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  • Smile Group names Gagandeep Singh Bedi to lead Healthtech venture builder in Asia

    Smile Group names Gagandeep Singh Bedi to lead Healthtech venture builder in Asia

    MUMBAI: Smile Group has taken a bold step into Healthtech. The tech investment and venture-building firm has named pharma industry veteran Gagandeep Singh Bedi as managing partner to lead its new Healthtech Venture Builder initiative, marking its formal foray into a space projected to hit $50 billion across APAC.

    With more than 25 years of leadership experience at Astrazeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, and Baxter, Bedi brings both gravitas and grit to the new role. At Astrazeneca India, he steered a turnaround that doubled market growth and tripled market capitalisation to $1 billion, while also contributing to India’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

    Bedi has been actively involved in India’s startup ecosystem, leading healthcare innovation partnerships with IIT Kanpur and the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre, alongside early-stage bets in Healthtech startups focused on coronary and oncology care.

    “Smile Group’s strong track record in scaling impactful, tech-forward ventures across Asia is something I’ve always deeply respected”, said Bedi. “Their unique approach—combining capital with deep operational support—resonates strongly with my focus on partnering with mission-driven startup founders”.

    Smile Group founder & CEO Harish Bahl added, “With AI in healthcare becoming a $50B+ opportunity across APAC, and India’s market growing at 42 per cent annually, the pace of change in Healthtech is phenomenal. Gagandeep’s rare combination of corporate leadership and Healthtech experience makes him the ideal fit”.

    The venture builder will focus on co-creating disruptive Healthtech businesses across Asia by combining Smile’s capital firepower and founder-first model with Bedi’s domain expertise and deep ecosystem connects.

  • SVG & Komli merge biz to form indie mobile marketing platform

    SVG & Komli merge biz to form indie mobile marketing platform

    MUMBAI: Digital media platform SVG Media has merged its operations with Komli Media’s India business and global brand rights to create one of the largest mobile marketing company, with a combined share of 60 per cent of digital ad-tech spends in India, and a reach of over 150 million Indian Internet users across all screens.

     

    Under the terms of the deal, Komli India will function independently alongside the existing SVG Media group businesses: Tyroo Technologies, DGM, and SeventyNine; while SVG Media will serve as an umbrella company.

    SVG Media through its operating brands will now have operations in India, Indonesia, Middle East, Singapore, Japan, Beijing and Australia.

     

    As a combined entity, the new SVG Media group’s consolidated India revenues stand at over $50 million. Only Google and Facebook have more India revenues and reach than SVG Media after today’s announcement.

     

    RevX, the mobile re-marketing unit recently spun out of Komli Media expanding from India to global markets, will continue to operate as a standalone company that is unrelated to this merger.  

     

    SVG Media founder and CEO Manish Vij said, “At SVG Media, we are determined to deliver to our advertisers a comprehensive suite of digital marketing products. Our vision is to be the most valued digital marketing platform for the high growth Asian mobile commerce industry. With Komli’s addition, our advertisers will also get highest reach in social media. We are working hard to be the first billion dollar digital marketing platform from India.”

     

    Smile Group founder Harish Bahl added, “The Indian mobile advertising industry is expected to be valued at $3 billion by 2020. As per our estimate, SVG is now three times larger than its nearest competing mobile marketing platform in India. We are confident that the merger with Komli India will bolster the SVG platform to continue building and offering the best-in-the-industry media and technology infrastructure for its advertisers – owning the ability to deliver 100 million mobile-commerce transactions every year.”

     

    Komli Media founder and CEO Amar Goel said, “Joining hands with India’s largest digital marketing platform allows both of us to combine our best strengths to create unprecedented value for our customers. All of us at Komli India are excited to be a part of the SVG Media group and look forward to further consolidating our leadership in India.”

  • SVG Media acquires SeventyNine and NetworkPlay

    SVG Media acquires SeventyNine and NetworkPlay

    MUMBAI: SVG Media, a digital media network, has fully acquired mobile video technology platform SeventyNine and performance display platform NetworkPlay from Gurner+Jahr, a unit of Bertelsmann Group.

     

    Post the acquisition, SVG Media has become the largest advertising technology company in India with over 8 per cent market share of digital media. Furthermore, it is now reaching over 100 million internet users on mobile and PC.

     

    SeventyNine and NetworkPlay will now work as independent brands along with SVG Media’s other market leading AdTech platform Tyroo, DGM and PrecisionMatch.

     

    SVG Media founder and CEO Manish Vij along with co-founder and chairman Harish Bahl, “It has been our dream to build a platform of this scale to help our advertisers meet its performance marketing objectives and give best monetization for our publishers for their mobile/PC assets. We are doing this by Affiliate marketplace, Video and Data products. SeventyNine’s patent pending technology is one of first few mobile video platforms that delivers performance to advertisers.”

     

    SeventyNine’s previous co-founders Chirag Shah and Deven Dharamdasani will lead the business post acquisition. “We are very excited to be back and working with the same team at SeventyNine and are very confident of making it the largest mobile video advertising technology platform in Asia,” they said.

     

    Along with its leadership in India, SVG media, is serving business in over seven countries and is on its way to becoming the largest advertising technology platform in Asia.

  • ad:tech announces keynote speakers for its 4th edition

    ad:tech announces keynote speakers for its 4th edition

    MUMBAI: ad:tech,  World’s  largest  digital  marketing  event    announces  its  4th edition of Digital Marketing & Advertising Conference & Exhibition in India to be held on March 20-21, 2014 at The Leela Ambience Hotel and Residences, Gurgaon.

    With less than 2 weeks to go ad:tech 2014 announced participation from renowned industry leaders including Mr. Shivakumar,  Chairman and CEO,  PepsiCo India Holdings, Mr. Bonin Bough, Vice President of Global Media and Consumer Engagement, Mondelez International; Mr Karim Temsamani, President, Asia-Pacific, Google; Mr Sam Singh, VP & Global head of media, GSK and Mr. Raghav Bahl, Founder & Editor, Network 18 who will share their expertise and research on various topics like Marketing and Advertising strategy, SEO Management, Myths about Social media, Planning for the new multi screen . Keynote debate at ad:tech will highlight the much talked about issue of e-commerce in India – Euphoria, Reality & Opportunity that will feature Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founder & CEO, One97 Communications ; Ashish Kashyap, Founder & CEO, ibibo Group; Harish Bahl, Founder &Chairman & Smile Group in conversation with Alok Kejriwal, CEO – 2win Group in an engaging debate.

    Commenting on the announcement James Drake-Brockman, Head of EMEA & India, Digital Marketing, dmg:events, said “Digital marketing and advertising is estimated to be Rs 1,500 Cr and growing at 45% constantly over 3 years. ad:tech over the years has proved to be a great platform for various industry giants to meet, highlight and discuss the constantly growing digital industry. To further strengthen the digital era ad:tech comes with the variety of formats specially designed for one and all. With over 60 exhibitors and 3,000+ attendees we are expecting ad:tech 2014 to the biggest ever”

    At ad:tech New Delhi 2014, you can experience two action packed days with keynotes, education session led by digital marketers, knowledge sessions, free workshops and actionable insights to improving ROI from digital advertising and marketing. With more than 30 sessions, from panel discussion to in depths presentations to hands on workshop, ad:tech “Leading with Digital” theme tries to cater as many areas as possible.   This year ad:tech has specially designed an Innovation Zone  for showcasing new technologies in digital marketing and has arranged for various special events, from Pub Crawl, to the Big Networking Bash and  a lot more.

    Rammohan Sundaram, Chairman – ad:tech New Delhi added “ It’s been our constant endeavour at ad:tech to create a platform that provides the perfect ground for the brands and influencers to come together to debate and discuss various topics pertaining to the digital advertising and marketing industry. Digital marketing is witnessing its highest growth point in India right now and ad:tech wth its engaging sessions and prominent participants aims to bring out the best practices for a stable constant growth”

     

    The bustling floors will witness some of the most diverse topics being debated including The Many Flavours of Digital ROI, Planning for the New Multi-Screen World, How modern Retailers are using data from across channels to spot trends, Dispelling Myths – 20 things NOT to do on Social Media, Rise of ‘Second Screen’ and Social conversation around TV, e-Commerce in India : Euphoria, Reality and Opportunity. Ad:tech will also see participation from leading industry heads including Nitesh Kripalani, Executive Vice-President – New Media; Shubhodip Pal, Chief Marketing Officer, Micromax India; Sandeep Aurora, Director,  Intel South Asia,  Tom Bowman, Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Global Advertising Sales, BBC Worldwide, Nishant K. Rao,Country Manager,LinkedIn
    India; Kirthiga Ready,Head of Office India, Facebook various many others.

    Attending brands include – Accenture, Aircel, Airtel, American Express, Amity University, Aon Hewitt, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, Blackberry, British Council, Cleartrip, Colgate Palmolive India, CouponDunia, DealsandYou.com, Ethoswatches, Flipkart, Fox International, Future Group, Google, Groupon, GSK, Haier Appliances, HSBC, Info Edge, Intel, Jabong.com, KMPG, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Kotak Securities Ltd, Mahindra  Holidays,  MakeMyTrip.com,  Marico,  Max  Life  Insurance,  Micromax,  Microsoft  India,  Modi Revlon, Mondelez, Nokia, OLX, Paytm, Raymonds, Samsung, Snapdeal, Schneider Electric, Sony Entertainment Network, Suzuki Motorcycle, Tata AIG General Insurance,Tesco, Unilever, Volkswagen India, Wechat, Yes Bank, Zovi.com, and more

    For More Info: www.india.ad-tech.com

     

  • Neo@Ogilvy enters into JV with Smile Group, appoints Sanjay Ramakrishnan as country head

    Neo@Ogilvy enters into JV with Smile Group, appoints Sanjay Ramakrishnan as country head

    MUMBAI:Ogilvy India has announced a joint venture between Neo@Ogilvy and Smile Group. The move will strengthen the agency’s performance marketing, e-commerce and mobile offerings. The JV will also set up a global media delivery hub to service Neo@Ogilvy’s global media operations.

    Not only this, Neo@Ogilvy India has also announced the appointment of Sanjay Ramakrishnan as country head.

    Talking on the JV, Ogilvy South Asia chairman and creative director Piyush Pandey said, “This JV is one more step ahead in our digital journey. Harish’s experience in Digital Media and eCommerce will help drive rapid growth in these areas. And Sanjay Ramakrishnan is a fantastic young business leader with the right skills to lead Neo@Ogilvy in India.”

    Elaborating on the vision of the partnership Smile Group chairman Harish Bahl said, “The JV will help offer world class services to local and global clients of Ogilvy and Neo respectively, using the expertise and experience of Smile in the areas of performance marketing, e-commerce and mobile.” Adding he said, “Sanjay, who will be the country head of Neo@Ogilvy India, brings on board a good blend of e-retail and performance marketing expertise both in internet & mobile and is best positioned to build a leadership position for Neo India around this business focus, which we believe are the future high growth areas for digital agencies.”

    Ramakrishnan has over 15 years experience across digital media, e-commerce, mobile, telecom and consumer technology. He moves in from Vizury where he was the GM for India, S.E. Asia and MENA; prior to this, he was SVP marketing at Myntra. He has also held senior marketing roles at Google, Intel, Geodesic and Worldspace.
    The aim is to recast Neo@Ogilvy as one of the most effective digital media companies in the country says Ramakrishnan

    OgilvyOne India president and country head Vikram Menon said, “We’re really excited with the JV with Smile Group. Strategically this fits perfectly into our plans to offer the best capability across digital to our clients. The Neo-Smile JV, with Sanjay at its helm, will do just that. He will ensure that Ogilvy is able to deliver the best across digital media, performance marketing, e-commerce and mobile.”

    While OgilvyOne drives all digital strategy and creative services for clients in India, Neo@Ogilvy’s specific focus is on digital media, performance marketing, e-commerce and mobile marketing. Neo@Ogilvy’s client roster in India includes IBM, Diageo, British Airways, The Economist and The Which Group, among others.

    On his appointment, Ramakrishnan said, “I am excited to be part of Ogilvy and drive this JV with the Smile Group. The aim is to recast Neo@Ogilvy as one of the most effective digital media companies in the country with a clear focus on performance marketing, mobile and e-commerce. I have been a marketer all my life and I believe there is a gap in the way paid digital media is intergrated with traditional marketing and communication.The goal is to change that through Neo@Ogilvy. End-to-end e-commerce solution is another unique offering that this JV brings to the table and I’m keen to use the skills I have to drive it.”

  • Tyroo acquires Anurag Gupta’s DGM India

    Tyroo acquires Anurag Gupta’s DGM India

    MUMBAI: Tyroo, the digital media company of SVG has acquired Anurag Gupta-founded DGM India. Gupta will remain with the company as MD post acquisition.

    Tyroo said that the acquisition will help the company to increase its network. It wants to become India‘s largest digital media company, after Google India, by next year.

    Tyroo founder Manish Vij said, “DGM is a company with over 5 years of performance leadership, a world class proprietary technology and management. We are excited to bring them as part of the Tyroo / SVG family. With this acquisition there will be clearly a media network that can give advertisers scale and quality. For publishers it will be the only place to have almost every running campaign in Indian digital media.”

    DGM India founder, promoter and MD Gupta added, “I am excited to take DGM India along with India‘s largest digital media group. DGM India has a superb team, technology and leadership in the performance business. DGM is on a very fast growth rate and will end the year with $5-6 million annual revenue. We are launching other DGM Products in market very soon and enhancing our technology.”

    Both the companies will continue to run separately. Gupta will continue to be the MD of DGM and Tyroo Direct, Tyroo‘s performance network arm, will be continued to be headed by Siddharth Puri.

    SVG is a joint venture of Vij‘s Vun Network and Harish Bahl‘s Smile Group. It is one of the digital media groups in country with companies such as Tyroo, SeventyNine (the mobile network), Zoomtra and Quasar.