Hike Messenger, also called Hike Sticker Chat, was an Indian freeware, cross-platform instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP) application which was launched on 12 December 2012 by Kavin Bharti Mittal and is now owned by Hike Private Limited.[3] Hike works offline through SMS and has multi-platform support.[4] The app registration uses standard one time password (OTP) based authentication process.[5] Hike is estimated at a value of $1.4 billion,[6] with more than 100 million registered users and 350 employees.[7][8]