The second edition of Proto.in was held in Chennai on the 21st-22nd of July 2007. Even though I was unable to attend the event, I have heard that it was extremely well organized and brought a number of good companies to light.
Even though I received a well worded sorry mail which said,
Unfortunately, we do have a bit of sad news. We evaluated your company and product, and ran it through our panel of experts to validate it. The ratings and feedback we have received were not as high as the companies that we have finalized for this edition of Proto. We are sorry to say that your company did not make it to the final list of companies that would be presenting at the this edition of Proto.
Here is list of all the companies that did not get this mail :
Altrion – Enterprise Product (Performance managements suite)
Aumega Networks – Mobile search. Product called Lookup/Lukup
AuthMe – Secures online transactions
BriteSoft – Malaysian Firm. Fast development platform.
Buzz Works – Voice search / Local search on the mobile. Product called Bolo
Cricko – Interactive cricket network (Games/Social networking)
Genie Interactive – Voice Mail / Messaging. Product called Voice/Voiee
Hyper Analytix – Semi Conductor designs
Inasra.com – Online Hotel Booking (low end hotels, something like yellow pages)
Lucid – Testing. Product called NDT Mulam
MDT – Malaysian Firm (Something on RFID)
Minekey – Started by IITians, but no idea what do they do.
Pramati – Dekoh Desktop (Featured on TechCrunch a long time back)
Mocodile – Sends documents from PC to GPRS enabled mobiles
RouteGuru – Online Mapping Service
TechMedia – Video Publishing. Product called TechKriti.
Thinx Works – Clay Animation
TISS – Malaysian Firm. Security Key (flash drive which protects)
TolMolBol – Local Search / Classifieds / Reviews (Interviewed on Gyaan Sutra before)
Tyroo – Ad network (backed by Yahoo)
Wifin Technologies – Live stock market data and secure mobile trading (Mobistream)
Ziva – Mobile search platform Zook.in (funded by Nadathur Holdings)
Reactions to Proto.in
Joy of Innovation has a great post about Enterprise solutions at Proto
Flickr Stream to the Proto Show (by Watblog)
Startup Dunia would have liked to see a few stealth startups to launch.
Iqbal covers a number of startups too.
TG Gokul gives the second day summary (and the first day’s too)
WatBlog as always has a great post.
WebYantra elaborates on the event.
Go2IndiaWeb20 has a cool slideshow of the companies.
Pluggd has a live coverage of the event.
The TolMolBol experience. It was one of the companies which featured in the event.
Voicee, which featured on Proto, has a post covering the event.
VCCircle covered it too.
Narendiran descirbes both the days at proto.
Of course, there was Vijay Anand himself.
Even the Good-ol Desipundit linked to Rithesh’s blog (of TolMolBol)
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