Podcast: Smart parking for better cities

In our first podcast series, our co-founder Prashant talks about the challenges in managing on-street parking, its importance in transforming the mobility landscape and the payoffs in terms of lesser traffic congestion and pollution. The series also discusses some ideas on solutions and how city governments can tackle the growing parking crisis. This episode sets...

GST & Smart Parking

GST and Parking for Smart Cities of Tomorrow When GST was launched, we were in the midst of our most important parking project that could help address parking chaos in our cities. GST is definitely the most significant reform measure being implemented in the country at the moment, promising a single common market. However, our...

IT rocks @ ValetEZ

“Stronger the backbone, better we stand” – this has been our mantra which is why our technology team works very hard to ensure a seamless and zero-downtime parking management system. In this story, the second in the series, we hear from the ValetEZ tech team on what really makes them so passionate about what...

ValetEZ – Behind the scenes

We acknowledge the fact that “Stronger the backbone, better we stand” which is why our focus from the beginning has been to ensure seamless operations. Mani’s Background: Ex-defence personnel - Indian Army (Maratha Light Infantry). After retirement, he served as the transport chief at well-known educational institutions in Bangalore. An army platoon head, an ace...

Transforming the parking landscape

Transforming the parking landscape one revolution at a time Some interesting features about parking: Typically, car owners spend an average of 10-15 min looking for parking on the street While parking is free or cheap in most places (at least in India), there is a cost in terms of lost time and uncertainty of...

ValetEZ v2.0

(I introduced ValetEZ here, and spoke about our Bangalore launch here. A quick refresher on our stats: 60,000 parking spots in 700+ locations, 2500+ car drivers in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai :-) ) So - I believe that for a large chunk of city dwellers, a large chunk of what they do outside of work is...

Gridlock-free India

I dream of a Gridlock-free India. Do you? When you walk into our cosy igloo-like (see what I did there?) office here in Bangalore, with our young group of engineers chattering away about new features and design, you’d be forgiven for assuming that we are just another Bangalore startup building a mobile app. And we...