Necessity is the mother of invention
This proverb will fit a majority of the start-up stories and we are not any different.
This proverb will fit a majority of the start-up stories and we are not any different.
Our Founder, Saravana Kumar, who worked as a software consultant in London for a decade, noticed a lack of necessary tools for managing and monitoring Microsoft BizTalk Server environments.
In 2010, at a Microsoft conference in Redmond, he discussed a product idea with fellow technology enthusiasts to address these gaps.
A year later, he presented a prototype at the same conference. After further refining it based on feedback, he officially launched our inaugural product, BizTalk360, in June 2011. The company received its first order from Hong Kong within a few weeks, marking the beginning a journey of steady growth.
"Why the name – Kovai.co?"
Saravana Kumar, our founder, deeply values giving back to society, especially in his hometown of Coimbatore, India. He firmly believes in the potential of small cities like Coimbatore to create and market world-class software products. Despite advice from peers to establish a software development center in larger cities such as Bengaluru, Chennai, or Hyderabad, he decided to set up the center in Coimbatore in 2013.
This decision was fuelled by his strong emotional connection to Coimbatore, also known as Kovai, which is evident in the company's registered names: "Kovai Limited" in the UK (2009) and "Kovai Systems India Pvt Limited" in India (2013). Although the company was initially known as BizTalk360, a rebranding effort in 2018 led to the adoption of the name Kovai.co.
In 2020, the company successfully acquired the coveted domain Kovai.com, previously owned for nearly two decades. Pride in our origins and love for our city and its culture drive our mission to build a thriving global technology product company based in Coimbatore.
We're bootstrapped, meaning we haven't taken any money from external investors. We're privately owned and profitable, thanks to careful and balanced approach to growth. This mindset has enabled us to organically scale the company.
From day one, our principle has been to maintain a health reserve, allowing us to comfortably weather the downturns. We believe in growing steadily, only taking on calculated and managed risk.
Our goal is to be a company that's humane, respectful, transparent, inclusive and socially conscious.
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