In 2009, Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam wanted a better solution to look up phone numbers for the missed calls they received from family members living abroad. With this problem in mind Alan and Nami created Truecaller, which first lived on an online forum. Amazingly, they saw 10,000 downloads of their app within a week (This was before App Stores existed and downloading apps to your phone was a major hassle!)