About Frog8

Built by Operators.
Not Theorists.

4+ years embedded in India's busiest metro system. 150+ years of combined experience across banking, payments, transit, and fintech. We didn't study self-service automation in a lab. We built it at Bengaluru Namma Metro — and we run it every day.

From Banking Infrastructure
to India's Metro Stations

Frog8 started in banking infrastructure — CTS providers to banks across India. That's our DNA. We understand regulated environments, compliance requirements, and what it takes to process millions of transactions without failure.

In 2021, we took that banking DNA and applied it to a different problem: self-service automation at India's metro stations. We became the Official Technology Service Provider to BMRCL — Bengaluru Namma Metro. What followed was four years of building, failing, iterating, and building again. In the field. At the stations. With real commuters and real money.

We started with WhatsApp-based ticketing — built the interface to BMRCL's AFC systems with Yellow.ai and PayU, scaled it to 100K+ daily tickets. Then we designed and manufactured our own kiosks. TVM 1000, then TVM 2000 — deployed, tested, broken, fixed, redeployed. Nearly two years of continuous operations. 10K+ daily kiosk transactions. 99.9% uptime. PM Modi inaugurated our expanded deployment on the Yellow Line in August 2025.

Then came the TVM 4000 — the machine that issues a full-KYC, personalised bank card in 45 seconds. The first in India to do this outside a bank branch.

Today, Frog8 onboards, enables payments, and dispenses usable products — cards, FASTags, SIM cards, transit tickets — for any industry. Banks. Transit. Retail. Healthcare. Telecom. Toll plazas. We build the machine. We integrate with your backend. We run the operations. Turnkey.

Innovation through Deployment. We don't design in a lab. We build for the real world.

4+
Years embedded with BMRCL
7
Live stations at Namma Metro
10K+
Daily kiosk transactions
99.9%
Uptime since April 2024
Aug 2025
PM Modi inaugurated expanded deployment

The Team — 150+ Years of Combined Experience

Five people who've built, deployed, and operated at the intersection of banking, payments, transit, and fintech. Every one of us has run production systems. Every one of us has been in the field.

Vinayak Prasad

Vinayak Prasad

Founder and Managing Director

~30 years across retail banking, payments, and self-service automation. Built and scaled card programmes at ICICI Bank and YES Bank. Ran cards and payments at Mashreq Bank. Led self-service and payment solutions at VeriFone across South Asia. CEO of Forbes Technosys — deployed self-service kiosks and cheque truncation systems for banks across India. Independent Director at Spandana Sphoorty Financial. Advisor to Meta on Payments. Wharton MBA. Took everything he knew about banking, payments, and kiosks — and spent 4+ years building Frog8 from the ground up.

Mohammed Hamid Ansari

Mohammed Hamid Ansari

Co-founder and Head of Operations

20+ years in banking infrastructure and platform delivery. At Forbes Technosys, led grid-wide CTS deployments for major banks including SBI and DBS — the same cheque truncation DNA that Frog8 carries today. Expert in enterprise-scale implementation, hardware integration, and the unglamorous work of making systems work at production scale. Manages all hardware manufacturing and quality assurance. Owns day-to-day operations across all Frog8 deployments. The person who signs off on every FAT before a machine leaves the factory.

Srinivas S

Srinivas S

Co-founder, Hardware & Transit Engineering

40+ years in transit systems, hardware engineering, and embedded product design. Founder of Intelligo Transit Solutions — a Bengaluru-based ITS company building intelligent transport modules for buses: CCTV systems, passenger information systems, emergency modules, and integrated ITMS. Decades of work across BRTS, metro systems, and bus monitoring. At Frog8, Srinivas designs the hardware — the embedded engineering architecture of every kiosk. His team develops the applications and the deep integration into AFCS systems. Owns the BMRCL relationship. When Frog8 says "designed and manufactured in India," Srinivas is why.

Prem Gupta

Prem Gupta

Co-founder, Platform Architecture

20+ years in regulated fintech platforms. Founding member of Innoviti — built POS, EMI, and SME loan platforms from scratch. Expertise in payments, loyalty, issuance, acquiring, and system architecture. Based in Bengaluru — manages all payment transactions across the Frog8 fleet. The person who ensures every UPI payment, every card tap, every NCMC transaction processes correctly, every time, across every machine.

Sunil Kulkarni

Sunil Kulkarni

Director & Co-founder, Strategic Advisor

34+ years in financial inclusion and fintech. Former Joint Managing Director of Oxigen Services. Former CEO of BCFI (Business Correspondent Federation of India). World Bank consultant on financial inclusion. The person who understands how banking reaches the last mile — not through branches, but through agents, kiosks, and technology. Brings the policy lens and the institutional relationships that open doors.

We build. We deploy.
We operate. Talk to us.

Whether you're a transit authority looking for self-service automation, a bank that wants to acquire customers outside a branch, a retailer that needs unattended payments, or an investor evaluating India's infrastructure opportunity — we'd like to show you what we've built.