One97 Mobility Fund has 10 tickets up for grabs, on first-cum-first-serve basis. All you have to do is send an email to swtickets@one97mobilityfund.com along with a link to your work (if any), a short write up about your work experience, contact details and why you think you deserve to get the pass to attend startup weekend Mumbai!

Deadline for sending resumes: Thursday 9th February!

Startup Weekend is weekend-long, hands-on experiments where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas are viable.

One97 Mobility Fund is a $100 million fund set up to support entrepreneurs who are making, or are ready to make game changing companies in the mobile ecosystem.

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• Event: Startup Weekend Mumbai
• Date: 10th – 12th February 2012
• Venue: Directiplex (BigRock), next to Andheri Subway, Old Nagardas Road, Andheri (E)

So what are you waiting for….those 10 tickets will be gone before you know it!

To capture the opportunity thrown up by the internet economy, Young Turks spent a better part of 2011 showcasing emerging Indian internet cos. Just a handful of young turks brought in funds over 230 million dollars from VCs and PEs in the year. So 2011 clearly was the year of the internet economy.

The event was held at the Mercedes Benz’s world class pavilion atAuto Expo, Pragati Maidan on Jan 6th.

Cheers!

The problem he was solving was even more interesting: why do we have to remember things? Why can’t my phone, which knows my location, calls, mails, text , music and so on, answer things for me.
The mission : If his app was there with guys in The Hangover movie, they could literally play back the night so easily.

He showed me Friday and how it could be used to answer many interesting questions about your own life or better your interaction with your mobile.

Narayan and his team put their Artificial Intelligence skills to create this personal search engine for your world.

And then one day Siri (on iPhone 4S) happened.

The Dexetra team had done AI , done web bot and now challenged them to launch their own version for Android just in 8 hours. They created it overnight, calling by reverse spelling of Siri i.e. Iris and world listened to them on Techcrunch.

Since then things have not been the same. With nearly a million downloads and 10s of millions of queries iris crates first global product out from Bangalore.

Our investment made months before is announced today and is a great reinforcement of opportunity to create world-class offerings out of India.

May forces be them and iris becomes Dexetra team’s prodigy child.

I am so proud of this rock star investment by our One97MobilityFund.

About them:

Dexetra is a fledging mobile product start-up based out of Bangalore, which focuses on Artificial Intelligence around personalized search on Mobile.

For over a year, Dexetra team has been building – Iris – a highly personalized and intelligent answering engine for mobiles. You can talk to Iris on your phone just like you talk to someone who knows a lot about you and your world.
Based on your mobile usage behavior and various bots on web, Iris uses its proprietary context building and semantic maps technology to provide answers to users’ question.

Iris for Android, has around a million downloads within a month of launch and have answered 10′s millions of user queries. You can get Iris from Andoird Market Place today and enjoy company of a close intelligent friend.

Dexetra plans to take the Mobile user interfaces to the next level by making Voice and Natural Language the primary way of interaction. Inside stuff about Dextra is on their blog http://blog.dexetra.com