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COMPANY.
ApartmentAdda is the flagship product of 3Five8 Technologies Private Limited, based in Bangalore, India.
PURPOSE OF APARTMENTADDA.
1. To provide a secure and fun-to-use online portal to the Residents of an Apartment Complex
- so that a great neighbourhood can be built.
2. To provide simple and efficient online tools for the Association Committee of an Apartment Complex
- so that the great neighbourhood can be sustained.
ORIGIN.
In 2006 Venkat and Sangeeta bought an apartment in Bangalore and joined a consumer segment in India that is grossly under-served: the Apartment Owners Associations. For a multitude of reasons, Apartment living is growing fast in India and other Asian countries. Apartment Owners Associations have the responsibility of building and sustaining their apartment community - quite like running a little country of their own! They do fantastic administration for their apartment community, and many also drive community initiatives for the betterment of their immediate ecosystem – the kind of initiatives that build the India of our dreams.
However, these associations face the challenges of weekend-only collaboration which compromises their time for family, relying on word of mouth reports from staff, using tracking frameworks that changes with every new Management Committee. What they needed was a comprehensive ready-to-use software built for Apartment Management, which also provides an online collaboration platform.
The options were few: 1) spend a fortune on getting software custom-built and then spend hardware infrastructure and more personal time for maintaining it. 2) Juggle multiple ‘free’ sites that hardly meet their needs.
3Five8 decided to offer a solution for these collaborators and leaders in every apartment complex. The founders together had more than 20 years of experience building and implementing online and offline enterprise applications for global customers. They were part of the Management Committee of their association and had faced the problems first hand. They also met more than 30 other Apartment Associations to compile the pain points as well as best practices.
Full time development of ApartmentAdda started in 2008 and was launched soon to gauge customer interest. Within 2 months the first Premium Customer signed up.
In less than a year ApartmentAdda has grown to be India's only ready-to-use online software that caters to the communication, management and accounting needs of Apartment Owners Association.
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TEAM.
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Venkat Kandaswamy
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The architect and developer of ApartmentAdda.
He has a track record of brewing simple and powerful solutions for apparently complex problems. In his 11 years of professional experience, Venkat has worked with TCS, Compuware and ThoughtWorks and has built high performance and high availability web applications in various domains like healthcare, insurance and leasing for Fortune 500 companies. Being an ardent follower of Agile methodology, Venkat ensures that the software remains highly adaptable and can provide value to the customer fast. Venkat holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from CEG-Anna University and a Masters degree in High Performance Computing from Louisiana State University.
When he is not poring over his 3 screen computer, you can find him playing frozen bubble with his toddler, blogging, drooling at the latest Audi in TopGear, or listening to a podcast while cycling in the gym.
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Sangeeta Banerjee
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Handles Product Management and Operations of ApartmentAdda.
She has ten years of experience implementing ERP solutions for Corporate Finance functions across industries and geographies. Sangeeta has worked with TCS, Capgemini and SAP, and is certified in SAP Financials and Business Intelligence. Her experience includes developing mainframe applications for BFSI companies in US, implementing SAP Financials around the globe, and serving as trusted ERP Advisor for Navratna companies of India. She ensures that the team's finger is as much on the customer's pulse as on the keyboard. Sangeeta holds Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from CEG-Anna University and MBA in Finance and Information Systems from Louisiana State University.
When she is not working with the customer to make ApartmentAdda rock for them, she is in her balcony garden planting another weird shade of rose sapling.
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Ashika Sripathi
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Creates and drives the marketing plan of ApartmentAdda.
With more than three years of experience in sales and marketing, Ashika's marketing skills have evolved from selling to strategizing to teaching advanced marketing concepts in B-schools. She has worked with Emerson, HCL and CMRIT. She has served as Channel Champion strategizing channel performance, managing dealers and handled accounts like HCL, BHEL, ISRO, BIAL etc. She loves selling, enjoys correlating consumerism and markets, and describes herself as an ambivert (just to confuse us). Ashika holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Vijayanagara Engineering College, Bellary and an MBA in Marketing from PES school of Management.
Bitten by wanderlust she has visited almost every corner of India. She zooms off on her vehicle to Nandi Hills with equal spontaneity as she does to the next apartment complex! |
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