STORY OF A TOP INDIAN ENTREPRENEURSUNIL MAHESWARI, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CO-FOUNDER OF MANGO TECHNOLOGIES PVT. LTD,

Accomplishments

Mango Technologies is one of the 'Top Ten Startup Companies of 2008‘

In 2007, he won the top innovation award from Nasscom and recently, Business World named him one of the top five entrepreneurs in India. Sunil had managed the team that designed the first 'Designed in India' mobile set and the world's first dual SIM phone.

Mango Technologies is a software solution provider for all low and medium segment mobile phones.

Desire to be an entrepreneur Sunil took the first risk in his career by

quitting his job at Reliance Infocom to join a startup company.

Their along with his colleague he designed the first 'Designed in India' handset. It was also the first dual SIM phone.

The idea germinates

Lekh Joshi and Sunil Maheshwari joined hands and in the year 2006 started Mango Technologies in Bangalore with less than Rs. 10 lakhs

They hired two people, and started building a complete operating system for mobiles

The requirement in the mobile phone domain India is different from the requirements of China, Japan or the United States.

The Challenge

Indians are cost-conscious consumers. In the US, $300 or $400 phones are very common.

It was a big challenge to make a set suitable for this kind of market.

Mango Technologies started partnering with Texas Instruments first and then started working with Qualcomm, which has 20-25% of the world market in mobiles

Awards

Nasscom's most innovative company award in 2007-08

Mint and Wall Street Journal wrote Mango Technologies as part of the top ten startup companies of 2008

Recently, Mango Technologies was in the top ten innovators list published by Business World

Future plans

Starting with two, now the company has 35 full-time employees, has two offices now; one in Bangalore and another in Jaipur.

The company wants to become number one mobile platform company.

Want to be in as many handsets as possible and give better service to the consumers

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