* Won the GSMA Global Awards 2008 for Best Billing and Customer Care solution at Barcelona. * Global Red Herring 100 Award – 2008. * Voice & Data Technovator of the Year, 2009. * Winner of the TIE – Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards, 2009.
mChek bags the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia award
11 December 2008 Bangalore
~ The award acknowledges the top 100 innovative companies across Asia ~
mChek (www.mchek.com), leading mobile payment solutions provider, has been awarded the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 Award for excellence in technology and innovation. The award aims to recognize companies that have built breakthrough innovation into the fabric of their business and developed products, processes or technologies to accomplish the business objectives. mChek is one of the few Indian companies that has been honoured with this prestigious award. The Red Herring 100 Asia 2008 Award is conferred on top 100 companies across the Asia-Pacific regions that thrive on innovation and strongly define the important role of technology in Asia’s economy and through the world.
On winning the prestigious award, Mr. Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek thanked the selection committee at Red Herring and said, “The award is significant as it recognizes the strength of our expertise and innovation in m-commerce technology. Keeping constant innovation and technology advancement at the centre of our business strategies, we have reinforced our positioning in the Indian market and intend to enhance our global footprint.”
Memberships / Affiliations
Certifications
First company in the world to get PCI-DSS 1.2 certification.
ISO 27001 certified.
VISA approved.
Aim / Vision / Mission
The vision of the company and its founders was to augment everyone’s financial universe by creating a mobile payment platform that could make and receive payments securely and instantly over any distance.
Team / Manpower
Team
Suresh Anantpurkar
Vice President of Products
John Kattakayam
Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer
Dr. Naren Gupta
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Happenings / News / Press Coverage
Press Releases
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mChek CEO Sanjay Swamy steps down
11 February 2010
Bangalore.
mChek, a leading provider of mobile security and payments solutions, today announced that Sanjay Swamy has resigned from the position of CEO of the company, to pursue other opportunities. The Board of Directors will embark on a search for a new CEO right away.
"During his 3+ years as CEO of mChek, Sanjay Swamy has been a visionary who has not just crafted the early days of the company, but of the Mobile Commerce industry as well – and we thank him for the dedication and vision he brought to the company”, said Dr. Naren Gupta, Managing Director of Nexus Venture Partners and Board member of mChek. “I wish Sanjay the very best in his future endeavours".
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Industry luminary and Silicon Valley veteran, Dr. Naren Gupta, joins mChek Board of Directors
09 December 2009
Bangalore.
mChek, India’s leading Mobile Banking and Payments Service Provider, today announced that Silicon Valley veteran, Dr. Naren Gupta, Managing Partner of Nexus Venture Partners has joined the board of directors of the company. The company also announced that Nexus Venture Partners had led the Series-B financing of the company earlier in the year.
Dr. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems Inc. (ISI) in 1980 to develop products for embedded software development which went public in 1990. Dr. Gupta served as ISI's President and CEO from founding until 1994 and as Chairman until 2000. Integrated Systems merged with Wind River Systems in 2000 and Dr. Gupta then served as Wind River's Vice Chairman since then until its acquisition by Intel in 2009. Dr. Gupta also serves on the boards of Red Hat and Tibco Software and several privately-held companies. Naren has over 20 years of early and early-growth stage investment experience in US and India. Several of his earlier investments have had successful public exits, including Digital Link (IPO), E-Tek Dynamics (IPO), RightNow (IPO), Numerical Technologies (IPO, acquired by Synopsis) and Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai).
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mChek bags the prestigious TiE-Lumis Partners Entrepreneurial Excellence Award
22 September, 2009
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Airtel launches mChek m-Commerce service on Voice
26 August, 2009
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mChek bags the prestigious Red Herring 100 Asia award
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