The open IoT platform quietly turning parking lots into ticketless, cashless, data-rich mobility hubs.
Pictured: the Get My Parking wordmark. Built in Delhi in 2015, the company now runs software behind gates in roughly 20 countries - most of it retrofitted onto hardware that was never meant to talk to an app.
Parking is one of the last corners of daily life still run on cash and paper tickets. Get My Parking's pitch is deceptively simple: leave the gates, cameras and kiosks where they are, and put a software brain behind them. The company builds an open, interoperable IoT platform that connects parking equipment, payment systems, mobile apps and even connected cars into one cloud-based system - so an operator can offer ticketless entry, digital payments, license-plate recognition, EV charging and live analytics without a rip-and-replace overhaul.
Founded in 2015 by Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare, the company describes its mission as making parking a "sub-conscious experience" - so frictionless the driver never thinks about paying. The platform has been deployed across more than 3,500 parking lots in roughly 20 countries and has processed north of 100 million transactions. Its customers are parking operators, cities, malls, airports, hospitals, universities and residential complexes; its differentiator is that it sits neutrally between rival hardware brands that would otherwise never interoperate.
The company began in New Delhi and later centered its operations in Bengaluru, India's technology hub, keeping a lean team of roughly 87 people. That size is worth noting: a workforce smaller than many single office buildings supports deployments on several continents, which is only possible because the product is software that rides on hardware operators already own. Rather than manufacturing gates and cameras, Get My Parking wrote the connective tissue that lets those machines report data, accept digital payments and open on a license-plate read. It is an approach that trades the capital intensity of a hardware business for the reach of a platform.
Founded in 2015 with the mission to make parking a sub-conscious experience.
Most parking operators run a patchwork of gear from different vendors, none of it designed to share data. That means manual reconciliation, revenue leakage, cash handling, long exit queues and no real-time view of occupancy. Upgrading usually means expensive hardware swaps.
Get My Parking attacks the cost objection head-on with GateKit, a plug-and-play retrofit that makes existing equipment smart - the company says it can cut upfront capital spend by up to 90%. That "retrofit-first" approach is the crux of how it differs from competitors who lead with proprietary hardware.
Where many rivals sell a closed, single-vendor stack, Get My Parking sells interoperability. Its platform is designed to speak to equipment it didn't build, which makes it the neutral layer operators can standardize on across mixed sites and multiple countries.
That neutrality is why APCOA, Europe's largest parking operator, didn't just partner with the company - it became a shareholder, reportedly holding around a 12% stake. When an incumbent adopts a challenger's tech and then invests in it, the endorsement is hard to fake.
Plug-and-play kit that makes legacy gates and kiosks smart - automated access and payments, up to 90% CapEx savings.
AI-powered access and revenue control that reduces license-plate recognition misreads for faster ticketless entry.
AI customer-support agent for exit kiosks giving drivers instant, human-like help and cutting call-center load.
Branded operator apps for iOS and Android with QR payments, Tap & Park, permits and validations.
Real-time dashboards for occupancy, revenue and operational efficiency across multi-location portfolios.
EV charging and multi-modal mobility integrations folded into the parking journey and access management.
Get My Parking doesn't own parking lots. It licenses its platform to the operators who do, then earns from customization, white-label app deployments, retrofit hardware kits and parking-data insights. It monetizes the value it unlocks for operators rather than the asphalt itself.
Operators subscribe to the GMP platform.
GateKit makes existing hardware smart.
Branded apps, permits, validations, EV.
Analytics and parking-data licensing.
An IIT Madras graduate (2013) who spent two years in the automotive industry before deciding the car's real unsolved problem was where it stops, not how it moves. He has been featured in Business World's "40 under 40."
An engineer and MBA (FMS Delhi) who led the entrepreneurship cell there. A frequent industry-summit and TEDx speaker, he drives the company's brand and go-to-market across global markets.
Chirag Jain and Rasik Pansare launch in New Delhi to digitize parking with IoT software.
Closes a $3M round led by IAN Fund and BEENEXT; wins early industry recognition.
Buys the Bengaluru competitor and scales across 13+ countries.
Europe's largest operator adopts the open IoT platform.
IvyCap Ventures leads; crosses 50M+ transactions.
ExpressLane AI-PARCS and the AVA support agent go live with operators.
Get My Parking plays in the global smart-parking and mobility-tech market, positioned as the interoperable software and data layer rather than a hardware brand. Its closest reference points are Flash Parking and Passport in the US, Park+ in India and Smart Parking Ltd in Australia - plus the legacy PARCS hardware vendors it retrofits.
Its footprint spans the US, Europe, Australia, Brazil, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Signals of traction include the APCOA equity partnership, Great Place to Work certification in 2022, and marquee deployments such as parking at the Maha Kumbh Mela - one of the largest human gatherings on Earth.
The platform runs behind gates for parking operators, municipalities, malls, airports, hospitals, universities, residential and commercial properties, and event organizers. Named operators and partners include APCOA, Nationwide Parking Services and Parking Concepts, several of which now ship their own branded apps built on Get My Parking.
We build homegrown technology from scratch - no external acquisitions of core tech.
The technical hard part of parking is not any single feature - it is integration. A large operator might run gates from one manufacturer, cameras from another, payment terminals from a third and permit rules that vary lot by lot. Get My Parking's core competence is making that mess behave like one system. Its engineers built the platform in-house rather than stitching together acquisitions, and the company points to that homegrown stack as the reason it can adapt quickly to a new market's equipment and regulations, including GDPR-grade data handling in Europe.
The more recent expertise is in applied AI at the edge of the parking journey. ExpressLane targets a stubborn, practical failure mode - license-plate recognition misreads that jam ticketless lanes - while AVA puts a conversational agent at the exit kiosk so a stranded driver at 2am gets an answer instead of a dead intercom. Neither is AI for spectacle; both are aimed at the moments where parking most often breaks down. That pragmatism, applied to an industry many technologists overlook, is a large part of why the company has endured for a decade in a category littered with abandoned pilots.
There is also operational expertise that does not show up in a feature list. Running parking for events like the Maha Kumbh Mela or IPL cricket matches means handling enormous, spiky demand where a software failure produces a physical traffic jam. Surviving those stress tests, and doing so repeatedly across time zones with a small team, is its own kind of proof.
It provides an open, interoperable IoT platform that digitizes parking lots - enabling ticketless entry, digital payments, license-plate recognition, EV charging and analytics, often by retrofitting existing hardware.
Chirag Jain (CEO) and Rasik Pansare (CMO) founded it in 2015 in New Delhi; it is now headquartered in Bengaluru.
The platform has been deployed across 3,500+ parking lots in roughly 20 countries and has processed over 100 million transactions.
Through a B2B2C SaaS model - platform licensing, customization and white-label apps, retrofit hardware kits, and parking-data insights.
APCOA, Europe's largest parking operator, is both a strategic partner and shareholder. Investors include IvyCap Ventures, IAN Fund, BEENEXT and The Chennai Angels.
Sources include getmyparking.com, blog.getmyparking.com, Inc42, Tracxn, Crunchbase, YourStory, StartupTalky, Parking.net and IoT For All. Figures such as transaction counts, lot totals, funding and revenue are approximate and drawn from public reporting; some may be dated. Verify current specifics with the company directly.