Harshil Mathur is an Indian entrepreneur, businessman, and author. He is the co-founder and CEO of a company name Razorpay. He started his company with Shashank Kumar (co-founder). Many Fintech –startups come into the limelight in the past decade in India but a company name Razorpay was founded and this company provides payment solutions it works for both small and mid-sized businesses. With its product suite, Razorpay helps to accept and disburse payments.
Harshil Mathur CEO of Razorpay Bio
| Full name | Harshil Mathur |
| Profession | Entrepreneur |
| Education/qualification | B.Tech from IIT Roorkee |
| Occupation | CEO of Razorpay |
| Also known for | Co-founder of Razorpay |
| Age | 31 |
Harshil Mathur Education qualification
From the year 1997, he attended at Seedling Public School. Completed his bachelor’s degree but his prime focus was on mathematics in the year 2009. He attended at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Technology. He did his degree in software engineering. He also associates with some companies like SDSlabs, ASME, and the hobbies club during the days he was completing his graduation degree. In the year 2013, after completing his B.Tech degree he became part of YCombinatorW15Batch. He started working under Paul Buchheit and Dalton Caldwell.
Harshil Mathur Career
Firstly he was rejected by 100 investors about their business plans after 100 rejections he found financial backing that was necessary for a new enterprise. The company launched in year 2014, that’s designed to provide hassle-free online payment for developers, it’s making a user-friendly platform to make and accept payments. Several largest companies like Airtel, OYO, Zomato, RICTC, and Swiggy used Razorpay products. 350, 0000 merchants using the service of Razorpay and its 45 billion in annual transactions.
Mathur respects good ideas and also helps an entrepreneur who wants to establish his new company. He is an angel investor who supports the community and helps in the critical time of entrepreneurs.
As an engineer, he qualified for his B.Tech degree. In the year 2014, he was hired by company Schlumberger as a wireline field engineer. In the year 2014, he left his job meaning he stayed with his job for nine months. He began work on his company name Razorpay. He started working on Razorpay with his college friend Shashank Kumar. They create a way in which payment gateways for small companies who facing problems with internet purchases.
According to Harshil it’s difficult to understand issues and found a solution for that problem which easy to implement. Harshil and his co-founder take payment online quickly and hassle-free. They add on other features but the idea of growth same. Their success can be shown that new customers sign up and appreciate the service of the company and existing customers continue with the organization.
During Covid -19 companies obtain several customers. The major focus of the company was gaming, e-commerce, and B2B firms. The company also works with grocery stores and merchants who had utilized digital transactions. Razorpay is proceeding with one of the best and largest Fintech players.
Financial success, as well as commercial success, helps to win awards in its bouquet. In the year 2018, the company start-ups list which list organized by LinkedIn.’ The most innovative Fintech product’ in the year 2019 was launched by India FinTech, awards (IFTA).
