About Us

Overview

J9 Ventures, a business division of JPL, is in the business of Web, WAP & Text based Value Added Services, Products, Platforms & Solutions for consumers and corporate customers.

The consumer centric services offered by J9 Ventures range from Permission Based Content Sales, Contesting, Utility Based Services like Digital Classified Platform and Home Shopping. The corporate solutions include be-spoke solutions for enterprises based on the need of a business and Brand specific lead generation solutions and recall centric solutions.

Currently J9 Ventures boasts of the best talent from telco & media industries which has resulted in a world class team of entrepreneurs who are looking forward to aggressively march ahead in the VAS domain.

The guiding principle of J9 is constantly innovate, ideate & initiate to create best services & solutions.

Mission and Visionary Goal

To be the most notable digital consumer services enterprise by 2010 by offering unique, user friendly and consumer insight driven pioneering services created and driven by the best man-power in the industry.

Core Values
  • Consumer comes first
  • Challenge limits
  • Leadership in thinking
  • Results rule
  • Celebrate manpower

Milestones

  • MVAS business grown 6 folds since inception in April 2007
  • Home Shopping business launched with a promise on best value across 11 States
  • Launching India's first platform agnostic user generated content based classified platform khojle.in which will be accessible through Web, Text, WAP and Symbian application
  • Launching first of its kind online contesting portal Jeetle.in with reverse auction format to start with
  • Aggregated 30 Million responses on contesting products during last fiscal
  • One of the largest aggregators for State Board Exam Results during last fiscal

Team

Sukirti Gupta
CEO

Ms. Sukirti Gupta brings over 15 years of International new business development experience to J9 Ventures. As a veteran in the technology industry, she has worked both for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups..

She is recognized as an expert in corporate development, business development and strategy in the ICT industry. Prior to J9 Ventures, Sukirti was the Director of Strategy at Dell focusing on new growth areas.

Sukirti has also worked with Nokia for over twelve years in various capacities including Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Head of Business Development. Sukirti has also worked in numerous start-ups such as North Point Communications and Asia Holdings. Sukirti holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. She has also won many awards including Women Engineer of the Year from the Society of Women Engineers and the Naval Underwater Systems Center, Most Promising Engineer from the Providence Engineering Society and the Helen Martha Sternberg Award..

Shekhar Suman
Head Business Development & Technology

Technically sound and business savvy management professional with a pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with "hands on" expertise in Telecom IT, Value Added Services in GSM backed with about 9 yrs of work experience. Prior to this assignment, he was with Indiatimes.