Suranga Chandratillake
Age: 28
Company: Blinkx TV
Chandratillake admits he was amazed that Google initially focused only on web page searches, omitting a vital growth area – online videos. After raising £5m in funding, Chandratillake and his team developed intelligent software that would ‘listen’ and ‘watch’ real-time videos and pull them onto his search portal, Blinkx. The first content partner was Fox News, with deals ranging from MTV to Playboy being signed since. Through offices in Cambridge and San Francisco, Blinkx is set to forge further significant partnerships in 2007, with search numbers set to triple by the end of the year.