Alumni Buzz
Sendhelper, Singapore-based jobs search platform founded by Rupam Biswas, PGP 2007 raises $500,000 in seed funding
Sendhelper, a Singapore-based online jobs search platform for blue-collared workers with plans to foray into India, has raised around $500,000 in seed funding from Asian technology investor Captii ventures.
The company founded by IIM Bengaluru alumnus, Rupam Biswas, also has an e-commerce platform dedicated to providing household services such as cleaning, cooking and laundry in Singapore but plans to use the funds raised to expand its online jobs search business.
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Adi Shayan, alumnus from EGMP ’20 ( 2011) becomes new COO of Cosmos Maya- India’s most successful animation studio
Adi Shayan, comes to Cosmos-Maya from Bangalore based Xentrix. Studios where he worked as COO. In a career almost 20 years in the VFX and Computer Graphics Industry(CGI), he has held various positions, including a 9-year stint at DreamWorks Animation India as Studio Manager and almost 4 years at Tata Elxsi ā Visual Computing Labs (VCL) as a Business Development Manager and Producer. His sparkling dossier also has a 4-year stint inLA/Hollywood. .
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Musthafa PC, PGSEM 2007 featuredĀ in Deccan Chronicle
Dreaming big is easy, but working to realise the dream is not as this man knows all too well. Rising from humble beginnings as the son of a daily wage work
er in a remote village in Wayanad, Kerala, P.C. Musthafa started iD Fresh Food from a small kitchen in Thippa
sandra. Today iD Fresh Food has become a household name in just 13 years. As its CEO, he is lauded and recognised the world over for making a global success of packaging your every day idli, dosa batter. Ā Invited recently by the United Nations to share his story, he reveals what it took to make this family run business a global success in an interview featured in Deccan chronicle.
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