Seed Internship Summer 2018 Opportunities - India
*Seed offers 22 separate projects in India, listed below:
(1) Company Name: releaseMyAd Media Pvt Ltd
Website: http://www.releasemyad.com
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Excellent communicator and creative thinker and the ability to use data to inform all decisions
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: releaseMyAd leverages technology to make advertising easy, transparent, and affordable across newspapers, radio, and TV. They serve local businesses that otherwise remain underserved due to their lower ad budgets. releaseMyAd’s online platform aggregates buying capacity and democratizes media access and service delivery.
About the company leadership: relseaseMyAd is headquartered in Calcutta, India. The founding team is comprised of graduates from Wharton, XLRI, and other premier institutes with extensive experience in companies such as Microsoft, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Google (both in U.S.A and India). The entire business has been bootstrapped and funded by internal accruals. The 75-person team is quite young, with the average employee age around 26-years old. The company values innovation, being thrifty, open communication, and working smart.
Project Description: releaseMyAd is looking for a data-driven B2B marketing intern to design the majority of the marketing funnel for the company. The intern would be in charge of crafting the strategy around the messaging and marketing of the product to businesses.
Specifically, the intern’s responsibilities would be as follows:
- Create content (e.g. sales documentation, whitepapers, ebooks, reports, website copy, blog posts, Quora, and other forums) to articulate the benefits of the company’s products to SME businesses.
- Run LinkedIn prospecting and marketing campaigns to targeted customers.
- Grow new leads, including marketing-qualified leads, by converting site traffic through calls to action, landing pages, and lead generation content (including offers).
- Optimize the marketing automation and lead nurturing processes through email, content, and social channels.
- Establish closed-loop analytics with sales to understand how the company’s inbound marketing activity turns into customers.
(2) Company Name: releaseMyAd Media Pvt Ltd
Website: http://www.releasemyad.com
Strategic Project Area: Operations
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Strong analytical skills (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and experience with reporting and data analysis; proficiency in marketing automation systems (e.g. CRM) and integrating those systems with other technologies; excellent communicator, and a desire to improve processes
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: releaseMyAd leverages technology to make advertising easy, transparent, and affordable across newspapers, radio, and TV. They serve local businesses that otherwise remain underserved due to their lower ad budgets. releaseMyAd’s online platform aggregates buying capacity and democratizes media access and service delivery.
About the company leadership: releaseMyAd is headquartered in Calcutta, India. The founding team is comprised of graduates from Wharton, XLRI, and other premier institutes with extensive experience in companies such as Microsoft, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Google (both in U.S.A and India). The entire business has been bootstrapped and funded by internal accruals. The 75-person team is quite young, with the average employee age around 26-years old. The company values innovation, being thrifty, open communication, and working smart.
Project Description: releaseMyAd is looking for a customer relationship management (CRM) and operations intern who would work to create scalable processes that ensure best practices in lead nurturing, service delivery, customer retention and payment collections. The intern would also conduct data analysis that will be used to inform strategic decisions by stakeholders from across the company.
Specifically, the intern’s responsibilities would be as follows:
- Audit the current service delivery to customers to identify key bottlenecks and inefficiencies that need to be altered to improve customer satisfaction and service levels.
- Setup the management of the key marketing systems (marketing automation, CRM) used to generate, distribute, and report on customers.
- Establish and maintain scalable processes that ensure best practices in client services and retention.
- Create and maintain metrics reports on outstanding payment, sales activities, effectiveness, and business impact.
- Analyze marketing and sales data to develop insights and make recommendations on areas for optimization.
- Evaluate new technologies and add-on applications to improve and optimize client services and sales team performance.
(3) Company Name: Merce Technologies Pvt Ltd
Website: www.merce.co
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Experience working with startups and marketing; computer science is desirable, but not mandatory.
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Merce is a software services company with an excellent technical foundation. Merce offers customized solutions based on the latest technologies and walks the client through the difficult technology transition. In the process, Merce builds solution platforms that are generic in nature and can be offered to various clients.
About the company leadership: At Merce, authority and responsibilities are spread out at multiple levels of managerial and technical hierarchy. Because Merce has a flat organizational structure, it is easy to talk to various people across the organization. The company promotes open engagement and discussion of challenges with clients.
Project Description: Merce is looking to take on an intern who could help draw up a detailed action plan for the company’s go-to-market (GTM) strategy in the U.S. market and to finish some of the preparatory steps of that plan, if time and resources permit. Drawing up a GTM plan would involve investigating various options and opportunities, and gathering data about market realities, including the need to design communications, collateral, and PR.
(4) Company Name: CompanyStore (AKA Hourglass Essentials Pvt Ltd)
Website: www.companystore.in
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Passion and design thinking
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: CompanyStore is a logo merchandise company that supports the branding and marketing initiatives of corporate customers, including merchandising and sourcing items for customers’ loyalty, rewards, and incentive programs. They are revolutionizing the way companies are creating brand experiences through merchandise worldwide. The company’s vision is to create intimate relationships with its customers.
About the company leadership: The leadership team has more than 20 years of experience and provides customers with the highest-quality business solutions that further brand loyalty with their clients, prospects, and employees. They create an environment where individuals are respected, encouraged, and held accountable. The team deploys its expertise to accomplish the customer's unique needs with a passion to exceed expectations.
Project Description: CompanyStore would like an intern to be responsible for two main tasks:
- Research and create a project report on the size, potential, and feasibility of the creation of a new design-lead brand using innovation and design thinking.
- Work closely with the management to conceptualize products, packaging, a website, and all creative and business elements leading to a successful pilot of the brand in California.
In addition to the above, the intern would also work on aspects of succession planning, as a minor project, if time permits. The intern would also have the possibility to continue to support the brand after completion of the internship if she/he so desires and is found capable of doing so. The intern would work with an experienced, passionate team and also directly with the CEO and senior leadership team. He/she would be directly leading a new project and be held responsible for it from research to conception and beyond.
(5) Company Name: D Espat Pvt Ltd
Website: www.despat.com
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Engineering background
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: D Espat is an acronym for the company’s areas of focus, which are engineering services, security products, and power-associated technology. At present, D Espat is involved in two primary activities: building custom lightweight lithium-ion and lithium polymer battery products for niche industrial and defense applications in India, and providing design for manufacturing and assembly (DFMA) software sales, support, training, and consultancy for India and South East Asia.
About the company leadership: Syed Ali, the business’s director, is a mechanical engineer by training with a primary interest in product design. He is a passionate, dedicated, first-generation entrepreneur from a middle class family who has built a team of hard-working, curious employees who are focused on identifying solutions for portable energy challenges.
Project Description: D Espat is looking for an intern who could contribute to the strategic business scale-up plan of the company. D Espat wants to grow from being a custom-solution provider to being a medium/large scale product manufacturer. The intern would map various products in the battery space and identify one product idea for D Espat that could be mass produced and sold. The outcome should fit user expectations and have a competitive price-offer. The intern should be able to enlist engineering insights and suggestions and capture the know-how or knowledge from another industry that D Espat could benefit from.
The intern’s external view of the company’s strategic plans in an unbiased manner would bring in a new perspective and fresh ideas into the company. Perhaps, the intern could also assist in developing a more realistic description of goals for new products, including the electric vehicle.
(6) Company Name: Transforma Pvt Ltd
Website: www.transforma.in
Strategic Project Area: Operations
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Computer science and engineering background
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Transforma Pvt. Ltd. is an India-based content processing and data management company founded in 2002. Transforma works with global publishers to publish content in multiple platforms including web, print, e-reader, tablet, and smart phone formats, and it prides itself on its record of 100% customer retention since inception.
About the company leadership: A young leadership team supports the front runners of Transforma. Mr. Sankaran, senior vice president, brings more than three decades of professional experience in the content services industry. Mr. Jeyakumar, CTO, has more than three decades of professional experience in managing the technology support functions in the content services industry. He is actively involved in using AI/machine learning techniques in the automation of editorial systems for global publishers using complex content in scientific books and journals. Transforma’s whole team is nimble, always ready to make changes, adapt to trends, to connect on a more personal level, and to respond to customer requests quickly.
Project Description: Transforma is seeking an intern who could work on a variety of projects. The current production process consists of various steps: viz, log-in, inward inspection, pre-editing, copyediting, XML conversion, graphics preparation, pagination, proof-check, and final delivery. At present, Transforma does not have any data to measure the performance (viz, number of pages, quality levels etc.) of the resources in each process step. Thus, the intern would study the existing production process and measure its efficiency and identify alternative process workflows to get optimum efficiency with indication of production targets for each process stage. The company is looking for strategic ideas in its marketing/sales effort and deliveries made using an optimized efficient process workflow.
(7) Company Name: Ankalan Web Solutions Pvt Ltd
Website: www.toprankers.com
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: The company’s brand name, Top Rankers, is a leading edutech initiative that provides online test series and preparation content for students preparing for competitive exams, such as SBI PO, SSC CGL, CLAT, CAT, CTET, etc., all required for government-sector jobs.
About the company leadership: Top Rankers has a young and committed team that brings change into the edu-tech sector. They have deep insights on user behavior analysis and welcome dynamic individuals eager to learn.
Project Description: Top Rankers is looking for an intern who could understand students, analyze the current products Top Rankers offers, and come up with some innovative ideas to solve student needs. The intern would design user workflow for better user experience based on needs. The intern would also create a sales strategy for both B2B and B2C products and analyze the focus areas in the products that can enhance the perceived quality.
(8) Company Name: Sunfield Energy Pvt Ltd
Website: www.sunfieldsolar.in
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Sunfield Energy began solar panel manufacturing in 2010 and has been growing steadily since then. Sunfield has a production capacity of 12MW per annum with imported equipment facilities and in-house reliability testing capability. Its core strength lies in the practices it uses to run operations and its cutting-edge automated machinery at the factory.
About the company leadership: Sunfield is run by two dynamic entreprenuers, Mr. Srikanth Boddu and Ms. Nishitha Boddu. Srikanth is the managing director at Sunfield. He has 10 years of experience in the aerospace field and is a committee member in many business associations. Nishitha is currently head of marketing at Sunfield. She has eight years of corporate experience in companies such as Amazon, Tech Mahindra, and Sonata Software and is active in many associations and cultural activities.
Project Description: Sunfield is looking to take on an intern who can envision and analyze the opportunities Sunfield has to venture abroad and tap into the overseas market for solar panels. The project would entail market study, strategy, and study on the prerequisites to enter the international market.
(9) Company Name: Nesh Technologies Pvt Ltd
Website: www.neshinc.com
Strategic Project Area: Strategy
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Business management
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Nesh Technologies offers vehicle telematics and fleet management solutions to more than 150 fleet owners across India and manages close to 5,000 vehicles through its system. As a service, Nesh offers expertise in building enterprise-grade web and mobile solutions that leverage cloud technologies for customers in the U.S. and Canada.
About the company leadership: Nesh Technologies has close to 50 employees. CEO Venkat Nathan is a software technologist with more than 20 years of global experience in the U.S., Canada, and India. He has led more than 50 technology and business consulting assignments.
Project Description: Nesh Technologies is eager to take on an intern who would devise a strategy to take the company’s proven solution to global markets. This would require analysis of product, competition, market, and opportunity in targeted regions and alignment of product and partner strategy. The intern would work directly with the CEO and meet the India customers, and observe the impact of big data and IOT technologies to enable safety and vehicle efficiencies. The technology and support teams would help the intern understand the product and solution space.
(10) Company Name: Marlecha Interiors Pvt Ltd
Website: www.miplgroup.in
Strategic Project Area: Operations
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Project management
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Marlecha Interiors Pvt Ltd (MIPL) is an interior infrastructure company focused on delivering quality and customer-centric interior solutions. They are always on the lookout for what's new to deliver to their customers and to exceed their expectations.
About the company leadership: MIPL prioritizes learning and believes that you can learn anything if you put your heart into it. They appreciate and value hard work, honesty, and creativity. The leadership team is extremely receptive to new ideas and trying them out. They analyze and identify where they lag and work to improve with the support of all team members. The managing team listens to the staff and gives support and feedback. The leadership team consistently encourages the employees to do more and grow both personally and professionally.
Project Description: One of the areas where MIPL wants to improve significantly is the operations side of their projects. Thus, MIPL is looking for an intern who could study the project team and its supporting teams to identify, analyze, and suggest areas to handle more business while not compromising on quality. Smaller and bigger projects (in terms of the square foot of the project) require the same resources (manpower) and similar project completion times as well. MIPL would like to develop a structure backed with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and automation to handle each project (be it small or big) with the same dedication and commitment that they adhere to.
(11) Company Name: June Gaming Pvt Ltd
Website: http://www.taptolearn.com
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Prove self-management and embrace a flat-hierarchy structure
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: June Gaming is a Y Combinator-funded startup that builds real-time multiplayer games that has grown to 130 million installs worldwide. The company works with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Angry Birds and Pac-Man, and is one of the biggest games studios in India building a real-time rewards platform for gamers.
About the company leadership: June’s founding team, Avinash, Sreejit, and Roby, met in a class and completed a class project together to build June to what it is today. They have worked together for the past 10 years and learned a lot from raising a seed round from investors like Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Vinod Khosla, among others. Their learning came from the journey of watching Steve Jobs unveil the iPad in a room in Pune, India, to meeting with Laurene Powell Jobs at her office and speaking about their games – in the short span of two years. The leaders emphasize their belief that anything is possible and they share this with everyone who joins their team.
Project Description: June Gaming is looking for an intern to join its design team. Online games provide a microcosm of what the real world looks like and are a place where true human emotions are being displayed. What makes building games hard is the fact that it takes multiple design aspects to get right. Over the last decade the team at June has learned some of these design nuances and would now like to get an outside view and suggestions from the intern. The intern’s project would be based on the specific game chosen at the time of internship and would include a combination of hypothesis, statistical analysis, evaluations of possible strategy as well as design of experiments. The ideal intern would enjoy the small company environment, wear a lot of hats, adapt to the fast-paced, challenging, and quick-growth environment, and like to get things done and done well.
(12) Company Name: KM Best Medical Works Pvt Ltd
Website: www.kmworld.in
Strategic Project Area: Operations
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Engineering background
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: KM Best Medical Works manufactures new generation patient care equipment for hospitals and home healthcare. The company’s mission is to help healthcare professionals to transform patient care.
About the company leadership: The six-person team is comprised of professionals with expertise in marketing, engineering, and a strong medical background, who each strive to understand the needs of doctors and patients.
Project Description: The company is looking to take on an intern who could perform a study on manufacturing processes by identifying the flow, bottlenecks, defects, and timeline of the company. The final deliverable would be the intern’s suggestions and recommendations for altering and improving the efficiency in the manufacturing processes.
(13) Company Name: Learnpedia Edutech Pvt Ltd
Website: www.learnpedia.in
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Computer science and engineering background
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Learnpedia Edutech is a young edu-tech company that provides learning apps for students preparing for engineering/medical entrance exams. They have made a promising start and are ready to get on to an accelerated growth path.
About the company leadership: CEO Krishna Akula is an Oxford Said Business School alumnus, and Deepak Bunde, COO, is an Indian Institute of Management alumnus. They have a good exposure to the world outside India, having lived abroad as students and during the earlier part of their careers. These two leaders mentor a young intellectually-stimulating team.
Project Description: Learnpedia Edutech seeks an intern who could help the company in its machine learning project. The focus of the intern would be to build a system by applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality prediction systems. The ultimate goal of the project would be to create better content for students.
(14) Company Name: Buzzworks Business Services Pvt Ltd
Website: http://www.buzzworks.com
Strategic Project Area: Value Chain Innovations
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Buzzworks Business Services is tackling the problem of raising India from poverty by providing both employment and employability to a wide spectrum of people through contract staffing. Income, respect, and hope come guaranteed with every job the company creates.
About the company leadership: The company is represented by a well-balanced team that is a blend of old and young, wise and enthusiastic, street-smart, and educated across the board. There are lots of conversations that take place around how the transformation of India has resulted in the revolution of not just small business but also the impact on the economy and its people. The leadership is very open and takes feedback from any and everyone.
Project Description: The company is seeking an intern who could understand and optimize internal and external value chains from the perspective of a services business. Buzzworks has undergone a large change in organization structure and has grown at a terrific pace. This has led to "hustle creep" to keep up with the velocity of both. It's important to re-examine the relationships internally (between intra-line/inter-line and support functions) with the fresh eyes of an intern and also to build new value-chain frameworks, if required, to keep the company agile, scalable, and responsive to changing market demands and needs. The company would use the intern’s input to better its internal workflow systems and to unify the flow of information, material, and monies to better serve customer and organizational needs.
(15) Company Name: CARE Group of Institutions
Website: www.care.ac.in
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Background in student psychology
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: CARE offers engineering, management and architecture degree programs affiliated with a local university. Schools in India offer few opportunities for collaborative work, hands-on learning, creativity, or problem-solving. With more than 350 million people between the ages of 10-24, the Indian economy needs to create one million jobs a month for the next 10 years. Thus, CARE is set out to redefine education in India by providing students hands-on experience to prepare them for their future work lives.
About the company leadership: CARE has a diverse team of leaders from those who have two to three decades of experience in education to VP of manufacturing to leaders who are entrepreneurs themselves. Everyone on the team shares the same passion, which is to empower the younger generation to build a better future.
Project Description: CARE is looking for an intern who would come in to understand students and faculty and would assist the company in creating an active campus that engages students in hands-on learning. The project would be focused on boosting the overall student experience within the campus where the experience of learning is both self involved and exciting. The intern would help build an extramural curriculum to provide hands-on learning experiences, expose students to problem solving, and to the latest technology talks, leadership talks, and more.
(16) Company Name: Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Pvt Ltd
Website: www.zaggle.in
Strategic Project Area: Leader Assistant
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services is a payments, cash-back, and analytics company that connects consumer and corporate spending to merchants thru proprietary tech platforms. The company consists of two lines of business. The first is a B2B2C business in which Zaggle works with over 1,200 companies, including Microsoft, Abbott Labs, Infosys, Vodafone, and Tata Motors, to fulfill their employee rewards and recognition and employee benefits needs in addition to their consumer promotion and sales channel incentive programs. The second is a B2C business that offers deals, and offline and online cash-backs.
About the company leadership: Mr. Phani N. Raj, the founder and chairman of Zaggle, is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the brain behind Zaggle and a visionary thinker who spots patterns and trends well before their time. Avinash Godkhindi has worked with Zaggle for six years and is a former banker and fintech consultant with a decade and a half experience across 12 countries and five continents. He drives the execution of Zaggle's vision and is a hustler with a global perspective and scaling expertise. The core team believes in collaboration, learning, and having loads of fun while and by changing the world.
Project Description: Zaggle is seeking an intern who would like to shadow the CEO, work with him and learn from him, and to give input on potential improvements to the CEO. The intern would help the CEO plan for a fast-growing, cash-flow-positive company that aims to change fundamentally the way companies look at users. The idea is to move from "users" to simply humans who truly feel, think, and interact in groups. The intern would work on all projects including international expansion, fundraising, organizational design, partnerships, acquisitions, PR, brand building, growth hacking, strategy, and interesting fintech game changers like blockchain. The intern would work closely with investors, board directors, board of advisors, venture capitalists, and CXO-level professionals in India and around the globe. At the core the intern would get a chance to actually make CEO decisions in an emerging market startup and learn how to be supremely capital efficient through strategic design and thinking!
(17) Company Name: M. Ramsingh Agro Foods Pvt Ltd
Website: www.ramsinghrice.com
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Fluency in Tamil language, marketing, and branding knowledge
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: M. Ramsingh Agro Foods is a rice manufacturing, trading, and exporting company. It has a modern rice mill setup with modernized boiling, drying, and milling facilities and can handle around 500 tons of rice per month. The company focuses on single-boiled rice, a uniquely processed rice consumed only in the world by Tamils. The company has steady growth, sets ambitious goals each year, and sees areas to expand distribution geographically to other districts as well as working with more distributors.
About the company leadership: The two brothers leading the company have vast industrial and market experience. The rest of the team has been carefully selected for attitude and motivation. The team eagerly works towards the company’s growth objectives with the ability to accept changes and work towards innovation for the betterment of the organization.
Project Description: M. Ramsingh Agro Foods is looking to take on an intern who could contribute to the company’s expansion plan. The current market encompasses seven districts in the state of Tamil Nadu, and the plan is to expand the market to the whole of Tamil Nadu (32 districts) in the next five years. In order to do so, the intern would help develop strong publicity and advertisement to market the product or brand. Moreover, the intern could give input to help the company position its brand for a unique selling proposition to grow fast and to secure reasonable prices with good margins.
(18) Company Name: alStrut India Pvt Ltd
Website: www.alStrut.com
Strategic Project Area: Strategy
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Computer science and engineering background, business studies
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Alstrut’s mission is to enable industries to realize their full business potential through customized robotic and automation solutions. Every project has its own set of design and project management challenges, requiring a high-level of creative and entrepreneurial thinking.
About the company leadership: Alstrut’s leadership team comprises energetic, motivated, and passionate engineers who share a strong desire to contribute to the uplift of the Indian manufacturing ecosystem. The team is a balanced blend of business and technical managers who each bring many years of relevant industry experience. Alstrut’s culture encourages the team to take on risks by taking on challenging projects. Alstrut has consistently been at the forefront of recognizing, acquiring, and deploying the latest in robotics and automation technology. With few recent strategic tie-ups with specific robotic companies from across the world, Alstrut has a competitive edge over others in similar business.
Project Description: Alstrut is presently working on a business model that would disrupt traditional business models. Alstrut would like to take on an intern who would work closely with the core team, validate the business model, support technology development, and obtain real-time user data and feedback. This new ‘platform’ business model would leverage on Internet technology, mobile/web technology, IOT, data analytics. It would enable an exponential increase in the adoption of robots in manufacturing industry. Overall expected deliverables from the intern would be to build and deploy a minimum viable product (MVP), create a strategic business plan, and prepare a pitch deck.
(19) Company Name: Neeyamo Enterprise Solutions (P) Ltd
Website: www.neeyamo.com
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: MBAs and allied business/ management streams
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Neeyamo is a fast-growing, global company headquartered in India that provides proprietary platform-based HR services to multinational organizations. Its services cover over 180 countries and are delivered out of seven GDCs based out of India, Philippines, Mexico, and Poland. The PDCs are based out seven additional countries with the main office in California, U.S.A.
About the company leadership: The leadership team members at Neeyamo are pioneers of modern-day HRO in India. They inherit a strong legacy having helped multiple global organizations execute their India strategy including the likes of Exult (acquired by Hewitt), PeopleSoft (later acquired by Oracle), Anheuser-Busch InBev, etc. At Neeyamo, the team has bootstrapped and created an organization that has grown organically and is now creating waves in the global payroll and HR outsourcing arena. They have seen over 150% growth in order book value in the last year alone. They have been rated as the star performer by several industry analysts, including Everest Group and NelsonHall.
Project Description: Neeyamo’s go-to-market, especially in the U.S.A, has had multiple pitfalls. As a fast-growing global organization, the intern would help Neeyamo conceptualize, articulate, and communicate its value proposition to the target markets in the U.S., U.K., and Western Europe. Above all, Neeyamo would like the intern to bring his/her insight and ideas to the table.
(20) Company Name: Promethean Power Systems
Website: www.promethean-power.com
Strategic Project Area: Marketing
Project location (country): India
Project requirements: Marketing and customer insight
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Promethean Power Systems’ mission is to improve farmer livelihoods through innovative cooling solutions. Farmer incomes are impacted by spoilage due to unreliable refrigeration and lack of market access. Hence, Promethean Power Systems focuses on technological innovation and customer insights to solve this problem.
About the company leadership: Jofi Joseph, CEO, has more than 20 years experience across industries with the last 10 years focused on rural markets. Jofi has worked with Asian Paints, Nokia, and Microsoft before shifting to the start-ups field in 2014. Arkajit Mandal, the head of strategy and product development, has 12 years experience working with Reebok, Castrol, and First Energy. He has spent over six years driving transformation in a startup focused on energy efficient cooking solutions for rural and urban markets. Ram Bheke, the head of business development, has 12 years experience in agribusiness.
Project Description: Promethean is looking for an intern to work on a project to analyze the impact of the "Service Model" on both the farmer as well as the dairy. The intern would set up the metrics, analyze the results, and suggest improvements in the business model and value proposition.
(21) Company Name: Sri Jayashree Food Products
Website: www.farmharvest.in
Strategic Project Area: Value Chain Innovations
Project requirements: Fluency in Tamil language
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Sri Jayashree Food Products is an agriculture and food processing business. It contracts with more than 2000 sweet-corn farmers to purchase the vegetable at a pre-determined price, process it at its factory, and sell the processed sweet corn to retail stores. The primary goal of the company is to make social impact in the value chain from farmers to micro-entrepreneurs who deliver the products and all the the stake holders in between.
About the company leadership: Working in agriculture has taught the team to be more collaborative and partner with different entities within the company and outside, which is how the top leadership works even though SJFP is a privately-owned company. The team is able to make many youngsters self employed and to deliver healthy produce to the consumers and improve the income level of farmers.
Project Description: The company is looking to take on an intern who would work on the complete value chain from the farm to the consumer. Primarly, the intern’s work would be on how to make the present model much better in all aspects. The company believes in delivering healthy farm produce in different forms to the consumers so they can improve their health. They believe that available and affordable health food should be the primary source of nutrition for consumers as India has a very low health index. Consequently, the intern could learn and help to design a system that could be more impactful in different areas of value chain by studying different concepts and successful case studies worldwide and tailoring them to India’s context. Starting out with one intern will allow Sri Jayashree Food Products to create a platform for future interns and future collaborative efforts that could help the company’s transformational plan.
(22) Company Name: Tenovia Solutions Pvt Ltd
Website: http://www.tenovia.com/
Strategic Project Area: Innovation/Design Thinking
Project location (country): India
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate and Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: Over the past seven years, Tenovia has build cutting-edge, engaging ecommerce businesses for leading brands and retailers through deployment of state-of-the-art tools and processes. Tenovia has morphed into an end-to-end ecommerce solutions partner that combines the best in technology, strategy, processes, and content to fashion the ideal shopping experience for the end-customer online.
About the company leadership: Tenovia’s six-person leadership describes itself as driven, aggressive, and patient at the same time. The team works on large, audacious goals and they working for and with the best talent in India. Tenovia’s customers benefit from the rich expertise of in-house strategists, developers, and engineers. The strength of the company is its people and its processes. The leaders like to grow their team members by challenging them with projects that push their creativity and agility, often taking them to the next level of their career.
Project Description: Tenovia is rolling out its in-store, touch-screen kiosks at stores, which allow users to order items that are not available inside the store due to a size or color being unavailable. In order to improve this new product and make the rollout smoother, Tenovia is looking for an intern who could work on one or more of the following sectors:
- Product development
- UI / UX design
- Coding - node.js / mysql
- Analytics - measuring data, how to infer more data from it, increasing the number of relevant KPIs measured
- Business of making the model scale fast
