8 Firms Headed By Indian-Origin Entrepreneurs On Forbes' List

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The company was founded in 2009 and has raised $6.5 million from venture capital firms Lerer Ventures and Knight Foundation.

It has revenues of $400,000. On the 93rd spot is Mixpo, which runs online software that converts and distributes video across mobile, tablet and desktop formats.

The company was co-founded by Anupam Gupta, an alumnus of Birla Institute of Technology & Science and Cornell University.

Mixpo's Vice President for Software Development is Salim Hemdani, an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business and alumnus of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India.

The Seattle-based company, founded in 2007, has revenues of 14 million dollars and counts giants like Comcast, NBC and Ford as its clients.

Occupying the 100th spot is PernixData, a San Jose-based company that sells software which helps companies store data more effectively.

It was co-founded in 2012 by Stanford and IIT Bombay alumnus Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani, a Stanford and BITS Pilani graduate.

CEO Kumar previously co-founded Oracle Exadata. The company has raised $27 million in venture funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

It has revenues of $two million.

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Source: PTI