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Detailed information about jai corp's kpo subsidery company ADVENTITY
ADVENTITY
Racing ahead: Deshpande (L) and Arora are aiming for $40-50 million in revenues this year Far-seeing: Mishra's mission is to take ICT to rural areas
Not Just Another KPO
NAME OF COMPANY: Adventity
YEAR OF FOUNDING: July 2003; Commenced operations in January 2004
FOUNDERS: Kumar Subramanian, Ulhas Deshpande, Niket Patankar, Jagdish Iyer and Vivek Arora
AREA OF OPERATION: BPO/ KPO
FUNDING: Undisclosed 'steel and
plastics' group in India ($10.5 million), Norwest Venture Partners ($20 million)
REVENUE: Roughly $25 million
SIZE OF TARGET MARKET: $17 billion (just the KPO bit)
KEY COMPETITORS: Amba Research and B2K Corporation
On its third birthday, Mumbai-headquartered KPO/BPO firm Adventity earned itself a nice gift. In mid-January, it bagged $20 million in second round of funding from us-based VC firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). For good reason. Adventity's rise has been meteoric. The company has raced to a headcount of 2,200 spread across India, North America and Europe. "By the end of the year, we hope to have 3,500 people, and by 2008, 5,000," says Vivek Arora, Director & co-founder, Adventity. Last year it had revenues of about $25 million, but hopes to do $40-50 million this year.
A brainchild of five Indian professionals with stints in banking, technology and consulting, Adventity was seed funded ($10.5 million) by a prominent 'steel and plastics industrial' group in India and focuses on research and analytics for global I-banks and asset management companies, besides other BPO-type outsourced services for the global financial services industry. "We plan to extend our mortgage-oriented services to the UK and Australian markets in the near future," says Ulhas Deshpande, coo and one of the co-founders of Adventity. To break into this space, the company acquired us-based home mortgage company Texas Mortgage Company in a deal valued at $2-3 million, and is looking for more acquisitions, besides an IPO in 2008 or early 2009.
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Detailed information about jai corp's kpo subsidery company ADVENTITY
ADVENTITY
Racing ahead: Deshpande (L) and Arora are aiming for $40-50 million in revenues this year Far-seeing: Mishra's mission is to take ICT to rural areas
Not Just Another KPO
NAME OF COMPANY: Adventity
YEAR OF FOUNDING: July 2003; Commenced operations in January 2004
FOUNDERS: Kumar Subramanian, Ulhas Deshpande, Niket Patankar, Jagdish Iyer and Vivek Arora
AREA OF OPERATION: BPO/ KPO
FUNDING: Undisclosed 'steel and
plastics' group in India ($10.5 million), Norwest Venture Partners ($20 million)
REVENUE: Roughly $25 million
SIZE OF TARGET MARKET: $17 billion (just the KPO bit)
KEY COMPETITORS: Amba Research and B2K Corporation
On its third birthday, Mumbai-headquartered KPO/BPO firm Adventity earned itself a nice gift. In mid-January, it bagged $20 million in second round of funding from us-based VC firm Norwest Venture Partners (NVP). For good reason. Adventity's rise has been meteoric. The company has raced to a headcount of 2,200 spread across India, North America and Europe. "By the end of the year, we hope to have 3,500 people, and by 2008, 5,000," says Vivek Arora, Director & co-founder, Adventity. Last year it had revenues of about $25 million, but hopes to do $40-50 million this year.
A brainchild of five Indian professionals with stints in banking, technology and consulting, Adventity was seed funded ($10.5 million) by a prominent 'steel and plastics industrial' group in India and focuses on research and analytics for global I-banks and asset management companies, besides other BPO-type outsourced services for the global financial services industry. "We plan to extend our mortgage-oriented services to the UK and Australian markets in the near future," says Ulhas Deshpande, coo and one of the co-founders of Adventity. To break into this space, the company acquired us-based home mortgage company Texas Mortgage Company in a deal valued at $2-3 million, and is looking for more acquisitions, besides an IPO in 2008 or early 2009.