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Truecaller introduces ad tools for advertisers to engage with 320 mn people
Mumbai: Truecaller Ads has announced the launch of their new product range that aims to enable marketers to meet their objective needs across the funnel.
Extending its platform towards mobile advertising and serving as a connecting dot between brands and potential customers, Truecaller Ads will provide marketers with a unique combination of expansive scale, engagement, an exclusive environment, nuanced targeting capabilities, and first-party data insights for precise audience segmentation.
Truecaller Ads have been a gateway to helping brands reach out to millions of users, embarking on their presence and generating brand awareness by using a myriad of ad formats, innovative ad experiences, and performance metric calculators to track performance, among others.
Marketers can access the following products to reach Truecaller audiences more effectively:
- The Truecaller Audience Extension: It helps advertisers reach Truecaller audiences on over 1000+ premium apps across domains. A wide range of ad formats can be used ranging from display banners, interstitials, videos, GIFs, and Native ads. The product is integrated with all leading MMPs like Appsflyer, Branch, and Kochava, which offers a transparent and trustworthy environment.
- Truecaller Ad Server: An ad-tech stack that drives advertiser KPIs with features and functionalities to optimise performance, offering advertisers transparency, flexibility, and optimization capabilities on par with the best ad servers in the market and integrated with all leading MMPs for seamless tracking of performance.
- Innovative Ad Experiences: Such as “click to article,” which allows for the display of instant snackable articles, “click to call/SMS,” and “easy lead form” aid in the propagation of the demand funnel. These click experiences can be served even without an internet connection.
Speaking about the launch of the new tools, Truecaller vice president of global ads business Sagar Manikpure said, “We recognise that today’s marketing objectives demand a well-orchestrated solution that combines the precision of first-party data with engaged audiences at scale. The massive global user base of 255 million DAUs, each engaging with the app several times a day via call and SMS-based interactions, provides us with a rare combination of hyper-scale of users, frequent engagement, and access to unique insights in a privacy-safe way. We then combine this with an intently designed ad stack and carefully crafted solutions to help marketers deliver on a range of objectives while extracting the highest ROI on their advertising spends.”
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
