Badri Pillapakkam

Impact Investor focussed on early-stage technology startups in Financial Services, Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, Climate & MSME that meaningfully improve the lives of the Lower Middle Income population in India

📍 Singapore, Singapore🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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12
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Board Member
Nov 2020
Pickrr is an end to end SAAS based logistics solution that is completely revolutionising the way a business vendor ships a product to his/her customer anywhere in the world. Now with Pickrr, a businesses can deliver any product to any location around the globe with few clicks. Our partners will take care of all the hassles of picking up the product, packing it and shipping it to any destination. Established in 2015, Pickrr providers a virtual courier service for logistics requirements of ecommerce sellers, resellers, online sellers, SMEs and Brands who wants better shipping experience. No matter whatever you sell, where you want to ship the product, just contact us and we are here to help you. In terms of benefits here are the few benefits that you will gets in terms of technology by registering with Pickrr:  Plugin/API integration with all major channels such as Shopify, Magento, Unicommerce, Woocomerce etc. (check our website for more details).  Full Analytics across all couriers  Intelligent courier allocation  Automatic NDR panel  Weight reconciliation tool – so no overcharging errors  Full on call key account manager support without order commitment.  Real-time customisable tracking page  COD/Invoicing solution with future cash flow prediction So what are you waiting for sign up for free and join our huge community of sellers:  Enhance your shipping process  Just start shipping from as low as Rs 27/500 gm (depending on order volumes)  Start Shipping with a pool of 20+ courier companies (with likes of Bluedart, Delhivery, Fedex, Ekart etc.)
Board Member
Dec 2019
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. We have created an App using which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. Subject matter experts then create a Khan Academy style video to answer each doubt. Why video, because in our experience as teacher/educator we have seen students not being able to understand text solutions. In fact around 30% of the questions asked on doubtnut so far are actually solved examples from textbooks. The reason for this could be twofold: i. Text solutions are usually the most optimal solution, which might not be the most intuitive one ii. Also, the solutions are optimized for printing hence not all logic and thoughts behind the problem solving are written. With video solution we try not only to find the answer but also make students aware of the problem solving approach employed by the expert. This will lead to deeper understanding of the concept. As of today the low teacher to student ratio and unavailability of good teachers are the biggest hurdles to effective doubt resolution. Doubtnut solves for it by reusing content that has already been created to resolve the doubts, because more students find the same question tough. Hence, a huge number of doubts can be resolved with limited number of teachers. Also the time required to create a video of ‘n’ minutes is ‘n+2’ minutes, which means the marginal cost is minimal, and will reduce to zero over time as we will have videos for most types of questions. Currently, we are working on developing technology to automate answering of questions asked previously using image recognition and Natural Language Processing.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Indifi believes in helping small businesses grow by offering loans to those that have potential and intent. Most such businesses have little or no access to financing from traditional institutions such as banks or lack either collateral or finance data trail to access a loans. Indifi is a technology platform that gathers and analyses data of businesses from various sources and draws insights to judge their credit worthiness, their past and current performance in context of the industry they are operating in. This differentiated approach helps find businesses that are low on risk and high on promise thus opening up possibilities for those who earlier had no access to short or long term business funding. Indifi takes the relevant applications to multiple lenders, increasing the chances to secure a loan and creates choice for lenders to pick the ones they wish to back. The approach makes the loan process smart by minimizing risk, reducing paperwork and associated costs, while providing a simple and hassle free experience setting the businesses on the path to growth.
Board Member
Apr 2016
Tata 1mg is India’s leading consumer health platform. It aspires to be the trusted health partner for all Indians and its mission is to make healthcare accessible, understandable and affordable for a billion Indians. It enables consumers to learn more about their medicines and also find more cost-effective substitutes. 1mg’s doctor platform aims to revolutionize how a consumer finds the right healthcare professional for his needs. It’s diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. 1mg is an initiative taken in the spirit of public service with a vision to empower Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. The application is available as a web portal– www.1mg.com and as mobile app across Android/ iOS.
Board Member
Dec 2015
​Aspiring Minds, an SHL Company, is a global job skills credentialing leader set up with a vision to create a merit driven talent ecosystem and enable efficient job skills matching by crafting credible and intelligent assessments. The flagship product AMCAT, is the world’s most widely-taken employability test helping over two million candidates find the ‘right’ jobs every year. Backed by state–of–the-art, adaptive assessment technology and machine learning algorithms – it allows adaptive, standardized and reliable measurement of generic employability skills (language, cognitive, behavior) and a wide range of functional skills using simulated assessments. Aspiring Minds enables job seekers to evaluate their job skills, earn industry recognized credentials and find appropriate career opportunities. We also help companies dramatically improve their quality and efficiency of hiring and are today associated with more than 3500 corporations. Founded in 2008 by Himanshu and Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds is a 500+ people strong organization with operations in US, China, India, Middle East, Philippines and Sub-Saharan Africa. For more information, log on to www.aspiringminds.com or www.myamcat.com ​
Board Member
Nov 2015
Indus OS is a thriving tech company that has built India’s largest Android app store, Indus App Bazar. Indus App Bazaar is a reflection of our belief that Indians from every corner of the country should be able to access mobile apps in their own language. The word “Bazaar” in the name represents the prosperous app marketplace we’ve built for new and experienced developers to grow their apps. We’re on a mission to assist users by serving them highly personalized and relevant app recommendations in their own language. Likewise, we help developers with app localization into 12 regional languages, app monetization, and targeted promotions. We’re always looking to add skilled individuals to our team. With our meticulous resource planning and investor backing from PhonePe, we’ve grown our workforce by 100% in the span of 24 months. Our vision ultimately is to become the primary app discovery platform for users and the first choice app distribution platform for developers.
Board Member
Sep 2014
U2opia Global is a Singapore-India based mobile technology company. The company has a diversified portfolio of consumer and enterprise products in more than 70 countries. U2opia Global has verticals across Telcom, Digital Marketing, Gaming, Fantasy Sports, Dating and Media. It was founded by Sumesh Menon and Ankit Nautiyal in 2010. It is managed by an experienced team with a deep understanding of consumers, internet and mobile ecosystems. U2opia Global is backed by global investment arm of the Comcraft group.
Board Member
May 2013
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Board Member
Jul 2012
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first-generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunities through credit provisioning, to deserving micro-entrepreneurs, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system. Our objective is to make finance available at a reasonable cost, which is delivered in a transparent manner. In the process, we aim to continuously attract mainstream capital and human resources, to serve the chosen segments effectively. The overall market potential for financing micro-enterprises is largely untapped. The micro-enterprises such as dairy, power loom, handloom, home-based industries, handicrafts, etc continue to be drivers of growth. The microfinance players have focused on the people who are close to the bottom of the pyramid, with smaller ticket sizes. As the requirements of financing for different livelihoods and customer segments vary, there is a need for a more customized approach to product offerings so that customer needs can be better fulfilled with significantly larger loan sizes. Vistaar focuses on this opportunity by providing customized products aligned to the needs of the Micro and Small enterprises and livelihoods on four key dimensions – loan size, repayment frequency, tenor, and security. #businessloans
Board Member
Jul 2012
HealthKart is a trusted house of brands with MuscleBlaze and HK Vitals being India’s no. 1 sports nutrition and online vitamin brands. HealthKart also offers a comprehensive range of products dedicated to the vegan community, kids and women for their wellness and fitness needs. Founded in March 2011 by Sameer Maheshwari, an IIT and Harvard Business School graduate, HealthKart is your one-stop fitness and health destination. We focus on Quality, Authenticity, Affordability and Accessibility while delivering good health at your doorstep. Apart from being India’s largest health and nutrition-based online marketplace, HealthKart is also supported by 100+ retail stores making us your one-stop fitness and health destination. HealthKart has over 200 brands and authorized vendors listed on the website - all just to make sure what our customers get is right and authentic. We also have a presence in modern trade and general trade, as well as on horizontal e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa and many more. We have been expanding rapidly and currently employ over 1000 people. We have also served more than 10M happy customers raising over US$ 75M funds till date. HealthKart is always looking for talented people to be a part of their family. To join us, send your resume to careers@brightlifecare.com We are headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Principal, Investments
Jun 2010
Omidyar Network is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility. Digital technology is a powerful and ubiquitous force, that, harnessed wisely, makes wondrous things happen. We believe in working together to guide techs trajectory intentionally. Our vision is for our shared humanity to steer our digital future. So far, we have committed more than $1.94 billion to initiatives that share our vision. We engage, partner, and fund some of the worlds brightest thinkers and innovators to guide our digital future toward the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
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Investments (12)
Board (11)
2020
Board Member
Nov 2020
Pickrr is an end to end SAAS based logistics solution that is completely revolutionising the way a business vendor ships a product to his/her customer anywhere in the world. Now with Pickrr, a businesses can deliver any product to any location around the globe with few clicks. Our partners will take care of all the hassles of picking up the product, packing it and shipping it to any destination. Established in 2015, Pickrr providers a virtual courier service for logistics requirements of ecommerce sellers, resellers, online sellers, SMEs and Brands who wants better shipping experience. No matter whatever you sell, where you want to ship the product, just contact us and we are here to help you. In terms of benefits here are the few benefits that you will gets in terms of technology by registering with Pickrr:  Plugin/API integration with all major channels such as Shopify, Magento, Unicommerce, Woocomerce etc. (check our website for more details).  Full Analytics across all couriers  Intelligent courier allocation  Automatic NDR panel  Weight reconciliation tool – so no overcharging errors  Full on call key account manager support without order commitment.  Real-time customisable tracking page  COD/Invoicing solution with future cash flow prediction So what are you waiting for sign up for free and join our huge community of sellers:  Enhance your shipping process  Just start shipping from as low as Rs 27/500 gm (depending on order volumes)  Start Shipping with a pool of 20+ courier companies (with likes of Bluedart, Delhivery, Fedex, Ekart etc.)
2019
Board Member
Dec 2019
Axio is a deep-science medical technology company with extensive expertise in biomaterials based medical devices for pre-hospital, intra-operative and post-operative clinical needs. Our focus is on devices for management of trauma, surgical and chronic wounds. Our flagship product, Axiostat, is a patented, clinically validated haemostat that stops moderate to severe bleeding instantly in surgeries and in pre-hospital trauma. Axiostat is USFDA 510(k) cleared and is also European CE approved. In Advanced Wound Care range, Axio has launched the next-generation MaxioCel wound dressing. MaxioCel is designed to heal patients suffering from acute and chronic wounds (diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, burns, bed sores, cavity wounds and surgical site infections) by effectively managing exudates, pain reduction and scar less healing. All Axio products are manufactured in state-of-the-art ISO 13485 and GMP certified facility.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. We have created an App using which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. Subject matter experts then create a Khan Academy style video to answer each doubt. Why video, because in our experience as teacher/educator we have seen students not being able to understand text solutions. In fact around 30% of the questions asked on doubtnut so far are actually solved examples from textbooks. The reason for this could be twofold: i. Text solutions are usually the most optimal solution, which might not be the most intuitive one ii. Also, the solutions are optimized for printing hence not all logic and thoughts behind the problem solving are written. With video solution we try not only to find the answer but also make students aware of the problem solving approach employed by the expert. This will lead to deeper understanding of the concept. As of today the low teacher to student ratio and unavailability of good teachers are the biggest hurdles to effective doubt resolution. Doubtnut solves for it by reusing content that has already been created to resolve the doubts, because more students find the same question tough. Hence, a huge number of doubts can be resolved with limited number of teachers. Also the time required to create a video of ‘n’ minutes is ‘n+2’ minutes, which means the marginal cost is minimal, and will reduce to zero over time as we will have videos for most types of questions. Currently, we are working on developing technology to automate answering of questions asked previously using image recognition and Natural Language Processing.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Indifi believes in helping small businesses grow by offering loans to those that have potential and intent. Most such businesses have little or no access to financing from traditional institutions such as banks or lack either collateral or finance data trail to access a loans. Indifi is a technology platform that gathers and analyses data of businesses from various sources and draws insights to judge their credit worthiness, their past and current performance in context of the industry they are operating in. This differentiated approach helps find businesses that are low on risk and high on promise thus opening up possibilities for those who earlier had no access to short or long term business funding. Indifi takes the relevant applications to multiple lenders, increasing the chances to secure a loan and creates choice for lenders to pick the ones they wish to back. The approach makes the loan process smart by minimizing risk, reducing paperwork and associated costs, while providing a simple and hassle free experience setting the businesses on the path to growth.
2018
Investment Partner
Oct 2018
Process, Technology, Outsourcing. TransFingo is a global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy, consulting and outsourcing. We will take on the end-to-end management of the outsourced process / function and ensure delivery of work output according to what you need. Wherever you are in the world, in whatever industry, you can rely on our teams of experts to provide specialized solutions to make your business faster, simpler and more efficient. TransFingo brings continuous innovation to help our clients improve performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at http://www.transfingo.com
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