This B'lore start up has just won an Obama project

Dorm rooms of Indian colleges are about to get popular. Taking a leaf from Facebook’s historical growth trajectory, InterviewStreet.com, started by two NIT Trichy graduates - Vivek Ravishankar and Harishankaran K- have achieved something that will earn them the envy of every entrepreneur- a project for Barack Obama. The Economic Times reported that the three-year old start up’s latest project is to develop a technology platform on which programmers could build tools that would promote the goals of US President Barack Obama. It already boasts of a prestigious clientele including Facebook, NASA, Zynga and Amazon. [caption id=“attachment_334559” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“InterviewStreet is the first Indian start up to be inducted into the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. Reuters”]  [/caption] The Bangalore-based company is also the first Indian start up to be inducted in the much-hyped Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator run by venture capitalist, Paul Graham. In addition to this, it is funded by Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla. Both Ravishankar and Harishankaran started InterviewStreet after quitting their jobs at Amazon and IBM, respectively. Another Kolkata-based start-up FusionCharts, which creates interactive digital charts, was the first Indian start up to work for Obama in 2009. In comparison to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Valley, India might be lackluster but start ups hare making significant leaps, nonetheless.