It started with a ₹25,000 roaming bill. One trip to Dubai. One mistake of turning on data roaming. And a very painful lesson that the system wasn't built for Indian travelers.
I looked for alternatives. Every eSIM provider I found wanted a credit card. Currency conversion fees on top. Nothing accepted UPI. Nothing was priced in rupees. Nothing felt like it was built for us.
"More than a million Indians traveled to Dubai alone in 2025. Every single one of them faced this problem. I decided to solve it."
YAXΞ Technologies was born from that moment. As a data scientist who understood technology but had never built a company before, I started with a simple question: why can't Indians pay for international connectivity the same way they pay for everything else — with UPI?
The answer, it turns out, is that no one had bothered to build it. So we did.