| About RouteGuru |
| At RouteGuru, we are led by the vision to make Geographical
Information and related services accessible, usable and valuable
to consumers and businesses in developing countries, starting with our home
country, India.
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| This application is our first offering. It is about helping you easily locate
places in the city and reach them without getting lost in the maze of roads. At
RouteGuru, our endeavor is, and will be, to present Geographical Information in
the way most usable by you for road-navigation.
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| Please provide your feedback
and inspire us to do this better. |
| Executive Team |
| Avinash Agrawal - (Co-founder) - Avinash embodies RouteGuru’s
vision and product strategy. Before co-founding RouteGuru, he served as Product
Manager at an Indian start-up, leading GIS software products positioned in
enterprise market in telecom domain (2002-2006). Prior to that, he held product
engineering roles in renowned software product companies in the USA, Middle
East and India. Avinash holds a B.Tech. degree from
IIT Mumbai (1997).
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| Piyush Gupta - (Co-founder) - An entrepreneur to
the core, Piyush embraces wide engineering experience. Prior to co-founding
RouteGuru, he delivered successful solutions for the Diamond accounts with
Accenture utilizing array of technologies. He individually helped a
Norwegian startup (now part of Accenture) as a technology specialist
consultant. He previously worked with prestigious
Accenture R&D Labs and also co-founded Stendek R&D, Kochi. Piyush
holds a B.Tech. in IT from Cochin University of Science And Technology. |
| Rajesh Ragavan - (Co-founder) - Rajesh has about two
decades of GIS cartography and data quality experience, recent 7 years in India
in GIS product companies, with his work focusing in Indian urban areas,
previously 7 years in United Nations and the earliest 3 years with Indian
government agencies. Rajesh is often invited to advise government agencies in
various GIS projects. He holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Cartography from
Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi (1989) and an M.A. in Cartography
from Delhi University (1988).
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| Advisory Team and the Board of Directors |
| Anurakt Jain (Advisor) graduated from
IIT Delhi and is presently serving
IndusView, a cross-border transaction advisory firm, as an Associate.
Anurakt advises us on overall business direction and execution.
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| Rohit Aggarwal (Director, Advisor), Founding CEO at
techTribe.com, ex-Co-Founder,
Webify Inc. Rohit came on Board @ RouteGuru as an Advisor in December
2006 when techTribe selected us as the first winner of their Connect2Develop
award. Looking at the company's progress and potential, Rohit agreed to join
the Board of Directors. He actively advises us on product direction and
go-to-market strategies.
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| Rishi Chandra (Director) graduated from
IIT Kanpur in 1995. After leading a successful software engineering
career of 10+ years, Rishi co-founded a firm 'Commercia Mystica', which does
R&D and business on search engine technology. He is also presently making
an Indian Film in Mumbai. He is a Director on board in the capacity of being
the seed-investor.
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| Partners |
| Eicher Goodearth Ltd.
specializes in providing world-class travel guides and city maps, of India. The
maps are produced using state-of-the-art satellite imagery followed by
extensive ground verification and systematic field surveys. Detailed down to
streets, building names and places of interest, these map-books are useful and
popular navigation aids. (We use the same base geographical data from which
Eicher builds the map-books.)
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| S M Macario Technologies
is a young, vibrant, fast-growing company providing application development and
software solutions worldwide. The company is formed out of the collective
vision of a group of IIT engineers, and is a global software solutions and
integration service provider company. (We outsource some of our product
engineering to S M Macario.)
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| Contact Us |
| Feedback/ Thoughts: |
feedback <AT> RouteGuru <DOT>> com |
| Potential Team Members: |
work <AT> RouteGuru <DOT> com |
| Potential GIS Data Vendors/Partners: |
data <AT> RouteGuru <DOT> com |
| Others: |
letsconnect <AT> RouteGuru <DOT> com |
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