Deal Radar 2009: ChalkPad Technologies

We continue our series on Indian companies in the education sector. The company featured today, ChalkPad Technologies, is a provider of education enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to schools, colleges and universities. It is also a consultancy on how to leverage IT in an educational setting.

Deal Radar 2009: Viralheat

One of the newest entrants in the social media monitoring space, Viralheat uses techniques in large-scale network monitoring and proprietary P2P cloud computing to enable brands, agencies, marketers and content producers to measure the impact of their social media marketing campaigns.

Deal Radar 2009: InXpo

As discussed in an earlier post, overall travel demand is expected to fall 11% in the year. The biggest impact will likely be on corporate travel, where budgets are expected to be down 15%. While the current quarter’s trends might suggest that demand is bottoming out, there is no denying that businesses are still restricting

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Deal Radar 2009: Elements Akademia

The education market in India was recently estimated at $30 billion, with an ‘employability training’ segment pegged at about $1 billion. Today’s Deal Radar company aims to emerge as one of the top providers in this segment and capture a 7%–8% market share. Elements Akademia runs India’s first chain of finishing schools aimed at bridging

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Deal Radar 2009: Lakshya Institute

Lakshya was formed with an aim to revolutionize the way learning is perceived and teaching is delivered. The basis of the process is that “Learning can be made interesting”. Lakshya’s goal is to operate and sustain a parallel training system to schools, from K-12, using a unique instructional methodology, to provide students with more tangible

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Deal Radar 2009: AirPatrol

Recent arrests in the world’s largest reported case of identity theft highlight vulnerabilities in adopted corporate network security practices. According to industry analysts, the wireless intrusion prevention market will reach nearly $200 million in total global revenues in 2009. Today, we focus on a company that offers solutions for wireless threat management, AirPatrol Corporation.

Deal Radar 2009: Rocket Fuel

However much marketing professionals may cite advertising’s importance in creating “buzz” or awareness of a company’s “unique selling proposition”, the fact remains that in most cases, the main goal of advertising is to get people to open their wallets.

Deal Radar 2009: Outright.com

Today’s Deal Radar focuses on Outright.com, an online bookkeeping software provider for small businesses. Founders Kevin Reeth and Ben Curren had started a home business and wanted a easy way to manage their business finances on the web but couldn’t find one. Their colleagues suggested that they start one on their own, and after much deliberation

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