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Founded: 2007
Funding: Self Funded
Founder: Lalit Bhise, Chhavi Gupta, Bhupendar Singh, and Gurpreet Singh
Website: www.mobisy.com
While the founders of Mobisy, Lalit Bhise, CEO, Chhavi Gupta, Director of Ecosystem, Bhupendar Singh, Director of Engineering, and Gurpreet Singh, Director of Engineering were at Infineon Technologies, they witnessed the country's mobile subscriber base continuing to explode and the telecom operators preferring to have some mobile VAS players who can offer the full gamut of services. Hence they thought, "Why not be in the driver’s seat within the mobile platform game?"
In a market with 5,000 to 6,000 independent mobile applications (apps) developers Gupta and his friends found that the independent application developers were not getting much opportunity to test their applications. They left Infineon Technologies in 2007 to establish Mobisy, a platform developer.
Though the basic idea of their products was drawn from the existing players, Mobisy made sure that their products were focused to address the niche areas, which the existing players had not addressed yet.
Key challenges faced by today's mobile application developers are 'Device incompatibilities' and 'Ineffective application delivery platforms'. Mobisy are trying to address these major issues by providing a platform to develop applications quickly in standard web technologies like AJAX and limiting the porting issues. Further, Mobisy is enabling Internet based deployment of applications, which provides security at the same time avoiding complicated and lengthy, signing procedures.
Today, Mobisy is in the process of foraying ahead to develop the platform for other applications like Windows and Linux, including Android. It is adept at identifying the buzz among customers. However, prior to foraying into different areas, Gupta finds a strong challenge in tracking the customer base. "To gain the confidence among the independent application developers for any platform developer startups, one needs to prove that the application that sits on it works," says one of the founders.
Using this as a basic strategy to penetrate the market Mobisy developed applications to demonstrate the potentialities of their platforms. Mobisy developed its Spam Manager. There are times when many of us have come across junk calls or marketing calls. Mobisy’s applications come to the aid in this aspect. Its Spam Manager helps to keep the marketing and other junk calls at bay by adding the numbers to the Spam Manager list.
The young entrepreneurs' quick move in their initial days put them on par with the existing players. While the techies aspiring to be entrepreneurs normally hesitate to plunge into entrepreneurship, these young entrepreneurs went ahead by their gut feeling and the aspiration to build their own companies. Establishing Mobisy involved more than just hard work and it also required all the founders to totally sink their savings. After bootstrapping for almost six months Mobisy recently accepted some amount of angel funding.
Now, Mobisy is broadening its MobiTop's scope by catering to more handsets and aims to democratize mobile handset user interface design by enabling everyone to write and deploy mobile applications. Today, young entrepreneurs like Gupta and his team are not fearful about replicating their open source based platforms. Rather, young entrepreneurs are confident that Mobisy will strongly penetrate the potential customer base. They are confident to go ahead with MobiTop road map with the angel funding and the revenues that have started coming in. In fact, this drive has even helped them to get nominated for the final round of Momo Barcelona.
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