Our Sponsors and Partners

Macmillan

Macmillan is one of the largest and best known international publishing houses in the world, characterised by academic and professional, educational, fiction and non-fiction publishing of the highest quality. Powerful brands owned by Macmillan, such as Macmillan Education, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Pan and Picador are now established in more than 80 countries.

The Macmillan group is owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, a large media group created in 1971. Holtzbrinck owns around 40 companies besides Macmillan and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its interests include book, magazine and newspaper publishing and media firms.

Macmillan India has enjoyed continuity in India’s educational market for over 100 years, and today it is the preferred knowledge partner of around 15,000 schools. The digital revolution has changed the face of school classrooms-instructional teaching modules, video clips and animations all lead to an interactive teaching learning process. Macmillan prides itself on a willingness to innovate as well as on employing visionary people with the creative and business sense to develop and implement new ideas. This focus has successfully led to the expansion of the group into new business areas and an ability to innovate, especially in the digital space.

Madhav Agro Foods Pvt. Ltd

Madison India Capital

Madison India Capital is one of India’s leading private investment firms specializing in making equity investments in the business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare and technology industries. Since we are specialists in our sectors of focus we are a value added investor with a deep set of industry and capital markets relationships.  We reward shareholders of outstanding companies with liquidity and partner with ambitious management teams of high-growth, middle market companies that strive to shape their industries.

We are highly innovative in structuring single company and portfolio purchases to ensure a full solution and set aside capital to support ambitious companies in their future growth plans. We partner with both management and co-investors in every investment we make and work collaboratively to build long-term, sustainable value.  Our typical equity investment consideration is $10 to $35 million in companies. We are currently investing out of our most recent flagship fund, Madison India Opportunities IV.

Magic Tel Solutions

Magictel was found in Year 2012 and was involved in Value Added service & App distribution through various channels. Retail distribution channel for Mobile Applications was started in early 2014 and today we are number one Mobile App Distribution Company for the offline distribution in terms of user acquisition and our retail distribution channel is one of the most reliable offline channels. We are already distributing some of the top global mobile Apps through our channel & we have already acquired more than 5 million users for our partners through our channel. Our focus is not only on the Quantity of users acquires but also on the Quality of the users acquired through our channel.

With over 163 Million Smart Phone users in India, and over 1.5 million Android apps in the market, we want to limit the dependency on the online Market places for distributing the Mobile Applications. Since Mobile Retail Outlets are the best place where the end user comes looking for mobiles and things related to it , these Retail outlets can offer the best targeted customer for mobile application companies. To counter that we launched Mobile Application Distribution Channel (App Junction) in which we help to generate a lot of buzz in the market for application companies at the point of mobile handset sale.

Our Target is to expand our channel to more than 50,000 Retail outlets and 20 million user acquisition for our App Partners in next 2 Years.

MAHINDRA COMVIVA

Mahindra Comviva is the global leader in providing mobility solutions. It is a subsidiary of Tech Mahindra and a part of the USD 16.7 billion Mahindra Group. It has an extensive portfolio spanning mobile finance, content, infotainment, messaging and mobile data solutions, deployed by over 130 mobile service providers and financial institutions in over 90 countries, transforming the lives of over a billion people across the world.

Mahindra Comviva is a recognized leader with unrivalled experience in the mobile financial space. Its mobile financial service portfolio serves over 750 million people globally through over 120 deployments meeting the needs of merchants and consumers of banks and financial institutions, retailers, and MNOs. The product portfolio encompasses:
mobiquity® Wallet: An integrated mobile wallet for digital payments and mobile marketing that uses technologies like NFC (SE & HCE), BLE, Biometrics and QR code to create compelling user experience.

mobiquity® Money: Multi-award winning and proven mobile financial services platform, which equips unbanked and under-banked consumers with a stored value account to conduct a wide range of financial transactions quickly using mobile.

mobiquity®  Banking: A comprehensive self-service mobile banking suite that offers a personalized banking and payment experience by capitalizing on mobile capabilities such as location, camera and notification.

payPLUS: An integrated payment solution that enables businesses and service professionals, to utilize their mobile phone as a Point-of-Sale (POS) device and extend card-based commerce to serve customers anywhere.

PreTUPSTM: A widely deployed and scalable prepaid management solution that enables efficient distribution of electronic recharge and physical vouchers in both assisted and self-service mode.

Mahindra Finance

Maiyas Beverages and Foods Pvt. Ltd.

Founded in 2012, Maiyas is a leading South Indian packaged Food and Beverages company which straddles across six food categories namely Spices, Savories, Sweets, Instant Mixes, Beverages, Ready to eat and Frozen foods. With strong footprints in Karnataka, Maiyas is rapidly building higher consumer base in other four Southern states & Western geographies of the country. Furthermore, Maiyas also has presence in 12 countries across the world.

Company has (ISO 22000 certified) a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility located in Bangalore which produces Maiyas product portfolio with best in class quality standards.

Maiyas is recognized as one of the fastest growing consumer brand & has attained a fair consumer base in certain geographies within a short period. Its ongoing engagement with the consumers in understanding needs with changing times has facilitated in development of relevant product innovations which offers convenience & delivers same authentic taste as desired by the consumer. One such product innovation is : “1 Minute Rasam” which has been successfully launched in Karnataka with a promise to deliver same authentic rasam to the consumer within a minute. Maiyas is working ambitiously to develop such relevant innovations across product categories which would be launched in next six months across geographies it operates in.

MakarandSystems

Malaysian Business Angel Network

ManageEngine (a division of zoho corp)

ManageEngine - a division of Zoho Corp, crafts the industry’s broadest suite of IT management software. We have everything you need — more than 90 products and free tools — to manage all of your IT operations, from networks and servers to applications, service desk, Active Directory, security, desktops, and mobile devices. Since 2002, IT teams like yours have turned to us for affordable, feature-rich software that’s easy to use. You can find our on-premises and cloud solutions powering the IT of over 180,000 companies around the world, including nine of every ten Fortune 100 companies. As you prepare for the IT management challenges ahead, we’ll lead the way with new solutions, contextual integrations, and other advances that can only come from a company singularly dedicated to its customers.