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Founder & CEO @ Pice | B2B Payments

About

Building Pice, a B2B payments company catering to GST registered Indian businesses. We are solving their payments, credit & commerce needs. Pice is 4 years old, 60+ people strong, raised about INR 68 crores ($8.25mn) across 2 rounds from Nexus Venture Partners, Paramark Ventures & 10 prolific angel investors. Previously I was VP & Head of Products at Open and one of the founding member, where I lead products for merchants and new offerings for the company. During my tenure, the company has grown multi-folds, and has launched various vertical defining product offerings. I have a very customer centric approach to product building. With 7 years of experience, I'm well versed with different fintech verticals like payments, cards, financial process automation, GST & other taxes, line of credit, etc. Prior to Open, I worked with PayU in their enterprise vertical. I also worked in C2C ecom as part of Citrus before it got acquired by PayU and as a part of Elanic founding team. I had also started a wealth tech startup named Stockable but was not able to find product market fit and had to shut down. I'm an engineer by degree and always had an eye to solve customer problems & create business opportunities. I have been closely associated with the startup world ever since graduation.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Founder & CEO at Pice, Sep 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Pice is an early stage fintech startup started in 2021, backed by Nexus Venture Partners & Paramark Ventures, raised $8.3mn across 2 rounds, building a solution for the archaic & legacy business payments in India. We aim to make Business Payments as seamless and efficient as UPI payments across online & offline channels. Whenever & wherever a business transacts, our products will be present there.

VP & Head of Products at Open Financial Technologies, Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Grown from $1.5 million to $500 million as a company - Handling multiple business verticals & it's products - Scaled the product team to 25+ to handle growth - Conceptualization to GTM for OpenBook in 90 days with a team of 12 - Grown from $1 billion txn volume to $25 billion annualized, 100,000 to 1.5 million merchants

Director of Product Engineering at Open Financial Technologies, Apr 2019 - Jan 2020 · 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Scaled the tech team to 30+ to handle the growth & starting building the product team in parallel - Scaled the business 100x from 1000 to 100,000 merchants, $1 million to $1 billion txn volume annualized - Launched multiple product suites to cater the merchant needs keeping business goals

Senior Product Engineer at Open Financial Technologies, Dec 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Built the underlying infrastructure & its design on which the foundation was built. - Reached a MVP stage to find a product market fit.

Founder at Stockable, Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Stockable is a SaaS platform that connects SEBI registered investment advisors and investors. It helps in portfolio management services & execution via different brokerage platforms. Product suites launched: 1. An AI driven chrome plugin for stock fundamentals, news, updates, and alerts. 2. SaaS platform for RIAs (WIP) 3. Platform for investors. Failed to get product market fit and shut down.

Software Developer at PayU, Nov 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Built web interface for P2P payments - Built web interface for P2P product listing and checkout - In-context payment gateway integrations (ICP) - Developed User Unit for Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)

Full Stack Developer at Elanic (Acquired by ShareChat), Aug 2015 - Oct 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Started as a front-end developer but eventually handled more responsibility and started working on application backend as well as operation admin dashboard. - Developed and maintained the operation admin dashboard - Developed backend application modules like: * Referral system * Discount rule engine * Dynamic 3rd party logistics integrations

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, St. Thomas' College of Engineering & Technology 122

High School, Computer Science, Maria`s Day School Howrah