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Pradeep Kar
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Pradeep Kar

Indian businessman

Pradeep Kar (born March 11, 1958) is the Founder, chairman and managing director of Microland, a technology company. Kar also founded and sold three technology companies, including Indya.com, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation; Planetasia.com, India's first internet professional services company and Net Brahma Technologies.2

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Born Mar 11, 1958.1

About

Pradeep is also associated with the Bengaluru Literature Festival.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedS. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research3

Kar graduated from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in 1981, and then received a master's degree in business administration from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research. He joined Wipro and soon relocated to US to run Sonata Software for three years. Returning to India he founded Microland, where he has served as the chairman until now.

He also started Planetasia.com, ITspace.com, Media2India.com, and Indya.com which were sold to take advantage of the dotcom bubble.

Kar has been recognized with the Indian Express ‘India Young Business Achiever Award’ and was selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow’. He has been featured in ‘Newsweek International’ as ‘Stars of Asia’ and in ‘Business India’ as ‘Stars of India’.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipIndia6

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