A tech visionary and a serial entrepreneur, Anish is reimagining the way business banking is done. He is the co-founder of the neobanking platform Open that offers a business banking service to SMEs and startups. Anish has a career spanning over 17 years in the fintech industry. He co-founded his first startup iFuturz Wireless in 2001 which was into mobile value-added services. In 2007, Anish founded CashNxt which was a plug n’ play mobile payment and financial inclusion platform meant specifically for semi-urban and rural markets. CashNxt was later acquired by a Latin American company. He later built Neartivity Wireless; an NFC based payment processing platform in 2009. In 2013, he co-founded Zwitch which was India’s first developer focused payment platform, later acquired by Citrus Payments in 2015. At CitrusPay & later at PayU, Anish got to interact with a lot of SMEs and realized that banking is broken for small businesses. Business owners struggled to identify and keep track of their income and expenses. This led him to start Open in 2017 along with Mabel Chacko, Ajeesh Achuthan and Deena Jacob. Open is Asia’s first neobanking platform that helps automate business payments, banking and accounting functions in one unified service for SMEs and startups Anish has spoken at various fintech panels globally which includes Money2020, Paris Fintech Forum, Vision2020 and is one of the leading think tanks in Asia and globally in the neobanking segment.
