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title: "Durgaprasad M - Co-founder - Product & Growth in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Durgaprasad M, Fintech, Payments and B2B | IIT-B based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes langchain, langsmith, and openai."
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# Durgaprasad M on Tal

## Headline

Fintech, Payments and B2B \| IIT\-B

## About

TL;DR: I am a past tech founder and product leader \- bootstrapped exit in 1st one and fundraised in 2nd\. Prior \- M&A investment banking\. Studied at IITB\. Longer version \- I am the co\-founder and CEO/CPO of Alpyne Labs, spearheading the product strategy and growth of a pioneering stablecoin infrastructure company across India and APAC\. Backed by leading investors, we partner with top crypto and De\-Fi clients to pioneer fintech innovation in India\. An alumnus of IIT Bombay, my journey started in investment banking at Alantra, advising major cross\-border deals, which sharpened my strategic and financial acumen\. Prior to Alpyne, I co\-founded Is You, a personalized health\-tech startup, where I led product management and go\-to\-market strategy, onboarded 43\+ clinics and filed a provisional patent for innovative dermatologist\-led solutions\. Feel free to reach out on durgaprasad\.m92@gmail\.com

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

langchain

langsmith

openai

perplexity

## Work experience

Co\-founder \- Product & Growth at Alpyne Labs, Jun 2022 \- Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Building stablecoin payment infrastructure for India \(Razorpay for Crypto\) Product and Growth Achievements: \- Scaled platform to 140,000\+ users in 2 years with 36% avg monthly growth and 27% 30\-day retention \- Defined vision and instituted results\-driven structure \- led product strategy and coached cross\-functional team of 9 including 2 PMs, 1 designer, 1 program manager and 5 engineers \- Core lead in prioritizing Product Roadmaps and strategic decision\-making for integrations with 6 external partners \- sourcing liquidity, custodians, banking partners, blockchain tooling and KYC APIs \- Built robust modules of B2B APIs, payment check\-out \(optimizing conversion funnels in Mixpanel\), AI\-led fraud\-stack to detect anomaly in user's banking behaviours; reduced fraud cases by 23% \- Discovered and built products to expand business scope: P2P, DeFi liquidity, payroll, remittances; achieved as a result of deep discovery of user needs \- Generative AI Projects \- Conceived proprietary AI Fraud Response Stack with 2 engineers and 1 data scientist, implementing ML algos for automated risk scoring, reducing manual review by 40% Business Achievements: \- Launched payment APIs \(on\-ramp/off\-ramp\) in Dec 2022; scaled team from 2 founders to 18, with majority retained since inception \- Achieved INR 200 crore\+ \($27M\+\) volume in 2 years; $1\.4m ARR in Mar '24; PAT positive both years via partnerships with large exchanges CoinDCX, Delta Exchange, KuCoin, LBank \- Raised $300k\+ pre\-seed from 100x\.VC India, Tenity Singapore, and global fintech angels \- Negotiated FIU\-India VDA compliance approval, leading risk alignment and implementing crypto regulatory frameworks under AML laws across India and US markets \- Conceived GTM playbook \(pricing, positioning, enablement\) \- Led marketing and sales opportunities at global events across India\-APAC, and US \- collaborating with 10\+ large new businesses

Product & Growth at Is You Skincare Tech, Jul 2019 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, Built Curology for India \- personalised aftercare for skincare \- Achieved Traction across Bangalore/Coimbatore with m\-o\-m growth of 300%; Had to halt the operations due to CoVID and pivot to dermatology aftercare \- Secured provisional patent for proprietary "synergistic stratum" skincare technology; managed user research and end\-to\-end product development for the consumer application \- Onboarded 43\+ clinics including Kaya Skin Clinics while managing both stakeholders \- patients and doctors ; validated B2B2C product market fit \- Exited to pharma biz Intraline Cosmetics amid scaling and cashflow challenges

Senior Analyst at Alantra, Feb 2017 \- Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Few deals in public domain: Aug ’17 \- Advised Mahindra Comviva on the buy\-out of Emagine International, an Australian mobile campaign management software and services player Nov ’17 \- Advised Nanoheal \(Kalaari funded\) on the acquisition of Bask Technologies, US \- based consumer tech support company Dec '18 \- Advised on Unilog's Series\-B convertible debt investment by LLR Partners, supporting growth in Indian SaaS sector Aug '18 \- Advised on Enrich Salons' ₹21M Series\-B funding round, advancing expansion in India's consumer beauty services\. \(Deal happened after I left\)

Junior Analyst at Alantra, Oct 2015 \- Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Executed end\-to\-end M&A deal execution across Tech, IT & Consumer sectors: strategic analysis, stakeholder management, market evaluation, and cross\-functional coordination

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Science, Nalanda Academy, Kota

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