Manu Agarwal

Current

Founder and CEO at Naaptol.com
Founder & CEO at ANMsoft Technologies

Past

Founder & CEO at Design Expo Network Pvt Limited / SLMsoft
Project Leader at WaferScale Integration

Education

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Maheshwari Public School

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500+ connections

Industry

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Manu Agarwal’s Summary

Have been a serial entrepreneur.

After completing by engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1992 I pursued my Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from University of Minnesota.

I worked with WSI Inc in USA for few years and moved back to India in 1998 to start Design Expo. Grew Design Expo to a 125 member team and later the same was acquired by a Payment Systems Company, SLMsoft. Worked with SLM for couple of years handling Bid Management and Indian Operations.

I founded ANMsoft in Mid 2003. ANM is a bootstrap company and is now 200 member strong. I am confident to scale ANM to a $B company and make it a leader in providing solutions in Banking, eMedia, eRetail, and eTravel.

Watch my profile as aired on Zee Business in Mar 2007)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7_lb6_hQjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2tvLk1mkhM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e7_lb6_hQjo

Manu Agarwal’s Specialties:

Technology startup, merger, fund raising, innovative solutions, team building

Manu Agarwal’s Experience

Founder and CEO

Naaptol.com

(Internet industry)

April 2008 — Present (7 months)

naaptol.com is the leading product research and comparison shopping engine for the Indian Market. Support wide categories with comprehesive product information and pricing / offers from online and offline merchants.
Founder & CEO

ANMsoft Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

July 2003 — Present (5 years 4 months)

At ANMsoft I am responsible for leading sales, business analysis and senior project advisory. Started in Mid 2003, we had a clear vision to become a leader in specific domains in IT services and solutions space. ANMSoft has 3 offices globally and has a 200 member strong team.

• Online Retail: ANMsoft has developed a comprehensive eCommerce platform, which has replaced popular IBM WCS solution at the largest Indian eCommerce site.

• Online Travel: ANMsoft has developed a large repository of components for Flight, Hotels, Car Rentals and Packages for creation of private labeled B2C and B2B booking engines.

• Online Media: ANMsoft has a range of solutions to enable online classifieds, collaborative content generation, publishing, subscription, and distribution.

• Loan Processing and Payment Systems: ANMsoft does product development for global providers of workflow oriented and scalable loan origination solutions and payment options including credit and smart cards.
Founder & CEO

Design Expo Network Pvt Limited / SLMsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)

Responsible for business development and growth of Design Expo. Started the company from scratch and grew to a 125 member strong organization. Particaipted in conceptualizing and development of innovative and large portals (Shubhyatra, Criclive, Sawaal). Also, developed large scale messaging solutions. Successful funding was also raised in Design Expo from Upstart Advisors.

After merger with SLMSoft I was responsible for handling Indian offshore center delivery and bid management for Asia Pacific Clients.
Project Leader

WaferScale Integration

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

March 1994 — 1998 (4 years)

Responsible for Flash Memory chip design. Developed new generation row decoders and programmable logic devices. WSI was later acquired by SGS Thompson.