GOLDEX GLOBAL builds the world's first mass-produced robotic terminal for automatically assaying, buying, selling, pawning and storing gold and silver. Its self-service kiosks - branded Goldomat and ATM-Pawnshop - combine X-ray spectrometry, hydrostatic weighing and AI to appraise jewellery, coins and scrap in roughly 3-5 minutes and pay customers instantly to a bank card. The company pairs the hardware with management software, a vending line for investment bars and coins, and a blockchain layer for gold tokenization, positioning itself at the intersection of physical precious metals and digital finance.
Rajendra Soni runs the United States arm of PNG Jewellers, the 190-plus-year-old Pune house famous for gold, diamonds and old-school karigari. He turned a single Sunnyvale storefront into the Bay Area's go-to address for South Asian wedding jewellery, then helped open Fremont, and keeps showing up at every ribbon cutting with the same line: customer first, then employees, then the bling.