Abhiroop Medhekar, Co-founder and CEO of Velocity is building the future of banking and financial services for new age businesses in India. Having worked as a Venture Capitalist and a founder in the past, he is passionate about reimagining financing products for new age businesses.
He has worked as a VC with Elevation Capital (formerly called SAIF partners, a top venture capital fund in India), leading investments in Fintech and Financial Services sectors for the fund. He has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey for 5 years with experience across Financial Services and Technology in India and SE Asia. Velocity is his second startup, after working with Mckinsey, he co-founded Taskbob (a consumer internet startup) and scaled it to market leadership in Mumbai leading multiple business functions across Product, Operations, Marketing and fundraising from time to time. He has majored in Computer Science Engineering from IIT Bombay, interned with Google and has received an offer to join Google full time, instead, went on to pursue an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
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