We started Vtag because
we kept giving out
our number.
One of us blocked a stranger's car at a wedding. The other got harassed for weeks after writing her number on a windshield. Both moments told us the same thing: the way India shares phone numbers with strangers is broken and quietly funding the country's spam-call industry.
Experience the Vtag handshake.
See exactly how a passerby communicates with a vehicle owner without exposing a single digit of their phone number.
Tap "Simulate Scan" on the Vtag decal to test the anonymous chat flow.
How we got here.
Two years, slow and deliberate.
The wedding
Aarav blocks a stranger's car at a wedding in Hyderabad. Spends 40 minutes locating the owner via the printed number on the dash. Goes home angry that this is still a problem.
First sketch
First whiteboard drawing of a QR sticker that hides the phone number. Three notebooks of design exploration follow.
First prototype
Priya joins. We print 50 stickers in a Hyderabad garage. Test them on Indiranagar dashboards. They survive monsoon. They survive summer.
Launched quietly
First 100 customers. Word-of-mouth. No marketing spend. Karthik joins as design lead.
Series Seed
Closed a small seed round from privacy-focused angels. We turned down two larger offers because the term sheets included data-monetisation clauses.
1,000+ vehicles tagged
Active in 23 states. 12,400+ messages relayed. Profitable on unit economics. We pick up our own customer-support calls.
What we actually believe.
Not a values poster. Four sentences we use to make actual decisions, including hard ones.
Privacy is not a feature.
It's the entire product. The day we leak one phone number, we close the company. That's not a slogan it's our operating SLA, written into our investor agreement.
Be invisible.
Good infrastructure shouldn't be noticed. Vtag should disappear into your day, surfacing only when something actually matters. We celebrate when users forget we exist.
Polite tech.
We design for asynchronous, voluntary, low-stakes interactions. No notification spam. No urgency theatre. The slowest rate in the room is usually the right one.
India-first.
Built for Indian streets, Indian phones, Indian parking lots, Indian privacy norms. Localised, not translated. The team is in Hyderabad, the servers are in India, the support is in your timezone.
Venkat Reddy
Founder & CEO, Vtag
Your vehicle can't call you when something goes wrong. So we gave it a voice.
Every day, something needs attention on the road. A vehicle blocks another car. Headlights are left on. An accident happens. A window is left open. Reaching the owner usually means searching for them, waiting, or exposing a personal phone number.
I believed there had to be a better way. So we built Vtag — a privacy-first way for people and vehicles to communicate through a simple scan, without revealing the owner's phone number.
Privacy First
No phone numbers shared. Ever.
Simple Scan
Anyone can alert. Owner stays protected.
Bigger Vision
Building the vehicle identity layer of the future.
We're starting small. The problem isn't.
Backed by people who care about the same things we do.
We're hiring.
If a privacy-first, India-first, polite-tech company sounds like a place you'd thrive let's talk.
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