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Feb 2022
Niyo is an Indian Fintech company leading innovations in #Travel and #Finance. With over 6 million users already on board, our aim is to make both travel and managing finance simpler, smarter and safer.
Since its inception in 2015, Niyo has been at the forefront of revolutionising banking with continued digital innovation.
Let’s just say – we help you save more, be more and do more. Take your banking experience a notch higher with:
Niyo Global: Our flagship product that makes travelling abroad stress-free and a must have for all Indian passport holders. Niyo Global in partnership with SBM Bank (India) is designed to help you travel the world with zero forex markups that help you save a ton of money! You also get a VISA Signature debit card that gives you complimentary airport lounge access at international and domestic airports in India, a Savings Account with upto 5% interest along with a host of other helpful travel features.
NiyoX: A 2-in-1 account in partnership with Equitas Small Finance Bank, that takes care of both - your savings and investments. With zero commissions on mutual funds and upto 7% interest p.a on savings, this zero balance savings account helps manage personal finance simpler and worry-free.
Come onboard and find out why our users say Niyo is the best thing to have happened to banking since banking.
Board Member
Aug 2021
Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.
Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches educates more has educated more than 350,000 individuals across 80+ countries.
The Emeritus Group has more than 1,750 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, GSV Ventures, Peak XV, Bertelsmann, CPPIB, Accel and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Why learn through Emeritus?
Emeritus offers high-quality online learning experience so you can learn in-demand skills to take your career to the next level.
Board Member
Jul 2021
The Good Glamm Group is South Asia’s largest Content-Creator-Commerce conglomerate that brings together the Group’s innovative and fast-growing beauty and personal care brands, powered by the Group’s proprietary digital ecosystem of content and creator assets.
Good Glamm Group has four key divisions:
- Good Brands Co is South Asia’s largest portfolio of DTC beauty and personal care brands: MyGlamm, St Botanica, The Moms Co, Organic Harvest, Sirona and BabyChakra.
- Good Media Co is one of the world’s largest digital media companies comprising POPxo, ScoopWhoop, MissMalini, Tweak and BabyChakra. It has a large digital audience comprising 200mil Monthly Active Users and generates over 4 Billion impressions a month.
- Good Creator Co is one of the world’s largest influencer platforms tracking 1.5 million influencers. Miss Malini and Vidooly (which is one of the world’s leading content and influencer analytics platforms) function as independent platforms within the Good Creator Co.
- Good Community is one of the largest deep interest on-ground and online communities around positive parenting, inclusive beauty & sexuality, holistic living.
The Good Glamm Group has a team of over 3,500 spread across India, Dubai and Singapore.
The ‘Good’ in the Good Glamm Group underscores the Group’s commitment to inclusive beauty and cruelty-free, vegan, environment-friendly, clean beauty products and focuses on creating experiences for consumers that truly enhance their lives through positive content and creator inspirations.
Equity Investors in the Good Glamm Group include Warburg Pincus, Prosus (Naspers), Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, L’Occitane, Amazon, Ascent Capital, Mankekar Family Office and Trifecta Capital. In November 2021, the Good Glamm Group became South Asia’s first DTC Beauty Brand Unicorn.
Board Member
Dec 2020
Zolve's mission is simple: we want to make financial products accessible to everyone. Zolve offers the ambitious a plethora of products to simplify banking in the US, such as:
A Bank Account you can create from anywhere in the world in under five minutes
A high-limit Credit Card that helps build a healthy credit score
Easy, lightning-fast, cross-border money transfers with the best rates in the market
Zolve is expanding its horizons, and we're excited to open our doors to everyone expanding theirs.
We believe: that if space tourism is real, so is reaching for the stars.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Spinny is a new age used car end-to-end platform in India. By establishing absolute trust & simplicity in transactions, we are bringing radical change to the way people buy used cars. We follow a full-stack business model to offer Value, Transparency, and Simplicity to our customers. Our goal is to help our customers purchase a car that matches their aspirations with absolute confidence and complete peace of mind.
We present our customers thoroughly inspected high-quality cars while making sure the overall process is entirely transparent and seamless. Every Spinny car must pass a 200-Point rigorous quality check and comes with a 5-Day no questions asked money-back guarantee. Our customers can shortlist a car of their choice from our online platform, and then can visit our physical car hubs for a no-obligation test drive. The right selection, adequate assortment, fair & scientific pricing, and assistance in decision making are the core pillars of our business model.
We are on a mission to build Spinny as the most loved and trustworthy brand of India and believe technology has to play a significant role in achieving this. Do reach out to us to explore potential opportunities to collaborate if you share our passion. We are currently operating in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Indore, Coimbatore, Lucknow and Kochi.
Board Member
May 2018
Bounce is Indias first smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable and convenient.
Heres how easy it is to bounce : Book a ride on the app, Pick up the bike, Enter the OTP, Ride to the destination and move on!
With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, our state-of-the-art Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention.
Theres more than just this, to why we do what we do! We love the idea of being able to help bring people back to doing things that they love, like the ever-elusive guitar lessons or the family dinner at the dining table, by saving them the time that they spend on commuting.
With the keyless bikes, we are taking on the problems around commute, one city at a time. With a team of super-passionate people and some great ideas, we are riding towards becoming the most preferred mode of commute and changing the way people commute!
Board Member
Feb 2018
Rupeek is India’s leading asset-backed, digital lending fintech platform. Driven by the mission to make credit accessible to Indians in a fair and convenient way, Rupeek is pioneering innovative financial products to help monetize India’s $2 trillion gold. Powered by state-of-the-art technology and an automated asset-light supply chain, Rupeek is transforming the way gold loans are disbursed in India. Through partnerships with leading banks and financial institutions, it is building gold-backed assets, in a low-risk, low-touch and friction-free manner.
To know how Rupeek plans to monetise gold, click here: https://bit.ly/3rnlzie
Founded in 2015 by Sumit Maniyar, Rupeek is present in over 60+ cities in India and has touched over 5,00,000+ customers. Headquartered in Bangalore, Rupeeks investors include Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Bertelsmann and GGV Capital.
Board Member
Oct 2017
Koo is all about uniting the world despite the language barriers. The dream of one world. Globally connected citizens of humanity. The world is divided by borders and languages. There’s little that can be done about the borders. But we certainly can break the language barriers. That’s what Koo’s mission is.
Our aim is to build the most inclusive social platform in the world, where our differences are understood and celebrated — not targeted.
Board Member
Oct 2017
88% of India speaks an Indian language. But they feel lost on the internet because most of the content is in English. 18% of the global population speaks an Indian language whereas only 6% speak English. These numbers point at the potential of an internet that can cater to the Indian language speaker.
Democratising knowledge to these language users can go a long way in reducing disparities at various levels.
Vokal is trying to bridge this gap through a Q&A based knowledge sharing platform that caters to the Indian language user. We are a young startup that's growing at a ferocious pace and are always looking for young, hungry, ambitious, big thinkers who can move fast. We aspire to change the internet - one Indian language at a time!
If you can think of ways to associate with us, please write to us at hello@getvokal.com and we'll be happy to chat. If you're from the media, you can reach out to mayank [at] getvokal.com or ar [at] getvokal.com.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Talent Acquisition teams are tasked with providing consistent talent experiences whether they’re hiring for 5 openings or 100. And to achieve the same (or better) results with fewer resources. At the same time, talent expectations have changed permanently. They want more, better experiences from employers, regardless of the economy.
Enter: Sense.
Modern enterprise recruiting teams are powered by Sense’s automated communication and talent engagement technology. From 2-way texting for recruiters to NPS; from recruitment marketing to candidate engagement and a recruiting chatbot; Sense is the only all-in-one solution built for enterprise recruiting. Sense turbocharges recruiting, marketing, sales, and talent care teams to dramatically improve the candidate experience and lower talent attrition.
Board Member
May 2015
Vedantu is a LIVE online learning platform that brings together students and teachers to achieve best results.
On it, students can pick from a pool of India’s best teachers and learn from them via LIVE interactive classes. With its superior learning platform, Vedantu ensures that students can get their doubts solved instantly, take part in quizzes & activities and have a personalised learning experience from India’s best teachers.
By making LIVE learning engaging and fun, Vedantu students consistently perform well and produce great results!
To learn more and try out a free class, visit bit.ly/Vedantu
Board Member
Apr 2015
Founded in 2015, BlackBuck is India’s largest trucking platform and a pioneer in bringing offline operations of trucking, online. We are committed to our mission of empowering every fleet owner in India to manage and grow his business efficiently. BlackBuck is the only player in India to bring end to end digital solutions for the trucking ecosystem. We leverage technology to solve critical pain points of truckers and shippers across India at scale.
Data Science and Engineering is at the core of BlackBuck. With over 30 % of India’s truckers transacting on the platform, Blackbuck gathers huge data in terms of demand, preferred lanes, price etc. The comprehensive data gathered over time drives us to build ‘must have’ and ‘future ready’ products for the trucking ecosystem.
Today, we have built a robust digital infrastructure aimed at solving every need of a trucker. From finding loads, enabling payments, analyzing driver behaviour using Telematics, to Financing his vehicle and working capital requirements, a trucker in India will have access to customized solutions on BlackBuck. Today, over 1 million truckers across 1 lakh villages transact on our platform.
Board Member
Mar 2015
Swiggy is India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform, catering to millions of consumers each month. Founded in 2014, its mission is to elevate the quality of life for the urban consumer by offering unparalleled convenience. With an extensive footprint in food delivery, Swiggy Food collaborates with nearly 2 lakh restaurants across 600+ cities. Swiggy Instamart, its quick commerce platform operating in 120+ cities, delivers groceries and other essentials across 40+ categories in 10 minutes. Fueled by a commitment to innovation, Swiggy continually incubates and integrates new services like Swiggy Dineout and Swiggy Genie into its multi-service app. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and Swiggy One, the country’s only membership program offering benefits across food, quick commerce, dining out, and pick-up and drop services, Swiggy aims to provide a superior experience to its consumers.
For more information, visit www.swiggy.com
Board Member
2012
Forus Health is a pioneering medical device company committed to revolutionizing eye care through advanced medical technology. Our innovative 3nethra Series products are engineered to enhance the early detection, diagnosis, and management of ocular diseases, empowering healthcare professionals with advanced technology for improved patient outcomes and more efficient care.
Our comprehensive range includes the classic HD, classic 6.4, and pico (handheld) retinal imaging cameras, designed for adult patients. The 3nethra neo and neo HD FA stand out as the most advanced neonatal retinal imaging devices globally. Additionally, our 3nethra aberro and Specto devices represent groundbreaking innovations in both objective and subjective refraction, ensuring that we meet diverse diagnostic needs with cutting-edge solutions.
With over 3,700 installations across 65 countries, our solutions have positively impacted the lives of 16 million people by providing high-quality eye care and contributing to better vision health worldwide. By seamlessly integrating state-of-the-art devices, expert ophthalmologists and optometrists, and cutting-edge AI, we make advanced eye care accessible to communities around the globe, ensuring comprehensive and efficient care for all.
We are pioneering AI in healthcare with our advanced Diabetic Retinopathy AI, extensively tested for precision and quality. Beyond diabetic retinopathy, our AI tools also detect glaucoma, macular degeneration, hypertensive retinopathy, and dry eye, using sophisticated algorithms to measure retinal parameters. Additionally, we are developing AI tools to use retinal biomarkers for assessing cardiovascular, neurological, nephrological, and autoimmune conditions, enhancing early detection and management of systemic diseases. This innovative approach underscores our mission to integrate technology seamlessly with healthcare for comprehensive and efficient care.
Board Member
2012
TaxiForSure is the marketplace to find taxis in India! Founded in June 2011 by NIT-K and IIM-A alumni Aprameya Radhakrishna and Raghunandan G and funded by Accel Partners, Blume Ventures, and Helion Ventures, we are a taxi aggregator aiming to be the country’s first choice to book a taxi. We operate in the burgeoning but hitherto unorganized radio taxi industry, which has the potential both to impact our daily mode of travel as well as the livelihoods of thousands of operators and drivers. We aim to achieve this with the help of our strong team and a robust operational model. We wear our hearts on our sleeves, working hard to serve our customers and even harder to empower partnering operators and drivers.
How We Function
* Our starting point is giving customers the confidence of finding safe, reliable, and comfortable taxi rides anywhere and anytime.
* We run a robust and scalable technology platform that allows us to gather and analyse data to help serve our customers and drivers even better.
* A highly data-driven culture ensures that decisions both big and small are guided by gut and numbers.
* Finally, to run our operations smoothly with a diverse team comprising customer support, driver relations, technology, and marketing requires a highly equitable and friendly culture that we strive tirelessly to maintain.
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2022
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Feb 2022
Niyo is an Indian Fintech company leading innovations in #Travel and #Finance. With over 6 million users already on board, our aim is to make both travel and managing finance simpler, smarter and safer.
Since its inception in 2015, Niyo has been at the forefront of revolutionising banking with continued digital innovation.
Let’s just say – we help you save more, be more and do more. Take your banking experience a notch higher with:
Niyo Global: Our flagship product that makes travelling abroad stress-free and a must have for all Indian passport holders. Niyo Global in partnership with SBM Bank (India) is designed to help you travel the world with zero forex markups that help you save a ton of money! You also get a VISA Signature debit card that gives you complimentary airport lounge access at international and domestic airports in India, a Savings Account with upto 5% interest along with a host of other helpful travel features.
NiyoX: A 2-in-1 account in partnership with Equitas Small Finance Bank, that takes care of both - your savings and investments. With zero commissions on mutual funds and upto 7% interest p.a on savings, this zero balance savings account helps manage personal finance simpler and worry-free.
Come onboard and find out why our users say Niyo is the best thing to have happened to banking since banking.
2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
Emeritus is committed to teaching the skills of the future by making high-quality education accessible and affordable to individuals, companies, and governments around the world. It does this by collaborating with more than 80 top-tier universities across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, India and China.
Emeritus’ short courses, degree programs, professional certificates, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations. Its unique model of state-of-the-art technology, curriculum innovation, and hands-on instruction from senior faculty, mentors and coaches educates more has educated more than 350,000 individuals across 80+ countries.
The Emeritus Group has more than 1,750 employees globally and offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Singapore, Palo Alto, Mexico City, New York, Boston, London, and Dubai. The company is backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Leeds Illuminate, Prosus Ventures, GSV Ventures, Peak XV, Bertelsmann, CPPIB, Accel and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Why learn through Emeritus?
Emeritus offers high-quality online learning experience so you can learn in-demand skills to take your career to the next level.
Board Member
Jul 2021
The Good Glamm Group is South Asia’s largest Content-Creator-Commerce conglomerate that brings together the Group’s innovative and fast-growing beauty and personal care brands, powered by the Group’s proprietary digital ecosystem of content and creator assets.
Good Glamm Group has four key divisions:
- Good Brands Co is South Asia’s largest portfolio of DTC beauty and personal care brands: MyGlamm, St Botanica, The Moms Co, Organic Harvest, Sirona and BabyChakra.
- Good Media Co is one of the world’s largest digital media companies comprising POPxo, ScoopWhoop, MissMalini, Tweak and BabyChakra. It has a large digital audience comprising 200mil Monthly Active Users and generates over 4 Billion impressions a month.
- Good Creator Co is one of the world’s largest influencer platforms tracking 1.5 million influencers. Miss Malini and Vidooly (which is one of the world’s leading content and influencer analytics platforms) function as independent platforms within the Good Creator Co.
- Good Community is one of the largest deep interest on-ground and online communities around positive parenting, inclusive beauty & sexuality, holistic living.
The Good Glamm Group has a team of over 3,500 spread across India, Dubai and Singapore.
The ‘Good’ in the Good Glamm Group underscores the Group’s commitment to inclusive beauty and cruelty-free, vegan, environment-friendly, clean beauty products and focuses on creating experiences for consumers that truly enhance their lives through positive content and creator inspirations.
Equity Investors in the Good Glamm Group include Warburg Pincus, Prosus (Naspers), Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, L’Occitane, Amazon, Ascent Capital, Mankekar Family Office and Trifecta Capital. In November 2021, the Good Glamm Group became South Asia’s first DTC Beauty Brand Unicorn.
2020
Board Member
Dec 2020
Zolve's mission is simple: we want to make financial products accessible to everyone. Zolve offers the ambitious a plethora of products to simplify banking in the US, such as:
A Bank Account you can create from anywhere in the world in under five minutes
A high-limit Credit Card that helps build a healthy credit score
Easy, lightning-fast, cross-border money transfers with the best rates in the market
Zolve is expanding its horizons, and we're excited to open our doors to everyone expanding theirs.
We believe: that if space tourism is real, so is reaching for the stars.
2019
Board Member
Apr 2019
Spinny is a new age used car end-to-end platform in India. By establishing absolute trust & simplicity in transactions, we are bringing radical change to the way people buy used cars. We follow a full-stack business model to offer Value, Transparency, and Simplicity to our customers. Our goal is to help our customers purchase a car that matches their aspirations with absolute confidence and complete peace of mind.
We present our customers thoroughly inspected high-quality cars while making sure the overall process is entirely transparent and seamless. Every Spinny car must pass a 200-Point rigorous quality check and comes with a 5-Day no questions asked money-back guarantee. Our customers can shortlist a car of their choice from our online platform, and then can visit our physical car hubs for a no-obligation test drive. The right selection, adequate assortment, fair & scientific pricing, and assistance in decision making are the core pillars of our business model.
We are on a mission to build Spinny as the most loved and trustworthy brand of India and believe technology has to play a significant role in achieving this. Do reach out to us to explore potential opportunities to collaborate if you share our passion. We are currently operating in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Indore, Coimbatore, Lucknow and Kochi.
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