From a company of three founders running in a rented room to 750 people company with four offices in three countries, this is how these three innovators of Indore have marked themselves in the history of technology.
Three 37-year-old innovators: Kuldeep Kundal, Abhishek Pareek and Amit Agrawal are the founders of this company named ‘Cyber Infrastructure pvt ltd. “We met during our graduation from MIT Mandsaur and became friends with similar aspirations,” Kundal said. Kundal and Agrawal are born and brought up in Indore, while Pareek is originally from a small village near Kota, Rajasthan.
“After graduation, we got jobs as expected by our families and earned our bread, but it was not enough for the innovators in us,” Pareek said. Following their desire to do something new, the innovators left their jobs, faced opposition from family members and started a start-up in Pareek’s rented room in 2004.
Not just opposition, Kundal's father did not even speak to him for six months until they were able to do something better.
“That room was our den and to start our income, we began doing college projects for engineering students in exchange for money,” Agrawal said. Knowing that this is not a long-term plan, they kept pondering over various ideas.
“Cyber café’s were quite common and trending back then, they were not only hubs for using internet but also for cyber crimes and information stealing,” Kundal said. The trio came up with the idea of monitoring and controlling these crimes and built the first security software named ‘Cyber Eye’.
“We approached police department and asked them consider having a monitoring software even if not ours, but they chose ours as it was most economic,” Pareek said. Their innovation spread like wildfires through media channels.
“Our innovation caught attention of a company in Spain that wanted us to provide a modification of the software that would monitor the use of their cyber space,” Agrawal said. Next in line they got an order from Ireland where they wanted the software to monitor the use of internet in family.
Further, their ‘Responsible Surfing’ software attracted more attention from international companies, banks, educational institutes, airlines and more.
In the following eight to nine years, the trio had grown into a proper medium sized company. Following their benchmarks of success:
Timeline
2004: quit jobs and started working together in a rented room
2005: had developed the idea of cyber eye
2012: started first office in San Jose, USA with total 230 people making them a small sized company
2014: started their second international office in Singapore
2015: reached the benchmark of medium sized company with 500 people
2016: started third international office in UK
2017: fourth international office started in Atlanta, USA
National Technology Day
Celebrated each year on May 11 in India, National Technology Day celebrates India's innovative and technological achievements. Eminently, on this day, India effectively tried Shakti-I atomic rocket at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. The task was driven by late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam and was called Operation Shakti or Pokhran-II. After two days, India effectively test shot two atomic weapons as a feature of Operation Shakti. As it were, National Technology Day features the significance of science in every day life and urges youths to hold onto it as a lifelong choice.