Company

Born in a garage.
Built for everyone.

Hackning Technologies began in a garage in Kolkata, founded by a self-taught teenage programmer with one conviction: technology is too powerful to belong only to the privileged few.


“Startup is a journey, not an overnight success. Our mission of ‘Building an inter-connected universe’ is not just a statement — it energises us to work day and night. We believe technology is ‘By the People, For the People’ and our job is to put it in the hands of the Common.”

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Bishal Dey
Founder & CEO, Hackning Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

The company

By the numbers

Founded
10th April 2020
Founder & CEO
Bishal Dey
Headquarters
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Origin
Father's garage, Kolkata
Education
CSE dropout · Techno India University
Legal status
Private Limited Company
Markets
India · Southeast Asia · Global
Philosophy
By the People, For the People

Our story

From a Kolkata startup to a regional technology company.

10 Apr 2020
Born in a garage in Kolkata
Bishal Dey — a 17-year-old self-taught programmer who taught himself Java at 14 and Harvard's CS50 at 15 — incorporates Hackning Technologies Pvt. Ltd. from his father's garage while studying CSE at Techno India University.
2020
First products: social & consumer apps
Hackning launches its first consumer applications — including Grafecs (free media storage, solving a real pain point when major platforms hiked prices) and Treeto (music & entertainment). The vision: an interconnected platform for everyday users.
2021
Bishal drops out to go all-in
Convinced of the mission, Bishal leaves Techno India University to dedicate himself fully to Hackning. The company has now grown to a small founding team, though finding the right people remains the hardest challenge.
2022
Pivot to enterprise: Action Micro launches
Recognising that enterprises had the same unmet need — accessible, real technology — Hackning launches Action Micro, a hardware distribution and services arm focused on SBCs, IoT devices, and AI hardware.
2023
HAI EP development begins
After seeing enterprises struggle with fragmented software tools, the team begins building HAI EP — an AI-native enterprise platform designed from the ground up for the Indian business context.
2024
HAI EP v1.0 launches
The platform ships to its first enterprise clients. Action Micro reaches 10,000 devices deployed across businesses, factories, and institutions.
2025
HAI EP v2.0 — full AI workflow automation
A major platform release with AI decision nodes, multi-model support, and on-premise deployment — making HAI EP viable for regulated industries and data-sensitive enterprises.
2026
Expanding the mission across borders
Hackning continues growing beyond India, taking the conviction that technology belongs to the common people — into new markets, new industries, and new problems to solve.

How we work

Our values in practice.

Always be in positivity

Bishal's founding principle: a mind full of negativity leads to failure. When things go wrong — and they do — we return to our mission and get back to work. The path is dangerous but exciting.

Be your customer first

We use every product we build. If it cannot solve our own problems, we have no business asking customers to use it. This is non-negotiable from day one.

Never stop with one idea

Hackning started as a social media platform and evolved into enterprise AI and hardware. Test, iterate, adapt. Being relevant in a fast-pacing world means never standing still.

Technology for the common

Wealth is earned through people's trust and love. We believe real success means putting technology in the hands of people who were previously excluded from it.

Own the outcome

When something breaks, we answer. No finger-pointing. We own every deployment, every line of code, every device shipped — from promise to production.

Dream without measure

The dream is something that cannot be measured, so we never stop dreaming. It is what drives us from zero to now — and from now to what is next.

The team

Engineering-led from day one.

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Bishal Dey
Founder & CEO
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CTO
Engineering
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Head of HAI EP
Hackning AI Enterprise Plus
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Head of Action Micro
Hardware Distribution
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Head of IoT & Custom Eng.
Solutions Engineering
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Head of Growth
Sales & Partnerships