Guruji To Receive Under $10 Million In Funding From Sandstone Capital?
More financial firepower for Guruji: the local search engine is reported to have received less than $10 million in funding from Sandstone Capital. Gujuji Co-founder and CEO Anurag Dod has been unavailable for comment. Guruji had received $7 million in seed funding from Sequoia in its first round, and was believed to be eying $10 million for their growth plans, including increasing the scope of their search engine to cover travel, flights, movies etc, multiple languages and mobile services. They have since launched search in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.
Others in this space include Infomedia (funding from ICICI Ventures), JustDial (SAIF Partners, Tiger Fund), AskLaila (funding from Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank), Zook from Ziva Software (funding from Nadathur), Burrp, OnYoMo and MIH
Less than 10M is very vague. If it is 9.5M, then its almost what they went for, but if it is <5M, then there might be a problem with their growth strategy/model.
How is Burrp anywhere comparable to Guruji?
they both use HTML ;)
Nikhil – as far as I know – Guruji is generic search and all the other players you have mentioned are more local search. Besides local search on Guruji is powered by Infomedia.
Don't you do even some cursory research before posting? Also, where is Sulekha.com in your comparison, all the Indians here only seem to use that site.
I think they should first build their core business brand and make users to search in their site first before laying their hands on many things
you have not included tolmol.com in the local search category, i guess because you think it comes under the comparison service category. please comment