Navaraga Corporation

Navaraga is the name of the company that developed Kamune. Navaraga has offices in Bellevue, WA, USA (a suburb of Seattle) and in Hyderabad, India. It was started by Raja Abburi, a former Microsoft executive. A variety of very talented individuals drive the innovation at Navaraga.

What's in a name? Nava in Sanskrit means "new, fresh and modern". Raga means "that which colors the mind" (although the modern popular meaning refers to musical melodies). Navaraga therefore means "something new which colors the mind." In our case this refers to new experiences and ways of interacting with one another.

We chose Kamune as the name for the service in order to represent several notions (commune, communicate, community, etc...). Our goal is to help people connect and communicate more effectively by bringing them together online for efficient collaboration.

Raja Abburi / President & CEO

Raja Abburi started Navaraga in early 2006 after 16 years at Microsoft, most recently as the General Manager for MSN Messenger and Outlook Express clients. At Microsoft, he started the Voice over IP service team in MSN and worked with several telephone companies on partnerships. He started the Digital Rights Management team in Windows Media and worked with various companies and industry forums in the music industry. He also started the personal web server effort for Windows 98 and prior to that, worked on Windows 95 and LAN Manager for Unix.

Raja completed B.Tech (Honors) the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in Computer Science and Engineering and M.S. in computer science at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.