Ashish Mehta, 

Carnegie Mellon alum Mehta and Santosh Gannavarapu met Anubhav Sonthalia at Amazon in Seattle in 2006. In 2009 they returned to Pune to set up Sokrati. With Sokrati, portals with vast catalogues, like Snapdeal and MagicBricks, can analyse audience and merchandise activity to get more out of their marketing spend. The ad technology and analytics company had been profitable for 10 months in a row when IvyCap Ventures and existing investor Inventus brought in fresh capital early this year. Its revenue has also grown 18 times in five years.