Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Early stage Venture,Seed

Sony is a serial entrepreneur who founded multiple startups in the telecom & fintech space. His first startup MOBME was founded while he was half way into his engineering degree back in 2006. MOBME monetised a bouquet of B2B & B2B2C products in the telecom space, creating employment for hundreds. His next startup Chillr, founded in 2013, was funded by Sequoia, Blume & Uniqorn.
Chillr was the pioneer in seamless inter-bank mobile payments years before UPI & during this stint he worked closely with numerous banks including the likes of HDFC Bank, Bank of Baroda etc.
In 2018 Chillr was acquired by Swedish HQ Caller ID app Truecaller, post which he has been heading Truecaller's fintech arm. More recently, he took responsibility of building the Enterprise Business vertical for Truecaller from ground up. It's now an extremely fast growing business unit that's operating like a full fledged SaaS company and is focused on making business communication safe & efficient. The division already boasts of hundreds of active clients across BFSI, Fintech, EdTech, Healthcare, Automotive etc and is becoming an indispensable tool for businesses that rely on telephones as a communication channel.

Truecaller is now a listed company after its IPO in NASDAQ Stockholm in October 2021.