turned-Entrepreneurs XIUS GV Kumar TV9 Ravi Prakash DQ Tapaas Chakravorthy esolutions Suresh Ramani 3

4 ilabs Portfolio Companies Sify Limited ( Sify ) is India s pioneer and leading player in internet communications and e-commerce and offers integrated end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products and services, for both the business to consumer and business to business segments that cover the four critical cornerstones of the internet: connectivity, content, commerce and community. Intelligroup Inc. ( Intelligroup ) is one of the leading enterprise resource planning implementers in the U.S. and provides a wide range of information technology solutions and services, including the development, integration, implementation, hosting and full lifecycle support of e-commerce and enterprise applications to companies of all sizes. DQ is a Multimedia & Animation Company, specialized in high quality 3D Modeling & Animation, 2D Traditional Animation, Flash Animation for TV, Feature Films & Direct to Home Video. DQ is powered with over 1500 Animation Professionals out of its several facilities in India & Phillipines. St. Minver Limited ( St. Minver, formerly St. Enodoc) is a key participant in the rapidly growing global online gaming industry. Licensed in Gibraltar, St. Minver is a white-label MSP provisioning and operating online games like poker, casino and bingo. St. Minver provides the opportunity for its customers to monetize customer relationships in the online world through gaming channels. Cibernet Corp. ( Cibernet ) is a leading clearinghouse for wireless telecom companies, providing financial settlement of voice, data, and m-commerce transactions. Cibernet provides clients with inter-company billing protocols, roaming administration tools and financial settlement programs. MetLife India is MetLife Insurance s foray into the Indian insurance markets. MetLife India will be bringing their international expertise and solutions to cater to the emerging Indian middle class and the Indian corporate sector. Megasoft Limited ( Megasoft ) is a broad-based software technology service provider. A wholly owned subsidiary, Xius Ltd. ( Xius ) provides telecom technology solutions for telecom operators around the world. It has developed unique solutions for providing pre-paid roaming and optimal routing. Together, the two companies take to market a vertically integrated technology services offering to the telecom industry. 4

ilabs Portfolio Companies Associated Broadcasting Corporation Pvt. Limited ( ABC ) is a holding company for ilabs ventures in the domain of media distribution.

5 ilabs Portfolio Companies Associated Broadcasting Corporation Pvt. Limited ( ABC ) is a holding company for ilabs ventures in the domain of media distribution. TV9, a brand of ABC, is the first 24-hour regional news channel operating in Telugu, one of India s major regional languages. Its speed, quality and dynamic presentation of the content makes it unique and popular in its region. IANS India Pvt. Limited ( IANS ) is New Delhi-headquartered multilingual news agency that reports on South Asia and events of interest to this region and the Indian Diaspora around the world. It is the largest independent news agency in India. The news service is made available in four languages -- English, Hindi, Gujarati and Arabic. Newspapers, magazines and websites in five continents subscribe to IANS. ilabs Hyderabad Technology Center Private Limited (ihtc) is focused on the infrastructure play in India, specifically on being the platform for off-shoring/out sourcing companies in India. ihtc will provide world class facilities and space for global companies. Unifi Wealth Management Limited ( Unifi ) is a financial services venture primarily focused on providing wealth management solutions to its highly discerning clientele in India and to the Indian Diaspora overseas. It also offers financial corporate advisory services in its chosen geographies. Unifi is a fully licensed brokerage in all the key exchanges in India and capitalizes on the rapid economic and capital market growth in India. esolutions Pvt. Limited ( esolutions ) is engaged in the Small Business Enterprise Software product space and is targeting this through the dual strategy of: (1) offering a differentiated proposition to users currently relying on transaction automation (such as those provided by accounting software) and (2) by creating a platform that is localized to developing markets across the globe. esolutions offers an integrated business operating software for small- and mediumsized organizations specializing in retailing, distribution and services. A strategic partner of Getty Images, Visage Media Services Pvt. Limited seeks to define, create and edit localized stock images and footage in addition to building a robust distribution pipeline. It intends to become the dominant player, supplying imagery to the creative industry, with a focus on the South Asian markets. It will also venture into other related stock media services. 5

6 Case : Xius Xius is a leading telecom technology solutions provider for telecom operators around the world addressing new growth markets. First Multi-NG Convergent IN for MNSPs World s 1st Full-function pre-paid roaming service World s first Multi-NG Hosted Roaming Interoperability Services First GSM optimal routing platform for roamers Challenges No track record Will you be there tomorrow? Lessons learnt Partner with established players who would add credibility and delivery capability around the world 6

7 Case : Cibernet Cibernet Plc ( Cibernet ) is a leading clearinghouse for wireless telecom companies, providing financial settlement of voice, data, and m-commerce transactions. Cibernet provides clients with inter-company billing protocols, roaming administration tools and financial settlement programs. Lessons learnt Partner with one of the leading players who has credibility and reach but requires innovative solutions 7

8 Case : esolutions esolutions offers an integrated business operating software for small- and medium-sized organizations specializing in retailing, distribution and services by creating a platform that is localized to developing markets across the globe. Challenges Too many competing players Fragmented market Lessons learnt Even after partnering with SAP and Microsoft difficult to sell to SMEs 8

9 Case : DQ Entertainment DQ today is India s largest Multimedia & Animation Company, specialized in high quality 3D Modeling & Animation, 2D Traditional Animation for Hollywood and European Production Houses. DQ is powered with over 3500 Animation Professionals out of its several facilities in India, Philippines, and China. Challenges Acceptable quality issues during formative years Finding creative talent 9

10 Case : ingenovis Focused in developing tools for the bio-informatics and genomics Lessons learnt Industry did not grow as anticipated Business opportunities were small sized, with long sales cycles Technology could not speed up the drug discovery process as anticipated 10

11 Thank You 11

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