Our story: from the garage to the Googleplex.

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around. By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things colorful continues to this day.)

Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first “Doodle”in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” and “The ten things we know to be true” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.

The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, with more than 60,000 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.

Qube Cinema, Inc. is a provider of end-to- end digital cinema technology and solutions. The company draws on decades of experience in cinema and provides a seamless digital environment for exhibitors, filmmakers and post-production companies with DCI compliant products that are flexible, reliable and cost-effective.

Qube Cinema has been a leading provider of technology in the film, video and audio domains and has pioneered several technology revolutions over the last three decades. The company was instrumental in bringing computer-based digital non-linear editing to India with Avid Technology, transforming the industry and forever changing the way Indian film and television programs were edited. The company subsequently brought digital cinema sound to India with DTS and helped Indian cinema leapfrog a generation, form mono sound directly to digital. The Qube product line is well established globally, with about 7,000 installations across 48 countries so far and has digital cinema operations in 4,000 cinema screens across India which is almost 42% of Indian screens.

We are a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery while advocating for positive social change. There are over 5,000 ThoughtWorkers in 14 countries, and we’re growing fast in every region of the world. We work with people and organizations who have ambitious missions - whether they are in the commercial, social or government sectors. Our Agile development tools help our clients continuously improve and deliver quality software. We are focused on helping our industry improve, and believe in sharing what we learn. We do this by writing books, blogging, hosting tech events, speaking at conferences, and championing open source software.

We’re looking for change makers. Opportunity creators. Bridge builders. Mind openers. Status-quo shakers. Together, we’ll create a place where people have the freedom to make a real and positive impact on our world through technology.

Mission: Our mission is to better humanity through software and help drive the creation of a socially and economically just world. We bring together the most capable, driven and passionate people - we call them ‘ThoughtWorkers’ - to:

1. Run a sustainable business.
2. Champion software excellence and revolutionize the IT industry.
3. Advocate passionately for social and economic justice.

At Equal Experts we help organisations achieve great things – processing millions of transactions per day in government; building top-5 mobile apps for iOS and Android; launching startups with lean, elegant technology and much, much more. We’re a community of over 750 experienced consultants (across eight countries, five continents), comprising user researchers, designers, strategic thinkers, product people, BAs, developers, architects, QAs, devops and more – all bound by our shared set of values. Our network model means experienced, pragmatic people are always invited to join us (even if you’re not looking for an imminent move). Once in the network you’re part of our community, and we’ll keep you informed of new developments and opportunities. When the time is right, we’ll work quickly to find you new challenges – always working with experienced, like-minded practitioners, and helping us achieve even greater things.

PayU uses its payments heritage and expertise to deliver financial services in emerging markets. Our local operations in Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa enable us to be experts in these countries and provide the best solutions for the local market. PayU is the leading online payment service provider in 16 high growth markets, dedicated to creating a fast, simple and efficient payment process for merchants and buyers. Our 250+ payment methods and PCI certified platforms are designed to meet every consumer’s needs. The markets in which PayU operates represent a potential consumer base of nearly 2.3 billion people and a huge growth potential for merchants. PayU has more than 1,800 payment specialists based in these local markets supporting PayU’s 200,000+ merchants and the millions of consumers making online payments.

Dream11 is India’s #1 fantasy sports platform with a growing user base of over 1 crore Indians playing daily single-match Fantasy Cricket, Football & Kabaddi. Dream11 is available across platforms - desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android apps (android only available for download on our site). A Series C funded startup, Dream11 is on a mission to help sports fans use their sports knowledge & skill to be a winner in every match! The company was founded by young entrepreneurs Harsh Jain and Bhavit Sheth in 2012 with the vision to make Fantasy Sports a part of every sports fan’s life! Believing in the business idea, the founders’ passion and scalability of the model, Multiples Equity, Kalaari Capital and Think Investments (a hedge fund in Bay area) have invested in Dream11. In 2017, Dream11 became the Official Fantasy Cricket Partner of Hero CPL T20 – one of the most exciting T20 tournaments in the world.

Locate us: www.dream11.com

A line of code can change the way the world shops. It can change the future of retail technology. And that’s what makes Walmart Labs Bengaluru the game changers! From exploration to capacity building and now to enhanced ownership, Walmart is creating a significant impact for their customers across the globe. Over the years, Walmart has built teams to deliver key products for all the global markets. Teams that are engaged in cutting-edge engineering and product development to support Walmart’s strategy of offering customers an anywhere, anytime shopping experience. Log onto https://www.walmartlabs.com/ to learn more.

Founded in 2009 and EBITA positive since inception, E2E Networks Private Limited is India’s #1 Pure SSD Cloud player. E2E’s team consists of professionals from leading companies such as Yahoo, Microsoft, ValueFirst, HP, NRCFOSS, Iron Systems, PwC, etc.

Using our vast experience in implementing and managing infrastructure for the web, mobile or enterprise centric workloads we have built a fully cloud agnostic CloudOps platform, which supports over 2,000 public clouds from across the world. Many of India’s best known start-ups have been using our CloudOps platform to boost measurable performance (up to 15% gains), while at the same time slashing their public cloud computing spend (up to 60% savings).

Our CloudOps platform uses a unique blend of automation delivered via technology combined with human intelligence to drastically reduce the workload of your in-house DevOps team by freeing them from the worry of managing RTB (Run The Business) issues.

E2E’s was the first company in India to launch contract free computing way back in 2009. We followed this up by launching our hourly billed pure SSD public cloud and private cloud. Our Cloud Infrastructure has been used by many well-known Indian Startups for their journey from Seed Level to Unicorn Stage and beyond.

Appsecco is a specialist application security company, founded in 2015, with physical presence in London, Bangalore, Doha and Boston, providing industry leading security advice that is firmly grounded in commercial reality. Our services cover the entire software development lifecycle from advising on how build and foster a culture of security within development teams and organisations to reviewing and advising on the security of applications and associated infrastructure under development to providing rapid response and advice in the event of a security breach or incident. The solutions, advice and insight we deliver to our clients always follows three core principles:

1. It must be pragmatic; taking into account the specific commercial, organisational and operational realities of each client individually
2. It must genuinely add value; the advice or solutions we provide must addresses the specific problem a client seeks to solve and have actionable insight to enable them to achieve this
3. Never be purely automated; whenever we are testing for security our reports and output always have significant, expert, human input to give the greatest possible value for our clients.

Razorpay is a Y Combinator incubated payments platform that powers online businesses to accept digital payments. Razorpay helps businesses accept online payments via several modes like Credit Card, Debit Card, Net banking, UPI and multiple Wallets from their end customers.

Razorpay is a developer friendly payment gateway that focuses on essentials such as 24x7 support, one line integration code and checkout experiences that are intuitive and customer friendly. Razorpay offers a simple and paperless onboarding process for businesses where developers can integrate APIs with their website within a few hours. More than 30,000 merchants currently leverage Razorpay’s seamless payment solution. The USP of Razorpay’s payment platform is its ‘Checkout’ feature, that allows customers to start and end the payment process on a single page without any re-directs, leading to better payment success rates and customer retention rates. Razorpay’s solution comes with a powerful dashboard that allows merchants to track key business metrics as well as get customized reports. The dashboard also enables merchants to easily handle customer refunds at a click of a button. Being an innovator in the payments domain, Razorpay has received many accolades in a short span of time. Last year Razorpay won the Nasscom ‘League of 10’ Companies and it won the Financial Express ‘Software Product of the Year’, Runner-up and the bronze award for the ‘Best POS innovation by PYMNTS.com this year. Founders of Razorpay, Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar were recently selected for the prestigious ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ 2017. Razorpay is also backed by marquee investors like Tiger Global, Matrix Partners and Mastercard.