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New Delhi, Aug 4 (Ians) Homegrown digital maps and deep-tech company MapmyIndia on Friday said that its revenue grew 37.5 per cent (year-on-year) to Rs 89.4 crore in the first quarter of FY24, with Pat growing 25.2 per cent YoY to Rs 37.4 crore.

The company said that Ebitda grew 25.2 per cent YoY to Rs 37.4 crore during the quarter.

“We are delighted with our Q1FY24 results wherein MapmyIndia achieved all-time highs in revenue, Ebitda, and Pat,” said Rakesh Verma, Chairman and Managing Director, MapmyIndia.

Map-led business Ebitda margin was strong at 54.1 per cent whole IoT-led business Ebitda margin continued to expand quarterly and was at 6.3 per cent in Q1FY24 versus 4 per cent of Q4FY23, as SaaS income from IoT grew.

“During Q1FY24, we outlined a 5-year vision of a growth roadmap for the company, and are putting in place the requisite foundations that will drive long-term success of the company,” Verma added.

New Delhi, May 25 (Ians) After facing an outcry from the Indian startup ecosystem for promoting views that are “anti-Indian and pro-foreign Big Tech”, the Internet and Mobile Association of India (Iamai) on Thursday announced a new leadership that has founders and CEOs from homegrown startups and unicorns.

Harsh Jain, Co-founder, and CEO of Dream Sports has been elected the Chairman of the association.

He replaces Sanjay Gupta, Vice President and Country Manager, Google India.

Rajesh Magow, Co-Founder and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip, and Satyan Ganjwani, Vice Chairman, Times Internet, have been elected as Vice Chairman and the Treasurer, respectively.

Magow replaces Shivnath Thukral, Director and Head of India Public Policy, Meta and Ganjwani replaces Harshil Mathur, CEO and Co-Founder at Razorpay.

The new team members will form the association’s executive council along with the ex-officio member Dr Subho Ray, President, Iamai.

The new 24-member Governing Council and the new Executive...

New Delhi, May 1 (Ians) Rohan Verma, CEO & Executive Director, MapmyIndia, on Monday slammed the Internet and Mobile Association of India (Iamai) for parroting and promoting views that are “anti-Indian and pro-foreign Big Tech”.

In a detailed tweet, Verma said that it is sad to see an organisation originally founded by and for Indian companies has been taken over by Big Tech representatives and is now promoting a false narrative.

The Iamai now has members who are the top Indian heads of Big Tech firms like Google, Microsoft, Meta and others.

The association has also prepared a draft submission on whether India needs a separate law to tame Big Tech’s anti-competitive practices.

“Iamai views and submissions to the government and media on digital policies, regulations, laws etc are completely wrong and antithetical to what Indians — consumers, industry, government — need,” Verma posted.

“Every country has its own trade bodies that promote...

New Delhi, April 24 (Ians) Leading advanced digital maps provider MapmyIndia has posted Rs 282 crore in revenue in FY23, a 41 per cent increase (year-on-year) while profit after tax (Pat) surged 24 per cent to Rs 108 crore.

The board also approved a dividend of Rs 3 (150 per cent) per equity share for FY2022-23, subject to the approval of shareholders in the forthcoming annual general meeting of the company.

The company said its annual expenses increased 41 per cent to Rs 176.24 crore, from Rs 124.66 crore in FY22.

“MapmyIndia has maintained a healthy Ebitda margin in its Map-led business of 52.6 per cent, while investing in the IoT-led business, which is already demonstrating good results. Revenue from the IoT led business grew 140 per cent YoY,” said Rakesh Verma, Chairman and Managing Director, MapmyIndia.

The company sold more than 1.9 lakh IoT devices in FY23 – three times more than in FY22, in the potentially addressable market is of 20 crore vehicles,...

New Delhi, Jan 19 (Ians) The homegrown startup ecosystem players on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court’s order where it refused to interfere with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Nclat) decision, declining to stay operation of the Competition Commission of India (Cci) order imposing Rs 1,337.76 crore fine on Google.

Google had moved the apex court after the setback at the Nclat, which did not stay the Cci order on abuse of dominant position in multiple markets in the Android mobile device ecosystem case.

Rohan Verma, CEO and Ed at homegrown MapmyIndia said that they are extremely grateful to the Supreme Court for their order against Google’s appeal.

“MapmyIndia was mentioned and spoken of multiple times in the Supreme court today by multiple parties, who said that MapmyIndia pioneered digital mapping in India since 1995, far before the birth of Google, and offer an alternative in terms of MapmyIndia’s ‘Mappls...

New Delhi, Jan 19 (Ians) Home-grown startup founders on Thursday hailed the Supreme Court’s order where it refused to interfere with the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Nclat) decision, declining to stay operation of the Competition Commission of India (Cci) order imposing Rs 1,337.76 crore fine on Google.

Google had moved the apex court after the setback at the Nclat, which did not stay the Cci order on abuse of dominant position in multiple markets in the Android mobile device ecosystem case.

Rohan Verma, CEO and Ed at homegrown MapmyIndia said that they are extremely grateful to the Supreme Court for their order against Google’s appeal.

“MapmyIndia was mentioned and spoken of multiple times in the Supreme court today by multiple parties, who said that MapmyIndia pioneered digital mapping in India since 1995, far before the birth of Google, and offer an alternative in terms of MapmyIndia’s ‘Mappls’ app versus the force pre-installed Google Maps,...

New Delhi, Jan 5 (Ians) The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (Nclat) has refused to grant a stay on the appeal Google has raised against the Competition Commission of India’s (Cci) judgment, it was confirmed on Thursday.

Google late last month approached the appellate tribunal to appeal the Cci decision to penalise the tech giant Rs 1,338 crore for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in the Android mobile device ecosystem.

“We welcome the Nclat order of not granting a stay on directions passed by the Cci. The Cci directions were passed after a lengthy investigation keeping in mind Google’s clear and unequivocal abuse of dominance practices, which have terribly harmed the Indian consumer, ecosystem and economy,” MapmyIndia CEO and Ed, Rohan Verma, told Ians.

MapmyIndia has also filed an impleadment application “since we believe we can participate more effectively in the adjudicatory process to bring to light the...