Ambarish Gupta, 

In 2009, he wrote a program for Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik’s poll campaign: 700,000 voters got a call from Patnaik before the polls, and thank you calls, after. And Knowlarity was born. It offers hosted telephone services. Gupta reckons the market in India comprises 4 million businesses. The Rs 25 crore company is eyeing West Asia and Southeast Asia. “He’s trying to do what Amazon did with cloud computing,” says investor Mohit Bhatnagar, MD, Sequoia Capital.