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Manasvi Saxena

Chief Product Officer, 1% Club l Ex Co-Founder MoMoney (Acquired)

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

1% Club
Apr 20251 yr 7 mosPresent

Bengaluru

We were raising our next round at MoMoney when we met 1% Club through a common investor. At the time, both companies were trying to solve the same problem from different directions. We were building products and infrastructure for wealth creation. They had built one of the strongest personal finance communities and distribution engines in the country. We started collaborating, helping each other wherever we could. Over time, it became obvious that we were far more aligned than different. The vision for both of the companies was the same: helping Indians achieve financial independence. Eventually, 1% Club acquired MoMoney. The product merged, the team merged, and so did the mission. I now look after Product, Design, and Strategy across 1% Club and our group companies. The problem statement hasn't changed much: Most people don't want to spend hours understanding personal finance. They just want to make good financial decisions and get on with their lives. So now, we're building an AI personal finance stack to solve wealth management and make that possible.
MoMoney
Oct 20222 yrs 7 mosApr 2025

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Started MoMoney because investing felt broken. Not everyone wants to become a finance expert. Yet most financial products expect people to make the right decisions, at the right time, consistently for decades. Our belief was simple: If investing could adapt to a user's financial life instead of forcing users to adapt to investing, people would start earlier, invest more and benefit from compounding sooner. This led us to build a few things: First, if investing is complicated, can we package it better? We built goal-based investment baskets that simplified decision-making and helped users start investing based on outcomes instead of products. Then came Slide. If investing should adapt to users, why should they invest the same amount every month? Slide automatically detected surplus cash and invested it, effectively turning any bank account into an investment account. As we went deeper, we realised that investing isn't where most people begin. Saving is. That led to Stash, a way to create multiple savings buckets for different goals with liquidity of a bank account but with better returns. We also built a finance dashboard surfacing cashflow insights and Credit (Loans against Mutual Funds) for users to spend without withdrawing their investments. I spent most of my time on product, design, growth, and fundraising. We raised venture funding, built a team from scratch and launched multiple products across wealth management. The products evolved over time, but the question remained the same: how do we help people make better financial decisions without needing to become experts at personal finance?
Fam
Oct 20211 yr 1 moOct 2022

Bangalore Urban

Joined Fam because I wanted to experience two things I hadn't seen before: consumer products and scale. FinTech felt like an even bigger challenge because mistakes had real consequences. The first few months were humbling. Everyone seemed ridiculously good at what they did, and I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what exactly I was bringing to the table. Started with solving for infrastructure challenges, but eventually found myself working closely with the product team. We ran experiments, obsessed over growth and spent an unreasonable amount of time discussing how to get our CAC down to an "airport samosa". More than anything else, Fam showed me what a great culture looks like. The bar was high, people genuinely cared, and it's something I've tried to recreate everywhere I've worked since. By the end of my time there, I had enough confidence in my ability to build products and understand consumers that I decided to take the plunge and start up. Watching Kush and Sambhav build Fam straight out of college definitely played a part in that decision.
BetterPlace
Nov 20191 yr 11 mosSep 2021

Bengaluru

Got promoted to Senior Engineer in 9 months. Owned everything from frontend to backend to infra, hiring and eventually teams. The fun part of working on a platform SaaS was that every problem felt important because half the company depended on it. This was also where I got my first taste of product building. I started sitting in on product and design discussions out of curiosity and eventually found myself contributing to them. Gained a lot of confidence in my craft here. Had an amazing team to learn from. My mentor Usman - Director of Engineering at that time remains one of the biggest influences on my career.
BetterPlace
Feb 20199 mosOct 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Had 3 job offers before leaving college for a condensed semester. Came back home with 0. Applied to BetterPlace and had an offer in 2 days. I joined because I didn't want to go back to college. Looking back, that decision shaped almost everything that followed. The company was in an interesting phase. A new team was being formed to rebuild the product from scratch. It was a rare opportunity to do 0→1 work inside a company that had already figured out 1→10. Joined as a backend engineer but since there was nobody doing frontend I picked up React with one condition - I'll do everything except CSS. I still stand by that decision.
Robonomics AI
May 20183 mosJul 2018

Remote

My first unpaid internship. I got to build a chatbot using Google Dialogflow and work with AWS EC2 and S3. Before joining, I had never used any of them. A lot of my time was spent opening random blog posts, copying commands from Stack Overflow, breaking things, and somehow making them work again. By the end of it, the chatbot was working, and I had convinced myself that I understood cloud infrastructure. I didn't.

Education

Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

20154 yrs2019

Central Board of Secondary Education, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science

K.D.B Public School, Ghaziabad

20132 yrs2015

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Headline

Chief Product Officer, 1% Club l Ex Co-Founder MoMoney (Acquired)

About

Building stuff since I was a teenager. Went too far and started a company. Now building an AI-first personal finance platform @ 1% Club, solving the problem I have been obsessed with for the last 5 years: simplifying money for everyone

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Chief Product Officer at 1% Club, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, We were raising our next round at MoMoney when we met 1% Club through a common investor. At the time, both companies were trying to solve the same problem from different directions. We were building products and infrastructure for wealth creation. They had built one of the strongest personal finance communities and distribution engines in the country. We started collaborating, helping each other wherever we could. Over time, it became obvious that we were far more aligned than different. The vision for both of the companies was the same: helping Indians achieve financial independence. Eventually, 1% Club acquired MoMoney. The product merged, the team merged, and so did the mission. I now look after Product, Design, and Strategy across 1% Club and our group companies. The problem statement hasn't changed much: Most people don't want to spend hours understanding personal finance. They just want to make good financial decisions and get on with their lives. So now, we're building an AI personal finance stack to solve wealth management and make that possible.

Co-Founder at MoMoney, Oct 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Started MoMoney because investing felt broken. Not everyone wants to become a finance expert. Yet most financial products expect people to make the right decisions, at the right time, consistently for decades. Our belief was simple: If investing could adapt to a user's financial life instead of forcing users to adapt to investing, people would start earlier, invest more and benefit from compounding sooner. This led us to build a few things: First, if investing is complicated, can we package it better? We built goal-based investment baskets that simplified decision-making and helped users start investing based on outcomes instead of products. Then came Slide. If investing should adapt to users, why should they invest the same amount every month? Slide automatically detected surplus cash and invested it, effectively turning any bank account into an investment account. As we went deeper, we realised that investing isn't where most people begin. Saving is. That led to Stash, a way to create multiple savings buckets for different goals with liquidity of a bank account but with better returns. We also built a finance dashboard surfacing cashflow insights and Credit (Loans against Mutual Funds) for users to spend without withdrawing their investments. I spent most of my time on product, design, growth, and fundraising. We raised venture funding, built a team from scratch and launched multiple products across wealth management. The products evolved over time, but the question remained the same: how do we help people make better financial decisions without needing to become experts at personal finance?

Engineering Team at Fam, Oct 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bangalore Urban, Joined Fam because I wanted to experience two things I hadn't seen before: consumer products and scale. FinTech felt like an even bigger challenge because mistakes had real consequences. The first few months were humbling. Everyone seemed ridiculously good at what they did, and I spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what exactly I was bringing to the table. Started with solving for infrastructure challenges, but eventually found myself working closely with the product team. We ran experiments, obsessed over growth and spent an unreasonable amount of time discussing how to get our CAC down to an "airport samosa". More than anything else, Fam showed me what a great culture looks like. The bar was high, people genuinely cared, and it's something I've tried to recreate everywhere I've worked since. By the end of my time there, I had enough confidence in my ability to build products and understand consumers that I decided to take the plunge and start up. Watching Kush and Sambhav build Fam straight out of college definitely played a part in that decision.

Senior Engineer at BetterPlace, Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Got promoted to Senior Engineer in 9 months. Owned everything from frontend to backend to infra, hiring and eventually teams. The fun part of working on a platform SaaS was that every problem felt important because half the company depended on it. This was also where I got my first taste of product building. I started sitting in on product and design discussions out of curiosity and eventually found myself contributing to them. Gained a lot of confidence in my craft here. Had an amazing team to learn from. My mentor Usman - Director of Engineering at that time remains one of the biggest influences on my career.

Engineer at BetterPlace, Feb 2019 - Oct 2019 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Had 3 job offers before leaving college for a condensed semester. Came back home with 0. Applied to BetterPlace and had an offer in 2 days. I joined because I didn't want to go back to college. Looking back, that decision shaped almost everything that followed. The company was in an interesting phase. A new team was being formed to rebuild the product from scratch. It was a rare opportunity to do 0→1 work inside a company that had already figured out 1→10. Joined as a backend engineer but since there was nobody doing frontend I picked up React with one condition - I'll do everything except CSS. I still stand by that decision.

Software Developer Intern at Robonomics AI, May 2018 - Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Remote, My first unpaid internship. I got to build a chatbot using Google Dialogflow and work with AWS EC2 and S3. Before joining, I had never used any of them. A lot of my time was spent opening random blog posts, copying commands from Stack Overflow, breaking things, and somehow making them work again. By the end of it, the chatbot was working, and I had convinced myself that I understood cloud infrastructure. I didn't.

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

Central Board of Secondary Education, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science, K.D.B Public School, Ghaziabad