We're the team building India's blockchain-native consent platform — so enterprises can prove every consent, every revocation, every disclosure, on demand.
Sid and Vishal have been business partners since they were classmates. In 2006 they founded Smart Wireless Private Limited (SWPL), the company that helped scale enterprise A2P messaging in India — Zee came in as a co-investor early on. A few years later they set up SmartCirqls Infotech Private Limited (SCIPL), this time partnering with a leading global technology platform to bring enterprise big-data solutions to Indian businesses. Both companies are still operating today; selected product lines have moved on to global partners through strategic transactions over the years.
Those two decades of building infrastructure for messaging, identity and big data led to Qila — the blockchain-as-a-service platform the team launched in mid-2022 to bring trust, transparency and traceability to digital ecosystems. Qila is part of the SWPL–SCIPL group, supported by Smart Wireless Private Limited, SmartCirqls Infotech Private Limited, and their affiliates.
When India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 reframed consent as a legal artefact — something a Data Fiduciary has to prove, not just claim — the trust primitives Qila was already shipping for identity and tokenisation became the natural foundation for a new product. That product is Flip: a consent-management platform purpose-built for the DPDP Act, GDPR, CCPA, and the regimes that look like them. Every consent, withdrawal and notice that flows through Flip is hashed and anchored on the Qila Blockchain, so the audit trail is immutable by design rather than by policy.
Twenty years of building hard infrastructure in India — across messaging, big data and now blockchain.
“Data is the Protein of Technology.”
Sid has spent the last two decades arguing — and proving — that the size of a dataset matters less than the question you bring to it. He leads Flip's product and engineering, and is the team's resident evangelist for treating data infrastructure as a first-class business problem. Off the clock, he's a committed CrossFitter.
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Vishal has been in the room for most of India's pre-convergence telecom firsts — from operating the SMS short code 57575 to building one of the country's earliest mobile gaming aggregators. He brings the commercial discipline and data-driven instinct that shapes how Flip is taken to market.
Connect on LinkedInQila began as a search for a viable commercial model around secure, blockchain-backed identity — a thread Sid and Vishal pulled on through the pandemic and finally caught hold of in mid-2022. Flip is what happens when those same trust primitives meet India's DPDP Act: consent treated not as a checkbox, but as a verifiable, on-chain record a Data Fiduciary can stand behind.
Designed around the legal artefacts the DPDP Act, GDPR and CCPA actually require — not just the UX of a consent banner.
Every grant, refusal and withdrawal is hashed and anchored, with a portable receipt that survives database migrations.
Built around India's 2023 Act: notice, purpose-limitation, consent manager interop, Data Principal rights, and DPB-ready evidence.
GDPR (EU), CCPA (US) and Botswana DPA share one engine — extend to any rights-based regime without rewriting the integration.
Hyperledger Fabric anchors mean the audit trail can be replayed, but never silently edited — even by your own DBAs.
See how Flip helps enterprises meet DPDP, GDPR and CCPA with immutable, on-chain consent records — and the receipts to back them up.
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