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India.com
a day ago
- Business
- India.com
Meet man, who once worked as security guard in 14 hours shift, now owns Rs 1090000000 company named as…, he is…
Harsh Goenka recently shared a story of Abhishek Kumar, who is an IIT graduate. He built a security and community management app, Mygate. This app now provides services to over 4 million residents in 25,000 Indian housing societies and has 100 million monthly check-ins. Who Is Abhishek Kumar? He is an IIT graduate and former Goldman Sachs executive. He once worked as a security guard and co-founded MyGate . Goenka revealed that Kumar once worked 14-hour shifts as a security guard to understand their problems. He got an idea that later became the company 'MyGate'. 'In 2016, IIT grad & ex-Goldman exec Abhishek Kumar became a security guard working 14-hour shifts. That experience of understanding pain points led to his creating MyGate: now in 25,000+ communities, 100M+ check-ins/month,' the chairman of RPG Enterprises Harsh Goenka posted on X. He added, 'Moral: To build for others, first walk in their shoes.' Foundation Of MyGate It was founded in 2016 by Abhishek Kumar, Vijay Arisetty, and Shreyans Daga. MyGate manage visitor access, security, maintenance, housekeeping, and other daily services through an app. The MyGate platform is now used by over 4 million residents in 25,000 housing societies in India and has more than 100 million check-ins every month. In 2022, MyGate raised Rs 100 crore in a funding round co-led by Urban Company and Acko. MyGate's Revenue The company reported revenue of Rs 77 crore in FY23 which increased to Rs 109 crore in FY24. According to Tracxn, its net losses narrowed from Rs 227 crore in FY23 to Rs 39.7 crore in FY24. In an interview, Kumar revealed that the company is targeting revenue of 165 crore in FY25. It has also been diversifying its business into new segments like insurance distribution. The company received an aggregator license from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to sell insurance products. In September 2023, MyGate also entered into the consumer electronics space by launching MyGate Locks.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
'He worked as a security guard': Harsh Goenka shares inspiring story of MyGate founder Abhishek Kumar
Industrialist Harsh Goenka took to X (formerly Twitter) today to share the inspiring journey of Abhishek Kumar , co-founder of the security and community management app MyGate . Goenka revealed that Kumar, an IIT graduate and former Goldman Sachs executive, once worked 14-hour shifts as a security guard — an experience that later became the foundation for building MyGate. 'In 2016, IIT grad & ex-Goldman exec Abhishek Kumar became a security guard working 14-hour shifts. That experience of understanding pain points led to his creating MyGate: now in 25,000+ communities, 100M+ check-ins/month,' the chairman of RPG Enterprises posted on X by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Belly Fat Removal Without Surgery in Morocco: The Price Might Surprise You Belly Fat Removal | Search Ads Undo He further added, 'Moral: To build for others, first walk in their shoes.' — hvgoenka (@hvgoenka) Live Events Founded in 2016 by Abhishek Kumar, Vijay Arisetty, and Shreyans Daga, MyGate helps residents of gated communities manage visitor access, security, maintenance, housekeeping, and other daily services through a unified app. The MyGate platform is now used by over 4 million residents across 25,000 housing societies in India. It facilitates more than 100 million check-ins every month. In 2022, MyGate raised Rs 100 crore in a funding round co-led by Urban Company and Acko. In a previous interview, Kumar shared that the company is targeting revenue of ?165 crore in FY25. MyGate has also been diversifying into new verticals, including insurance distribution. The company secured an aggregator license from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to sell insurance products. In September 2023, MyGate ventured into the consumer electronics space with the launch of MyGate Locks — a range of smart door locks offering digital home security. The company's revenue rose from Rs 77 crore in FY23 to Rs 109 crore in FY24. According to Tracxn, its net losses narrowed significantly from Rs 227 crore in FY23 to Rs 39.7 crore in FY24.
Time of India
22-06-2025
- General
- Time of India
Local faults lead to outages and tripping in Ghaziabad societies
Ghaziabad: Residents faced severe power disruptions over the weekend, with Siddharth Vihar Prateek Grand City experiencing a five-hour outage on Sunday. Golflinks Landcraft Township on NH9 endured a 20-hour power cut till Saturday due to local faults "The power supply was disrupted from 2am on Sunday. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now While the supply resumed around 7.20am, even after that, it kept tripping due to no changeover. In one tower, there was no fan or light in the lift, while for nearly 5 hours, a power backup supply was given, which cost Rs 22 per unit," NK Negi, a resident of Prateek Grand City at Siddharth Vihar, told TOI. The township has nearly 12,000 residents living in the complex across 3,000 units. The maintenance staff informed the residents via MyGate notification that the power supply from the Siddhartha Vihar substation failed at 2.10am early Sunday morning. "The supply was given to the society through a DG set at night. The UPPCL engineer was called at night, and he checked the fault in the line. A fault was later found in the substation line was checked, this took time in repairs," said the society estate manager's notice. The supply, which resumed around 7.20am kept tripping, and the power backup and changeover process continued until 7.40am. Later on Sunday, around 4pm, yet another outage occurred, this time, a shutdown notice was issued by the area substation. The notice issued by the estate manager of Prateek Grand City Siddharth Vihar stated that due to the UPPCL substation maintenance work on Sunday, the supply of the main grid will be disrupted . Similar was the situation in the Golflinks Landcraft Township on National Highway-9, Ghaziabad, where more than 4,000 families faced over 20 hours of outage.
Mint
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
How to skip ads, especially if you've watched that Black Mirror episode
Imagine if your brain started serving targeted ads to people around you, the way your phone dishes them out to you when you're browsing online. In Common People , the Season 7 premiere episode of Netflix's dystopian series Black Mirror , Amanda (Rashida Jones), a schoolteacher, undergoes surgery to replace her inoperable brain tumour with synthetic tissue connected to a tech company's cloud server. The procedure saves her life, but there is a catch. Stuck on its cheapest subscription plan, Amanda starts spouting ads mid-conversation without realising it. She pushes a snack brand to her students in class, recommends a religion-based counselling site to one of them, promotes a dating service to a senior colleague, and suggests lubricant to her husband Mike (Chris O'Dowd) during an intimate moment. The ads soon take over every part of her life, turning her into a human billboard. As it starts affecting her job and married life, Mike, a welder by day, resorts to performing degrading acts on a livestreaming platform at night to earn enough money to afford an ad-free upgrade for Amanda. Going to great lengths for an ad-free experience resonates deeply with many tech-savvy users. Arnav Gupta, a 31-year-old software engineer working with an MNC in London, has built a digital fortress to block ads from his screens. He uses a modified app called ReVanced for YouTube—'it skips not just ads, but even sponsored segments"—and a VPN called AdGuard on his phone that blocks ad servers across all websites he visits. 'It's easy to see how things could spiral the way Black Mirror shows," he says. 'It's already happened to so many digital services, like MyGate, which started as a simple visitor approval app for gated societies, and now runs ads." Also read: AI tracker: Anthropic is thinking about AI welfare as it gains agency As advertising creeps deeper into digital life—through auto-playing videos, pop-ups, forced viewing before access and even subscription-based services running ads—technology geeks, privacy enthusiasts and digital rebels are quietly fighting back. With sophisticated but free-to-use ad blockers and VPN settings, they are shaping a parallel version of the internet—one where users' attention isn't for sale at every blink. On platforms like Reddit, entire communities are devoted to trading hacks for an ad-free digital life. In these circles, 'Vanced"—short for 'advanced," but pointedly skipping the 'ad"—is shorthand for cleaner, ad-free versions of popular apps. Browsing through these community notes offers a glimpse into the modern history of digital ad blocking: how YouTube Vanced, once a go-to tool for skipping ads, was forced to shut down in 2022 after reportedly receiving a 'cease and desist letter" from Google. Its successor, ReVanced, quickly emerged to take its place, but the space remains locked in a constant cat-and-mouse battle against platform crackdowns. Also read: Sahil Patel discovered an ad blocker called uBlock Origin through a Reddit community in 2019. 'I installed it while in college and haven't looked back since," says Patel, a Surat-based founding member of an AI-solutions startup, Build That Idea. He also uses SponsorBlock, an open-source, crowdsourced browser extension for skipping sponsored segments in YouTube videos. In the past, he has tried blocking Instagram ads either by using Instagram through a browser with an ad blocker or by using third-party or modified Instagram apps like InstaAero and Instander—but those methods don't always work and risk getting your account flagged or banned, so he's just given up. 'Some ads on Instagram are useful, too, so I don't mind them anymore," he adds. 'I miss the days when ads were creative and fun. Now it's mostly irrelevant, repetitive noise that interrupts what I chose to watch," says Patel, 24. He prefers discovering new things through friends or online communities, rather than being nudged by targeted ads. He's aware that the internet depends on advertising to stay afloat, but draws the line at how it's done. 'I don't mind text-based ads in newsletters, which is why I've shifted to them for news. Podcast ads are tolerable, especially when the host claims to use the product," he adds. 'Sites that respect your attention usually have better content. The more desperate they seem to monetise, the less I trust them." For Rohini Lakshané, the problem with online ads runs deeper than mere annoyance — it's about privacy and security. 'Some of these ads come embedded with trackers that follow our activity across the internet, collecting personal data," says the technologist and interdisciplinary researcher from Mysuru in Karnataka. 'Though users technically consent by clicking 'I agree' on terms of service, most don't read them, and even if they do, legal ambiguity and dark patterns often make true consent impossible. Some ads also carry risks like malware (malvertising), scams, or deceptive content," she adds. Lakshané uses browser extensions like Privacy Badger and Ghostery, in addition to uBlock Origin, to prevent ads and trackers from following her online activity. She argues that every internet user should follow digital hygiene, the way every person should follow physical hygiene. It is not only a thing for specialists like her. Apurva Chaudhary, 36, a business development professional at a tech firm in Bengaluru, regularly checks her father's phone to block the flood of push notification ads that brands now send directly. She adjusts his settings to prevent accidental taps that could lead to spam or regret. For her own devices, she relies on AdGuard VPN, which lets her block ad-serving domains and keep most of her digital space free from intrusive ads. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cyprus, AdGuard has over 50 million paid as well as free individual users of its ad-blocking extensions, a company spokesperson tells Mint via email. 'India currently ranks 15th overall in terms of AdGuard ad-blocking solutions users across all platforms, but it holds the 6th position specifically among Android users," the AdGuard spokesperson adds. 'Given that Android holds around 95% of the smartphone market share in the country, it's clear that Indian users are becoming more privacy-conscious and increasingly seeking tools to enhance their browsing experience by blocking intrusive ads and trackers." As more people turn to these tech-savvy users for guidance, ad-blocking could move from the margins to the mainstream. If that happens, the future of the attention economy may no longer belong to platforms, but to individuals reclaiming control over what gets their time and mindspace. For now, though, it seems we're closer to living a Black Mirror episode than holding up a mirror to big tech. Browsers: Brave, Ghostery Browser extensions: uBlock Origin, LocalCDN, Privacy Badger VPN services: AdGuard For YouTube: ReVanced, SponsorBlock For Instagram: Instander, InstaAero Also read: When you are ghosted by your phone
New Indian Express
26-04-2025
- Business
- New Indian Express
Can't complain
I turned 34 a couple of months ago, and ever since my birthday, I've been having what I can only describe as teenage image issues. Not existential questions — more like: What is my vibe? What is my aura? Am I the main character or do I live in Delulu Apartments? To get answers, I put myself under the scanner of 'observational awareness' (which is just a fancy term for narcissism with lighting). And what I noticed is this — me, and a lot of other decent, middle-class 30-somethings in Hyderabad, have quietly slipped into the role of 'eternal can't complain'. We've technically been adults for a while now — our adult life is now an adult. It can vote, hold a learner's driving license and knows which roads you can drive on the wrong side without getting caught. We could have taken better care of our health, but we took the resistance of our youth and tested it heavily with Mysore bonda, biryani, and all other items fried in crude oil. Now we have a tummy that can legally apply for a PAN card. We move at 0.75x speed and still need a lift to reach the gym. The word uncle now refers to both your title in the building and the chips you eat with whisky. But hey — being called uncle is way better than being dead. I mean, so many people in their 30s have died randomly that just being alive with an unhealthy lifestyle makes you feel like one of the invincibles. A wise man in his 30s invests. But the stock market right now? It looks like it just went 10 rounds with Mike Tyson. It's bleeding red. Still, we believe in the finance ministry. Not that they'll fix it, but they'll definitely make it worse. But hey — we've got jobs (somehow), money comes in (and immediately evaporates), and our UPI apps still say transaction success. So again… can't complain. Family? Oh, they've got plans. If you're married, they want a kid. If you're not married, they want a wedding. If you have both, they want you to buy a flat and offer your soul as collateral. But just when you want to scream, your mom gently slides in a plate of pappu annam and aloo fry . And suddenly your inner child whispers, 'Maybe my therapist was wrong. My parents are perfect.' And love? If you've reached your 30s, you've met someone and felt love. It either died painfully, or you married them — and now you're putting effort into the relationship like it's your second job. No, it's not the Bollywood song sequence you always imagined, but yes, you get loved for being silly. Sure, you're asked to behave maturely after the same silliness repeats over and again. But if you're still in the ballpark of love in your 30s, again — can't complain. Yes, the world is not in a good place. There's war, religious unrest, and general chaos. But your city? Peaceful. Yes, there's traffic, construction, and religious speakers on full volume at all times — but you've got noise-cancelling headphones on EMI, so you can now listen to the same sound in HD. Your society is so secure, even your own father needs MyGate approval to enter. Forget an airplane crashing into your Aparna Sarovar Heights — we know that trend is over. The only riots happen over raita — and if you've got it on Swiggy, you can outsource that pain to a delivery guy. Basically, when you zoom in, things are wrong. But when you zoom out? They seem fine. So for the last two months — and for the rest of this year — if anyone asks me how I am, I say, and will only say: Can't complain. Sandesh Johnny @johnnykasandesh (This comedian is here to tell funny stories about Hyderabad) (The writer's views are his own)
