$\"\"$ New Delhi: <\/span>Mumbai-based software firm Firstouch<\/a> raised $5 million in a series A funding from investors led by Omidyar Network<\/a>, and rebranded itself as Indus OS.<\/span>
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\nThe company that makes regional-language smartphone operating system, will invest the funds towards building its technology, recruiting new talent and expanding into international markets.<\/span>
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\n“Indus OS is well poised to reach 100 million users in the next three years and emerge as the undisputed leader in indigenous-language technology in emerging markets,” said co-founder and CEO, Rakesh Deshmukh<\/a>.<\/span>
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\nThe company has partnerships with Micromax<\/a>, India’s largest domestic mobile brand, as well as Elite, a leading phone brand in Bangladesh. It plans to work with other domestic and global phone brands to bring digital connectivity to smaller urban centers, non-metro and rural areas.<\/span>
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\n‘We have a strong bias towards technology innovations that solve large-scale problems through local solutions, with the potential to have transformative impact,” Badri Pillapakkam, Director, Investments at Omidyar Network<\/a>. “Indus OS is rare in that it checks the box on all these counts, and we like the IP that this high-quality, dedicated and passionate founding team has created,” he added.<\/span>
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\nThe companies did not disclose the equity shelled out in this funding round.<\/span>
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\nIndus OS is also funded by angel investors such as Snapdeal co-founders Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl, Quikr founder Pranay Chulet and InMobi co-founders Naveen Tewari and Amit Gupta, Hari Padmanabhan and Mayank Singhal from Temasek.<\/span>
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\nFounded by three IIT-Bombay graduates - Rakesh Deshmukh<\/a> (CEO), Akash Dongre (Head of Product) and Sudhir B (Head of Technology) - Indus OS developed its indigenous OS and a mobile application store called App Bazaar, targeting the regional-language audience. Currently available in 12 Indic languages, Indus OS has achieved an installed user base of over 2 <\/span>million<\/span>within<\/span><\/span><\/span> six months<\/span><\/span><\/span> of its launch.<\/span>
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\nIndus OS is targeting the next wave of millions of non-English smartphone and internet users by enabling usage and discovery of content in vernacular languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Assamese and Urdu.<\/span>
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\nCore features of the Indus OS operating system include a swipe to translate feature that translates and transliterates text messages from English into a regional language with a flick of the hand. It has also developed and patented regional language keyboards customized for 12 languages with predictions to make typing effortless and accurate. It is the first smartphone platform in the world to provide transliteration functionality in Urdu, which is read from right to left.<\/span>
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\nThe company also recently signed an MoU with the Government of India’s Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) to develop a native operating system with integrated text-to-speech technology in regional languages.<\/span>\n\n\t\n\t\t

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Firstouch重新树立印度河操作系统,提高500万美元系列由Omidyar网络

公司使区域性语言智能手机操作系统,将投资资金来建立自己的技术,招募新的人才和开拓国际市场。

更新2016年1月19日下午喂饲时坚持

新德里消息: 孟买软件公司Firstouch筹集了500万美元资金从投资者由一系列Omidyar网络,并为自己是印度河操作系统。

公司使区域性语言智能手机操作系统,将投资资金来建立自己的技术,招募新的人才和开拓国际市场。

“印度河操作系统将在未来三年内达到1亿用户,成为无可争议的领导人在土著语言技术在新兴市场,”联合创始人兼首席执行官说,拉克什德斯穆克。

公司有业务合作Micromax印度最大的国内手机品牌,以及精英,孟加拉国的一个领先的手机品牌。计划工作与其他国内和全球手机品牌将数字连接较小的城市中心,non-metro和农村地区。

我们有强烈的倾向于技术创新,解决大规模问题通过当地的解决方案,有可能产生变革性的影响,“巴蒂尼Pillapakkam、导演、投资Omidyar网络。“印度河OS是罕见的,它检查盒子在所有这些方面,和我们喜欢的IP这高质量、献身精神和充满激情的创始团队创造了,”他补充道。

公司未披露股权炮轰这一轮融资。

印度河OS等也是由天使投资者Snapdeal创始人罗希特邦萨尔和Kunal巴尔Quikr创始人Pranay Chulet InMobi创始人Naveen特瓦芮和阿米特·古普塔,哈里Padmanabhan和玛雅Singhal淡马锡。

由三个IIT-Bombay毕业生——创立的拉克什德斯穆克(首席执行官),阿卡什Dongre(的产品)和Sudhir B(技术主管)——印度河OS开发自主操作系统和移动应用商店叫应用集市,针对区域性语言的观众。目前在12个印度语系语言,印度河操作系统已经实现了用户安装的/ 2 几百万在六个月它的发射。

印度河系统是针对下一波的数以百万计的非智能手机和互联网用户通过允许在方言的语言使用情况和发现的内容包括印地语,孟加拉语,古吉拉特语,马拉地语,泰米尔语,马拉雅拉姆语、卡纳达语、泰卢固语、阿萨姆语和乌尔都语。

印度河OS操作系统的核心功能包括一个刷卡翻译功能,从英语翻译和直译短信到一个地区语言,只需用手轻轻一推。它还开发和专利12种语言区域语言键盘定制与预测输入轻松、准确。它是世界上第一个智能手机平台提供音译功能在乌尔都语,从右向左读。

该公司最近还与印度政府签署了一项谅解备忘录是电子系(神)来开发一个本地操作系统与集成语音合成技术在地方语言。

发表在2016年1月19日07:56点坚持

$\"\"$ New Delhi: <\/span>Mumbai-based software firm Firstouch<\/a> raised $5 million in a series A funding from investors led by Omidyar Network<\/a>, and rebranded itself as Indus OS.<\/span>
\n
\nThe company that makes regional-language smartphone operating system, will invest the funds towards building its technology, recruiting new talent and expanding into international markets.<\/span>
\n
\n“Indus OS is well poised to reach 100 million users in the next three years and emerge as the undisputed leader in indigenous-language technology in emerging markets,” said co-founder and CEO, Rakesh Deshmukh<\/a>.<\/span>
\n
\nThe company has partnerships with Micromax<\/a>, India’s largest domestic mobile brand, as well as Elite, a leading phone brand in Bangladesh. It plans to work with other domestic and global phone brands to bring digital connectivity to smaller urban centers, non-metro and rural areas.<\/span>
\n
\n‘We have a strong bias towards technology innovations that solve large-scale problems through local solutions, with the potential to have transformative impact,” Badri Pillapakkam, Director, Investments at Omidyar Network<\/a>. “Indus OS is rare in that it checks the box on all these counts, and we like the IP that this high-quality, dedicated and passionate founding team has created,” he added.<\/span>
\n
\nThe companies did not disclose the equity shelled out in this funding round.<\/span>
\n
\nIndus OS is also funded by angel investors such as Snapdeal co-founders Rohit Bansal and Kunal Bahl, Quikr founder Pranay Chulet and InMobi co-founders Naveen Tewari and Amit Gupta, Hari Padmanabhan and Mayank Singhal from Temasek.<\/span>
\n
\nFounded by three IIT-Bombay graduates - Rakesh Deshmukh<\/a> (CEO), Akash Dongre (Head of Product) and Sudhir B (Head of Technology) - Indus OS developed its indigenous OS and a mobile application store called App Bazaar, targeting the regional-language audience. Currently available in 12 Indic languages, Indus OS has achieved an installed user base of over 2 <\/span>million<\/span>within<\/span><\/span><\/span> six months<\/span><\/span><\/span> of its launch.<\/span>
\n
\nIndus OS is targeting the next wave of millions of non-English smartphone and internet users by enabling usage and discovery of content in vernacular languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Assamese and Urdu.<\/span>
\n
\nCore features of the Indus OS operating system include a swipe to translate feature that translates and transliterates text messages from English into a regional language with a flick of the hand. It has also developed and patented regional language keyboards customized for 12 languages with predictions to make typing effortless and accurate. It is the first smartphone platform in the world to provide transliteration functionality in Urdu, which is read from right to left.<\/span>
\n
\nThe company also recently signed an MoU with the Government of India’s Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) to develop a native operating system with integrated text-to-speech technology in regional languages.<\/span>\n\n\t\n\t\t

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