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Former BharatPe CPO Ankur Jain to launch new startup Jivi.ai

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Former BharatPe CPO Ankur Jain to launch new startup Jivi.ai
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Ankur Jain, the former chief product officer of fintech company BharatPe, is set to launch his new startup in the field of AI healthcare, sources aware of the development told Entrackr. “Ankur Jain’s Jivi.ai is expected to go live with its public launch this month,” said one of the sources requesting anonymity. “The founding team consists of professionals and research scholars from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and Yale.” Jain left BharatPe in July last year after serving more than three years at the company where he was responsible for the complete product life cycle and innovation. Entrackr had exclusively reported the development. Jivi.ai will be the second startup for Jain who also co-founded travel tech startup Instalocate. “Jivi.ai is leveraging artificial intelligence, digital health, large language models, machine learning, and generative AI to transform primary healthcare,” said another source. As per sources, version one of Jivi.ai is anticipated to launch in India and the US. “It has partnered with over 100 doctors, physicians, and hospitals in India in the last 3 months,” sources added. Sources further said that Jivi.ai has also closed initial seed funding and is in discussions to close the next round soon. Queries sent to Jain did not elicit any response. We’ll update the post in case he responds. Growing BharatPe mafia After, Flipkart, Paytm, PayPal and others, now there’s a growing BharatPe mafia. Genwise was launched by former BharatPe’s executives Rajat Jain, Geetanshu Singla and Nehul Malhotra, raised money in April last year. Entrackr exclusively reported the development. Third Unicorn, floated by former BharatPe co-founder and MD Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain, launched fantasy sports platform CrickPe. Third Unicorn is also on the verge of launching another fintech startup ZeroPe. Bhavik Koladiya, another co-founder of the company, joined SaaS startup OTPless as CEO. Suhail Sameer, who served as CEO of BharatPe, is handling venture capital firm OTP Venture as managing partner.

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Bhavik Koladiya-led OTPless raises $3.5 Mn led by SIDBI

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Bhavik Koladiya-led OTPless raises $3.5 Mn led by SIDBI
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Authentication and access management platform OTPless has raised $3.5 million in its pre-Series A funding round led by SIDBI, said its co-founder and chief executive officer Bhavik Koladiya. Venture Highway, FJ Labs, and Piper Serica also joined the firm’s maiden institutional round. With this, OTPless raised $6.5 million to date. The Surat-based startup raised $2.7 million in seed round in February last year from Neeraj Arora, Kunal Shah, Amrish Rau, Jitendra Gupta, Utsav Somani, Amit Jain, Fabrice Grinda, and Luke Skertich. With a team of 50 members, OTPless plans to use the new funds to expand its global presence and service beyond authentication and into authorization, said Kodaliya. Its global peers include Auth0, Clerk, Stytch, Descope and Transmit Security and a few others. Founded by Koladiya, Satyam Nathani and Tanmay Sagar, former executives of fintech unicorn BharatPe, OTPless enables users to sign up and sign in on websites and apps via WhatsApp and other methods. This approach simplifies the process for users and weeds out the need for OTPs. The startup supports various social sign-in methods, including Google, iMessage, Microsoft, Github, Slack, UPI and modern protocols like Passkeys, Network Auth, Protected SMS and Device fingerprinting. As per the company, developers can easily integrate OTPless’s SDKs and APIs, going live within minutes using pre-built UIs. OTPless claims that more than 5,000 companies and 20,000 developers worldwide use the platform to authenticate over 30 million users. OTPless is a recent startup from BharatPe’s group which managed to raise significant funding. For record, CrickPe, led by Ashneer Grover, raised seed money led by ZNL Growth Fund. Last year, Genwise and Vegapay also announced their maiden fundraise after launch. The list of startups and venture funds launched by former BharatPe executives includes Jivi.ai, CubeAPM, GrowthCap Venture, Eternal Capital and OTP Ventures. While Growth Cap Venture and Eternal Capital already announced their maiden fund, Suhail Sameer-led OTP Venture is aiming to secure Rs 400 crore for its debut fund.

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