2019
ASTNT is incorporated
Akhilendra Sahu founds ASTNT Technologies Pvt Ltd in Madhya Pradesh, India. The group's first digital newsrooms launch, covering business and crypto.
About ASTNT
ASTNT Technologies is a digital media and technology conglomerate that builds and operates 170+ internet properties — newsrooms, software companies, and consumer apps — from India for audiences worldwide.
From the group
ASTNT started with a simple observation: the internet rewards owners, not renters. Audiences built on someone else's platform can vanish with an algorithm change. Properties you own compound.
So we build and buy digital properties — newsrooms, software companies, consumer apps, social brands — and we operate them. Not as a fund holding tickers, but as one group with shared distribution, shared engineering, and a shared standard.
The portfolio is the product. Every year it should be bigger, better run, and harder to replicate.
— Akhilendra Sahu, Founder & Group CEO
The story
From one masthead to a group.
Expansion
The media network scales
Dozens of mastheads join the network across India, the US, the UK, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia.
Software
First SaaS companies
QuickPR launches, connecting brands with the network's own distribution — the first of 20+ software products.
Consumer
Apps portfolio ships
In-house consumer apps reach the App Store and Google Play — Ruh, WhizChat, Aidra, and more.
Social
Digital IP studio
40+ owned social brands grow engaged communities natively on the feed.
2026
170+ properties, one group
ASTNT operates an integrated portfolio across four verticals, built and run from India for audiences worldwide.
Principles
How we think.
01
Compounding over campaigns
We build properties that grow year over year — owned audiences, owned products, owned distribution.
02
Owned distribution
Every company in the group publishes to audiences we operate ourselves, not audiences we rent.
03
Operational depth
Newsrooms, engineering teams, and growth operations run in-house — the group runs what it owns.
04
Long horizons
We hold and operate. Properties are built to serve their audiences for decades, not exit cycles.
Group facts
- Entity
- ASTNT Technologies Pvt Ltd
- Headquarters
- Madhya Pradesh, India
- Operating verticals
- 4
- Internet properties
- 170+
- Media publications
- 100+
- Corporate identity
- CIN: U74999MP2019PTC048483
AS OF JULY 2026