Let me take a crack at this. These are companies in Pune that I know about, who are using technology in an interesting and different way. I'm sure there are many more (and I am not even counting companies doing "normal" products, but are doing extremely well (like druva.com)).
This is just the first few companies that came to mind. I'll think of more later. This includes only "pure" Pune companies (i.e. does not include companies headquartered elsewhere, but which have development centers in Pune).
Source- Quora
- TouchMagix.com is selling a product that can convert any flat surface (wall, floor, table) into an interactive "touch" screen.
- LinguaNext.net has software that can localize any software (i.e. change the language) without requiring access to the source code. So they can take an exe file of a program whose interface is in English and give you a Hindi exe back.
- SIRDPune.com takes geographic data and computes availability of water, water table and other such factors for government policy makes. The same base data can be used by banks at rural areas to determine pricing of agricultural projects (so that they can determine loan amounts)
- SMSone.in creates 1000-people "sms newspapers" in small villages (or slums in cities) - i.e. news and ads for a very small locality using only sms. They're in 500+ villages.
- Pubmatic.com allows a website owner to automatically choose the best ads to place on webpages (from various ad networks like google ad words) after estimating which one is likely to give the best payout. This is done on a per ad impression basis
- Airtightnetworks.com - has a number of interesting products in wi-fi security space.
- FinIQ.com - software products for pricing of options, derivatives and other complex financial instruments; customers are banks in South-East Asia and Europe.
- Sofomo.co.in - which is building mobile, internet connected medical diagnostic devices (like ECG), for the Indian market
- AppSurfer.com - which allows users to try Android apps in their browser before they have to buy/download the app on to their mobile.
- There are a bunch of companies that do software for drug discovery and protein folding etc. (like vlifesciences.com; I'm sure there are others, but I'm not very knowledgeable about this area)
- <to be continued>
This is just the first few companies that came to mind. I'll think of more later. This includes only "pure" Pune companies (i.e. does not include companies headquartered elsewhere, but which have development centers in Pune).
Source- Quora
