SharkID achieves 1-lakh downloads milestone

SharkID, a smart phonebook app, has achieved 1 lakh downloads, with their network database zooming past 1,75 crore.

A bootstrapped startup with capital investment of $2 million, SharkID is a joint venture between e-Procurement Technologies and Silver Touch Technologies, founded by Ramesh Sinha, a technocrat and serial entrepreneur.

SharkID is a smart phonebook app backed by a highly scalable service-oriented architecture with full stack technology, SharkID deploys a Big Data Database Mongo and Redis for storage and Encrypted streaming for data security.

Speaking on the occasion, Ramesh Sinha, Founder, SharkID, said, “Crossing a lakh downloads is a defining moment for SharkID. It reaffirms our core belief that, given a best-of-breed, secure and smarter technology, user migration is inevitable. Every smartphone user will migrate to a smarter, easier and meshed experience, if someone provides it. And, that is precisely what we do. When 50,000 network connections get added every day and they zoom to 1.75 crore, it validates our belief many times over and is a testimony to our technical array expertise and user experience. SharkID stands committed to provide bleeding-edge technology support and a secure, user immersive experience.”

Elaborating further, he added, “SharkID is geared to provide an immersive experience – based on your usage and communication pattern, our data analytics pack will smart-search for you and refer people with whom you can network. In addition to this, you can also check your connects to the persons suggested, tightening the reference cycle and generating productive conversations.”

Currently, the company plans to deepen the user experience and expand the userpool across India to 10 million by March 2019