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Kerala Based Student Startup Receives $1 Million In Funding

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MobME, a mobile entertainment related business venture of Kerala based student startup Torque has received $1 million in funding. Torque is a 17 member operation which was started by students of Trivandrum College of Engineering, four of whom are still in college. The company has been incubated in Technopark. As per the release, Torque has a valuation of over $2.5 million. They plan to open offices in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai over the next few months, and have organic and inorganic growth plans over the next three years. In March, MobME is expected to launch VAS products, on which The Hindu sheds some light: a ‘Campaign Manager’ for creation, management and running SMS promotions; a web based mobile photosharing product called MobShare; and Fast Blood, an SMS based product to faciliate blood donation.
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  • Akhila.v

    Hello torque,
      I Akhila.V of B.C.A 1st year studying at A.S.A.S Kochi search a lot for torque's mail id.I'm sending this for a job.Let me say first of all that this is an informal mail.Iread about torque and I'm congrajulating you friends for this succesful organisation.I would like to have some side jobs with my studies and I'm not expecting high rewads.I hope Ican improve my programming and make my own money.So can you do something favourable in this case ? As a BCA 1st year student I just know 2 programming languages C and C++.So if you agree with my qualifications offer me some job at your campany.Ican make my work in progress through internet I hope.Hope a positive result from you,but please do reply to this even if the answer is negative.
                                    Thanking you
                                    Sincierly
                                      Akhila.V

  • brijesh

    The idea is very good and I can help it to grow as bigger as you cannot imagine.

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