Verifany leverages the power of open banking to securely and accurately verify the financial data & credence of individuals. We offer a seamless and user-friendly interface where users can request verification of a party’s financial health with their consent.

In today’s interconnected world, trust is more crucial than ever, especially when it comes to financial interactions. Whether you’re a landlord evaluating potential tenants, a small business vetting new suppliers, or an individual entering a financial agreement, knowing you can trust the other party’s financial stability is key. That’s where Verifany steps in.

Verifany's beta launch is a very simple income verification tool (a common demoniator across most of our use cases). Over time Verifany will evolve to a question/answer ChatGPT style format with the individuals being able to verify other individuals' financial credence as well as correlate and cross verify claims from multiple sources with bank account data.

Founding member leading product & strategy at BnkVerse (the holding company of Passvoy), a UK fintech startup solving banking & payments for voyagers in and out of India. Led the development of our cross-platform app to enable P2M (Peer-to-Merchant) payments by voyagers traveling to India on top of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) - India's marquee instant payment platform. Key regulatory projects undertaken included leading discussions with the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), Gift City, India to obtain Limited Use Authorization for their Innovation Sandbox as a Foreign Fintech as well as compiling an application for a Consumer Credit License to the FCA, UK to enable credit for migrants moving to the UK from India.

Responsible for the product and managing the workflow of the most recently formed Business Unit - iOS at Truecaller (the world's 14th most downloaded app).

Responsible for managing the workflow of the iOS team (consisting of over a dozen engineers), tasked with rebuilding the iOS app from the ground up as part of the 0 to 1 phase. Responsibilities included managing the Product Backlog, ideating on GTM, and working alongside our world-class team as we completely rebuilt the iOS app making it 10x better! The re-launch of Truecaller on iOS (v12.0) saw us reach our highest-ever MAU's on iOS and doubling our global iOS user base within a couple of months of launch!

India's first luxury conversational commerce platform, L'occul was an invite-only marketplace for UHNIs showcasing unique products & marquee services across 7 lifestyle categories.

I joined L'occul as a Consultant, was then made the Team Lead within 3 months, and a Co-Founder within another 3 before running the operations for a year. I established a pivot towards exclusive experiences and led a team of 12 for over a year to build out the platform and the iOS & Android apps. Over different periods of time, I oversaw the entire team and managed multiple functions including product, design, strategy, brand acquisition, customer acquisition, and marketing.

Unfortunately, after not seeing much traction from our initial users due to a variety of reasons (detailed in the Learnings below), we wound L'occul down in July 2017.

Built a variety of apps in the messaging space and finally settled on Meet. I built the Meet app from the ground up to solve the problem of planning & coordinating meetups; iterating the MVP over 9 versions while speaking to 300 college kids across 3 colleges in Bangalore, India, alongside our iOS developer & intern.

Over the period, we also experimented with a few other short messaging apps such as Pager & Zapp (for the Apple Watch) but eventually settled on building MEET - as a way to combat WhatsApp groups that get created for the purpose of a meet-up and eventually get very spammy.

After we had run Meet for a few months, data pointed us in the direction of the third and last part of the Meet app, which was seeing your friends and family closest to you on a map and we built another app that did just that - LocoPoco. Eventually, even LocoPoco did not prove to get the kind of traction a messaging platform would need and was wound down but by this time, I'd moved on to take on my next challenge at L'occul.

I was a Director in the Indian subsidiary of Limitless Venture Holdings Inc., Clerom Technologies India Private Limited along with my flatmate, the founder, and an EiR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at Accel Partners.

Second hire at the newly established three-member Global Strategy and Development (Internal M&A) team, set up in early 2012 to double Grant Thornton International's global revenues from US$4bn to US$8bn, as part of 'Ambition 2015', at the firm's international headquarters in London.

As part of the core three-member team, we worked on multiple global level deal mandates as well as streamlining the M&A process for member firms interlinking our eight global functions. Our small team of 3 worked on an extensive proposal to merge a top global network (ranked in the Top 10, but outside of the Top 5) along with Grant Thornton International (#5) but the deal didn't quite work out despite six months of effort, evaluating the synergies the global operations of both entities could provide.