written by Achintya Gupta
Anand, Kuliza's CEO, talks about the journey of the company and its road ahead in an exclusive interview by 'YourStory'
Today morning has been really exciting especially because Kuliza got an exclusive coverage from YourStory.in, featuring Anand’s interview. The interview captures the story of Kuliza, our journey from a startup to a fast growing technology firm to our next focus areas. You can read the full article on YourStory.
YourStory is one of India’s top entrepreneurship focused news publications and have covered brands like Micromax mobiles, Redbus and Nexus Ventures in the past.
Here are some of the excerpts from the article:
“After growing the company close to 90 people, we realized that it is important for us to bring focus to our operations, and mobile and social are two very exciting areas. Especially, the way mobile and social are changing commerce space is something that is extremely exciting for us. Hence we built solutions like Encount, Shoppulse, and Soapbox to help companies do commerce better.”
“The way people are making purchasing decisions based on recommendations and reviews, and the amount of content they generate in the process is very exciting. The world is still in the very early stages of how online commerce and commerce in general across various sectors will happen using these technologies. We believe that going forward people will spend more time on their mobile phones to get social.”
“The mobile commerce space will be very big. Google is expecting almost 200 million Android devices in India. Infact, the price tag of all Android devices is almost 5 to 7 thousand rupees. What we will see in the next two years is the proliferation of all these devices on a very large scale into the market. A lot of people who never had internet access previously, will now have internet access through their mobile devices”
“We feel that in the next five years India will see many more such stories. We will see really great technology and product companies getting created in India that are multi-billion dollar companies. With the markets maturing, e-commerce maturing, increasing mobile penetration and VC market maturing, the ecosystem in India right now is very supportive of this trend.
So my goal is to build Kuliza as a billion dollar technology company in India over the next decade.”
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