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| Company Name |
Evam Entertainment |
| Founded in |
2003 |
| Headquartered in |
Chennai |
| Company website/URL |
www.evam.in |
| Industry |
Media/
Entertainment |
| Stage of the company |
Scaling up |
| Source of idea |
Built hobby into a business |
| Awards & honors |
Featured in CNBC Young Turks, Pepsi MTV Youth Icons
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| Business description |
| Evam is a 'theatre entrepreneurship' fuelled by youngsters for the youth. A 5 year young 'happy factory' with one mission - use theatre to make people's life happier and to fill their lives with lightness and a sense of purpose. In the business of storytelling - Evam serves to make the world happier - and currently we do this in the form of live English sta...> Read more.. |
| Evam is a 'theatre entrepreneurship' fuelled by youngsters for the youth. A 5 year young 'happy factory' with one mission - use theatre to make people's life happier and to fill their lives with lightness and a sense of purpose. In the business of storytelling - Evam serves to make the world happier - and currently we do this in the form of live English stage plays, corporate workshops, student interactions, theatre festivals, drama of sound and lights and cinema in future.
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| How does the business make money? |
| A platform for young people, Evam makes people happy, creates wealth, hence makes money:) Primary Revenue streams include live stage theatre shows, corporate theatre performances, theatreLIVE methodology based corporate training modules, 'd sound n d light' - Evam's audio media productions and student interaction modules. |
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| Team information |
Directors: Sunil Vishnu K and Karthik Kumar (MICA graduates, 2 years of work experience at Elephant Design, Pune and Real Image Media Technologies, Chennai).
Permanent employees - Pavithra Ramaswamy (PGDM, XIME) , R Vijay Saravanan (BE, Computers), Lakshmi Priya (2 years work ex with Aditya Birla Retail, MSW), Bhargav Ramakrishnan (BE ,EEE), Aparna Narayan (B.Sc Psychology) and Vijay Karthik (B. Sc Visual Communications) |
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
Everyone from Steven Spielberg, SRK, PVR, Karan Johar, Barista, Star World, Chennai Marina Beach to your spouse!! - every other option which my TG chooses to invest his wallet, time and most importantly heart in !! |
| How different is your product or service? It has... |
No substitutes available |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
We strive to make theatre thrive, we strive for the "share of heart" of our customers. Brand Evam seeks to make a real value difference to the lives o...> Read more.. |
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| By The Numbers |
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2006 |
2007 |
| No. of employees |
0-5 |
6-15 |
| No. of locations |
2-5 |
6-15 |
| No. of customers |
over 50 |
over 50 |
| Turnover |
11-50 lacs |
51 lacs-1 crore |
| Profits |
1 to 5 lacs |
6 to 15 lacs |
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| Primary source of initial funding |
Personal savings |
| Primary source of additional funding |
Personal savings |
| Raised institutional capital? |
No |
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| Why is this startup hot? |
| They said "Theatre can never make money", and Evam, 'The Happy Factory' was born!! 5 years, 16 plays, 225 shows, 1.6 crore turnover - This is a young brand and will always stay young- an organisation where youngsters are encouraged "to do". We love what we do, make money and make a difference to the world we live in:) Simple! |
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
| Audience is everything for us - and the young team works with the single minded obsession to give our customers more reasons to smile, feel joyful and great about their lives.
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