Poornima Kavlekar has been associated with The Smart CEO since the time of launch and is the Consulting Editor of the magazine. She has been writing for almost 20 years on a cross section of topics including stocks and personal finance and now, on entrepreneurship and growth enterprises. She is a trained Yoga Teacher, an avid endurance Cyclist and a Veena player.
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Transforming into a payments bank
Feb 06, 2017
Incubated by ICICI Bank, FinoPaytech is a payments technology company that pioneered biometrics smart card solutions that helped banks, MFIs and other financial institutions identify customers and facilitate financial transactions in remote…
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The electronic payment network
Feb 06, 2017
Aavishkar, Apis Partners and Asia Participation B.V-funded Electronic Payment and Services is a prominent retail banking technology and Automated Teller Machine (ATM) services provider. Since incorporation, the company has grown…
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Feb 06, 2017
Founded by a team that was part of the products division of Infosys Technologies, Customer XPS, aims to help banks identify frauds real-time and helps them take preventive action. Rivi Varghese…
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Determining Your Financial Merit
Feb 06, 2017
CreditVidya was initially founded to use traditional and alternate credit insights from 10,000+ data points of each customer (borrower), to arrive at a credit score for lenders, typically banks & NBFCs…
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Feb 06, 2017
Accel & SAIF-backed Coverfox, an online insurance portal that sells general insurance products, has understood that the only way to fuel the growth in this sector is by making it extremely…
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Jan 31, 2017
Bala Srinivasa, Partner, Kalaari Capital, helps us understand the nuances of the fintech sector and the various opportunities available for the entrepreneurs. For Bala Srinivasa, the fact that he is able to…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Cover Story
Oct 25, 2016
The journey of three entrepreneurs from the ideation phase to scaling up and, eventually, a listing in the public markets. Going public is a major move for an organisation and a sign…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Starting Up
Oct 08, 2016
Healthstart and Roundglass Partners funded, Obino, an e-Health & Weight Loss Coach, is taking strong strides through referrals and reviews by existing users. It aims to evolve further by using artificially…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Growth Enterprise
Building a bootstrapped ed-tech venture
Oct 08, 2016
The founders of Edureka had a simple thought while setting up the company: Find the right teacher, and any course will automatically be effective. Lovleen Bhatia and Kapil Tyagi, erstwhile employees at…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Growth Enterprise
Oct 08, 2016
In conversation with Venkatesh Rajagopal, founder and Chairman of Indian Terrain Fashions For an endurance cyclist, the ability to retain speed, sustain the excitement and stay long enough on the saddle for…
