Dubai · United Arab Emirates

I build and run internet companies.

Education technology at national scale, AI-native software, and the brand infrastructure that decides who gets found in the AI era.

Seventeen years across India, the Gulf and the UK. Co-founder of AglaSem, SnapRabbit and Richmond Tutoring, director of Parallax Digital, partner and CTO at BlueMint Services in Dubai.

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Anand Meena, technology entrepreneur based in Dubai
AglaSem · 84M/mo
Built in 3 months
01 Who I Am

Two students put their notes online. It became one of India's largest study platforms.

"What makes us stand aside is that we have been consistent and have been growing. And what makes our end users happier is that we provide everything for free."
— On AglaSem, The CEO Magazine

I am a technology entrepreneur and engineer based in Dubai. I co-founded AglaSem in 2009 with a batchmate from Delhi College of Engineering and ran it to 20.7 million monthly unique visitors and 84 million monthly views — the number-one education website in India on comScore's March 2019 measurement, ahead of BYJU'S and Vedantu, and the subject of a published management case study. I have since founded or directed five further companies across software engineering, remote assessment, online tutoring and brand positioning.

Based
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Current
Partner & CTO, BlueMint Services FZCO
Also
Director, Parallax Digital · Co-founder & CTO, SnapRabbit India
Education
B.E. Computer Engineering, DCE (DTU)
Director ID
DIN 03577306
Wikidata
Q141042170
Product & engineering AI-native software Education technology Cloud infrastructure Generative engine optimisation Start-up leadership
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Years building companies
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Companies founded or directed
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Monthly views at peak
20.7M
Monthly unique visitors
02 The Companies

Six registered companies — founded, directed, run.

Not side projects. Legal entities with directorships, teams and accounts. Director Identification Number 03577306.

2025 —

Richmond Tutoring Company Ltd Current

Co-founder & CTO · Twickenham, United Kingdom

Online tutoring for UK school students, Key Stage 1 through GCSE. The product is a diagnostic engine rather than another worksheet library: it works out the grade a student is actually working at, what is missing underneath it, and what to practise next — then retests. Edexcel first. Incorporated in November 2025.

UKFirst company outside Asia
2024 —

BlueMint Services FZCO Current

Partner & CTO · Dubai, UAE

Founder and brand positioning for the GCC. We decide what Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity say about a company before its buyers ever ask them. I own the technology and AI side of the practice.

DubaiHead office
2020 —

SnapRabbit India Pvt Ltd Current

Co-founder & CTO · Gurugram, India

We build, grow and run interactive digital products — gaming portals, HTML5 games, content and video, and our own gaming channels. Operators rather than vendors: we run properties like Mobile Gaming Hub, FF Booyah and Roblox Master Guides at scale, and test what works there before recommending it to anyone. Test From Home began as an in-house idea at AglaSem; SnapRabbit was formed around it and the build was done here — an AI-proctored remote examination platform taken from nothing to production in three months as Indian universities lost their exam halls to COVID. That product is closed; the company is not.

10,000+Guides & articles published
2016 —

Parallax Digital Pvt Ltd Current

Director · New Delhi, India

An AI-native digital engineering studio — we build software that works, and that AI recommends. Product and AI engineering, cloud and platform operations across AWS, Cloudflare and DigitalOcean, and the generative-engine optimisation that gets what we ship cited inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. From the first line of code to the first citation.

Est. 2016Still running
2009 — 2023

AglaSem Edutech Pvt Ltd Stepped back

Co-founder · Gurugram, India

Started as two engineering students putting their notes online. Grew into one of India's largest education platforms — admissions, results, question papers and mock tests, free, for students who could not find the information anywhere else. Around thirty staff. comScore ranked it the #1 education site in India in March 2019 — 20.7 million monthly unique visitors, 84 million monthly views and 7.1% national reach, ahead of BYJU'S and Vedantu. Alexa placed it #73 in India and #1,456 worldwide, and our own analytics showed over 80,000 students on the site at the same moment. It runs on today without me — I stepped back from the day-to-day in 2023.

84MMonthly views at peak
2007 — 2011

Acube Technologies LLP

IT Business Partner · New Delhi, India

In my final year at DTU I turned down a ₹10 lakh job offer to start a web-solutions venture with two classmates, trading as Acube Solutions and later registered as Acube Technologies LLP — websites, hosting, domain management and live event webcasts. The Hindustan Times covered it at the time. It is where the engineering started, and where AglaSem came from.

₹10LJob offer turned down
03 The Work

Products built under those companies — with honest status.

Some are running, one is closed, one is private. Nothing here is a mockup.

Richmond Tutoring

Live

One-to-one online tutoring for UK students from Key Stage 1 to GCSE, built around a diagnostic engine that identifies the grade a student is working at and what to practise next. Parents see progress in a portal instead of guessing at it.

richmondtutoring.co.uk · Edexcel first

AglaSem

Live

Admissions, results, previous-year papers and mock tests for Indian students. Free, ad-supported, at national scale. A published case study in Case Studies on Marketing Management, used in Indian management programmes. Still running today — I co-founded it in 2009 and stepped back from the day-to-day in 2023.

#1 education site in India (comScore 2019) · 84M monthly views · stepped back 2023

Test From Home

Closed

AI-proctored remote examinations for universities, colleges and coaching institutes — objective and subjective papers, sat from home without a centre. The idea started in-house at AglaSem; SnapRabbit was formed around it and the build happened there, in three months during the 2020 shutdown.

The Indian Express, April 2020

SSDJ Foundation

Live

The complete technology for a scholarship foundation in Panipat — student applications through to records management. Multi-track intake, student accounts, a document vault, a payments register, an audit log and five report generators behind a gated admin.

1,571 students · 187 institutions

Dubai Fast Living

Live

A news and guides publication for people who actually live in Dubai — visas, schools, property, culture and what things really cost. Nine sections, live city data, and calculators that answer what the guides can't.

Published by BlueMint Services FZCO

Meezanya

Live

A personal budgeting app you write to in plain language — "coffee 210, fuel 3400" — and it files it. Named from the Arabic ميزانية, from mizan, the scales. Built on Cloudflare Workers and D1.

meezanya.com · Founder interview

Vita

Private

A local-first personal and family health record. Ten years of lab reports, prescriptions and scans in one place, on one machine, owned by the family rather than a platform. Not a product — built because the drawer was full.

Private · not publicly available

ATSE

2019 — 2021

The AglaSem Talent Search Exam — India's first centre-less scholarship exam. AI-proctored and sat at home on a computer or tablet, for classes 5 to 12, built on the Test From Home technology. Run for three years to put money behind bright students, then closed.

₹12L in year one, ₹15L in each of the next two

Gaming portals & channels

Live

SnapRabbit's own properties — Mobile Gaming Hub, FF Booyah and Roblox Master Guides — plus the platform underneath them: accounts, virtual currencies, streaks and badges, leaderboards, in-app purchases and ad management.

5+ years · 10,000+ guides published

Business tools

Live

A run of small, sharp products out of Parallax Digital — an invoice generator, a bill management system with centralised approvals, and an expense tracker for individuals and teams.

pdpl.xyz
04 Proof

Written about by other people.

Independent sources only — no self-published claims in this section.

05 How I Work

Three positions, held long enough to have cost me something.

i

Building it and making it findable are the same job.

Most studios ship a product and hand the visibility problem to someone else a year later. By then the decisions that determined whether anyone would ever find it have already been made, in the code.

ii

Say when you do not know.

A guide that guesses at a fee is worse than no guide, because someone will budget from it. The same applies to engineering estimates.

iii

Update rather than republish.

Facts change. A page that tracks them keeps one address and moves with reality, instead of leaving eight versions online, seven of them wrong.

06 Where To Find Me

Anything that starts with "can this be built".

Engineering and product work, brand positioning in the GCC, or a conversation about what you are trying to make findable.