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Nitin Agarwal and the value of showing your work
An early client wanted proof that the work was getting done. Two decades into Wildnet Technologies, Nitin Agarwal is still building a business around the distance between a promise and its delivery.
Lalit Tyagi and the business of staying in business
The Polosoft founder started as a programmer. His case for building a company comes down to less glamorous things: cash flow, patient growth, and a team worth showing up for.
Nishant Singh and the advantage of a difficult customer
He built CRMNEXT by taking on the complications of large banks. Now, as founder and CEO of BUSINESSNEXT, Nishant Singh is trying to connect the work behind the customer experience - all the way to autonomous banking.
Gaurav VK Singhvi and the value of the next introduction
An online accounting venture taught Gaurav VK Singhvi the limits of going it alone. From Surat, the Avinya Ventures co-founder has built a career around finding the people a business needs next.
Gaurav VK Singhvi and the value of the next introduction
An online accounting venture taught Gaurav VK Singhvi the limits of going it alone. From Surat, the Avinya Ventures co-founder has built a career around finding the people a business needs next.
Ajay Ramasubramaniam knows someone you should meet
An unexpected first job in Tanzania led to a career helping businesses find their way into unfamiliar markets. At Startup Réseau and Hindsight Ventures, Ajay Ramasubramaniam gives the introduction a job to do.
Shishir Gupta and the business of getting started
Before StartupLanes, Shishir Gupta had three ventures that failed in a single year. His next enduring idea was to help other founders find the guidance, connections and capital he had once needed.
Sandeep Zanzaria and the distance between power and possibility
From a graduate engineer’s job at BHEL to leading GE Vernova T&D India, Sandeep Zanzaria has spent his career on the connections that make electricity useful. India’s energy transition is bringing that work into sharper view.
Michael Briggs and the work between the machines
From a finance desk to a six-plant campus in India, Michael Briggs has built a career connecting industrial businesses. His expanded Nidec role puts that experience to work across appliances, automotive technology, motion and energy.
Neeraj Tyagi and the geography of a first cheque
Neeraj Tyagi helped build We Founder Circle around a simple proposition: experienced founders could help the next generation with more than money. His work carried that idea from established startup hubs to smaller Indian cities and an international investor community.
Manan Thakkar and the hours after sunset
From carbon consulting to solar parks, Manan Thakkar has helped build Prozeal around the energy needs of industry. His next challenge begins when the panels stop producing.
Pranav Dangi and the business of leaving room for strangers
A late-night hostel encounter in Geneva helped shape Pranav Dangi’s idea of hospitality. At The Hosteller, he has spent the years since putting a dependable structure around the pleasures of an unplanned trip.
Vimal Saboo and the long life of a ten-minute decision
He joined EarlySalary to help decide who could borrow. Nine years later, Vimal Saboo took charge of its NBFC arm, carrying a career in credit analytics into the business of lending at scale.
Viraj Bahl and the price of a second chance
After his restaurants failed, Viraj Bahl sold the family home to start Veeba. The sauce business worked. His advice to the next founder: keep the house.
Ayush Sinhal and the electricity bill that could wait
In a Bengaluru student flat, the internet bill came first. Fifteen years after starting Kimbal, Ayush Sinhal is taking the lessons of India’s smart-meter rollout to a grid where households can produce power as well as consume it.
Dinesh Lodha and the value of a step down
A move from finance into a lower-ranking supply-chain job helped Dinesh Lodha reach the CEO’s office. At Medikabazaar, that winding career now meets a demanding assignment: making growth pay its way.
Vinayak Magotra and the art of choosing less
At Centricity WealthTech, the founding member and investment product head works amid an expanding menu of investments. His public arguments keep returning to a quieter question: what belongs in a particular portfolio?
Anirudh Mahanot and the distance between a portfolio and a platform
After a career in private banking, Anirudh Mahanot joined Centricity’s founding team to build its South and West business. His next chapter follows a different unit of growth: the independent financial professional.
Arun Kogta’s bet on the second-hand economy
A civil engineer joined his family’s lending business in 2004. Two decades later, Arun Kogta is connecting used vehicles and small businesses in India with capital from global investors.
Ishkaran Chhabra and the value of a second thought
After years in private banking, Ishkaran Chhabra is building an assisted approach to digital wealth at Centricity. His recurring question is what happens to an investment plan when the person holding it gets nervous.
Ravi Kunwar and the unfinished business of the basic phone
From Nokia’s familiar keypad to HMD’s own smartphones, Ravi Kunwar keeps returning to a practical question: what should a phone let its owner do? His answer runs through digital payments, repairable devices, and an India-first ambition.
Jai Shankar Has Spent a Career Finding the Moment When Markets Move
From Dubai retail floors to Chennai's digital-commerce corridors, Jai Shankar's career has followed one durable question: when technology changes, how do you bring the market with you?
Partha Dutta Markets Mortgage Tech With an Unfashionable Advantage: Gratitude
After more than 14 years at Nexval, the vice president writes about gratitude, recruits deep mortgage-platform talent and keeps asking a useful question: how can AI improve the experience without erasing the people inside it?
Sanjay Mandava Is Turning India’s Property Paper Chase Into a Search Box
A family land dispute sent a former hedge-fund analyst into India’s registries. Two Y Combinator companies later, he is building the property intelligence layer he once needed himself.
Tripti Shinghal Somani
A chartered accountant who left the comfort of blue-chip advisory work to build an incubator for women who were told, quietly, to expect less - and then to expect more.
Prajit Nanu
Prajit Nanu is the co-founder and CEO of Nium, the Singapore-born fintech unicorn that has quietly become the plumbing behind global money movement for banks, airlines, and digital platforms. Starting with a frustrating attempt to wire INR 40,000 for a friend's bachelor party in Phuket, he built what is now a $1.4 billion payments infrastructure company processing over $8 billion annually across 190+ countries in 100 currencies. A commerce graduate from Mumbai with a sales background rather than a fintech pedigree, Nanu turned that outsider status into competitive advantage - building what incumbents told him was impossible.
Anuj Jalan
Anuj Jalan is the Vice President of Sales Marketing at Microsoft, based in Chandigarh, India. He has built his career across major technology and services firms, moving from process development at Genpact and customer support at Dell to senior sales and marketing leadership at one of the world's largest technology companies. With an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a background spanning recruitment, operations, and client engagement, Jalan represents the archetype of a career professional who climbed the ranks through diverse industry exposure in India's booming tech sector.
Sarang Jagdale
Sarang Jagdale is a PhD engineer turned supply chain AI co-founder who spent over two decades cracking some of the world's hardest logistics problems - from IBM's global consulting floors to the startup that eventually became Lyric. As Head of Decision Science at Lyric, he architects the algorithmic core of a platform now trusted by Coca-Cola, Google, and Mondelez to make their supply chains think for themselves. Lyric raised $43.5M in Series B funding in August 2025, bringing total funding to $67M.
Shameel Abdulla
Shameel Abdulla is the co-founder and CEO of Clootrack, an AI-driven Voice of Customer analytics platform used by enterprises to convert billions of customer conversations into decisions. A serial entrepreneur out of Bangalore, he previously built the mobile studio Kode Blink and the local-grocery marketplace Jiffstore, which PepperTap acquired in 2015. He started Clootrack with Subbakrishna Rao in 2017 and raised a $4M Series A led by Inventus Capital India in 2021.
Fatima Husain
Fatima Husain is the Chief Business Officer at Numeral, a San Francisco-based AI-powered sales tax automation platform that raised $35M in Series B funding (led by Mayfield) at a $350M valuation in September 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $57M. By that round Numeral had processed $5B+ in transaction volume, filed 150,000 returns, tripled revenue year over year, and served 2,000+ ecommerce and SaaS brands across 11,000+ jurisdictions - and has since expanded into international VAT/GST compliance across 70+ countries. A Yale-educated operator-turned-investor originally from India, she spent six years leading growth and product at Airbnb - achieving 20x+ YoY growth on the supply side - before co-founding Mosaic General Partnership (formerly Mastry Ventures) with NBA champion Andre Iguodala. She was an early angel investor in Numeral and joined as CBO to build again, bringing two decades of operational instincts and venture capital pattern recognition to one of fintech's most unsexy yet massive problems.